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[40]VOLUME Il: January 1967 - Séptember 1973
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[44]SEE VOLUME III: January 1974 -—
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[59]ACTEOS
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[63]FYI
[64]ORE TURES +1338, 13 Septealer 1973 ,
[65]_-]. Station passed referenced -iaforiation to. custo os
[66]on 13 September 1973. Initial checls by tue Station sithe
[67]the ELD, DLA, and Custoas revealéi& ne invornation on tie
[68]individuals nent.ioned in refercuce “(onald Henrys 9° a
[69]Jolin i. 6 0 0 i's and Sebo -u ro yf). -Custo.1s was _ ee:
[70]‘. ha apreeient with the Station's suyzestion that a Custos .
[71]telephone number sould |
[72]shoul! be put into: Custo..s wands .
[74]2
[76]passed to Uenry and the casc
[78]d Custows on 13 -Scptember W735... A wectiag
[79]nat afternoon, Uecfore the ‘soctin,, too. .
[80]_ places however, a Custe.3 officer recoznized the nance of
[81]Lrool.s as possibly beisj-one of his contacts. licnry was
[82]thus met by two Custo” officers. [n rcturnin, fro: their
[83]neetiag, the Custens officers notified tie station, ani a
[84]meeting Was arranned ta see then on bh Teptember 1973.
[85]Custens provised the following inferuation on Donald ijienry.
[86]Donald Henry is about 52 He is frow ,
[87]‘ichivan. He lived and went to schoo ile moved .
[88]-to Hlorica about fifteen years ayo. . ,
[89]Neys for about seven years.
[90]ribed by Customs as a bra
[91]nis offer of assistance was genuiuc.
[92]answer for any
[97]was arranged for t
[99]a. years old.
[100]1 in Canada.
[101]Ne has resided in the
[103]spare.
[105]Henry was desc
[106]however, that
[108]leary always had a quick
[109]but when the questions &
[111]lA,
[112]ihey felt,
[113]tupto.s stated taut
[114]quest dou asked of bir,
[115]specifics his answers were vague.
[116]i a . ce. Contrary to initial inforzation, Henry docs not
[117]: A’. have a boat or an airplane. Customs noted, thous, chat
[118]ienry probably ling casy access to one. neither does ienty
[119]~Alave an EAA license for flyias multi-engine aircraft, altho
[120]he tald Custows he was capable of flyin then.
[121]Thown Join broous (an alias ‘used hy oac Joun
[122]newer et - /Coatinued/
[124]ist: sy fee.
[126]134
[127]cross aieimnio Lf
[130]q{PERTURE earn REPRODUCTIONS.
[133]~, . a ad
[135]for avout a year. (Join Vtiber is deseribed in further
[136]detaghl belos.) Nenry said ’ et Salter throusyh thedr
[137]wssocivtiocn Vith tue .tliatds Jive Conter,. Inc., thas,
[138]Pleorida, waere Jilbur employed and saere Neary. has sad
[139]aoworkin relationship fer sone tives The AUlietis bive
[140]enter as onned bs bisley 2 i ¢ ard (no Station
[141]traces), card... Custa s F TS a UASAVUTY -Churacter
[142]“nvolved dn os cuect ‘would not hesitate to
[143]Swoot aaytie whe sets in-its wav. -
[145]d
[147]ealtare titear.
[148]treed tal. ia,
[150]ae: fo Uold Custos: that eden he bus
[151]at the ‘tla ive unter récently, tucy 5
[152]auout vario ys they coule make roensy Silbur told teury
[153]taat-he (Cenry) couls seussle aris for LOVEr toa o,
[155]anc they started discu i that possilility. uris: the
[156]couversation, enrs asled Viltur O He would be wOr.in:,
[158]for. Mar ventioued the nase of Lebo Sroun., é¢ tell
[159].benry that “rown, an ex-special forees ues. Aruy .ajor,
[161]vad setous a branch of befense Systocs, Inc., on Alaco for .
[162]datenell hLo oor be lal, (il. cilbur also intisated that.
[163]. ALO was aware of tie operation an. condoued it.) Custous
[164]no that Veary did’ not pick us the nase ‘iolo or “brown
[165]until after they hal sentioned a pedal Forces iajor, at waicn
[167]“point jvcary professed to reneiber his nase.
[169]vienry’.atso told Customs, wnen s :
[171]C ISRALO, that ae had telephoned tac ULL first nd
[173]a fold oy then that iis infor..gtioa was not ‘in their, juris- *
[175]Miction and was piven tie Phone number for MAULOALD, Later,
[176]Venry chanved his story tu the effect that he said he looked °
[177]ia the (laud celepione directory to set the POL s nuwber and
[178]called AL? (COUTSE)} inscead because tue latter's nunver
[179]was under tie E (Comment. set ctrug, both’ nunbers are
[181]. Risted under U5. Gavera.ent but on separate pages.)
[183]is reported that this aaue
[184]ur, wo is about 35 years
[186]3.0 As for Join brooks, Custo
[188]is an alias usod by ene Join Vil
[189]old. Orisinaily fro. ssachusctts, .ilbur has been in Florica
[190]for several vears, nei veen in toucn with Custous for
[191]approxivcately three years. tie was inici Vy brousat to
[192]Custoris' attention over a parceties ¢ i tiie, - '
[194]itor was wor; ins /infor. in iltratin:
[195]Fist and-lete wins youth caeization Se was also
[196]an airline stevarde soo wus dnvoly in narcotics sou;
[198]activity, fe tole the Pelocho, ie tura, put hin ia touch wits
[199]wustons, . .
[201]Te. Custeo
[203]feseriied Siliar as an ultra-riphue winter aad
[204]a soldicr-of
[206]sive lookin, and a suvotis
[207]] is also a fabricator. As an
[208]yosentioned that ‘ilbur would read an article
[210]ec and scortly thorsafter would try to > i
[211]: oh. ae would also contact Custo
[212]rumor he neard in tue hopes tuai onc of tine
[213]storiiss true se taat he could collect a reward,
[214]‘aetous sit taltsours “flhar is Fabricator ans rucor
[215]cullcctur. bs is dunveraius anu woul. 2 Cor moncy,
[217]off as his
[218]tell the
[220]noted tyr ilsur enjoys tee rele of
[222]Lo contsets ant 'Raey aroun,
[223]€ abetr four Livin
[225]roperty dia tue Keys (
[226]Ss ATATOS Tant se reccices
[228]EEDEP ie prec bret Bee oe tT per vay
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[232]Tah
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[238]alineny arid supposedly as about $400,830 in the bank. oh
[239]1 furaishes Wid with,
[240]-ilbur seems to be
[242]has set Wilbur up. fn an apartucat and
[243]Custos niso said that’
[244]BKEERALD,
[246]spending: money.
[247]sort ‘of voranoid in that he constantly rentions
[248]. Abd) a8 suca but referria. to Le as Sue
[249]and so
[253]forth. ..
[255]: 6. Accerdine to Castors, vilbur bezan workin, for -
[256]Underwater Sports of Anerica, ‘ani, Florida, as a salesman
[257]"tn the early .1960's. At the tine,. reported Custons, Under-
[258]water Sports wae engaged in contractual worl. for Lil taALp.
[260]‘concerning trainin: durin, preparations for tie bay of Iigs.
[262]’ The last contact Custons had-with Stlbur was about three weeks
[264]‘ano. .-They jilan to, see hin ayain in’ the acx€ few days and.
[266]‘will attoipt te get his side of the story...”
[268]a, . ‘ .
[269]a Custous stated that in spite of the itconsistencics “
[270]in Lerry's story they felt. ho wes akin, a legitiaate offer
[272]ist and thus advised hin to procééd along the following
[274]‘Urivins force Lohiad cenocracy,”
[276]. to ass
[277]lines: - . . ; .
[278]og, “Pe-contaét Wilbur and tel li “that ho’ was. |
[279]but lie Would havo to’ sce the
[281]srepared, to: Fly arns. to Abace,
[282]“frout. money First. Custor.s commented that af “ilbur
[283]produces the monoy,, ‘they would have a case# if not, the whole
[284]opisodo could’ probably be chalked up to “ilbur*s-delusions. —
[285]b. | After re-contacting Wilbur and if Wilbur concs up
[286]e money, Nenry should attenpt to convince wim of the -
[287]a dry run. If a dry run is mot possible, then
[288]head withthe operation. Arrests would be nade
[289]ates after tho arzs have been placed in
[290]1 involved have Loarded
[292]with th
[293]necessity of
[294]ne is to so a
[295]by ‘Customs in tlie St
[296]the aifcraft and after the personne
[297]‘the plane, :
[298]69. Customs has prowised to keep the Station apprised of
[299]the case, especially as it pertains to te Dahanas and other
[301]areas in the Caribbean.
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[514]. Gh and they looked
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[517]“ho ohand: the
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[519]Seer equipped
[520]‘hear Phe dither,
[523]wine ther ta.
[525]selcher of fare
[526]mist and one
[528]the crr en,
[531]were cerrying
[533]1, punctured the con.
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[540]“Hee tivensss the Army's
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[544]“shattered
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[546]iietoon the WerBeil fire
[547]i Much began firing a
[548]“Army 45. The pun
[549]vind the noise ¢choed”
[550]sand treetens, He then
[551]ye amaethly reetane
[552]Feira Medel,
[553]“Haat anal muse supe
[554]wan fing it, The mue.
[555]and the only sound
[556]chek. followed ty the
[557]et and the papas it but
[559]seerie, almost chilling,
[561]peuns Mitch put the
[562]matic and whipped off
[563]ts in or: i,
[564]© kind of demonstra.
[565]Ase LUN, a standard
[566]sua and the snip.
[567]Rel) cals the XM 21
[568]» equipped with a sup:
[570]wk tothe house, Wer
[571]why the suppressar,
[572]a silencer, is sa effec.
[573]vessery. UTt hi the
[574]Peduces the firing
[575]hdl oon metal You
[576]Suit aise without an
[577]anh it's not-worth, it.
[578]balt) noise ay
[579]Han sa fur sib prae.
[581]a Werke HT .
[587]ny weapons given to him by friently
[588]forces “in Vietnam, he said, and ‘tacy
[589]were shipped to the Staves for display
[590]in military museums.
[592]Not surprisingly, WerBell has often
[593]been called an operative of the
[594]Central Intelligence Agency, a ‘sharse
[595]that angers tum only when It is lev.
[596]led tog vehemently, I is not that
[597]he has anything avainst the CIA. He
[598]just ant, he says, happen to be
[599]one of its boys. Ht aramilitary work,
[601]J Which consists of advising and nome.
[602]tunre directly assisting foreign “gav.
[604]crenents, is dene in the employ of
[605]whatehe
[607]of well Rtentionat patratie Amert
[608]dans.” © Birch Society? The Min-
[609]ulemen? A buneh af farrlht Texas
[610]a Hionalres? Werkell won't noy, ather
[611]Vion to Instat that ae as not the CLA,
[613]Ht hardly inatters, for accurding to
[614]WerBell, itis all inthe service nat only:
[615]fom dod anticommunism but
[616]Of the US. government: she dors not
[617]supply or advise or fiusht for regi
[618]not bearing the State Departmen
[619]Of approval, A heavy percentage of his
[620]merchandise Rees directly to the US,
[621]sovernment, which Cistributes it tu dts
[622]Own: forces that. need silent or exotic,
[623]“enpons. The balance is’ Sold to
[624]friendly seovernments, either directly
[625]or through the good offices of the “tn.
[626]dependent soup.” He says he dors nat
[627]sell to individuals, not even if they're
[628]certified anticommunists. , :
[630]WerbBeu! takes Pains to point out that
[631]he is no ordinary arins broket. That Is,
[632]he is nat one.of those shadowy figures
[633]Who sell weanbnis.to bath sides at Oxor-
[634]Nitant prives or who take possession of
[635]contraband shopments an the High seas.
[636]“Weese always adhered toon banke pul-
[637]fey: There ds onty ‘one friend of the
[638]Vited States Ina given Orea,.and we
[639]deal only with that. friend."
[641]What does WerBell peddle? Tange
[642]of firearms from: Mochine guna to
[643]" fed cannons, froin the meanest:
[645]Jooking weapons fo innocent looking
[646]Swaucer sticks that fire a bullet: or
[647]even a small rocket; an array. of tech.
[648]Niques — “systems.” he calls then —
[649]that will help an American soldier or a
[650]forcisn army hold off insurgent forces,
[651]and oceas:onally, his personal services.
[653]These: services Present: WerBell at
[654]his most shadowy. Serving as 8 com.
[655]“batant in the armed forces of a foreign
[656]Nation is against U.S, law, ana WerBell
[657]is understandably reluctant {0 admit
[658]having done s0. He describes himself
[659]in such terms as “paramilitary” and
[660]“adviser,” but acquaintances suspect
[661]he has been in the thick of the fighting
[662]@ number of times. He may ¢cven have
[663]zapped an insurgent or two,
[665]Corporate Setup
[666]AE TOL LPR
[668]To guar Et hac asp
[670]ith to the ‘Ri
[672]el: Gunsm
[676]. fo Operational Negation of Insurgency
[677]and Countersubyversion, tied in’ with
[679]ronmental Industri and be:
[680]in earnest to deselop a Ene at mi s
[681]hardware Meh Dt and Geoff be:
[682]caine inte doparts of the firm, Miteh
[683]Vow: ady a bona fide counter.
[684]insurgent, As arnold, he kad
[685]Spent consider: firne with Dad in
[686]the Dominican. Kepubtic, speelaliains
[687]in underwater probin mefint
[688]sites, Geall, twos barely
[690]father teak hum ta Mian a few Sens
[691]ace, but the plans Cell through,
[692]ne day Tosatin Werbell's offlec ps
[694]Stinger,
[695]es death
[696]eiees, that fires a
[698]ae, Usathing vinebde on
[699]Kun, and the bathe t, on its way
[700]OU, distadces’ a thin: plac that itis.
[701]ss the hole at the vad of the fing
[702]barrel, WerBell commends the Stinger
[703]fo secret agents who get caucht with
[704]he last re.
[705]sort,” that ts, shoot themselves,
[707]In the same exoti
[709]egory Is the
[711]“wagner stick, bound in leather, with
[712]silver studs By pushis en twa
[713]studs, one can-fire a tea spe.
[715]malomodel a small rocket. The be
[716]“ Of Dominican stroman .¢
[717]Antonio Tmbert used the rocket modet
[718]TNS a few years
[719]nll, brass-filted
[720]Bo hindsome kniek-
[722]cannon. Tlomak
[723]knack for a soldier potiti
[724]wilh one simple
[725]ment a baler Urat will qua
[726]Visitor Mere traditte
[728]unruly
[729]Wittery is
[731]outer,
[732]notlin
[733]the
[735]The bulk of Wer
[736]SoUBA Supp res.
[738]Vs business is in
[739]ors and Enzram Maret
[740]submachine guns, Suppressors ean dey
[741]used on da @s well as small weap.
[742]ons, and by fuct have been used effec
[743]tively on the wicked-looking Vulean
[744]Machine guns mounted on Amertean
[745]helicapters in Vietnam, The Australian
[746]Army Journal san a story calling the
[747]Sionics suppressar “superior to any.
[748]thins previously used... (Wil it) it is
[749]now possible for the sniper to fire
[750]from relatively short ranes. especially
[751]when using subsonic Projectiles.”
[752]-Werlell is so enthusiastic about the
[753]Ingram Mode! submachine Kuns (the
[754]are Iwo models, taking different
[755]corlridges) what’ he: predicts the will
[756]eventually make “obsolete every indie
[757]vidual weapon in the world." The U.S.
[758]Army, he Says, is now looning care.
[759]fully at-the Ingram models with an eve
[760]foward making them standard equip.
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[764]2LL saunds cone
[765]cr-of-fact when he
[766]ns, and cath, and
[767]is teen in the mill
[768]iness for years, and
[769]cd or produced—or
[770]: watermelon sound
[771]Latin America and
[772]in the U.S. armed
[773]ramilitary “adviser.”
[774]e warrior, an armed
[775]‘agninsl “ungedly
[777]nicne in this occupa.
[778]tices it Ina untque
[779]diers of fortune are
[780]they live from one
[781]neat, brawling and
[782]threugh a teugh and
[783]urding life.
[784]nirant, Is a business
[785]s in milltary adven-
[786]nd gs far os it suits
[787]ida’t Htillate him, he
[788]of HL. His business is
[789]& not using them in
[790]lizes In the weapons
[791]of counterinsur-
[792]‘be roughly defined
[793]vuppression of coups
[794]ind the like.
[795]Belk operates, this:
[796]estabilshed regimes,! -
[797]fictalorships, against,
[798]hia political perture
[799]t trouble WerBell, tt
[800]have no objection to
[801]erves the interests of
[802]says. Particularly if
[803]sse interests is from
[804]insam has no place in
[805]~or in any
[806]opposed to if,
[807]Sof ideulogical germs
[809]canes.”
[811]hame
[813]tn, Werfeli’s
[814]ak The first issue af
[815]hong fongasine, Scan
[817]eobaustive tory os
[818]Hon an nbertive Inve
[819]8, ond Werbell was
[820]fnajor, if uncertain,-
[821]fron, {Wer Rell war ar
[822]led after the fhlasen,
[823]int Nees) were: resppiee,
[824]arrested were brought
[825]voa frend fer ane
[826]il replied jauntily,
[827]ko for the company,
[828]f you TH never hear
[829]teut 10° So far he
[830]inn) .
[832]rv, Werllell hit) the
[833]© Atienta Constitution
[834]t of captured enemy
[835]frum Vietnam was-de.
[836]Air Force Dasc, Flor-
[837]salurnnmist: conjectured
[838]his friends meant to
[839]“Popeins be rightewinst
[840]ain the UR Werftell
[841]“at Chey were fuuve-
[843](
[845]dedicated tu killing people, Environ:
[846]mentat Industries, Werfell says, ts
[847]bankrolled by some of the East's most
[848]Prominent investment houses; he is Its
[849]director of International operations.
[850]He Is also president of -a subsidiary
[851]called “tilitary Armaments Co., Inc.,
[852]and because hz is in Powder Springs,
[853]Military Armaments Is there, too. (Be.
[854]hind Ervirpnmental Industries. Wer-
[855]Rell says, is “a-third shadow of which
[856]E.L is o subsidlary"—another: tantaliz-
[857]ing hint of the CIA.)
[859]Military Armaments may well be a
[860]unique American enterprise. Nobody
[861]else, Werell says, {sin the business
[862]of designing special purpose weapons
[863]on avch a scale. A good deal of its de-
[864]signing and manufacturing Is done
[865]under federal icense. Silencers, for ex-
[866]ample, are outlawed by the National
[867]Firearms Act, along wiih sawed-off
[868]shotguns, submachine guns and cther
[869]vestiges of Prohibition era gangland
[870]wars, - :
[872]‘To manufoctuce his suppressors,
[873]WerBell must pay a special (ax of $590
[874]A year, collected by the Treasury
[875]Department, ‘The T-men also check pe-
[876]riodicaltysto see that his awesome
[877]collection. of firearms—over 200 indi-
[878]vidual ‘pigces—in properly registercd.
[879]Apparently the market for suppressors
[880]{3 nut very Jarze because, according lo
[882]. WerRell, cis firm Is the only one au-
[884]thorized to manufacture. them.
[886]WerBell wilt not discuss the sales or
[887]profits of Military Armoments except
[888]to say that, after two years of exten-
[889]sive research and development (result-
[890]ing-in “a tax‘loss of a half million do!-
[892]lors"), the company’ is now doing very -
[894]well. It has about 12 employees, includ.
[895]‘Ing four machinists who work under
[896]the direction of Gordon Ingram, who
[897]has charge of the design operation and
[898]whose name ison the Model 11 sttbma-
[899]chine gun thot young Miteh demon-
[900]atroted on the fring range.
[904]JJ SGRAM WORKS in a well-equipped
[905]J machine shoplab attached to the
[906]insin House on the catate, which Wer-
[907]“Bel likes to call the farm”! WerBell's
[908]offier ts next docr to the shop. ts. walls
[909]ore so loaded with weapons that‘ Is a
[910]wonder they do not collapse. There are
[911]knives and spear gunsond pistols and
[912]rifles and machine guns, dozens and
[913]dozens of them, some purchased, some
[914]won in combat, some presented by the
[915]appreciative, recipients of WerBell's
[916]counterinsurgeney techniques,
[917]WerBell, who has a sense of humor,
[918]calls his enterprise a "cottage indus-
[919]try" and likens himself to “a country
[920]doctor... 1 can fall out of the living
[921]area upstairs right down to the office.”
[922]Upstairs Is the domain of hla Germon-
[923]born wife Hildegerd, a pleasant,
[925]~groyhaired wornan who has borne
[927]urapons
[929]WerBell six children and put yp with
[930]his rather unusual way of Ife. (When
[931]he Jeft for the Far East in 1968, he said
[932]he'd be gone for a year or more, and
[933]he was.)
[935]A Military Profile
[937]ITCHELL WERBELL Is a short,
[938]N wiry man of $2, quick with a
[939]quip and quite sensible until he begins
[940]taking about communism or other so-
[942]clal issues. He has thy face and bear. ;
[944]ing of a Prussion officer, an image he
[945]cultivated by wearing a musiache and
[946]accasionally a mosocie. He often
[947]dresses in military clothing of indeter-
[948]minate origin, and he embellishes the
[949]image by talking In slightly ellpped
[950]sentences peppered» with military
[951]Phrases. There is nothing phony in
[953]this, WerBell has a strong attachment ;
[954]to weapons and to warfare, and he hos .
[955]“ been around them so ‘long that the ;
[957]ideas and styles théy foster are an in-
[958]grained part of his personality.
[960]ite comes by: both his militarism and
[962]his anticommunism honestly. His
[964]*“tathdr was an officer in the Russian
[966]Impdrial army, even thouch he was
[968]born) in the United States. “It was a j
[970]tricky situation,” says Mitch, "He was
[971]a citizen of both the U.S. and Russia.
[972]In those days vou could do that.”
[974]The elder Werfell fought against :
[976]the Bolsheviks, but before the collapse
[977]of the czarist redime he wiscly secured
[978]An appuintment' as ‘liaison otficer be-
[979]tween the. Russlan and American
[981]forces—stationcd in the U.S. He lived?
[983]in thls country. for the rest of his life,
[985]putting his carly medical training te}
[987]use in cancer research.
[989]A legacy from father is Mitrh’s}
[991]barely disguised oristocratic sympa,
[992]thies, tle haw been quoted as saving
[993]“Communism ino substitution of a
[994]peasant dirtatorship over-thé aristocra-
[995]cy--t prefer the aristocracy.” Ite |
[996]without question an elitist. Not surprisy
[997]ingly, his ctite is composed of superps
[998]‘triota and military men.
[1000]Mitchell WerBell was bora in Penn.
[1001]sylvania, shortly after: his Kk 20
[1002]American father and his Scottish-bor
[1004]jmother arcived inthe - At the end
[1006]- of Worsd War Tis porents traveled 4
[1007]good deal, here and abruad, and Misch
[1008]traveled with them, picking up his edu:
[1009]cation os he went, He got a degree i
[1010]Journalisin from the University 0:
[1011]Pennsylvania. In World War I, he
[1012]joined the OSS, and served with a uni
[1013]behind’ Japanese lines in China, risin
[1014]so'the rank of captain and acquiring
[1015]taate for querrilla-type warfare h
[1016]would nuver loac, . a
[1018]~ WerBell moved to Atlanta short!
[1019]after the wor end went to work in ad
[1021]; vertlsing In a department store. Soon
[1022]+ ne was head of the department, and
[1023]soon after that he went on his own,
[1025]In the mid-'50s, WerBell pulled out
[1026]of his ageney and then formed his
[1027]own public relations firm. “I'd already
[1028]deen drifting into international PR"
[1029]WerBell says, “using my family back-
[1030]ground. I had tremendous contacts in
[1032]Europe, and. I moved into the Far
[1034]East, too.” How much of thig moving
[1035]in was milltary, WerBell won't Bay,
[1036]but his business ook on more and
[1038]! more of what he calls a “geopollitcal”
[1039]i flavor,
[1041]H
[1042]i
[1044]Before long, he was dabbling in
[1045]Latin. American dictatorships. “Before
[1046]Fidel took ever in Cuba, we were
[1048]with o grin, “Our funeticn was to keep
[1049]Batista In power, althouzh the US.,
[1050]noveroment was looking favorably on
[1051]Fidel at that point.” .
[1052], From all this, even WerDell doesn't
[1053], Know evactly how, came a Passionate
[1054]§ concern about communism, “| decided
[1055]H to devote whatever time I could to
[1056]niicommunist activities," he gays,
[1057]’ "AU first It was sort of a hobby, but
[1058]then it became my main drive in life.
[1059]“What I'm doing now'—~here he Res.
[1060]tures At the arsenal on his office walls
[1061]“affords me a damned yood Nying.
[1062]« But the living ts not why Ido it."
[1064]The Heact of It
[1065]N 1948, WHYLE anticommunism was
[1066]still a hobby, albeit a paying hobby,
[1067]WerBell purchased the Dobbs estate.
[1068]He installed rudimentary design facili.
[1069]ties ‘ond began experimenting with
[1070]weapons of counterinsurgency, weap:
[1071]ons he believed had the best chance ef
[1072]preventing Commaniasat takeovers in
[1073](he small, underdeveleped nations of
[1075]“that In counterinsurgency, the pri
[1076]mary prabiem was a lack of depth. in
[1077]weaponry. Ieople sdy, ‘Win the hearts
[1078]of the enemy, and vou'll win the fight.
[1079]That's a let of bull. The best way to
[1080]get their hearts, if they're the enemy,
[1081]is ta shoot ‘em and cut the hearts
[1082]out.”
[1084]While he experimented with weap-
[1085]ona—quieUy, ta avoid problems with
[1086]the federals—WerBell proceeded with
[1087]his personal brand of geopolitics. He
[1089]“made himself availabte to anticommu.
[1090]nist regimes that wanted help in fight-
[1091]-ing off one band of Insurgents or an-
[1092]other. In’. the process, he became
[1093]friendly with a number, of Lauin Amer-
[1094]fea’s political strongmen, They were
[1095]dilighted ta discover ao Nore. Ameri.
[1097]| coho ‘sho felt on they dd about the.
[1099]need for ‘stable, antleommunixt. re.
[1100]gimes, especially their regime and.
[1102]17 eee
[1104]WerBell recovered from a leg injury.
[1106]i working closely with Batista.” He adds .
[1108]Asia and Latin Ameriea, *f reattied +
[1110]SNS IID #
[1112]who had both the savvy and the guts
[1113]to help preserve them.
[1115]His first major paramilitary opera-
[1116]tlon was in the Dominican Republic
[1117]during the 1965 revolt. He was, of
[1118]course, on the side of the government,
[1119]which was fending off allegedly Com-
[1120]munist ‘insurgents; the United States
[1121]was on Its side, too. WerRell wound up
[1122]in the midst of the fighting. He was
[1123]the second Dominican sovernment
[1124]mian to reach the Ozama River, secne
[1125]of the majar battle, : .
[1127]Elsworth Bunker, then U.S. ambas-
[1128]sador to the Orzanization of American
[1129]States, became highly exercised over
[1131]WerBell's activities and his hawkish .
[1133]views on the conflict (WerBel! opposed
[1134]@ cessation of hostilities and establish:
[1135]ment of a coalition government).
[1136]Bunker considered trying 10 toss
[1137]WerBell out-of the country, but noth
[1138]ing came of it. Werbell’s “independent
[1139]group"--CIA, Texas millionaires or
[1140]whatever—saw to that.
[1142]WerBell was already active in the
[1143]anti-Castro movement, and he brousht
[1144]ta it a sense of dash and discipline that
[1145]the ragtag, bickering bunch of Cuban
[1146]exiles had seldom seen. Perhaps his
[1147]major antt-Castro exploit wasa speed:
[1148]boat foray into Camarioca, on Cuba's
[1149]Southern coast, The mizsion. was to
[1150]drop a swimmer, apparently a spy, off
[1151]shore, and toa pick up the family of an
[1152]exile leader, The boat, flying: the Con-
[1153]federate flag on the radio antenna,
[1154]foundered in high seas, and the raiding
[1155]party was captured. The Cubans, the -
[1156]Story gocs. did not know what to make
[1157]of the brash WerBell, and he and his
[1158]pals wound up stealing a Castro boat
[1159]and spiclting some 6 ont Castroite:,
[1160]out of the country hefture they the
[1161]telves returned to the Unitert Sts
[1163]Vietnam Superhawk
[1165]I* THE LATE ‘60s, WerBell turned
[1166]his attentton to Southeast Asia. He
[1167]is, of course, o superhawk oan Viet-
[1168]nam, and would be happy Hf the U.S.
[1169]were also fishting communis in all
[1170]its nelghboring countries, He -was in
[1171]Thoiland, “working closely with the
[1172]supreme command,” for Months, pro -
[1173]mating the snlex of his weapuns ant
[1174]systems. “I showed them things Hke
[1175]surveiNance equipment and nizht vi-
[1176]sion equipment, stuff that lets you sur:
[1177]prise the hell out of the bastards.”
[1178]Did he do any fighting himself? Wer.
[1179]Bell chuckles. “1 ain't supposed to be
[1180]shooting the stuff, just demonstrating
[1181]how to shaot it.”
[1183]Three yeora ava, WerBell'n weapons
[1184]buainess becatae promising enough for
[1185]him to go inte bt full thm orpon-
[1186]-lzed a firm called Sisnics Hor St 3
[1188]in § t we
[1191]Un uO
[1193]2
[1195]Property if they don’t Wke the are
[1197]- dependent group"
[1199]Dt IO
[1201]Armaments makes the case, too), coms
[1203]plete with suppressor and six maga.
[1204]zines, - _
[1206]Business Ia Business
[1208]Ds WERBELL feel a twinge of '
[1209]censctence about providing the.-
[1210]‘world with such deadly and efficient -
[1211]Weapons? No. “I see no reason to be: +
[1212]“concerned,” he says, “We're supplying
[1213]4 certaln product that Is unfortunately,
[1214]a part of tho civilized world. As long as -
[1215]people exist, there's going to be ‘an .
[1216]- arms business. I don't see much differ
[1217]ence between our supplying arms to,
[1218]combatants and a surgical supply |,
[1219]house supplying gauze to bind up the
[1220]wounds inflicted." :
[1221]There ix his anticommunist argu.
[1222]ment, too. Werbell ts fighting the.
[1223]Communise menace; it is a fight what,
[1224]-must be won and weapons are needed |
[1225]to win it. - ‘ ,
[1226]Contrary to eynieal upinion, Powder
[1227]Springs was not. nomed in honer ot
[1228]Werkell and his enterprise. WerBell, ,
[1229]In fact, stays og aloof from thy local
[1230]community on possible. His house is a0
[1231]well-stocked, it is Dractically self-sufft- |
[1232]clent save for occastonal trips to the’
[1233]srocery ant liquuc, stores. There has’
[1234]been, from time to time, antl WerBell
[1235]feeling in Pewder Springs. WerBeil de.
[1236]clares, “The hell with it. Who caren? T
[1237]teH ‘em Tm prepared to purchase thelr
[1239]He docs not suffer from loneliness,
[1240]however. There Is-a steady stream uf
[1241]visitors and’ customers, fsrelunera es
[1242]well as Americans. A few weeks sho
[1243]Werlells son-in-law, an Alr Foree lien.
[1244]tenant colonel, flew. In from ‘Ohlo,
[1245]matnty to sce what was new around
[1246]the shop; he hadn't been hy in several
[1247]months, he said, “and things change
[1248]awfully quickly oround here.” Tre thy
[1249]Towas there, the entonet and Werlte:|
[1250]awopped idens on ridding the State De-
[1251]partioent of ne.win policy makers ane
[1252]on bringing dhe enemy to Up knees, or
[1253]fts grave, in Vietnam. ‘. .
[1255]WerBell recalls with relish one par-
[1256]‘ticular visitor. He came from the State
[1257]Depactinent afew years back, and ae.
[1258]cording lo WerBell, he said, “The fune-
[1259]Hons of: the forciun policies of the
[1260]United Stes ore the business of the
[1261]State Department in Washington, now
[1262]of Milchelk Werkelh in Powder
[1263]Springs, Georgla.” -WerBell's reply? °
[1265]ou can’t print It, It was all-in Angio-
[1266]an words.” But that was the ould,
[1267]swashbuckling WerBell. The new, low.
[1268]Profile WerBell says with a grin, "My
[1269]present policy is that [agree with that .
[1270]theory completely, Perlod,”
[1272]If actions to the contrary apenk too
[1273]loudiy, they, like WerlHell's weapons,
[1274]can olwava be suppressed hy the man
[1275]himaclf, Meanwhile, Mieh and his “In.
[1276]ch oon,
[1277]£1970. Atlantu Magazine
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[1311]ingston WerBett HI bves 19 an O02. world
[1312]Of guns and ittrigues Among the guns rs
[1313]his Drietcase mith a built-in machine
[1314].gua-thal tires whone.er the night Sutton
[1315]ts pushed Among theialragues ts his
[1316]Dresect prexcccoation mth what hap
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[1330]Father‘Nicola ea, The Devil .
[1332]1 2 Powder Keg At Powder Springs:
[1333]Mitchell WerHeil's cali to arms
[1335]26 Meatloaf Man Mcets Peking Duck
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[1414]Paul Routher,
[1415]a retired Aut Force colonel
[1416]and oresident cf WerSell’s
[1418]- Detense Systems :
[1420]Batt Neterse Systems”
[1421]chaitman ef the board: and
[1423]Stchell Top lett.
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[1429]1 TW pots out Abaco
[1430]naw cf the Bahamas
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[1435]~The flamboyant son ofa.”
[1436]Cossack €olonel. Mitchell
[1437]WerBell Il! has been
[1438]involved in several
[1439]Caribbean adventures
[1441]and misadventures. Now. as
[1442]the Bahamas nears.
[1443]‘independence. the wealthy
[1444]arnis-dealer-has-his sights ~§
[1445]set on Abaco... ;
[1447]By William R. Amlong
[1448]“Pe Dobesvk bke acu i
[1450]i sa seddie
[1452]seated? Lavin:
[1454]Ao cavtiee an no the Russia
[1456]PoNtais He ved, mare +
[1458]ness: bedewilir
[1459]sees himgelf mn
[1460]but asa ve:
[1461]Ine Of wort
[1462]iprise gee
[1464]Cagnes, Al
[1465]woukd lo
[1466]ustache ar
[1469]rout Vietnam,
[1471]the Brier
[1473]nor iy Vir
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[1480]Continued
[1482]o
[1484]nam, nor-even in one of the sugarcane
[1486]revolitianaries’ sre wont to drill and
[1488]* target-practice for yet ariother assault on
[1489]Castro's Cuba. Rather, he is'sitting in the
[1491]pstairs gun reom of his home. in ‘Powder.
[1493]. 2 66-acre estale-armory sit-
[1494]uated * amidst the rolling, red-clay hills
[1495]‘and pine -forests 23° miles.horthwest’. of
[1497]= pastoral air“is occasionally shattered by
[1498]the Mashing of a red light that goes on
[1500]by ‘the staccato barking.of machine guns
[1501]‘from the tést firing range or by the- pul-
[1502]sating roar of a combat helicopter hover-
[1503]. ing low overhead on a test flight.
[1505]qi ix from this hase of operations that,
[1506]it appears Mitch WerBell has been med-
[1508]sin. this time in the affairs of the
[1509]wetuUMme sovercizn rtate of the
[1511]Bahamas.
[1512]His activities — although no one is
[1513]completely sure;just what. they entail —
[1514]have prompted Bahamas Prime Minister
[1515]Lynden Pindling te denounce WerBell
[1516]and attomey Edwin Marger, an associate,
[1517]on the floor ‘of the Bahamian  Parlia-
[1518]ment. Pindling called them “internation-
[1519]al fortune hunters” with “designs on the
[1520]territorial sovereignty of the Bahamas.”
[1521]Werbell's involvement in the Bahamas
[1522]—as an advisor to a faction that wants
[1524]‘COUPE
[1526]a in White, ‘Bone, Black
[1527]or Red Soft Leather...
[1529]$16.
[1531]Crown Colony: or to become a separate
[1532]nation when the rest of the Bahamas be-
[1534]has ‘also prompted some concern by the
[1535]U.S. State Department's Caribbean
[1536]Affairs Desk. *
[1538]It is not a completely unfamiliar expe-
[1539]rience to Werbell to have elements of the
[1540]United States government at least con-
[1541]cerned — if not outright displeased —-
[1542]with sonie of his free-lance foreian-policy
[1543]maneuvers. He relishes recalling how a
[1544]visitor flew down to Georgia once to give
[1545]him the message:
[1546]foreign policies-of the United States are
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[1559]. Powder Springs. Ga." In another
[1560]incident, a congressional subcommittee
[1561]questioned him about his role in an
[1562]aborted attempt to launch an invasion of
[1563]Haiti from South Florida.
[1565]The subcommiitee, the investigations
[1566]arm of the House Committee on Inter-
[1567]state and Foreign Commerce, was con-
[1569]Three eeeicrmed ex-military men, ‘Mi unger tne ems!
[1571]fields of South Florida, where counter-.
[1573]Auianta.‘It‘is'a place where the - .
[1575]whenever the electronic gate is opened, -
[1577]the island of ‘Abaco either to remain a-
[1579]comes fully independent on July 10 —.
[1581]“The functions of the .
[1583]the business of: the. State Department in’
[1585]of WeeSeii line up-for
[1586]s compound
[1588]“y
[1589]target oractice ai ine Powder Serre
[1591]cerned with the role played in the inva-
[1592]sion preparations by CBS News. The net-
[1593]work was attempting to film a documen-
[1594]lary on the military coup being -planned
[1596]~ by an alliance of Haitian and Cuban ex-
[1597]iles. The. Haitians wanted to tcpple
[1599]Francois, (Papa Doc) Duvalier; the
[1600]Cubans wanted to establish an anti-Cas-
[1601]tro base in Haiti..CBS was steered into’
[1603]the project by Andrew St: George, ‘a free-
[1605]lance journalist-adventurer. who also ‘in- ~~
[1606]troduced Producer Jay McMullen to Wer- -f
[1608]’ Bell in the process.. ve
[1610]‘The network. afir spending: upwi Is.
[1611]of $1 70.000 on the proposed documentary,
[1612]Project’ Nassau, decided to scrap it. “As
[1613]it. is," a CBS News vice president wrote
[1614]in a Dec. 13, 1966. memo, “we see simply .
[1615]‘the non-adventurés of a rag-tag crew next -
[1616]to whom. Duvalier himself fooks: good, a.
[1617]gang openly flouting U. S. law, in the end |
[1618]to no purpose. :
[1620]‘The answers to “why” WerBeil got in-
[1621]volved are, in the language of the sub-
[1622]committee report, “at vanance” with
[1624]each other: :
[1625]Answer No, 1:7... f felt then and I
[1626]feel now, and [| will always feel that any
[1628]effort or any activity that any American -."- §
[1630]can give to a group that is attempting to
[1631]kill the boil and cancer of communism in
[1632]the Western Hemisphere deserves every
[1633]effort. This was my fundamental! reason
[1634]for going into it. This was why | agreed to
[1635]assist them and why I did everything I
[1636]could to assist them up to the point
[1637]where I felt the whole program was ridicu-
[1640]Answer No. 2: ‘*! took this whale proj-
[1641]ect as a rather entertaining ‘comedy. I'm
[1642]afraid I approached it in this connection
[1643]and | continued to do so. | felt that this
[1644]was @ Very amateurish attempt at some-
[1646]_ thing which [ didn't know really what
[1648]was going on, and it was an interlude of
[1649]entertainment as far as I'm concerned.”
[1650]. The role he plaved is also unclear,
[1651]From the point that CHS entered the sit-
[1652]uation in May of 1966. WerBell appeared
[1653]at various times ‘to be a network consul-
[1654]tant. a CIA operative. a CIA operative
[1655]impostor, a leader of the invasion, a U.S.
[1656]fovernment spy on the invasion, a gun-
[1658]‘minner and a wired-for-soungd observer in
[1660]an attempt to shake down the Haitian
[1661]consul in Miami for $200,000 to calt off
[1662]the invasion. .
[1664]Suffice it to say that the entire episode
[1665]was typified by tne fact that the 68-foot
[1666]sloop Poor Richard, 9 beat WerBell had
[1667]leased for the expedition, was repossessed
[1668]while Werdell and others had it docked
[1669]at the Ocean Reef motel in Key Largo.
[1671]“The. boat never had anything on it ex-
[1674]14-00000
[1676]_. however, were
[1677]* then-Attorney _General Ramscy. Clark.
[1679] cept'a, few. good, long drinking sessions,” ."
[1680]- WerBell told congressmen.’ * 2S
[1682]the U.S. government
[1683]raided the training area for the would:be—
[1684]invaders, seized their arms and arrested
[1685]them in January, 1967; about two months
[1686]afer WerBell hud gone home. “Seven per-
[1687]sons weré indicted for conspiring to vio-
[1688]late U.S. neutrality laws — including
[1689]WerBeil. ‘Charges . against WerBelil,
[1690]dropped on orders of
[1692]Nevertheless,
[1694]- WerBell now declines to discuss the
[1696]mechanics of how the charges against
[1698]him were dropped, except lw- say that he
[1699]was “in constant contact with the govern-
[1700]ment” during his participation in. the in-
[1701]vasion attempt and that he “did nothing
[1703]’ wrong.” In 1970, however, WerBell told
[1705]an .Atiants magazine writer, “When you
[1706]work for the company, they take care of
[1707]you.” _ .
[1709]“The company” is generally used a3.a
[1710]euphemism for the Central Intelligence
[1712]Agency — an arm of government WerBell
[1714]says now he has never had anything to do
[1715]with, except to sell it some guns. The
[1716]compary he was talking about, he says,
[1717]was CBS. Over the years, however, Wer-
[1718]Bell has spoken often. of his association
[1719]with the Company. Producer McMullen
[1720]quoted WerBell to the congressmen as say-
[1721]ing he had “previous experience’ with “the
[1723]" company:” “And when I asked him what
[1724]company he meant, he said the ClA,” Me-
[1726]Mullen said.
[1728]“Everybody always gets that impression
[1729]about any goddam thing we do,” WerBell
[1730]says. It is a conclusion that is neither
[1731]difficult nor illogical. it may not, however,
[1732]be accurate. ’
[1734]But what, then, was Mitch WerBell.
[1735]wearing camouflage fatigues and a shoul.
[1736]der-holstered rocket pistol. doing in the
[1737]lead tank — which is where he claims he
[1738]was —.in the Dominican Republic that
[1739]summer of 1365 as government forces dou-
[1740]ble-timed it to the .Ozama River? The
[1741]tanks were attempting to capture as much
[1742]territory as possible before a noon cease-
[1743]fire took effect; instead, they were beaten
[1744]back by ill-armed rebels.at the bridge.
[1746]TROPIC —Juty 1: 1373
[1748]oe what eras
[1750]1968-with what WerBell claims was “the
[1752]simutated-rank of major-general” supplied
[1754]~ by the U.S. Air Force as he demonstrated
[1756]his : firm's revolutionary silenced sub-
[1757]machine gun to a South Vietnamese gener-
[1758]al?
[1760]To quéstions such as these, WerBell’s
[1761]standard reply is. “I guess I'm just lucky.”
[1762]More than just tuck, however, WerBell’s
[1763]propensity for being in'the crucial place
[1764]at the crucial time seems to stem from 8
[1765]combination of machismo, the profit mo-
[1766]tive, a knack for developing suns Gtly rad-
[1767]ical weaponry and a plug-in to the Oid Boy
[1768]Network.
[1770]The Old Boy Network — “And don't you
[1771]ever kid yourself that there isn't such @
[1772]thing,” says WerBell — is the cloak-and-
[1773]dagger types’ answer to the union hiring
[1774]halt. It is a loosely structured help want-
[1776]- ed-situation wanted grapevine. “I became
[1778]friends with a bunch of guys who are now
[1779]four- and five-star generals,” recalls Wer-
[1780]Bell of his days as an OSS captain behind
[1781]Japanese fines in World War I. .
[1783]Meemorabitia of the OSS days and sub-
[1784]sequent adventures hang in WerBell’s
[1785]home and in his psyche. The walls of both
[1786]his upstairs den and’ downstairs ‘war
[1787]room” are decorated with dozens of hunt-
[1788]ing (upstairs) and military (downstairs)
[1789]weapons, Six unsheathed swords are
[1790]mounted cn the door of the liquor cabinet.
[1791]Two glass display cases in the den, each
[1792]locked, contain handguns ranging. from
[1794]- standard .45 automatics to single-shot
[1796]assassination pistols. Daggers, bayonets
[1797]and throwing knives ‘fill the in-between
[1798]spares as bric-a-brac. Photographs of
[1799]short, slant-eved generals hang on walls
[1800]and stand on tables. Between two wild boar
[1801]heads above the den entrance is a framed
[1802]certificate from the Vietnamese Airbome.
[1804]The biggest war souvenir, though, isn't
[1805]on WerBeil’s wall. It is in his head — the
[1806]way a man of 55 acts after more than 20
[1807]years of being in and on the fringes of vio-
[1809]ient conflicts. Some of it, obviously, is ©
[1811]affectation. Some of it is gemuine. And
[1812]some of it just seems strange to sn outsider
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[1978]Weve ss drifted: into his; -prese'
[1980]. dark suit in WerBell’s closet,
[1981]- boyance of the old gunrunning and tank-
[1983]it seems that everyone associated wiin WerBell takes gua in hand for target
[1984]pract:ce al one time cr ancther. Bennett Ginthf, charmaa ef tne board of
[1985]Detense Systems International, plays marksman ath @ handgun
[1987]POWDER KEG
[1988]Comteoed
[1989]. + \ ,
[1990]to the world of a fellow Jike’ Mitch Ww erBell.
[1991]~ But there it is: the hush jacket and the
[1992]monacle. The belt buckle that conceals a
[1993]“survival kmfe.” The electronic gate and
[1995]the two guard dogs, a German shepherd
[1996]named. Fritz and a Doberman called Mal
[1998]‘(for Evil) The electronic sweep by the two
[1999]. -phoies to detect transmitting or bugging
[2000]' devices. The Scotch whisky, Poured 1 neat
[2002]— a0 water, noice.
[2004]line of
[2005]work during the mid-1950s after‘a brief but
[2007]vertising department “of Ricli’s, ‘a major
[2008]Atlanta department store. He then found-
[2009]ed his own ad firm. His first step was to get
[2010]inyolved in: international public relations
[2011]and anti-conmunism: one of his clients, he
[2012]says, was th. Batista ‘government. From
[2013]there, he eased into the arms and intrigue
[2014]business:
[2016]WerBell’s talent for designing weapons
[2018]récalls thut of Q.,
[2019]cret Service armorer for lan Fleming's
[2021]auper-spy, James Bond, At his Powder
[2023]submachine gun disguised as a briefcase,
[2024]an effective noise-and-flash suppressor for
[2025]automatic weapons, a cigar that fires a ein-
[2026]gle bullet and a swagger stick that is actu-
[2027]ally a mini-rocket launcher.
[2029].. flourishing post-war career ‘in, advertising; .
[2030]‘he joined and rose to: the head of the ad-
[2032]tho-fictinnal Gritich Se. . *
[2034]. Springsretreat;-WerBelh~haa“designed’ a. ~
[2036]WerBell’s sorties into strife-torm aras .
[2038]&ppear at times to be merely the business
[2039]trips of a traveling salesman whose line
[2041]happens to be machine guns. At other :
[2043]times, however — such as during the Do-
[2044]minican revolt and in Thailand — his pur-
[2045]Pose seems to be less clear.
[2047]His gullet warmed by a few gulps of'neat
[2049].whisky, WerBell will recount some of these
[2051]past adventures, albeit reluctantly and in
[2052]vague terms becaus2 of the new, sober
[2053]image he ia attempting to project. But as
[2054]the camouflage outfit hangs next to the
[2055]the flam-
[2057]riding Mitch WerBell every ‘now and then
[2058]surfaces in the behavior of the conservative
[2060]. Reopolitical advisor. Mitchell L. WerBell
[2062]HL
[2064]prepared for the final vote endorsing Baha-
[2065]mian independence. WerBell. let it be
[2066]known to a reporter for the Londun Datly
[2067]Murror (circulation five million) that he
[2068]was: 1) four-square for the cause of the
[2070]- While in London recently, as Parliament
[2072]Council for a Free Abace, and 2} récruiting’
[2074]British mercenaries “for a project I have in
[2075]mind.” Abaco? “Who said it was Abaco?”
[2076]ssid WerBell. The fruit of the interview
[2078]WILLIAM @ AMLONG 6 2 Heraid staff water, -
[2080]was a front-page story headlined: “Mutiny
[2081]in Paradise... The Island That Wants to
[2082]Stay British . - A Call Goes Out for Mer-
[2084]- eenaries.”
[2086]+ Such were the initial tactics in the Bat-
[2088]" tle of Abaco, a cause that, for awhile in the
[2090]British press, seemed second in anticipated
[2091]ferccity only to the Catholics-vs.-Protes-
[2092]tants strife in Northern Ireland. Joining
[2093]WerBeli as a comrade-in-press release was
[2094]Lt.-Col. Colin (Mad Mitch} Mitchell, @
[2095]right-wing House of Comnions member
[2096]and a hero of the Battle of Aden during his
[2097]days with the Argyle & Sutherland
[2098]Highlanders. Mitchell, who was muttering
[2099]totke British press ‘about: secret missions to
[2100]Abaco and the such, recently visited Wer-
[2101]Bell in Powder Springs, WerBell said. -
[2102]‘While there are some people who. admire
[2103]Namboyance auch as WerBell's,. there are
[2105]others wo don't. Among those others are
[2107]WerBell’s former business associates, a
[2108]group of New York investment bankers
[2109]who bought WerBeill and Bennett B.
[2110]Bintliff, an associate, out of the Military
[2111]Armament Corp. (MAC) that' the pair had
[2112]founded. “He's been headline press all over
[2113]England, ond we're just « quict little man-
[2114]ufacturing company,” said Resser Scott
[2115]Reeves II}, chairman of the board of MAC's
[2116]parent company, Quar.tum Corp. “He's a
[2117]loudmouth. Basically, when you ‘te dealing
[2118]with 9 country, the country would liane iu
[2119]see responsible executives who are discreet,
[2120]who will transact business — not tell war
[2123]Reeves, however, says he doesn't dislike
[2124]WerBe!ll — he just doesn't want to be
[2125]associated with him in the arms business.
[2126]“T like him a great deal. He's amusing and
[2127]he's a character. But letting him run Colt
[2128]or letting him run MAC is Like turning
[2129]Joose a high. school hot. todder to: mn
[2130]General Motors."
[2132]WerBell_ and his associates in Powder
[2133]Springs have now reincorporated under the
[2134]name of Defense Systems International
[2135]Inc. and have hired away several of MAC's
[2136]former weapons specialists. They are not
[2137]overly fond of Reeves and his people either.
[2139]“Tunnel vision” is one phrase they use to
[2140]describe MAC's preoccupation with gun.
[2141]sales. .
[2143]Defense Systems International, they
[2144]say, docs not suffer from such tunnel vi-
[2145]sion. They are deeply involed in
[2146]Rocpoliiics — whatever geupolitics are.
[2147]And from the list of activities that WerBelt
[2148]and his partners tick off, geopolitics seems
[2149]to be about anything they want it to be:
[2150]arms sales, military advice. investment
[2151]banking, economic development, security
[2152]work, public relations, international law-
[2153]yering.
[2155]The pedple who hire the firm, WerBell
[2156]Says, “are interested in an organization
[2157]that’s capaole of doing the political,
[2159]. Reopolitical, clandestine and economic op-
[2160]_ erations that we're capable of. We operate
[2163]"-" ernment, ‘froma mini
[2164]_ minister.of welfare to. the guy who presses.
[2165]. ‘the ‘buttdns | to maké the elevator go,’ we
[2167]in 22 different countries. If somebody said
[2168]to us tomorrow, "We need 8 complete’ gov-
[2169]erofhealthtoa
[2171]could ‘do it.”
[2173]Just how much demand there is for pre-
[2174]_packaged governments — or how much ca-
[2175]pability Defense S tems: International has
[2176]- for providing‘them-— is untertain. What
[2178]the firma would appear tc have an obvious
[2179]‘capacity for, however, is warfare: [ts presi-
[2180]dent and chief. administrator is WerBell's
[2181]son-in-law, Paul Routhier, a retired U.S,
[2182]Air Force leutenant-culonel who also dou-
[2183]_ bles as the company's air-waer expert. On
[2184]the staff are various other ex-military
[2185]types, renging fer s Marine sergeant to
[2186]several retired colonels. Among its activi-
[2187]ties, says Routhier, is the sale to smaller,
[2188]U.S.-approved nations of armament pack-
[2189]ages, including not only hardware but also
[2190]training. | :
[2192]Wr Defense Systems International
[2193]. does not do, its principals insist, is to make
[2194]wars, or shoot people themselves. If they
[2195]did, they say, they could go to jail for vio-
[2196]lating US. neutrality laws. Nur does it sell
[2197]the guns to showt peaple with, unless the
[2198]U.S. State Department approves, they say.
[2199]And the State Department isn’t about to
[2200]approve the sale.of any arms by WerBel! to
[2201]the Abaconian secessicnists. No matter,
[2202]says WerBell. “We have no intention of
[2203]arming Abaco in any shape or fashion.
[2204]Anyway, they have more arms down there
[2205]than we have here.”
[2207]So whs, then, is there a Photograph
[2208]Iying about of the Hon. W. E. Errington
[2209](Eric) Watkins, a member of the Bahami-
[2210]an Parliament from Abaco, clenching 4
[2211]cigar between his teeth and test-firing one
[2212]of WerBell’s silericed submachine guns?
[2214]lencer, makes’ about as mitch noise. as an
[2216]electric typewriter. :
[2217]- The novelty of W erBell’
[2219]aside, however, there remain “thonuentony
[2221]of how WerBell got involved with-the Free _
[2223]Abaco faction, ‘what he is doing for it ard...
[2225]how he is getting paid.
[2226]The leadership of:the Council fora Free
[2228]_ Abaco appears to be composed oft wo mea,
[2230]Watkins and Charles (Ci:uck) Hall. Wat-
[2231]kins, the chairman, isa retired Bahamas
[2232]policeman dnd former Nassau resident. He
[2233]was elected to the House of Assembly from
[2234]Abaco on the Free National Movement
[2236]ticket last September. He aave he has-* -
[2238]known WerBell for same 20 seanh Hall, a
[2239]Nassau ‘I'V- and radio-store owner, is a:
[2240]direct descendant of the white Tories who.
[2241]settled Abaco immediately after the Amer-
[2242]ican Revolution rather than be separated
[2243]from the British Crown. He savs he was
[2244]referrvd to WerHell through persons he met .
[2245]while organizing 4 demonstration against
[2246]allowing Air Cuba’ to service the Nassau
[2247]airport. “The people f met there, basically
[2248]right-wing. were able to put me on to Wer-
[2249]Bell.” Hall is secretary of the council.
[2251]With a budget that they wil descnbe ao
[2252]more specifically than to say it is less than
[2253]350,000 and made up entirely of small con-
[2254]tributions from Bahamians, the group is
[2255]paving WerHell and Marger an undisclosed
[2256]fee through Zeta, a dummy corporation
[2257]founded solely for the Abaco venture. Why
[2258]it was necessary to establish such a
[2259]company iy unclear, Of its name, A erBell
[2260]says, “I think it's Greek for war.”
[2262]But just what the Zeta Co. or Operation
[2263]Zeta — it's referred to ag both — 18.doing
[2264]for the: Abaconian secessionists 18 some-
[2266]‘what uncertain. So far, there has been
[2268]some lobbying of Parliament in London by
[2269]Marger, a lawyer with U.S. lobbying expe-
[2270]rience and a background in.international
[2271]law, but about as un-British a fellow as
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[2312]The answer muay'well be far from sinister:
[2313]as a tourist drinks beer when he ‘visits
[2314]Busch Gardens, a visitor te WerBell’s pers. There have been conversations with :
[2315]house does not normally leave without fir- Mad Mitch. And there has even been note COMMERCIAL BANK OF KENDALL a
[2316]ing off 9 clip or two through the machine " of the plight of the Abaconian secestionists 8601 S. Ove. e Hwy. Miamr -- 665-7494 :
[2317]gun. It is an instrument of which WerBell: on the editorial page of the Atlanta be -
[2318]is @uly proud: a rapid-fire autaumatic duurnalsthroe sympathetic columns :
[2319]+ - weapon that, when equipped with the si- written by John Crown, a retired Marine
[2321]“TROPIC — Paty I. 973
[2323]Fee geet mpeeccne
[2325]pete ae
[2327]-
[2329]Sudsaares of FLORIGA COMMERCIAL BANSS. INC A Segstereg Gsan Molding Comme +
[2332]14-0000
[2334]POWDER KEG
[2336]Contrnced
[2338]officer.and acquaintance.of WerHell’s who
[2340]was introduced to Watkins. There is also
[2341]sume talk about approaching the Organiza-
[2342]tion of Americun States and the United
[2343]Nations. And about’ a referendum on
[2344]Abaco July § — the day, befure Bahamian
[2346]. independence — on whether to unilaterally
[2348]declare Abaco a free naticn. “We are pur-
[2349]‘ting to bear all our activity and friends to
[2351]-itell the world, “Here's a country that
[2352]doesn't want to go this way,’ says Wer-
[2354]Bell. . :
[2355]‘The accuracy of that assessment of feel-— —
[2356]ing on Abaco can be questioned. Many of
[2358]the Abaconians who originally opposed .- .
[2359]separation from the Crown abandoned the .
[2360]movement as fruitless in December, when
[2362]the, British government decreed that the
[2363]Baharaas — all of the Bahamas — sould
[2364]becume independent. Nor was there ever _
[2365]complete Opposition throughout Abaco to
[2367]the Pindling government and indepen-
[2368]dence: of the two Farliament .members
[2369]‘elected’ by the isiand’s 6,500 residents, the
[2371]one other than: Watkins is a Pindling sup-
[2372]“porter and a backer of independence. The
[2374]-.-" impetus, for, the: Free Abaco movement, - -
[2375]both Pindling and. Minister of External ~
[2376]_ Affairs Faul Adderly have charged;-comes -
[2377]"from ‘outside the Bahamas. ‘‘I still think _
[2378]“that what they are basically involved in is
[2380]the stsaling of land,” Adderly said in a .
[2381]recent interview. And indeed, the majority
[2382]of the people on Abaco know very little of
[2383]WerBell and Marger outside of whut they
[2385]~ read in the British press.
[2387]“| Werteil says hismotivations ure strictly
[2388]> anti‘communist. A far right-winger — he
[2389]-“ described himself to a newsmun as “to the
[2391]right of Attila the Hun" -— WerHell sees
[2392]the Bahamas as islands ripe for commu-
[2393]nism, “Every goddam single symptem that ~
[2395]~ was present in Cuba exists in the Bahamas
[2399], today,” he says.
[2401]‘ Wi.rpet's opinion of the Pindling gov-
[2402]~ ernment and of the Bahamas’ politicaicli- CMa j
[2404]mate is one which many observers of the | ~__
[2405]Bahainas do not share.. Although the over-
[2407]ay
[2409]24
[2411]“
[2413]aries 100%.
[2414]do 6 eae Shoes
[2415]2 dane ra ware:
[2418]: Shirts*:- $75.
[2420]. eut cette bow OD
[2424]: ( 18SON-E. to-uh St. No. M. Beach.
[2425]? Monday thru Friday 10 A.M, - 9 P.M.
[2426]"Saturday 10 A.M. - 6 P.M.
[2427]i Sunday by appointment 947-9047
[2429]. .DON'T LET
[2430]-SUMBIER’S BEAT
[2431]GET YOU DOWN:
[2432]If your present Central
[2434]air conditioning system needs
[2435]replacing make sure the
[2437]Beis
[2439]whelming majority of the islanders are : Tae: °
[2440]black and have become very assertive con- “ a : ji ROUND ONE
[2441]cerning racial equality during the past de- 4, ; a, 7 a -
[2442]cade or so, the Banamas have been deeply e — . BE GOES IN
[2443]influenced by English tradition. The © x ; .
[2444]Anglican and Baptist Churches, hoth con- 2. { 0° Se 1 Day 24 Gear Chsegoon! Serrice
[2445]servative institutions, are heavily repre- —. a
[2446]sented. And ‘the U.S. government is > ¢ >
[2447]ardently courting Pindling as a friend. Goss . CAN BUY ER
[2449]But WerBell, son and heir of a Cossack '- 3 con eepiace
[2450]colonel, sees.the rise of Bolshevism where .& <: eny entra
[2451]others see the peaceful emergence of a new a PS 38G-R’ a | SYSEOrn
[2452]democratic nation. And the question is ¢¢=* © Carrier's Round.One thinks. for itself with: -
[2454],
[2456]am” Np
[2458]whether or not to take him seriously as he
[2459]sits in Powder Springs with his bush jacket -
[2460]and walrus moustache, talking of hiring
[2461]mercenaries and of naming a company
[2462]after what he thinks is the Greek letter
[2463]meaning war. | : .
[2465]The State Department, meanwhile, is
[2466]keeping a close watch. “Nou can’t write a
[2467]man off as aciown..’ said one source. “if he
[2468]has a warehouse full of arms. We take him
[2469]seriously enough to want to know what he's
[2470]“up to.” {0
[2472]a doorful of-the most advanced-solid
[2473]state controls ever built isto a unit. Tha
[2474]ultimate in protection agaiast “Brown-
[2475]Outs” and power failures. For further in-
[2476]formation, phon us. ‘
[2478]SERVING MIAMI FOR 27 YEARS
[2479]RESIDENTIAL INC.
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[2563]- 8° SUPER SIZE
[2564]SUPERTAN
[2566]A balanced blend of Aloe.
[2567]Cocoa Butter and ianolin for
[2568]the whole fomily.
[2570]$1 Of regalar low price at your
[2571]favorite store. including
[2573]© MEDCO DRUGS
[2577]© TARASGH ORUGS
[2579]e@ SURF DRUGS
[2581]© REWPORT SUNDRIES
[2582]© TRUCO DRUGS
[2584]. ALOR LN ae a Rea La RNY A
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[2589]; DOLLA
[2590]y vou are cuthonied 10 act as our agent in tedeeming this)”
[2591]coupon. We will reimburse you tor the face value of this 27
[2592]“Heoupon plus Sc handing, pronded you ond the custome
[2593]ET; \have complied with the terms of this alter. Proof of pur- ~—
[2594]Si |chase of sufficient stock to cover coupens for redemption: ¢
[2596]i
[2598]i
[2600]4
[2604]i
[2606]i
[2608]3
[2610]i eS
[2611]must be furnished upon request. All must be signed wi y
[2612]Dfaddress of consumer, We will pot hanar redamptio
[2614]: aod through on ovtside agency. The customer must pay sale:
[2616]t \itrax, Cash redemption 1:20. Redemption on other than}.
[2618]A} product speatied is Froud. . : .
[2620]} [=P Send coupons fa? Sundown Prod. P.O. Box 10510
[2622]2 North Miami Beach, Fic. 33160 4
[2623]i 1" Uimit I Coupon Por Family Geapen C204 Thre 7-28-73 |r}
[2624]; dar. of DAs. Consumer sign here: oh
[2626]1
[2628]3
[2630]a
[2632]5
[2637](Fate Lgct. Cable Loppoor! $3%
[2638]7) reel 9 SOY 73 ot
[2639](Sub) ecr: | Bil heg ae fier: —- Bahamian
[2641]Free iyportee. Pptivihes ¢ in ,
[2642]- Lartn oo,
[2645]14-0000 CLASSE ARTECK FRE NG SOON
[2649]TW EEUES FOR EDLY,
[2650]Bre eS me
[2652]19
[2654]| | Chief of Station, Port.
[2656]CE . i
[2657]{_ Chief, Africa Division oe elec
[2658]BPSraire) : 7 7 ;
[2659]-Headquarter's Traces on the Military Armauent_Corporation.
[2661]Momarcuuto REET ART AS Stated in Paragraph Three
[2662]Reference: Port Louis 12011, 17 May 1973.
[2664]-.. 1. There are no Headquarter's traces on Dr. George A. Winkler,
[2665]but there are traces on, the Military Armament Corporation and its
[2666]Board Chairman, Mr. Mitchell Livingston WerBell III (201-259910).
[2668]In 1967 WerBell Organized a firm called SIONICS, Incorporated
[2669]| (Studies in Operational Negation of Insugency and -Counter Subversion),
[2671]-Specializing in producing silencers. In 1970, Werbell Bstged with
[2673]Quantum Ordnance Bankers and the new firm was named the Military —
[2674]| Armament Corporation’ with Xerbell as Chairman of the Board.
[2676]| (2, -WerBell- was born.on.8 March 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[2677]was discovered-that -he was.involved ‘with antd+Castro plotters in ;
[2678]| the Dominican Republic. He was granted a POA in August 1959 but this
[2679]“|. f. dGtele: value and it. was Suspected that’ he was using ‘BKHERALD funds
[2680]'f to promote personal interests. He has subsequently attempted to
[2681]‘WerBell's lengthy.201 file shows a long history of his appearing in
[2682]ized-as unscrupulous, a "wheeler dealer", and a promotor of gtandicse
[2683]schemes. WOTACK advises that the arms WerBell offers for sale are
[2685]lie’ served in: the: OSS‘ and: was ‘of interest to BKMERALD in 1959 when it
[2686]Was cancelled. in. October ,1959:.when his information proved to be of
[2687]~pass himself as LNBUZZ orests. He as a BKHERALD employee. ‘Mr.
[2688]areas-and situations where he can make a fast buck.. He is character-.
[2689]of good quality, but that the selling price is considered excessive.
[2691]3. In that Mr. WerBell is a WODUAL citizen, the above infor-
[2692]| @ation shculd not be. passed to CGPAT/1. ‘However, the Station could
[2693]. inform CGPAT/1 that ‘the Military Armament Corporation has an unsavory
[2694]reputation and, although it may have permission from NVIDEA to export
[2695]---arms; -it--has’ no LNBUZZ connections and that any dealings with the
[2696]Corporation shovld be approached with extreme caution.
[2698]Luther S. PENAGELIA
[2700]Distribution: a se
[2701]Orig & 1-COS, Port Louis So a ao . nD
[2703]i ae
[2705]THPATCH SEMBOL AND NUMBER Toa =
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[2708](E575 WEFERENCE 10
[2710]| .
[2711]\ AQPH 240 ; | 29 May 73 __
[2712]Sieg OT
[2713]i
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[2719]Le/S/E i
[2721]Distribution:
[2722]1-AF/S
[2723]1-AF/5 Chron
[2725]FA
[2729]123 530 use previous eorrion.
[2731]MFG, afl
[2734]14-0000
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[2739]_Chief of Stations ieee 2
[2740]|
[2742]Y quasi ose
[2744]. io”
[2745]tA sudot WNDEING
[2747]oe , ~ 7 :
[2748]to “chief, Nestern Hemisphere Division i | wiceovun
[2749]. LP o VWVAPOR/Mitchell Livingston Werbell Tl :
[2751]ACHON BtguterD- uiftdencts ; :
[2753]a a a te es
[2755]7 _ ACTION REQUIRED: FYI
[2757]7 Forwarded under separate cover is a report
[2759]from LNERGO dated 12 September 1973 on Subject. - -
[2761]Louise B. PERLBINDER: ~
[2763]Attachment: . wisie .
[2766]Orig. i le. cos, WH/Miami, watt, wis/e
[2768]RecoRD cOPY |
[2770]DATE
[2772]CROSS REFERENCE TO — ar EH SORBOL ANG MuwaER
[2773]_UFPW- 784 Typed: 12 October 1973
[2774]“I : CLRSSTEICATION [Was Fis MOER
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[2811]STAFF : _\ 03 403840
[2812]cone: gurs/ 8 INFO: FILE: CISSEM ov: 354A
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[2815]Q mnere - - an ;
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[2817]TO? WH/MEANT. > 7
[2818]0 :
[2819]“Vb
[2820]VUVAPOR. . . Use £59 y
[2821]de FOLLOUING SunnaRyY STATE 60533 DATED 27 APRIL. 3973 {POUCHING
[2822]COPY}: oe an :
[2823]- BRITISH Enaorr. “uasHingron GAVE NOTE . TO DEPARTHENT. ON BEHALF. °
[2825]: . |
[2826]OF BAHAMAS GOVT {GOBI? ON 2? APRIL 1973 RE NEW. REPORTS IN UNITED
[2828]_ KINGDOM CONCERNING Tuo PEOPLE INVOLVED ANTI- BAHAMAS INDEPENDENCE
[2829]ACTIVITIES. REPORTS TDENTIFY TWO PEOPLE AS U.S. CITIZENS. THEY ARE
[2830]EDUIN nA AR 6 £ Rv FoRTY- FOUR YEAR OLD ATTORNEY, UHO CLAINS REPRE-
[2834]ee oe seu "couNerL FOR A FREE ABACO." AND NITCHEL BEL Ly €9te3 Frety-
[2835]~~ FIVE YEAR OLD ARMS DEALER. GOBT HAS UNCONFIRMED INFO THAT MARGER IS
[2837]FLORIDA ATTORNEY AND BELL PRESIDENT 07 DEFENSE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL
[2838]INC. POWDER SPRING, GEORGIA. "COUNCIL FOR A FREE ABACO" UNKNOUN TO
[2840]“GOBI.
[2842]a. NEus “REPORTS SAY BOTH NEN ARRIVED. UK CLAINING REP RGSCNT
[2843], CITIZENS WHO UANT REMAIN BRITISH, AND INTERESTED HIRING SRITISH
[2845]CENARIES THO NEITHER MAN SAID MERCENABRIES INTENDED FOR ge on
[2847]CATE: . ; . :
[2848]ORIG: . no . ae : oy .
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[2850]om - . [Recon a : c & SAYS.
[2851]. ; . ‘
[2852]RT es ee Tad
[2853]Caaecence "REPRODUCTION ay oraés THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE 1S PROMIGITED «og 9 , IMPOET
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[2875]MESLACE mexciong cate oave- Teg Grou : — om wassace mevemence mmeam
[2876]STAFE ee -  S DERECETOR -
[2877]CONF: INFO: FILE -_ an py CCOUSSEM BY:
[2878]- ‘O scen 0 MD EDEN , . , , fe 3 Je : PER_
[2879]° O servo ee , coe . . . - be
[2880]A ome . a
[2882]; “Ce GOS REPORTED. -THIS LINFO. SINCE ACTIVITIES, IF TRUES NIGHT
[2883]_constature CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY AGAINST GoBr.
[2885]>. GOBr REQUESTS UeS. GOVT INQUIRE INTO CON IDUCT THESE TWO HEN
[2886]"RE REPORTED ACTIVITIES: AGAINST GOBIs TAKING ACTION AS NECESASARY.
[2888]8 ‘STATE ‘COMMENT: ‘LABE FYE, ARMS “DEALER IS MITCHEL WE R-
[2890]ee ao 8 £ t Le oF PoubeR ‘Sprtne: GEORGIA, UHO KNOWN TO DEPARTHENT AS AdvEN-
[2891]ae 4 TURER uHo THVOLVED IN SIMILAR "ACTIVITIES, IN OTHER CARI@BEAN COUNTRIES.’
[2892]END FYE.
[2893]. ‘2+ FOLLOWING SUMMARY NASSAU’S4G DATED 22 APRIL 4573 {POUCHING
[2896]Oe OE A. “WIN EXT AFF AD DUE R L.E.Y GAVE-INFO--CoPY-STATE-BUS3E” To
[2898]ENBOFF- IN NASSAU WITH COMMENT THAT GO3I NOT ASKING UK AUTHORITIES TAKE”
[2900]ANY. “ACTION AGAINST U.S. CITIZENS.
[2902]B- ADDERLEY SATD ABACO LEADER LEONARD THSH OM P 3 ON AND MR.
[2903]S&S TRA T. T te) Na ONE OF MAIN FINANCTAL BACKERS, OF ABACO MOVENENT a
[2904]“ASSURED PA RECENTLY THEY NOT SUPPORTING SECESSION THROUGH VIOLENCE.
[2905]“{enDOFF COMMENT: THIS IN LINE WITH INFO RECEIVED THAT MODERATE ELE-
[2906]NENTS ON ABACO. DISASSOCIATING FROM EXTRENISTS AROUND ERRTH IGTON UATKING -
[2908]“DATE: | 7 . ’
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[2919]“eaaareariom REPRODUCTION BOTHER THAN THE SUING 0 DEFTCE IS morign 4 “6 22. iMPDET
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[2938]" $IG“aL CENTER USE OMY
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[2941]classenance
[2943]SECRET .
[2944]STAFF a DIRECTOR.
[2946]CunF: INFO: | FILE
[2948]a ve 372
[2950]Q Teo
[2951]Bivens
[2953]BC. NASSAU GUARDIAN 2? APRIL- 3973. HAS CABINET OFFICE PRESS.
[2954]RELEASE UETH NOTE TEXT, _AND REPORTS: THAT ‘KBACO ERRINGTON ‘BATKINS AND
[2955]FRIEND, CHARLES "CHUCK" HA L La IN LONDON SEEKING Si SUPPORT. FOR
[2957]OUNCTL FOR A FREE ABACO.S ee Se Bes 7 0
[2958]“SAME ISSUE. -HAS WATKINS" 's “DENTAL HE IN. ‘LONDON FOR TERCENARTES”:
[2960]. De .
[2961]HE SATD HE LOBBYING
[2963]OR THAT HE YOULD: RESORT TC OR CONDONE. VIOLENCE »
[2964]HAVE BAHANIAS INDEPENDENCE BILL. AMENDED. TO. EXCLUDE INDEPENDE NCE FOR .
[2965]ABACO AND SAID WILL DO EVERYTHING LEGALLY. AND. CONSTITUTIONALLY TO .
[2966]ACHIEVE WISHES AND DESIRES OF PEOPLE.” YATKINS SAID GOBI CHARGES UERE
[2968]EFFORT TO DISCREDIT HIM. ;
[2969]E. DEPARTMENT COMMENT: PROMPT RELEASE OF. NOTE TO LOCAL PRESS
[2971]AND RADIO SUGGESTS It EXERCISE FOR THTERNAL POLITICAL CONSUMPTION. A -
[2972]3- POUCHING SUMMARY EXTENSIVE FILE oN: WERBELL {201-259910}.
[2974]4. FILE 201- es9910~ E2 IMPDET.d
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[3098]wet RCE 1 HEE TEED
[3100]Fa! treained dar. ; .
[3101]Ke Kypeil | a
[3103]C a “pubchell Le: peerbell 77
[3105]Assoc. wf Hay Hac aries) 7
[3107]i
[3109]~  T SULKC Opn ° - ; ae ; ” _ | ”
[3111]Jona K. Greaney. re . -
[3112]een | Oe }
[3113]Assistact General Counsel j TSRL: & November 1972 ; i
[3114]——— - re ces ee FA A ED
[3115]TO: ion room “mmber,” 0 _ i
[3116]voce 28 inet Sewgnstion nme send t. DATE {GEER S | COMMENTS iNember eoch comment fe ug Kem whos |.
[3118]> | wero, SPIE SEIS |
[3119]‘. _ . - : =
[3121]s{1li-3. “Lhave reviewed the-attached
[3122]trduscript and dind nothing classi-
[3123]fied. “I feel, however, it would.be! |
[3124]advisable for Exmai Geiss -to sigan
[3125]‘the reply since WerBell's counsel
[3126]‘has sent me writen interrogator.
[3127]tes in: thie (pr ceedings. WAS Kaajix
[3129]eatey CAEL OH wv
[3131]Lawrence R. houston
[3132]General Counsel
[3134]"General Counsel ©
[3136]fe DD/P_ JTF
[3137]> 3034 Has.6
[3139]-DD/SEC
[3140]4E60 Has.
[3144]1 { _
[3145]Pott ses
[3147]eee Ee oe)
[3149]Tm) NAS eecseree
[3151]ste Ta WONT eat a con, Geran (non alauntegs. ae Sry eseyeca iene aaeree afm ee
[3155]f fom
[3156]vif ra
[3158]Ly is
[3162]—_ z
[3164]Le ah
[3167]By
[3169]AOL -
[3170]| Aahee :
[3175]aa.
[3177]CE.TRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
[3178]riinstOn, OC, 26502
[3180]. OO . _. OG 71-1618 .
[3181]_ 11 NOV 971
[3183]' Mz. George MacClain 90 7
[3184]Director, Information oo :
[3185]. Security Division |
[3186]-. . _ . Department of Defense
[3187]: Washington,’ D.C. 2030)
[3189]= . 7 ‘Peat Mr. Ma¢Clain:
[3191]“Subject: ‘WerBell, Mitchell Liviagecoa I
[3192]; OsD No. 69 59
[3194]_ In accordante with your request of 13 Octoder 1971, the
[3196]' Ceatral Intelligence Agency has reviewed the Ofiicial Report of
[3198]. Proceedings in the subject case. The Official Report of Pros
[3199]ceedings does not contain any informatioa pertaining to to tae CIA
[3200]which should be classified,
[3202]It should be noted, however, that the lack of classificae
[3203]tion coes not mean the CLA subscribes to or validates the testie
[3204]mony contained ix the Ofiicial Report of Proceeciags and this
[3206]. review snould not be interpreted as an encorsemeést by this -
[3207]on Agency of the statements containee therein, :
[3209]Returned herewith is the Official Report of Proceedings,
[3210]Sincerely, —
[3212]EGUAL P, GEISS
[3214]Ezmal P, Geiss
[3215]_ Deputy Dizector of Security
[3217]Enclosure .
[3218]weet a ence ene e wee cn ne aee een tee Memo fr Examiner, ISCRD, 9/22/71
[3220]ISCRD memo, 9/23/71
[3221]ISD memo, 2/27/71 °
[3222]Army response, 10/6/71
[3223]Vol 1, OSD No. 69-59 |
[3224]Nol 2, OSD No. 69-59 _
[3228]14-0000
[3230]by 15 ek W
[3231]Zak rile go osb U, L, 69-59
[3234]14-00000
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[3262]PISTOL § and SNIPER RIFLES).
[3264]pean, view? TANz SAIGON
[3266]WEN
[3268]REP CRTEDLY WE
[3270]aT “ye 1i4ez oy 71 cits ‘BANGKOK 24725 9 (essenauist ACT INS?
[3274]tent -OF WeaseLL" $ “GEORGIA a
[3276]TEM iPTING ‘TO SeLL- HIS WARES
[3277]THE Res MESSAGE CITES
[3279]s LENGTHY 251 ON SUBJECT (2ei- -259918) :
[3281]ED
[3283]GRANDIOSS .
[3285]an you
[3286]IS be tne
[3288]As UNS
[3289]CHENES.
[3293]CRUPULOUS, A WHEELER -DEALER
[3294]HE HAS ON OCCASION
[3295]UEE ‘REP OR HAVING LNLUTE BACKING.
[3297]WITH SEVERAL LNCUFF OFFICERS ON 5 NOV”
[3299]A PROMOTER oF G
[3300]sLLUDED EITHER TG SErhG
[3301]2, S$uaJiCT MET !
[3303]TEAL GOVERNME at z
[3305]TO BE PERSONAL raie
[3307]i PURCK ‘SENG HIS PRODUCTS. -
[3308]END OF. AIR CHIES MARSHAL DAWEE AND THAT 2. -
[3309]% ORDER. 70 BRING... .
[3311]Be ‘SUBJECT ADVISED LNG UFF
[3313]S WERE, CONSIGNE D. TO DAWEE 1
[3315]WAS ATTEXTING AGAIN TO INTEREST THE
[3316]SUBJECT CLAIMS ..
[3318]THAT GEN, KRIANGSAK Zr
[3320]_
[3322]of At
[3325]26%
[3327]i
[3329]-
[3333]_
[3336]2597 ~' =
[3338]27
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[3345]“47
[3349]OO AL: Et
[3351]a TWO BANSKGK. 24725 SECR ET ae wa
[3352]a (ME RUNDRED MACHINE ‘PIstos ayo TWENTY -SHIPER 2 RIFLES. ‘ve
[3356]ego, INDIGATED! THAT. ME_HAD NET .WITH: H.SoHe. “ADNIRAL + DESK
[3358]| SIDE DEV CAMP. 70 we THE MING AND clas ae WILL SELL:.
[3360]rsTOL, 70 ThE ROYAL. FRLACE ‘GUARDS. FURTHER.
[3362]x LL HAVE AUDIENCE THIS UEEK WITH HAT. THE XING.
[3363]he FOLLGIING MIS CURRENT THAILAND VISIT, OS 16 NOV 71
[3364]cag 1+295992) FLAN TRAVEL
[3366]. S62Jf0T AND Mi-e JASON Mo STORS C20
[3368]= suBJ JECT. PLANS CONT TACT CAMBODIAN et. AUTHORIT ies
[3370]ina Lacur
[3371]“22 POSSIELE WEAPONS SALES, SUBJECT, HAS ALREASY DENONSTRATED
[3373]“"p| SENS-E0R GEN. POXSANAN IN BANGKOK. °
[3375]5. WR. JAgCY My STONE IS HEAD OF BANGKOK SASED FIRM
[3376]SECOIATED CONSULTANTS cashny LTD. HE IS CHINESE, WHO
[3377]:WEXBELL Ith SEA DURING WEL. susczcT, NGw REPRES
[3379]PLAN TO. CONTACT SR. LADD AT PENCY. PENH.» ‘ACCORD =
[3381]ce FOLLOWING’ “pao, PENH visit WERBELL PLA
[3382][3 PILATUS PORTER, PROBAB! LY. yit# STONE, a _
[3384]7. DUE RESTRICTION, 0 ry passin DEROG On, ue Ss. CITIZEN,
[3386]BELIEVE BEST. ApPRoaCN 3 To CLL, Ot ot “CAREFUL
[3390]S$ FIRMS AND—-IS-REP- FOR. F LATE iS PORTER. ..----
[3392]<3 TRAVEL, TO LAOS IN..
[3394]wee
[3396]2 eS eee i
[3397]| RePLOSUCTION OF Tris COPY PRON
[3399]vance corr 1 bbveD
[3401]| sorte
[3403]BE SANGKOX 24725 S EC R
[3405]‘carson THAT SUBJECT HAS NO OFFI
[3406]CAUTION SHOUD BZ EXERCISED
[3407]R Be
[3409]eH
[3410]oe
[3412]“y ofS Appaéeuny swRowe
[3414]an:
[3416]ET
[3418]CIAL LNLUTE’ RELATION,
[3420]Gir ANY BUSINESS DEAL. .GP-4
[3423]14-09000
[3425]- Arlington, Virginia 22209
[3427]mg : . : pase
[3430]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGE ENCY OG
[3431]WASHINGTON, D.C. 26395
[3433]TURN RECEIPT REQUESTED -
[3435]Ms. David H. Henretta, Jr.
[3437]7 tnéustrial: Security. Clearance Review Division
[3439]Suite 602, _Lyna Building wa
[3440]1111 North 19th Street a an | oe
[3444]Dear Mr. Henretta: - . |
[3446]. Tam returaing Serewith the Interrogatories sent
[3447]“with your letter of October 26, 1971 and which I have executed
[3449]before a Notary Public as requested,
[3451]; Since the xerox copy of Mr. Joseph Liebling's lettea
[3452]cid not contain some of the formalities that were in the
[3453]oxiginal, I have noted this in my answer to Interrogatory IL
[3455]I trust this takes care of what you need. ‘
[3457]Very truly yours,
[3459]Vga Say
[3461]wenvag 4 Ley
[3462]gf evrerco 2 foeatss
[3464]Lawrence R. Houston
[3465]General Counsel
[3467]Excl. - Interrogatories
[3469]pi ase state” yous mane,
[3471]. a ANSWER, _ Gentral Intelligence Agency * ;
[3473]Are pages 2 and 3 a xerox copy of
[3475]“ANSWER:
[3477]a
[3479]: Section 1001, ‘Title. 28, Uaitea States Code. Knoever, in any catter withia .
[3481]the gurisaictzon of any Departpent or Agexcy of the United States Knowingly”
[3482]a. ain ly faisisies, conceals or covers up by any trics, scheze, or
[3483]serial fact or maxes any false, Fictitious or fraudulent svave-
[3485]Sresentavions or makes$ Or uses. ary false writing or.documeat oo,
[3488]knowing the same to conta.a any false, fictitious or fraucuiert st tEtenexrt
[3490]or entry, shai be fined not sore than $20,000 ‘or tape: teoned mot more than
[3492]five years or bothe ; .
[3494]re
[3496]address and professiozal porition Pore initcate’ now
[3498]loag you Lave served. is tris position. ; .
[3499]‘Lawrerce R. Houston, ‘Esquire So
[3501]"1, Washington, D. C.° * 20505
[3502]: ee “UGeneral ‘Counsel - mr ayy ne 2
[3503]Twenty-four, years = a
[3505]— . se
[3506]In your official capacity 6 as General Counsel, Cent tral ‘Intelligence Agency,
[3507]gid you receive & letter dated Feoruary 16, 1971 <rom vyosezh J.. Liebling,
[3509]“Depury Assistant Secretary 02 Defense?
[3511]ay
[3512]ANSWER: - Yes
[3513]III.
[3515]is a three page document aarxed "Gov. =x 1",
[3517]Attacked to these interrogatories
[3518]the lester referred to in Question iI?
[3520]‘Yes. The xerox copy does not have handwritten salutation, sigeature
[3521]_or printed letterhead; hewever, tae text of the original and tie xer70x
[3522]copy have been comparol/-and found to be identical. ;
[3524]‘If? the Answer to ims. as ja the affirmative did you subsequently respond ba) this:
[3525]“letter? -.
[3527]ANSWER: Yes , ee —
[3528]v
[3530]I’ affirmative, is page one of the attackzent, "Gov. Ex uM a xerox copy of
[3531]your responding letter to Mz. Liebling? : .
[3533]answer; Yes. - a
[3534]eqle a Foe
[3536]forge”
[3538]Ve
[3540]af f attimmhcin’s is the inforsation in the letter dated 23 Fepruary ion.
[3542]2
[3544]nm. answer tO” the questi
[3546]- and’ correct tO your best knowledge and belief .
[3548]. aSSdaRi. “Yes
[3550]me soregoing auswer
[3552]| te the dest, of Sy Anew
[3554]5 to the Interrdgatories made by me are true axd correct
[3556]ledge and belief.
[3558]gubseribed’ and Sworn to ‘efore ue . ;
[3559]a person sutnorized by law to ee , ; . ot
[3561]giminister,oatks, this uy
[3562]esy of Tn Let.
[3564]as
[3566]im ti(‘“‘i‘CS;C*S
[3568]eekly Uf heres
[3570]4 Ce ale a.
[3571]mae th, hae ages, vA.
[3573]Que
[3575]ons posed in the letter dated i6 Fepruary 1974) true
[3582]Cie - (Be SecRer
[3584]ND RECORD SHEST
[3587]SuaieCT, ={Opmenal) : : . . ;
[3588]el ; Mitchell Liv ingston Werbeil, II a (H1M-056-71) | >
[3590]. Deputy 1 Director, . oo COC 7f é. C7 . 2
[3591]"912 Key aN. : a "OES Maréh 197l | yo:
[3593]70, oer siti, ~ + ond . _. a FRICER": COMMENTS. (Number ‘ecch corsieat to thow from whom.
[3594]. ; . Po Re a i _to whom, Drow @ ine ocress colvean ofter each comment.)
[3596]ne Jonni x. “Greaney; occ. ry - .
[3597]TOI HA. or foo : on re
[3599]me 6i oe ] secret =f] couripsyTiaL = GERAL Op unctassisico
[3601]14-2000,
[3603]wow ibe e
[3604].° ; oe, NIMSOS6-71
[3606]: Director, Diwestic Cutace Suvvtcw XO Marck La7l
[3607]ATEN 3 Soha NecConnell -
[3608]: ‘.. John Greany (OCC)
[3609]chiel, Miani ‘Field Oftice
[3611]Mitchell Livingétoa Werbell, Ill
[3613]: 4 - Ca. 9 NOE: 71 we. s peceived a Yong. distence’ call; _présusably fren Powder
[3614]"springs, Georgia, | fron. subject, who is an old-and unsavory.contact of this
[3615]-office.dating fron 1959.” Werbell. has beéa ‘involved in a variety’ of scrapes,
[3617]‘the ‘latest of which concerned. an- abortive invasion of Haiti. which Jona Greany
[3618]: Was: very ‘taich’ concerned about a year or 50 ago. ‘
[3620]at: the: Departnent of Defense had just ‘revoked his
[3621]= a3 of Werbell's' "£fivoléus behavior" in the Haitian
[3622]11 stated that he. intendéd- to." fight it to the Suprece Court’, | as ~
[3623]: ‘kept us ‘and‘other eléwents of ‘the: us: ‘Government iaforued Con.
[3624]: cerning cevelopaents in the: Maitiaa matter.
[3626]3. Werbell asked if there waa’ anything that we coulé co for hic in the
[3627]way of interceding for hin with the DOD, and we informed him bluatly and in
[3628]no uncertain terms that, he was strictly on hia own, and“we could do nothing
[3629]for hin. We then asked if it would be worthwhile to subpoena Bart Gonzales,
[3630]We. inforaes Tina that it was up to hie attorney to make such recomendations.
[3632]4, Kerbell seened to get the message, and then ‘offered ts keep us advised: °
[3633]regarding an alleged forthcoming attempt on liaiti which is being sponsored by
[3634]Rolando: Masferror;-even~though-Masferrer-ie currently incarcerated in a federal
[3635]prison, we told Werbell that {f he wished to pass any inforcation along we
[3636]would accept it hut under no circunstances should ha attezpt to eli¢it any
[3637]information on our behalf. Re agreéd that he would operate oa this basis and
[3638]said he nignt be in touch with us again.
[3640]. 5. In view of Werbell's record wo : felt that this latest contact should —
[3641]bea matter of record and that occ should be inforzed of € cevelopnents.
[3643]JUSTIN F. GLEICHAUP
[3645]JEG/css
[3647]f t ari? }
[3648]: : une Tax astezate,
[3651]a
[3656]Cele
[3658]Yoon
[3661]nai through, :
[3662]Vase in. Flurida arene s:
[3663]-@rs to controversy or Crams
[3665]: : situations.
[3666]oF . “One was.activ sels
[3667]eae Plans {6 set up. nan-anti-C:
[3669]it ad ies
[3670]Hesed a. coaspir y in ship ae
[3675]IH, vite president of $
[3676]an Allenta Weapons res
[3677]and) raant
[3679]he he ad withdra
[3680]rt from the If:
[3682]“leurred
[3684]territory.
[3686]"The indie st Were
[3688]- Bell and six others was inade!
[3689]afler customs agents raided an
[3690]on, island camp
[3691]“Tia, where th
[3693]sO arsenal of w
[3695]itime,
[3696]he
[3697]ahi the Communists.”
[3699]ireswaueh,
[3700]- wed Newsman |
[3702]- 7 po battle ad exiies and Ame! In the Duminicon ae
[3704]" . before, Werte
[3706]Not on Ts!: a with
[3708]Verbelb h
[3709]the island at the time of the
[3710]raid.
[3712]Only = four waeks
[3713]Weeelt was ot,
[3714]attorney in 3
[3715]the cl
[3716]mised.
[3718]rte?
[3720]At oue point during “the|
[3721]he seid a few days!
[3723]he and é& me 200)
[3725]ta wall” by armed
[3727]and thot} re sas
[3729]and the
[3731]oy founded § Sion!
[3733]SONS Sent te Ar. |
[3735]F916
[3738]14-00000 .
[3739]fy . . . -
[3741]an Viet ArmsShipmenttoF la, Aired ||.
[3743]By Bruce Galpin Col) Paul Martiott and-made ; pressors Mynufactured by his}.
[3744]Weshington Pest Sait writer - “R Scapezoat of him. Marriott jftrm. White he was there, he
[3745]a ‘da ¥ a tits * ra -
[3746]<a ATMANTA Dee 1 a an GF abo Es Nhl Be wae there, be
[3747]; aan lanta weapons manufactures ithe Falin’ ment Labola- lose Ssaiizalivus and -military
[3748]. : Bald today vial he and not af “tory, 1s under Investigation for / Officials gave him guns. ©
[3749]bowl Air Force offices was responsi: his role-in the-gun shipments} Wetbdéll said-he was Inter. |:
[3750]: : . ble for three naw-<controve:  Alr Force has not yet re-iested in testing the Sionics
[3751]: sial shipments of smail aris rs
[3753]h .> tessed a report on findings of suppressors on captured Rus.
[3754]* from Victnam to Eglin Air j eh | . +
[3756]re iis investization. jSian-designed AK-47 Machine
[3757]oe : a Force Base, Fila. i Werbell is vice president of ‘suns,
[3759]: so, nd that /he sent a crate
[3761]And, said the businessman, ‘Sto. ics, an Atlanta weapons‘back to the states via Eglin.
[3762]Mitchell L. Werbeil HI, “We cresearch and manufacturing ‘They were officially regis.
[3763]were trying to da a favor for company. itered, were delivered to At.
[3764]we we everybody. He-tsaid “he spert time in.lanta and are now “in various
[3765]cee : / #! "it's ‘ashame? fl einam supervising the test. stazes of disassembly In our
[3767]taken a nice officer like (Lting ef flash and sound Sup: Jiboratory,” he stated. ‘
[3769]- ; . :
[3770]. ale shies fen + Fos 7 ~ of Decwniber /7E9
[3771]i - :
[3772]. .
[3774]Seo
[3776]oS
[3780])
[3782]| . ROB PILE
[3783]So, ee
[3785]VEMORANOUM F
[3787]Joe: You may
[3789]acemed convin
[3790]to be easily co
[3791]Let me
[3793]Fore xe) lol 2ePL aces
[3794]aus se MICH waz
[3796]WerBell'g lawyers,
[3797]. dine before, Re wag counsel £
[3799]Hawke, VhG was tried
[3801]flying B-25s to Portugs
[3803]Marger Ceveloned the theor
[3805]untrue as ‘We tes
[3807]“wy
[3808]OR ako flon,
[3810]already
[3812]know jf
[3815]SE used,
[3817]Joseph 5, Liebling
[3819]Know it,
[3821]Sl wit
[3823]7
[3825]Eewin Mar
[3827]-had Cra AP2roval and supnoszi,
[3829]Sed that he 4
[3830]avinced by
[3832]in Buffalo in 1956 for
[3833]out export licenses,
[3834]that thege flights
[3836]the triay, but Marge:
[3837]ad 4 Case, Ere Scems
[3838]his Clients, ,
[3839]YOu want anything More,.
[3841]23 > ‘ory 197)
[3842]ADATE)
[3844]6
[3849]COC. J-0aHg
[3850]OAL TCEAL
[3851](rmemd HO") |
[3853]This. wag totally
[3856]14-00000
[3858]pepe CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENGT |
[3860]i,
[3862]mo . “1 OGS 71-0248
[3864]WASHINGTON, D.C, 20565
[3865]23 February 1971
[3867]The Honorable Joseph J. Liebling
[3869]Deputy Assistant. Secretary of Defense. :
[3871]_ (Security Policy) 9 ce. Cn,
[3873]we Department of Defensé TE oe
[3874]an _ Washington, D. C. 20301 _
[3876]Dear Mr. “Liebliag:
[3878]Re: ‘WerBell, Mitchell L., DI
[3880]Lon, In response to your letter. of 16 Februaty 1971 concerning ;
[3881]Mr. Mitchell L. ‘WerBell, III's alleged-affiliation with tae Central
[3883]ae , . Intelligence Agency, we have investigated the matter thoroughly,
[3885]and based on aii the information available, the answer is ''No"
[3886]for each of your questions numbered 1 through 6, ;
[3888]You should be advised that Mr. WerBell voluntarily con
[3890]tacted a represeniative of the Central Intelligence Agency's
[3892]Domestic Contact Service in Coral Gables, Florida, and at
[3894]Mr. WerBeli's initiation furnished voluntary information for
[3896]the period.15 December 1965 - 19 November 1966 with eleven
[3898]contacts. It should be noted that the function of the Domestic
[3899]ae Contact Service is to receive information which individuals
[3901]feel is of interest to the United States Government. The office
[3903]is overtly listed in the telephone book under the Central Intel-
[3905]. a , ligence Agency and, therefore, is readily available for contact.
[3907]a If Mr. WerSell suggests an affiliation with the Central
[3908]Intelligence Agency, he is hereby authorized to divulge the
[3909]- detaiis of his alleged affiliation in the hearing co that he may
[3910]not use ostensibie security as a means of avoiding answering
[3911]questions,
[3912]; Sincerely,
[3914]eurence VC SUS
[3915]Lawrence R. Houston
[3916]General Counsel
[3918]BD ¢ Llesanee, Loo
[3920]ke are plea fo vais a
[3922]14-00000
[3924]. i iNCLASSIFIED = ik eee CONF”. “INTIAL __ &) Seceer,
[3925]J :ROuTING AND: RECORD SHEET | es
[3926]“SURECT. (Ovroneti" ttre : ; oe :
[3927]Tr /00G/IN “GENCY SOURCE REGISTER ~ sols. ISRM. ; ee i .
[3929]i ee Serr
[3931]10:. "\Otaw duignaan, ‘room, puabe, ‘ond
[3932]*F bwikdting)
[3934]COMMENTS AMember oceh comment to show from whom
[3935]fe whom, Drow. line cress column. cher each comment.)
[3937]"* 1P/20) Section.
[3938]CA2-
[3940]2.
[3942]a * REL
[3943]7 GB 3h.
[3945]ar, re
[3948]2503 -
[3949]+ | ssomuct x ix
[3951]DATS ~23-MARIQ72— 2 2 MAR 1972
[3955]ae ne Soe
[3958]ar CORE E] secret CONFIDENTIAL = [[] |MIFENAL =) UNCLASSIFIED
[3960]Miwee.
[3965]fore IGT ert
[3969]tone
[3970]acre
[3972]Sitmatuog~ 9” . ..
[3974]Loretta retahty
[3976]- vat ber stan
[3978]sprang SECRET
[3980]pam prety
[3982]pines
[3988]No Objection to Roststration. pes reservos
[3989]tho rich: to contact suhfert
[3991]with its restos
[3993]Deid xys a fat will waive this -
[3995]by mutual agreecent ir his Antended use 30
[3996]pequires. :
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[4057]“PPRESENT EMPLOYER
[4059]‘Paoortronar > ING Oata
[4061]moran |
[4063]‘Defense Srstens,” ‘aloes Powder Springs, Georgia — _ i].
[4065]OccuPaTiON:
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[4073]RESULTS
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[4076]= ee “s 10: 8 & DR : | oh Marea 72 236852 Aruy
[4078]“This is oct e registration.
[4082]ahasan necepesn
[4084]Pear wate
[4088]SECRET
[4090]i. The ISR bas no record of a current opera tional | interest in Subject.
[4092]NOTE? This suuest for registration in the ISR was S chanved to a utilization
[4093]check 8% the request of Mrs. Goodall, USAFAC, 24 March 1972.
[4095]23 MAR 72
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[4126]TROUBLE MAKERS RE ABACO WERE U.S:-MUNITIONS DEALERS |
[4127]“ASSOCIATED WITH MITCHELL WAR B= LL TN
[4128]ATLANTA, GEORGIA, CLASSIFIED By ‘TURNER D, SAUNORAS.
[4129]INDEX WATKINS. FILE: 189°9-1. UFP-921.
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[4158]otf Avtomatic Dectonsificicon.
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[4173]_ COUNTRY  BAHAMA “TELANDS
[4175]aca 46 JUNE 1973 yO a ot 7
[4176]" S0uRCE AN OFFICIAL BAHANT AN SERVICE.” _ Fe
[4178]THE GOVERNMENT OF
[4180]THE BAHAMAS DOES NOT ANTICIPATE ANY
[4182]LENCE AND/OR ANTI GOVE:
[4184]SECESSIONISTS DURING THE INDEPENDENCE “cELégaat rons. TROUBLE
[4186]1S NOT EXPECTED FROM THE
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[4194]oF PARLIAMENT. TROUBLE Mays HOWEVER, occua AFTER INDEPENDENCE. . , :
[4195]2, WATKINS IS CONS 1DE3ED TO gE AN ERRATIC PERSGNALITY
[4197]WHO coul D TAKE EXT RENE ACTION IF ABACO WERE IGNORED BY THE
[4199]. GOVERNMENT AFTER INDEPENDENCE OR NOT GIVEN. ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE.
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[4219]; ; 4 i
[4220]IN THE MEANTINE, WATKINS VALUES HIS POLITICAL CAREER AND
[4221]WISHES To REGAIN HIS PARLIAMENTARY SEAT. HE. THEREFORE,
[4222]“3S NOT LIKELY TO ATTEMPT ANY VIOLENT ACTION, : (FIELD COMMENT?
[4224]iced PRESS REPORTED | ‘ON 13 JUNE 1973 THAT WATKINS
[4226]ABACO WOULD 8E CONVERTED INTO A POLITICAL PARTY. ?
[4227]3, (BAHAMLAN SERVICE COMMENT: IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT fo G
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[4231]IN THE BAHAMAS, 4. FEW OTHER FNM MEMEERS, INCLUDING. POSSIBLY 00 eg
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[4241]THE OPPOSITION FNM AND THE NEW WATRINS=PARTY =<"
[4243]MAY EMERGE IN THE BAHAMAS, ) ees ee
[4244]4, FIELD Dissem NONE. vk . oO
[4245]REPORT GLASS SE ¢ RE TsnoO FOREIGN DISSEM
[4247]ASSIFIED BY RECORDED REOORTING OFF! CER. EXEMPT FROM GENERAL TECLASSIF UCATION
[4248]CHPDLEE OF EQ. LlbS2 EXEMPTION CATEGORY 58 Oe (2. IMPOSSIGLE TO DETERMINE LATE OF
[4249]SE
[4251]\UTOMATIC DECL ‘ASSTFICATION. Cc RET
[4253]- - : ; .
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[4259]BL Ipeuritl Da Fp SMV ig 70
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[4273]Sub) / Cat. ‘vtech ofl kin gst in Le,
[4274]ZW — Neutra! ty [haters
[4277]28 repruacy 1975
[4281]‘MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
[4282]SUBJECT -: | Washington Evening Star Article entitlzd "The
[4284]. Story of CFS and the Piot to Invade Hatti"™
[4286]- ‘which. appeared in the 26 february 1979 Edition .
[4288]- 1, Subject article reported that 4 CES cameronan,
[4289]Janes WILSON, had contacted CIA agenta in Houston while
[4290]- on o.space shot assignnent ia 1966, and ‘that the CIA bad .
[4291]informed the FBI, Whe called on WILSON and referred his | ~
[4292]_ to 0,8, Customs. _
[4293]. 2. WH Division has. ascertained -that on 30 June 1966, ss
[4294]a James WILSON called the CIA Duty Officer of the Donestic r
[4295]Contact Service (DS) office in Hougton, Texas, and sub-
[4296]sequently related a story atout a proposed plot being
[4297]__Btaged in the 0.8, to invade Haiti and overthrow the
[4298]Duvalier Governrent, and that CES had convinced the parties
[4299]involved that they should allow CRS to photograph and
[4300]televise a Special Procram on the preparations. WILSON
[4301]requested and received assurances from the DCS officer
[4302]that he would not be identified as the source of this
[4304]_ information.
[4306]3. On 6 July 1966, Wi Division sent a blind meno
[4307]vandum to the Federal Burenu of Investigation and the
[4308]Derartment of State which forwarded a resume of WILSON's
[4309]story to the DCS, without identifying the source. The
[4310]memorandum stated that the source's motive for disclosing
[4311]this information was to alert the U.S. Government to a
[4313]' potentially embarrassing situation if tt were involved
[4314]in ap insecure operation. The JEFAVE Station also passed
[4315]a resume of thie information to the U.S, Customs Pureau
[4317]in Miami. . .
[4319]4.. Except in connection with this report, there is .
[4320]no record of any operational involvenent ty the Agency
[4321]with WILSON. . Oo
[4323]. . : HG OG,
[4324]: +). ves
[4327]MEMORANDUM FOR : Chief, SOD/GB
[4329]a a ee ne ee
[4331]: . _ SUBJECT : Possible Clandestine Planning Tavolving
[4332]ae Coe Bath . _
[4333]REFERENCE ' : Your Memorandua, Same Subject, dated
[4335]30 January 1970 . -
[4337]vHy/7 conveyed. the substance of your first
[4338]im OR
[4340]‘activities. —
[4342]2. Under these circumstances, WH/7 suggests that |
[4343]LTC Cochrane be advised to inform an appropriate USAF’ ‘ -
[4344]security office of Mr. WERBELL'’s statements. This : | ,
[4345]should insure that gny follow-up inquiry concerning
[4346]‘those statements would be properly coordinated with -
[4347]such other investigations.as.may--be in process. |
[4349]David L. Smock
[4352]14-0000
[4354]MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WH/7
[4356]SUBJECT: . _—>— Possible Clandestiné Planning Involving Haiti
[4357]REFERENCE: . © Memorandum for C/WH/7, Same Subject,
[4358]: dated 15 January 1970 : :
[4359]On 28 January 1970,"? Mr, M.
[4361]P
[4362]reference to the plan being initiated in ‘Canada iga s blind and that
[4363]the plotting is based in Haiti. He also stated that he has been
[4364]approached to provide the equivalent of tive million dollare worth
[4366]of arms to the group and that the plotting has F French backing.
[4370]i
[4374]j oo 2. The above information was received ‘from LTC Cochrane
[4375]| . by LTC Charles Williamson, USMC, and is provided to WH/7 for
[4376]: disposition and action. This information, to the beat of our know-
[4377]ledge, has not been acted upon by SACSA; however, Mr. WerBell
[4378]4 ot
[4380]fe ""apihire Barquia” “
[4381]- | ” ae - . Chief, Ground Branch
[4382]i
[4383]t
[4385]Special Cperations Division
[4388]. 7 en 20 January 1970. 4
[4390]MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE:
[4391]SUBJECT. : Mitchell Livingston WERBELL IIT
[4392]_ REFERENCE : Memo from C/SOD/GB to C/WH/7 dtd 15 Jan 1970
[4394]Subject; Possible Clandestine Planning. Involving
[4395]Haitt :
[4397]1.  {ndrew, ‘Bacuzzi,. SOD/GB, advised 19 January 1969,
[4398]tter. By - phone ‘cult to. kr. parauin pointing out the third
[4400]i - :
[4401]: ardz ‘the “info es being“rione fern
[4402]‘and was telling his friend ‘(W111 amgon): about it as‘a
[4403]private citizen. ~
[4405]2. Suggest we just use Williamson ag the source.
[4407]James P. Mullen
[4408]C/WH/T/HT
[4410]ve itua Aue -/,
[4412]i 201-259910.
[4415]l = WH/7/HT Chrono
[4417]po : Distribution:
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[4424]x
[4428]WL SIG Cs
[4430]14-0000
[4432]i
[4434]1
[4436]| , ‘MEMORANDUM FOR; Chief, WH/7
[4438]| SUBJECT: . Possible Clandestine Planning Involving Haitt
[4440]“1, The Vice President of SIONICS Inc., Mr. Mitchell Livingston |
[4441]WerB«-li Ul, contacted LTC.Barney Cochrane, USAF, assigred to :
[4442]ae - SACSA, in early January 1970 and said that he learned of the existence. |
[4443]Jaserwuer= » Of Plans for a special clandestine operation based perhaps in Canada _ |
[4444]* ‘against President Duval: .. i
[4446]ier's re
[4448]2. The above information waa obtained from LTC Cochrane by ‘ i
[4449]LTC Charles Williamson, USMC, assigned toSOD/GB. SOD and tha
[4451]' Office of Security have an extensive file on bir. WerBell who haga.
[4453]long history of worldwide involvement in borderline and sometimes _
[4455]illegal international gun deals, It ia felt by LTC Cochrane that
[4457]Mr. WerBell's story is plausible and warrants further investigation,
[4459]Mr. WerBell's motive for revealing this type of information at present
[4463]ednformation by SACSA. |.
[4465]3. To the best of our knowledge, no action has been taken on ‘thie
[4467]Casimiro Barquin.
[4468]Chief, Ground Branch
[4469]‘Special Cperations Division;
[4471]MM:
[4475]“ty
[4478]14-0000
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[4496]o . . wv
[4498]. Cc va FEDERAL 3B REAU or ik Jest! IeG GMa sknTd | 7
[4500]J
[4501]: 4 .
[4504]FROM: CENTAAL INVELLIGENCH AGENCY
[4506]. SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEN/ INTE BMAD USE ONLY
[4507]HArTr. seed, ast
[4509]__SUBIECE: . IN NTARKAL SECURIYY..
[4511]DATED 27 JUNE 1969; ‘SUBJECT: WERBELL, | HITCHELL LIVINGSTON Iii,
[4513]A COPY OF WHACH WAS: SENT TO YOUR EUREAU,
[4515]2. IN FARLY JANUARY | 1270, AUS UALLY RELISRLE Sov
[4517]. REPORTED GE POLLONT NCIeRORSN PtON- CONCERNING SUSJECT,
[4518]" ACCORDING To SOURCE, WERDELL HAS SA‘TED THAT HE KNOWS OF
[4520]~ DuvALicn" $ REGIME TH HAT TY SCHEDULED. TO OC cua win: 5
[4522]NEXT TOUR NONTHS,
[4524]WERBELL SATD THE OPER:
[4525]#° BReBASEDIN CANA i, “IS PT
[4526]HIS ESTIMATION, HAS A GOOD CHANCE OF SUCCEEDING. SOURCE
[4527]SAID WERBELL EXPRESSED HIS WILLINGNESS TO PEVEAL ADDITIONAL
[4528]NFORNATION To INGERESTED U,S, AUTHORITIES CONCERNING +
[4529]PLANS AND THE ORGANIZATION “BEND THe CLANDESTINE ovesnetos,
[4533]tinued,
[4535]EOOROINATING tors freee ps
[4537]| RELLASING orricea . [- SE EC RET | ize
[4539]YEIG OFFICE LE
[4541]FEPROCUC TION SY OCHER THAN THE Iss
[4542]2424
[4545]TJrowore’ -£ AITERN TQ et anent
[4546]Danwe Guan
[4548]. “ef. Pie rae Hf Cp ene i es rie no. ee
[4551]. O | FILE. ve . ’
[4553]a fetasaiicatival. 7 , (dete £54 tine Hicd) .
[4555]SECRET Moe PGETO + ge coe
[4556]—__——- . - ; a . 70 GITE BRECTOR COS df 7. no
[4557]@ f° SOURCE COMMENTED THAT WERBELL'S NOTIVE FOR REVEALING WIS 1
[4559]INFORMATION TO U.S. AUTHORITIES AT THIS TIME GAY BE THE
[4561]“HOPE OF RELIEVING PRESSURE ON HYS FIRM AND HINSELF FOR
[4563]4) eee bee cee
[4565]we BUS INESSAARA NSSCTICNS, PELIEVED..1O EE_.PRESENTLY_UNDER
[4567]FLOLATION ESPOR
[4569]3.° THR FILES OF THIS AGENCY REFLECT THAT WEREELL 18
[4570]VICE PHESIDENT OF SIONICS, INC,, OF ATLANTA, GEORGYA, AND
[4572]THAT HE KAS BERN THE SUBJECT OF PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS
[4574]"BY YOUR BULEAU IN CONNECTION WITH HIS NUVEROUS BUS
[4576]Bey ety Con nen fn
[4577]ayes
[4579]TRANSACTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA, THIS AGENCY WOULD APPRECIATE —
[4580]SY “¥OURS wef cehtt
[4582]a Het
[4584]ALLEGED OPERATION REFEREED ‘TO IN’ PARAGRAPA ‘TWO ADOYS, -
[4586]END OF MNSSAGE
[4588]‘Eero for“C/wii/7 Frou C78on/ 68"
[4589]: Subject: Possible Clandestine Planning
[4590]. Dated +: .15 January 1970
[4592]i . . :
[4593]: te ee pet ,
[4594]6... GO . C/V H/R_ _ fei gee. See Ak . :
[4595]doe en eer — TTT Tau Ae een : : i
[4596]‘ SOD/GB Cyhecuiig NELEIAN A. BROE Fo
[4597]2 , C/C1/LIATSON ae Sik! | C/VEE ‘ .
[4598]2 ‘ _
[4599]? 1 i +
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[4604]REPRODUCTIGN GY G
[4606]corr ad.
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[4612]1
[4613]I
[4614]| - i
[4615]| |
[4616]| |
[4617]' TO: Chief, Counteriorelligence Divisloa me
[4618]| . Directorate of Special Investigations ;
[4619]| - The Inspector General, USAF i
[4620]| FROM:.*~. Deputy Director for Plans .
[4621]| SUBJECT: O wERBELL, Mitchell Livingston I |
[4622]| -  & Rifarence is madé to your request dated 28 May 1969 |
[4623]wot re |-- _ goaceralng Sebject, bora 8 March 1918 in Philadelphia, Penasylvania.
[4624]| The files of this office coatals thie following “informations = ——— 2608 ere fesse See
[4625]ty ceport dere: |
[4628]this Ageacy to 1959. when it wae dlecovered that he was involved .
[4629]with antl-CASTRO plotters Ip the Domtaicaa Repeblic. Further
[4630]inveatigatton dleclosed Sabject to bo unsc rupaious--a whesler-
[4631]| dealér acd promotor of grandiose achemes, with a history of
[4632]_moteriplising [an areas and altuations where be can make a quick
[4633]profit, The report alev revealed that Schject, in his foreiga
[4634]dealings, had misrepresented himself ae aa employee of the.
[4635]United States Government and the Central Intelligence Agency.
[4637]Thailand conducting or
[4639]'3 with the Royal ‘Tha! Gaversimeat.
[4641]CSCE=316/ 02323269
[4642]Encl. leame check — -.. —_ Coe
[4644]: CC: . Department of State
[4646]. CC: Defense Intelligence Agency. . :
[4647]: CC: = Foderal Bureau cf tovestigatiog,.: | oe . i
[4649]: BASEDON: DIR-88114, 19 March 1969 (to Bangkck)
[4650]; FILE IN: 201-2599108 L/ 259 Gf ra)
[4651]4 . . vee = : a . : l
[4652]prem A
[4654]web: noe !
[4656]a
[4658]Ware.
[4663]SEC ® ET TELEPOUCH -
[4664]DISP. NO = FTSA=33,068
[4666]DATE = «38 JUNE 1969 .
[4668]FILM - NONE . | a .
[4670]INDEX - NONE .
[4671]Fines NONE . ° °
[4673]TO = CHIEF, FAR EAST DIVISION
[4674]INFO - NONE.
[4676]FROM. = —s CHIEF OF STATION, BANGKOK.
[4678]SUSJECT = (7 SIONICS INC. PROPOSAL TO RTG FOR SNIPER TRAINING
[4679]PROGRAM - _
[4681]ACTION. =. NONE
[4683]eee oS em
[4685]1969, WHEN HE WAS IN CONTACT WITH BPP IN 3ANGKOK, AFTE® PECEIVING
[4686]“DIR 98114 IN RESPONSE TO OUP TRACE 2EQUEST, WE SUSGESTED TO 3PP
[4688]o THAT. “THEY WOULD DO WELL TO AVOID. HIN. WE HE APD NOTHING OF HIM FOR ©
[4690]THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. HOWEVER, IN LATE APRIL AND EARLY MAY HE WAS
[4691]BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT andy | we Ve mgfkovereo » 1N TOUCH WITH A VASIETY
[4693]Sys Bama, §
[4695]Re Sees REPUTATION TO KEY oensona ities Ii THE MISSION INCLUDING
[4697]RTTCULARLY “greESsep THAT HE - was WOT” ‘SPONSORED 8 2
[4698]IN ANY WAY 3Y THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, HIS NAME HAS. COME UP CONSIST+-
[4699]ENTLY FO PAST SEVEE QAL MONTHS AND WE HAVE PULLED VERY FEW PUNCHES
[4700]IN DESCRIBING KIM, ELTHE? 19 AMERICANS Qs THAIS, IN FACT, WE WOOTE we
[4702]oe
[4704]ry MEMORANDUM EXPRESSING oue PESECVATIONS, PASS ED IT TO J- 2 MAcTHAl,
[4705]AND SUGGESTED dE BRIEF THE J-2 MINISTRY Of DEFENSE ACCO?DINCLY. We. ;
[4706]ALSO SENT A SUPN NOTICE MESSAGE, BANGKOK 3955, T2. ALL FE STATIONS. aad
[4708]3... AFTER DYNAMIC BEGINNING, WESSELL TS NOW SUFFERING EXPECTED
[4710]SECRET TELEPOUCH “FTSA-33,0S8 . "PAGE UNE
[4717]14-00000
[4719]SEO. TELEPOECH “FTISA=33;068 PAGE Two
[4721]SET Ba PACKS. - THE EMSASSY HAS PEFUSED TO ENDOPSE HIM AND HIS. PRODUCTS «
[4722]MACTHAT HAS AGREED TO Fut¥Iss TO 8TG SOME OF THE ITEMS HE WAS
[4723]ATTEMPTING TO PEDDLE, AND erg HAS COOLED CONSIDERABLY RE SIONICS .
[4724]PAST ICIPATION IN ANY ASPECT OF ‘COUNTER INSURGENCY EFFORT, WE?=
[4725]SELL*S PUNNING MATE, MCE N WATSON, HAS ALREADY LEFT THAILAND. ~
[4727]WERBELL IS SUPPOSED To LEAVE SHORTLY. WE WILL MISS HIM.
[4728]EDGAR Ne DANAGE
[4730]DISTRIBUTION VIA TELEPOUCH
[4732]2 = CHIEF, FE DIVISION —
[4735]14-0000
[4737]S tte Dygt. Felegpar |
[4738]BA EKOK SLO S lated Ps Ture F
[4740]Suds Ccfn Cipact Licens 2. for
[4741]gran Subrra a Aire Cur?
[4744]14,0000
[4747]pebeie Le
[4749]Mere hey _
[4752]DATE = GE SEFE 158 .
[4753]i IDeY -  NENE ’
[4756]TC = CHIE OF STATION, SANCKCY
[4757].
[4759]FROX (9 - CHIEF, FAR EST GIVISICE
[4760]SVB JTCT-  SIDICS, IPC. FRCPESAL TC RIG FCR SWIPER TRAINING
[4762]PEOCRAN
[4764]PROPCSAL CCLELTAALAZATICON CF TRE COMMUNIST -TERACRIST TRREAT
[4766]WM a EL TIRALA OT OSTAINED LOCALLY FROM LNREAD WHICH STATION MAY
[4768]C8 “AY “OT HAVE STEN . . .
[4769]wee NAY vew b HAVE ey ~
[4771]HAlS. FALLFOR, APPROAC!
[4773]iS SST, THOY VILL EVERTUALLY REALIZE THEY MAVE BEEN
[4775]TALE. Ace Tadii C&ULE RAVE FAIRLY SERIOUS AIPERCUSSICNS Gi
[4777]THAL+iS RELATICAS. CHCERDES SINCE PER REF
[4778]ve HIMSELF 4S RETIRED ~
[4780]aeur UsEryrey PTTL IN PROPISAL AEE Cu
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[4856]INDEX: ves Ono
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[4859]a-REF TO MRO, ,
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[4868]SAIGON ‘INFO: DIRECTOR, VIENTIANE, SINGAPOS » MANILA, RANGOON,
[4869]HONG KONG, ‘TAIPE, “DJAKARTA, Toxyo, SEOUL, KUALA LUMPUR
[4871]REFS DIRECTOR BB114 “SENT BANGKOK ORLY) | : : . :
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[4875]7
[4876]i
[4878]i
[4879]r
[4881]EXPERT, HAS A VARIETY OF WEAPONS To DISPLAY, CLAIMS
[4882](To BE A RETIRED COLONEL, AND LAST WEEK INTRODUCED _
[4884]“HIMSELF AT ‘A LOCAL NIGHTCLUB AS CHIEF OF VOFIRM IN
[4885]ns TT ito
[4887]20 WERBELL Has A HISTORY OF SHOWING UP IN
[4889]Ywpt tes + THAT HE s U.S. GOVT CONNECTED “AND PRESENTS
[4890]A DEMONSTRATION “OF A VARIETY OF EXOTIC
[4894]=" GEAPONS. THAT WEVER: “FAILS TO IMPRESS. REF
[4896]DESCRIBES HIM AS AN UNSCRUPULOUS OPPORTUNIST WITH
[4897]A REPUTATION FOR LIVING BEYOND HIS MEANS, -
[4899]83 cury |
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[4910]PERSON, UN: NOTED + CRCuP?
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[4929]- qt
[4930]3. WERBELL IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, BORN 1919, ee 5°
[4931]SERVED IN OSS, HAS SHAVEN HEAD AND ‘HANDLEBAR .. a .
[4932]MUSTACHE. REF ADVISES THAT FULL DETAILS OF HIS og’
[4934]"BACKGROUND HOULD WOT.BE.PASSED.TO.LIAI SON..SENCE. 225.022
[4936]THAT HE HAS AN UNSAVORY REPUTATION, KAS NO U.S.
[4938]GOVT CONNECTIONS, AND ANY DEALINGS WITH HIM SHOULD
[4939]BE APPROACHED WITH EXTREME CAUTION. |
[4941]4. FOR SAIGON: WE UNDERSTAND-THAT. WERBELL~ . 8
[4942]RECENTLY VISITED SAIGON AND DID HIS THING WITH GEN,’ = .
[4943]SUITABLY INPRESSED,, AND WERBELL "= © “RSS aR ET a
[4944]TILING UP A SNIPER TRAINING PROGRAM; - .
[4945]FILE: 2@1-259919
[4947]Se
[4949]oe SECRET PES
[4951]SIONICS
[4953]was PEACH TOSS sweet E, AT Lan TS. GEONGIA ID fel bid de?
[4955]8
[4957]. 2u May 1939
[4959]* aie Chi: Marshal Dawee Chullasapya , .
[4961]Chief, Joint Chiefs of Staff
[4962]. Supreme-Command, RTAF
[4964]Langkox, Thailande
[4966]re
[4967](eo
[4968]t
[4970]—-Dear Air Chief Marsbal Dawees”
[4972]‘Sionics, Inc. is pleased to subinit thie proposal in response to
[4973]the urgent requirailent to neutralize the communist terrorist
[4974]' qureat in the border areas of Thailand. This requirement was
[4975]{iret brought io our-a:tention during the recent irip to threatened
[4976]“border arcas of Thailand made, by yoursell, Air Vice Marebal
[4977]Manob, and Major General Prasart, accomnpanjed by our field
[4978]representative’to Thailand, Mr. Mitchell L. WerBell, HL
[4979]‘This urgent requirement. was cf course further discussed with
[4980]you during your recent visit 10 Washington to atiend the funeral
[4982]of General Eisenhower. |
[4984]In consequence we have prepared a pilot program with the objective
[4985]of neutralizing ine Co:rnmunist terrorist threat in Thailand. Wo . .
[4987]- “have entiled the program "“Neutralisation of che Communist Torroriat a
[4988]Threat in Thailand” with short title NCTTT. In scope theo NCTTT : ;
[4989]enconipasass jive major phases and. spans a twelve mon:h program.
[4991]Basically we ofier a_proven program based, in part, on the out~
[4993]aiandingly successtul-U. S, Sth Division Sniper Program inthe
[4995]Delta of-Vietnau:. Finally, and most impor.anily, thie prograin
[4997]is also besed on Special Operations programe execuled by members
[4999]of ne Sionics crganization during wartime, counerinsurgency and ;
[5000]guerrilla operaions executed in So
[5002]Dominican Republic, and Vietnam,
[5004]wih Asia, Europe, South America,
[5006]We have selected a .eam of highly qualified experts whose combined .
[5007]“capabilities represen: all ihe disciplines required to :he planning
[5008]and exect.ion of this program.. “|
[5011]14-00000
[5013]tics. Inc, assures you that ‘he full resources
[5014]rovided for ‘he successful performance of
[5015]serving the Royal
[5016]of Cominunist
[5018]in view oF he abuve
[5019]of the Corpora ion-vill be p
[5020]this work, We look forward to he oppor.unl.y of
[5021]Thai Governiien: inorder to con'ribute Lo the defea:
[5023]~erroriam and esbversion in Thailand.
[5025]nd Respect.
[5027]i
[5028]t.
[5030]Wiih Warin Personal Regard a
[5031]ney Sincerely,
[5033]Sionics
[5035]Fred N. Brown
[5036]President
[5039]ab
[5043]14-00000
[5045]TSR RAUB A te Plana rs
[5047]Serloyrent ani dasection
[5049]ares ere) tT:
[5051]unter/liller Teame; Taitiation
[5055]BM Teatiess
[5058]woe
[5060]verakional
[5062]aniantioa
[5064]Cone es eet
[5067]14-00000
[5068]A
[5070]TW de
[5072]teoneatralng? & ave Unt terrecist
[5074]wtb abbas voiesd oy responsi bes csc: 8 as tae toyal
[5076]tact ef tvavilarstd.
[5078]at lave exaciaed the oroclen in cetail and save coweludced
[5080]. o
[5081]. . s . sea egtang neeggses . ° ‘
[5082]tiiat the wud ue eananilities ef EDSeUIeS, tac. can grovide one
[5084]. it . .
[5085]finsver te stocping Congiunist terrorise dia Tnailang. ve aave
[5087]either vor on, av2 .oriing on, ¢r wil} soon becoue involved
[5090]concerned. with
[5091]it is considered Inc. would
[5093]of expands
[5097]Field a taam of srofessional aad
[5099]ary tecinicians, backed by aparorriate surport.
[5101]twill be fully capanle of exscutiag this plan
[5103]» natisiadtion Of the Royal Thal Yovernnont. TO
[5106]ersonne:) immediately available
[5108]ounter-insurgency operaticaral ex
[5110]fal RHO
[5111]_/ f a . ‘ . -
[5114]‘Gatliag Ulan ‘indicating how the eperatioa will be
[5116]accom: Lis fo 8his volume vresents our operationsl proposal,
[5118]Ales: vith a oreposcd management plan, a summary cf corporate
[5120]@, and ‘the esunes of- the military and technical’
[5123]S, Ine. propeses to assian to the effort. The
[5125]Frovesa} is submitted separatsly as VOLUME IT.
[5128]poh terrorize ope
[5130]: . : Mh. CPD SR GO BON
[5132]1 . . =" .
[5133]. se Gundam cal a for Prostar .
[5134]. 4 : . ”
[5135]: we Inc. consider that tha hasie success of this plan :
[5136]; ] . a
[5137]»  wELL depend in large woasure of fielding a team of knowledgeable |
[5138]: rr wo mo, ; 7 po . :
[5139]E aga cp hae ee | i ae
[5140]. . \ . eo,
[5141]\ oe 1
[5142]1.0 taow thailaad and ithe considerastle Communist -
[5143]7 . itn verdes arcas, yoo :
[5145]sonalities in the
[5147]tue principal oe
[5149]v3)—-concernat “neutralizing the:
[5151]letnas, and ‘vashinjton, J. C. concerned with: -
[5152]| . :
[5153]assisting the P?o in neutralizing this threat.
[5155]“4, -Vully understand the threat of Cornunist
[5157]“terrorise and sunversion and possess the kndwledge-and“skitTre co 7
[5159]to counteract
[5163]sthand= the -
[5165]tactics, teerni
[5167]8. organizatlonal and training »¥ccedures,
[5169]and veanons and ent ta dafeat this
[5171]equipeent techniques/enplo
[5173]G6. Poscess long exnerience and preven skills
[5174]. g ‘ S
[5178]ting an insurgent threat.
[5180]0 ES eee oe te,
[5182]14-00000 . 5,
[5184]Fgaz
[5186]_ iy ‘definition the: nestralization ‘Or defeat of
[5188]. ;  Comnunist terrorism consists of the
[5190]srecivlized application
[5191]of vounter- Ani's LUrgency operations by the exployment of intelli-
[5192]gence; msyct Ooyical operations; hunter-killer operations ‘to
[5194]include jungle, mountain, air, riverine, hLorder, and village a”
[5196]_ Secucity operations; : ‘communications: logistics; specialized
[5198]: ‘training anki equiprent,- ‘and other techniques. SIONICS, Inc.
[5200]considers that the techniques designes by our Corporation. to
[5202]; “neutralize Communist terforism _in the border. areas of Th ‘land
[5204]is based on Sound past experience: in this field and would lead
[5206]to the ‘developrient of a wide-+ “spread oréanization ana: system:
[5208]within the toval.?
[5210]By Armed Forees (PIAED, the doréer Patrol
[5212]- the Communist threat cannot be accomslished without reliance
[5214]on sound and informed military judgement based o4 proven
[5215]techniques. SIONICS, Inc. has pioneered in the development
[5216]of tnese techniques which permit the systematic ‘development and ; :
[5218]use in analysis and. execution of militar ry. and technical judge-
[5220]“The “techniqués: and equipment developed. for this purpose
[5222]are designed and. operate for the “usual or normal” case in which
[5226]‘accrues - fron the employment of these tec hniques and equipment in
[5230]Combat - -conditicnss-
[5234]unusual or peculiar situations should te considered a bonus
[5236]effect rather than an expected mode of-ecperation.
[5238]-$-
[5240]QA
[5242]At bey sol
[5247]seat see re ieee
[5249]fhereu ti “nacho, of tha: envy, weather,
[5251]Merraia. hi ores ate sinioas and eave ili and intimate
[5252]Whe cee ation wituin tor o-sratfonal area. Aadi-
[5254]meals, tuo critical. factors’ in counter-insurgency
[5256] Overstions is the: crotouical Opzrations effort that aust
[5258]‘ne key to success
[5260]vearen vitit any obveration of this tyne.
[5262]to identify, infiltrate. bloc:, ambush,
[5264]“ind 3 that man.’
[5266]as cil as tidus we comand and then, will
[5268]apacially trained, acuipped, organize, and, above all,
[5269]psychologivally provared for these operations .
[5270]‘note this operation to i:@ access ful must
[5273]14-0900 f
[5274]UY
[5276]met, i” yeetiee
[5278]tor newiratiss Coscunist turrorisn in
[5284]ue i Sogren {13 tle
[5285]Cooma ; Heatralization of.
[5287]Grr?) - fo ; . a4
[5289]i
[5290]i
[5292]|
[5293]i
[5294]|
[5295]. |
[5296]£.Comunist Serrorist frees ne |
[5297]|
[5299]Ja
[5300]C. scope i Co, reef
[5302]Phe seope. of this program ence
[5303]. . | .
[5305]_ re = :
[5307]2 cperation as follows:
[5309]I = Planning, vreparation; ‘and
[5313]Selection -of personnel, organization
[5315]Aart,
[5317]Spifa anter/siller Plat
[5319]‘SO hyn Vlataons. . : a °
[5320]i
[5321]_ Phase IY - rvaluation of operations to include ,
[5323]loyistics
[5325]nsiea of eberations with three . .-
[5327]. ; .
[5328]ns to. include deep . -
[5330]penetration missions. Preparation for further expansion of
[5332]LOwr ag raguirwd. : .
[5333]DB. Seiedivle .
[5335]*See Figurt 1. .
[5337]Ale
[5340]7 ‘2:
[5342]team of cedestted:military and technical experts -to work on:
[5343]the oroject. “nese personnel, led by Sr. “Mitchell L. Werbell,
[5344]TIL, Stentes + ield. uepresentative in ‘thailand and Vietnam, will he
[5346]oO, - backe.) Gy appropriate civilian technical :ersusnei vic would
[5348]provice “xpertise, as required in the yeneral fields of sniper
[5350]. Looe i : oe : nen nO 4
[5351]* and special operations training and the maintenance of the : .
[5352]. . . . . a . f
[5353]+ operational eyuipment and yeapons. The Corporation would assign j ‘
[5355]. ; . (- .
[5356].these peovle to projects in accordance with their individual
[5358]Program Schedule -- See. Figure 1 (NCTTT Program
[5360]oo * . Schéevule,, wwelve Months). ; os -
[5361]oe - a . ey
[5363]Daring -the rst week. after initiation of the : .
[5365]oo. sneet-with:-selected<2s-10: cere
[5367]and organization of the joint MRDC/SIONICS Operations Planning
[5368]Group (JSUPG). At tnis time he will receive an indoctrination oe '
[5370]_ Orientation and guidance from appropriate Sypreme Command and — -
[5372]“MRDC personnel. Coordination, communications channels and-
[5374]liaison requireuents will’ be established. _In this regard,
[5376]“be required for this initial pYanning ‘and the establishment of
[5378]basic and detailed joint operational plans.
[5380]nuring
[5382]will consist of the selection of appropriate Sniper Training |
[5383]fea versonnel from [fA units and Special Operations Hunter/ ; nn)
[5384]Killer platoon personnel from appropriate RTAF, BPP and TNP : |
[5385]-7- . i
[5386]|
[5388]‘ .
[5390]oo
[5392]draw tf at alb : the tan previously traiacd snis
[5394]bby con lugy ceith che slack iaather Division in | 1
[5396]e
[5397]Vietuers, luc: cersenuned wera trained
[5401]invothe U. 8. 9th vivision
[5402]. /
[5403]During this PrRase |
[5405]Suiper crainin. svocras in the Vietnain Sclta.
[5407]owrsonnel vill ve organized into the SO u/s Platoon structure.
[5409]During the neriod 6th: through. the L2th' week,
[5411]Platoon worsomnel woula be yrtergoing the sniper training progran
[5413]consistin: of wasie :iring Yositions and integrated acts of -
[5415]. eee l, . a a ‘
[5416]Saeetiny. .iuitionally, during this period, JSOPS would estab-
[5418]lisa standing operating procedures and effect the liaison with
[5420]* -s apgrépriate TAC, TPPoand TN? units in the joint Tactical Area
[5422]etions “esponsibility (TAOR) selected for the: pilot
[5424]re Lojram.tor the.
[5427]s é ° . .
[5429]-for insertion into tne JVAOK.
[5431]a _ouring. the next phase, the operational phase,
[5433]the three ttunter/riller teams of the First Provisional SG H/K
[5435]in order to insure yroper: enployment of the teams. It is.
[5437]i
[5441]tean personnel ve exrected to actually direct cr enter into
[5443]operational activities ef-:the Special Operations imnter/tiller ;
[5448]wee
[5450]14-0000
[5452]date any tea et SNA LNOCVUL.
[5454]Create!
[5456]Gth, 7th, &
[5458]: (4th,
[5460]. ogee pat bend pic
[5462]rade ad fo. :
[5466]2th, ane te weponaek world falloe slostly
[5470]Log Jeen achivities cari eed wae
[5472]activities. vurian the entire
[5476]. ".
[5478]the seers Program .
[5480]eeraticaal fhase continainy evaiuation of
[5482]the St. and 6th
[5484]- : . os . t-
[5485]soula we carried oa. %t ! ;
[5487]with “HDC officials —
[5489]0
[5491]3 petual decision woylt us
[5493]prere Command for |
[5495]Satiens to be made to the ATAF Su
[5497]For r2cos
[5499]; “the expansioa of team activity and the inclusion of the two
[5501]Hfunter/Killer Platonns into a
[5503]additional Special Oserations
[5505]further operations
[5507]Unerations -sinter/Killer Company for
[5509]senoperations.would
[5511]“araar onerations “an hot pursuit”
[5513]curing the entire insertion and eperational phase,
[5515]that psychological operations will be
[5517]sreer red
[5518]a
[5520]atoat all tires in conjunction with Spséial as2rations
[5522]i A 1] taree montis of the 12
[5524]perations
[5526]nization of furtner.
[5531]Po RERCH IPRS rey om BE aE
[5533]ON LE at
[5535]2ation and sanagesent: -
[5537](See Figure 2):
[5539]‘reuse its bet: STU tee, Tne.
[5541]Of elas hortance .
[5543]WLbA ie Ske oh
[5545]wore, ce vill aeen alos, top tanase=  &
[5547]Peat cop zance cod ¢h “reject. Phe ne: wernciole officer (Mr,
[5549]eeeoedl) is es oireecter
[5551]ld Vieo bresident of STONICS ang will
[5553]vréport Sircetly to the resident of the Corzoration. In this
[5555]Tanner, we
[5557]san assure vou that te the extent necas isary, the full -
[5559]resources of the
[5561]Corporation can be sce availabla
[5562]I?
[5563]a fully; satis ‘factory “Program.
[5565]to yuarantes
[5567]Tn aanaging this sreject we Proposed to guarantee
[5569]continually and cons sistency throughout the entire period of.
[5571]this effort. ‘ie hey to this, of. course, rests with the
[5573]adeguate overlan wherever possible. «A full resume on ir. vergell
[5575]. Tt is to be noted
[5577]Ray be found in Fart VI of this proposal.
[5579]was
[5581]that he } sad considerable experience in the’ counter- insurgency
[5583]field, naving served in “South Vietnam and the Far East for
[5585]sentember of 1968.
[5587]Ne has had long exoerience
[5589]omnander of a Svecial
[5592]_ Operations yreay in O88 units operating in tae Far East. Since
[5594]sseenscontinuously-<ih te testa
[5596]Paronry and is the holder of Several patents in this
[5598]Since 1958, he has devoted. practically all of nis time
[5600]t activities throughout Central and Scuth
[5602]in anti-ccsmunis
[5604]America
[5608]14-0000
[5611]heoaebiveties aad cleveloast sat oof casanmonn te
[5613]arpa s.
[5615]Seorpecray gnaqer + The arcisted ay a tests
[5617]tay rere) cieoeteak oxserehs chosen Crom ais wicie counbedme.
[5618]£ . ay
[5620]Ane Qnowledye of counter insurgehey exerts threwsnout the free
[5621]sOrid. Ce ;ould be assisted wacn necessary Ly ‘ajor Ceneral
[5622]. ‘ .
[5623]: . te
[5624]harold £. satson, Jirector Of CIVICS ant in caarye of tecunical
[5626]» . . Li : te .
[5627]mlanning.. is Snowledge and background in corporate planning,
[5629]vorld- t, ani corporate contracts is considered
[5631]davaluazie to tia “iunics yroup.
[5634]CONCEDT OF. (OPLRATI
[5636]a. General Concept -
[5638]. The purposé of this program will be to strike 4
[5640]‘the Communist’ insurgents. where they are rost vulnerable and to.
[5641]mesh the. operations of selected Special Operations Nunter/Killec
[5642]Teams into present Royal Thai Government ongoing Counterinsurgency
[5644]ne 7 Programs based ‘ore the proven and historic causes of victory over.
[5646]the” Céamunists: | . te
[5648]. { e
[5650]Aggressive anti- guerrilla tactics.
[5651]4
[5653]Removal of sections of the population thus
[5655]“depriving “insurgents of contact with ‘the people. ‘ . :
[5657]Bee I
[5659]Rezoval of - the support of the population.
[5661]cateyories of ifsurgent vulnerability:
[5663]tO 1.. Insurgent base area systam which, although:
[5664]fragmented, isa coherent complex of combat, combat support, and.
[5665]‘combat service support facilities and activities which embrace... . LM, 2
[5667]. . a
[5668]populated as well as remote areas. In this, Special Operations
[5670]combat may use escape routes that will subject them ideally to
[5671]ambush by lunter/Killer Teams. In this, the classic principals
[5673]of “the hannez and anvil operation" will be employed. Helicopter
[5677]elie Sa aie 7.
[5680]r
[5683]“hanter/ailler “
[5685]“S tear farses dap Prd withe
[5687]eracions
[5691]edt Re ere areag ane villau conulenes in erder
[5693]Lin tre
[5695]Topulation against anc within:
[5697]ft terrorists Orerate, ,
[5699]Planning, Prauaratien, and
[5701]Installation Of “raining Center,
[5707]withocos. Suorone Cavirand and 8S@arch and Davelan-
[5709]SL t“of-agoy
[5711]wb rrovisional-
[5713]latcon., gh
[5715]a. the JS005 may
[5717]Paery
[5719]and
[5721]Personal trom wussAg VEO,
[5723]S. ‘Training Center and Droytam
[5724]rea eee SEDUCE ARG Px
[5726](1)
[5728]‘ratainag conter “iLD se esta
[5732]Jat a location t
[5734]ve designated.
[5736]AS aA wasis for
[5738]school ersonnel, a team of ona officer and ten
[5739]to x
[5740]a revuired to train this team it will se necessary to draw this
[5741]tean free tre ten members of the RTA Blac rantier Division who
[5742]. ~13-
[5743]s t2 eo. 7
[5745]o
[5748]. vary :
[5750]teehnicues.
[5752]Soercannel och) oe reduised to staff tte Center «ith instructors
[5753]cin Soweial ceeorvefone, artillery fire adjustaent, navivation,
[5755]‘sap reading aiui G2certion operations. A certain nuirber of Train-
[5757]. ing Center command aciwinistrative nersonnel vill also ke required...
[5759]. e . cote . we . . ”
[5760]7 BY tral
[5762]J snipe training facility will be constructed
[5764]to accommodate 29 students. The facility should include a 40
[5766]voint firing ranze and adjaceat classrooms. The ranye should : .
[5767]Le iuilt with taract facilities at 159, 399, 699, and 900 meters.
[5768]ay noving target should bo built on the 300 meter butt in addition
[5770]“ta th
[5772]ve Lixed
[5775]targets at that pesition.
[5778]oe et pan re Pm whch
[5780]fles obtain
[5782]by urgent .T5 resuest to JUSMAG. These rifles are glass bedded
[5784]into imprejnated stocks vhich are impervious to water. The rifles '
[5785]. . . ; | a a - oa ; 7 ae . "
[5786]are carefully tunec to’ provide a hich dejrea of accuracy. - . ee
[5788]. (2) Tue accurized 14 rifles will be
[5790]table ‘telescope
[5792]ran;ing
[5793]ian
[5795]netion~
[5797]pair of stadia
[5802]SAN Gecurized ifls could Le
[5804]ts ts a fixwd 2.2
[5806]LP
[5807]we
[5808]re
[5809]te
[5811]He M@d the sniner
[5813]reticle. fi
[5815]muse Accurataly estimate the gua tarcet fange and withee nald
[5817]‘over Sue tarser or adjuse- tte vlevating ReCIIALS® On the -sigat
[5819]to the cstitated range.
[5821]a. SO 3) east one half
[5823]pos vifies ill. ue squinne:d vita the waa Starlight
[5825]Beope. | VARS
[5827]Ptarlicnt Scopes'will be mounted on the d-14 rifles
[5829]At tuegriser s
[5831]oY and zeroed durin: training. The sniper
[5833]on scope/rifle/supnressor combination curing sub- | .
[5837]sanition usé? in’ sniper training
[5839]be T.Gaut U.S. National wate’ Grade.
[5841]wo 0s (BALD M-14 sniper’ rifjes will be filled ~. _
[5843]Suppressor. (Téa Theldésure 1 for
[5845]2 o-si Meted alove, cach stuacnt will retain
[5847]wit alternate noise wressed Weavo1s On at resuired by the
[5850]vinmeat.
[5852]ty,
[5853]aipina
[5855]woe SHOPC will, quring the 4th and Sth veck
[5857]Sotivated versonnel. -
[5858]alecte] fro
[5860]THeudents ness ee! into the snicer progran ‘NilL L> -s0
[5862]1 tetal of 89 highly qualified an
[5864]poleat
[5866]ar mlected rust. have 29/29 vision,
[5868]volunteers. 2.5
[5869]have tualities ang be xell sotivated
[5870]. 4 i 7 . ! . . : :
[5871]holdiersé: (acerience in co: parksmanshiv 1s preferred
[5873]wut is tet “andatory.
[5874]organization
[5876]visional Special cperations
[5878]inte a Tlatoon Head- ©
[5880]suring Phase IT to urovic
[5882]This figuce is based on the everage attri-
[5884]' 39% attrition rate.
[5886]tion rate at tie U. S. 9tn Division Sniper ¢chool in Vietnam.
[5888]““Snus, total training strength will be 2 officers, 12 ucOo's,
[5890]ane 66 Juntor CG's or enlisted men for a total of 39 officers
[5893]Yraining Prograr to Se
[5894]Prior to selection and organization of
[5896]rovisiona
[5898]rlatoon (§9 H/¥ Pltn.) a training
[5900]tueent.candi
[5902]cogrations Hunter/filler
[5904]prograa sikl pe arupared and rehearse’ with the following es
[5909]14-0000
[5911]dnateorated,
[5913]idratvova sagan cs cade Pirin: cesdt bess. ane ts
[5917]rn Os
[5919]Ot awefane, Sissi matter. ome abi oes
[5921]Ssusrit the technirues
[5923]. runt, ame > heat ooieturs. Fuudsatsa wil ee
[5927]Of cetusatio. bed and steaging. eving bareeta.
[5929]roridad on tag netiods for astinatin; wint over extre ne :
[5931]ua that 2 fiver can off set his coint of ai: ‘to “lace the
[5933]Tholleto an taredt.  tollowiag this, stucents will leara the ethods
[5935].
[5936]4
[5938]"14 aceurizun rifles ejuipoed «icy the adjustable
[5940]r
[5942]Gf zereing
[5944]tae VARO fStarLliyst scope or
[5946]ranjiny telescesic Fight
[5950]R4 tolaseot. ic sigut, anc the STONICS="4
[5952]tae fixed
[5953]- . . ?
[5955]Suporesser.
[5957]j. will. be. inclutes in tue course and. cach
[5959]t.-scope core an
[5961]ing, student? il] se se.sooled in adjust®ent of artillery fire,
[5963]and Geceytion operations
[5965]day/night land naviuation, map reading,
[5967]Nach of these subjects is imvortant to the
[5969]la.)
[5971]select wis position fron a situation
[5973]TUS st
[5975]ssatly
[5977]to that location at niqht. It is essential
[5981]frens'sip
[5983]gelectad mosition. P1e ability to accurately ‘adjust artillery
[5985]2
[5987]nating rown.is esillfelle so that illurination is placed on target
[5991]such a manner as to illuminate the tarjet and not compromise
[5993]in
[5995]o -17-
[5997]Me a eR TATE tPA ttre ners =
[5999]i
[6001]ABURIE
[6003]Pau
[6007]14-0000
[6009]~ i
[6010]1 - -
[6011]. | . |
[6012]bos oniper'’s covitiag or that of an a pacete frieacdtly unit. {
[6013]an . iii) cual ricttien Pirin will be |
[6014]Cenauetend oliria,g tae ae woet af ‘tis courte. “ene |
[6015]. any P6053 and vos “edhe eight tyr: |
[6017]7 points vill ma awards! for a first round nit ane Live points for
[6018]va sesolnt round hit. oA haxtiun score is 163 points. 4 mininum .
[6020]‘Malifying séore is 130.
[6022]‘Pxperience gained From the ue S$.
[6023]Ith Division Saiper Sc i303. “shows that app Zoxivately 598. of the:
[6025]stidents success Eull Sonplete _the course. - Thus. . at least double .
[6027].
[6028]ele mun awn ‘cf final candidates reauired yh ult t be 2 selected to
[6029]. attend toa school. a . es
[6030]re . oe, =
[6031]. a8, r. .
[6032]4 Ja. guiwent . _ 8
[6033]_. fue- Vigure 4.
[6035]3.- Paase U7 - develop: cit cand §
[6037]ilunts: su/eiller Teams ; si Eritiat: tion of _Qperations
[6039]a.. Insertion “(See Figure 5.)
[6041]Quring this phase: the First
[6042]we . ta
[6043]SOLUS Pltn. vill Se inserted into a tactica!
[6045]PTS Provisional
[6047]hrea of Operational
[6049]wecspensibility (FROR) uncer operational | corcrol Of a Noyal Taai-
[6051]“ol Arey ar hordes iatrol velice unit. Tas Pla toon will Overate under
[6053]Teme ~eOuerational « ceatrol cf the RTA-or BPP. Conmanéor whe: will, be_
[6055]advised in the employment of the Special Oneratioaal team and
[6057]- “the cares uater/Filler. Tears ky sclected mumzcis of the Jsopc.
[6059]ae es,
[6063]e
[6065]Seu Th SRO ees tt se Rice opt AE eva. aor Beeg,.. of
[6070]to th
[6072]Hl Initiation ef
[6074]Teitielleo ami uetab gies Sees are
[6076]hed to |
[6078]tecinigue’.
[6080]ane Zecloyed vith artush -rtrols.
[6082]- 4 \ .
[6083]. : i . . .
[6084]tuccessful retiod of explevrent. two technisucs
[6085]tr . . .
[6087]c.
[6089]a platoon, arsashe
[6093]the snivers are alerted’ to that location.
[6095]th the starlijit scope
[6098]selvetively at night
[6099]: 74 .
[6101]sco0e. and ‘AZ. suspressor
[6103]‘iet Soac in the area, -
[6105]vavlignhn.
[6106]: 2 i
[6108]: i
[6110]a an . t
[6111]he is taken under zira hy a aniner. In
[6113]. . eh
[6114]tior and location cf autoratic wearons are not co:
[6118]caiet oovration ef the rifle. Hien a crousd of comnunists”
[6119]arowoach tha killing zone, the snipers anyadiy the leaders and
[6120]radio ouerators while the »latoon fires into the seneral kill
[6122]more. Aretuer. tecanidue vill be usec in an ambush is that of
[6123]. . :
[6125]naving the snivors Lire tracers to ark tie flanks of an enery
[6127]mroeacheé the position in an area other than
[6129]Sra spaeifiea: mill mane. Snivers are also use:t to enyage tae
[6133]the ambusa site in order to atterst to draw fire
[6135]2
[6139]ay othe antusn. posi- | .
[6143](14-0000
[6145]he cweead methad of
[6147]phe arcéa cand the asvies of |
[6149]“—-gearlight scone througnout the night. Thea
[6151]Ctsclocaure of wate azie weapons
[6153]re
[6155]taritaredy, Vids avodden the
[6157]er havea bps Gr otiver anti-distur-
[6161]Loy
[6163]and ie teaatioen
[6165]7
[6167]fv aries
[6169]Levent in
[6171]Fe that of placing ipers ard
[6173]a five te etre “an Zecurity clement ina carefully selected.
[6175]sniper’ faneasl pesition. The séaecral araa wilt be selectert ay.
[6177]Me. of aor cermanéer after considering enemy activity ‘ia
[6179]ne snim er tear. ihe te var will thea
[6181]to a ita or AEP forward position wiere it is joined ay
[6183]Le vovad .
[6185]ed with t16! s. an ny, and van asBac-25-
[6187]the security clement ey
[6188]st prior
[6190]oar/ar USA position. wil be ‘cécupie es
[6192]electad to provide axizum ran: e of. tires and Ioca-.
[6193]eat: in 3a ursasonasle iistance: ‘from a ‘friendly unit. “Shes
[6195]continucus surveillance of the area. Lye fatigue.
[6197]having the snivers < alternate use of the
[6199]at night is ainiuvized uy
[6201]279 is an especially
[6203]use Eul .@anon at ‘the sniper/antush position. as. an exargle, the.
[6205]enemy Frecucntly have ‘psen observed in a tree ine or vegetated -
[6207]a shot was not possible cue to lo Light level.
[6209]; 4 ‘Ja fire into the area, the
[6211]csing tracer fire and by directing |
[6213]security eleanenc forcec tne enemy to move any expose theuselves to.
[6215]subsejuent sniser fire. Lo . woe:
[6217]“(ii) | Stay-Sehinds
[6218]i/il Weans traineé for long racge operations will
[6220]wha follow
[6222]lm axtrenoly effective ia engaging enery amuushers
[6226]RAD:
[6228]|
[6229]|
[6231]ee a a ann,
[6233]14-00000
[6235]aritoas it voves fram ond fecitien to another,
[6237]Teotopads aan. “pier team with 2 963 “ae Geccurdi tyre
[6239]sent is
[6241]oe
[6243]2 lone reno ahscrvat:
[6245]loan tien off (the eae ycas tivsy Loilow in
[6247]scan2 34
[6249]“eed suppressors
[6251]tacic ted
[6253]Mabe covertiy oan srea with oink Light. wis
[6255]sensicive say oortion
[6258]Jnaar tae visilde nt portion of tai snecteoum zy using a pink
[6260]miax and
[6262]& the iafrares nan.
[6264]filter ca + earey Lic an area eon 2o fillisinated with
[6266]invisioda Viger chat reyisters in the starlight scope. This”
[6268]phenomena sili se used in two types of sniper. activity: village
[6270]eter security and ambush operations. rent.of the’ ”
[6272]iritle/seans/sacoressor comvination will fre
[6274]giontly resule in
[6276]eoriving cany casualties tefore he has been taken
[6278]“4
[6280],
[6282]“ill be conguctet,hby nlacing a se@arch-
[6284]ten vehicle 1260 ‘to 1300 weters from a road
[6286]Ss owllib omsrlacert 399 meters from the intersection and
[6288]everater. the sniver
[6290]radio ceatact sith the searchli
[6292]: - : wil) ce. wis: MAY anydyge ‘tha nets at rer nut to 9 a meters .
[6293]. vt bxare rp ORG enewgy ¥Lll ungoll ys AOE be cetious avout- >
[6294]. | congeaipent. an aneollant target
[6295]. rears A |
[6296]: _ . . ° . Avii) “off-ret ; - _
[6298]will Lei used to illumi- |
[6300]the coute over waden |
[6302]Sere aquinned with starliahtt ccaness and MAW-2 ~*~
[6304]Lad} conpeeb en cee ce deeiavtien af tas intersection and
[6305]tins NELD zone
[6307]vcrvraundahs wre ink
[6309]meow
[6310]Su us Ty he grivar tee te eating s
[6311]the ai waa Sepa: tes retren bight Sac the seareidigit .. 7
[6312]ami t/4 “on welhsel= ino sovdtion’ resote Prom the arbusa nite, |
[6313]othe snes fa tr sill ven: sill not we alerted by the noise |of i
[6314]ee a ” . ora i.
[6315]: oo tthe vunainy valicds engine. \ |
[6316](c) whe ‘ ’ ink Livut/sainer combination will | - oy
[6317]oe 2 in vase carp 8: equrity of rations. whe search: Light, mi
[6318]: mouated on a 4 ton voniele resmonts* ‘to’ radio eqiipsied sniner , 4
[6319]bk ‘ in aonitions either on ‘the nerivetier er on aris positions
[6320]—s shai einecer “uhe back groan? noiae ofa village or : |
[6321]. 7 . t
[6322]nee caite avually conceals the noise of the engine, and j
[6323]; f, . 4
[6324]Activity ofthe ses arohlignt eres. In forsard base carp ne "
[6325]searcalignt resin in the canter of ¢ the case cann TET swing-
[6326]iny its wear, through 36. dagrees, covertly. itluninates avenues
[6327]‘of approach into the pesition. with this metned it is again , -
[6328]. : : H
[6329]essential that tie sniver.teams maintain radio contact: with .the :
[6330]“eeareblight cruw. Who pink light is particularly useful during
[6331]oe «.
[6332]4 . the-dark of tho moon period, O° ; .
[6333]"(iv) Counter Snirer , |
[6334]- N/i Taans are effective in coynteriny eneny .
[6335]vette. ‘snirer activity. . kach team, equipped “with, its telescopic sj
[6336]sight ang ‘$9 Spotting Scope, will reareh the area of guspected. , o
[6337]a enirer activity re ovtical equinment vermits a detailed
[6338]search of cistent areas. -% recent exanole, in vietnam, is -
[6341]t
[6342]AVR
[6343]; “4
[6344]a > |
[6345]ad ee ~ ta |
[6349]“ark tar:
[6351]Td) oe
[6353]ehh oot or oaamit, fter waving besa Cire on iy a ier Coag ecniper
[6355]Vea tan eye lope dtd £ tear. searcauad
[6357]eaioer tea.
[6359]It ebiead eaters foe Virb Cong sniper
[6360]. J
[6362]aoe at veo weters Gisteace. sid) o:
[6364]tine dried
[6368]“xccome ceund, sibling tne Viet Cony sniz
[6370](v) wight Zunter orerations
[6371]nighe Wunter, Goerations vill be conductad, to
[6373]a lead helicopter
[6375]it scopes counted -on their
[6377]Qleerve toe cround «ith the starli
[6379]is siyhted, tae ‘snipers engage with |
[6381]“Udlicester gua ships, followine. at a.nivher altitude
[6383]the targers. Artillery. rination are” > °
[6385]tyrece.as néceédarys 7 0” wo
[6387]: . (vi). special s-erations 0...
[6389]sceial Snecation Year, eniver-trained,
[6391]under Platoon Command: centrel for cou
[6393]main, rolitioan, and sniser activities ayainst tie
[6395]the situation and remsirerents of the
[6399]uae counter: terrorist olan.
[6401]ations
[6403]Ds axnerience is yained with corminsda Sniper
[6405]sor oP operations, the Snecial vperations
[6406]. .
[6408]-will graduali: rand ooerations. to
[6410]sasic roles -- that of indupendoatiy overating
[6414]teans movin, * to interdict, arlush and destrey the ene
[6416]me =23-
[6419]eraant
[6421]flat Sabagan
[6425]‘ ovunter/iriller everations ia co juncecion with sy
[6426]; oe oe : . ton sot “la
[6427]Mobile @raini Units st include
[6428]oe 7 - cased . \ as ay . . . . . 7 oo :
[6429]com ereuensive osycholodical oovrations. There 1s
[6430]. au to strike terror into the heart of :
[6431]: than“te see his comraftes“in-arus killed, ~ _
[6432]- as if by saqie, ty a sdlent. yullet fira! from sor: anown" .
[6433]S, the inherent lons-range: flexibility < coy
[6434]rifle/scope/foprressor/siince comsina= a
[6435]its fullest. cwcer capuaiens, ‘silver © 7;
[6436]Let drogs, alvvorn2 loudgeaaker “talking
[6437]Divs creraticis, and sener classic osyenelecical operations .
[6438]wares ;
[6439]the
[6440]. i
[6441]coes he enjoy ‘ .
[6442]. ene was taught to believe. |
[6443]buntar/siller oneratioas cominti with astute and :
[6444]aagsive osyecelosical coerations will ke canToved to cestroy
[6445]consuniet terreristn «ill to fight. and, rose isportantly, to :
[6447]Aisenvrag gabdiadigenous, tribesmen froo joinin: commenist ranks.
[6448]ar -24-
[6449]: 4 . 3
[6451]i
[6452]i od
[6453]i :
[6454]boy -
[6455]a i : . 2
[6456]' tos . .
[6457]t H
[6458]gdh. _
[6459]a
[6460]“oy
[6461]: oat,
[6464]4, phase 1V > Evaluation
[6465]The NETTY Proqeam will be gubject tu close and cont in-
[6466]wing evaluation Ly a BROC Text and. Evaluation Team oryanized
[6467]and tieided by ” che JISOPG. corprehensive records and test data
[6468]wild ue yathere ed and analyzed in ordér. to amend operational cgn-
[6469]cepts and “organizations < as well as. administrat ive, logistical,
[6470]“and training’ techniques as required. The est anc valuation Taam —
[6471]-_ showld-aéhere to ‘accepted principles of field experimentation ,
[6473]. an
[6474]as appropriate: Agee the evaluation should be an elaboration
[6476]of cormion sens2. ‘and. convenient ordering of evaluation. matters
[6478]so ‘that: the « jtunter/Killer, Teams encounter: mininun: interruptions.
[6480]_Uoon completion. of the Fvaluation Phase the. TSE
[6482]“tnt: will. make appropriate “réeommendat ions to RDC for. continua-
[6484]ana ‘expansion’ of: the: NCTTT, Program beyond the 12 month
[6486]tie
[6488]planned’ period.
[6490]5. ‘Phase V - “Expansion of Operations
[6491]co 7 See Figure 1. , -
[6493]: as indicated on Figure 1, preparation for the
[6494]Expansion of operations Phase commences in the tenth week
[6496]NCTIT with the organization of the second RTG Provisional
[6498]50 N/K Platoon. The six-week training. progran for the Second -... --~
[6500]Platoon starts the 13th “week upon graduation of the Firs’ ‘Platoon.
[6502]The second Flatoon deploys in the 18th weer and conducts Phase
[6504]Til operations. as described in Paragraph D. above. ane
[6505]: Commencing with the 14th week, the Third Provisional |
[6507]2TG 50 H/ Pltn. is organized commencing ‘training the lath week,
[6509]“and Phase III operations the 24th week.
[6513]. . . a an eos. .
[6514]ir eer a Se Se 5 a
[6517]“totam en. of Phane Tit t. JGTL thas he teres
[6518]a . . we
[6519]eat VTeteoan: tatet! me Srectab ceeavbons ant oy Sniner
[6525]Pero tis theed ty - . .
[6529]totac re of Pause TY (end of
[6531]Bo imy Cvcancencatica: cf the “en TSE fear, tee Sucrcane Ceuand
[6533]whl) fave tee autienrs. +
[6535]ne “0 * Ga) corgeanidge the ctirec olatcons into a Provi-
[6536]Lo : ; fe . :
[6537]Sespoay (fee yiauce 6) ané con
[6541]sional se ¥.
[6543]tions, or
[6544]Book et (3) Heassign Special OAdration. Tears to Ava.
[6545]-e- 2 Lae : . _ . , -
[6547]as required -and ceutinuc furtrer operations.
[6549]st
[6551]tne. final three mouths of. the ACTIT Program, _— --
[6552]iec--to provide for-protec-
[6553]wili be conutinuec deep.
[6555]oo ($y. ’ . .
[6556]tion of auditionnl villages. ‘Iserations
[6558]nslieonter er parachute’
[6560]inte ones sentrolled areas utilizing
[6562]inserticn techntaess. FALO paracimte insertion techniques will
[6564]be carleyed in areas where the enemy is especially vijzilant.:
[6566]carried out woonsver nossiile to anbush,
[6569]e
[6571]serations sneuld be
[6573]pursue the enemy as rar as 16 to 20 miles
[6575] poeruission is obtained.
[6577]roviding
[6579]i
[6580]i
[6581]4
[6582]i
[6583]'
[6584]I
[6585]1
[6586]|
[6588]is. tris, safe aréas should be estazlished
[6590]3,
[6591]indigenous tribal villages for bee ee
[6593]helicopter
[6595]eventual extraction
[6597]rever possible, sifilar onarations should
[6600]'
[6601]i
[6602]i
[6603]i
[6604]i
[6605]H
[6606]i
[6607]t
[6609]oe .
[6610]a
[6613]14-0000
[6615]6. Vuture Operations
[6617]At the end of Phase V the “icTsT should have proved
[6618]itself as one at the vost effective counter - insurgency programs ‘.
[6619]“available, .to the RIG. as an-example,’ in 6 months operations
[6620]* "the 72 snipers “of the u. 9th Division attained. over 600
[6621]confirmed kills, ‘the majotity 0 of which were. made at night with
[6623]the Meld. rifie/starlight scope/SIONICS-H#A#-12 sunpressor combin-.
[6625]ation. In. .effecting this admirable record, “1.37 cartridges
[6627]‘hu the current cost of 28¢ for. one
[6629]_were. expended’ per, kal.
[6630]National. atch cartridge,” ‘this averages to 386 per xii. this
[6632]is obviously an oversinpli ication, but. ait highlights an ‘extrenely
[6634]“S -Buceessful ‘and -economical iretho of countering comminist terrorism
[6636]"along: the . borders of ‘hailand.
[6638]a AS. a final. note, this typ e of operation is as yet
[6639]in its nascent stages. Complete operational techniques that will
[6641]result, from execution of the 12 month NCTTT will. uridoubtedly
[6643]disclose additional and more ‘effective techniques of killing or
[6645]neutralizing ‘conmunist terrorists in Thailand and will contribLute
[6647]border areas.
[6652]14-0000
[6654]a NOT TT PROGRAM’)
[6655]_ S ss  gonTRACT MONTHS Bot
[6656]a OS OY SN A || es Cee
[6657], . (1234 6 8 10.12/14 1618 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 = q
[6659]IG, CNTR. .: 4
[6660]iL. & ORG, PERS, 7
[6661]RAINING PROGRAM .
[6662]ORGANIZF PLTNS, | e
[6663]FSTALISH SOP'S & LN
[6664]W/RTAF, BPP & TNP
[6665]UNITS =
[6666]INSERTION OF H/K TMS,
[6667]IN TAOR'S .
[6668]OPNL PHASE: 1/K ke
[6669]PSYCH OVS, OPNS,
[6670]EVALUATION PHASE
[6671]EXPANSION PHASE ,
[6672]2ND PLYS ORGN | | .
[6673]2ND PLIN TRNG
[6674]2ND PLTN OPNS
[6675]3RD PLTN ORGN
[6676]3D PLTN TRNG |
[6677]>. 3RD PLTN OPNS » : { oo .
[6678]Po _ FIGURE, | - OPERATIONAL SCHEDULE: i
[6679]Fo. CO  Nerrr a ee :
[6680]ma ee oe es eaeem mrae E aai
[6683]14-c0000 7 . r *
[6685]. |
[6686]NCTE MAGI - ot ;
[6687]. . i .
[6691]j Ore. HpncaTia
[6693]‘ 7 | & PNGISFE |
[6694]. . a | .
[6700]|
[6702]TENSOR AS
[6703]RQD WITH: ' _
[6704]RT ARMY: : | ‘SIONTCS
[6705]|
[6707]| - RE AIR FORCE ifr. cf. Werbell (To be. Ge be
[6708]1 RT NAVY ' Nesiv.d . Neste.) |
[6709]we | ; .
[6710]| “TMP > . .
[6711]| . “utc. ° “| , Wn
[6712]to ee, ne eS %
[6714](ottsyreey hoi
[6716]i
[6717]|
[6718]Suiper School | i
[6719]Sp. Oons. i ee \°
[6720]Lj
[6722]|
[6724]Instrs. .
[6725]3° - . : ; - .
[6726]ae { FIGURE. 2 7 ORGAN TAATION ANT MANAGEMENT
[6727]Y - STTT .
[6728]| . =
[6729]o 7 a
[6730]rs ° H . q -
[6733]14-0000
[6736]| v «4,
[6738]vo > es bewee ,
[6739]oa .
[6740]a
[6741]a
[6744]a
[6746]fe
[6748]Yo
[6749]© §r, pneae - {Mt
[6750]“Sntper/ak tay,
[6752]i,
[6754]Locos slen Sgt.
[6756]| OL dr. HOA ate Rtu
[6757]— . - . _
[6760]14.90000
[6762]UG -PROVIS TONAL ~ SURO LAL. OPE YUATIONS
[6763]_- HUNTE Rn FASEN 1, ans “u He ATOOT
[6765]LIST OF
[6766]i}.
[6768]MAJOR PPEMS OF EOUTPNENT
[6770]J L. PLATO iit: ADQUARTERS (1 Set)
[6771]a. “lkotviDuAL BOUIDSEst
[6773].. 5 Cases -B-40- . an :
[6774]‘10° Cases HALPA. 35mm Phosphorus Grenades’ -
[6775]-100' .
[6776]. ‘$0 “H/K OP
[6778]a 14.
[6780]2, 4-14 Accurized Rifles co . .
[6782]2 ART Sniper Scopes .(M-84 Scope, Alternate) a .
[6783]2 Sionics MAW-A2 Suppressors ,
[6785]2 VARGO Starlight Scores
[6787]2 M-16 w/MAW-Al Sup.
[6789]1 PRC- 25.0r Eqiv. Radio Trans./Recvr.
[6791]PL ATOON NEAPONS & EQUIPMENT POOL a Set). -
[6793]“sg N-1@ %/MAW-AL Sup.
[6794]8 N-T0: Ingram SNG-w/Sionics Sup.
[6796]8 Pistol. (To. b desig.) wy /Sionics Sup.”
[6799]Roun $.38,. -45 of Smm Flare Bullets
[6801]demolition. and _Incendiary. Fe guipment ’ and Supplies ‘as $ required
[6802]a oe
[6804]iyi TEA! EQUIP: SENT (4 Sets)
[6806]Accurized Rifles .
[6808]9 ART Sniper Scopes (M-84 Scope, Alt.) .
[6810]9. Sionics MAW-A2 Suopressors
[6812]9 VARO Starlight Scopes
[6814]1 PRT-4 Radio Transmitter
[6816]9 PRT-9 Helmet. Radio Receivers...
[6818]Demolition and Incendiary Supplies and Eauipment. as. required
[6819]‘ oo
[6821]FIGURE. 4-~ EQUIPMENT ©
[6823]Qavrms
[6825]-
[6826]i
[6827]i
[6829]2
[6833]1400000
[6835]ner : | oo
[6837]“TACTICAL AREA OF: OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY ; , ee
[6838]. : ; o (TAOR) ; ; : . ,
[6839]Sos YPTCAL- NY TEAM AREA DEPLOYMENT * .
[6841]KOWA ATONE
[6843]AREX SODTY
[6845]14-0000
[6847]. |
[6848]oe ~ me 4
[6849]bara aa be “a eDodny
[6850]ok
[6851]RTG PROVISTONAL SPECKAL OPERATIONS HUNTER KILLER COMPANY .
[6853]SP OPNS |
[6854]+ HUNTER KILLER | .
[6856]SO I cere emer nm meres am me ’ .
[6858]p——— 222.
[6859]| * SPEC. OPNS . : .
[6860]; 1 Cape. Co.. Cmdr, | —. ‘ . «
[6861]j ile. xo | HUNTER KILLER i , ;
[6862]1 Ise Spe. | . ih nea { 7 ,
[6863]1 Jr. NCO/EM-RTO | . . oo, [ . | :
[6864]STRENGTH ,
[6865]5. 0 .
[6866]19 © 0
[6867]10 Sr. NCO/EM
[6868]124 Toral
[6869]t
[6870]| PIGURE “6 -RTC PROV. *SO H/K COMPAHY _
[6871]i
[6872]Po, .
[6873]: , oN .
[6876]ee | Sem a eae SRT .
[6877]FO ee eter ce pentane epee BONS ME ee 4 we
[6879]er ha
[6881]4.4-00000
[6883]PART |:
[6885]ns re
[6886]SIME PRIOD COV BICE:
[6888]Planning, Preparation, and Training Phases
[6889]m, MIME AND COSP ESTIMATE
[6891]months
[6893]Planning, Preparation
[6895]DURING PEIUObD: Phase i:
[6897]PER FORMABCE
[6898]o ane insiallacivua of Training
[6899]_ Center, through : :
[6900]Phase Me Organization and Trai ning
[6901]_ ESTIMATE OF PROJECT COSTS . oy
[6902]. 1. : . .
[6903]~—-2 Totals
[6905]Salaries (direct charges at. actual rate):
[6907]» Program Director, Senior ‘Fechnical Advisor level:
[6909]rian-mos. @$ cave per man-mo.- $$
[6910]_ Assistant Director, Technical Advisor, or Engineer level:
[6911]man mos. e $ _—_ “av. per man-mo. ~$ - co:
[6913]Gunsmith, Armorer, or Technician level; .
[6915]man= mos. € § av. per man-ino.
[6917]Total billable: salaries: oot, :
[6919]Salary related costs. (Employee insurance, Overseas: spay
[6922]incentives, sick leaves, etc. Estimated at
[6924]Overtime premium pay Estimated at - % $-
[6925]Office ahd Secretarial: | ; . 7 : ' —§ |
[6926]Purchased ‘expendable materials and services: : $ |
[6927]Travel: ‘ . $ i
[6928]Long-distance communication charges: $— i)
[6929]TOTAL ESTIMATED COSTS _ Lo . $ |
[6930]‘FIXED FEE (7%) i - . $
[6931]st
[6933]TOTAL: Estimated Costs and Fixed Fee
[6934]ARMAMENT AND EQUIPMENT .
[6936]To be negotiated at a later date depending on availability ~
[6937]of arms and equipment through. Thai or U.S, Government
[6939]Official ch. annels,
[6941]= tee
[6943]a
[6945]OPAKY Hi Cperanonal and Evaluation, Phase
[6947]HIME AND COST ESTIMATE
[6949]UATE PRS Pov a . ; maamihs
[6951]PERFORMANCE DINGISU: PERIOD: Phase IU: Deployment,
[6953]inttiativn of Operations, through
[6954]so. Phase IV: Evaluation of Program
[6956]i
[6958]ESTIMAT of PROJECT -COSTS
[6960]; Salari ius (direct vharges at actual. rates):
[6962]Prograin, Director, Senior Technical Advisor level:
[6963]man-mes, @s - per man-mo .
[6966]Technical Advisor, or Engineer level: :
[6968]Assistant Director,”
[6969]av. per man- mo..
[6971]-man-mos,. @ $
[6973]Gunsmith, Armorer, or Techiiician: evel:
[6974]. man-mos. @ $ “ave per man- 103
[6975]———. .
[6977]: Total billable salaries:
[6979]‘snsurancé, Overseas pay’
[6981]“Salary relat ed costs ‘(E: nployee.
[6982]Estimated at. fe
[6984]i
[6986]“incentives, Sick leaves, ete. |
[6987]Y
[6989]= a,
[6991]Overtime prenium pay siimaled at %e
[6993], Office and Secretarial:
[6995]Purchased expendable materials, and services: .
[6997]Travel:
[6998]_» Long-distance communication charges:
[6999]3. TORAL-ESTIMAFED-COSTS~ > , 4
[7001]FIXED FRE (74 )
[7002]TOTAL: FE stimated Costs and Fixed Fee
[7004]ARMAMENT. AND EQUIPMENT
[7006]To be » negotiated at a later date fe depending on ‘availability .
[7007]of arms and equipment through Thai or U.S. Governinent
[7009]official channels.
[7011]Insertion and
[7013]Totals
[7014]- 5
[7020]won we
[7030]'
[7034]a .
[7036]AW
[7042]4
[7044]Tinoeee. og
[7046]14-0000
[7048]TIME A AND COST ESTIMAT Fe 3
[7050]t
[7051]o a 7
[7052]TIME PERIOD COVERED: _. months 7 ; of
[7054]- PE RRORM: ANCE DURING PE WD: Phase Viv Expansion of-Ope rations.
[7055]ESTIMA TE Or PROJECT © Cc ft cosTs r s ;
[7056]; Totals
[7058]‘Sataries (airect charges Gt actual rates);
[7060]Program Director, Senior Technical Advisor level: -
[7061]man-mos, @ $l ‘av. per man-mo.
[7063]“a
[7067]Assistant Director, Technical Advisor, or Engineer lew el:
[7068]a
[7069]-man- mos, @ $ av. per man-mo.
[7070]Gunsmith, Armorer, or Technical level:
[7072]man-mos, @ ¢_ __ av, per man- mio.
[7074]. Total billable: salaries? :
[7075]_ salary related costs (Employee insurance, Overseas. pay
[7076]incentives, sick leaves, etc. Estimated at  ,
[7078]Overtime premium pay... "Estimated a at. . Ke.
[7079]Office and. Secretarial: , Ce
[7080]: ” Purchased expendable matefials, and | services . : $
[7081]. a Loe . alg Te
[7083]y Travel: of : : 7 eo —_
[7087]* Long-distance communication charges:
[7088]TOTAL ESTIMATED COSTS a
[7089]FIXED FEE (7%) .
[7090]TOTAL: Estimated Costs and Fixed Fee
[7092]|
[7094]4A
[7096]sO ARMAMENT AND EQUIPMENT __ ee
[7097]To be negotiated ata later. date depending on availability
[7098]of arms and equipment through Thai or U.S. Government
[7099]official channels.
[7102]r
[7104],
[7106].
[7109]14-0000
[7111]. : - . Cee an. . wcssnce tome tf wil ars: re
[7112]. : ova: RGVWELIDNER:dml .  eneinneeead ane |
[7113]wt” PE/TBL/T L SECRET !
[7114]tur: 1421 a |
[7115]are: 3. MAY. 1969 . -t
[7116]CABLE SECRETARIAT OISSEMIN ATOM -_ O mom OD no woes 0 ocr ro wc Co nn “
[7117]Sam *. ;O FILE I CB PILE NO. : an , ‘
[7118]‘com: a a
[7119]rice va, al » CfoPS en.
[7120]ieiseaiticetion) _ ™ 7 (date ium filed? - 7 . pore oumtes) sek
[7121]- SECRET . ; oe - CITE DIREC TSA 83804
[7122]_ J 93 $8 TS2 key ce ~
[7123]ro BANGKOK at. od
[7127]REF co _ DIRECTOR gell4
[7129]1. WE NOTE LNSHOE QUERY DATED 2 MAY TO ITS HOS” aes
[7130]ASKING FOR TRACES ON MITCHELL L. W ERBELL, WISHTOBRING © © |
[7131]. oy .
[7132]“TO YOUR ATTENTION REF WHICH REPLIED TO RECENT STAZ 0!
[7133]_ | » REQUEST FOR TRACES-ON WERBELL, SUGGEST YOU MAY
[7134]_ GIST OF REF ON FYI BASIS TO LOCAL LNSHOE REPS,
[7135]: . 2, KENX FILE: 201-259910.
[7136]aE, END OF MESSAG
[7137]“ COORD William Johnson _CI/OPS/FE (Telecord) ©
[7138]ee be LI th PA PED oben
[7139]© Whim WL Wns 0 Giffin’ Ro stiaihcend’
[7140]‘ ACKE C3 Cary CHELTBL.
[7141]3 : : .
[7142]2 en mS oo ROP QT TT 10.
[7143]1 te Mf. : 8 = vot
[7144]: COORDINATING OF #:CE83 v}
[7145]a : RELEASING OFFIC" ® . . tacheded tem mre | | AUTHENTICATING
[7146]bo ce SECRET coowners | orice
[7147]: i REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE iS PROHIBITED. . Curr m0.
[7150]A
[7152]Aatimad Mil re meget Corte
[7153]a LT Se pe rer)
[7154]| 9.29752
[7155]a May, 67 Cé sry 6)
[7157]Dit: Of Dokopee |
[7159]Saye eer Latomabion o
[7161]porter DIR -20 on
[7163]wet ewes
[7165]SS Rae bya sant edt We
[7167]te
[7169]Hn | “ . MESSAGE FORM ROUTING ANO/O8 IK TI 1 9te
[7170]: , + TOTAL COMES: 43 | =a — 4
[7172]2 ma: R. G. Eigvre 7 -
[7173]miT:, FE/TBL/T. —— : “SECRET: naa
[7175]ant: 27 March 1969° 7 we ot FE ~~.
[7177]‘apu sec TARIAT OrssEMine ATION
[7178]to 43 13 : rer .
[7180]{eta saification)
[7182]SECRET.
[7187]3 BANGKOK _ a oe phe
[7189], — oa Pa
[7191]me
[7195]"REF: | BANGKOK 0411 (IN 16820) oe
[7196]1, HQS HAS LENGTHY 201 FILE. “og supsecr REF WHO HAS LONG
[7198]HISTORY OF POPPING Up IN
[7200]FEW ‘FAST BUCKS, HE IS CHARACTERIZED AS UNSCRUPULOUS, A WHEELER
[7202]AND DEALER, AND A PROMOTER OF GRANDIOSE SCHEMES. HE HAS A REPU-
[7203]"ATION FOR LIVING BEYOND HIS MEANS AND IS HIGH PRESSURE ADVERTISING ©
[7204]AND PROMOTION MAN, KE WAS OF OPERATIONAL INTEREST IN MID “1959
[7205]WHEN’ HE BECAME INVOLVED WITH ANTI-CASTRO PLOTTERS IN THE DOMINICAN
[7207]REPUBLIC AND OFFERED TO FURNISH WOFIRM WITH INFORMATION ON REVO-
[7209]-LUTIONARY ACTIVITIES IN THE CARRIBEAN, HE WAS GRANTED A POA IN
[7210]“ auGUST 1959 BUT “THIS “WAS CANCELLED IN OCTOBER 1959 WHEN HIS
[7212]INFORMATION “PROVED ‘TO BE OF LITTLE VALUE AND IT WAS. SUSPECTED -
[7214]“THAT HE WAS USING WOFIRM FUNDS TO PROMOTE PERSONAL INTERESTS,
[7216]HE HAS SUBSEQUENTLY ATTEMPTED TO PASS HIMSELF OFF AS REPRESENTATIVE
[7218]OF LNHARP AND WOFIRM, HE WAS. BORN 1918 IN "PHILADELPHIA AND DID
[7220]. a, = = 05 copy eet!
[7222], ; , 2-7
[7223]CODEDINATING OFFICERS a 4) aS pat te “yo
[7224]| . farted ree oer AUIMERTIC ATING
[7225]mega ome . 1 s$ E c R E T | eres] “Y nieaa 1
[7226]. . : REPROOUCTION BT OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED. + cos BO.
[7227]. ; ; LOf - BHAGILO
[7231]AREAS AND SITUATIONS" WHERE’ ‘HE CAN ‘MAKE A, ae
[7233]o
[7238]MESSAGE FORM
[7239]TOTAL COPIES:
[7241]ma: : “Ls
[7242]wits Le . ;
[7244]aT:
[7246]ATE:
[7248]let Oxo inoak Oo mruanto ... —--- eaamcn’ CJ ene ain
[7250]Gene se corns wo,
[7252]| ARLE SECRETAMAY.OMsgeNATION |”
[7254]a ao —.— — e
[7255]| | SACRE PRE IIO  emmieeron FB UE
[7256]ee oP. SERVE WITH OSS DURING WORLD WAR Ti, HE HAD. OWN ‘ADVERTISING ‘AND
[7257]“PUBLIC RELATIONS ‘BUSINESS IN ATLANTA, “GEORGIA. wutcH WENT BANKRUPT
[7258]oe, IN 1959, TRACES ON HiS CURRENT FIRM NEGATIVE,
[7259]a oo 8. ABOVE CANNOT BE PASSED TO THAIS SINCE supsecr REF 1S
[7260]. FOLADY CITIZEN,HOWEVER YOU MAY WISH TO INFORM APPROPRIATE LIAISON
[7261]CONTACTS THAT SUBJECT IS REPUTED TO HAVE UNSAVORY REPUTATION,
[7262]“HAs NO CONNECTIONS WITH LNHARP DESPITE ANY INTIMATIONS NE MAY ~
[7264]MAKE TO CONTRARY, AND THAT THAIS WOULD BE WELL ADVISED ‘TO OBSERVE
[7266]“”, EXTREME CAUTION RE ANY DEALINGS WITH HIM,
[7267]3, FILE: 201-252910 ;
[7269]| END OF MESSAGE
[7271],
[7273]al
[7277]ahr 9 Lo choatlere
[7278]Wee cre oe : Bef R, Strathera,
[7279]fir CW CFE/TBL ,
[7281]Gin eee TO.
[7282]. . : CoosDimaTina oMriceRs wrest
[7283]yo. mrutdsng cerreta - SE secs RET | ~~] pS eu "sonata |. sommes
[7284]. ‘ REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE is PROHIBI TED. con ac.
[7286]ae)
[7290].
[7292]esp SES TARVAT DISSEMINAT.CW
[7293]. Se uN NOTED
[7295]Jota Comes “sume ANO/OR INATALS : SEEN BY
[7296]SECRET aoe met doa
[7297]: “
[7299]ten Filled in)
[7301]. . . —
[7302]ADvance Compr C 98UL0- CJ SLOTTEO — t
[7305]wee ar “ ¥ ee eS
[7307]XRF TO Fee NO.
[7309]ossew av IS oe ene mo Ser. To
[7312]onancuC) > oesrmovO sc.
[7314]SE C. RE = T. isi i272. MAR ‘68 cil: ZANGKOK ean
[7315]Dikector
[7317]13 ian IN16820
[7318]CU
[7320]REQUEST HOS ‘TRACES ON nITCCuL Le VERBELL III AND HIS
[7322]of FIRM SIGNICS; 1655. .PEACH TREE Sis, NeEey: aTLauta, GEORGIA.
[7324]ERSELL ATS HERE’ OFFERING. TC SELL THE LATEST FIRZARAS TO RIGS. —
[7325]“HE: HA S PRESENTED SOME OF THES
[7327]TO°THE KING.
[7329]] § MAR 1255
[7331]‘SECRET
[7333]Vani Chrono
[7335]SECRET
[7337]QA oo foope od: “oo.
[7339]oa 610 “tanec [7] SECRET (() CONFIDENTIAL
[7341]fa unctassieieo = Oo CORFE AL (Secret
[7342]e Sp ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
[7344]~ J SUBJECTS (Optional) _ : . Z :)
[7346]Ralph I. Jusell oe
[7347]Employee Activity Branch | °
[7349]bos 3E 49, Hdqtrs.
[7351]COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom
[7352]ft whom. Oraw a tike across column after ech comment.)
[7354], wH/ Security
[7355]3-D 3113
[7357]oO UTERNAL ~ ([] UNCLASSIFIED
[7360]‘TO ? cnier, on
[7362]FROM
[7364]SUBJECT:
[7366]. ~ -
[7368]ee CONFIDENTIAL re
[7370]oor .
[7371]UNITED STATES Gov ERN MENT -. ° . .
[7373]Memorandum
[7374]CN
[7376]DATE: 4 March’ 1968
[7378]pte te germs gh 28107
[7380]BAKER, Bruce Arman
[7384]Poa
[7386]On 7 February, this gent }enan teneponed my office. His address is:
[7388]Mr. Bruce Arian BAKERS 3/0 °°" Ls. 7 So
[7389]11379 President “Drive, N. E. ae CITLUOSA
[7391]Blaine Village, Minnesota
[7392]Blaine Villese, Minnesota
[7393]-
[7394]Mr. Baker stated that he:has been in contact with a 1 Mr marron “70 7- - 2827 40
[7396]. WERBELL, HII of Powder Springs, ‘Georgia.’
[7398]“Mrs Baker says ‘that Mr. Werbell is-in -the biisiness of manufacturing ’
[7400]weapons and delivering them by air throughout the world. Mr. Baker
[7401]anderstands that Mr. Werbell does this for the Central Intelligence
[7403]Agency.
[7404]Mr. Baker says that-Mr. Werbcll is a supposedly reputable man.
[7406]Baker understands, from Werbell, that Baker will have to get a
[7407]CIA security ‘clearance to fly for Werbell, a
[7409]Mr. Baker has served in the military. ‘Ke has had some paramilitary.
[7411]‘. training. Hé belongs in a "jump club" and now participates in
[7415]this Werbell "CIA" clearance.
[7417]‘“Préefali", etc. He has a Morse Code preficiency and a Radio
[7418]License Second Class. He has Spanish language proficiency end would
[7419]be willing to collect for us. :
[7421]This man persists on pursuing me re this CIA/Werbell relationship.
[7422]‘I tell him I don't know a thing about it. It seems he has a smuggling
[7423]record when he was 17 and he's afraid this may keep hin} ‘from getting
[7425]7 2O1- 2547 I0
[7427]Bay U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Serings Plan
[7428]CONFIDENTIAL
[7430]14-0000
[7432]Pee batoet rear Be hon war breaks out
[7434]. : aitywhere in the world,
[7436], : : . ; , : . foraer OSS wat
[7437]oe a Mitch it's
[7439]co _ me, _ : aad dhle ta siupply
[7440]teeons to either side—
[7441]or bath, And he’s
[7443]only one of severnul
[7445]hight -flvin
[7447]Pyyle ,
[7448]-a dark andy
[7450]i operators mn
[7452]Owens trade
[7454], Tt is entively pe
[7455]of Nincet
[7457]Jaime. that
[7459]fiche out :
[7461]Saended di feracls fo . . .
[7462]Jory over her Arsh ne ° _ : '
[7463]bers. Dut ‘ast vie Atmericai authority: ©. . _ cae
[7464]_ we ntedern wares Yad. i Tae :
[7465]rotpoddekedier c 7
[7466]named Mitchell fin : 4
[7467]. WRerbeal (Ph bea days befovrer idee: A iddfe | aN ft
[7468], Cast fieht tett his : ce
[7469]. mager at hear before : .
[7470]3 miles ta Mthiunta
[7471], [boarded a jet for
[7472]. ; sip Ure _
[7473]ta
[7474]: Ved iaeat the
[7475]- - - werk to a double room .
[7476]> atl set between
[7477]aed te
[7478]shook. Precton by ab ne a + ,
[7479]fev mn
[7481]ra)
[7484]14-00000.
[7485]: i
[7487]“| i :
[7488]t 4 : ;
[7490]7 i {
[7491]:, i :
[7492]: H i
[7493]|
[7494]! 1
[7495]i
[7496]. . '
[7497]i . H
[7498]fot, i
[7499]Soh : | | a
[7501]oh : f i
[7502]tog : . \
[7504]: . Od,
[7505]| i |
[7506]i Li ea Ee ae ws ee at, sf .
[7507]: Rell acl twa aides louk aver route on aap priority a night delivery of ieeapans sonewhes¢ in the Caribbean. be. ’
[7509]\ 4% —_ anne on the East River, Werlsell finally opened a7 .
[7510]| z his valise and displayed its contents: a i
[7511]! : : half-dozen missile sans, both hand and :
[7513]' A .
[7514]: ~ - o » Werf had designed and built :
[7515]‘ , an . “some of them himself, : ; ‘
[7516]; : Ss Around hin, crowding the yacht’s state: :
[7517]i oe . : room, sulid-laoking, suber men watched a .
[7518]“eee : . : intewtly as We Pdemoustrated the new
[7519]° : firearm me potential Later that ‘
[7520]~ _— : evening recalling the demonstration over
[7521]acdrink buck in the cily, WerBell wuld
[7522]: describe his nautical hosts only by saying,
[7523]: Fo They were... let's just eall hem very ‘
[7524]; : aportast Friends of » They'd been
[7525]: - : warbed that within « st would a
[7526]' anna : ie
[7527]. : be at war, They 4 there to mak |
[7528]i that one way ce another Lerac crack F :
[7529]| atthe very best weaponry there is, tjust |
[7530]; H for the: vad, but for the stand. i :
[7531]: olf which is hound to keep the Middle F : ‘
[7532], ! : : . ” . '
[7533]: on for vears, !
[7534]a i : like this are part H
[7535]: "s slock intrade. He is a I
[7536]‘ 1 breed. hnawa
[7537]rs rind ‘
[7538]tsocne fe
[7539]: S MACAZINE
[7543]14-0000
[7547]a vurions blend of
[7549]past ind present. Here WerBell, da
[7551]tential customers. Uheir most) satisty
[7553]: i status synibul is the discovery that soni
[7554]H rere on the globe theiv merchandise: is
[7555]i voting away, and forth, oo both’
[7556]i sides of the same conflict. :
[7557]i Headins: suth from Mikuni, one’s flist
[7558]: aT bd schooners and cone
[7560]has the ram-runnag
[7561]Bata diigent
[7562]that aleohol and
[7563]in common; the
[7565]avast, worlds
[7568]comapanl them,
[7570]fab assassination aileurp
[7571]ry. stron
[7573]ane
[7576]do babert. Driving ho
[7578]of his Cail.
[7582]i so MLM. 's are the new
[7583]mS at ALPJs of international politics. & is their -
[7585]' Iusiness to Know even before diplomats do
[7586]oe oe ne, eedwhere tensions are breiving-Uhat being po-
[7588]s plowing the blae water,
[7589]from such deaters, te.
[7592]14-00000,.,
[7594]- For one ching. they
[7596]du
[7598]Seta Nite
[7599]pene af the
[7601]On the
[7602]the erseby, Ay ihe ive
[7603]at sip iviat
[7605]Blocks frog teen Wiha
[7606]Jing the fee
[7607]Vo the auth
[7609]seen poettonny te
[7610]ord te
[7611]so tee formedain
[7614]nthe |
[7615]ypenad nest ts what happens
[7616]oie cube. Ts outside edzes
[7619]twa
[7620]melt atay
[7621]inte sphere, Che polyy
[7622]Cuoudh che same process, “The Comer
[7623]of the cath blocks dawed) fasice al
[7624]the sides. “Ther
[7625]frosen, the whole ae
[7626]for a short time by
[7627]Tiver, “The nish of avatee swept aw,
[7628]the water sub
[7630]mounds,
[7632]“Hn cease where the rurni ter tnut
[7633]covered them for anly. a’short tine, the
[7634]ame fe iver big. Where the water Mawes
[7635]longer. t mae thawing took place aid the
[7639]A very satisfying theory. But as tual,
[7640]wiher scieatisty have: picked: Raws iit it,
[7642]had the sere of Unite which Riuchic dle-
[7643]suibes. Vhey say it was not rauch colder
[7644]ag the mawulfurming period divi
[7645]iis today. And they doubt if che prairies
[7646]were swept ‘by a oud of water deep
[7647]chough to oor all the mounds, Tp would
[7648]tise Rad ty be over Lad feet deep.
[7650]. Some: caf the ies are gapher-theory
[7651]men, “Phe peaket gopher theory hay been
[7652]Y fort
[7654]ally Gan out
[7655]to have been made by gophers hey
[7657]THI DEADLIEST SALES
[7658][Con from page 43}
[7660]he heed che sates ef silencer equipped
[7661]subi hi wos, he Knew thar a iva
[7662]icipated event was taking phice—
[7663]mbatdiompr was beiag, mde to kill him
[7665]Vo dick the assasiny billets, the gen:
[7666]eral dropped sideways, Elis arm suaked
[7667]Dehind he front seat eb che lineasne
[7668]is own submachine gan bag ie
[7670]Care Jeep. the Bene
[7672]Maj. \ reia, Hie
[7673]aaledk switch on tke brawn
[7674]pagee stick mandee fiy arin. Whe
[7675]stick-—sneddesily cone
[7677]speed Ler rocker projectile, With
[7678]aohitling “SE OOSED the’ >
[7680]apt the wT
[7683]the uitae
[7684]and ites
[7685]Guba
[7687]he aut
[7689]it.
[7691]the tacky!
[7693]: up athe ry of therm.
[7695]syeanted and delivered: the stoorin
[7697]tH missile.
[7701]went des ch, SEN ED
[7702]sogthomet the Dien oty even a
[7703]aul ccee pt sian,
[7706]te by
[7708]b rane
[7709]of southern W,
[7710]ype che char
[7712]herever there
[7713]re alse
[7715]jig where
[7716]Loved
[7717]Mim
[7719]mt
[7720]Mima mounds. ghere
[7721]wil the oxcepuow ol Mina ly
[7722]the: finest why of all ae fou
[7723]cume t ere WETE Beas di ia
[7725]too, ue puses ie
[7726]the goplier they sae talkie ist is
[7727]aamnall Diewa anil beaks vattier like
[7729]ttn is call spher be.
[7730]cause it has a hurliacd pocket tae it
[7731]check for ound food amd vest
[7732]te . ”
[7734]This is, the w ¥ Ue Liek
[7739]Perit grew up in
[7740]Re. pocket gopher began moving
[7741]in fromthe: south, gaobably only ad-
[7742]sancing a finndred fect or se gopher
[7743]tien My at the southern cad
[7744]they ran inte a new
[7746]a forest which had sprung
[7748]le af
[7752]phers will not Hive
[7754]forest so instead: of pashit on Farther,
[7755]thers incon the prairies, As a) pro-
[7757]teaion against predators they day decp.
[7759]Each Mima moaad Pepresennts whit at
[7760]Tone.time was the “rensiiory” vf an ancicut
[7761]gopher Ganity. When diey baile their
[7762]foraging aimnels, they kepton dragsi
[7763]Bitte more soi] back reward the howe site
[7764]! they took frou it. ulate
[7765]nds ofyears thesg infinitesimal amauniy
[7766]of soil would have lilt ep inte a Mint
[7767]mound, “Vie in dey mound
[7769]isty-explain-
[7771]Lup wiht
[7772]adh Mi
[7773]Yo rewats.”
[7774]pointouc Phi
[7775]As one seule:
[7777]yawn te
[7778]have been fuured invide
[7782]Cb scanty
[7784]up tothe top ag lis ats
[7786]What the nest teary will be i
[7788]belv’s sues. bat me alumerc vw
[7789]confusion bas adicady been added. Phere
[7790]are those who say the Min vunls are
[7791]prowling. Nor is this a new idea, Over 30
[7792]sears age. Buraers inthe area st ted
[7793]dking about Sure thevre growing.
[7794]AWhen Lways were be veh with the
[7795]lop of the chicken “coop. "Now they're
[7796]several fuches caller.”
[7798]The srowing theory cannot be poised
[7799]off with a hearty chuckle cither, Some
[7800]keen observers have been toking:the idea
[7801]sttiowly—Dector Sheffer. for one—
[7802]though nobady can prove. stenufieally
[7803]whether they aa
[7805]stn a
[7807]yore tt
[7808]hassle. tt
[7810]x
[7811]1
[7813]Jsomerhing is na¢-déne seon, there will
[7815]not he many Mine mounds elt ta purzel
[7816]over. Acres of them lave been leveled for
[7817]farang. SU others have been dug ap
[7818]for'gravel pits aud cut through for high-
[7819]ways and raifvoads. Not that the comer:
[7820]sation-minded State of Washington
[7821]would ever ler them disappear entirely.
[7822]A good thing, too. Gecune if how ys
[7823]tery mounds redly are growing, we are
[7824]i have nivie. pussles to grapple
[7825]eo whit on earth is making chem
[7826]And where, by all chat
[7827]i —Jean Muic
[7829]with Wi
[7830]grow bi
[7832]by General lirhort’s escape. He hay waran,
[7833]peromil achidons hoa auaber of
[7834]Latin strong men, and the pouty Domini:
[7836]nowirlord bay beer
[7837]fuiensl) Nneb it wis We
[7839]that apparently saved the siquition.
[7841]Moreover, We fom
[7842]led description of the tosdsaity
[7843]tthe ambush we
[7845]<b discovered:
[7847]Yem
[7848]au
[7850]potts, Lon, ¢
[7852]cl force come yours earficr.
[7854]fo rekaion to the dial workbwide ma
[7855]nidians Gade che equipment suppticd by
[7856]che private dealers ba drop ta the site
[7857]Re would: rary
[7858]AMD ilsiesny atoll
[7861]the bh
[7863]SH unions as Gtk
[7864]sat gear, Selb,
[7865]Werbell
[7867]Gent
[7869]oft
[7871]HEEL Ob
[7876]Lo owrete, wnitina
[7877]aboal Pee
[7878]So fragile
[7880]bas Deen sens
[7881]wopak Re
[7882]tieacs Last
[7884]the
[7885]sets stemler,
[7887]apebir ar
[7888]what dhe ti
[7890]were killed in Viet Nau, Duriiig uke seme
[7891]ian AY tre inte.
[7892]chired guerrifla woifore rages in tndla-
[7894]dozen countiics, the death toll was near
[7895]non,
[7897]These sherrilla conflicts are ne longer
[7898]waged with fowliog pieces and oY
[7899]blades. "Uhe-gecrril ca vcll armed
[7900]ioothe gevermnent troops.” the US. Cen:
[7901]tral Pacelligence Agenty reveal re-
[7902]ratty, "Often. che gucreillay weapons
[7903]More
[7907]ing
[7909]finivus Lo
[7910]whebning
[7911]th af,
[7913]ves,
[7915]al pros
[7917]ree-sinepelin, barshu
[7919]ea Liftemery veckets bile
[7921]tocsmeash entite bouses--which mist often
[7923]Le bought ta ihe Dbheck cee
[7924]Down briefly from iis Work War Ul
[7925]he. Uf f
[7927]ite. had become a
[7928]ithacy
[7929]os often
[7931]worldwide vetopus by T8388
[7932]cht operates forrnd that
[7935]tah je a dnee i
[7936]fluos, dhe US) State Der
[7938]73
[7941]4-D0000 . .
[7943]nooddh titdepubliciad or tinks Mitch Werbell was still a
[7944]aly evoked licenses to ex! gun hobbyist. who planted and shipped
[7945]govern tropical Wuitsfar a tisi nwowhen he de-
[7946]- seloped--ia his homie works: top—wlhat is
[7947]ul long been one of today considered’ the Sneat musvle sie
[7948]. hineton’s firvovite clients. Tat Cubs fener on the international muaker,
[7949]aoe Was racked by pal disorders. 1G Sure poolicieal istinet: and alipl
[7950]Nite Dey Jed asapule SKU tre essential in the successful a
[7951]- tical pe How of anny nipdadon of emit
[7954]oo sellin
[7956]tie
[7958]do niitiry d
[7960]eye SO easnfined An old feiend squadron
[7961]7 . 7 vdenly Cenied a paid ions ship. tinned was dedler, exphin:
[7962]. foan astensih, . sty. the bellows who ser some:
[7963]Middle Baste weld be sue tenty dvited ey ail started oat with au
[7965]te bid on ‘the big ¢
[7966]tito d
[7968]the inde
[7970]as aver |
[7972]t
[7975]moved with govern: nent
[7979]they were propare hte take ¢
[7981]. . deliver goods ssifily. A new 1
[7983]' : 2 oF global gan merceat ene reed the
[7985]. . suceossful Bunitians Munipubicor, Ee
[7986]iF
[7989]Goon, perhaps,
[7991]os oe CHIE Reang cata sh lfop-
[7992]. jealy atal a pha watch, He
[7993]BH inthe ve of the |
[7995]OPLCCTS Tess,
[7997]ted fy che whe
[7999]coves
[8001]- . Thaceaesy
[8002]are frou the
[8004]jer tornils a ervrhi
[8005]Rice. Freepe pleat tao nieve
[8006]of West
[8008]wei vous
[8010]fie wary
[8012]Nae
[8013]Veja
[8015]tt hive
[8016]al tuanlerie,
[8020]Techie or
[8022]CUCDTORS, ste
[8024]hators
[8026]rosaphi.
[8027]ever com
[8028]‘Yo putin thin ow.
[8029]VE cauaties
[8030]y have miny , Wises
[8031]Afotof the hig «or.
[8032]cdl to tise with 't thar
[8033]ee RTONS al
[8035]Micted, mes
[8036]“Eve
[8037]Me chaugeahtc
[8038]{Quen foveracy
[8041]samnething chen’
[8042]shave many taneous goverment”
[8044]Mevs grinked a huge. white, trie
[8045]phane 1 Wen.
[8046]Phing nord France?
[8047]No difference. my friend, Remember lay
[8048]the, Moraccan government went to
[8049]the French Forcign “Olfice tying to ox
[8050]tradite one of th
[8052]sane
[8054]tb gaze
[8056]Non. non, our traditions of Tie a
[8057]asylum... the wae red freedom. of choice
[8058]_ and pe
[8060]te government, ta
[8061]re. And chey. mate a
[8062]Nude deat And: Preach. Incelligence. j jus
[8063]tid, “How d'veu a2 Ben Barka
[8064]tivered. Basted ar statec i
[8065]enee. my ficad
[8066]Weis a fact, shared by-govern
[8067]siders around it te tha great-power
[8068]politics have ser resurgence uf old.
[8069]fashioned | Maz Manisa. “Puke the
[8070]curious case of Jolin Richard Hawke, a4,
[8071]aed Fr
[8073]RAF, Ive tury
[8075]and
[8077]planes
[8079]potorment—t
[8080]hts a speci
[8083]tC ited Nations spent Key neral
[8084]She seemed 1 be promisi
[8085]man Hawke wontl £9 ta prison
[8086]aio 'eooappeared a
[8087]anvions UN Ehiwke
[8088]Hor vee bee:
[8090]efthe mane
[8093]vs the working
[8094]calings,
[8098]4
[8100]OV owene Ete
[8102]po ers torn te
[8104]CARD SoAMUANE ntsoee. eee ndemreumre th
[8106]aye y.
[8111]ru Piense
[8112]nein the
[8113]“in eos Due ifs cific hh
[8114]amin
[8116]Ate bekece,
[8118]mpoaeve bE
[8120]“Gen
[8121]1
[8123]the
[8124]teas
[8127]Te aetae
[8129]AO bea cache
[8131]. hoevpraws ate up é cura) to ihe ptiasations ines, Tle
[8132]they leah sce coneco ted op feolproaed methods of
[8133]pleaes had bomb t uihiscris whe uel by wa.
[8134]re coukt be Qe fen
[8136]ho ques pompobe’s mad what they
[8137]were for, told a visitar recently’ iit
[8138]Misini. Nevertheless. ce qaestian of sores.
[8140]Wie rebel. .
[8142]mind, Ore day dtawke he once told a fied, Went what
[8143]. BP clanaged with ‘Vieskati oer ae with pov:
[8144]Act by ¢ pout § | ernment you
[8146]3
[8148]abers wishout written’ State: Depacre . Sich aa ey
[8150]confirms diat- doing business ® ith aes
[8151]hung ban
[8152]if variety of specied
[8153]time Towent in @riba-l
[8154]with sery nice Bet of see
[8157]a tone defende
[8158]pilot.
[8159]ns ba
[8165]be “thionyl it woukt bea
[8166]Ga, it wasn
[8167]“fo was of 3 first: crate nuh at bar
[8168]to prices Me
[8169]“Le 4 CORR pk g
[8170]by the hundred ae Sf sels ©
[8171]Garands with spate clips ae SH:
[8172]Srighound areoredt gas under
[8175]sitajely Sales ke
[8177]a
[8179]ge
[8181]v Knuwleelge ob de, eee exports. 10.
[8184]nd renades,
[8186]naa poiesoup fog over wel
[8187]ton and blusdercd audw a ‘pralilitce
[8188]CS rene over the White House, *
[8189]iowd “p amo
[8191]SE ng,
[8194]he was ity cat wad
[8195]using the cade ward *
[8197]: > ELaeke’s aeress,
[8198]ay prool. the
[8200]wv ever accirred,
[8201]be — Whe original FAA report of the iscideut
[8202]a had mywerionsly vanished. Bat Mager 2,
[8203]faally man mae up with a copy
[8204]af the report. “Togedier with the Custams
[8205]deck on for the sume plane. it proved
[8206]. . 2 the Tawser'’s” point suficicntly to tries
[8208]jury re Hived some olfici
[8209]jake aust Tare been invely’ Miareer
[8210]phined, * eT felt Haske shouhl
[8211]wot be made the aad
[8213]ates «the -
[8214]aninet,” he
[8216]verictvof roles
[8217]ws Pnthe t Nitauist plas rhe Me
[8218]nucolont. At a futeracconial
[8219]the prineipledt pacifist. Le
[8220]s.ishitaee, the poorector al ins dames:
[8221]hie gemamenn ditustey. whose ¢
[8222]siomal fiienths Gesent aestictions on ex
[8223]Pets. Pet secret emerges imecting with
[8224]te Ueweary fata yn i
[8225]the powerful cin
[8226]its N
[8227]mr
[8229]And ose
[8230]at this
[8231]oe Geert
[8235]pepe nets
[8238]Qeaveu fully. con?
[8239]aD factors he
[8244]te
[8246]Pat Mite Gece yee fae
[8248]TSE MEL
[8249]Cine
[8250]Ao tieie
[8252]Shar
[8253]pita
[8256]list?
[8257]au
[8259]What do vou
[8260]vat
[8261]sumac,
[8263]You Knew,
[8264]omen
[8265]Tike pitors-Part pilot auysclf.
[8267]te, Me-
[8268]vied “as the
[8269]an sales Rluanick, For cach
[8270]es nist be fisted,
[8272]said, "ye
[8274]Latome show
[8276]-
[8279]ite: CLOUL pi
[8280]One is the cts ket price of the
[8281]teew, retail: for
[8282]a. The we
[8284]oud 4
[8285]the weapon had been purchased: in che
[8286]sc ofan Mbt as surplus by
[8287]a poveroment fo bouche it ia
[8288]vince, the
[8289]lor lower,
[8291]which hy
[8293]have been
[8294]reb figure is the sales
[8295]which the silésman is asking for
[8296]m- io the case of the sdine
[8297]miley price might Le $50,
[8298]Ta ow the de
[8300]craks auditors,
[8302]The scam bill of ale
[8304]TRUK
[8306]han Chae fine trie.”
[8308]78
[8310]We Soo0): the infant
[8312]cpm. kept in dt
[8314]a a
[8316]Saamacert plow
[8318]Hobie phew
[8319]tencagc on bt
[8320]where froin the Con
[8323]Onler
[8324]Brownies
[8326]are ihe
[8327]“ton xO}
[8328]M nd rife
[8329]yi the & papa
[8330]tn Louse of its tow ; wound $2
[8331]the Madsen 30 cil, machine gut
[8333]the jun
[8334]uerrilla: platoon 5 firepower
[8335]saimertab ail (fron, STLab
[8336]ray Mol, Wy are the
[8337]botiber. ” armaicd
[8338]the V-28 jer
[8339]tis the modern. by
[8341]te which ine in
[8342]The (28 de eloped Ma a
[8343]tere which ouks aut tat
[8344]stout, single
[8346]with ritetike accug, AN. Conta
[8347]SLT!
[8351]MBA rocket
[8352]ed ballistic
[8353]af the Dilek:
[8354]owitheur
[8355]exponent
[8356]whit!
[8358]the sr
[8359]N fue si
[8360]missy at ted
[8363]Tara,
[8365]te
[8366]oct wiih
[8367]hal
[8369]eden
[8371]TUBE OS, ere iy great in |
[8377]seetnare
[8379]sup vies
[8381]Sater iad
[8383]abate itieg
[8385]wn Leas 4
[8386]National Ware
[8387]Wyre i
[8389]» Absterrer,
[8391]seD codaased at the fend of his Rizkr now Africa, where live -buflers
[8393]wool dex Materer hus be have been krawn 16 wephice cai
[8394]Gited by valence e his Hist rayte of preferred tense
[8395]ira TM da che 8 ate fac.
[8396]hfchall bis te
[8398]outotihe tie)
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