124-90124-10056 HY v9.1 "AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : 50953 Daoctd: 32335496 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI . 124-90124-10056 CR 97-3224-7 Document Information FBI MX HQ 08/24/1962 7 MANUEL FUEGO MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 1A; 1B; 4 Redact 09/12/1998 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA MEMO 20 Page i Date: 5/4/2015
= OPTIONAL FORIONO. wo * 4. 3010~104~' Ot - UNITED STATES & ERNMENT M emorandum TO a DIRECTOR, FBI (97-3224) pate: 8/24/62 Nv) . Tp r 7 oF FROM feo Mexace CITY ne (97 72) (Fda Mateteni Ss 2 (a6 NO ORMSGTON TC \ manuEL FUEGO, al edt CE HAS NO ORuapECT: aka SiS Oe ASSRICATION ANDIOR, PEOISTRATION AcT . ‘S Ny ~Y oBVEASE UF CIA wr eweps b as. > i a a is dT, ex o uff TAS BOG vat Bulet 6/28/62 to Assistant Chief of Staff for  § KP 5 el nv Plnés Department of the Army. 7 on 8/13/62, Lt. Col. JOSE LULSXAGUILAR DEXLEON, Minister of Labor and Social. Welfare,. National Palace, my Guatemala City, ‘Guatemala, furnished the following infor- mation: ©) He stated he first met subject as MANUEL’ FIRESTONE, § together with an individual by the name of WERBELL and ON another by the name of KANE several months ago. He sald - >, ha these individuals had somehow met Colonel ENRIQUE ERALTA & #7 as Minister of Defense of the Guatemalan Government. PERALTA be Suein turn asked Lt. Col. AGUILAR DE LEON to sit in oh the | “* “= meeting with subject and the other two as PERALTA and = AGUILAR are close friends and as PERALTA wanted. him 8 -=to act as an interpreter, inasmuch as he speaks good .q@ english. He said still a third reasongw why he was called in was because he had formerly been in“charge.of G-e of the Guatemalan Army and is still connected with Ge even though occupying the position of a Minister. (4 Subject and his companions proposed to sell to the Guatemalan Government arms and ammunition and also offered to provide mercenaries. In the latter regard, they mentioned Cubans, French and other nationalities. At the business with the subject and his companions 8 j ( PERALTA. Colonel PERALTA did not a ocept See be Othe lape pr. (3; pureau Bhp ppeteison Section) OLAS ween EMT i artta) » 1 ‘Case DOLT ye 5 ~ Miami) - HY BS Hocy py S 2 - Washington FieldoO0ffi “, ~ Mexico Clty — SZ (10) SE FCPE aan . | O are —— ee re HW 50953 Docld:32335498 Page 2
Mc o7-72 ECRET Subsequently on several occasions, subject or one of his companions has tried to influence Lt. Col. AGUILAR DE LEON to convince the Minister of Defense to accept their proposition. He said they have invited him to lunch on several occasions, which he has not accepted, and he personally feels that they have wanted to bribe him, but have not directly propositioned him in this regard. He said the last time he heard from them was several weeks ago when they telephoned his residence and left a number where they could be contacted at the Maya Excelsior Hotel in Guatemala City. Lt. Col. AGUILAR DE LEON did not talk to them on this occasion and did not return the call. He stated that he had turned the business: ecards of subject's companions over to Colonel JAMES D. .. ORLAND Army Attache, Guatemala City. He promised ‘sed that “Raabe 4 “should they receive any additional imformation in this “7 ‘regard, he will make it available. itt) On 8/13/62, { Qe the CIA Station, , American Embassy, Guatema ity, advised that MIGUELITO Ae: son of President “gue YDIGORAS of Guatemala, OF had advised him on the previous week that he received 2 ; | | - telephone call from. CWO individuals who, furnished their names as MITCHELL L:’ WERBELL and- ARTHUR J. SMITH. They advised that they were staying at the Maya Excelsior Hotel . and said they were waiting for PINEIRO. They seemed to think PINETRO was someone MIGUELITO. would. know and said that as soon as he arrived._-—thev would contact him regard- ing an important deal [stated that -MIGUELITO ' pequested any information [his office might haven WERBELL, 'SMITH and PINETIRO, as he claimed that he did not know any of these individuals. dvised that thereafter he had sent a wire to his headquarters in Washington and received a reply that approximately three years ago, MITCHELL L. WERBELL was involved in a plan to ship arms to Ecuador. His headquarters advised there was no identifiable information on SMITH. Tt was further informed that there is an individual by the af name of PINETRO who was in Cuban G-2, but it was not known whether this. individual was “identical. on 8/13/62, Qucther adyased chat {he had received a telephone ¢a at day fromMf{IGUELITO YDIGORAS, who stated he had just remembered WERBELL and SMITH mentioned Sry er 4 oe a ee Beye 7 e@- SEGRE Boclda: 32335498 Page 3