v9.1 124-90124-10078 AGENCY - JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90124-10078 RECORD SERIES : HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 109-12-380-57 Document Information ORIGINATOR: DEPT. OF DEFENSE FROM: DOD TO: TITLE: DATE: | 09/08/1976 PAGES: 4 SUBJECTS : MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL III DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 1A CURRENT STATUS: = Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 11/05/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : MEMO HW 50953 Docld: 32335520 Page i Date: 5/4/2015
Pia - es 4 open’ at 4 “ir -Clements said the Cubans wanted to have a meeting and he was willing to escort them into the building (Pentagon). He said he had a Pentagon {D. | told him that | had passed the information he had to the DIA but they had not responded as yet about a meeting. i told him | would call later in the morning. | then called DIA/NMIC . ‘to pass the new information to them. DIA called back shortly and said | '.. would be contacted by someone in the CIA. A little later 2 ied and asked that [| go dovin to DIA/NMIC so he could discuss the situation with me on a secure _telephone. | told him of my call from Clements and about the previous “incident. He said he had only sketchy information on the first incident -but that he would look into it immediately. | told him Clements was waiting for a return call. He said he would take of that. | dropped the matter. Approximately one hour later | received another call from Clements _ because no one had called him. [ told him | would_call back shortly. 1 called DIA/NMIC and asked them to Inform the CIA. tg batted me back and said the CIA was not Tnterested in ta nas the Cubans because of their khown affiliation with an anti-Castro terrorist 9oy ‘group in the US. He suggested | pass the information to the FBI, Mr. Willis ey Walton, FBI/INTED, telephone 175-4656 (interagency call). Mr. Walton knew - ce of the Cubans from other activities. {| told him what had transpired. He “recommended that [| inform Clements that no agency of the US Government is willing to meet with the Cubans and suggest that he visit the nearest FBI field office and pass what. information he has to them. I called Clements -and informed him of the FBI's recommendation. 1 dropped the matter. At approximately 1400 the same day, a man came into the office (Africa Region) and said he was Dick Clements: | asked for identification and he showed a Pentagon building pass. t introduced him to Mr. Reed, Director, ' Africa Region, OASD/ISA, and Mr. Hamilton, the analyst responsible for .. Angolan affairs. Cleménts said he was in the building on other business \//e and just. "dropped | by, He said he had met with the Cubans and informed a “them that no ageficy would meet with them. He said a third Cuban was -with them - Robert.ACarballo, their contact with Cuba. Clements said that during their conversation he determined: (1) that the information about the desire of a number of Cubans in Angola to defect came from Roberto Carballo through other Cubans who had returned to Cuba from Angola, (2) that the Cubans had been in contact with representatives of President Somoza of Nicaragua, seeking his assistance, (3) that the basic concept was to set up stations in a country bordering Angola and wage a campaign to inform Cubans still in Angola of their existence, with the expectation (based on the evidence they had) that large numbers of Cubans would take advantage of the opportunity to defect. Clements also said he overheard a conversation aewe 1a arate 7 ete 7 ar ne ony oy re Ae biG ae od ier en NS ded bal aed ES Boclda: 32335570 Page 2? penta nee nr nine nan ene pe an samen at ener pest s Tea an citrate cece sean teee teaser cacerencaronarest tenentersacch ihe ectaeeior as treneeteinrerep ements me vareap gr oseateraaanear ened 4 ce