Se ’ H iN etter wack, Chis’ Hm a Ae -Oteyed 6 . ds ‘dines 24 June. 1974 ference “Vhids whom, OMAR £0 chee onde : LU Lian y Wir ae os ouTi te nN Steve Van Cleave
Fn wenn veeee wate Bees 208 Sm) TELL Bobi COMEEEATION BETWEEN PLTERSUN AND VAN CLEAVE = Tuvsday, ONB/Te, II: Mr. Yan Cleave. You can give ne what information you have and I will pass ‘26 or do stat we can, ‘but B1il has been handling that. entirely and we work difi er Lohad heard a runor that, P chought, at the time thar those guys, these igésis can't be datng this again, but in the last week I have picked up a great deal e: Srifureat Sein that i think needs to be known at this locatlon that involves the Wark belb ge gup oul of Powder Springs. Are you famlifar with that name? [so. I's ‘pot. viii has been handling all of that and I juste don't know anything about 43, accounts ang I'm sorry te say that I ans totally unfant liar with it.] Well, lee ze put de te you this way, Is there any way at all that you will be in touch with a Tennessee let ne give you a -bricf synopsis so that you can at least pasa that on to hin. g And in the process, 1'11 have to give you a bit of background on thias subject. “consider St very important, not from the stanipoint of the fact that what these people 3 are invulyed in now 18 starting to break, bue 1 chink ft te extrenel: Cte ae tee ewes iS ee « duportant that this location ‘ Mitchell Worbel is a’ ‘gun dealer basteally. He has then kara + what is going on, of peaperty with a lake and a firing range and a big house and a: gun shop below and a vavle with abour chree thousand Ingrid subsachine ¢ : . weapons, bee dechbelf{ haa been in-and out of ail kinds of things. FA over, He ivvyes publicity and he’ loves to imply a relationship with the Agérey. 7 : 5 ’ « . how, abowk & year ago they were dnvolved with sone people from Befitaln in an ts sek up a -secesston of the Island of Abaco, at the antes their independence. Now this waa a very serious thing: there were z ; F g fneluding gesbers of Parlicent frou London that cane ever bere and th ko have 4 6201) army on Abace and the leeal settlers on Abaco were becauce they were wostly wilte and the thing never .got off the pround at th: ori arcicles vrfeten about ie. lenles of the Bahamas was ineensed. by this whode sealers Wek of: anything thac would be apainst Loreseary efothe US aul the Agency aad evirvhace, ie wanadd be caoite idfocie £ tite og Hee, fou ayer, do Lene. crs sofaer no oonere. fh. thie thiag Nab ter om car an eer fost 78 Gi Poe .ge.sb BHatioo i ceili hae f thoaushe # red corks 4 3 tag ‘ at ‘ and we can get in touch with him, yes. I could give him a call.) We Hé peps ep ail § ‘Bill, to that I could get this information to him by phone. (Well, he is up in. te gets something in to indicate that their contact lezs A “fara out at Powder Springs, Genegia, Basically, ic is a piece time the Bahstas wer n “4 oa o ed fe be
He has been ovec to the farm recently and lu Wachiogton a end noid we've got the money for the Abaco operation. ‘ u 1 ‘putting aside a ploce o suddenly growa bigger. And to be more specifie abuut thin, when To say thats } can tell you that fi fs a fact that lase Thursday atin the new Ambassador fr the Bahamas in Washington gut Congressman Andrew Young to one ride at a recestiss and they discussed this matter with grave seriousness. OK, now, therefore I aa , positive that within certain circlés in Washington this matter is being discusse- : : at this moment. Now I also learned thut last week the whole group of the Serbe.!s and their associates were in Washington and Iii give you the nanes that I nnow 2f ; for sure: Mike Oliver, who is akey {igure in thie. He represcnts several wealcny Americaie and Britishers who have long had a dreaw.of having thef{r own island ast: : 4 establishing their own country. Now this sounds like something right out of cheap " €iction; however, $¢ fe a fact. I have met Mike Gliver, And there are about sfx : : wealthy individudis, one of whoin I think lives in tie Bahamas, 1 believe tvo ere in England, one of them I thiuk is Lord Bellhaven whos (ea inombee of Parliatent. ‘ few weeks ago with then. About three wealthy Americans, all older fellows with many millions. how this when they bought 4a boat and Olfver thing cane up once before about lcelght years ago when went cue into the Pacific and laid claiw to the coral reef in the Samoan Talands I think de was and slanted a flag on de and cstablichad the free £overflun etate o Menerva, Life Mafezine had a spruad on this, And thac lasted fer about a ween °F ri Beret until the King of Samos, or somebody, nese ‘Tribal ring sent. fend of side of ta: tzhes £ Bicaraguan soll and giving if extra Cerritortal xr and I know they have money. To make a long story ohort, Ghliver is involvez ina this. le came in, I undesstand, two weeks after the Bahamas gat theic indisendencte Now Jo have ic an geci source from an informant in their orpanivation that « vouch or se ago a U-Haul truck came up from Fort Lauderdale in the middte of the aigh. and Joaded up a bench of guns and explosives and took them to Fort Lauderdatc, Fhe nane of the man whe drove the truck was Wally Gillis. We ts a treet gere ast Poet ac oaees © Mee TCL ye Ses ee So 2 EC CT Ca a a bout ~ you know, 4 good ciged crufser, can po to the Baihomas or wherever. supponcdly Chia materaab tant te a yo rnounG Ma weit peuuevdabes GUL netted 2.0 ld beding invelved doen thece citi a felis sane Pea creatine. burcnstins as . tuouaresties poaple; he ds. gitet ae lobes abeph con onl aegerv naw ard tt
week was Mike ee Oliver, ‘ ‘Army who. alne Lives fh - old ‘boy did. have dinnec L iki ‘ wad. e elecerante “equipment which fs that . DEA“ and indicating, knows about this thaw ard fie ue Why tut; to Bummarigze this, the a butch of fools. ft rh : money and are behind the seanes wouldafe teach dt with a i hath af baveramenre prettier. diplomatic probles, vou luo, ‘ fnvedvmced of- this tips that ots jeeba, tab fieliee Mitchell " with. © pointe is nl rans ’ : earns ‘YO fant pole Fran liswardby errs Aun nace Chuck otal who {s a rejsfitent of the B ; “types techatetans - in effects mercenaries. pes in those days of smc ago in Washington So, that “tie does know seme ‘pecipte tn _faetpment aunt weed the namie office waned calls were pada to those people, Pllegal and using the they: vould like: to see the equipment, arrsngse to buy some, that rype of! thing. loa pod man Inf fnanced by some wealthy idiots; and these reals “ reeardioss of this because it the widens, uy », Tit, retired Colonet Robert’ Bayard, us ta thiscarea and ia ansociated with Worbel lL and a fellow Bahamas in Nassau, who is a key part And 1 have reason to'belteve th and tris favatl he needs to start’.dropping names ‘and former peoples /Now'T T naderstand ‘the: Op ; ite ; they, have alno made contarts in Mbant ecently with two conpatiles who intiiufactze “of another former Agency man who. ts. now e vith the, off im Washington, again, I shave an informant in the ‘Org sankzation whe: of. : da aout “ready to break wlth them ‘and he has told me all this. ‘We was “in the. talking about biting clectréaic name of this, Cormer eney man dn the And i know for a Faée’ that that. and in good standing. with ‘eveiyboily. - the whole thing Ls idiotic ‘echene he who have you know, words, in other if someone Cane. i+ erhamn Pibawceh a To ‘is cotally against “the interests slhlehtest Leak oo it can cuanse bhew cracy dt fs, the facet is an Tovadve ont. thee he! iW 1 prebasiy
PR ee eae Sere ee De ce me REE Rn cee os ime HR Ry amma ama teammate bs that aea Yes. You see tins Rahaman, = fo don't know how familtar y fou are’ w wis an ony but they don'e have an army oF anything. They have ‘a eralt pote “force - can ie ; - Land’ they have th ‘gome small police. boats, little 30 foot jubs that run around | the- of the bahamas. and the. name WerbeLt, ‘is an. international eoldier ‘of, Fortunes, am epnceried about one ching: Now 4 Ir ‘Riow it. isn’s golag to pet! off ene gro now.) 2° knew fe never would. It nigh have ‘pot oft the. ground buc the thing is it's'one of thes e things that could ‘be so messy and opps suents, let's say people’ en “the ‘other side would Love something | Like this so they could capitalize un it forever <3 “you know, réports hincing at secret invelvement of an seerfgan, ated Ligence agency “and attenpts to establish a base in the Bahamas. A good propa sandgtac could Juse..- we 7 te 1 . . . . . : “ : . . > co . have a:field day with this. So TE have @ fecling that unless VT’ am really cragy 1 think p ophe fn your, organization are, aware at this nonent of this thing surfac dn’ Wdehingtons. And that is-why Il am calling this office because I have given it . oe . OL, ae information here before on these people and T think that it's important thac if somebody, says - Hey, fave you cays hesied, anything dbeut them and you fellows sav ‘no, we haven't heard anyth: ny > you know. ° [Weld you in your own mind that this is something that will come about in the very near future, this atcempe?]}% “Na. L would have to say LT huve 4 feeling now the atterpt wlilorer come about gm atl. ; e . J fs r . . Uf cneuph people fa ashing ron start ing ques viene do thes. do know the uaues ‘af these peaple and if the fovoer ayentoup theee poss Fao aml futermation it whores Ubeg offeores dypmectas fhe a ion _ . - Js : dade fi ie . vs ' ; ‘ { i t, a “had. toad tad! tor nt eae ’ ‘ a 8) fan ‘ ih , hy wt Foot
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