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~ SECRET asked if he could identify the "Must Go List" the former Chief of WH/4 stated: Well, I know all these people •.. Some of them I know personally, like Armando Hart .•• I entertained Hart in my home a number of times ••• the miserable bastard. I have never seen that list in my life, but this is the whole top gang at that time. Now many of them were later elimi- nated from the power structure by Castro, and by Raul Castro ••• They got rid of Olivares, and Roca was pushed aside ••• Armando Hart .was also half nuts at this point, and he still is. I guess he is still fairly prominent, ...but he is not really in the power structure. Abelardo Colome I don't even know who he is. I wish to help you, but I don't know. 17/ The former Chief of Operations for WH/4, in re- sponse to the question of whether the "Must Go List" meant anything to him, replied as follows: No! Huh! "List fo~warded E. L~. by Chief WH/4- .•. Eddie Lansdale ..• E. L. would be Eddie Lansdale. Chief, WH/4 was Jacob D. Esterline. In November, I was there ••. No "Big Daddy. It Well, whether this "Must Go" is in terms of the assassination, or in terms ... [of] nobody, none of these people must be allowed to have a role in the new govern- ment. I guess "Must Go" came to pass eventually in the case of number one on this list, Che Guevara. Raul ... I myself, contemplating the future government, thought it might be interesting to try to keep Raul in, with Fidel out. Capture what magic there was in the name of Castro, but do it with that little homosexual, instead of with Fidel, the real man. I - 288 - -=f=OP SEeR ET