‘04-10256-10060} To ig Saw Gf Coed ed 2 EL tm . WARNING NOTICE . . SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED - 27 JUN qa74 MENORANDUM FOR: Director . Federal Bureau of Investigation ATTENTION : Intelligence Division SUBJECT > MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL, III 1. Reference is made to your Bureau's File No. M41 105-21382, Subject as above, and your Bureau's reporting on Subject's involvement with the "Abaco Independence Movement" (AIM) in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. oO 2. For your information only, three former employees of this Agency were contacted in June 1974 by representatives of a group called "Friends of Abaco," a group allegedly advocating the secession of the island of Abaco From the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Contact was initiated by Mitchell Livingston WERBELL III, an international arms dealer, and a naturalized Lithuanian named Michael OLIVER, both of whom attempted to involve the former Agency employees in the Abaco Indenendence Movement (AIM), of which your Bureau is familiar. The three former employees contacted are: oo . ee . °. -* a. John Patrick MULDOON DPOB: 25 August 1937, Washington, DBD. C. Retired from this Agency on 20 March 1972 . Address at time of retirement: 4305 Kentbury Drive Bethesda, Maryland CLASSIFIED BY 010116. EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION SCHEDULE OF E.0O. 11652 EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5B (2). IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE DATE OF AUTOMATIC DECLASSIFICATION. ey a om aR te ae ee es : he a - pi “ee 4 Nb rt ¢ 3 3.3 rs) ™ ; Pigs? shodechs § Path Ecc sy tied fog ou Siew > or & power! 5 Se - 8 @ °
i “3 . . *, - . . ots “ . 2 . 7 : . ra . . , : uly 9, Washington, D. C. Retired: 31 July 1970 Address at time of retirement: 2918 Hardy Avenue Maryland Note: vas rehired on a.contract asis in February 1971. His contract . was terminated September 1973, c. Walter Joseph MACKEM . DPOB: 13 December 1937, Omaha, Nebraska Separated: 31 October 1973 | Address at time of separation: - 2609 N. Potomac Arlington, Virginia . 3. Mitchell Livingston WERBELL Iii, the principal owner of the arms manufacturing firm Defense systens International and an international arms dealer, has been encouraging a group of Bahamian citizens on the island of Abaco who seek to secede fron the Bahamian Commonwealth. In this affair WERBELL has been collaborating with a group based in Miami called the "Friends of Abaco." Active. in the Friends of Abaco is Michael OLIVER, a wealthy ' land developer residing at 2089 El Rancho Drive, Carson City, Nevada. OLIVER, a naturalized U. S. citizen, was born Moses OLITSKI on 11 December 1928 in Lithuania. 4. in encouraging persons in Abaco to seek independence of Nassau, OLIVER's apparent motive is to Cee establish_a prototype government based on principles of free enterprise expounded in a paperback book which he has authored called "A New Constitution for a New Country" (Fine Arts Press, Reno, Nev. - 1968). WERBELL, on the ° other hand, has privately expressed a desire to establish a tourist mecca on Abaco to include hotels, recreation facilities and gambling casinos. Officials of Holiday International, a Baltimore firm specialized in recreation and health spas, have been briefed by WERBELL and OLIVER recently on the Abaco movement. Robert A. C. HAMILTON, 13th Lord of Belhaven and Stenton and a member of the ee ons . a © 1/88 so mmag@ntenimmne menmas ta gaW dom wh. 0:0 ; OF PRT Crem mmNe: HO oe oe BOER: & MES RY oem romLEEIE | 9 EDT ome) area ese CE een Sele ee Te to
. > & Be Ye wo ¢ £& ¥; @ won [ o* ge B a Boa oR, ty 4 * ;: Feet f rs seh i; 2 2a § 3 wte™® *: ce) PO nee & 2 t . ( ae a me ry . @ Friends of Abaco, on 10 June 1974 sponsored a resolution in behalf of the Abaco Independence Movement on the floor of the British House of Lords, following conversations with WERBELL in Washington in late May. 5. Despite the seeming innocence of the enterprise, however, we have observed that WERBELL, in particular, ‘ has made a concerted effort to involve persons formerly affiliated with this Agency in the activities of the Friends of Abaco in support of Abaco's independence. On several occasions, involving at least two former officers of this organization, MULDOON and cited above, WERBELL has introduced them as pres tive Agency officials in such a fashion as to imply, according to the persons involved, that either this Agency or the United States Government supports the aims of -the Friends of Abaco. 6. Most recently, WERBELL has proposed to both retired officers in separate conversations that they conduct a study, involving a visit to Abaco, to determine the feasibility of Abaco's independence in political and economic terms. The study would include interviews with citizens on Abaco prior to an alleged “plebiscite™ on independence to take place in Abaco on 28 June 1974. To be included in the investigation is research on the probable reaction in the United Nations Organization to a petition from political groups in Abaco for support on ~ independence, notably any parallels to be found in “precedents such as the Biafra secession from-Nigeria. — 7. Andrew ST. GEORGE, a nationally known free-lance writer, has become active in WERBELL's organization and Claims to be preparing an article on WERBELL and the Abaco movement for publication in True Magazine. ° ST. GEORGE has participated in the several meetings that WERBELL, OLIVER and their associates have had with the pe Batized-Asency officers, Mr. John MULDOON e- ~ ey mee 8 ge oe? FE Me EHS OE Te BOVE ae 2 se “7 8 we s yes by OG rn 2 2 Ye 6 ne es * 7 e 8 0 7% SB. at P % eo a2 ns . “3% $ a : : ws a a) gpect.f3ela fp he see de : Phin ad Bowe & mw ow F Pat a) °
aap? ae? 1,3 5 3 rane + “a .  $. In de of the collaboration of either MULDOON or WERBELL- and OLIVER have hired Walter Joseph MACKEM, a former Agency friend of both MULDOON and ROUSSOS. 3. John MULDOON is currently enployed as the Washington representative of the firm security Consultants abtermational, a subsidiary of the Atia ) detective agency, Central Investigative Agency... is not employed FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS: /s/ David A. Phillips David A. Phillips CIRA-0371-74 QVivsasce 3 o 8 fe Yeeros eie.fe ai Be FO Sam ate wom ere: