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[3][104-10182-10137), | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASS 0 CIA
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[12]MEMORANDUM TO: WH/C/OPS
[14]SUBJECT =: Call from Mr. Dick Philips (State)
[15]: Regarding the Arrest of AMLEO-3
[17]1, Mr. Dick Philips said that he received a call from
[18]Mitchell L. WER-BELL about the arrest of AMLEO-3, The
[19]following information is contained in CIA files regarding
[20]Mr, WER-BELL: .
[22]ss "Subject was born March 1918, in Philadelphia,
[23]: Ee served in the OSS during World War II and later opened
[24]a@ public relations and advertising firm in Atlanta. During
[25]the past chree years he has entered various import /expore
[26]ventures {n. Latin America and Florids, He was in the
[27]Dominican Republic during the past summer. He is well-known ‘
[28]to thls Agency and is categorized as unscrupulous and a .
[29]promoter with grandiose schemes. Although he has offered “~~
[30]to work for us, he has never been used, He claims close
[31]frlendship with many Latin American political and military
[33]figures."
[35]2, The three Cubans that WER-BELL reported arrested
[36]are Jose Ricardo RABEL Nunez (AMLEO-3), Gilberto Fondora
[37]and Miguel Ramos. These men were crew members of the JURE
[38]mother vessel VENUS. From JMWAVE reports it appears that
[39]AMLEO-3 was attempting to exfiltrate his family, using the
[40]VENUS, when he was caught by Cuban security forces on
[42]3 September 1965,
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