The True Story Of Che Guevara
Rare footage of Che, the Cuban Revolution and how he died and then became a hero. Plus his plot to blow up NYC!
Ernesto Guevara, better known as "Che Guevara", marked world history as the greatest known revolutionary. Thanks to numerous testimonies and unpublished archive images, we were able to answer the big question concerning this Cuban legend : who really was Che Guevara ?
This incredible documentary has footage Americans have never seen of Che and the revolution:
Che Guevara: Doctor, Revolutionary, Murderer:
Che Guevara and the CIA in the Mountains of Bolivia
Declassified Records Describe Intense U.S. Tracking of Guevara’s Movements, Initial Doubts about His Death, and Hopes that His Violent Demise Would Discourage Revolutionaries in Latin America
t 1:15 p.m. on October 9, 1967, Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed in the hills of Bolivia after being captured by a U.S.-trained Bolivian military battalion. A CIA operative, Felix Rodriguez, was present. U.S. officials had been tracking Guevara’s whereabouts ever since he disappeared from public view in Cuba in 1965. The highest White House officials were intensely interested in confirming his death, then using it to undermine leftist revolutionary movements in Latin America, as a selection of White House and CIA documents posted today by the National Security Archive describes.
President Lyndon Johnson himself received regular updates on Guevara’s whereabouts, the record shows, reflecting continuing, deep concerns over Cuban-inspired revolutionary activity in the region. Today’s posting features National Security Council memos, CIA field reports, and other documents that follow several strands of the story, from Guevara’s ill-fated campaign in Bolivia, to La Paz’s request for U.S. help in creating a “hunter-killer” team to “ferret out guerrillas,” to reports of Che’s last conversation and execution (provided by an undercover CIA officer at the scene), to the intensive efforts of the United States to mount a posthumous propaganda campaign based on Guevara’s diary and other captured records. In a number of cases the documents have previously been released but are now available with fewer security redactions.
The materials are selections from the recently digitized documentary compilation, “CIA Covert Operations III: From Kennedy to Nixon, 1961-1974,” part of the Digital National Security Archive series published by ProQuest. It is the third in an ongoing series edited by John Prados and focuses on CIA decision making and operations in the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Iraq, Indonesia, and elsewhere. The records relating to Cuba build on the previous work of the National Security Archive’s Cuba Project, directed by Peter Kornbluh, which has produced many groundbreaking publications on Guevara, Fidel Castro, and U.S.-Cuba relations. Click this underlined link:
What happened to Che in Bolivia
Behind the paywall: OPERATION PETER PAN: The secret war against Cuba
During the Cold War, Cuba was considered a dangerous thorn in the side of the United States and their fight against communism. Operation Peter Pan was a top-secret mission to be carried out by the CIA and the Catholic Church to destabilize the Communist country. The mission's objective: the clandestine mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962.
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