I have a box from Hoyo de Monterrey de Jose Gener Habana special Selections for J. Edgar Hoover. This might be a good story and picture for you magazine the cigar inside has a j. Edgar Hoover custom wrapper over a cuban wrapper, most likely for importing purposes and the box looks like a book. Might be an interesting story of the head of the C.I.A at the time importing Cuban cigars with his label over cuban labels. If interested I will send you pictures and tell you how my family obtain this little bit of history.
Originally posted by coleventura: I have a box from Hoyo de Monterrey de Jose Gener Habana special Selections for J. Edgar Hoover. This might be a good story and picture for you magazine the cigar inside has a j. Edgar Hoover custom wrapper over a cuban wrapper, most likely for importing purposes and the box looks like a book. Might be an interesting story of the head of the C.I.A at the time importing Cuban cigars with his label over cuban labels. If interested I will send you pictures and tell you how my family obtain this little bit of history.
He was chief of the FBI (not the CIA) and they're most probably pre-embargo cigars, so Cuba was still capitalist at the time...
________________________ "Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." --FZ
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Originally posted by coleventura: Your right sorry for the mistake. Thanks for all the input I guess I will throw them out or set em ablaze. Just thought they were interesting.
Well, if you're just going to throw them out, feel free to throw my way. LOL!!!
"Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar" - Mark Twain
