2 Uhelpway through @ a iough and Sy ursewur dil. ile, Bre, by conttast, 8 ry business an, be dabbles in military. ‘adven- -e aly’ when and as fares it eults, “Uf cunipat éiéat Litiliste his, he’ .aee partake oft. His business is 4 weapocis, not using thets in vent, Me Special: res inthe weapons at recnuigues ef | epunlerinwar- ibe fiapet al ‘euppretoin ol coupe Bet Lrebelibone ond. Abie Dike. py Were an the Gefeutiag ue of thew, diniatorghipe, sgeinet ‘ tesedt This’ poles! posture valy duce | nut trouble. WerBell, tt al he® "niral: ° “t have no Gljechon io epee ship if “ait sersee ‘the interests of .* country” be sas. Particularly ir : v 1p, bape. interests is from Te oper aire entablighed een ‘Pe miss , vaeralere, farm eter tutally uppened “tes HH, hy thay it brine.” w ong |’ ain, WertBrile name ted into une; Hew 6: The: “furst doe of oe per ‘muckrabie egarine. Scat 7 carried” Bn. eH wee Hory on “yo Has iti ite 146, and er Bel wie wae aithe. major, Wo uncertain, ve On the pope wLeny.. We? Lal wes Be ned and [ratieted after: ‘the finso, whet hanges! ageined im were dropped, nile su othera, rented: ere brought: bred) Asked ‘by. riend for an en: nation, ‘Werkell ‘peplied jauntily, NOR yor work 1 vfor the ‘company, take care of, you. VU never hesr . wand abvut it” So far he he macstoins }  Dedtmber,. ‘WerBell “hit! the page of The “Allaota: Cufstitistion rr shipment’ iof captured, enemy epons wound. trem Vietnam ‘war “de. sod at Helin Air Force Base, “Fler. 2 national column “penretured ing regen in the ts a ine canbyle the. weapons to rigt { . teins 4 fade atas | §: under federal héense: Silencers, for ex- . ‘Firearms Act,, ralon, ehoisuns, submachine ‘funs ‘and other - on vebich may fe roughly: éehaed | Commun am hat no placein in "BAY v Ube. apread: af idevlugical Ber ms are 0 loaded: with, weapons wonder they doinot collapse. There are - 7 cuunterinsurzency: echniqu Waren ur hie trends meant te, gray-haired wom yd Ot he RU wee] ning and manufacturing. ‘ts done A .eud duai ample. are outlawed: ty the Natiunal with. ‘gawedoff.. vestiges. of Prohibition ‘era’ gangland, wars. To enanufacture “his | “ guppressors, WerBell must pay a special tax, of 3300: e sear, collected “by the- Treasury Department. ‘The T:men also check pe- rade phy to eee tRet' hls! Swreome : colleetion wo fresrme—over 20 indi. . ‘vidual plecen—a properly: ve istered: Appare ntly theom ket for: Bt ia nut very ‘large: beeau WerBell, his firm ist Ww erBell will not discuss. the sales or- protits ‘of Miltary, Armaments: iexcept | 10 ‘say that, ‘after ime - years. esten- sive research and: developmen result- ing in “a: tax-lass; ofa half, ‘milhoa dol- Jara” }. the company: ‘is now doin, aH has sbout 1 employ eee: inciud- ‘Ing four machinists, whe work under ihe direction af Gordon Ingram: who has. chars se of ithe. design. operation and: whose. name is.on the: ‘Sodel. Ila ‘etiine’ gun what: young / Mitch demon. Arated | on athe: ‘hiting raoge. ‘Cottage Industry’, pans WORKS In: 2 's wellequipped machine shops . ‘attached fe the “mi tn house on. the. estate, “which Wer. - “Bell ikea: ta-call “the: farm” ¥ er Belt" 8 aitice ia next, door tothe, shup 1s walls - knives ‘and spear guns and: pidtols. and rifles and machine guns, dorens and orens: of thes, some, purchased, some, woo: in combat, some: presented: uy the appreciative recipients: ‘of: Wer Bell's ‘Wer Bell, who thas a sense. oft , stalls, his’ enterprise | a “collage. ‘indus _ try” ‘and likens himsel{-to “a country, airs tight’ dinwin tothe office.” Upstairs Is the: domain of hie German- -bura wife Hildegard, a pleasant, “who hes” borne se ee ee Bs HE ae _eecasionally a monccle. dresses in giilitery clothing of indeter . only” one’ "au: | : thorized to, manufacture’ ‘them, . YT ean fall wit of-the living - Ma ww ee ta pt racan and He often cultivated by wearing a minate origin.- -and he embeilishes ° the ~ image by talkin. ia slightly li; nped _ séntences peppered with omilnarr phrases, There is nothing phony ia this, WerBell ‘has 3 strong attachment to weapons ‘end been around th so long that the ideas” ahd styles they. foster are an 4G: grained | part of: his. personality. ite comes ‘by bath hia. militarlem: arvt : anmunisin Wolnestiy. Hil father way an officer fn. the Russiin imperial army, even though he «2s bern in the United ! ‘States. “Hh was @ tricky. situation,” Says . ‘Miteh. “He wad a citizen of both’ ithe U S. and Russis.. ia those days you could dothat.” The: elder, WerBell . the Bolshev ikss ut, before: the. ‘collapse ‘of the ezarist regime he wisely secured _ a8 appotniment, ad haison officer be, tween the - . Russian one. _ American forces—-stationed, in the US. Het ford ‘fa this country for the rent oe his tite. putting his early’ medical trainin ste * sein’ cancer. research: - A leRaey-: trons. father. barely disguised aristceraGe sympa- thies. He ‘has been quoted as saying, “Communism ‘ya substituiion of 2 peasant ‘dictatatship, aver. the oriata naliarh {rom - “athe ‘Unit ersity Pennsylvania: In W orid ay ar: ut. joined the and-served with avunit of behind, dapanese lines: fa China, rising « to the rank of .captai taste for guerrilla - -tpe would. never lose. : WerBell: ‘moved A after {be ‘war-and ‘went to work in ad. ind acquiring a warfare he warfare: and he has faghe- agains! is Mitch's. JAtlanta shertly. Teat’s a lot oF dull. mate hirntel{ available Saver, Belore loag, Latin American Fist tock over ina ‘erking closely with B With’ grid, “Gur lure Batista in power, ait sovefament was loskir.t ‘a Fidel at thet point.” From-all this, even Werbei! doesn’ new, exactly baw, came an forctra aboyt sammus 9 devote whatever tc bays, y Ret & became my? tm doing ae arsenal on? affords me a dam Bur the living is not wh The Heart oft | Pr TAB, WHILE antic | 4h ahonby, albert a maving hoshy, WerBell purchated the Dobha vetate. Ue installed rudime : bea ond began ex Beapeta af evunteci: ered had Use Commun si at tke TAB SI: aS ony he pees : in net netbeans of "Lf reahced ihe eral, underdeve Asin dad Latin Amer shat THA ceraterdnay oy, fhe Dele mary protidem wan 'e ! af Gogh in Reasoiry, Penpim ity, Via woe werete of the enemy, and youl! ein the Motit geutheir hearts, bf they're the enemy, is to Ehoot: "em and cui the heeris ore” , ‘While he experimented fanih weap oci—quietly, to mvold reaviems win the InderaleeWerBels + tis pertonal brand of s antic PO Td 7 sgt recimes that wan heipin iy ing off one band of issucuenis or an- eiber. In the arocess. he became: | with a fumber of iea'y political atroriznmcs Latin Niners écuakied to digecaver a ore Ac qano eho fell as taes did noout the seed for stable, ar gimes, etpecially thes SUPE regimes, re and . Bunker i *Werbelb out of Che coic et best way to” They were - bead etp Pech Ue a bat fader to the Ong. Stiins, bera statian of Amer ar) high ezeerisnd over wereale ectivithes and Ais N2wkish out (Werbel! opposed a ard estaniisa cin | QOVeETErPe). comilderved tryi te ‘tans views 2 sessatin. ANegs corn Tikes of hos hoa &0. ing. cara of 4. Wer Brongn OLA, “Texas SN ULES Eom SOR in that. the raytag. + g bunch of Chan exties had seldom seen. Perhane his major anthCsrigs expluit was ¢ ageed- beat foray inta Ca:nariora, am Cubs’s southern coast The mosnen wan to arop ag swirenes, apparently a soy, off- shore. and to pick up the family of am exile leadee. The buat. ! mi the Con Tederaie fag on the radia antenna, foundered in Righ seas, end the raiding party was captured The © ubass, siary. goee, dled ned kane whatle make wf the hrann Werkell, aad he ond ms pola wound up stealing 2 Casted deat and spiriting same iff anti iastey out of the country before tary atives reguine to the United States, Vietnam Superhawk r THE LARS ‘6, Werfiell turned | RAS alicatlan te Sentheeat Acta. He is, of courtie, a supertivek on Viet nam, and would be happy if the US. were aso fichting communias in all ‘its neighboring coustrics. He wo in Thailand, “werking closely with the supreme command,” for months, pro Holing the sales of bis weapons and . "EP showin thes th like gurrciiiance equipment and night wir sign. equipment. “atull that lets you sur: the hell. out of the bastards.” id be dn any fighting himself? Wer. Beil chuckies, “ain't muspesed to be shooting the styl! 2 PUSe demonstrating how te shootd.” ‘Theee years aga, Werleils weapons ree pramising envugh for doume He oman Sisvics (for Siuces of y ets rs ty There te hie andes ment, tne. wey Communist ie mam La non a So win if. Cantrary to cynics ppeeen, Poe Sprite wae so Werliell is fact, end a feels laren, tell The staye of h coramuchy @5 toast eeu stig hast, iA Seactsaal ly aehb os fet pase fap tec unbernnds aug bet eecery ang ioyucie Seen, Groat tribe aan Peewvter Fatt ‘gum VI grep nero gh eeste e, ar fr oe, Paro f: "lan Bence) shh em Gaece, thaw Werber! etje purchaar ‘yl See eee eee anne gn leit EE $9 beeen yl am the > ter o apts Mes Whe sare property If tey Garrt Nie the amma / He dora net nufter from 4 There ly a elead aed however, winitare and cu well as Amer Werke ils saoia tenant enfomed, Mmalnive te eee Rise 24, ake las aa flee RS foarer ote A few @erens Als Frese in : ween ow MEE the ghep, be hades heen ty oe pes months, he rape fatuily quinkty Yowus there, 4, uted fetes rh here Yhe the coloured emel Mees awapped teas an rhiding ihe Ne Teste partment af no airn policz mehere on ia arave. in Viethen VerPes) regalia with relat qese tlouler wsaitee, bringing the enereyp Un we ee eo He eome frnin Lie & Departisent 9 few yerre aa . weed cording to Werflel! he paid, “The ¢ tiens of the farelgn policies of United Stote: ara the Swainerg of State Department in Wasctungton Biutchell Springs, Coors, "You can't ors Senn worda™ ut hat wae | Werllelt 4 ee? tn tun Tes re vit le wae Bik is As swashbucaling Werfel! profile Wereil says ach @ greta, preaent poliey :¢ thar? ye ger, agtee with theary completets. 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