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CROSS REFERENCE TO
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REFERENCE). “TUFPA-1558, 13 September 1973
3P
1. Station passed referenced information to Custo S.
Initial checks 
by the Station 
with
on 13 September 1973.
the FLI, DEA, and Customs revealed no information on the
Henry
individuals mentioned in reference 
(Donald
John Brooks and
Hobo mo). Customs was
in agreement with the Station's suggestion that a Custons
telephone number should be passed 
to Henry and the case
should be pit into Custos hunds
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Henry called Custors on 13-September 1975. Ameeting
Before 
the moeting took
was arranged for that afternoon
.
place; however, a Customs officer recognized the name of
lienry was
Drools as possibly being one 
of his contacts.
On 
returning from their
thus met by two Customs officers
.
meeting, the Customs officers notified the Station, and a
meeting was arranged to see 
them on 1 September 1073.
Customs provided the following 
information on Donald 
Henry.
a.
He is from
Donald Henry is about 52 years old.
ile moved
Michigan. He lived and went to school in Canada.
He has resided 
in the
to Florida about fifteen 
years ago.
Keys for about seven years.
.b. Henry was described by Customs as a braggart.
They felt, however, that his offer of 
assistance was 
genuine.
Lusto s stated that heary always 
had a quick answer for any
question asked of hir, but when 
the questions got down to
specifics his answers were vague.
c. Contrary to initial information, Henry does not
Customs noted
, though, that
have a boat or an airplane.
Neither does ienry
enry probably has casy access to one.
have an FAA license for flying multi
-
engine aircraft, althou;n
He told Customs he was 
capable of flying the:i.
'nown John Brooks (an alias used 
by one John 
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for about a year. (John Wilbur is described in further
detail below.) 
Henry said he get Willer through their
association with the Atlantis Dive Center. Inc.,
i
lorida, where Cilbur is employed and were Henry has had
a working relationship for some time. The Atlantis Dive
Center is owned by one inley i card (no Station
traces). Ricard, Custo s reported, is an unsavory character
involved in sueeling activities and would not hesitate to
shoot any he who gets in his way.
i
1. He told tuators that when he bumped into kitaar
at the Atlantis vive denter récently, they started tal. in,.
about 
various ways they could make money.
Wilbur told cenry
that he ("enry) could smuggle ars for Ninover to Abaco,
and they started discussing that possil ility. During the
conversation, lenry asled Wilbur who he would be working
for. 
Wir mentioned the name of hobo Brown. He told
Benry that Brown, an ex-pecial forces .. Army ajor.
bad set up a branch of Defense Systers, Inc., on Maco for
Mitchell .. Nerbe 1 1, III. ilbur also intimated that.
PRIRALD was aware of the operation and condoned it. Custous
noted that leary did not pick up the name Bobo or brown
until 
after they had mentioned a Special Forces major, at whien
point 
henry professed to remember his name.
e. Henry also told Customs, when assed why he had
called RALD, that he had telephoned the first and
was told by them that his infor.ation was not in their juris-"
diction and was given the phone number for ERALD, Later,
Tenry chanced his story to the effect that he said he looked
in the Mimi telephone directory to get the FBI's number and
called HERALD (DIM) instead because the latter's number
was under the FBI's. (Comment. Not true, both numbers are
listed under J.S. Government but on separate pages.)
3. As for John Brooks, Customs reported that this name
is an alias used by one John Wilbur, who is about 35 years
old. Originally fro.. assachusetts, ilbur has been in Florida
for 
several years. He has been in touch with Customs for
approximately three years. He was initially brought to
Custons' 
attention over a narcotics case: At the time,
Wilbur was working/infor ing for the FBI, infiltrating boti:
right and left wing youth organizations. he was also datia
an airline stewardess who was involved in narcotics supplie
fro South. Uerica. Wilbur found out about this illegal
activity, he told the Fed who, in turn, put him in touch with
Custo:s.
1. Custos descrited dillar as an ultra-right winger and
a soldier-of-fortune who is impressive looking and a smooth
taller. Castors sai Willar is also a fabricator.
As an
example, they mentioned that Wilbur would read an article
in a magazine and sortly thereafter would try to pass it
off as his information. He would also contact Custors and
tell the every rumor be heard in the hopes that one of the
stories would be true so that he could collect a reward.
Lustons said that althoumar is a fabricator and racor
collector. by is dangerous and would do anything for money.
L
Cantons noted that ilbur enjoys playin the role of
a1 sua viti simportant contacts and likes to flash concy around.
inny also cote that about four oathso he began livin
with a ric vorcee.
is in the real-estate business
inherited property in the Keys (
ot 1) fra Per
family. Cast's Stated that she receives about
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alimony and supposedly has about $400,000 in the bank. She
has set Wilbur up. in an apartment and furnishes 
him with
spending money. Custons also said that ilbur 
seems to 
bo
sort of paranoid in that he constantly mention's 
HERALD,
not naming EHALD as such but referring to it as the
and 
so
company, the driving force Lohind democracy,"
forth.
.6. According to Custous, Wilbar began working for
Underwater Sports of America, Miami, Florida, as a solesman
in the early 1960's. At the time, reported Customs, Under-
water Sports was engaged in contractual work for ERRALD
bay of 
Pigs.
concerning training during preparations for the
The last contact Customs had with Wilbur 
was 
about three weeks
ago. They plan to see him again in the next few days and
will attempt to get his side of the story.
7. Customs stated that in spite of the inconsistencies
in Henry's story they felt he was making, a legitimate offer
to assist and thus advised him to proceed along the following
lines:
was
3. Re-contact Wilbur and tell him that he
prepared to fly armis to Abaco, but he would have to see the
front money" first. Customs commented that if 
Wilbur
produces the money, they would have a case if not, the whole
episodo could probably be chalked up to Wilbur's
-delusions.
b.
After re-contacting Wilbur and if Wilbur comes up
with the money, Henry should attempt to convince in of the
necessity of a dry run. If a dry run is not possible
, then
Arrests would 
be 
made
he is to go ahead with the operation.
by Customs in the States after the arms have been placed in
the aircraft and after the personnel involved have 
boarded
the plane.
.3. Customs has promised to keep the Station apprised of
the case, especially as it pertains to the Bahamas and other
areas in the Caribbean.
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THE DRIVEWAY
hrough the country estate
enage boys. They were
handsome in the tradi
fashion, and they looked
e quiet, leafy setting But
camouflage suit and car.
stol in each hand; the
113 Mease gun" tucked
and a silencer equipped
der the other.
in popelling himself vig
shoelchair, came their la
davangaten Werbell III
mds, basoldier of for-
ontmmunist and one
sledug developers of
and assis
dooff chatted Highly
pons they were carrying
temporarily immobilized
heel, punctured the con
brief bursts of informa
sniper rifle, one of his
odue's. This weapon
VC in six months," h
Those VC took only 1.3
1. Twenty-seven cents
Uncle Sam. That's the
effectiveness the Army's
er, young Match and
round after round from
n'o the buller shattered
tomobile that serves as
get on the WerBeil fir
a Match began firing a
and Army 45. The gun
and the noise echoed
and treetops. He then
ane, smartly rectan
an eram Model 11,
ash and muzzle sup
an firing it. The muz
, and the only sound
clik, followed by the
et and the pop as it hit
Serie, almost chilling,
young Mitch put the
matic and whipped off
is in one second, Geoff
e kind of demonstra.
tease gun, a standard
gun and the snip-
Hell calls the XM 21
equipped with a sup-
ck to the house, Wer
why the suppressor,
a silencer, is so effec
essory. "It hides the
educes the firing
etal on metal. You
bolt noise without an
and it's not worth it.
bolt noise anyway
tion for all prac
no weapons given to him by friendly
forces in Vietnam, he said, and they
were shipped to the States for display
in military museums.
Not surprisingly, WerBell has often
been called an operative of the
Central Intelligence Agency, a charge
that angers him only when it is lev
eled too vehemently. It is not that
he has anything against the CIA. He
just dyesn't, he says, happen to be
one of its boys. His paramilitary work,
which consists of advising and some-
tapes directly assisting foreign gov.
ernments, is done in the employ of
what he calls gan independent group
of 
well-intentioned, patriotic. Ameri
cans." The Birch Society? The Min-
utemen? A bunch of far-right Texas
mallonalres Werbell won't say, other
than to insist that it is not the CIA,
It hardly matters, for according to
Werbell, it is all in the service not only
of freedom and anți communism but
of the US government; he does not
supply or advise or fight for regimes.
not bearing the State Department seal
of approval. A heavy percentage of his
merchandise goes directly to the U.S.
government, which distributes it to its
own: forces that need silent or exotic,
weapons. The
balance is sold to
friendly governments, either directly
or through the good offices of the "in-
dependent group." He says he does not
sell to individuals, not even if they're
certified anticommunists.
WerBeil takes pains to point out that
he is no ordinary arins broket. That is,
he is not one of those shadowy figures.
who sell weapons to both sides at exor-
hitant prices or who take possession of
contraband shipments on the high seas.
"We've always adhered to a basic pol.
jey: There is only one friend of the
United States in a given area, and we
deal only with that friend.”
What does Werßell peddle? A range
of firearms from machine guns to
desk-sized cannons, from the meanest
looking weapons to innocent looking
swagger sticks that fire a bullet or
even a small rocket; an array of tech
niques "systems," he calls then
that will help an American soldier or a
foreign army hold off insurgent forces,
and occasionally, his personal services.
These services present Werbell at
his most shadowy. Serving as a com
batant in the armed forces of a foreign
nation is against U.S. law, and WerBell
is understandably reluctant to admit
having done so. He describes himself
in such terms as "paramilitary" and
"adviser," but acquaintances suspect
he has 
been in the thick of the fighting
a number of times. He may even have
zapped an insurgent or two.
Corporate Setup
2 HEADQUAPTERS.
fri-
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In Operational Negation of Insurgency
and Countersubversion, tied in with
Environmental Industries, and began.
in earnest to develop a Ene of military
hardware. Sons Stitch IV and Geoff be-
came integral parts of the firm. Mitch
IV was already a bona fide counter.
insurgent. As a 15-year-old, he had
spent considerable time with Dad in
the Dominican Republic, specializing
in underwater probing for safe landing
sites. Geoff, two years younger, barely
missed out on a Cuban foray; his
father took him to Mami a few years
ago, but the plans fell through.
a
One day 1 sat in WerBell's offle a
Geoff displayed a number of Military
Armament's most unusual weapons. H
brought out "the Stinger," a rigar
shaped tube three inches long, weighe
ang 2's omices, that fires a caliber
cartridge, Nothing visible, surests.
gun, and the ballet, on its way
out, dislodges a thin plug that dis-
guises the hole at the end of the tiny
barrel. Wer Bell commends the Stinger
10 secret agents who get caught with
the goods and must take the last re-
sort," that is, shoot themselves.
In the same exotic category is the
Swagger, stick, bound in leather, with
silver studs By pushing between two
studs, one can fire a 22 or, with a spe
cal model, a small rocket. The body-
guard of Dotainican strongman Gen.
Antonio Imbert used the rocket modet
to blast would be assassins a few years
ago. Then there is a small, brass-fitted
cannon. It makes a handsome khick.
knack for a soldier-politician's desk. It
fires, with one simple finger, moves
ment, a bullet that will quiet, an unruly
visitor More traditionally bulitary is
Werbell's special long range knocker.
outer, a redesigned Remington 9
millimeter ritle that "will plug 'em in
the eye at 200 nieters."
The bulk of Werbell's business is in
sound suppressors and Ingram Model
submachine guns. Suppressors can be
used on large as well as small weap
ons, and in fact have been used effec
tively on the wicked-looking Vulcan
machine guns mounted on American
helicopters in Vietnam. The Australian
Army Journal ;an a story calling the
Sionics suppressor "superior to any.
thing previously used... (with it) it is
now possible for the sniper to fire.
from relatively short ranges, especially
when using subsonic projectiles."
WerBell is so enthusiastic about the
Ingram Model submachine guns (there
are two models, taking different sized
errtridges) that he predicts they will
eventually make "obsolete every indi
vidual weapon in the world." The U.S.
Army, he says, is now looking care-
fully at the Ingram models with an eye
toward making them standard equip.
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Latin America and
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ramilitary "adviser."
e warrior, an armed
1 against "ungodly
alone in this occupa-
tices it in a unique
diers of fortune are
they live from one
next, brawling and
through a tough and
ording life.
ntrast, is a business
sin military adven-
nd as far as it suits
idn't titillate him, he
of it. His business is
s. not using them in
lizes in the weapons
of counterinsur
be roughly defined
suppression of coups
and the like.
Bell operates, this
established regimes,
Hictatorships, against,
his political posture
t trouble Wer Bell, it
have no objection to
erves the interests of
says. Particularly if
se interests is from
inism has no place in
Dingbere--or in an?
totally opposed to li,
1 of ideological germs
rings."
In. WerBell's name
** The first issue of
kang ngazine, Scan
dedicated to killing people. Environ
mental Industries, WerBell says, is
bankrolled by some of the East's most
prominent investment houses; he is its
director of International operations.
He is also president of a subsidiary
called Military Armaments Co., Inc.,
and because he is in Powder Springs,
Military Armaments is there, too. (B
hind Environmental Industries, Wer-
Bell says, is "a third shadow of which
E.I. is a subsidiary"-another tantaliz
ing hint of the CIA.)
exhaustive story on
31 in an abortive inva
1996, and WerBell was
major, if uncertain,
tion. Wer Bell was or
led after the flasen,
ist him were droppes,
arrested were brought
v a friend for an ex-
sell replied jauntily,
k for the company.
If you I'll never hear
bout it." So far ho
ina.)
:. WerBell hit the
e Atlanta Constitution
at of captured enemy
from Vietnam was de.
Air Force Base, Flor.
olumnist conjectured
his friends meant to
Trapons to right-wing
a in the US Werbe
at They were stuve.
Military Armaments may well be a
unique American enterprise. Nobody
else. WerBell says, is in the business
of designing special purpose weapons
on such a scale. A good deal of its de-
signing and manufacturing is done
under federal license. Silencers, for ex-
ample, are outlawed by the National
Firearms Act, along with sawed-off
shotguns, submachine guns and other
vestiges of Prohibition era gangland
wars..
To manufacture his suppressors,
WerBell must pay a special tax of $500
a year, collected by the Treasury
Department. The T-men also check pe-
riodically to see that his awesome
collection of firearms-over 200 indi-
vidual pieces-is properly registered.
Apparently the market for suppressors
is not very large because, according to
Werfell, is firm is the only one au-
thorized to manufacture. them.
WerBell will not discuss the sales or
profits of Military Armaments except
to say that, after two years of exten-
sive research and development (result-
ing in a tax loss of a half million dol
lars"), the company' is now doing very
well. It has about 12 employees, includ
Ing four machinists who work under
the direction of Gordon Ingram, who
has charge of the design operation and
whose name is on the Model 11 subma-
chine gun that young Mitch demon.
atrated on the firing range.
*Cottage Industry'
TNGRAM WORKS in a well-equipped
I
machine shop-lab attached to the
main house on the estate, which Wer-
Bell likes to call "the farm." WerBell's
office is next door to the shop. Its walls
are so loaded with weapons that it' is a
wonder they do not collapse. There are
knives and spear guns and pistols and
rifles and machine guns, dozens and
dozens of them, some purchased, some
won in combat, some, presented by the
appreciative recipients of WerBell's
counterinsurgency techniques.
weapons for the U.S. Army and other counterinsur
WerBell six children and put up with
his rather unusual way of life. (When
he left for the Far East in 1968, he said
he'd be gone for a year or more, and
he was.)
A Military Profile
2
WerBell, who has a sense of humor,
calls his enterprise a "cottage indus-
try" and likens himself to "a country
doctor can fall out of the living
area upstairs right down to the office."
Upstairs is the domain of his German-
born wife Hildegard, a pleasant,
gray haired woman who has borne
M
ITCHELL WERBELL is a short,
wiry man of 52, quick with a
quip and quite sensible until he begins
talking about communism or other so-
cial issues. He has the face and bear-
ing of a Prussian officer, an image he
cultivated by wearing a mustache and
occasionally a morocle. He often
dresses in military clothing of indeter
minate origin, and he embellishes the
image by talking in slightly clipped
sentences peppered with military
phrases. There is nothing phony in
this. WerBell has a strong attachment
to weapons and to warfare, and he has
been around them so long that the
ideas and styles they foster are an in-
grained part of his personality.
He comes by both his militarism and
his anticommunism honestly. His
father was an officer in the Russian
Imperial army, even though he was
born in the United States. "It was a j
tricky situation," says Mitch. "He was
a citizen of both the U.S. and Russia.
In those days you could do that."
The elder WerBell fought against:
the Bolsheviks, but before the collapse
of the czarist regime he wisely secured
an appointment as liaison officer be
tween the Russian and American.
forces stationed in the U.S. He lived
In this country for the rest of his life,
putting his early medical training to.
use in cancer research.
A legacy from father is Mitch's
barely disguised aristocratic sympa
thies. He has been quoted as saying.
"Communism is a substitution of a
peasant dictatorship over the aristocra-
cy prefer the aristocracy." He is
without question an elitist.. Not surpris
ingly, his elite is composed of superpa
triots and military men.
Mitchell WerBell was born in Penn
sylvania, shortly after his Russian
American father and his Scottish-born
mother arrived in the U.S. at the end
of World War I. His parents traveled a
good deal, here and abroad, and Mitch
traveled with them, picking up his edu
cation as he went. He got a degree in
journalism from the University of
Pennsylvania. In World War II, he
joined the OSS, and served with a unit
behind Japanese lines in China, rising
to the rank of captain and acquiring a
taste for guerrilla-type warfare.ht
would never lone.
WerBell moved to Atlanta shortly
after the war and went to work in ad
Wer Bell recovered from a leg injury.
vertising in a department store. Soon
he was head of the department, and
soon after that he went on his own.
In the mid-'50s, WerBell pulled out
of his agency and then formed his
own public relations firm. "I'd already
been drifting into international PR".
WerBell says, "using my family back-
ground. I had tremendous contacts in
Europe, and I moved into the Far
East, too." How much of this moving
In was milltary, WerBell won't say.
but his business took on more and
more of what he calls a "geopolitcal"
flavor.
Before long. he was dabbling in
Latin American dictatorships. "Before
Fidel took over in Cuba, we were
working closely with Batista." He adds
Batista in power, although the U.S.,
with a grin, "Our function was to keep
overnment was looking favorably on
Fidel at that point."
From all this, even WerBell doesn't
know exactly how, came a passionate
concern about communism. "I decided
to devote whatever time I could to
anticommunist activities," he says.
"At first it was sort of a hobby, but
then it became my main drive in life.
What I'm doing now"-here he ges.
tures at the arsenal on his office walls
"affords me a damned good living.
But the living is not why I do it."
The Heart of It
IN 1948, WHILE anticommunism was
still a hobby, albeit a paying hobby,
WerBell purchased the Dobbs estate..
He installed rudimentary design facili
ties and began experimenting with
weapons of counterinsurgency, weap.
ons he believed had the best chance of
preventing Commanist takeovers in
the small, underdeveloped nations of
Asia and Latin America. "I realized
that in counterinsurgency. the pri
mary problem was a lack of depth. in.
weaponry. People say, 'Win the hearts
of the enemy, and you'll win the fight."
That's a lot of bull. The best way to
get their hearts, they're the enemy.
is to shoot 'em and cut the hearts
out."
While he experimented with weap.
ons-quietly, to avoid problems with
the federals WerBell proceeded with
his personal brand of geopolitics. He
made himself available to anticommu.
nist regimes that wanted help in fight-
ing off one band of Insurgents or an
other. In the process, he became
friendly with a number, of Latin Amer-
tea's political strongmen, They were
delighted to discover a Nore-Ameri
cano who felt as they did about the
need for stable, anticommunist. re-
gimes, especially their regimes, and
who had both the savvy and the guts
to help preserve them.
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His first major paramilitary opera- D°
tion was in the Dominican Republic
during the 1965 revolt. He was, of
course, on the side of the government,
which was fending off allegedly Com-
munist insurgents; the United States
was on its side, too. WerBell wound up
in the midst of the fighting. He was
the
second Dominican government
man to reach the Ozama River, scene
of the major battle.
Ellsworth Bunker, then U.S. ambas-
sador to the Organization of American
States, became highly exercised over
WerBell's activities and his hawkish
views on the conflict (WerBell opposed
a cessation of hostilities and establish-
⚫ ment of a coalition government).
Bunker considered trying to
WerBell out of the country, but noth
ing came of it. WerBell's "independent
group"--CIA, Texas millionaires or
whatever saw to that.
toss
WerBell was already active in the
anti-Castro, movement, and he brought
to it a sense of dash and discipline that
the ragtag, bickering bunch of Cuban
exiles had seldom seen. Perhaps his
major anti-Castro exploit was a speed-
boat foray into Camarioca, on Cuba's
southern coast. The mission. was to
drop a swimmer, apparently a spy, off.
shore, and to pick up the family of an
exile leader. The boat, flying the Con-
federate flag on the radio antenna,
foundered in high seas, and the raiding
party was captured. The Cubans, the
story goes. did not know what to inake
of the brash WerBell, and he and his
pals wound up stealing a Castro boat.
and spiriting some 16 anti Castroite.
out of the country before they them.
selves returned to the United States.
Vietnam Superhawk
IN
IN THE LATE '60s, WerBell turned
his attention to Southeast Asia. He
is, of course, a superhawk on Viet
nam, and would be happy if the U.S.
were also fighting communisin in all
its neighboring countries. He was in
Thailand, "working closely with the
supreme command," for months, pro-
moting the sales of his weapons and
systems. "I showed them things like
surveillance equipment and night vi
sion equipment, stuff that lets you sur-
prise the hell out of the bastards."
Did he do any fighting himself? Wer.
Bell chuckles. "I ain't supposed to be
shooting the stuff, just demonstrating
how to shoot it."
Three years ago, WerBell's weapons
business becarae promising enough for
him to go into it full time. He organ-
ized a firm called Sionics (for Studies
OES WERBELL feel a twinge of
conscience about providing the.
world with such deadly and efficient
weapons? No. "I see no reason to be..
'concerned." he says, "We're supplying
a certain product that is unfortunately,
a part of the civilized world. As long as
people exist, there's going to be an
arms business. I don't see much differ;
ence between our supplying arms to
combatants and " surgical supply..
house supplying gauze to bind up the
wounds inflicted."
There is his anticommunist argu-
ment, too. WerBell is fighting the
Communist menace; it is a fight that.
must be won and weapons are needed..
to win it.
.
"
Contrary to cynical opinion, Powder
Springs was not named in honor of
WerBell and his enterprise. Werbell,,
in fact, stays as aloof from the local
community as possible. His house is so
well-stocked, it is practically self-suffi-
cient save for occasional trips to the
grocery and liquor, stores. There has
been, from time to time, anti-Wer Bell
feeling in Powder Springs. WerBeil de-
clares, "The hell with it. Who cares? I
tell 'em I'm prepared to purchase their
property if they don't like the area."
He does not suffer from loneliness,
however. There is a steady stream of
visitors and customers, foreigners 25
well as Americans. A few weeks sp0
WerBell's son-in-law, an Air Force lien.
tenant colonel, flew in from Ohio,
mainly to see what was new around
the shop; he hadn't been hy in several
maths, he said, "and things chante
awfully quickly around here." The day
I was there, the colonel and Werke:1
swapped ideas on ridding the State Dev
partiment of no-win policy makers and
on bringing the enemy to Its knees, or
its grave, in Vietnam..
Werbell recalls with relish one par
ticular visitor. He came from the State
Department a few years, back, and ac-
cording to Werbell, he said, "The func
tions of the foreign policies of the
United States are the business of the
State Department in Washington, not
of
Mitchell Wer Bell In Powder
Springs, Georgia." WerBell's reply?
"You can't print it. It was all in Anglo-
Saxon words." But that was the old,
swashbuckling WerBell. The new, low-
profile WerBell says with a grin, "My
present policy is that I agree with that
theory completely. Period."
If actions to the contrary speak too
loudly, they, like WerBell's weapons,
can always be suppressed by the man
himself. Meanwhile, Mheh and his "In-
dependent group" march on.
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Vol: 7 No. 25
THE COVER Arms dealer Mitchell Live
ingston WerBell II) lives in an 00% world
of guns and intrigues Among the guns is
his briefcase with a built-in machine
gun that fires whenever the right button
is pushed Among the intrigues is his
present preoccupation with what hap
pens to Abaco when the Bahamas goes
independent this month. For the Tuil
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Facing page.
Mitch Werbe!! !!! in the
upstairs un room of
his Georgia noine Behind
im leit to right, are
son in law Paul Routhier.
a retired Air Force colonel
and president of WerBell's
Defense Systems
International. Bennett
Batt. Defense Systems
chairman of the board: and
sen Mitchell Top left:
moving clockwise: A
enitormed Wer Bell employe
practices firing a weapon on
the Georgia estate-armory, a
belt buckle that doubles as a
knife a la agent 007. Mitch
Werben IV points out Abaco
on a map of the Bahamas.
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The flamboyant son of a
Cossack Colonel. Mitchell
Wer Bell II! has been
involved in several
Caribbean adventures
and misadventures. Now, as
the Bahamas nears
independence, the wealthy
arms dealer has his sights
set on Abaco ...
By William R. Amlong
kike a guy who has to se
himself as a soldier of fortune""
Macneil Livingston WerBell
is th
son of a cavalry colonel in the Russia
Imperial Mars He has stayed, more i
en the family business: bedevilir
Bolsheviks And now he sees himself n
as some tagtag genrunner, but as a ver
substantial figure in the shaping of work
affairs through free enterprise
politics
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His disclaimer about not looking like
solter of fortune, however, doesn't qui
mase his petat for that is indeed wh
Miten WerBell
or at lea
what a montage of James Cagney, Ai
Guinness and Walter Marty would lo
like Theres the waires moustache ar
the kant bush jacket with the should
patch the First Airisne Division
the Army of the Rep of Vietnam.
me and a swazzer stick are ke
han iv The overal impression is that t
that just stepped out 01 the Briti
es mess in old Burma.
But he is and in Burma, nor in Vis
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nam, nor even in one of the sugarcane
fields of South Florida, where counter-
revolutionaries are wont to drill and
target-practice for yet another assault on
Castro's Cuba. Rather, he is sitting in the
upstairs gun room of his home in Powder
Springs, Ga., a 66-acre estate-armory sit-
uated amidst the rolling red-clay hills.
and pine forests 25 miles northwest of
downtown Atlanta. It is a place where the
pastoral air is occasionally shattered by
the flashing of a red light that goes on
whenever the electronic gate is opened,
by the staccato barking of machine guns
from the test firing range or by the pul-
sating roar of a combat helicopter hover-
ing low overhead on a test flight.
I.
is from this base of operations that.
it appears, Mitch WerBell has been med-
dling again, this time in the affairs of the
about-to-betome sovereign state
of the
Bahamas.
-
His activities although no one is
completely sure just what they entail
have prompted Bahamas Prime Minister
Lynden Pindling to denounce WerBell
and attorney Edwin Marger, an associate,
on the floor of the Bahamian Parlia-
ment. Pindling called them “internation-
al fortune hunters" with "designs on the
territorial sovereignty of the Bahamas."
Werbell's involvement in the Bahamas
- as an advisor to a faction that wants
the island of Abaco either to remain a
Crown Colony or to become a separate
nation when the rest of the Bahamas be-
comes fully independent on July 10
has also prompted some concern by the
U.S. State Department's Caribbean
Affairs Desk.
It is not a completely unfamiliar expe-
rience to WerBell to have elements of the
United States government at least con-
cerned if not outright displeased
with some of his free-lance foreign-policy
maneuvers. He relishes recalling how a
visitor flew down to Georgia once to give
him the message: "The functions of the
foreign policies of the United States are
the business of the State Department in
Washington, not of Mitchell WerBell. in
Powder Springs.
Ga." In another
incident, a congressional subcommittee
questioned him about his role in an
aborted attempt to launch an invasion of
Haiti from South Florida.
The subcommittee, the investigations
arm of the House Committee on Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce, was con-
cerned with the role played in the inva-
sión preparations by CBS News. The net-
work was attempting to film a documen-
tary on the military coup being planned
by an alliance of Haitian and Cuban ex-
iles. The Haitians wanted to topple
Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier; the
Cubans wanted to establish an anti-Cas-
tro base in Haiti. CBS was steered into
the project by Andrew St. George, a free-
lance journalist-adventurer who also in
troduced Producer Jay McMullen to Wer-
· Bell in the process..
The network. after spending upwards.
of $170,000 on the proposed documentary,
Project Nassau, decided to scrap it. "As
it is," a CBS News vice president wrote
in a Dec. 13, 1966. memo, "we see simply
the non-adventures of a rag-tag crew next
to whom. Duvalier himself looks good, a
gang openly flouting U.S. law, in the end
to no purpose."
The answers to "why" WerBell got in-
volved are, in the language of the sub-
committee report, "at variance" with
each other:
Answer No. 1: I felt then and I
feel now, and I will always feel that any
effort or any activity that any American
can give to a group that is attempting to
kill the boil and cancer of communism in
the Western Hemisphere deserves every
effort. This was my fundamental reason
for going into it. This was why I agreed to
assist them and why I did everything I
could to assist them up to the point
where I felt the whole program was ridicu
lous."
• Answer No. 2: "I took this whole proj-
ect as a rather entertaining comedy. I'm
afraid I approached it in this connection
and continued to do so. I felt that this
was a very amateurish attempt at some-
thing which I didn't know really what
was going on, and it was an interlude of
entertainment as far as I'm concerned."
The role he played is also unclear.
From the point that CBS entered the sit-
uation in May of 1966. WerBell appeared
at various times to be a network consul-
tant, a CIA operative, a CIA operative
impostor, a leader of the invasion, a U.S.
government spy on the invasion, a gun-
Dinner and a wired-for-sound observer in
an attempt to shake down the Haitian
consul in Miami for $200,000 to call off
the invasion.
Suffice it to say that the entire episode
was typified by the fact that the 68-foot
sloop Poor Richard, a boat WerBell had
leased for the expedition, was repossessed
while WerBell and others had it docked
at the Ocean Reef motel in Key Largo.
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cept a few good, long drinking sessions,"
WerBell told congressmen.
Nevertheless, the U.S. government
raided the training area for the would-be
invaders, seized their arms and arrested
them in January, 1967, about two months
after WerBell had gone home. Seven per-
sons were indicted for conspiring to vio-
including
late U.S. neutrality laws
WerBell,
WerBeil. Charges against
however, were dropped on orders of
then-Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
-
WerBell now declines to discuss the
mechanics of how the charges against
him were dropped, except to say that he
was "in constant contact with the govern-
ment" during his participation in the in-
vasion attempt and that he "did nothing
wrong." In 1970, however. WerBell told
an Atlanta magazine writer, "When you
work for the company, they take care of
you.
"The company" is generally used as a
euphemism for the Central Intelligence
Agency - an arm of government WerBell
says now he has never had anything to do
with, except to sell it some guns. The
company he was talking about, he says,
was CBS. Over the years, however, Wer-
Bell has spoken often. of his association
with the Company. Producer McMullen
quoted WerBell to the congressmen as say-
ing he had "previous experience" with "the
And when I asked him what
company:
company he meant, he said the CIA," Mc-
Mullen said.
་་
"Everybody always gets that impression
about any goddam thing we do," WerBell
says. It is a conclusion that is neither
difficult nor illogical. It may not, however,
be accurate.
But what, then, was Mitch WerBell.
wearing camouflage fatigues and a shoul.
der-holstered rocket pistol, doing in the
lead tank which is where he claims he
was in the Dominican Republic that
summer of 1965 as government forces dou-
ble-timed it to the Ozama River? The
tanks were attempting to capture as much
territory as possible before a noon cease-
fire took effect; instead, they were beaten
back by ill-armed rebels at the bridge.
TROPIC-July 1: 1973
Or what was he doing in Vietnam in
1968, with what WerBell claims was "the
simulated rank of major-general" supplied
by the U.S. Air Force as he demonstrated
his firm's revolutionary silenced sub-
machine gun to a South Vietnamese gener-
al?
To questions such as these, WerBell's
standard reply is. "I guess I'm just lucky."
More than just luck, however, WerBell's
propensity for being in the crucial place
at the crucial time seems to stem from a
combination of machismo, the profit mo-
tive, a knack for developing suntly rad
ical weaponry and a plug-in to the Old Boy
Network.
The Old Boy Network-"And don't you
ever kid yourself that there isn't such a
- is the cloak-and-
thing," says WerBell
dagger types answer to the union hiring
hal!. It is a loosely structured help want-
ed-situation wanted grapevine. "I became
friends with a bunch of guys who are now
four and five-star generals," recalls Wer-
Bell of his days as an OSS captain behind
Japanese lines in World War II.
Memorabilia of the OSS days and sub-
sequent adventures hang in WerBell's
home and in his psyche. The walls 
of both
his upstairs den and downstairs "
war
room are decorated with dozens of 
hunt-
ing (upstairs) and military (downstairs)
weapons. Six unsheathed swords 
are
mounted on the door of the liquor cabinet.
Two glass display cases in the den, each
locked, contain handguns ranging from
standard 45 automatics to single-shot
assassination pistols. Daggers, bayonets
and throwing knives fill the in-between
spaces as bric-a-brac. Photographs of
short, slant-eyed generals hang on walls.
and stand on tables. Between two wild boar
heads above the den entrance is a framed
certificate from the Vietnamese Airborne.
The biggest war souvenir, though, isn't
on WerBell's wall. It is in his head - the
way a man of 55 acts after more than 20
years of being in and on the fringes of vio
lent conflicts. Some of it, obviously, is
affectation. Some of it is genuine. And
some of it just seems strange to an outsider
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it seems that everyone associated with WerBell takes gun in hand for target
practice at one time or another. Bennett Bintliff, chairman of the board of
Defense Systems International, plays marksman with a handgun
to the world of a fellow like Mitch WerBell.
* But there it is: the bush jacket and the
monacle. The belt buckle that conceals a
"survival knife." The electronic gate and
the two guard dogs, a German shepherd
named Fritz and a Doberman called Mál
(for Evil). The electronic sweep by the two
phones to detect transmitting or bugging
devices. The Scotch whisky, poured neat
- no water, no ice.
WerBell drifted into his present line of
work during the mid-1950s after a brief but
flourishing post-war career in advertising;...
he joined and rose to the head of the ad-
vertising department of Rich's, a major
Atlanta department store. He then found-
ed his own ad firm. His first step was to get
involved in international public relations
and anti-communism: one of his clients, he
says, was the Batista government. From
there, he eased into the arms and intrigue
business:
WerBell's talent for designing weapons
recalls that of Q., the fictional British Se..
cret Service armorer for lan Fleming's
super-spy, James Bond. At his Powder
Springs retreat WerBell has designed a
submachine gun disguised as a briefcase,
an effective noise-and-flash suppressor for
automatic weapons, a cigar that fires a ɛin-
gle bullet and a swagger stick that is actu-
ally a mini-rocket launcher.
WerBell's sorties into strife-torn arcas.
appear at times to be merely the business
trips of a traveling salesman whose line
happens to be machine guns. At other
times, however such as during the Do-
minican revolt and in Thailand
_ his pur-
pose seems to be less clear.
His gullet warmed by a few gulps of neat
whisky, WerBell will recount some of these
past adventures, albeit reluctantly and in
vague terms because of the new, sober
image he is attempting to project. But as
the camouflage outfit hangs next to the
dark suit in WerBell's closet, the flam-
boyance of the old gunrunning and tank-
riding Mitch WerBell every now and then
surfaces in the behavior of the conservative
geopolitical advisor. Mitchell L. WerBell
III.
While in London recently, as Parliament
prepared for the final vote endorsing Baha-
mian independence. Werbell let it be
known to a reporter for the London Daily
Mirror (circulation five million) that he
was: 1) four-square for the cause of the
Council for a Free Abaco, and 2) recruiting
British mercenaries "for a project I have in
mind." Abaco? "Who said it was Abaco?"
said WerBell. The fruit of the interview
WILLIAM RAMLONG is a Heraid staff writer.
was a front-page story headlined: "Mutiny
in Paradise. . . The Island That Wants to
Stay British A Call Goes Out for Mer-
cenaries."
Such were the initial tactics in the Bat-
tle of Abaco, a cause that, for awhile in the
British press, seemed second in anticipated
ferocity only to the Catholics-vs.-Protes-
tants strife in Northern Ireland. Joining
WerBell as a comrade-in-press release was
Lt. Col. Colin (Mad Mitch) Mitchell, a
right-wing House of Commons member
and a hero of the Battle of Aden during his
days with the Argyle & Sutherland
Highlanders. Mitchell, who was muttering
to the British press about-secret missions to
Abaco and the such, recently visited Wer-
Bell in Powder Springs, WerBell said.
While there are some people who admire
flamboyance auch as WerBell's, there are
others who don't. Among those others are
WerBell's former business associates, a
group of New York investment bankers
who bought WerBell and Bennett B.
Bintliff, an associate, out of the Military
Armament Corp. (MAC) that the pair had
founded. "He's been headline press all over
England, end we're just a quiet little man-
ufacturing company," said Rosser Scott
Reeves III, chairman of the board of MAC's
parent company, Quantum Corp. "He's a
loudmouth. Basically, when you're dealing
with a country, the country would like to
see responsible executives who are discreet,
who will transact business - not tell war
stories."
-
Reeves, however, says he doesn't dislike
WerBell he just doesn't want to be
associated with him in the arms business.
"I like him a great deal. He's amusing and
he's a character. But letting him run Colt
or letting him run MAC is like turning
loose a high-school hot-rodder to run
General Motors."
WerBell and his associates in Powder
Springs have now reincorporated under the
name of Defense Systems International
Inc. and have hired away several of MAC's
former weapons specialists. They are not
overly fond of Reeves and his people either.
"Tunnel vision" is one phrase they use to
describe MAC's preoccupation with gun.
sales.
-
Defense Systems International, they
say, does not suffer from such tunnel vi-
sion. They are deeply involved in
geopolitics whatever geopolitics are.
And from the list of activities that WerBell
and his partners tick off, geopolitics seems
to be about anything they want it to be:
arms sales, military advice, investment
banking, economic development, security
work, public relations, international law.
yering.
The people who hire the firm. WerBell
says, "are interested in an organization
that's capable of doing the political,
geopolitical, clandestine and economic op
erations that we're capable of. We operate
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to us tomorrow, "We need a complete gov-
ernment, from a minister of health to a
minister of welfare to the guy who presses
the buttons to make the elevator go," we
could do it."
Just how much demand there is for pre-
-packaged governments or how much ca
pability Defense Systems International has
for providing them is uncertain. What
the firm would appear to have an obvious
capacity for, however, is warfare. Its presi
dent and chief administrator is WerBell's
son-in-law, Paul Routhier, a retired U.S.
Air Force lieutenant-colonel who also dou-
bles as the company's air-war expert. On
the staff are various other ex-military
types, manging from a Marine sergeant to
several retired colonels. Among its activi
ties, says Routhier, is the sale to smaller.
U.S.-approved nations of armament pack-
ages, including not only hardware but also
training.
What Defense Systems International
does not do, its principals insist, is to make
wars, or shoot people themselves. If they
did, they say, they could go to jail for vio-
lating U.S. neutrality laws. Nor does it sell
the guns to shoot people with, unless the
U.S. State Department approves, they say.
And the State Department isn't about to
approve the sale of any arms by WerBell to
the Abaconian secessionists. No matter,
says WerBell. "We have no intention of
arming Abaco in any shape or fashion.
Anyway, they have more arms down there
than we have here."
So why, then, is there a photograph
lying about of the Hon. W. E. Errington
(Eric) Watkins, a member of the Bahami-
an Parliament from Abaco, clenching &
cigar between his teeth and test-firing one
of WerBell's silericed submachine guns?
The answer may well be far from sinister:
as a tourist drinks beer when he visits
Busch Gardens, a visitor to WerBell's
house does not normally leave without fir-
ing off a clip or two through the machine
gun. It is an instrument of which WerBelle
is duly proud: a rapid-fire automatic
weapon that, when equipped with the si-
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lencer, makes about as much noise as an
electric typewriter.
The novelty of WerBell's weaponry
aside, however, there remain the questions
of how WerBell got involved with the Free
Abaco faction, what he is doing for it and
how he is getting paid.
The leadership of the Council for a Free
Abaco appears to be composed of two mea,
Watkins and Charles (Ci:uck) Hall. Wat-
kins, the chairman, is a retired Bahamas
policeman and former Nassau resident. He
was elected to the House of Assembly from
Abaco on the Free National Movement
ticket last September. He she has
known Werbell for some 20 years. Hall, a
Nassau TV and radio-store owner, is a
direct descendant of the white Tories who.
settled Abaco immediately after the Amer-
ican Revolution rather than be separated
from the British Crown. He says he was
referred to WerBell through persons he met
while organizing a demonstration against
allowing Air Cuba to service the Nassau
airport. "The people I met there, basically
right-wing, were able to put me on to Wer-
Bell." Hall is secretary of the council.
With a budget that they will describe no
more specifically than to say it is less than
$50,000 and made up entirely of small con
tributions from Bahamians, the group is
paying WerBell and Marger an undisclosed
fee through Zeta, a dummy corporation
founded solely for the Abaco venture. Why
it was necessary to establish such a
company is unclear. Of its name, WerBell
says, "I think it's Greek for war."
-
But just what the Zeta Co. or Operation
Zeta - it's referred to as both is doing
for the Abaconian secessionists is some.
what uncertain. So far, there has been
some lobbying of Parliament in London by
Marger, a lawyer with U.S. lobbying expe-
rience and a background in international
law, but about as un-British a fellow as
there is. There have been some saber-rat-
tling press releases to the British newspa-
pers. There have been conversations with
Mad Mitch. And there has even been note
of the plight of the Abaconian secessionists
on the editorial page of the Atlanta
Journals three sympathetic columns
written by John Crown, a retired Marine
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officer and acquaintance of WerBell's who
was introduced to Watkins. There is also
some talk about approaching the Organiza
tion of American States and the United
Nations. And about a referendum on
Abaco July S the day before Bahamian
independence on whether to unilaterally
declare Abaco a free nation. "We are put-
ting to bear all our activity and friends to
tell the world. Here's a country that
doesn't want to go this way,"
says Wer-
Bell.
The accuracy of that assessment of feel-
ing on Abaco can be questioned. Many of
the Abaconians who originally opposed
separation from the Crown abandoned the
movement as fruitless in December, when
the British government decreed that the
Bahamas all of the Bahamas - would
become independent. Nor was there ever
complete opposition throughout Abaco to
the Pindling government and indepen-
dence: of the two Parliament members
elected by the island's 6,500 residents, the
one other than Watkins is a Pindling sup-
"porter and a backer of independence. The
impetus for the Free Abaco movement,
both Pindling and Minister of Extenial
Affairs Faul Adderly have charged; comes
from outside the Bahamas. "I still think
that what they are basically involved in is
the stealing of land." Adderly said in a
recent interview. And indeed, the majority
of the people on Abaco know very little of
WerBell and Marger outside of what they
read in the British press.
Werbell says his motivations are strictly
anti-communist. A far right-winger - he
described himself to a newsman as "to the
WerBell sees
right of Attila the Hun" -
the Bahamas as islands ripe for commu-
nism. "Every goddam single symptem that
was present in Cuba exists in the Bahamas
today," he says.
WerBell
erBell's opinion of the Pindling gov.
ernment and of the Bahamas' political cli-
mate is one which many observers of the
Bahamas do not share. Although the over-
whelming majority of the islanders are
black and have become very assertive con-
cerning racial equality during the past de-
cade or so, the Banamas have been deeply
influenced by English tradition. The
Anglican and Baptist Churches, both con-
servative institutions, are heavily repre-
sented. And the U.S. government is
ardently courting Pindling as a friend.
But WerBell, son and heir of a Cossack
colonel, sees the rise of Bolshevism where
others see the peaceful emergence of a new
democratic nation. And the question is
whether or not to take him seriously as he
sits in Powder Springs with his bush jacket
and walrus moustache, talking of hiring
mercenaries and of naming a company
after what he thinks is the Greek letter
meaning war.
The State Department, meanwhile, is
keeping a close watch. "You can't write a
man off as a clown." said one source. "if he
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ACTION REQUIRED REFERENCES AR: As Stated in Paragraph Three
Reference: Port Louis 12011, 17 May 1973.
1. There are no Headquarter's traces on Dr. George A. Winkler,
but there are traces on the Military Armament Corporation and its
Board Chairman, Mr. Mitchell Livingston WerBell III (201-259910)..
In 1967 WerBell organized a firm called SIONICS, Incorporated
(Studies in Operational Negation of Insugency and Counter Subversion),
.specializing in producing silencers. In 1970, WerBell Aged with
Quantum Ordnance Bankers and the new firm was named the Military
Armament Corporation with Werbell as Chairman of the Board.
2. WerBell was
He served in the ose born on 8 March 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
was of interest to BKHERALD in 1959 when it
was discovered that he was involved with anti-Castro plotters in
the Dominican Republic. He was granted a POA in August 1959 but this
was cancelled in October 1959 when his information proved to be of
little value and it was suspected that he was using BKHERALD funds
to promote personal interests. He has subsequently attempted to
pass himself as LNBUZZ connected and as a BKHERALD employee. Mr.
werBell's lengthy 201 file shows a long history of his appearing in
areas and situations where he can make a fast buck. He is character-
ized as unscrupulous, a "wheeler dealer", and a promotor of grandiose
schemes. WOTACK advises that the arms WerBell offers for sale are
of good quality, but that the selling price is considered excessive.
3. In that Mr. WerBell is a WODUAL citizen, the above infor-
mation should not be passed to CGPAT/1. However, the Station could
inform CGPAT/1 that the Military Armament Corporation has an unsavory
reputation and, although it may have permission from NVIDEA to export
arms; it has no LNBUZZ connections and that any dealings with the
_corporation should be approached with extreme caution.
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KINGDOM CONCERNING TWO PEOPLE INVOLVED ANTI-BAHAMAS INDEPENDENCE
ACTIVITIES. REPORTS IDENTIFY TWO PEOPLE AS U.S. CITIZENS. THEY ARE
EDWIN · MARGER, FORTY-FOUR YEAR OLD ATTORNEY, WHO CLAIMS REPRE-
SENT "COUNCIL FOR A FREE ABACO." AND MITCHEL BELL, SICH FIFTY-
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8. ADDERLEY SAID ABACO LEADER LEONARD TEGH OMPSON AND MR.
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advisable for Ermal Geiss to sign
the reply since WerBell's counsel
has sent me written interrogator.
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Lawrence R. Houston
General Counsel
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Meme for : Deputy best lecty of Defense
From: Security Policy & Review Branch
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Suty: Wer Bell, Mitchell Luvingston II OSDNO,
dated 6 Oct 71
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 2050
OGC 71-1618
11 NOV 1971
Mr. George MacClain
Director, Information
Security Division
Department of Defense
Washington, D. C. 20301
Dear Mr. MacClain:
Subject: Wer Bell, Mitchell Livingston III
OSD No. 69-59
In accordance with your request of 13 October 1971, the
Central Intelligence Agency has reviewed the Official Report of
Proceedings in the subject case. The Official Report of Pro-
ceedings does not contain any information pertaining to the CIA
which should be classified.
It should be noted, however, that the lack of classifica-
tion does not mean the CIA subscribes to or validates the testi-
mony contained in the Official Report of Proceedings and this
review should not be interpreted as an endorsement by this
Agency of the statements contained therein.
Returned herewith is the Official Report of Proceedings.
Enclosures
Sincerely,
ERNAL P. GEISS
Ermal P. Geiss
Deputy Director of Security
2
Memo fr Examiner, ISCRD, 9/22/71
ISCRD memo, 9/23/71
ISD memo, 9/27/71
Army response, 10/6/71
Vol 1, OSD No. 69-59
Vol 2, OSD No. 69-59
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Industrial Lecurity Clearance Review Division
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Meme dated 23 Sep 71
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DIRECTOR PHNOM PENH VIENTIANE SAIGON
YEAT SECUR
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MR. MITCHELL A. WERBELL, MILITARY ARMAMENT
12 Nov IN 47962
CORPORATION (FORMERLY AN ELEMENT OF WERBELL'S GEORGIA
EASED FIRM OF SIGNICS WHICH REPORTEDLY WENT
BANKRUPT), IS BACK IN BANGKOK ATTEMPTING TO SELL HIS WARES
CHACHING PISTOLS AND SNIPER RIFLES).
THE REF MESSAGE CITES
THE FACT THAT HAS HAS A LENGTHY 201 ON SUBJECT (201-259910)
AND THAT HE IS CHARACTERIZED AS UNSCRUPULOUS, A WHEELER-DEALÈR
AND A PROMOTER OF GRANDIOSE SCHEMES.
ALLUDED EITHER TO BEING AN LALUTE REP OR HAVING LNLUTE BACKING.
HE HAS ON OCCASION
2. SUBJECT MET WITH SEVERAL LNCUFF OFFICERS ON 5 NOV
71 AND RELATED THAT HE WAS ATTEMTING AGAIN TO INTEREST THE
THAI GOVERNMENT IN PURCHASING HIS PRODUCTS. SUBJECT CLAIMS
TO BE PERSONAL FRIEND OF AIR CHIEF MARSHAL DAWEE AND THAT
شما
HIS SAMPLE WEAPONS WERE CONSIGNED TO DAWEE IN ORDER TO BRING...
3. SUBJECT ADVISED LNCUFF THAT GEN. KRIANG SAK
THEM INTO THAILAND.
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AIDE DE CAMP TO K.M. THE KING AND CLAIMS HE WILL SELL
FURTHER
HIS MACHINE PISTOL TO THE ROYAL FALACE GUARDS.
CLAINS HE WILL HAVE AUDIENCE THIS WEEK WITH H.N. THE KING.
FOLLOWING HIS CURRENT THAILAND VISIT, ON 16 NOV 71
SUBJECT AND MR. JASON M. STONE (201-295992) PLAN TRAVEL
4.
OPENK. PLAN TO CONTACT MR. LADD AT PHNOM PENH. ACCORD-
ING LNCUFF SUBJECT PLANS CONTACT CAMBODIAN MIL. AUTHORITIES
OR POSSIBLE WEAPONS CALES. SUBJECT, HAS ALREADY DEMONSTRATED
TEMS FOR GEN. POXSAMAN IN BANGKOK.
5. MR. JASON M. STONE IS HEAD OF BANGKOK BASED FIRM
ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS COM ANY LTD.
JORKED WITH WERBELL IN SEA DURING WWII.
HE IS CHINESE, WHO
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AIRCRAFT.
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PILATUS PORTER, PROBABLY WITH STONE.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
OGC 71-1570
REGISTERED MAIL.
28 October 1971
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Mr. David H. Henretta, Jr.
Industrial Security Clearance Review Division.
Suite 602, Lynn Building
1111 North 19th Street
Arlington, Virginia 22209
Dear Mr. Henretta:
I am returning herewith the Interrogatories sent
with your letter of October 26, 1971 and which I have executed
before a Notary Public as requested.
Since the xerox copy of Mr. Joseph Liebling's letter
did not contain some of the formalities that were in the
original, I have noted this in my answer to Interrogatory III.
I trust this takes care of what you need.
Very truly yours,
s/ Lawriona R. Karaiba
Lawrence R. Houston
General Counsel
Excl.
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Interrogatories
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INTERROGATORIES
Section 1001, Mitle 18, United States Code. Whoever, in any matter within
the jurisdiction of any Department or Agency of the United States knowingly
and willfully falsifies, conceals or covers up by any trick, scheme, or
device a material fact or makes any false, fictitious or fraudulent state-
ments or representations or makes or uses any false writing or document
knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious or fraudulent statement
or entry, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than
five years or both."
Please state your name, address and professional position and indicate how
long you have served in this position.
ANSWER:
Lawrence R. Houston, Esquire
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
General Counsel
Twenty-four years
II.
In your official capacity as General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency,
did you receive a letter dated February 16, 1971 from Joseph 
J.. Liebling,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense?
ANSWER: Yes
35
III.
Attached to these interrogatories is a three page document marked "Gov. Ex 14".
Are pages 2 and 3 a xerox copy of the letter referred to 
in Question II?
ANSWER:
Yes.
The xerox copy does not have handwritten salutation, signature
for printed letterhead; however, the text of the original and the xerox
copy have been compare w.and found to be identical.
If the Answer to III. is in the affirmative did you subsequently respond to this
letter?
ANSWER: Yes
If affirmative, is page one of the attachment, "Gov. Ex 14", a xerox copy of
your responding letter to Mr. Liebling?
ANSWER: Yes.
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VI.
If affirmative, is the information in the letter dated 23 February 1971
(in answer to the questions posed in the letter dated 16 February 1971) true
and correct to your best knowledge and 
belief?
ANSWER: Yes
The foregoing answers to the Interrogatories made by me are true and correct
to the best of my knowledge and 
belief.
Low Hous
১১৯
Lawrence R. Houston
Subscribed and Sworn to before me
a person authorized by law to
day of
this
1971.
notabi
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My Commission Expires May 12, 1973
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Office of Air't Secretary of Defence
Condustrial Security Charance Review Division
Letter dated 26 Oct. 71
Re: WerBell, Mitchell L. II, Docket No. 228
CHICLASSIFIED L USE ONLY
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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional)
Mitchell Livingston Werbell, III
FROM:
Deputy Director, DCS
912 Key Bldg.
ろ
TO: (Office designation, room number, and
building)
1. John K. Greaney, OGC
7D01 HQ
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DATE 15 March 1971
COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom.
to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment)
INTERNAL
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ATEN
NIM-056-71.
Director, Domestic Contact Service
: John McConnell
John Greany (OGC)
Chief, Miami Field Office.
Mitchell Livingston Werbell, III
10 March 1971
1. On 9 Mar 71 we received a long distance call, presumably from Powder
Springs, Georgia, from subject, who is an old and unsavory contact of this
office dating from 1959. Werbell has been involved in a variety of scrapes,
the latest of which concerned an abortive invasion of Haiti which John Greany
was very
ery 
such concerned about a year or so ago.
Werbell stated that the Department of Defense had just revoked his
security clearance on grounds of Werbell's "frivolous behavior" in the llaitian
caper. Werbell stated that he intended to "fight it to the Supreme Court", as
he had always kept us and other elements of the US Government informed con-
cerning developments in the Haitian matter..
3. Werbell asked if there was anything that we could do for him in the
way of interceding for him with the DOD, and we informed him bluntly and in
no uncertain terms that he was strictly on his own, and we could do nothing
for him. He then asked if it would be worthwhile to subpoena Bart Gonzales.
We informed him that it was up to his attorney to make such recommendations.
4. Werbell seemed to get the message, and then offered to keep us advised
regarding an alleged forthcoming attempt on Haiti which is being sponsored by
Rolando Masferrer, even though Masferrer is currently incarcerated in a federal
prison. We told Werbell that if he wished to pass any information along we
would accept it hat under no circumstances should he attempt to elicit any
information on our behalf. He agreed that he would operate on this basis and
said he might be in touch with us again.
5. In view of Werbell's record we felt that this latest contact should
be a matter of record and that OGC should be informed of developments.
JFG/css
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JUSTIN F. GLEICHAUF
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Played Dramatic Roles
By Bruce Galphin
Wahirgin Post Stall Walter
the attorney general" (Ramsey, an official for an American de
Clacky. The federal attorney,velopment corporation
ATLANTA, Dec. 2-The two Williams A. Meadows Jr. At one point during the
top officials of an Atlanta fim he could not make pay further fighting, he said a few days
comment on why the charge afterward, he and some 200
under investigation for receiv
was being dropped.
other Americans were lined
Ing guns shipped from Viet Werbell commented way un against a wall" by armed
ham through Eglin Air Force that he was happy because revolutionaries at a Santo
Base in Florida are no sti've lost my one claim to no Domingo hotel.
He said the rebels were
ers to controversy or dramatic toriety.”
At 
the time of the Indict looking for Cuban nationalists,
situations.
ment, Werbell was quated by and that he managed to slip
One was actively involved in the Atlanta Constitution ased inside the hotel, where Ameri
plans to set up an anti-Centromitting an "extremely co can embassy officials negoti
base in Haiti, and both wereant role" in the anti-Castrolated safe conduct. He was
Hevacuated by helicopter to a
fo the Dominican Republic base plis.
i The 
federal indictment had U.S. warship.
during the 1963 American in
alleged a conspiracy to ship!
tervention to put down a ley guns and munitions from At The Communist movement
Planta and New York to 
has actually defeated itself"
by forcing the United States
!
Mitchell Livingston WerBell But WerBell told a porter
111, vice president of Sionics, at the time of the 
indictment 
to adopt such a firm policy,"
The commented at the time.
an Atlanta weapons research that he had withdrawn his Both the Dichtig
and manufacturing firm, was plan when it appeared to beland the Marathon raid oc-
Indicted 2 years ago on headed toward direct military Brown founded Sionies.
charges of violating a federal action.
olution
support from the Haitian base
law forbidding preparation of " I'm called upon agaip to
territory.
curred before Werbell and
An Air Force officer at
a military expedition against a fight Communists in the west-gin is under investigation
hemisphere, I'll do it," he for his rule in three shipments
friendly nation from American said. "Anythin, I've done has of small arms from Vietnam.j
served the best interest of the Werbe 
denied reports that
the weapons were intended
)
The indictment against Wer- United States."
for right-wing anti-Negra!
"I've been involved in anti-i
Bell and six others was made!
after customs agents raided an
communist activities a long groups and said he himself,
time," he said. "I've helped while 
in Vietnam had had the
island camp near Marathon, the Dominican Fovernine 
captured weapons sent to Al
Fla., where they seized a small fight the Communists."
arsenal of weapons and found
73 battle-clad exiles and Amer
icans.
Not on Island
Aided Newsman'
In the Dominican action two
years before. Werbell was
fcredited. with pulling
i wounded American newsman
Werbell himself was not on
out of a bullet-riddled car ing
the island at the time of the Santo Domingo. The newsman,
raid.
Miami Herald photographer
Only four weeks after Dang Kennedy, had been acci
Werbell was aroused, the U.S.dentally wounded by U.S. Ma
attorney in Miami announced ring gunfire.
Fred N. Brown president of!
the charge was being disini, als was in the Da
missed on the authority of men ex park at the time, as
anta via Elin for laboratory}
research,
2:37
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By Bruce Galphin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Col) Paul Marriott and made pressors manufactured by his
a scapegoat of him. 
Marriott firm. While he was there, he
didn't even know about it."
ATLANTA, Dec. 1 - An At
lanta weapons manufacturer
Marriott, chief assistant of said, various South Vietnam-
sald today that he and not an itory, is under investigation for officials gave him guns.
the Falin Arniment Labora ese ciganizations and 
military
Air Force officer was responsi his role in the 
gun shipments.
Werbell said he was inter-
ble for three now-controver The Air Force has not yet re-ested in testing the Sionics
sial shipments of small arins leased a report on findings 
of suppressors on captured Rus.
from Vietnam 
to Eglin Air its investigation.
Force Base, Fla
.
sian-
designed AK-47 machine
Werbell is vice president of guns, and that he sent a crate
And, said the businessman, 
Sionics, an Atlanta 
weapons back to the states via Eglin.
Mitchell L. Werbell III, "We research and 
manufacturing They were officially regis
were trying to do a favor for company.
everybody.
tered, were delivered to At-
☐ He said he spent time in lanta and are now "in various
"It's a shame they have 
Vietnam supervising the 
test stages of disassembly in our
taken 
a nice officer like (Lting of flash and 
sound sup. iboratory," he stated.
Washington Post - 2 December 1969
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Request concerning
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WeBell+C.I.A.
wered "NO")
MEMORANDUM FOR The rion. Joseph J. Liebling
Joc: You may already know it, but if you do not,
WerBell's lawyer, Edwin Marger, has taken this
line before. He was counsel for a British pilot,
Hawke, who was tried in Buffalo in 1966 for
flying B-25c to Portugal without export licenses.
Marger developed the theory that these flights
had CIA approval and support. This was totally
untrue as we testified at the trial, but Marger
seemed convinced that he had a case.
to be easily convinced by his clients.
He seems
Let me know if you want anything more.
s/Larry
23 February 1971
(DATE)
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
SOGC 71-0248
23 February 1971
The Honorable Joseph J. Liebling.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Security Policý)
Department of Defense
Washington, D. C. 20301
Dear Mr. Liebling:
Re: WerBell, Mitchell L., III
In response to your letter of 16 February 1971 concerning
Mr. Mitchell L. WerBell, III's alleged affiliation with the Central
Intelligence Agency, we have investigated the matter thoroughly,
and based on all the information available, the answer is "No"
for each of your questions numbered 1 through 6.
You should be advised that Mr. Wer Bell voluntarily con-
tacted a representative of the Central Intelligence Agency's
Domestic Contact Service in Coral Gables, Florida, and at
Mr. WerBell's initiation furnished voluntary information for
the period 16 December 1965 - 19 November 1966 with eleven
contacts. It should be noted that the function of the Domestic
Contact Service is to receive information which individuals
The office
feel is of interest to the United States Government.
is overtly listed in the telephone book under the Central Intel-
ligence Agency and, therefore, is readily available for contact.
If Mr. WerBell suggests an affiliation with the Central
Intelligence Agency, he is hereby authorized to divulge the
details of his alleged affiliation in the hearing so that he may
not use ostensible security as a means of avoiding answering
questions.
Sincerely,
Lawrence
Lawrence R. Houston
General Counsel
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CITE TDFIR -314/05249-73
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20 JUNE 1973
COUNTRY
BAHAMA ISLANDS
DOI
15 JUNE 1973
SUBJECT
ANTICIPATION THAT ABACO SECESSIONISTS.
WILL NOT RESORT TO VIOLENCE
ACQ
16 JUNE 1973
SOURCE
AN OFFICIAL BAHAMIAN SERVICE.
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BAHAMAS DOES NOT ANTICIPATE ANY
VIOLENCE AND/OR ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS BY THE ABACO
TROUBLE
SECESSIONISTS DURING THE INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS.
IS NOT EXPECTED FROM THE COUNCIL FOR A FREE ABACO AND
ERRINGTON WATKINS, LEADING SPOKESMAN FOR THE ABACO
SECESSIONISTS AND FORMER FREE NATIONAL MOVEMENT (FNM) MEMBER
OF PARLIAMENT. TROUBLE MAY, HOWEVER, OCCUR AFTER INDEPENDENCE.
2. WATKINS IS CONSIDERED TO BE AN ERRATIC PERSONALITY
WHO COULD TAKE EXTREME ACTION IF ABACO WERE IGNORED BY THE
GOVERNMENT AFTER INDEPENDENCE OR NOT GIVEN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE.
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IN THE MEANTINE, WATKINS VALUES HIS POLITICAL CAREER AND
WISHES TO REGAIN HIS PARLIAMENTARY SEAT.
HE. THEREFORE,
IS NOT LIKELY TO ATTEMPT ANY VIOLENT ACTION.
(FIELD COMMENT:
THE BAHAMAS PRESS REPORTED ON 13 JUNE 1973 THAT WATKINS
HAD BEEN EXPELLED FROM THE FNM. ON 15 JUNE THE BAHAMAS PRESS
REPORTED THAT WATKINS HAD DECLARED HIMSELF AN INDEPENDENT
REPRESENTATIVE IN PARLIAMENT AND THAT THE COUNCIL COR A FREE
ABACO WOULD BE CONVERTED INTO A POLITICAL PARTY.)
IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT
3, (BAHAMIAN SERVICE COMMENT:
WATKINS' NEW POLITICAL PARTY WILL BECOME A SIGNIFICANT FORCE
IN THE BAHAMAS, A FEW OTHER FNM MEMBERS, INCLUDING POSSIBLY
SIR ROLAND SY MONETTE, CLEOPHAS ADDERLEY AND
MICHAEL LIGHTBOURN, MAY JOIN THE NEW PARTY, ESPECIALLY
IF THEY ARE ALSO EXPELLED FROM THE "FNM. IN THE FUTURE, A
THREE PARTY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT TO INCLUDE THE PROGRESSIVE
LIBERAL PARTY, THE OPPOSITION FNM AND THE NEW WATKINS PARTY
MAY EMERGE IN THE BAHAMAS.)
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Face Request from AF OSI
Case #
04D74 (240) 3232
Cated 8 May 70
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FBI document dated 5 May 70
from Atlanta, Ga.
Subject: Mitchell Livingston
Werbell, III
Sionics Lab.
Route I, Powder Springs,
·Georgia

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dated 13 Mar 70
Bureau file: (NI) 62-108665
Subject: Mitchell Livingston Werbell,
Neutrality 
Matters
III
IF
26 February 1373
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT Washington Evening Star Article entitled "The
Story of CFS and the Plot to Invade Haiti"
which appeared in the 26 February 1970 Edition
1. Subject article reported that a CBS cameraman,
James WILSON, had contacted CIA agents in Houston while
on a space shot assignment in 1966, and that the CIA had
informed the FBI, who called on WILSON and referred him
to U.S. Custors.
2.
WH Division has ascertained that on 30 June 1966,
James WILSON called the CIA Duty Officer of the Domestic
Contact Service (DCS) office in Houston, Texas, and sub-
sequently related a story about a proposed plot being
staged in the U.S. to invade Haiti and overthrow the
Duvalier Government, and that CES had convinced the parties
involved that they should allow CBS to photograph and
televise a Special Program on the preparations.
requested and received assurances from the DCS officer
that he would not be identified as the source of this
information.
WILSON
3. On 6 July 1966, WH Division sent a blind memō-
randum to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the
Department of State which forwarded a resume of WILSON's
The
story to the DCS, without identifying the source.
Remorandum stated that the source's motive for disclosing
this information was to alert the U.S. Government to a
potentially embarrassing situation if it were involved
in an insecure operation. The JWAVE Station also passed
a resume of this information to the U.S. Customs Bureau
in Miami.
4. Except in connection with this report, there is
no record of any operational involvement by the Agency
with WILSON.
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MEMORANDUM FOR : Chief, SOD/GB
SUBJECT
REFERENCE
: Possible Clandestine Planning Involving
Baiti
: Your Memorandum, Same Subject, dated
30 January 1970
WH/7 conveyed the substance of your first
memorandum on this subject to the FBI, which has now and
advised us that the Office of Special Investigations,
USAP and the Alcohol,
bbacco
of the Internal Revenue Service,
have both had recent investigative interest in WERBELL
activities.
2. Under these circumstances, WH/7 suggests that
LTC Cochrane be advised to inform an appropriate USAF
security office of Mr. WERBELL's statements. This
should insure that any follow-up inquiry concerning
those statements would be properly coordinated with
such other investigations as may be in process.
1
David L. Smock
C/WH/7
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WH/7
SUBJECT:
REFERENCE:
Possible Clandestinė Planning Involving Haiti
Memorandum for C/WH/7, Same Subject,
dated 15 January 1970
On 28 January 1970, Mr. Mitchell Livingston WerBell III.
Vice President of SIONICS, Inc., told TC Barney Cochrane, USAF,
that he had not been contacted by any interested representative of
the U.S. Government concerning the information pertaining to
Haitian plotting passed previously. Mr. WerBell said that his
reference to the plan being initiated in Canada is a blind and that
the plotting is based in Haiti. He also stated that he has been
approached to provide the equivalent of five million dollars worth
of arms to the group and that the plotting has French backing.
:
2. The above information was received from LTC Cochrane
by LTC Charles Williamson, USMC, and is provided to WH/7 for
disposition and action. This information, to the best of our know-
ledge, has not been acted upon by SACSA; however, Mr. WerBell
is concerned that no action is being taken or apparent interest
shown.
26
Casimiro Barquin
Chief, Ground Branch
Special Operations Division
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE:
SUBJECT : Mitchell Livingston WERBELL III
REFERENCE : Memo from C/SOD/GB to C/WH/7 dtd 15 Jan 1970
Subject: Possible Clandestine Planning Involving
Haiti
1. Andrew Bacuzzi, SOD/GB, advised 19 January 1969,
after my phone call to Mr. Barquin pointing out the third
Agency aspect of the Werbell report, that Col Williamson
Las checked with his friend Col. Cochrane, and that the
latter stated he had taken no other action with this.
info and intended to take none. Col. Cochrane apparently
rewards the info as being none of his own official business
and was telling his friend (Williamson) about it as a
private citizen.
2. Suggest we just use Williamson as the source.
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1.5 JAN 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WH/7
SUBJECT:
Possible Clandestine Planning Involving Haiti
1. The Vice President of SIONICS Inc., Mr. Mitchell Livingston
WerBell III, contacted LTC Barney Cochrane, USAF, assigned to
SACSA, in early January 1970 and said that he learned of the existence
of plans for a special clandestine operation based perhaps in Canada
against President Duvalier's regime within the next four months.
Mr. WerBell said that he believes this effort has a good chance of
success since it is well financed and directed. Mr. Wer Bell conveyed
to LTC Cochrane that he is willing to reveal all that he knows concern-
ing the organization and its plan to interested U.S. authorities.
2. The above information was obtained from LTC Cochrane by
LTC Charles Williamson, USMC, assigned to SOD/GB. SOD and the
Office of Security have an extensive file on Mr. WerBell who has a
long history of worldwide involvement in borderline and sometimes
illegal international gun deals. It is felt by LTC Cochrane that
Mr. WerBell's story is plausible and warrants further investigation.
Mr. WerBell's motive for revealing this type of information at present
could b
deal effort to relieve pressure on his firm and himself for gun
did not conform to U.S. export control regulations and are
being investigated and warranta pending.
3. To the best of our knowledge, no action has been taken on this
information by SACSA.
Casimiro Barquin
Chief, Ground Branch
Special Operations Division
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CITE DIRECTOR
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FROM: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEN/INTERNAL USE ONLY
SUBJECT: INTERNAL SECURITY — HAITI
MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL III
1. REFERENCE
REFERENCE IS MADE 10 THIS AGENCY'S CSCI 316/02323-69
DATED 27 JUNE 1969; SUBJECT: WERBELL, MITCHELL LIVINGSTON III,
A COPY OF WHICH WAS SENT TO YOUR BUREAU.
2. IN EARLY JANUARY 1970, A USUALLY RELJABLE SOURCE
REPORTED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CONCERNING SUBJECT.
ACCORDING TO SOURCE, WERBELL HAS STATED THAT HE KNOWS OF
PLANS FOR A SPECIAL CLANDESTINE OPERATION AG`INST PRESIDENT
DUVALIER'S REGIME IN HAITI SCHEDULED TO OCCUR WITHIN THE
NEXT FOUR MONTHS. WERBELL SAID THE OPERATION, WHICH MIGHT
BE BASED IN CANADA, IS WELL FINANCED AND DIRECTED AND, IN
HIS ESTIMATION, HAS A GOOD CHANCE OF SUCCEEDING. SOURCE
SAID WERBELL EXPRESSED HIS WILLINGNESS TO REVEAL ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION TO INTERESTED U.S. AUTHORITIES CONCERNING THE
PLANS AND THE ORGANIZATION BEHIND THE CLANDESTINE OPERATION.
RELEASING OFFICER
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(reference number)
003879)
SOURCE COMMENTED THAT WERBELL'S MOTIVE FOR REVEALING HIS
INFORMATION TO U.S. AUTHORITIES AT THIS TIME MAY BE THE
HOPE OF RELIEVING PRESSURE ON HIS FIRM AND HIMSELF FOR
BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS BELIEVED TO BE FRESENTLY UNDER.
INVESTIGATION FOR POSSIBLE VIOLATION OF U.S. EXPORT
CONTROL REGULATIONS
3. THE FILES OF THIS AGENCY REFLECT THAT WERBELL IS
VICE PRESIDENT OF SIONICS, INC., OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AND
THAT HE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS
BY YOUR BUREAU IN CONNECTION WITH HIS NUMEROUS BUSINESS
TRANSACTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA. THIS AGENCY WOULD APPRECIATE
INFORMATION WHICH YOUR BUREAU CAN OBTAIN CONCERNING
THE ALLEGED OPERATION REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH TWO ABOVE.
END OF MESSAGE
BASED ON: Memo for C/WH/7 from C/SOD/GB
Subject:
Dated :
Possible Clandestine Planning Involving Haiti
15 January 1970
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Chief, Counterintelligence Division
Directorate of Special Investigations
The Inspector General, USAF
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FROM:
Deputy Director for Plans
SUBJECT:
WERBELL, Mitchell Livingston III
1. Reference is made to your request dated 28 May 1969.
concerning Subject, born 8 March 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The files of this office contain the following information:**
to
2. According to a summary report dated 19 March 1969,
compiled from numerous documents, Subject was of interent
this Agency in 1959 when it was discovered that he was involved
with anti-CASTRO plotters in the Dominican Republic. Further
investigation disclosed Subject to be unscrupulous--a wheelor-
dealer and promoter of grandiose schemes, with a history of
materializing in areas and situations where he can make a quick
profit. The report also revealed that Subject, in his foreign
dealings, had misrepresented himself as an employee of the .
United States Government and the Central Intelligence Agency.
4_3. In March 1969 Subject was in Thailand conducting or
attempting to condect business with the Royal Thai Government.
A CSCI-316/02323-69
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BASED ON:
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
DIR-88114, 19 March 1969 (to Bangkok)
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File No. 04D 74 (246) 3232 dated 28 may 69
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CHIEF OF STATION, BANGKOK
①SIONICS INC. PROPOSAL TO RIG FOR SNIPER TRAINING
PROGRAM
NONE
FT BW-16371
STATION HAD SEEN PUBLICATION CITED PARA ONE OF REF
SEEN PUBLICATI
WER BELL FIRST CAME TO ATTENTION OF STATION IN LATE MARCH
1969, WHEN HE WAS IN CONTACT WITH BPP IN BANGKOK. AFTER RECEIVING
DIR 58114 IN RESPONSE TO OUR TRACE REQUEST, WE SUGGESTED TO SPP
THAT THEY WOULD DO WELL TO AVOID HIM. WE HEARD NOTHING OF HIM FOR
THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. HOWEVER, IN LATE APRIL AND EARLY MAY HE WAS
BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT AND, WE DISCOVERED, IN TOUCH WITH A VARIETY
RTG AND U. SPOT
OF RIG AND U.S. MILITARY ELEMENTS. WE PROMPTLY PASSED THE GIST
OF HIS REPUTATION TO KEY PERSONALITIES IN THE MISSION INCLUDING
AMBASSADOR, DEFENSE ATTACHE, ARPA, SA/CI, U.S. ARMY CIC, OSI AND
J-2 MACTHAI. WE PARTICULAFLY STRESSED THAT HE WAS NOT SPONSORED
IN ANY WAY BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. HIS NAME HAS COME UP CONSIST-
ENTLY FOR PAST SEVERAL MONTHS AND WE HAVE PULLED VERY FEW PUNCHES
IN DESCRIBING KIM, EITHER TO AMERICANS OR THAIS. IN FACT, WE WROTE
A MEMORANDUM EXPRESSING OUR RESERVATIONS, PASSED IT TO J-2 MACIHAI,
AND SUGGESTED HE BRIEF THE J-2 MINISTRY OF DEFENSE ACCORDINGLY.
ALSO SENT A BURN NOTICE MESSAGE, BANGKOK 3055, TO ALL FE STATIONS.
3. AFTER DYNAMIC SEGINNING, WERBELL IS NOW SUFFERING EXPECTED
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SETBACKS. THE EMBASSY HAS REFUSED TO ENDORSE HIM AND HIS PRODUCTS.
MACTHAI HAS AGREED TO FURNISH TO RTG SOME OF THE ITEMS HE WAS
ATTEMPTING TO PEDDLE, AND SIG HAS COOLED CONSIDERABLY RESIONICS
PARTICIPATION IN ANY ASPECT OF COUNTER INSURGENCY EFFORT. WER-
BELL'S PUNNING. MATE, M/GEN WAISON, HAS ALREADY LEFT THAILAND.
WERBELL IS SUPPOSED TO LEAVE SHORTLY. WE WILL MISS HIM.
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Subjecti Export License for
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PROGRAM
DIRECTOR SE114
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3055/1 666027
1 POUCHING PRIORITY UNDER IM 403749 COPY OF SIONICS
PROPOSAL
*PELTRALIZATION OF THE COMMUNIST TERRORIST THREAT
1 THAILAND' OBTAINED LOCALLY FROM 'LNREAD WHICH STATION MAY
OR HAY NOT HAVE SEEN.
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26 PROPOSAL ESSENTIALLY HAS CIVILIAN FIRM INSERTING
ITSELF INTO SILITARY ADVISORY POLE WITH CSVICUS PURPOSE OF
PEDDLING ITS HARDWARE AT SUBSTANTIAL PROFIT YET COVERING
ITSELF WITH SEMI-OFFICIAL AURA. IF THAIS FALL FOR APPROACH
OF THIS SORT, THEY WILL EVENTUALLY REALIZE THEY HAVE BEEN
TAKEN AND THIS COULD HAVE FAIRLY SERIOUS REPERCUSSIONS ON
THAI-1S RELATIONS. WE PARTICULARLY CONCERNED SINCE PER REF
C WERBELL HAS PENCHANT NOR REPRESENTING HIMSELF AS RETIRED
COLATE AND AS LOCAL CHIEF OF WOFIRM. FYI, WE UNDERSTAND
IN PROPOSAL ARE QUITE COOD BUT NOTE THAI
SITEYE COULD BI ADE AVAILABLE THROUGH REGULAR, MAP CHANNELS
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EÑALIZE THAT STATION IS NOT IN POSITION TO EXERT
a lidS PROPOSAL BUT VEEL AT INCUMBENT UPON WOFIRM
TO APPRIST SA, ACTUAL, AMBASSADOR AND ALL OTHER INTERESTED
PARTIES ON WERBELL'S BACKGROUND AND OUR VERY STRONC PESERVATIONS
TO THE VALIDITY OF THIS PROPOSAL TO CONTRIBUTE SUS-
STANTIALLY TO THE DEFEAT OF COMMUNIST TERFORISH AND SUBVERSION
IN THAILAND AS ADVERTISED, AND EVEN STRONGER RESERVATIONS RE
ANY OFFICIAL INVOLVEMENT WITH VERBELL.
4% FURTHER CHECK CF 201 FILE INDICATES SUBJECT REFS
ENTERED MILITARY SERVICE IN APRIL 1943, WAS COMMISSIONED 2ND
LIEUTENANT-IN SIGNAL CORPS JUNE 1344 AND ASSIGNED TO-CHINA-
SURYA THEATER SUBJECT WAS ASSIGNED TO OSS FROM APRIL UNTIL
DECEMBER 1945
THE RETURNED TO CLADY AND WAS DISCHARGED
AS 1ST LIEUTENANT.
IN ADDITION TO FOUR CAMPAIGN MEDALS,
SUBJECT WAS AWARDED SOLDIERS MEDAL FOR PERSONAL HEROISM
EXHIBITED IN SAVING THE LIFE OF CHINESE SOLDIER WHO FELL INTO
ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMER. RECORD INDICATES NO FURTHER MILITARY
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26 MAY 69 IN 66602
SAIGON INFO: DIRECTOR, VIENTIANE, SINGAPORE, MANILA, RANGOON,
HONG KONG, TAIPEI, DJAKARTA, TOKYO, SEOUL, KUALA LUMPUR
REF: DIRECTOR 88114 (SENT BANGKOK ONLY)
1. WE HAVE BEEN PLAGUED FOR SOME WEEKS NOW
BY MR. MITCHELL L. WERBELL III, VICE PRESIDENT AND
DIRECTOR OF R AND D OF SIONICS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WERBELL DESCRIBES HIMSELF AS A COUNTERINSURGENCY
EXPERT, HAS A VARIETY OF WEAPONS TO DISPLAY, CLAIMS
TO BE A RETIRED COLONEL, AND LAST WEEK INTRODUCED
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HIMSELF AT A LOCAL NIGHT CLUB AS CHIEF OF WOFIRM IN
THAILAND.
2. WERBELL HAS A HISTORY OF SHOWING UP IN
TROUBLE SPOTS WHERE HE CAN MAKE A FAST BUCK. HE
IMPLIES THAT HE IS U.S. GOVT CONNECTED AND PRESENTS
A DEMONSTRATION OF A VARIETY OF EXOTIC
WEAPONS THAT NEVER FAILS TO IMPRESS. REF
DESCRIBES HIM AS AN UNSCRUPULOUS OPPORTUNIST WITH
A REPUTATION FOR LIVING BEYOND HIS MEANS.
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3. WERBELL IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, BORN 1919,
SERVED IN OSS, HAS SHAVEN HEAD AND HANDLEBAR
MUSTACHE. REF ADVISES THAT FULL DETAILS OF HIS
BACKGROUND SHOULD NOT BE PASSED TO LIAISON SINCE
HE IS U.S. CITIZEN. HOWEVER, STATES THAT LIAISON
CAN BE INFORMED: SHOULD HE APPEAR IN YOUR AREA,
THAT HE HAS AN UNSAVORY REPUTATION, HAS NO U.S.
GOVT CONNECTIONS, AND ANY DEALINGS WITH HIM SHOULD
BE APPROACHED WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
4. FOR SAIGON: WE UNDERSTAND THAT WERBELL -
RECENTLY VISITED SAIGON AND DID HIS THING WITH GEN.
ABRAMS WHO WAS SUITABLY IMPRESSED, AND WERBELL
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IS NOW SETTING UP A SNIPER TRAINING PROGRAM.
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125 HEACHTHEN E. ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30339
6534873 3077
26 May 1959
Air Chi Marshal Dawee Chullasapya
Chief, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Supreme Command, RTAF
Bangkok, Thailand
Dear Air Chief Marshal Dawee:
Sionics, Inc. is pleased to submit this proposal in response to
the urgent requirement to neutralize the communist terrorist
threat in the border areas of Thailand. This requirement was
first brought to our attention during the recent trip to threatened
border areas of Thailand made by yourself, Air Vice Marshal
Manob, and Major General Prasart, accompanied by our field
representative to Thailand, Mr. Mitchell L. WerBell, IIL
This urgent requirement was of course further discussed with
you during your recent visit to Washington to attend the funeral
of General Eisenhower.
In consequence we have prepared a pilot program with the objective
Wo
of neutralizing the Communist terrorist threat in Thailand.
have entitled the program "Neutralisation of the Comiņunist Terrorist
Threat in Thailand" with short title NCTTT. In scope the NCTTT
encompasses live major phases and spans a twelve month program.
Basically we offer a proven program based, in part, on the 
out-
standingly successful. U. S. 9th Division Sniper Program in 
the
Delta of Vietnam. Finally, and most importantly, this program
is also based on Special Operations programs executed by members
of the Sionics organization during wartime, counterinsurgency and
guerrilla operations executed in South Asia, Europe, South America,
Dominican Republic, and Vietnam.
We have selected a team of highly qualified experts whose combined.
capabilities represent all the disciplines required to the planning
and execution of this program.
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in view site above, Sionics, Inc. assures you that the full resources
of the Corporation will be provided for the successful performance 
of
this work. We look forward to he opportunity of serving 
the Royal
Thai Government in order to contribute to the defeat of 
Cominunist
Herrorism and subversion in Thailand.
With Warm Personal Regard and Respect.
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Sincerely.
Sionics, Inc.
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Bangkok, Thailand
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PROPUJHENRY HOTICE
The Path furnished herein-
hall not be disclosed outside the Royal Thai
toverawent or the United States Government or
Delignlicated, used or disclosed in whole or
in part for any purpose other than to evaluate
this proposal, provided that if a contract is
warded to this offeror as a result of or in
connection with the summission of such data,
twas movernments shall have the right to
duplicate, use, or disclose this data to the
extat provided in the contract. This restric
tic does not limit these Governments' right
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pattion secute to neutralize the tunist terrorist
pranje in poallant in voicyi oy responsible seaters of the Royal
overnment of tiniland.
we have
que have examined the problem in cetail and have concludes
that thể uni quế capabilities of SIQUICS, Inc. can provide one
Answer to stopping Communist terrorise in Thailand.
either worked on, are working on, or will soon become involved
in projects of this type, thich will insure immediate working
knowlbage of the essential elements for problem solution.
He have established firm liaison with the koyal Thai
overnment.
include
rament organizations in Thailand to
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rome Conrand Headquarters, Sassy, USO
NACHAT, HACV. Additionally, PIVNIC has established
wide and successful relationships with . S. Government and indus-
trial organizations concerned with the problem.
In conseruence, it is considered the IONICS, Inc. would
lezbe fully canale of executing the program proposed and of expand-
inglit te kete solve the final problem of arrasting communist
sugversion in Thailand. It is our opinion that the methodology
format, and related atters are well described in this proposal.
tur task will be to field a team of professional and highly
sualifie ilitary technicians, backed by appropriate support.
and resources, that will be fully capable of executing this plan
to the corplate natisinction of the Royal Thai Government.
To
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daversonnel immediately available that represent
jend of counter-insurgency operational expérience and
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niture of the proble this proposal is
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da sically, an outline an indicating how the operation will be
his volume presents our operational proposal,
accomplish.
ale with a proposed management plan, a summary of corporate
experience, and the resumes of the military and technical
personnel Frics, Inc. proposes to assion to the effort.
Cest Proposal is submitted separately as VOLUME II.
The
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equirements
Fundamental equirements for Problem Solution
Inc. consider that the basic success of this plan
consider
will depend in large measure of fielding a team of knowledgeable
individuals who:
1.
Know Thailand and the considerable Communist
threat to its worder areas.
2. the principal personalities in the
Hai-Government (G) concerned with neutralizing the
the principal.
Government fficials
in thailand, South Vietnam, and Washington, D. C. concerned with :
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assisting the PTG in neutralizing this threat.
4. Fully understand the threat of Communist
terrorism and subversion and possess the knowledge and skilr
to counteract this threat,
nes and be able to apply firsthand the
tactics, tec¬nis organizational and training procedures,
and weapons and equipment techniques/employment to defeat this
Et and
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G. Poscess long experience and proven skills
in defeating an insurgent threat.
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B. Systematic Introduction of Military: Judgement
By definition the neutralization or defeat of
Communist terrorism consists of the specialized application
of counter-insurgency operations by the employment of intelli-
gence: psychological operations; hunter-killer operations to
include jungle, mountain, air, riverine, border, and village
security operations; communications; logistics; specialized
training and equipment, and other techniques. SIONICS, Inc.
considers that the techniques designed by our Corporation to
neutralize Communist terrorism in the border areas of Thailand
is based on sound past experience in this field and would lead
to the development of a wide-spread organization and system
within the Royal Thai Armed Forces (PAF), the Border Patrol
Police (BPP), and the Thai National Police (TNP) to counteract
this treat throughout the country.
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Establishment of a system
ganization to neutralize
the Communist threat cannot be accomplished without reliance
on sound and informed military judgement based on proven
techniques. SIONICS, Inc. has pioneered in the development
of these techniques which permit the systematic development and
use in analysis and execution of military and technical judge-
ment.
The techniques and equipment developed for this purpose
are designed and operate for the "usual or normal" case in which
they will be used under combat conditions The capability that ADEEL SENCONT
accrues from the employment of these techniques and equipment in
unusual or peculiar situations should be considered a bonus
effect rather than an expected mode of operation.
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Pictors Related to solving the Problem
ational ›lanning for
eugenstul counter-insurgency,
stborough Anoukeup of the chany weather,
terrain.
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op nations and camo ilitial, and intipate
not adja of the sealation vitain the coverational arca. Addi-
tionally, one of the critical factors in counter-insurgency
operations is the paychological operations effort that must be
weared with any operation of this type. The key to success of
these operations is to identify, infiltrate. block, ambush,
harrasy, and otherwise patralize the enemy. The basic concept
of onerations in to strike him when he is most vulnerable, in
his rear areas,
he is moving to his objective, or just
Before com
environment
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In order to operate in this
berational detachments, or unter-killer
teas will add. The individuals that man these teams
as well as those who command and direct then, will have to
be specially trained, equipped, organized, and, above all,
psychologically prepared for these operations.
As a final note this operation to be successful must
ully supported ▼ the 2011 Thai Government the Chief
Mission to Thailand, Chief JUS AC, and COUSTAC TEI/ACV.
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jective
darrest or neutralis Communist terrorist in
the condori areas of quailand.
Our title
Heatralization of Communist Terrorist Threat
in ailand (xQAT).
C. Scope
The scope of this program encompasses a twelve
Nonta, five phase operation as follows:
Phase I
tion of rainir
Center.
hase II
Planning, preparation, and installa-
Selection of personnel, organization
first Provisional Special Operations Funter/Killer Platoon
and Training Program.
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Phase III Insertion of Platoon into Tactical
Area of operational Responsibility, initiation of Hunter/Killer
operations organization, training and insertion of two additional
180 / Platoons.
Phase IV
Evaluation of operations to include
anending orrational concepts, organization, planning, logistics
mal concepts,
and administration.
Phase V
Expansion of operations with three
fugbọ, 1/K_Flatoons. Continuance of operations to include deep
penetration missions. Preparation for further expansion of
CTPT as aquired.
D. Schedule
See Figure 1.
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the project.
10NIU!;,_Inc. will have inmediately available,
Sa team of selected military and technical experts to work on
These personnel, led by Mr. Mitchell L. Werbell,
111, Steeseld. Representative in Thailand and Vietnam, will be
backed by appropriate civilian technical personnel who would
provide expertise as required in the general fields of sniper
and special operations training and the maintenance of the
operational equipment and weapons. The Corporation would assign
these people to projects in accordance with their individual
capa ilities.
Program Schedule See Figure 1 (NCTTT Program
Schedule, Twelve Months).
program,
During the first week after initiation of the
crbell as program manager, will meet with selected
Supreme Command and "ilitary Research and Development Center
(RDC) personnel for the initial establishment of NCTCT planning:
and organization of the joint MRDC/SIONICS Operations Planning
Group (JSOPG). At this time he will receive an indoctrination
orientation and guidance from appropriate Supreme Command and
MRDC personnel. Coordination, communications channels and
liaison requirements will be established. In this regard,
“it is anticipated that a period of from tw
two to three weeks will
be required for this initial planning and the establishment of
basic and detailed joint operational plans.
road t = period of tron
During the next two weeks period, joint activity
will consist of the selection of appropriate Sniper Training
Team personnel from RTA units and Special Operations Hunter/
Killer Platoon personnel from appropriate RTAF, BPP and TNP
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Mailands In this regard, the hiper Team should be.
dravá if at all possible from the ten previously trained sniper
eric) presently on duty with the slack Panther Division in
Personnel were trained in the U. 18. 9th Division
Victum.
Suiper Training Progras in the Vietnam Delta.
During this Phase
personnel will be organized into the SO / Platoon structure.
During the period 6th through the 12th week,
Platoon versonnel would be undergoing the sniper training program
consisting of basic tiring positions and integrated acts of
sacotin duitionally, during this period, JSOPC would estab-
lisa standing operating procedures and effect the liaison with
appropriate RTA OPP and TNF units in the joint Tactical Area.
of operations Responsibility (TAOR) selected for the pilot
program for the First Frovisional Special Operations_lunter/
Killer latoon.
at the end of the third program month,
the first teas would
selected, organized, trained and ready
for insertion into the TAOR.
During the next phase, the operational phase,
the three Hunter/Filler teams of the First Provisional SG H/K
Platoon would be inserted into the TAOR and established with
appropriate Thai military and para-military border control
units. At thi
would be time SIO ICS advisory and technical personnel
closely with appropriate JSOPG opposite numbers
in order to insure proper employment of the teams. It is
important to note her, however, that at no time would SIO: ICS
tean personnel se expected to actually direct or enter into
operational activities of the Special Operations munter/Killer
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enjoiden and prohibited
iete any veins of combat activity whatsoever.
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hy and t
alpha (4th, 5th, 6th, 7th,
97% jærsonnel would follow closely so
w/while activities and evidect with their the counterparts.
continuous evaluation of tour activities.
At son
Durian the entire
[perational Phase continuing evaluation of the NOTE Program
would be carried on.
time between the 5th and 6th
montas a nutual decision would be made with RDC officials
for recommendations to be made to the RTAF Suprene Command for
the expansion of team activity and the inclusion of the two
additional Special Operations Hunter/Killer Flatoons into a
Special therations manter/Killer Company for further operations
and protection, for additional villages. These operations would
continued to include penetration operations as appropri…
atukami bermissible providing the RTG obtains permission
across the order onerations "in hot pursuit" of Communist
terrorists.
During the entire insertion and operational phase,
it is to be underser red that psychological operations will be
conducted at all tires in conjunction with Spočïal Operations¨¨¨
inter/Killer
"ont CTTE
activity. The final three months of the 12
ram schedule would be devoted to further expan
sion as necessary of Special Operations Manter/Killer team
activity, and/or organization of furtner Special Operations
Hunter/Killer Companies for employment throughout the border
areas of Tilaad.
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Organization and anagement (See Figure 2)
Ngcause of the importance which STONICS, Inc.
atthees to the roposed program, te vill keep close top manages
rent cognizances this rojvet. The responsible officer (Mr.
Terwill) is a Director and Vice President of SIQNICS and will
réport directly to the President of the Corporation.
In this
manner, we can assure you that to the extent necessary, the full
resources of the Corporation can be made available to guarantee
a fully satisfactory program.
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In managing this project we proposed to guarantee
continually and consistency throughout the entire period of
this effort. The key to this, of course, rests with the
personnel assigned. Frequent changes in personnel will be
avoided, and if changes are required because of new skills
being required, replacement personnel will be phased in with
adequate overlap wherever possible. A full resume on Mr. Werbell
may be found in Fart VI of this proposal. It is to be noted
that he has had considerable experience in the counter-insurgency
field, having served in South Vietnam and the Far East for
SIONICS since September of 1968. He has had long experience
in weapons and clandestine operations dating back to world war II
at which time he was a parachute unit Commander of a special
operations group in oss units operating in the Far East. Since
that time be has been continuously interested in development
of exotic weaponry and is the holder of several patents in this
field. Since 1958, he has devoted practically all of his time
in anti-communist activities throughout Central and South America
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muse of tentral American govern
coustion. Iniumpabs activities and develos ent of venous beet
min for this
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E anager would be ancisted by a stat
offrerely costat users chosen from his wide cognizanci
and knowledge of counter-insurgency experts throughout the free
world. He would be assisted when necessary by Major Ceneral
Harold E. Satson, Director of Sonics and in charge of technical
planning. His knowledge and background in corporate planning,
world-wide government, and corporate contracts is considered
invaluable to the IONICS group.
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IV
CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS
A.
General Concept
The purpose of this program will be to strike >
the Communist insurgents where they are rost vulnerable and to
mesh the operations of selected Special Operations Hunter/Killer
Teams into present Royal Thai Government ongoing Counterinsurgency
Programs based on the proven and historic causes of victory over.
the Communists:
Aggressive anti-guerrilla tactics.
1.
Removal of sections of the population thus
depriving insurgents of contact with the people.
Removal of the support of the population.
In attacking Communist terrorist vulnerability,
the Special Operations Hunter/Killer program will be designed
to operate against the enemy and concentrate on the following
categories of insurgent vulnerability:
1.
Insurgent base area system which, although
fragmented, is a coherent complex of combat, combat support, and
combat service support facilities and activities which embrace.
populated as well as remote areas. In this, Special Operations
¡¡unter/Killer Teams will, in the final phases of the operation,
be directed to attack or operate on the perimeters of insurgent
base area systems.
2. Insurgent combat units in avoiding prolonged
combat may use escape routes that will subject them ideally to
ambush by Hunter/Killer Teams. In this, the classic principals
of "the hammer and anvil operation" will be employed.
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several Perations mater/iller Tears will
operate within the Lordợt areas and village cɔrolaxes in order
ɖo miserate directly within the population against and within
which pelanist terrorists operate.
merational Phasing
1. Phase I
Planning, reparation, and
Installation of Training Center.
Initiation of planning by Stonics Program Manager
with
Supreme Charand and
Ment (ROC) selected personnel.
Military Research and Develop-
Establishment of a Joint DC/
tunes seial erations Planning rou (J) to develop de
Failed lans
eorganization, training and operational
mployment of an NYC Provisional Special crurations Hunter/Killer
Platoon. In this, the JSOPG may be expanded to include selected
personnal from JS, SO, and ARPA as required.
Training Center and Protam
2.
(1)
My ma non
Establishment of the Training Center
ATG niver School and Special Operations
Cipar
-Training Center will se established at
location to be designated.
a basis for school personnel; a team of one officer and ten
Co's will be selected. In order to save the five to six weeks
required to train this team it will be necessary to draw this
team from the ten members of the RTA Black Panther Division who
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raduates, from the S, 9th Division Sniper in Vietnam.
st
in experience yung familiar
rizing technicues, widitional EPA offices and
personnel 111 on required to staff the center with instructore
in Social speration, artillery fire adjustment, navigation,
kap reading and deception operations.
A certain number of Train-
ing Center command administrative personnel will also be required..
(2) Training Facility
sniper
1
training facility will be constructed
to accommodate 30 students. The facility should include a 40
point firing range and adjacent classrooms. The range should
Le ſuilt with target facilities at 150, 300, 600, and 900 meters.
moving target should be built on the 300 meter butt in addition
to the fixed targets at that position.
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Eœuipment
(1) The sniper team's…
the S / Pltn.
will be equipped with National Match Crade 14 rifles obtained
by urgent TG request to JUSMAG. These rifles are glass bedded
into impregnated stocks which are impervious to water. The rifles
are carefully tuned to provide a high degree of accuracy.
(2) The accurized M-14 rifles will be
equipped with a a 39 variable power adjustable ranging telescope
sight (NET), une telescope is mounted in conjunction with a
ballistic car. The sight reticle includes a pair of sṭadia
сат
lines. By varying the power of the telescope until the stadia
lines define 30 inch area on the target, the ballistic cam
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Gratect distances
prons due to me estication are virtualis eliminated with
this.
an alternate accurized rifle could be
knight this selection, these hints are a fixed 2,2
power ruleszana dith à post reticle. Ušinu the 124 the sniper
must accurately estimate the gun targut range and dither hold
Over the target or adjust the elevating mechanism on the sight
to the estimated range.
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(3) For night operations at least one half
of the sniper rifles will be equipped with the VARO Starlight
Scope. VARO Starlight Scopes will be mounted on the M-14 rifles
at the sniper sanool and zeroed during traininų. The sniper
retains own scope/rifle/suppressor combination during sub-
sequent operations. This procedure assures-retention of zero
byen though the sight is dismounted during daylight operations
orations.
and remount
(4)
The anavunition used in sniper training
and corhat must be 7.62mh u. s. National Match Grade.
(5) All M-14 sniper rifles will be filled
With the satin-1 noise suppressor (Fee Inclosure 1 for
complete description), As noted above, each student will retain
_alhis own riflescope/suppressor combination during subsequent
Querations.
(6) Mditional to the basic sniper rifle/
{eacope/superos or cominution the Sú T/R Plth. will be equipped
with alternate noise suppressed weapons on as required by the
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demolition, and individua
equipment.
.1.
organization and Wraining
Selection of Personsel
The JHOPC will, during the 4th and 5th week
select i total of 80 highly qualified and Fotivated personnel.
students acted into the sniper program will de selected from
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volunteers. phose who are selected rust have 20/20 vision,
expert
have qualified is on expert rifleman and be well motivated
“Soldiers) taperience in competitive parksmanship is preferred
Lut is not mandatory.
3.
Organization
See Figure 3.
The first G Provisional Special Operations
iller Platoor will be organised into a flatoon lead-
/iller teams as shown. Double Slotting
will he authorized Curing Phase II to provide for an estimated
304 attrition rate. This figure is based on the average attri-
tion rate at the U. S. 9th Division Sniper School in Vietnam.
Thus, total training strength will be 2 officers, 12 NCO's,
and 66 Junior's or enlisted men for a total of 39 officers
perational strength will be as shown on Figure 3.
C. Training Program
Prior to selection and organization of
******---selected student candidates for the PTC Provisional Special
Operations Hunter/Filler Flatoon (SO / Pltn.) a training
program will be prepared and rehearsed with the following as
basic precepts.
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(1) Tantrḍiningen
staratitisa at nepies pašie firing visit best, and the integrated.
O
cotany, trigor mueeze, or thatrol.
sight align-
just, and - Esan viaturn Students will tought the techniques
of muuratis fead and angaying moving variots.
Tastruction will
ghd providba on the methods for estimating win over extreme
frommen to that firer can off set his point of air to place the
bullet on taredt. Following this, students will learn the methods
of zeroing 1-14 accurized rifles equipped with the adjustable
ranging telescopic sight (NRT), the VARO Starlight Scope or
the fixed nosek 154 telescopic sight, and the SIGNICS-LAW-2
Night firing will be included in the course and. cach
will learn to engage targets ith his starlight scope
ranges of 130, 300.
suppres30r.
at
and 600 meters.
ing, studente
(11) In addition to ark
hip train-
111 se schooled in adjustment of artillery fire,
day/night land navigation, map reading, and deception operations
(See Table ): Each of these subjects is important to the
sniper. He frequently must select his position from a situation
eap and then travel to that location at night.
It is essential
to select the entition, know his position in rela-
tionship to friendly unies and be able to navigate to his pre-
selected position. The ability to accurately adjust artillery
tire is in crtant to a sniper. He frequently must adjust illuni-
nating rounds skillfully so that illumination is placed on target
in such a manner as to illuminate the target and not compromise
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the uniper's sosition or that of an adjacent friendly unit.
(iii)
Qualification firing will be
coyaneted shrių) the date of the course.
Silhouette targets
Ten
iny do bigbend at 107,000 and 900 enters with eight tirgets
weingisngaged, py, ouch rian during two qualifying courses.
points. vill awarded for a first round hit and five points for
a second round hit. A maximum score is 160 points. A minimum
malifying score is 130.
(iv). Experience gained from the U. S.
9th Division sniper School shows that approximately 50% of the
students successfully complete the course.. Thus, at least double
the number of final candidates required should be selected to
attend the school.
Equipment
See ligure 4.
3.
Phase UI
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Development and Insertion of
Hunter/Killer Teams, Initiation of Operations
a. Insertion (See Figure 5.)
During this phase the First PTC Provisional
:
150. W/K Pitm. will be inserted into a Tactical Area of Operational
Responsibility (AOR) under operational control of a Royal Thai
By or order atrol Police unit. The Platoon will operate under
operational control of the RTA or BPP Commander who will be
advised in the employment of the Special Operational team and
the three water/Hiller Teams by selected members of the JSOPG.
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Initiation of operations
initially and gatil firs
and entabl
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hipers frem / Teal attached to
SPP units and eyed with ar
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atrols.
This technique'.
Two techniques
has been the most successful rethod of employment.
ill used extensively:
then
(a) Snipers accompany a platoon ambush.
ploved with latoon ambush, the snipers will remain
glore to the platoon command post. then an element of the platoon
alserved enemy activity, the snipers are alerted to that location.
lucy mien orgaje selectively at night with the
and
suppressors or with the
the starlight scope
scope and A2 suppressor
Viet Cong in the area,
Quring daylight. If there is but one
he is taken under fire by a sniper. In this way the ambush posi-'
tion and location of automatic weapons are not compromised due
2010.
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group of communists
to the quiet operation of the rifle
arbrɔach the killing zone, the snipers on the leaders and
radio operators thile the platoon fires into the general kill
Another technique will be used in an ambush is that of
having the uniters fire tracers to mark the flanks of an enemy
force which had approached the position in an area other than
the specifion Hill zone. Snipers are also used to engage the
enery who wrote the ambush site in order to attempt to draw fire
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This avoids the disclosure of autoriatic weapons
Shittoys and pronation of chamore “imen or other anti-distur-
22/carnis vices.
(:-) Sniper with Récurity event in Abusir.
The second method of employment will be that of placing snipers ånd
a five to eigit an decurity element in a carefully selected.
sniper/anush position. The general area will be selected by
the of a commander after considering enemy activity in
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the area and the advice of the sniper team. The team will then
be moved to a ATA or BBP forward position where it is joined by
the security element equipped with ::-16's, 279, and an hu/FRC-25
an
racio. The niger/ambush position will be occupied just prior
The
Eye fatigue.
to dark and selected to provide maximum range of fires and loca-
tion within a reasonable distance from a friendly unit.
shipers maintain continuous surveillance of the area.
at night is minimized by having the snipers alternate use of the
starlight scope throughout the night. The 179 is an especially
useful weapon at the sniper/anbush position. As an example, the
enemy frequently have been observed in a tree line or vegetated
area in which a shot was not possible due to low light level.
Using tracer fire and by directing 7 fire into the area, the
Security element forced the enemy to move and expose themselves to
subsequent sniper fire.
(ii) Stay-Behinds
/K Teams trained for long range operations will
be extremely effective in engaging enemy ambushers who follow
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initialeah, 'aiper bean with a 5-8 Scientis
dockga, bo ororiae long range observation of the route over which
tuart
and mich off the caer/as time follow in
fit
their telescope sights and
ilea to engage the enery at ranyes out to
suppressors
meters.
At Extreme Taoyuay (the enemy will usually not be cautious about-
his cover and concealment. hus he presents an excellent target
for the B/K sean.
(Fii)
(a)
off-fet
VARO Kenon, search light will be used to illumi-
mate covertly an area with pink light. Whe starlight scope is
sensitive to portion of the infrared and est is pink and
near the visilta light portion of the spectrum, Dy using a pink
filter on
Jan sonreir light an area can be illiinated with
invisible light that registers in the starlight scope. This
phenomena will be used in two types of sniper activity; village
or perimeter security and ambush operations. Employment of the
Trifle/scope/sensor combination will fremantly result in
the unemy receiving many casualties before he has been taken
under fire..
(+) Athushes will be conducted by placing a searchi
light squinho 1/4 ton vehicle 1200 to 1500 meters from a road
intersection. sipers equipned with starlight scopes and AW-2
suppressors will on placed 300 meters from the intersection and
maintain radio gontact with the searchlight operator. The sniper
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will contrel
surroundiny
The shiner team.
it illumination of the intersection and
w in the hill zone
off-setting
Land, from Lanerchlighting the searchlight
and 1/4 ton v bielkim i position remote from the arbush site,
the anong in the 11 zena will not be alerted by the noise of
the running velick engine.
(c) The VARO gịnh light/sniper combination will
he eloved in fase car qurity operations. The searchlight,
mounted on a 1/4 ton vehicle responds to radio equipped sniper
teams in soțitions either on the peripeter or on ambush positions
outside tha brineter. the background noise of a village or
fixed base camp usually conceals the noise of the engine and
activity of the, searchlight crew. In forward base camps the
searchlight reine in the center of the base care and, by swing-
ing its bear through 360 degrees, covertly illuminates avenues
of approach into the position. With this method it is again
essential that the sniper teams maintain radio contact with the
Searchlight cruw. The pink light is particularly useful during
the dark of the moon period.
(iv)
Counter Sniper
/ Teams are effective in countering enemy
sniper activity. Each team, equipped with its telescopic
sight and 49 Spotting Scope, will search the area of suspected
sniper activity. The optical equipment permits a detailed
search of distant areas. A recent example, in Vietnam, is
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Ne team searched
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the
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otller kan firon round, willing the Viet Chay sniper.
(V)
Night Hunter operations
Hight Hunter Operations will be conducted, to
wark, tarjeta. A sniper team of 2 en placed in a lead helicopter
observe the ground with the starlight scopes mounted on their
rifles.
tracers.
ken the enemy is sighted, the snipers engage with
Helicopter gun ships, following at a higher altitude
tilen engage the targets. Artillery. and illumination are
adjusted on tŷrget as necessary.
(vi) Special Operations
the special Operation Tean,
shiver-trained,
will' ne aryloyed under Platoon Commander control for coup-de-
main, sabotage/durolition, and sniper activities against the
enemy as dictated by the situation and requirements of the
/ mit counter terrorist plan.
Subsequent Operations
:
Is experience is gained with combined Sniper
sea and nost unit or BPP operations, the Special operations
and unter/ter Teams, will gradually expand operations to
fulfill their asic roles that of independently operating
teams moving silently to interdict, ambush and destroy the enemy
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close
canabing
or
the balayan
maliga from
15/chological (peration
Tunter/Filler operations in conjunction with
ATA land 51º units, or with TC Mobile Training Units lust include
Provision for comprehensive psychological operations. There is
90 hotze letter designed to strike terror into the heart of
the communist terrorist than to see his comrades in-arms killed,
as if by magic, by a silent bullet firal from some "unknown"
istant scarce.
Thus, the innerent long-range flexibility.
and affuetibsións, of tre rifle/scope/ciperessor/sniper combina-
tion just is uxloited to its fullest.
Dor sapaigns, silver
Ballet' proy uganda, leaflet drogs, airborne loudstaker "talking
Diva” operation, and other classic psychological operations
techniques must all drum home the theme that the comunist terror-
ist is no longer Tate in His sanctuary arear nor does he enjoy
the classic querially initiative as he once was taught to believe.
Agressive (untiller operations combinal with astute and
assive psychological operations will be oyed to destroy
communist terrorists will to fight and, most inportantly, to
discourage local indigenous tribesmen from joining communist ranks.
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4.
Phase IV - Evaluation
The NCTTT Program will be subject to close and contin-
uing evaluation Ly a BRDC Test and. Evaluation Team organized
and fielded by the JSOPG. Comprehensive records and test data
will be gathered and analyzed in order to amend operational con-
cepts and organizations as well as administrative, logistical,
The Test and Evaluation Team
and training techniques as required.
should adhere to accepted principles of field experimentation
as appropriate; e.g., the evaluation should be an elaboration
of common sense and convenient ordering of evaluation matters
so that the Hunter/Killer Teams encounter minimum interruptions.
Upon completion of the Evaluation Phase the T&E
“Unit will make appropriate recommendations to MRDC for continua-
tion and expansion of the NCTTT Program beyond the 12 month
planned period.
5. Phase V Expansion of Operations
See Figure 1.
As indicated on Figure 1, preparation for the
Expansion of Operations Phase commences in the tenth week
of the NCTTT with the organization of the Second RTG Provisional
SO H/K Platoon. The six-week training program for the Second.
Platoon starts the 13th week upon graduation of the Firs Platoon.
The second Flatoon deploys in the 18th week and conducts Phase
III operations as described in Paragraph D. above.
Commencing with the 14th week, the Third Provisional
RTG SO H/K Pltn. is organized commencing training the 18th week,
and Phase III operations the 24th week.
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Sumerating"labain
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„Neaviona anty Sniver
do bunist terrorise
L the me of Phase II tend of t
contas) and follow-
Any recomendation: of the DC & the Supreme Command
will have two options.
(a) Organize the three platoons into a Provi-
"
sional S 1/1 Company (see Figure 6) and continue further opera-
tions, or
and
((6) Reassign Special oneration Tears to RTA,
as required and continue further operations.
During the final three months of the NCTTT Program,
operations will be progressively expanded to provide for protec-
tion of additional villages. Operations will be continued deep.
into onety centrolled areas utilizing helicopter or parachute
insertion techniques.
PALO paracinte insertion techniques will
be employed in areas where the enemy is especially vigilant.
Operations should be carried out whenever possible to ambush,
attack, harrass, and pursue the enemy as far as 10 to 20 miles
inside they bobler of Lacs, providing #LO permission is obtained.
In order to accorelish tuis, safe areas should be established
wit.in friendly or other indigenous tribal villages for
team rest, recuperation, and eventual extraction by helicopter
or The aircraft. rever possible, sibilar operations should
_ conducted Vrown had ORTHOF horder.
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6.
Future Operations
At the end of Phase V the CTTT should have proved
itself as one of the rost effective counter-insurgency programs
available to the RTG. As an example, in 6 months operations
the 72 snipers of the U. S. 9th Division attained over 600
confirmed kills, the majority of which were made at night with
the M-14 rifle/Starlight Scope/SIONICS-MAN-A2 suppressor combin-
ation. In effecting this admirable record, 1.37 cartridges
13
were expended per kill. At the current cost of 28¢ for one
National Match cartridge, this averages to 38¢ per kill.
This
is obviously an oversimplification, but it highlights an extremely
successful and economical method of countering communist terrorism
along the borders of Thailand.
As a final note, this type of operation is as yet
in its nascent stages. Complete operational techniques that will
result from execution of the 12 month NCTTT will undoubtedly
disclose additional and more effective techniques of killing or
neutralizing communist terrorists in Thailand and will contribute
immeasurably to bringing stability and RTG control into its
border areas.
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NCTTT PROGRAM
CONTRACT MONTHS
0
1
2₁
3
4
5
7
8
4
10
11
12
1 2 3 4
6
8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36
'S
NG. CNTR.
CL. & ORG. PERS.
RAINING PROGRAM
ORGANIZE: PLINS.
ESTABLISH SOP'S & LN
W/RTAF, BPP & TNP
UNITS
INSERTION OF H/K TMS.
IN TAOR'S
2.12
OPNL PHASE: H/K &
PSYCH OPS. OPNS.
EVALUATION PHASE
EXPANSION PHASE
2ND PLTN ORGN
2ND PLTN TRNG
2ND PLTN OPNS
3RD PLTN ORGN
3RD PLTN TRNG
3RD PLTN OPNS
FIGURE I OPERATIONAL SCHEDULE
NCTTT
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LIAISON AS
RQD WITH:
RT ARMY
RT AIR FORCE
RT NAVY
BPP
TAP
etc.
SIONICS
fr. 1. Werbell
(To be
Desig.)
RAINING
PLANNING &
OPNS GROUP
Sniper School
Sp. Opns.
Instrs.
NCTTT MANAGEMENT
SCAF
ACH DAWEE
DER. EDUCATION
& ENGINEERING
VAH MANOB
APC
PRASART
JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS
PLANNING GROUP
SCAF
(To be
Desig.)
1st ETC.PWLEPLOPNS.
HUNTER/KILLER PITH
MIME
(To be
Desir.)
FIGURE 2 ORGANIZATION AHE MANAGEMENT
NCTTT
DON WITH:
OTHERS
As Req:
JUSING
SSOM
ARPA
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AREA
MACTHA:
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RTG PROVISIONAL SPECIAL OPERATIONS
HUNTER/FILLIRIBLATOON
SP
BUTTER KILLER
HUNTTE-HILLER
TALY
TM CH
3 Jr. 800/EM
SNIPERS
1
1 co
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1th Sgt.
Cuismith
1 Jr. 60/12-RTO
SP OPNS
Tr. 001-
Sniper/DF;.
33 Jr. NCW/E!
42 lota!
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FIGURE
RTG FROV. SO H/K PLTN.
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RTG PROVISIONAL
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SPECIÁL OPERATIONS
HUNTER/KILLER PLATOON
LIST OF MAJOR ITEMS OF EQUIPMENT
1. PLATOON HEADQUARTERS (1 Set)
J.
INDIVIDUAL EQUIPMENT
2 -14 Accurized Rifles
2 ART Sniper Scopes (N-84 Scope, Alternate)
2 Sionics MAW-A2 Suppressors
2 VARO Starlight Scores
2 M-16 w/MAW-Al Sup.
1 PRC-25 or Egiv. Radio Trans./Recvr.
PLATOON WEAPONS & EQUIPMENT POOL (1 Set)
8 M-16 X/MAW-Al Sup.
8. M-10 Ingram SHG w/Sionics Sup.
8 Pistol (To be desig.) w/Sionics Sup.
5 Cases B-40 Mini-Hand Grenades
10 Cases HALFA 35mm Phosphorus Grenades
1000 Rounds 38, .45 or 9mm Flare Bullets
Demolition and Incendiary Equipment and Supplies as required
'SO ´H/K_OR] H/K TEAM: EQUIPMENT (4 Sets)
9. M-14 Accurized Rifles
!
9 ART Sniper Scopes (M-84 Scope, Alt.).
9. Sionics MAN-A2 Suppressors
9 VARO Starlight Scopes
1 PRT-4 Radio Transmitter
9 PRT-9 Helmet Radio Receivers..
Demolition and Incendiary Supplies and Equipment as required
FIGURE 4 EQUIPMENT
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TACTICAL AREA OF OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
(TAOR)
TYPICAL H/K TEAM AREA DEPLOYMENT
LAOS
MEKONG RIVER
RTA OF
WPP taft
MIZE ATCHE
THAT AND
ARLY MONTH
RTA
APP Unit
ATCHD
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AREA
190
WAY
WEST
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со HO
1 Capt. Co., Cmdr.
1. Lt: XO
1 1st Sgt.
1 Jr. NCO/EM-RTO
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STRENGTH
5. O
SP OPNS
HUNTER KILLER
19 NCO
100 Jr. NCO/EM
124 Total
SPEC. OPNS
HUNTER KILLER
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PART 1: Planning, Preparation, and Training Phases
TIME AND COST ESTIMATE
TIME PERIOD COVEREDE
months
PERFORMANCE DURING PERIOD:
Phase 1: Planning, Preparation
and installation of Training
Center, through
Phase II: Organization and Training.
ESTIMATE OF PROJECT COSTS
1
Salaries (direct charges at actual rate):
Program Director, Senior Technical Advisor level:
man-mos @ $
av. per man-mo.·
mo..
Assistant Director, Technical Advisor, or Engineer level:
Totals
man mos. @ $
av. per man-mo.
Gunsmith, Armorer, or Technician level;
man-mos. @
Total billable salaries:
av. per man-mo.
Salary related costs (Employee insurance, Overseas pay
incentives, sick leaves, etc. Estimated at
%
Overtime premium pay
Estimated at
Office and Secretarial:
Purchased expendable materials and services:
Travel:
Long-distance communication charges:
TOTAL ESTIMATED COSTS
FIXED FEE (7%)
TOTAL: Estimated Costs and Fixed Fee
ARMAMENT AND EQUIPMENT
To be negotiated at a later date depending on availability
of arms and equipment through Thai or U.S. Government
official channels.
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PART I: Operational and Evaluation, Phase
TIME AND COST ESTIMATE
TIME PERIOD COVERED;
months
PERFORMANCE DPŘESC PERIOD: Phase III: Deployment, Insertion and
initiation of Operations, through
Phase IV: Evaluation of Program
ESTIMATE OF PROJECT COSTS
Salaries (direct charges at actual rates):
Prograin Director, Senior Technical Advisor level:
man-mos. @ $
man-mos. @@ $
av. per man-mo.
Assistant Director, Technical Advisor, or Engineer level:
av. per man-mo..
av. per man-mo.
Gunsmith, Armorer, or Technician level:
man-mos. @ $
Total billable salaries:
Salary related costs (Employee insurance, Overseas pay
incentives, sick leaves, etc. Estimated at
Overtime premium pay
Office and Secretarial:
Estimated at
Purchased expendable materials and services:
Travel:
Long-distance communication charges:
TOTAL ESTIMATED COSTS.
FIXED FEE (7%)
TOTAL: Estimated Costs and Fixed Fee
ARMAMENT AND EQUIPMENT
To be negotiated at a later date depending on availability
of arms and equipment through Thai or U.S. Governinent
official channels.
Totals
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TIME AND COST ESTIMATE
TIME PERIOD COVERED:
months
PERFORMANCE DURING PERIOD: Phase V: Expansion of Operations.
ESTIMATE OF PROJECT COSTS
Salaries (direct charges at actual rates):
Program Director, Senior Technical Advisor level:
man-mos. @ $
man-mos. @ $
av. per man-mo.
Assistant Director, Technical Advisor, or Engineer levels
av. per man-mo.
Gunsmith, Armorer, or Technical level:
man-mos @ $
Total billable salaries:
av. per man-mo.
Salary related costs (Employee insurance, Overseas, pay
incentives, sick leaves, etc. Estimated at
Overtime premium pay
Office and Secretarial:
Estimated at
Purchased expendable materials and services:
Travel:
Long-distance communication charges:
TOTAL ESTIMATED COSTS
FIXED FEE (7%)
TOTAL: Estimated Costs and Fixed Fee
ARMAMENT AND EQUIPMENT
To be negotiated at a later date depending on availability
of arms and equipment through Thai or U.S. Government
official channels.
Totals
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weapons and delivering them by air throughout the world. Mr. Baker
understands that Mr. Werbell does this for the Central Intelligence
Agency.
Mr. Baker says that Mr. Werbell is a supposedly reputable man.
Baker understands, from Werbell, that Baker will have to get a
CIA security clearance to fly for Werbell.
Mr. Baker has served in the military. He has had some paramilitary;
training. He belongs in a "jump club" and now participates in
"freefall", etc. He has a Morse Code proficiency and a Radio
License Second Class.. He has Spanish language proficiency and would
be willing to collect for us.
This man persists on pursuing me re this CIA/Werbell relationship.
I tell him I don't know a thing about it. It seems he has a smuggling
record when he was 17 and he's afraid this may keep him from getting
this Werbell "CIA" clearance.
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When wear breaks out
antyichère in the world,
former OSS man
Mitch WörBell is eager
and able to supply
weapons to either side-
or both. And he's
only one of several
high-flying operators in
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♫ It is entirely possible, as claimed, that
none of America's high-ranking officials
terrived any advance warning of the out-
break of tilities which ended in Israel's
“blintzkrieg" viðtory over her Arab neigh-
hors. But at least one American authority-
on modern warface did. He is a ruddy.
moustached, romrod-backed, navetime OSS
operative námi, Mitchell Livingston
Werbell (H. Two days before the Middle
Nast fighting began last June; be left his
Georgia comitry manor an hour before
daybreak, drove the 25 miles to Atlanta
airport in 19 minutes and boarded a jet for
New York hand carrying a large, square
valie which had been custom-hade for him
in Germany.
In Manhattan, WerBell checked in at the
City Squire, Den, went to a double room
still carrying the calise, and set it between
his legs while he made several phone calls
to mithers he looked up in a slim leather
notebook, Precisely at noon, his mentered
the elevator and pushed the "lubby" button
with the ushtried coal of someqe abso
lutely certain phot'a chauffeur-driven
He is suiting downstairs which
he was which it was.
A couple of homes Later, after emissing
Vyakaran nad boarding a private gerbt
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other Caritheen mission, small boat is town close so
that cours can be tranferred for speedy run to the shore.
on the East River, Werbell finally opened
his valise and displayed its contents: a
half-dozen missile guns, both hand and
shoulder weapons, which fire a small, self-
guided rocket instead of the conventional
ballet. Werbell had designed and built
some of them himself.
Around him, crowding the yacht's state.
room, solid-looking, souber men watched
intently as WerBell demonstrated the new
firearms awesome potential. Later that
evening, recalling the demonstration over
a drink back in the city, Werbell would
describe his nautical hosts only by saying,
"They were... let's just call them very
important friends of Israel. They'd been
warned that within days the Mideast would
be at war. They were there to make sure.
that one way or another Israel got a crack
at the very best weaponry there is. Not just
for the campaign ahead, but for the stand-
off which is bound to keep the Middle East
under tension for years.'
Clagdestine meetings like this are part
of Mitch WerBell's stock intrade. He is a
firearms broker of the new breed known
as M.M.'s--munitions manipulators. In a
world of lagdized wars--from Yenien to
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Arms brokers are a curious blend of past and present. Here Werbell, dashing as a Prussian noble, tests MBA rocket pistol.
Werbell, who likes to design arms as well as sell their, examines
some of his collection in the "weapons veoma" of his Georgia home.
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Angola to Bolivia--M.M.'s are the new
V.I.P.'s of international politics. It is their
business to know even before diplomats do
„where tensions are brewing that bring po-
tential customers. Their most satisfying
status symbol is the discovery that some
where on the globe their merchandise, is
shooting away, back and forth, on both
sides of the same conflict.
Heading south from Miami, one's first
look at the Bahamas schooners and con-
verted subchasers plowing the blue water
with cargoes of arms from such dealers, de-
calls nothing so much as the rum-rumming
boom of Prohibition years. But a diligent
student soon discovers that alcohol and
armaments have little in common; the
munitions business is a vast, worldwide
trade infencing the destiny of govern
ments, nations, political parties—and the
men who command them.
Take the retent assassination attempt
against Santo Domingo's military strong
mah. Gen. Antonio Imbert. Driving home-
ward on Henriques Erena Street. Generál
Iubest suddenly a shyen silver stars.
spart across the aldehield of his Cadilla
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shapes, not an unstral pattern to find the
various pacts of the world today.
On the gud praitics, ice formed in
the cricks. As the ice built up. more
wil was showed up into the polypus of
earth sold the clicks themselves widened,
Finally the earth blocks froze too. With
a big throw ser in the ice in the cracke
thawed faster than the carth blocks and
fowed away, leaving big polygons of
Carth standing on the prairies.
What happened next is what happens
to a mibing ice cube. Its outside edges
melt away first so that the cube dwindles
into a sphere. The polygons of earth went
duough the same process, The tommers
of the earth blocks thawed faster than
the sides. Then, while the cores were still
frozen, the whole area was submerged
for a short time by an ice-choked flood
river. The rush of water swept away the
thawed material and when the water sub-
sided, what was left were dome-shaped
Mima mounds.
In areas where the running water had
covered them for only a short time, the
mounds were hig. Where the water flowed
longer, more thawing took place and the
monds here small.
A very satisfying theory. But as usual,
other scientists have picked Raws in it.
For one thing, they question if the area
had the sort of climate which Ritchie de..
scribes. They say it was not much colder
during the mound-forming period than
it is today. And they doubt if the prairies
were swept by a flood of water deep
enough to over all the mounds. It would
have had to be over 100 feet deep.
Soine of the critics are gopher-theory
men. The pocket-gopher theory has been
Paround for 25 years, gaining supporters
steadily. It particularly excites biologists,
because if Mima mounds really turn out
to have been made by gophers, they
would be dye inust Extracrdinary series
nees at not the biggest ever made by
any anal cept man.
This poples pusschility fust ocentred
to Wale W. Dubquist back in 1911 when
be was inaking a survey of the momands
of wuthon Washington. He hater-devel-
aped the theory with Victor Sheller, a
tologist with the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, an
As they joint out, wherever there are
Mima mounds, there are also gophers,
with the exception of Mina Prairie where
the finest mounds of all are found, And
at one time there were gophers on Mima
Prairie, too. Evidence proves in.
The goplier they are talking about is
a small brown animal, boks ratlier like
a rot, and is called a "porker" gopher be
cause it has a fur-lined pocket in its
check for carrying around food and nest
material.
This is the way thie biologists explain
the gopher theory. As the Vashon ice
Sheet retreated, and Vegetation grew up in
its wake, pocket gophers began moving
in from the south, probably only ad-
vancing a liundred feet or so in a gopher
generation. Finally at the southern end
of Puget Sound, they ran into a new
young evergreen forest which had sprung
up ahead of them.
Gophers will not live in the shade of
a forest so instead of pushing on farther.¸
they dug in on the prairies. As a pro-
tection against predators they dug deep.
Each Mima mound represents what at
one time was the "territory" of an ancient
gopher family. When they built their •
foraging tunnels, they kept on dragging a
little more soil back toward the home site
than they took away from it. After thou
sands of years, those infinitesimal amounts
of soil would have built up into a Mina
mound. The mysterious mound roots
"But Bot
which extend into the gravel below the
wande aandoned gode tunnels
which inve filled up with tick silt.
Mima mounds have
inued roots" opponents of the theory.
point out. Flicy clip at other deiads, too.
As one geologist whole. "After diligent
search more than 30 Stones, rooging in
size from two to 20 inches in diameter
have been found inside the mounds, well
above their base." And how could any
gopher shove a stone the size of a football
up to the top of his nest?".
What the next theory will be is any
body's guess, but the altimate touch of
confusion has already been added. There
are those who say the Mima mounds are
growing. Nor is this a new idea. Over 30
years ago, farmers in the area started
talking about it. "Sure they're growing.
When I was a kid they were level with the
top of the chicken coop. Now they're
several fuches taller."
The growing theory cannot be passed
off with a hearty chuckle either. Some
keen observers have been taking the idea
seriously-Doctor Sheffer, for one-ai
though nobody can prove scientifically
whether they are growing, shrinking or
staying the same. In fact, only one thing.
is sine about the whole Mima hassle. If
something is not done soon, there will
not be many Mima mounds-left to puzzle
over. Autes of thein have been leveled for
fanaing. Still others have been dug up
for gravel pits and cut through for high-
ways and railroads. Not that the conser
vation-minded. State of Washington
would ever let them disappear entirely.
A good thing, too. Because if those mys
tery mounds readly are growing, we are
going to have more. puzzles to grapple
with-like what on earth is making them
grow bigger? And where, by all that is
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tie heard the starter of silencer equipped
submachine guns, he knew that a long-
anticipated event was taking place-
an attempt was being made to kill him.
To duck the assassiný bullets, the gen
cral dropped sideways. His arm suaked
behind the front seat of the limousine
"where his own submachine gun hung in
a rack. But Imbert's life was saved by a
different and wholly unexpected sort of
weapon.
In the escent jeep, the general's chief
bodyguard, Maj. Marino Garcia, Hicked
a spring-loaded switch on the brown
leather swagger stick under his arm. The
stick-suddenly converted into a mini-
ature missile launcher-spat forth'a high
speed 50 caliber rocket projectile. With
Chilling "S OOSE” the small missile.
firma the most powerful handguat now in
existence blew apart the windshield of
the attackers Oldsmobile. The car farted.
and iter.
Ourside the island, confines of the ho
minican Republic (where it set off yet
another atqual crisis), melundy head
the news of the ombash with gecater in
terest then Werthell. He was delighted
JANUARY 1969
by General Umbert's escape. He has warm,
personal clations with a number of
Latin strong men, and the pouly Domini-
can warlord has been an especially close
friend. And it was Werbell who had in
“vented and delivered the shooting stick
that apparently saved the situation.
Moreover. Werbell discovered, from a
detailed description of the assassins' guns.
that the ambush weapons, too, came from
a lot he had passed on to the Dominican
anned forces some years cñlier.
In relation to the total worldwide, mu-
nitions trade the equipment supplied by
the private dealers is à drop in the seas
the world over, in munitions is esti
ated at 350 billion dollars a year, Still,
munitions manipulators like Werbell
account for the fastesegrowing portion
of this vast business,
The impact of private arms ship.
mens into the underdeveloped world
has been sensation." wrote, military
specialist Jack Rigpond of The New
Folk Time's last year. "So fragile are the
Instuments of government, o sleader,
som times, the use of propark or support.
tulagrable are they..that the timely
nival of see mysterious ams pierebant
Can piena Survival of one regime or the
fili of andthed
Cue werk laa March, 210 Americans.
were killed in Viet Nam. During the same
week in Latin America, where unde
clared guerrilla warfare rages in half-a-
dozen countries, the death toll was near
300.
These guerrilla conflicts are no longer
waged with fowling pieces and cane
Hades. The guerrillas are as well armed
as the goverminent troops." the U.S. Cen-
tral ftelligence Agency revealed re-
cently. "Often, the guerrillas' weapons
are more modern. And they fire thou
sands of rounds in each encounter."
The regular armies, in turn, are grow.
ing anxious to reestablish their traditional
overwhelming superiority in firepower.
Hard pressed, they are tuiding to con
troversial ordnance--mapalm, harsh nause
cous gases, special infantry rockets built
to smash entite houses--which must often
be bought in the black market.
Down briefly from its World War II
peaks, the munitions business began to
dise again in the late Igle's. For a while,
however, age well-organized corpora
Tiens controlled most of it. A firm called
Titterá oco, for example, had become a
worldwide, otopus by 1958. Indepen
dent operators found ibat it as often
possible to operate with Internco.
hat sellem to compete with je, 'When in
the fate spring of 1958, the ULS, State De-
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partment did an odd. little publicized
thing: it suddenly revoked licenses to ex
port munitions to the Cuban govern
ment of President Batista.
General Batista had long been one of
Washington's favorite clients, but Cuba
was racked by internal disorders. The
State Department had decided as a pol-
itical gesture to curtail the low of arms
to him. By 19 the fical U.S. line on
selling firearms bad become completely
confused. An old friend would be sul-
-denly denied a paid-up munitions ship.
ment, an ostensible outcast in, say, the
Middle East, would be suddenly invited
to bid on some coveted hardware.
The great, corporations were ham-
stung by the State Department's vacil
lations, independent ordnance salesmen
moved into the vacuum. Less troubled by
red tape and day today policy changes.
they were prepared to make deals and
deliver goods wifily. A new prototype
of global gun merchant emerged--the
successful munitions manipulator. He
cape wearing custom made English trop
icals and a platinum banded watch. He
talked in the vernacular of the British
officers' mess, adopted by the whole inter-
national fireanas Iraternity,
M.M.'s Lover a broad spectrum. They
range from the officially licensed, emi
nently respectable Werbell to a myster
ious, Hungarian teen munitions Sales.
man, whose Efelong skill in using false
documents is believed to have inspired
the Continental underworld term Han
destpasder, ie, man of a hundred pass
poris,
With
exceptions, successful
M.M's seem to shae an upper-class or
military dakground. They often arrive
at the manichons Isiness through years
of devotion to fiicains is gun collectors
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or tinkerers. Mitch Werbell was still a
gun hobbyist, who planted and shipped
tropical fruits for a living when he de
veloped-in his home workshop-what is
today considered the finest muzzle si-
lencer on the international manket.
Šure political instinct and diplomatic
skill are essential in the successful ma
nipulation of munitions,
Andrew McNaughton"" scion of Cana
da's most distinguished military dynasty
and a
former RAF squadron leader
turned arms dealer, explained: "The
tellows who got somewhere in this busi
Bess all started out with a common in-
sight. The big onporations had grown
ised to dealing with governments, but
the independents, who were a lot smaller
and quicker on their feet, recognized that
it was easier to deal with government
departments.
"Someone, say, had a nice order for
machine gunsfom, perhaps, a group
of Kurdish freedom lighteis who cany
their hundhez-dollar bills oiled as thick
as a teleplice Leak. Then he had a nice
offer froin, say, an arms firm in Hambing
to
a "No" from the State Depariment, your
could 
dan go to the UEA, or the DIA,
the military aire establishment.
and get a Ye-provided you were small
bugh and say enough to do it quietly
and kick no furnitung on the way, Of
course, it is a bit jer this way, turning
the nick. You have to charge more. But
then you often make a bit more, too.”
His seems to be a paint on which most
M.M.'s agree. Charles Meys, a philosophis
cal Haitian (Eddicted, but never con
victed, my friend!") put it this way:
"
Everyone knows that small countries
are changeable. They have many sulsę
quent governments. A lot of the big cor
porations had learned to live with that,
But the small independents appreciated
something else--that big powers tend to
have many simultaneous governmente”
the oner: MG34 machine guns,"
almost as good as new-better than some
Mess grinned a huge, white, trinn
phant grin, “It's the same East and West.
Think not Russia? England? France?
No difference, my friend. Remember last
year the Moroccan governinent went to
the French Foreign Office trying to ex
tradite one of their eviles, Ben Barka?
Yes? And the French Foreign Office said,
Non, non, our traditions of political
asylum the sacred freedom of choice
...and patat, and patate. So the Moroc
cans went to the invisible government, to
French Imtélligence. And they made a
little deal. And French Intelligence, just.
said, 'How d'you want this Ben Barka
delivered, bagged or crated? Eh? No dif-
feience, my friend."
spare breech towar in for $220 each,
beled anno with il nacersplaced, 8225
per thousand rounds-everything very
nice. 
Except that to move the shipment
out of West Germany and arowed the
would, you needed a quiet laley
from Washington. Which Because that's
the way modern bec politics works. I
suppose. Anyhow, you wear to Washingt
ton, clear eyelasting, and the State
Department said, 'Nar
Now the big corporation wight my a
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other "No,"
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perdeyers but discounted in if you get
It is a fact, shared by governmental in
siders around the world, that great-power
politics have sen a resurgence of old-
fashioned Machiavellianism. Take the
curious case of John Richard Hawke. 29.
a bearded Britisher from Cornwall she
after eight years in the RAF, has turn
up as an M.M. doing ferry flying by ap
pointment-henger planes and bomb
sights a speciality.
One day carly last year, Eugenie An
derson a U.S." representative in the
United Nations spoke in the General
Assembly. She seemed to be promising
that this man Hawke would go to prison
for a longg og ume. It appeared a
curious UN undertaking. Hawke had
not yet been convicted of anything. He
still hasn't been. But the background
of the matter illuminates the workings of
modern munitions dealings.
Portugal, a NATO ber ined of
some ground support planes for its fortes
in Angala and Mobique, had a
proached Washington with a request to
buy 29 B26 Invader bombers. "Mili
State Department's singgestion, the w
quest was turned down; the US, in t
United Nations, had promised not t
purvey supplies for "lonial wales
But there were aber agencies in Was
ingon more favorality disposed to l
tugal, perhaps because they were trood
by the Angolan gills, perdis
other reasons. At any gore, the sirens
was readymade for Sperienced MM
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gal in less than the mouths. Otensibly
Headed (oy itsdeaus, Figure, he flew in
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was met by the Cante de Beaumont, rep.
resenting a Swiss munitions fim.
Hawke way paid $3,000 for each light,"
Although expenses ate up
1501 thirds of
the fee, the deal seemed satisfactory...
"Those plaies had bomly racks, arinor
plating, ready gumports there could be
no question in anyone's mind what they
"were for," he told a visitor reçetirly in
Miami. Nevertheless, a question of sorts.
arose in some minds. One day Hawke
was arrested and charged with violating
the US. Munitions Act by exporting
bombers without written State Depart
ment approval.
Gamekian novel. A insane cavalry
sidan of the Royal Honegation Horse
Antithery, be worked his way up in the
Grearms Musiness Lecare itidial his
to fiftlong neviest gatas and money.
After World Who He belere, a
handsome cosarp-dite who
yoke five languages, rose to quick emis
mace in the Lunepean contraband barsi
ness. In the early fitties, be moved his
berdquaters to South America and
turned to the monitions business. He
conecotrated on foolproof methods of
adivering contraband by sea.
De Fekete's lentele was divided.
equally between rebels and governments
equity in the same county.
"With rebels you have an easier sale."
he once told a friend. "They want what
ever you can get for them. But with goy-
ernments you have an easier delivery."
Such an expert trader along the "Mos
quito Coast" as Andrew McNaughton
confirms that doing business with arms-
hungry banana regines demands à rather
large variety of special skiffs, "The first
time went to Cuba-before Castro
with a very nice list of secondhand miti.
rary merchandise." McNaughton recalled,
"Latiought it would be a simple sales deal.
At the trial, the prosecution main-
tained that the United States govern
ment had neither known about, or coun-
tenanced Hawke's flights. The pilot bad
alone defender: Edwin Manger, a Miami
lawyer-pilot, who has been developing"
munitions law into a specialty. Manger,
proved that US, intelligence did have 2 was offering first-rate stuff at bar
facit knowledge of the plane exports to
Portugal.
Ferrying his third 1-26, Hawke had
down into a pea soup fog over Washing
ton and blundered as a prohibited
zone over the White House. The Federal
Aviation Agency radioed up an urgent
‘order to land. When Hawke put the 3-26
down at Washington National Airport,
he was inspected and questioned. By
using the code word "Sparow," Hawke
got clearance to continue his Hight. After
Hawke's arrest, there seemed to be no
proof that the incident ever occurred.
The original FAA report of the incident
had mysteriously vanished. But Manger
finally managed to come up with a copy
of the report. Together with the Customis
declaration for the same plane, it proved
the lawyer's point sufficiently to bring
on pequitat.
"The jury realized some official lanky.
pánky must have been involved," Marger
explained, and they felt Hawke should
not be made the goat."
Marges. however, appreciates the
American dilemma: "Keep in mind,” he
says, "what a variety of toles a great power
must play. In the UN it must play the be
nign anticolonialist. At an international
conference, the principled pacifist. In
the legislature, the protector of its domes
tie armaments industry, whose congres
sional friends resent restrictions on ex-
ports. In a seciet emergency meeting with
Saate battle-way Larin president," it
BRUISE he the powerful antiguerilla
leader. In its own National Security.
Commeil, it st be the champion of
workhide strategic interests. And so
forth there's no way to reconcile all this
in public. That's whine the M.M.", come
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Bu, it wasn't..
gain prices" McNaughton" explained,
"Belgian ceramic-jacketed hand gienades
by the hundred at $1.75 eade" su plús
Garands with spate clips at SH: English
Staghound armored cars under $11,000.
Te aspak cisely what than thbankingedet
and the generals with whom kind dialy
arctings could barely coned their in
terest.
"Then, one evening there was a knock
on my hotch toon door. It was the Cuban
CinC's secretary, Pancho, He told me
my Walls WATC Satisfactory, but whe
hin' 1 given the general a price lists
What do you mean? I said. "We've been
talking prices for five days, Pancho just
grinned. You know, McNaughton," he
Said, 'you're an imficcife, but you're a
pilot and like pilots-I'm a pilot myself.
Let me show you what a price list is”
In the tropical weapons trade. Mc
Naughton leaned a "price list" is the
most important sales gimmick. For each.
item, three different prices must be listed.
One is the curent market price of the
item in question, brand-new, retail: for 1
an M-1 rifle atris iniglit be 2100. The sec
ond price shows the amount for which
the weapon had been purchased: in the
case of an M-1 rifle, offered as surplus by
a government which had bought it in
1916 and warehoused it ever since, the
original price may have been a lot lower,
say 580. The third figure is the real sales
price which the salesman is asking for
This surplus item- in the case of the same
rifle, this real sales price might be $50.
To dlow the dead; you must conclude
by making up two hills of site, said Mc-
Naughton. "One lists de curient, brand.
new market, price-this goes to the gen
eral's auditors. The second bill of sale
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is the arsteunt pl. Krapons known is
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hess of cadmance which soll steadily
everywhere from the Comto to Cadal
bamba. There is for exdiaple, the 28mm
automatic diation, priced anywhere from
$120 to sati, Delivery price will depes!
on condition, availability, “accesibility of
ammunition and shipment difficulties
(open or clandestine?).
Olier longtime favorites are the
Browning Automatic Rifle (from 195
to $300); the big-bang M Garand rife
(81045 $135); the Enfield No. 1. popa-
lar because of its low price (around $25;
the Madsen .30 cal. machine gun (8203
to 8550): the infantryman's Big Daddy:
the 30 cal. Browning machine gun
($100 to $1.009), and the 57mm, recoif
tesstille, which will convert a launch into
ca warship at close age and in the jungle
Can make a guerrilla platoon's firepower
qnal regimental aitillery (fionį. Š146a
to $3.6. Mabile perennials are the
B26 bomber. the Staghound "armored
car and the T-28 jet trainer.
But it is the modern, hard to get weap
pms. kept in short supply by political
Considerations, which are in greatest de
mand. The AS developed M-79 grenade
Launcher: which looks and handles like
a stout, single-barrel Shotgun but fires
40mm, grenade shell or bazooka rocket
with rulelike accuracy, commands up to
$1,700, ammo extra. There is great in
tries in the science-fictioa MBA rocker
guns which fae small, self-guided ballistic
missiles at twice the velocity of the block
buster-nagnum cartridges--and without
Aplosion er scoil. The experimental
Bechette praying light bombs, which ex-
plode with a dhundhurst of thousands of
Giny barks, are overed by militarists and
"needom fights" alike, as is the fan-
tastic Bow Bhage-intensifying and beat-
:8
stella, Hary? phọ, td the to
aching superstiges, which let the differ
ma see aid shoot as well at mifight
as at loop.
This carous mixture of add and se
pose iserelles, d in the pebondity
of the sessted MMPS. Fer all alch
page est in mandious reinsd
par
than
bos Fagor sight wing satanizas
d
aid to have killed
alms decks in five
Simple keep down the those ofrutas na
Ms during the hot war, ot
Handed wartar. One i themi
Swissler named Manive
Tropeh was kille! with a prisoned
arrow.
Misforter usually citrics under his
am a paper bag containing reading
material. Kamen Allones, cigas,
and a fully loaded National March Col
11 automatic pistol. His evo bodygady
cany the same model of pinol in capty
their napkins when dining in a res
tamañ
this perioda! endesk rends in be
cainly oki Lashband. Perhaps because
of an inner diation with adsen
taras types of a bygone past, they tend
10 charming, eccie, turn of the
century maris, this is true even of such
Old style pistol packing characters ay Ro
Lando 
Masferrer, who is often called the
Caribbean's most feared gang lord, Aadigar sex which they place. beside
astonishingly literate, brilliant, entic
Cuban who was raised in the United
States and graduated at the head of his
law school class, Masleiter has been las
cinated by violence since his first rage of
left half his left foot in Spain, but came
it at 19. in the Spanish Civil War. He
out of the hospital an under of the Inter-
national Brigade and for years afterward
lived the life of an international Commu
nist Party enforcer...
After World War I. Masfenter swung
to the tight and liecame a newspaper ty.
com, senator, caple magpate and over:
ford of the Caribbean's biggest gang of
guamen. Now living in the United States
hes a colorful demonstration of the.
mysterious ways of munitions manipula-
tion. While oficially restricted to resi
deme in the State of New York. he
managed to equip, in Máni, a 300 man
Haiti uvasion antay with everything
from infantry boots to a B-25 burner.
Now der indictment for this Stunt.
Ma-fener is awaiting nis! in the Miami
Federal court.
The last time the US government.
tried to convict him on similar changes.
he got the case thrown out of court-
much like Hawke-by pointing out that
"I wasafi deing anything the governmeld
was not doing, ton."
Other hazards in the trade can be more
onging. Since the Korean War. at least
20 and possibly mite as many--M.M.'s
have been murdered. the "Red Hand,"
it were the last dan obath
U
Right now Africa, where live bullets
have been known to replace coins as the
preferred tender, is the most fenile. priv.
Ste firearmis naiker, Latin America cuanes
next with a huge turnover in hardware
of every kind. Comparative volume is
hard to establish, because the same fire-
anis rasch back and forth repeatedly,
from country to county, continent to
continent, wherever supply and demand
may take then.
The injectory of such fireatins from
factory to bring line can be fantastically
faciting. The following history has been
put together of a 20mm, caution sold to
Haitian rebels last year. The carinon was
made in Finland during World War II
and 
used on the Soviet front. In the late
forties, it was sold in a lot to an Inter
amca agent in exchange for some car
loads of Sten guns. Shipped to haly, it
was taken over by Dominick de Fekete
in one of his first weapons sentures and
sold to the buzeli Haganah. In 1950 in
eturned 9 De Fekete in the mixed lot of
surplus Istacli hardware consigned to
Costa Rica to 1955, it made a second
transatlantic trip. back to the Mediter
anean, where agents of the Algerian
FLN was waiting for it in Tunis, to
1960 it went overseas again, to Panama,
and thence mirth to the United States, in
a shipload äicially described as "De
activated War Souvenirs." It was then
sold to Cuban rebels for delivery by aire
Shop to the Sienta treabay mountains,
But something went wrong with the de
Hivery and the common endest up firing in-
stead in Santo Domingo. In 1985 in was
bought hark is Miami in a mysterious
converted subchaser koan as the Texana,
Later the same year, it was aequired by
Rolando Maserier. In ad 1966 May
fter sold it. in a mixed bangload of
light weapons, 16 a group of rebels pre-
pating to invade Haiti ride the käiler-
Ship of a Catholic priest.
In a quizes of a commons, the camion
hase action in à Falf dozen wars-Lig
and soil and bought sizeable puodas
1 each M.M. which ouch and sold it.
And how do
ksfect also
their business,
Midi We EU sjenard up the agi
tode the finerary when he tahta visi
or recently:
"Please don't eat me a merchant of
dark All it to nets, is that I've been
quid of gas all my life. Chips dard kill
prak kalf prople.
Sa i tak lehote among in
ented tha
7. Anne St. George
THE MANS MAG
2
14-00000
FB! document dated.
11 May 67
re: Wer Bell, Mitchell-
Haiti
14-00000
FBI
document dated.
2 Midy 1967 from New York
re Ralph Lauro Serrano
14-00000
FBI document Catcil
12 June 1967 from New York
re: Chet Gray

1400000
FBI document dated
11 JAN '67
•re: Wer Bell, Mitchell Livingston, ITL