Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 WSC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-7017 . JFK Assassination System : Date: 5/4/2015 Identification Form Agency Information _ "AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-90124-10085 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 109-579-79 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: MM ~ TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 04/30/1965 PAGES: 24 SUBJECTS : MITCHELL L. WERBELL, III SIEGFRIED WALLNER DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Confidential RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 09/12/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : LHM rr es, v9.1 15 Docld: 32335527 Page 1
"Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 27107 Hote. . DATE: 11-14-2017 a fx SIEGFRIED WALLNER Aaape9, , Ae, CPO pote SEQRET _— } . WU, 3 e reveals that the FBI, in an investigation™éonducted concerning his activities, determined 't FIRESTONE was associated wiph-erfe JOSEPH EUGENEXROLNES , Jr. and EDUARDOARODRIGUEZASCHACK. HOLNES was determined to be an Anierican citizen and RODRIGUEZ SCHACK, a Dominican Republic citizen. HOLNES, FIRESTONE and RODR ~ SCHACK went to Belgium on July 14, 1959 to set up a letter of credit, drawn by the Dominican Republic govern=- — ment in the names of HOLNES, FIRESTONE and SCHACK, in the amount of $1,700,000 to be used for the purchase of munitions from a Belgium concern named Prefabel, S.P.R.Le, 4 Rue Arenberg, Amberes, Belgium. FIRESTONE was indicated as the holder of . American passport #1514275 and his home address was listed as 205 N.W. 129th Street, Miami, Florida. In a separate investigation conducted by the © FBI, in approximately October, 1962, FIRESTONE was des- cribed as a close friend of FULGENCIO BATISTA, In approximately June, 1962, he accompanied 4 MITCHEL WERBELL, an Atlanta, Georgia, businessman, who is Presi- dent of International Communications, Inc. to various Latin American countries. WERBELL was described as an individual having business interests in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and Panama. . Information furnished by MM T-4,fa confidential source abroad, on August 13, 1962, reveale that MANUEL _ FIRESTONE, whose true name. is MANUEL FUEGO, a man by the name of WERBELL, and another man by the name of KANE, met the Minister of Defence of the Guatemalan government several months ago offering to sell arms and ammunition () sutket - : - 13°: Docld: 32335527 Page 2?
“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 3107 Hote}. DATE: 11-14-7017 o C Na L - | CS ; SIEGFRIED WALLNER | } SECMET | and to provide mercenaries Investigation eee te) | ide tified KANE as J. KANE, and WERBELL as_MITCHELL ete Fp amet: \ BELL, and that both KANE and WERBELL were from See Georgia. nah anemia an a tothe typett? eres eer GEL 1h, 1965 Miss SUSANNE PURCELL, Air a pale Airlines, 310 S.W. Ist Street, Miami, Florida, ad- vised that a reservation was made for. SIEGFRIED WALLNER Bp = on National Airlines flight 50, leaving Miami, Florida Se «@ for New York City at 5 PM on April 15, 1965. She stated a that thereafter WALLNER would depart New York City for Lisbon, Portugal on April 19, 1965 aboard Trans World Airlines flight 900, which will depart New York at 8{L5 PM. She added that thereafter WALLNER has open reseiva- tions for.travel by Iberia Airlines from Lisbon to _ Madrid, and Air France Aixlines from Madrid to Paris. Miss PURCELL stated that. WALLNER appeared at . her office at approximately 1 PM on. April 14, 1965. She Stated WALLNER gave no reason for overstaying his dura- . tion time allotted to an Air France excursion fare. Miss PURCELL added that WALLNER merely gave her a $100 bill for the additional charge in excess of the excursion fare. On April 14, 1965, im a Contact with MM T-1, MM T-l stated that a review of the restaurant and beverage | charges made to WALLNER, indicated that on the evening of April 13, 1965 WALLNER paid a bill in the hotel restaurant for three persons. MM T-1 added that WALLNER was served by Waiter #27. - Se SEC o 14 = . | On April 15, 1965 a Special Agent of the FBI - Doclda: 32335527 Page 3