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Che Guevara and the FBI: U.S. Political Police Dossier on the Latin American Revolutionary Paperback – September 30, 1997

by Michael Ratner (Editor), Michael Steven Smith (Editor)

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Published for the first time are the U.S. secret police files on the legendary revolutionary Ernesto Guevara, showing how the FBI and CIA monitored his movements and activity in the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Africa and Latin America. A Freedom of Information Act request succeeded in obtaining the FBI file on Guevara, containing a wide selection of CIA and other secret documents. With an introduction by the editors, U.S. attorneys Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith, this book poses the obvious question: why did the FBI have such a dossier? 'Che is fairly intellectual for a Latino,' reads a 1958 CIA document on Guevara during the period of the guerilla war in Cuba. Watched closely after the 1959 revolution, Guevara's every public word was recorded and transmitted to the FBI and CIA, with particular note taken of his anti-U.S. statements. Later documents concern Guevera's disappearance from Cuba in 1965 and his resurfacing in Africa and Bolivia as a guerilla leader. The sensational materials included in these secret files add to suspicions that U.S. spy agencies were plotting to assassinate Guevara when he was a Cuban government leader in the early 1960s and suggest that they were involved in the pursuit and murder of Guevara in Bolivia in 1967.
For all those interested in Che Guevara, Washington's relationship with Latin America and the workings of the U.S. spy agencies, this book is a significant new contribution.

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English
Publisher

Ocean Press
Publication date

September 30, 1997
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7.25 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches
ISBN-10

1875284761
ISBN-13

978-1875284764
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Michael Ratner is President of the New York Center for Constitutional Rights and attorney for the Camp X-Ray Guantanamo detainees.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ocean Press (September 30, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1875284761
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1875284764
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,576,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,134 in Caribbean & Latin American Politics
- #2,370 in Political Intelligence
- #6,640 in History & Philosophy of Science (Books)

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Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2017

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This book is a treasure trove of documents on the late Che Guevara. The intense surveillance he was under gave me goosebumps. It was something to read.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2005

Definitively, a book that needed to be written. Kudos to Ratner and Smith for their exhaustive research combined with lucid and skilled writing.

If more people would read this book, debunk the propoganda here in the U.S.A., possibly another Wall would come down with the end of the draconic Embargo against Cuba.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2006

If it looks like AGITPROP, if it stinks like AGITPROP, it is AGITPROP.

Yes, let's all trace the murderous Marxists bloody footprints and sing 'Seremos como el Che', 'We will be [muderers & torturers] like Che'.

Please speak with people who fled the Cuban "paradise".

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