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CIA agent Felix Rodriguez left and Bolivian soldiers pose with Che Guevara moments before his execution. Bolivia, 9 October 1967
Little Girl Who Died 100 Years Ago is Said to Be World's 'Most Beautiful' Mummy CIA agent Felix Rodriguez left and Bolivian soldiers pose with Che Guevara moments before his execution. Bolivia, 9 October 1967 - February 09, 2023 CIA agent Felix Rodriguez left and Bolivian soldiers pose with Che Guevara moments before his execution. Bolivia, 9 October 1967. Washington, DC, October 9, 2020 – Fifty-three years ago, at 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 toda...