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MEMORANDUM TO: WH/C/OPS
SUBJECT
: Call from Mr. Dick Philips (State)
Regarding the Arrest of AMLEO-3
1. Mr. Dick Philips said that he received a call from
Mitchell 
L. WER-
BELL about the arrest of AMLEO-3. The
following 
information is contained in CIA files regarding
Mr. WER-BELL:
"Subject was born March 1918, in Philadelphia.
He served in the OSS during World War II and later opened
a public relations 
and advertising firm in Atlanta. During
the past three 
years he has entered various import/export
ventures in Latin 
America and Florida. He was in the
Dominican Republic during the past summer. He is well-known
to this Agency and is 
categorized as unscrupulous and a
promoter with 
grandiose schemes. Although he has offered
to 
work for us, he has never been used. He claims close
friendship with many Latin American political and military
figures."
2. The three Cubans that WER-BELL reported arrested
are Jose 
Ricardo 
RABEL Nunez (AMLEO-3), Gilberto Fondora
and Miguel 
Ramos. These men were crew members of the JURE
mother vessel 
VENUS. From JMWAVE reports it appears that
AMLEO-3 was 
attempting to exfiltrate his family, using the
VENUS, when he 
was caught by Cuban security forces on
3 September 
1965
.
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Bryan Mills
C/WH/C/MO/PM
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