DISPATCH CLASSIFICATION PROCESSING ACTION
TO Chief, Western Hemisphere Division
INFO
FROM 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 Brirade 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" CUEVAPA 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 Brirade 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/COG, w/att (u/s/c)
FEB 14 1969