vo  :. | DISPATCH | WS ae oe, ’ f Chief of Station, Santo Doningy ? | 1 moEKING eeQuieeD : i ne ED BOM ce | MOIMOERING REQUIRED « inFO. ONLY QUALIFIED DESZ ° : CAN JU0GE INDEXING FROm . . . ee Chief, sestern tlemisphere Division MICROFILEL weecr Operatic onal Personnel and Security Matters Hitchell Livingston WER-SELL, III ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES Reference: HDCA-3447 RETURN TO Cl Action: Paragraphs 1 and 8. Oe Not Reprod 1, In response to the Station's request contained in reference for information on Mitchel Livingston WER-BELL, IIT, this is to provide the Station with sone pertinent personal data on him, and to recommend that the Staticn, i.e., Theodore R, KETTNE ° aveid contact with him in operational matters but, to the extent securely possible, monitor his activities in the area. , 2. WER-BELL, born on 8 March 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was married in 1942 to slildegarde Elizabeth HENMERICH, and has six children. He was an Army first lieutenant when recruited by KUTWIN, with which service he saw duty with some distinction in the China Theater during the second half of 1945, 3. In 1953 he- established his own business, Mitchell werbell Public Relations and Advertising Company, in Atlanta, Georgia, which went out of business in 1989, due to insolvency caused prisarily by his injudicious and unorthodox trade practices. (> Subject is well-known to KUBARK, whose officers have categorized him variously as unscrupUlous, a "whealer-dealer", and a promoter of prandiose schemes; as a man who lives beyond his means; and as a high-pressure advertising and promotion Man. ‘Ss In the summer of 1959 Subject offered his services to KUBARK, claiming knowledge of Cuban and Uorinican affairs, Although a POA was granted on 4 August 1959 for his use as a source of information on revolutionary activities in the Caribbean area, it evalved that the information he provided was of little value. It was further judged that Subject wished to _ Distribution: QC {-259%¢ 2 - COS, Santo Domingo @ FEB 1964 CROSS REFEREACE TO SS) DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMGER DATE oe . iDC#- 1193 29 January 1964 oo ° . ~— CLASSIFICATION | WS FILE NUMBER ” SECRET | 201-2599 10 ORIGINAT- NS owe centre OFFICE = T EXT. : 0177 Ge 3 eae | bes 1- TD pads rong ‘oo. ‘F OFFICE SYMBOL BA OFFICERS NAME rh --oFtice per Se ors v f ¢ iis. seat ue OP ane Fath ees ee ~ “7 Eta, we melee ' d { \ RELEAS WE lesen : OFFICE SYMBOL BATE p OFFICERS SGRATLAE n a ae DESERoy Chie eTown bi! J.C. SEo ROPE Zfjay! ioe" §3 use erevious corrion Loe D [ § p ATC Te ccc EEN eer nth wet et erg.
14-00000 ‘ CLASEINICATION wt PAYCH SYMBCL AND NUMBER CONTINUATION OF use KU3ARK funds to promote his personal interests and, consequently, he was terminated in ucteber of 1959. 6. «ith regard to Subject's assertions as reported in reference, we wish to comment that: a. Although we cannot confirm af controvert nis status as vice-president of FINA, in Aprid cf 1963 he allowed (fo ODENVY at Atlanta that he was president of Communications International, Inc. GUENVY fad cdatacted Subject to deternine his pessible connection with Dr. Elmer Henry LOUGILI., who has recently been indided as an unregistered agent of the taitian Government. b. while his claim of past KUTWIN service is true, _the degree of his friendship with that service's well-known director remains open to speculation, for there are no indications that the two were even acouainted. steemten te c. The nature and extent of his relationship with many important Central American officials is scored by an episode which occurred in August-September 1962, when he tried to secure the recognition by several Central American countries of a Cuban government in exile. In this undertaking, for example, he offered a Nicaraguan governnent spokesman $100,000 to secure that country's recognition. And, in ; October of 1962,he reportedly tried, through an intermediary, to purchase used military aircraft in PBPRIME ostensibly fox use in the Dominican Republic to train Latin American pilots for a thrust against Cuba. /Yn this October report, Subject is cited as being a former public relations representative here tor the Trujillo regiacy? arate aaatan + ne * ee ea Oa 7. Further to the above, in Cctober of 1962 Subject was being investigated by GOUENVY for ais possible involvenent in 1959 in the shipping of arms tu Ecuador. ST 9 wo eremeen ommomon wir age npplenee fer cierto 8. The above salient features as to Subject's background, 5 should be sufficient to discourage any operational use of aubject, and to indicate tue need for cauticn on #eTiniis . part should he have any further contact with hin. At the sane time, deadquarters considers that information on subjecti« local activities and contacts, as could affect ODYOKE interests, should be reported as such becomes known to the Station. OLIVER G. CALBOND CLASSIFICATION FoRM 5-60 53a wuse PREVIOUS EDITION. [| sr CR T | CONTINUED 2 kg Ne ge ae cnn een a A ERED PRN RRR cre F< PAGE NO.