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DISPATCH
TO
CLASSIFICATION
PROCESSING ACTION
Chief, Western Hemisphere Division
MARKED FOR INDEXING
INFO
XX NO INDEXING REQUIRED
ONLY QUALIFIED DESK CAN JUDGE INDEXING
FROM
MICROFILM
Chief of Station, JMWAVE
SUBJECT
TYPIC/AMBUD/Operational Ricardo MONTERO Duque (201-293321), Case 136
ACTION REQUIRED REFERENCES
ACTION REQUIRED: For your information
1. Attached is a letter dated 25 January 1968 and addressed to the AMTIKI/1 facility from Esther F. MONTERO, 47-04 Broadway, Union City, New Jersey. Mrs. MONTERO is the wife of imprisoned Brigade member Ricardo MONTERO Duque and is the recipient of a $275 monthly AMBUD dependency payment.
2. In this letter and in a similar letter sent to Senator Robert F. KENNEDY (copy provided by her attached), Mrs. MONTERO, as President of the Mothers, Wives and Sons of the 9 Bay of Pigs Prisoners Association, refers to the possible exchange of the remains of Ernesto "Che" GUEVARA and Communists imprisoned in Bolivia in return for prisoners in Cuban jails. She requests that the necessary steps be taken to insure that the names of the nine Brigade members still imprisoned in Cuba are included in the list of persons to be exchanged.
Raymond K. PANUSES
Attachment:
Two letters cited above, u/s/c
Distribution:
3 - WH/COC, w/att (u/s/c)
FEB 1 1968
CROSS REFERENCE TO
DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER
DATE
URCA-29491
9 February 68
CLASSIFICATION
MCS FILE NUMBER
201-293321
19-124-25/5
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