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44-00000 a pele] | DISPATCH [eer a : ‘ge a . , Chicf, Vi Divishes  ——-- tot . ‘ - tome cuss a9 otis ‘iam Aes EDLUND [ ene Tice tienaio -mneett — Lt. : : . , AcTIes: FYI OREFLAGNCE: “URPA+1358, 15 septealer 1973 *. oh. Station passed referenced -iaforation to custes.. on 13 September 2973. Initial chegls by tue Station i tle i oe On the ELE, DUA, and Custos reveala& He7TH oration on tise rs + 4 — individuals nentiened in reference Clonald oo en ¥s: , re ee Oe Join tr 00 k s and “toho ro yf). -Custous was ° “fa aprechent with the Station's suggestion that a Custous teleyhone nunber grould oc passed to Ucnry and the case shoul! he pit inte: Custos WUNGS I . Zé. fienry called Custos on 13 -Scpteaver L073... A necting ; . . a oe was arranged for taat afternoon, Ucfore the sectin, too. . : BS ! at poo _ places however, a Custe.s officer recognized the nance of Lrool.s as possibly bein one of iis contacts. licnry was . a thus net by two Custos ofZicers. n returnin, frou their ™ neetbar, the Custens officers notified tie Station, anu a neetin: was arraned to sec then én bb September 1973. Custems provined the following inferuation. on Nenald ilenry. pgp : lope : a. Donald Henry is about $2 years old. He is frou hte . Rote ‘Gchipan. He Lived and went to school in Canada, ile moved cs ar i Ocha Ges -to Tlorica about fifteen years ayo. ve has resided in the veys for about seven ycars. mo th, Henry was deseriked by Customs as a braypart. iney felt, however, that nis offer of assistance was genuine. Custos stated tuul .cary always had a quick answer for any quest bon asked of hir, but when the questions pot duwn to specifies his BNSWeTS Wore VALUL. , j - . ce. Contrary to initial information, Henry docs not have a boat or an aivyplanc. Custons noted, thouja, that ienry probably lias casy access to One, se itier does ienry sfiave an FAA License for flyiar rukti-enpine aircraft, althotijn he tald Custouws he was capable of flyand thei. eury has thewn John broous (ar alias used by one Joun oa bbpu sr) cewedeoe ot - . fcontinued/ yy 4 CHOSE REFEREE £0 ¥ A as CLE ee tyne a . Vy- Ab PS LS, ‘ "ORs,
H0G00 e one eee Soa 1aoe . CL asgirc ation , . PARE KO . 2 USE PREWOUS Toss en a were t] yo. 4 d . te : Vee cConmnuED tet . 3 ” ~ _ oe for avout a year. (loin WLibur is deseribed in further detail helos.)  Ucnry said heonet Liller throuph thes wssocivedien vith tue Athantds Dive Genter, Ene., Chasi, Mdorida, were Cilbur ds cenployed and saere Neury has nad a soridne relationshay fer sone tine. fhe otlawtis live wenter ds avned be ous Gialey oS i card (no Station traces).  ticard, Custe s reyorted, is au. UASAVOLY -Cheracter . anvolved dn scuestian activities and would not hesitate te Sye0t aarie whe sets dnciks wav. \ \- Meoocanry told Custoos that rien he‘ bucped into titear at the ‘#lane ‘Vive Center recently, tacy started tal. ia, auout Various ways they coule rake mousy. tc ailbur tele teary tnat-he (Cenry) could seucsbe aris for ‘iis over to Abaco, anc they started discussin:e that nossililicy. hiviwe: the couversationw, cence asied Wilbur ene fe would be vores dn: for, Saltar ehtioned the mane of Gobo froen. né toll benry that crown, an ex-special forees Us. Aruy .ajor, wad set us a branch of befense Systecs, Inc., on Abseo for “itenell bh. ouoerbel 1, (1b. wiliur also intdaated that. PMIESALD was aware of te Operation ans condoued it.: Custous noted that Verry dil not pach up the mane “tolo or “brown until after taey hat sicntioned a Special Forees Hajor, at waicn “point weary professed to reneuber bis nase. ‘uenry' also told Custens, wnen assed way he lad ib Le mRALG, tik ie had telephoned tae ULL first and: was told ov then that ids infor..gtion was not’ in their, juris-” diction and was piven tie Phone nunher for MHLAALD, Later, Venry chanved nis Stary tu the effece that he said he looked da tae iad telephone directory to get the FOR s nualer and cabled GSUcSALD (LoOnESE) inscead because tue latter's nunber was under tae FLE'S. (Comment. Jet true, both aunbers are Risted under (5. Saveracent put on s¢epurute pares.) 3.0 As fer John »rools, Custos reported that this aaue is an alias used by one Join villur, wo is about 35 years old. Orisinally fro., ‘Assachusetts, -illur has been in Florica ; for several years, ne has veen in touch with Custous for ya approxivately three years. le was indcdally broucht to Custos’ attention over a narcetics Cases At tie edie, ¢ ! Vilhbur was wotrin-/infar. ins for tue Frnt, infiltratins bot risct and bere wins youth erianizations., ‘oe uas also datiay. an airline steuardess woo wus involved in narcotics sont) ise fro: “outs Vierica., ween: cilpur found out Wout tuis ille-al wctivity, he tule the Pefowlo, in tora, put haba da Coucn wits uustons. : ° ® VT, Custecs deseriied Jitiar as aa ultra-rigpht winter an a soldder-of-Tartune wi is inpressive loohin; and a suvotis taller. Castors sais Willur is alse a fabricator. As aa ; an exanzle, they centioned thae ‘ilbur would read an article ee in a nanazine and scortly thereafter woul. try to goss it a. Off as his ivvornation., ie veal! also contact Custaris ang = tell tho: every rumor he heard in tue eopes Gad one OF the a Storivs «oul. oe true $e tant fe could cobbsct a reward, =: factgus Sade that abltoougs “ihlur is a fabricater anu Fincor x; ' colleetur. ht is dan eraas anu woul! ‘ce manytiihe Cor money, aa é Castous noted test “tlour enjoys olayin: tue role at 1 #! 4 Pati cbesortant contacts and 1it to Ghisa toney aroun, aa 7 wise cate thee abort Towr costs alo ie bean Livia tag. ' “Tvoreee, Mel OS is eo reth- ostate cusiress si ; vopPovergys da tue Reys (cael “Vey oth) Tre cer da) $ weidy. “aso Ss States Chat se reecices abou ol,ehl ag conth dy ; & di TTP a petite oe GEE oe mettre e sew. a
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14-00000 toger Williams '"G 13 ercerpted by pep. Atleota magazune, . THE ODRIVEWAY that hrouch the eountrs estate Rage Boss. They were Hamwhome in the tradi. ‘ fathion, and they looked “quiet, leafy setting Hut eoimuuflave suit and ear. Stel in each hand: the “DR lease gun’ tucked Foard a adencer eeipped ‘dee the sther.  Prepelins hiteehh vie Sieoedotuonr, came ther fa: faa -sulehier of for. “MManisl and one So dicuhuaey Cevedousers af ee ned aera en, rE feet! chatted Hibely as Thee were carrying heel, punctured the can. brief bursts af informa. “mies safle, ane of Ai, redue's. Phis wegpan IVC in six months." he , & VC took only 1 Hh Twentyecuen cents) That's the “Hectivensss the Army's er, youn Mitch ane round alter round from wo the bullevshattered forotale: thet serves os tiet on the WerBeil fir. aoMiteh becan firing a el Army 49. The pun and the noise eehoed: a treetens. He then ie armeathdy weet ane an ferro Medel 11, “Past aed muecte Bip naan fine it. The mug. whonnd the only send elo k. followed by the el and the pop as it hit seerie, almost chilling, seuny Mitch put the matic and whipped aff ts in one second, Gear ne kind of demonstra. ‘ase Bun, a standard hoe gan and Che snip. erHetheaits the NAL2QY Pequipped with a sup. wk tothe house, Wer. wh bbe Supprensur, a Sileneer, is so effee- vessory, “Tt hides (he foteduces the firing eth om metal You oult aoise without an aad i's not-worth it. mw obealt noise anyway fiam os4 fur sib prac. fen Werbtett tit ; CHprordy hentibelived ” nu weapons given to him by friendly forces “In Vietnam, he said. and ‘tacy were shipped to the Staves for display in military museums. Not surprisingly, WerBell has often betn called an operative of the Central Intelligence Agency, a ‘charse fhat angera tum only whea it is lev. led tog vehemently, It is not that he has anything avainst the CIA. He Just’ dvvan't, he says, happen to be one of ita boys. His paramilitary work, , Sheek consists of advising and some- tu directly assisting foreign gov. eranents, is dene im the employ of whatehe calls gan independent: group of selbintentioned, Datrootie  Amert- sane” The Hirch Sneic ty? The Min- Ulemen? A buneh af farrlht Tewas NU Hionaleey? Werkel won't aby, other than to lasiat that it as net the CLA, it hardly matters, far Aevording to Werell, itis alin the service nat only: Uf freedom and anticonmunism but Of the U8. government: he does not Supply or advise or fight for regimes nor bearing, the State Department seal of dpprovall A heavy percentaue of nis merchandise gneg directly to the US, fovernment, which cistritrates it ty its Own: forces that. need silent or exotic “eapons. The balance is .sulif to friendly sovernments, ¢ither directly or through the pood offices of the “In. dependent sroup.” He says he does not sell to individuals, not even if they're certified anticommunists, , , WerBeil takes pains to paint out that he is no ordinary arins broke?. That Is, he is noteneof those shatowy fivures who sel weapbns to both sides at exor- hitant prices or who take possession of contraband shupments onthe biph Aras, “Welve abwayn adhered ta a bante put. tess Phere ds anty one friend of the United States in a given orea,.and we deal only with that. friend.” What does WerBel peddie? <4 range of flrearms from: mochine guna to destcnized fannons, from the meanest. looking weapans fo Innocent leoking Rwaneer sticks that fire a bullet or even & small rocket: an array. of tech. niques — “systems,” he calls them — that will help an American soldier or a foreign army hold off Insurzent forces, and oceasconaily, his personal services. These: servives present WerBell at his mast shadowy. Serving as a com. ‘batant in the armed forces of a foreign Ration is against U.S, law, ana WerBell is understandably reluctant 1o admit having done so. He describes himself in such terms as “paramilitary” and “adviser,” but acquaintances suspect he has been in the thick of the fighting & number of times. He may cyen have zapped an Insurgent or two, Corporate Setup ; a PRUE TR ANOU AP TEE fe tye “20m, eS unsm ann re ee et ene ees aener tLe: oy ith to the ‘ in Operational Nevstion of Insurgency and Countersubversion, Ged in with Environmental Industries, and began in earnest to develop a Ene at military hardware. Sons 3tltely (Vand Geoff be- caine intesral parts of the firm. Miteh iVowas already a bona fide counter. insurcent, fa eyveareld, he had spent considerable time with Dad in the Dominican. Repubtic, speelaticine in underwater probing fur safe lanctiass Sites. Geoff, two sedis younger, barely missed gut oon a Cuhan forays his Gither toak tain te Abou a few SCUPs ase, but the plans fetl Uhrough, One doy Eosat in Werllells offlec as cloeeff spayed a number of Military APTAMenES niost uncesaald wedyts, Te hromeht cut “tte Stinger’ op rane. shaped tube three pneheg Lets de hs auiers, that fires a ajber eortetdee, Nathing visebye AULESTS 4 hun, and the bavtiet. on its way ont, distodces’ a thin plas that. dis. kuises the hole at the eit of the tiny barrel, WerBell commends the Stinger fo secret agents who get cancht with the goods aud must take cthe last re- sort,” that is. shoot themselves, In the same ewotie entegery Is the “swaguer. stick, bound in leather, with silver studs By pushing between two studs, one can-dire a ze or. With a@ spe toaloimoded, a small ro.ket. The bods. kuard of Donumivan stronuman Gen. Antouig Imbert used the rocket modet fo blast would be assassins a few Vee s an Shen there Is a small, brass-fitted cannon. Tt makes a handsome khick- Knack fora soldier-politician’s desk. It softies) with one siniple fipuwer. move. ment a bullet that will eet an unrudy Visitor Mere traditionally hellinry is Werbedla apeeu) long Tanke keackor. OUEPR a redesitned Remington mubimeter ritie that “wall plus Cem in the eye at 200 meters," , The hulk of Werletls business is in sound suppressers and Ineram Mardel submachine puns, Suppressors ean he used on darve as well os small weap. ons, and by facet have bern used effec tively on the wicked-looking Vulean machine guns mounted on Amertiean helicopters in Vietnam. The Australian Army Journal san a story calling the Sionics suppreséar “superior to any. thing previously used... (With {t) it ds Now possible for the sniper to fire from relatively short Frances, especially when using subsonic Projectiles,” -WerBell is so enthusiastic about ihe Ingram Modet submachine pans (there are Iwo mudels, taking different sized cerbridges) that’ he: predicts thes will eventually make “obsolete every ind: vidual weapon in the world.” The US. Army, he says, is naw loosing care. fully atthe Ingram models with an eye foward making them slandard equip.
74-00000 ALA. sesihis com crotfact when he ns, and death, and i been in the mill- iness for years, and cd or produced—or : watermelon sound Latin America ond in the U.S. armed ramilltary “adviser.” e warrior, an armed ‘agninst “ungodly niene in this occupa- tices it In a untyue diers of fortune are they live from one neat, brawling and threugh a teugh and irding life. nirant, Is a business s in omilltary adven- nd as for os It suite ida’t titiitate him, he of it. His business is &. not using them in lizes In the weapons af counterinpur- ‘be roughly defined suppression of coups ind the bike. : ‘Bell operates, this, estabiished regimes! - Nickalorsiips, against, ga political posture t trouble WerBell, tt hseve no objection to erves the intcresis of says. Particularly if ate tnterests as from inismt has no place in SM a cto) ae te tulally opposed to if, § of idculogical germs range.” . Werfells name The ficst issue of in. ae kong fomgavine, Beare . enhiaaative story ‘on Hoan ap pbertive bava- (G6 ond Werkell was tngjar, If uncertain, - tran, tWerltell wan ar: led after the tasce, int beeen wore: aUresgepieres, arrested were brought va frend for an ex. milo replied jauntily, k for Tbe rampany. f you TH never hear heut it." So far he inn.) . nu, WerBell hit) the & Atlenta Constitution woof captured enemy frum Vietnam was-de. Ais Fores Dase, Flor. smhannist conjectured ais friends meant to Sprang te paahet wines adn Une UR Wer fell Lat They were Suuve- Environ. mental Industries, WerBell says, ts bankrolled by some of the East’s most prominent investment houses; he. ts its director of international operations. He is also president of a subsidiary called “fillrary Armaments Co., Ine. and because hz is in Powder Springs, Military Armaments is there, too. (Bo. hind Environmental Industries, Wer- Rell says, is “a third shadow of which ELL is a subsidlary’—gnother tantaliz- ing hint of the CIA) Military Armaments may well be a unique American enterprise. Nobody else, Werbell says, isin the business of designing apecial purpose weapons on auch a scale. A good deol of its de- signing and manufacturing is done under federal teense. Silencers, for ex- ample, are outlawed by the National Firearms Act, along with sawed-off shotguns, submachine gun and uther vestiges of Prohibition cra gangland wars, - ; ‘To manufoctuce Als suppressors, SerbBell must pay a special (ox of $500 a year, collected by the Treasury Department. The T-men also check pe- riodicallyto see that his awesome collection. of firearmns—over 200 indi- vidual ‘pigces—is properly registered. Apparently the market for suppressors - is nut very large because, according to WerPeill, cis firm ie the only one gu- thorired to manufacture. them, Werfell will not discuss the sales or profits of Military Armaments except to asy that, after two yenrs of exten- sive research and development (result- ingcin “a lax'losd of & half million dol- lors’), the company’ is now doing very - well, ft han sbout 12 employees, includ. ‘ing four machinists who work under the direction of Gordon Ingram, who has charge of the design operation and whose name ison the Model Hl suhma- thine gun that young Mitch demon- strated on the firing renge. ‘Cottage Industry’ JESGHRAM WORKS tn a well equipped a | machine shopdab attached to the inain “House on the estate, which Wer- Beh hikes torall “the farm” WerBell's office is neat door ta the shop. Its. walla are a0 loaded with weapons that‘tt la a wonder they do net collapse. There are Knives and apear gunaond pistols and fiffes and machine guns, dozena and dozens of them, some purchased, some won in combat, some, presented by the appreciative. recipients of WerBell's counterinsurgeney techniques, WerBell, who has a sense of humor, calls his enterprise a “cottage Indus try” and likens himact{ to "a country doctor... 1 can fall out of the living arca upstairs right down to the office.” Upataira is the domain of hia German born wife Hildegard, 9 pleasant, “groyhaired woinan who hag borne Sint tere wlohe ucapons for the U.S, WerBell six chitdren and put yp with j his rather unusual way of fe. (Vhen ¢ he left for the Far East in 1968, he said he'd be gone for a year or more, and he was.) , A Military Profile ITCHELL WERBELL is a short, h wiry man of 82, quick with a quip and quite sensible until he begins faiking about communism or other so- cla} issues. He has the face and bear- ing of a Prussian officer, an fnage he ; cultivated by wearing a musiache and ! occasionally a morocle. He often ! € | dresses in military clothing of indeter- minate origin, and he embellishes the image by talking in slightly clipped sentences peppered. with military ‘ phrases, There is nothing phony in this. WerBell has a strong altachment ; to weapons and to warfare, and he has - been around them so ‘long that the ideas and styles they foster are an in- grained part of his personality. ile comes by both his militarism and his anticommunism honestly. His * fathdr was an officer in the Russian Impdrial army, even thouch he was born) in the United States. “It was a tricky situation,” says Mitch, “He was a citizen of both the U.S. and Russia. In those days vow could do that.” The elder’ Werfiell fought against: the Bolsheviks, hut before the collapse of the czarist redime he wisely secured an .appuintment' as ‘liaison officer be- tween the Russlan and American forces—stutioned in the U.S. He lived? In this country. for the rest of his life, } pulting his carly medical training tet use in cancer research. A legacy from father is Mitch's) barely disguised oristecratic sympa- thies. fe has been quoted as ruying, “Cammuantsm Jn oa dubatitutien of a pearant dictatorship averthé aristocra- cy--1 prefer the arintoctacy.” He | without question an elitist. Not surpr is ingly, his elite is composed of superps ‘triota and miltary men. Mitchell Werltil was bora in Pens. sylvania, shortly after: his Russisn American father and his Scottish born jtaother arrived inthe U.S. at the end -of Word War 1. lis parents traveled a good deal, here and abruad, and Mite! traveled with them, picking up his edu cation o% he went. He pot a degree i Journalisin -from the University © Pennsylvania. Ini World War HI, he joined the O38, and served with a uni behind’ Japanese lines in China, risin so the rank of captain and acquiring taste for querrilla-type warfare h would never lose, . oe " Werligll moved te Atlanta short! , afier the wor and went to work in ad. Army and other counterinaur. ‘ ; vertising ina department store. Soon ne was head of the department, and soon after that he went on his own. In the mid-‘30s, WerBell pulled out of his agency and then formed his an publle relattons firm. “I'd already deen drifting into international PR" WerBell says, “using my family back. ground. I had tremendous contacts in Europe, and I moved into ihe. Far . East, too." How much of this moving in was milltary, WerBell won't say, but his business took an more and mure pf what he calls a “geopolliteal" flavor. Before long, he was dabbling {n | Latin. American dictatorstips. “Before Fidel took over in Cuba, we were working closely with Batista.” He adds with a grin, “Our function was to keep * Batista In power. althouzh the US. caverament was looking favorably on Fidet at that point? . From all this, even Werfell doesn't Know exactly how, came a passionate concrrn about communism, “] decided to devote whatever time J rould to anticommunist activities,” he says, “At first It was sort of a hobby, but then il became my main drive In Ife. ‘What Um dalng now'—here he Res. tures at the arsenal on his office walls ‘affords me a damned yood living. But the living ts not why 1 do it." The Heart of Tt S D448, WHELE anticommunism was still a hobby, albeit a paying hobby, WerBell purchased the Dobbs estate.. He installed rudimentary design facili- ties ‘and began experimenting with weapons of counterinsurzency, weap- ons he believed had the best chance ef | preventing Communist takeovers ia the small, underdeveloped nations of Asia and Latha America, vf reallzed - that In cotinterinsurgency, the prie mary problem was a lock of depth. in, weguponry, Deaple sdy, ‘Win the hearts of ‘the enemy, and vou'll win the firht.’ That's a int of bull. The best way to get their hearts, if thes’re the enemy, is to shoot ’em and cut the hearts ou” While he experimented with weap. ons—quletly, to avaid problema with the federals—WerBell proceeded with vhis personal brand of geopolitics. He made himself available to anticommu- “nist reximes that wanted help in fight- ‘ing off one band of Insurgents or an- other. In'.the process, he became friendly with a number, of Latin Amer- fea’s political strongmen, They were delighted to discover @ Nore Ameri. coho ‘who felt oa they did about the. need for, “stable, anticommuntnt. re- gimes, especially their renmes,..and. who had both the savvy and the guts to help preserve them. ils first major paramilitary opera- tlon was in the Dominican Republic during the 1963 revolt. He was, of course, on the side of the government, which was fending off allegedly Com- munist insurgents; the United States was on Its side, too. WerBell wound up in the midst of the (fighting. He was the second Dominican yovernment man fo reach the Ozama River, scene of the major battle, Elsworth Bunker, then U.S. ambas- sador to the Organization of American States, became highly exercised over WerBell's activities and his hawkish . views on the conflict (WerBell opposed 8 cessation of hosulities and establish. ment of a enalition Kovernment). Bunker considered: trying to toss Werbell out-of the country, but noth. ing came of it. WerBell's “independent group’--CLA, Texas millionaires or whatever—saw to that WerBcil was already active inthe anti-Castro movement, and he brourht to it a sense of dash and discipline that the rartag, bickering bunch of Cuban exiics had seldom seen. Perhaps his major antt-Castro exploit was a speed- boat foray into Camarioca, on Cuba's southern coast. The mission. was to drop a swimmer, apparently a spy, off- shore, and ta pick up the family of an exile leader. The boat, flying the Con- federate flag on the radio ontenna, foundered In high seas, and the raiding party was captured, The Cubans, the ° story goes. did not know what to make of the brash WerBell, and he and his pals wound up stealing a Castro boat and aspiciting some 16 onti Castroites, out af the country hefure they them. selves returned ta the United States, Vietnam Superhawk I‘ THE LATE ‘60s, WerBell turned his altentton to Southenat Asin. Ife Is, of course, a superhawk on Virt- ham, and would be happy if the US. were also fighting communisin in all Its neighboring countries, He -was in Thailand, “working closely with the Bupreme command,” for months, pre - moting the sales of his weapons and systems. “[ showed them things Ike surveillance equipment and night vi- sion equipment, stuff that lets you sur- Prise the hell out ef the bastards.” Did he do any fighting himself? Wer. Bell chuckles. “Il ain't supposed to he shooting the stuff, just demonstrating how to shoot it.” Three years ava, Werlell'y WEEpUNs business becatae promising enough for him to xo inte It full time. te oryan- “hed a firm called Sighled lor Studies in & t wwe i, Armaments makes the case, too), come plete with suppressor and six maga-. zines, . : Business Is Business Dp°s WERBELL feel a twinge of | eensclence about providing the. ‘world with stich deadly and efficient ‘ Weapons? No, "I see no reason to be-- ‘concerned.” he says, “We're supplying a certain product that 1g unfortunately , 4 part of the civilized world. As long as - peaple exist, there's going to be ‘an . - arms business. | don't ace much differ. ence between our supplying arms to, combatants and fa surgical supply |, ‘house supplying gauze to bind up the wounds inflicted." : There is his) anticommuntst argu. ment, too. Werbell tg fighting - the. Communise menaces It is 9 fight hae ., “fnust be won and weapons are needed | to win dt. - : , Contrary to eynical upinien, Powder Springs was not. named in honer ot WerKell and his enterprise. Werbell, In fact, stays as aloof fram ths local community an possible. Mis house is 60 well-stocked, it is nractically self-sufft- lent save for occastonat trips to the’ arocery and liquor, stores. There haa’ been, from time to time, antl Wer Bett feeling in Powder Springs. WerBeil de. clares, “The hell with 1. Who caren? I tel lem im prebared to purchase thetr Property If they don’t Uke the area.” He does not suffer from loneliness, however. There is-a steady stream of visitors: and? customers, fsreluners a6 well as Americans, A few Wweers Bho Werlell's son-in-law, an Alr Foree lien. tenant colonel, flew. in from‘ Ohle, mainiy to see what was new around the shop; he hadn't been hy in several Months, he said, “and things chante awfully quickly ground here.” The day Powas there, the ontenet and Werke:l swapped ideas on cidding the State De. partinent of newin policy makers ane on bringing the enemy to lp knecn, or Its grave, In Vietnam... ‘a , Werbell recalls with relish one pare ‘ticular visitor. He came from the State Departinent a few years back, and ace cording to WerBell, he said, “The fune- lone of the forelen policies of the Unitee Stes are the business of the Stole Department in Washington, free of Mitehell WerBel in Powder Springs, Georgia.” .WerBell's reply? ° “You can't print ft. lt wos alin Anglo- Saxen words.” But that was the wld, swachbuckling WerBell. The new, low: profile WerBell says with o grin, “My present policy ia that | agree with that . theory completely, Period.” Tf actions to the contrary apeak tag loudly, they, like WerBell's weapons, tan alwava bo suppressed by the man himacl®, Auainwhile, Mich and hig "In. dependent gloup" march on. LE9T0. Atlonta Blagaaine
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~The flamboyant son of a. Cossack €olonel. Mitchell WerBell II! has been involved in several Caribbean adventures and misadventures. Now. as the Bahamas nears. ‘independence. the wealthy arnis-dealer-has-his sights ~ set on Abaco... By William R. Amlong iv who has to se rope? erBeil His c in the Russia Des Po bem dike a as a sede dt him-~e Merooeil Lavingsten 4 AER OD Wo cat ry ce He shaved, more + : iness: bedevil: fa sees himself nm bul as a ve: Stotk figure am? shaping of wor! thresh Pter enierprise pee nor looking tke sat qu: Niae Ai Mateus Moorkeil What ames geout lar Waker § tes the wen agnes, AT Would le ae Deustache as 2 Ue sheagid phe Division Pst fas wet fencul Vietnam, UeK Gre XG, Sfessnitas that t: the Brrr Faqs i Teresi ae
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Ga., a 66-acre estate-armory sit- uated “amidst the rolling, red-clay hills Sand pine. forests 35 mites.aorthwest’. of dowhtown -Atlanta.It is a place where the ; i pastoral air’ is occasionally shattered by the flashing of a red light that goes on whenever the electroni¢ gate is opened, by the stacceto barking.of machine guns ‘from the tést firing range or by the. pul- sating roar of a cumbat helicopter hover- . ing low overhead on a test flight. i. is from this hase of operations that. it appears, Mitch WerBell has been med- dling agrip. this time in the affairs of the about -lo-weome povervign state of the Hahamas. His activities — although no one is completely sure just what. they entail — have prompted Bahamas Prime Minister Lynden Pindling to denounce WerBell and attorney Edwin Marger, an associate, on the floor ‘of the Bahamian Parlia- ment. Pindling called them “internation- al fortune hunters” with “designs on the territorial sovereignty of the Bahamas.” Werbell's irivolvement in the Bahamas — — as an advisor to a faction that wants the island of ‘Abaco either to remain a- Crown Colony’ or to become a separate nation when the rest of the Bahamas be- comes fully independent on July 10 —. has ‘also prompted some concern by the U.S. State Department's Caribbean Affairs Desk. * | ft is net a completely unfamiliar expe- rience to WerBell to have elements of the United States government at least con- cerned ~ if not outright displeased — with some of his free-lance foreien-policy maneuvers. He aelishes recalling how a visitor flew down to Georgia once to give him the message: “The functions of the . foreign pulicies-of the United States are the business of: the State Department in’ Washington, not of Mitchell WerBell. in . Powder Springs. Ga.” In another incident, a congressional subcommittee questioned | him about his role in an aborted attempt to launch an invasion of Haiti from South Florida. The subcommittee, the investigations arm of the House Committee on Inter- state and Foreign Commerce, was con- target practice at ine Paader Springs compound cerned with the role played in the ‘inva- sion preparations by CBS News. The net- work was atlempting to film a documen- tary on the military coup being -planned - by an alliance of Haitian and Cuban ex- iles. The. Haitians wanted to tepple Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier; the Cubans wanted to establish an anti-Cas- tro base in Haiti. CBS was steered into’ sthe project by Andrew St: George,‘a free: lance journalist-adventurer. who also in- troduced Producer Jay McMullen to ‘Wer. . : Bell in the process. ve ‘The network. aftir spending: upwards, ; of $170,000 on the proposed documentary, Project Nassau, decided to scrap it. “As it is,” a CBS News vice president wrote in a Dec. 13, 1966. memo, “we see simply . ‘the non-adventurés of a rag-tag crew next - to whom. Duvalier himself looks: good, a. gang openly flouting U. S. law, inthe end | to no purpose. ; The answers to “why” WerBeil got in- volved are, in the language of the sub- committee report, “at variance’ with each other: ; Answer Now i: 2... f felt then and I feel now, and | will always feel that any effort or any activity that any American can give to a group that is attempting to kill the boil and cancer of communism in the Western Hemisphere deserves every effort. This was my fundamental reason for going into it. This was why I agreed to assist them and why I did evervthing I could to assist them up to the point where I felt the whole program was ridicu- lous.” . Answer No, 2:"'1 took this whole proj- ect as a rather entertaining ‘comedy. I'm afraid | approached it in this connection and | continued to do so. f felt that this was @ Very amateurish attempt at some- _ thing which [ didn’¢ know really what was going on, and it was an interlude of entertainment as far as I'm concerned.” . The role he plaved is also unclear. From the point that CBS entered the sit- uation in May of 1966. WerBell appeared at various times to be a network consul- tant. a CIA operative. a CIA operative impostor, a leader of the invasion, a U.S. government spy on the invasion, a gun- ‘runner and a wired-for-sound observer in an attempt to shake down the Haitian consul in Miami for $200,000 io call off. the invasion. , Suffice it to say that the entire episode was typified by the fact that the 68-foot sloop Poor Richard, a beat WerBell had leased for the expedition, was repossessed while Werdelt and others had it docked at the Ocean Reef motel in Key Largo. “The hoat never had anything on it ex-
14-00000 ~ Gept'a few-good, long drinkirig sessions,” .” WerBell told congressmen. "2: . Nevertheless, the US. government raided the training area for the would-be _ invaders, seized their arms and arrested them in January, 1967, about two months after WerBell hid gone home. “Seven per- sons were indicted for conspiring to vio- late U.S. neutrality laws — including WerBell. “Charges . against WerBell, however, were dropped on orders of E a then- Attorney General Ramsey. Clark. “1... WerBell now - declines to discuss the mechanics of how the charges against him were dropped, except td-say that he was “in constant contact with the govern- ment” during his participation in. the in- vasion attempt and that he “did nothing " wrong.” In 1979, however. WerBell told an .Atants magazine writer, “When you work for the company, they take care of you.” - " “The company” is generally used as a euphemism for the Central Intelligence Agency ~- an arm of government WerBell | says now he has never had anything to do with, except to sell it some guns. The company he was talking about, he says, was CBS. Over the years, however, Wer- Bell has spoken often. of his association ‘with the Company. Producer McMullen quoted WerBeil to the congressmen as say- ing he had “previous experience” with “the ‘company:” “And when I asked him what company he meant, he said the CIA,” Me- Mullen said. “Everybody always gets that impression about any goddam thing we do,” WerBell says. It is a conclusion that is neither difficult ner illogical. It may not, however, be accurate. ‘ But what, then, was Mitch WerBell. wearing camouflage fatigues and a shoul. der-holstered rocket pistol, doing in the lead tank — which is where he claims he was —.in the Dominican Republic that summer of 1965 as government forces dou- ble-timed it to the -Ozama River? The tanks were attempting to capture as much territory as possible before a noon cedse- fire took effect; instead, they were beaten back by ill-armed rebels at the bridge. TROPIC —haty 1:1973 “oe what’ eras gt eR RET NTR BES Re 1968 with what WerBell claims was “the simulated-rank of major-general” supplied ” by the U.S. Air Force as he demonstrated his - firm's revolutionary silenced sub- machine gun to a South Vietnamese gener- al? To questions such as these, WerBell’s standard reply is. “I guess I'm just lucky.” Mure than just luck, however, WerBell’s propensity for being inthe crucial place at the crucial time seems to Sem. from a combination of machismo, the profit mo- tive, a knack for developing Suny otly rad- ical weaponry and a plug-in to the Oid Boy Network. The Old Boy Network — “And don’t you ever kid yourself that there isn't such @ thing,” says WerBell — is the cloak-and- dagger types’ answer lo the union hiring hall. It is a loosely structured help want- ed-situatiun wanted grapevine. “| became friends with a bunch of guys who are now four- and five-star generals,” recalls Wer- Bell of his days as an OSS captain behind Japanese fines in World War 1. . Mee morabitia of the OSS days and sub- sequent adventures hang in WerBell’s home and in his psyche. The walla of both his upstairs den and’ downstairs ‘‘war room” are decorated with dozens of hunt- ing (upstairs) and military (downstairs) weapons. Six unsheathed swords are mounted on the door of the hiquor cabinet. Two glass display cases in the den, each locked, contain handguns ranging. from standard .45 automatics to single-shot assassination pistols. Daggers. bayonets and throwing knives -fill the in-between spares as bric-a-brac. Photographs of short, slant-eyed generals hang on wails and stand on tables. Between two wild boar heads above the den entrance is a framed certificate fram the Vietnamese Airborne. The biggest war souvenir, though, isn't on WerBell’s wail. [t is in his head — the way a man of 55 acts after more than 20 years of being in and on the fringes of vio- ient conflicts. Some of it, obviously, is affectation. Some of it is genuine. And some of it just seems strange to an outsider doing in: Vietnam: in. ——- —----—— ~~ t. STEP INTO THE AGE OF AQUARIUS FINE OFFICE FURNITURE FOR THE ENLIGHTENED EXECUTIVE .. . Rugged and handsome with polished aluminum legs | - to retiect the executive lock! 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The belt buckle that conceals a | “survival knife.” The electronic gate and the two guard dogs, a German shepherd named. Fritz and a Doberman called Mal ‘(for Evil) The électroiiic sweep by the two phones to detect transmitting or bugging devices. The Scotch whisky, ‘poured t neat — 0 water, noice. - Wears drifted- into his: -present tine of work during the mid-1950s after‘a’ bitef but . ‘flourishing post. War career in: advertising; . “che joined and rose to: ‘the head of the ad- _vertising department “of Richi’s, ‘a major Atlanta department store. He then found- ed his own ad firm. His first etep was to get iny olved in international public relations and anti-conmunism: one of his clients, he says, was th Batista government. From there, ‘he eased into the arms and intrigue business: WerBell's talent for designing weapons recalls that of Q., cret Service armorer for lan Fleming's auper-apy, James Bond, At his Powder _ . Springs-retrent;-WerBell-haa ‘designed’ a. ~ submachine gun disguised as a briefcase, an effective noise-and-flash suppressor for automatic weapons, a cigar that fires a ein- gle bullet and a swagper stick that is actu- ally a mini-rocket launcher. WerBell’s sorties into strife-torn arcas . appear at times to be merely the business trips of a traveling salesman whose line happens to be machine guns. At other ; times, however — such as during the Do- minican revolt and in Thailand — his pur- pose seems to be less clear. His gullet warmed by a few gulps of neat whisky, WerBell will recount some of these past adventures, albeit reluctantly and in vague terms becaus? of the new, sober image he ia attempting to project. But as the camouflage outfit hangs next to the in WerBell’s closet, the flam- riding Mitch WerBell every ‘now and then surfaces in the behavior of the conservative geopolitical advisor, Mitchell L. WerBell Hi . While in London recently, as Parliament prepared for the final vote endorsing Baha- mian independence. Werbell, let it be known to a reporter for the Londun Daily Mirror (circulation five million) that he was: 1) four-square for the cause of the Council for a Free Abacd, and 2) récruiting’ British mercenaries “for a project I have in mind.” Abaco? “Who said it was Abaco?” ssid WerBell. The fruit of the interview WILLIAM 2 AMLONG 2 Herald stall weiter, — . éenaries.”’ tho’ ‘fictinnal Oritiah Se. . ° was & front-page story headlined: “Mutiny in Paradise... The Island That Wanis to Stay British . ..-ACall Goes Out fur Mer- -' Such were the initial tactics in the Bat- ' tle of Abaco, a cause that, for awhile in the British press, seemed second in anticipated ferocity only to the Catholics-vs.-Protes- tants strife in Northern Ireland. Joining WerBell as a comrade-in-press release was Lt.-Col. Colin (Mad Mitch) Mitchell, a right-wirig House of Commons member and a hero of the Battle of Aden during his days with the Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders. Mitchell, who was muttering tothe Bntish press about-secret missions to Abaco and the such, recently visited Wer- Bell in Powder Springs, WerBell said. — ‘While there are some people who admire flamboyance auch as WerBell's,.there are others who don't. Among those others are WerBell’s former business associates, & group of New York investment bankers who bought WerBell and Bennett B. Bintliff, an associate, out of the Military Armament Corp. (MAC) that the pair had founded. “He's been headline press all over England, end we're just s quiet little man- ufacturing company,” said Resser Scott Reeves If}, chairman of the board of MAC's parent company, Quar.tum Corp. “He's a loudmouth. Basically, when vou ‘te dealing with o cont res . the country would lad iy see responsible executives who ore discreet, who will transact business — not tell war stories,” ; Reeves, however, says he doesn't dislike WerBell — he just doesn’t want to be associated with him in the arms business. “Llike him a great deal. He's amusing and he’s a character. But leteing him run Colt or letting him run MAC is lke turning loose a high. school hot- rodder to: run General Motors.” WerBell_ and his associates in Powder Springs have now reincorporated under the name of Defense Systems Intemational Inc. and have hired away several of MAC's former weapons specialists. They are not overly fond of Reeves and his people either. “Tunnel vision" is one phrase they use to describe MAC's Preoccupation with gun sales. , Defense Systems International, they say, docs not suffer from auch tunnel vi- sion. They are deeply involhhed in Kcpalits -—~ whatever geupolitics are. And from the list of activities that WerBell and his partners tick off, geopolitics seems to be about anything they want it to be: arms sales, military advice, investment banking, economic development, security work, public relations, international law- yering. The people who hire the firm, WerBell Says, “are interested in an organization that’s capaole of doing the political, . ‘geopolitical, clandestine and economic op- _ erations that we're capable of. We operate
~in 92 different countries. If somebody said _ - to us tomorrow. “We need a complete’ gov- ‘| ernment. from-a minister of health toa ” fminister.of welfare to. thé guy who presses _ the ‘buttdns to maké the elevator go," we could:do it.” | . Just how much demand there is for pre- packaged governments — or how much ca- pability Defense Systems-International has - for providing:them-— is uncertain. What the firny would appear tc have an obvious capacity for, however, is warfare. Its presi- dent and chief administrator is WerBell’s son-in-law, Paul Routhier, a retired US, Air Force lieutenant-culonel who also dou- bles as the company's aur-war expert. On the staff are various other ex-military moa sancng from a Marine sergeant to several retired colonels. Among its activi- ties, says Routhier, is the sale to smaller, U.S.-approved nations of armament pack- ages. including not only hardware but also training. | tence Wee Defense Systems International ~ does not do, its principals insist, is to make wars. or shoot people themselves. If they did, they sav, -they could go to jail for vio- lating U.S. neutrality laws. Nur does it sell the guns ta shoot peaple with, unless the U.S. state Department? approves, they say. And the State Department isn't about to approve the sale.of any arms by WerHell to the Abaconian secessienists. No matter, says WerHell. “We have no intention of arming Abaco in any shape or fashion. Anyway, they have more arms down there than we have here.” . So whe, then, is there a photograph Iving about of the Hon. W. E. Errington (Eric) Watkins, a member of the Bahami- an Parliament from Absco, clenching a _cigar between his teeth and test-Hring one _of WerBell’s silenced submachine guns? The answer may well be far from sinister: as a tourist drinks beer when he ‘visits Busch Gardens, a visitor to WerHell’s house does not normally leave without fir- ing off a clip or two through the machine gun. It is an instrument of which WerBell- is duly proud: a rapid-fire automatic weapon that, when equipned with the ai- “TROPIC — Paty I. 1s3 lencer, makes about as much noise as an electric typewriter.” - The novelty of aside, however, there remain the questions” of how WerBell got involved withthe Free. Abaco faction, what he is doing for it ard ., how he is getting paid. The leadership of:the Council for.a Free Abaco appears to be composed oft wo mea, Watkins and Charles (Cl:uck) Hall. Wat- kins, the chairman, is-a retired Bahamas policeman and former Nassau resident. He was elected to the House of Assembly from Abaco on the Free National Movement ticket last September. known Werkiell for some 20 sean. Hall, 3 Nassau ‘I'V- and radio-store owner, is a- direct descendant of the white Tories who. settled Abaco immediately after the Amer- ican Revolution rather than be separated __ from the British Crown. He save he was referred to WerHell through persons he met . while organizing a demonsiration aginst allowing Air Cuba to service the Nassau airport. “The people I met there, basically right-wing. were able to put me on to Wer- Bell.” Hall is secretary of the council. With a budget that they wil descnbe no more specifically than to say it is less than $50,000 and made up entirely of small con- tributions from Bahamians, the group is paying WerHell and Marger an undisclosed fee through Zeta, a dummy corporation founded sulely for the Abaco venture. Why it, was" necessary to establish such a company is unclear, Of its name, WerBell says,-“E think it's Greek for war.” But just what the Zeta Co. or Operation Zeta — it’s referred to ag both — 1s. doing for the: Abaconian secessionists 18 some. ‘what uncertain. So far, there has been some lobbying of Parliament in London by Marger, a lawyer with U.S. lobbying expe- rience and a bacaground in.intemational law, but about as un-Hritish a fellow as there is. Thére. have been some saber-rat. tling press releases to the British newspa- pers. There have been conversations with Mad Mitch. And there has even been note ' of the plight of the Abaconian secessionists on the editorial page of the Atlanta dournals three sympathetic columns written by John Crown, a retired Marine WerBell’s, weaponry ~ He anve he has- ~ SBETE anne Dee sshssteeessteeretieteeMGer Sehr tere Ae corse we mene meee BankAmericard . for Sheets and Toweis! 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14-00000 officer, and acquaintance.of WerHell’s who . independence — on whether to unilaterally -itell the world; ‘Here's a country that ing on Abaco can be questioned. Many of .-" impetus. fot the- Free: Abaco -movement,- ... both Pindling and. Minister of External _. Affairs Faul Adderly have charged;-comes - | from ‘outside the Bahamas. “‘I still think “that what they are basically” involved in is Cop : anti: ‘communist. A far right- “winger — he * described himself to a newsmun as “to the "was present in Cuba exists in the Bahamas a today," ‘ W.-new 3 opinion of the Pindling gov- "ernment and of the Bahamas’ politica: cli- POWDER KEG Continued was iitroduced to Watkins, There. is also sume talk about approaching the Organiza- tion of Americen States and the’ United Nations. And about’ a referendum on Abaco duly § — the day, before Bahamian declure Abaco a free naticn, ““We are put- ‘ting to bear all our activity and friends to duesn't want to go this way,’ " says Wer- Bell. ‘The accuracy of that assessment of feel-— — the Abaconians . who originally opposed - separation from the Crown. abandoned the mouvement as ‘fruitless in December, when the, British goverment decreed that the Bahamas — all of she Bahamas — sould becume independent. Nor was there ever _ complete opposition throughout Abaco to the Pindling government and indepen- dence: of the two Parliament. .members ‘elected’ by the isiand’s 6,500 residents, the one other than- Watkins is‘a Pindling sup- “porter and a backer of “independence. The the, stcaling of land,” Adderly said in a | recent interview. And indeed, the majority of the people on Abaco know very little of WerBell and Marger outside of what they read in the British gress. Ww erBeill says his'motivations ure striclly right of Attila the Hun”: — WerBell sees the Bahamas ag islands ripe for commu- nism, “Every goddam single aymptem that © endass * he says. y 5 ‘mate is one which meny observers of the . Bahamas do not share. Althotigh the over- whelming majority of the islanders are black and have become very assertive con- | cerning racial equality during the past de- ¢ cade or so, the Banamas have teen deeply | . influenced by English tradition. The ¢ Anglican and Baptist Churches, both con- ~- servative institutions, are heavily repre- sented. And ‘the U.S. government is ardently courting Pindling as a friend. v But WerBell, son and heir of a Cossack colonel, seesthe rise of Bolshevism where > others see the peaceful emergence ofanew  .. democratic nation. 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14-00000 _ CLASUP a Siiok . FRC AG AON etaeee sen emer SECRET , : { LMETDES Toe LURE nO ‘aaa te | Chief, Africa Division es I [send . ‘-Headquartor's Traces on the Military. Armauent_Corporation. L faction erGuisio RENRINGS VR” 4a Ce ata Paragraph Three - | Reference: | t 17 May 1973. -. 4. There are no Headquarter's traces on Dr. George A. Winkler, but there are traces on, the Military Armament Corporation and its Board Chairman, Nr. Mitchell Livingston WerBell III (201-259910).. In 1967 WerBell organized a firm called SIONICS, Incorporated (Studies in Operational Negation of Insugency and-Cvunter Subversion), -Specializing in producing silencers. In 1970, WerBell Béfged with. Quantum Ordnance Bankers and the new firm was named the Military | Armament Corporation’ with kerBell-as Chairman of the Board. _ ,@, “WerBell- was born.:on.8 March 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He’ served in: the OSS‘ and-was ‘of interest to BKHERALD in 1959 when it was discovered-that.he was involved :with antiCastro plotters in ‘the Dominican Republic. -He was granted a POA in August 1959 but this . was Cancelled in October .1959:when his information proved to be_ of ‘p dittle: value and it..was ‘sispected that™he was using ‘BKHERALD funds - to promote personal interests. He has subsequently attempted to ~pass himself as LNBU2Z connected. and as a BKHERALD employee. Mr. -WerBell's lengthy.201 file shows a long history of his appearing in areas‘and situations where he can make a fast buck.. He is character-. ized as unscrupulous, a "wheeler dealer", and a promotor of grandiose schemes, WOTACK advises that the arms WerBell offers for sale are of good quality, but that the selling price is considered excessive. 3. In that Mr. WerBell is a WODUAL citizen, the above infor- | Gation should not be. passed to CGPAT/1. ‘However, the Station could . inform CGPAT/1 that ‘the Military Armament Corporation has an unsavory reputation and, although it may have permission from NVIDEA to export “parns; -it-has’ no -LNBUZZ connections and that any dealings with the _€0rporation should be approached with extreme caution. Luther S, PENAGELIA _Distribution: res Le ae . ~ ett ee = em — ee -— a — GiSts WEFERENCE TO ° \ . wePATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER j OATE z ao - dade Ve § Jind 1272 ; 29 May 73 GASTON ””S”S™S*~*™*«SCS ES EMBER SECRET a, | “201-259916 ORIGINATING Distribution: 1L-AF/5 1-AF/5 Chron FAR KR =| GEECE Sr M3ga The iss §3 use previous EOITION, MEG, a 12 Chief of Station, [| notnesein
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Pt WekSrlineTON, 0.0, 20502 OGC 71-1618 | “LL NOV 971 ‘Me. George MacClain 90 0. > Director, Information oO . Security Division _ Department of Defense Washington, "D. Cc. . 20301 Deat Mr. MaeClain: _ , “Subject: WerBell, Mitchell Livingeton Ii OSD No. 69-59 oo. In accordance with your request of 13 Octoder 1971, the " Central Intelligence Agency has reviewed the Oficial Report of . Proceedings in the subject case. The Official Report of Pros ceedings does not coatain any informatioa pertaining to the CIA which should be classified, i Te should be noted, however, that the lack of classificae tion coes not mean the CLA subscribes to or valicates the testi mony contained in the Oficial Report of Proceedings and this review snould not be interpreted as an excorsemes: by this | Agency of the statements contained therein, Returned herewith is the Official Report of Proceedings. Sincerely, © ERMAL P. GEISS Exmal P. Geiss Deputy Director of Security remert et ance a new en nanan wenn nen Memo fr Examiner, ISCRD, 9/22/71 , _ ISCRD memo, 9/23/71 | ISD memo, 9/27/71) ._ Army response, 10/6/71 Vol 1, OSD No. 69-59 |; Nol 2, OSD No. 69- 59 ave Ser 259 99/©
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74-49000 Industrial: Security Clearance Review Division stone . . peg SY CE ENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20395 Mex. Davia H. Henretta, Je. Suite 602, Lynn Building . ee lll North 19th Street os) mo | . Arlington, Virginia 22209 SE Dear Mx. Henretta:- Iam returaing Serewith the Interrogatories sent ‘with your letter of October 26, 1971 and which I have executed before a Notary Public as requested. Since the xerox copy of Mr. Joseph Liebling's lettea cid not contain some of the foymalities that were in the oziginal, I have noted this in my answer to Interrogatory NI, Z trus * this taxes care of what you need. Very truly yours, PE nde Samy pererer ier] ‘ biteved Bae u¥ ate Lawrence R. Houston ‘General Counsel Excl. = Interrogatories QOGC 71-1570
INTERROGAORTSS ; Section. 1001, Mele 24, United States Code. 5h s0ever, in any zatter withia the jurisdiction oF any perartnent oF Agexcy of the United States KnOWwAngay conceals or covers up by ary trick, scheme, or any false, Sietitious.or Traudusent stares nents or wepresentat.ons or makes Or uses, any false writing oF. docunest ol KLOWens the sane tO contain any false, Netit Lous oz fraudulent statement or- entry, sndii ve ficed not sore than $20,000 ‘or imprisoned not nore than . , db onde Sie eke or F pothe oo. . ‘ard. willfully faisizies, Gevicé.a cateriai fact or makes. Piéése ‘gtate: your tine, adcress and professiozal position axa 1 initeate how Long you Lave served | ia this position. i. ” ‘Lawrence R. Houston, Esquire Te, ; ANSWER: _ Central intelligence Agency © -° + Washingtoa, D. C.: » 20505 : ee “General ‘Counsel .- ~. ways a 2 Twenty-four, years = = iI. In your official capacity. as General counsel, Gentral ‘Intelligence Agency, gid you receive @ letter’ dated February ‘16, 1971 from Joseph J. Liebling,, Depury Assistant Seeretary of Defense? ; ANSWER: - Yes Tit. ee ~ three page document aarked "Gov. Ex 147. Attacked to these interrogatories is 4 da to in Question 11? Are pages 2 and 3 a xerox copy of the letter referre Yes. The xerox copy does not have nandwritten salutation, signature ‘ANSWER: oo ever, the text of the original and tie xerox _or printed letterhead; hew copy have been compared/-and found to be identical. ‘I? the Answer to iit. as in the affirmative did you: subsequently respond to this: Letter? .. ES eT ET ANSWER: Yes . ee : . I? avrirs ative, is page one of tae attackzent, "Gov. EX 1", a xexox copy of rere wearer” 9 your responds ng letter to Ne. Ltebling? SPR a tFE bee ST: ANSWER: | Yes. - o
fat. gre vi. it arti TmAVAVE, is the inforcation da the letter éated February 197 (5 6584 z to the questions posed in the Letter dated 16 February 1972) true a ANSARI. “Yea _ che for resding | answers 10 tO the. vest, oz » xnowledge and. belief. st knowledge and belies . the Interv errdgatories made by me are true ard correct ‘Subseribed and Sworn to pefore EA a person authorized by lew to ae ; Co ecministes oaths, this ay ; ; 4 . ° eay 0 gay of (er, i97- _ monn Att ree ae tees COE decay | € ae. vy gonna Exaires My 12,1873 Leis ’ - 7. . a ‘ o me ni a x : ; ‘ ; i to af: t . “ e ul AI af ad po) ee P ‘ f
LE CRAASSHFEs LU yeu . O Gi weciech Lp SECRET | ROUTING. AND RECORD SHEET Mitchell Livingston Werbell, LIT. _— (AIM-056-71) Deputy 1 Director, rae . . Do COC 7f— C7 mm 2 o12 Key BN Soe _ | 2265” Poa as Maréh 1971 10, ofer o “aration, munbot, ond , _ va - FRSCER COMMENTS. (Nember ‘ecch covemeat to show from wham Do - cs nF yo. ON fo whom. Drow @ line ccriss coven efter egch comment} de Jonni x. Greaney, ose. ed oe set G10 MHC) secret | CONFIDENTIAL O WTERTAL 7] CUUNCLASSISIED
wt on G B68 en 6 HIM~056071- Director, Diwestic Catace Survice ' WO March Lg7h ATIN 3 Soha NeConnell - '.. John Geeany (OCC) ‘Chief, Miani ‘Field Oftice Mitchell Livingston Werbell, ITI ws ye ~ Oa. 9 Nor: 71 we. s Peceived ae ‘Yong. distonce eall,; _présucably frea Powder . ‘Springs, Georgia, fron. gubject, who ds an old and uhsavory-contact of this -. office.dating. fron 1989,” Werbell. has becn involved in a variety’ of scrapes, _ the - ‘latest of which concerned. an- abortive invasion of Haiti, which dona Greany was: very ‘guch® concerned about’ a year or so ago. Werben stated “that: the. Departzent of Defense had just revered his” vance. on ‘grounds . of: Werbell's "frivolous behavior” in the Haitian “eaper ‘ey ed she’ had alssys"kept -us ‘and‘ other eléments of ‘the: us. Governneat inforued Cote. * cerning Cevelopnents in the Naitiaa matters: “+ Be Werbell asked if there waa - anything that we coule co for hin in the way of interceding for hin with the DOD, and we informed him bluatly and in no uncertain terus that he was strictly on his own, and‘we could do nothing for hin. He then asked if it would be worthwhile to subpoena Bart Gonzales. We. inforaed him that it was up to his attorney to make such recommendations. 4 WKerbell seened to.get the message, and then ‘offered ts keep us advised "yorarding an alleged forthcozing attempt on Haiti which is being sponsored by Rolando- Nasterre ar; even-thoughMasferrer-is currently incarcerated in a federal - prison, ke told Werbell that if he wished to pass any inforcation along we would Seceot ‘it hut under noe circumstances should ha attezpt to elicit any information on our behalf. Re agreed that he would operate oa this basis and said he might be in touch with us again. . 5. In view of Werbell's record we . felt that this latest contact should bea catter of record and that oce should be inforzed of cevelopzenta. ; JUSTIN F. GLEICHAUP JEG /css i : grit I : : Excluded trom agtezatte Gows-raditz 22d i Ge : ehsaseicatiga bell stated that he.intendéc-to-"Zight it to the Suprexe Court", | ag ”
we . 7 t en a ae By Bruce Galphin ithe stloraey gen a an official for an Atecziean de- : a“ Weonirgian Post Bratt Walter ic . The fedei velopment corporétign . . ° oo _ ATLANTA, Dec, 2~The'two! ans ’ At ous point during the] . , top ulfitials of, » Atiant whe could not ts Hath Nore P fichting, he seid a feiv te : . . . on nae . . enicon Why the ¢horge herw and real eet 7 Synder Invékignaon far reeriv- : . _ and kome : ns hon for reerl was being braze pothor -Anmencans vere tinea | ~ inst a wall” by armed) at a Santo]. mented: wey gh Pre ppy beenute cloim to 1m . fng yung shipped. from Viet. Werlcil een . nas thrauch Nita Alp Fo ce‘ that he avast Base In. Florida aren 317 Pve dest my ene To . _- @rg te controversy oz dramatic! Horiety.” ; . ‘ . At ‘the time of the Ind “situations. mo . 4 ent, Werbeil wa. ; eo “One was actively i fave ved tn! the Atianta- Consiit _— eo rs ‘ : on plang fo set up: anvanti-Cestro “muting an’ “cstrer ‘ean, en. diay iticials rexel - ne : eo a base In Haiti; and bet ent rele® in “the aso" ated aife conduct. He was ee SD ge the Don Far Nae’ ay t } yey seusted “by helicopter fo a ee Ch as - . « c 2 feleral indice’ ent hac US. warship. . . . a 2 . . during the 1655 Anterican jcged a conspiracy to ship! ‘ c i oo Loe eo -tervertion to put down a re puns and munitiess frown At: 1 “The Communist movement’ Loe “ * as thas actualy défeated itself” - . : olttion, id New Yer! Y . oe tse. ce Mackell Livinssea WerPell, Fut Weellell tei are portcr, BY forcing the Lined Sates, a ; ATHCECH Ld : bet nee mq tO adopt sach a firm policy,” ated Sicnivs, vat the tine of the indic 'tict he had withera “I support from the Haitian whe corimented at the lime, Roth the: Denis uiine| liand the Aferathen raid oc. HH, vite pre an Allonta weapons resesri & oer] we and ranufart ¢ firut, was apa a Lote ; - . plan ashen it appeared to be! vtec ‘ Indicted 22> ye ago On herded toward dircet military eurred f before en! rhell and - charges of violating a fedvral action. eF d Sigrd n * . . ' a « 2 . . - law forbid ration of, oH Pm called wpen acsin to A r Foree offiecr at] , ‘fight Communists in tae s a under invusti . mo _a military expedition 4, ist a, a ae ‘ sin ihres shiprne ms ~ friendly nation fra: hemisphere, Vid do i ‘of ns f ation fre . r men om fram | ing Vee dane hi: how, ceated torritery. : Hered the best interest of th: ai " peat feat The indictinent net Were United Sistes.” | te is were inte . . Lo epen fy ea tye - for oo righteIng 9 andieNepgro ., Bell and six others was made: Ive bees in ER kre teroups and said ho himself Y Ohear t ‘get ies a # he hhms: . : afler customs egents raided dan! Cone ae ee ; lon, fyi white in Vietnam Had had the! a wees _ dslarnd eamp near Demiakean govern veapons sent ta At we . Fis, where they seized a smo) fichi the Communists.” ; 8 fer lsber story ora : , : arsenal of wecpons and found: ap. ed Newsman os BO 75 baltle-cled exiles and Aimer: _ oo : y ; In the Dominican actisn wo “ - feans. oo Lefore, . Werts was . ve Not on Island feresived with - ‘ oan . _ " Peon twounded Ameri: i : . : Werbell hi was net OF cut ef a bullet . the island at the time of tie ¢ a7 , raid. i . atier} Ns awe Kennedy, had be Only four Weens | sider tay wounded by WarBell we atlurncy In v: : the ch missed. N. brow, presi as alan rey 8 te
oe Viet ArmsShi pment toF la. Aired. || By Bruce Galphin . iCal) ‘Pau! Marriott and-made :pressors monufactured by ‘his , Weshingion Post S:att writer  “B ieyprscat of him. Marriott jflrm. While he was thére, he NTA, 1— An At. eica't even know about it. id. varinue Gareth ee: apon: ; “ithe Fglin Arincment Laura (082 ‘eodiecalivus and military sald today shal he and not an tory, is undér.davéstigation for Officials gave him guns. - Air Force officer was responsi- ble for three Row<ontrover Tae Air Force has not yet re-sested in testing the Sionics sial shipments of smal AFiNS lessed a, report on findings of [suppressors on. captured Rus. from Vietnam to Eglin Alt ‘its invesiization. jsian-designed AK-47 machine | Force Base, Fla. ._. |. Werbell is vice president of (suns, and that he sent a crate And, said the businessman, 'Sio. ies, an Atlanta wéapons:back to the States via Eglin. Mitchell L. Werbeil 11, “Weiresearch and manufacturing They were officially regis. were trying to da a favor for company. itered, were delivered to At everybody. npc yew « te He-lsald “he spert time in lanta and are now “in various » | “e's ‘a’ shame” they have Vietnam Supervising the test. stazes of Uisdssembly In our taken a nice officer like (Lt ing ef flash ant sound sup. jiboratory," he stated, : —_ ee thls shies en . Pas 7 - of Dee Redz bor SIE? ay a, te Ses role-in the-gun shipments. | Wetbéll said he was Inter. [:
ase oe, OGe.7\-oang - MEMNGRANDUM FOR- ane clon,’ JOSeph J, Liebling Joe: You Mey already kay it, but if you do not; WerBell'g lawyer, =dwin Marser, has taken this _ dine defora, He was Counsel for a British Pilot, Hawke, whe "vas tried in Luflalo in 19364 for | “flying B-25s to Portugs] without export licenses, | Marger Ceveloned the theory thar theae flizhts -had CIA ap2rroval 4nd susnoxé, This. wag totally untrue as-wo testified a: tie trict, but Marger' 8eemed ©onvinced that he hed 4 Case. Ere seems tobe easily COaVInceg oy his: chenta, , Let me know ifyou want anything more,, s/Larry 23 Sehvary 197] ADA TE) 7 Foau xe, 101 REPL aces Fone Gs to68 1 au $¢@ WH Coy war gE uses, ert
and based on all the information available, the answer is "No" - a, ae | 1 -OGE 71-0248 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENGr 7 WASHINGTON, D.C, 20555 —~ : 23 February 1971 The Honorable Joseph J. Liebling Deputy Assistant.Secretary of Defense’ . (Security Policy) re Deoartment of Defense ws ae Washington, D. C. 20301 Dear Mr. ‘Liebliag: ; . Re:. -WerBell, Mitchell L., peg In response to your letter of 16 February 1971 concerning ~ Mr. Mitchell L. WerBell, Ill's alleged-affiliation with the Central ence Agency, we have investigated the matter thoroughly, intellig a "for each of your questions numbered 1 through 6. You should be advised that Mr. WerBell voluntarily con- tacted a represeniative of the Central Intelligence Agency's Domestic Contact Service in Coral Gables, Florida; and at Mr. WerSeli's initiation furnished voluntary information for the period 16 December 1965 - 19 November 1966 with eleven contacts. it should be noted that the function of the Domestic Contact Service ts to receive information which individuals feel is of interest to the United States Government. The office is overtly Listed in the telephone book under the Central Intel- Ligence Agency and, therefore, is readily available for contact. If Mr. WerSell suggests an affiliation with the Central Intelligence Agency, he is hereby authorized to divulge the - details of his alleged affiliation in the hearing ¢o that he may not use ostensivie security as a means of avoicing answering questions, Sincerely, Vr ect Lawrence R. Houston General Counsel +. YFG ae . So om Of mon ad
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28 repruacy 1973 \ ‘MENORANDUM FOR THE RECORD g Star Article entitled “The SUBJECT -¢.°, Washington Evenin i _ . “Story of CPS and the Piot to Iavade Haiti” ‘ghich. appeared in the 26 february 1970 Edition ° oo co 1. Subject article reported that a CES cameraman, James, WILSON, had contacted CIA agente _____] while - om 8. space shot assignment in 1966, end ‘that the CIA hed . _informed the FBI, who called on WILSON and referred hia | ° - to U.S, Cistoms. a 7 --- g) @H pivision has ascertained that on 30 June 1966, 2 a James WILSON called the CIA Duty Officer of the Domestie ~~ : , Contact Service (DCS) office in , and sub- wel : _gequently related a story about a proposed plot being 7 _ staged in the 0.8, to invade Haiti and overthrow the Duvalier Governseat, and that CPS had convinced the parties involved that they should allow CRS to photograph and ; televise a Special Program on the preparations. WILSON i requested aad received sseurances from the DCS officer a - that he would not be identified as the source of this po. dmforantion. re ol 3. On 6 July 1966, WH Division sent a blind pemo~ randum to the federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of State which forwarded 4 resume of WILSON 's story to the DCS, without identifying the source. The remorsndum atated that the source’a motive for disclosing this information was to alert the U.8. Government to 8 ‘potentially embarrassing situation if it were involved in an ingecure operation. The JEFAVE Station also passed a regume of this information to the U.S, Custons Purean ; i Bhamd. do 4. Except in connection with this report, there is . i mo record of any operational involvement ty the Agency with WILSON. oo - ah mw ¢ . . he
SUBJECT : Possible Clandestine Planning Involving | | i | MEMORANDUM FOR : Chief, SOD/GB | oo - | Raitt | REFERENCE © : Your Memorandum, Same Subject, dated 30 January 1970 . - jal ¢ conveyed the substance of your first © par t ohga° ‘eeeent” investigative iaterest in: WEREELL : - activities. vo 2. Under these eircumstances, WH/7 Suggests that | . LTC Cochrane be adviged to inform an appropriate USAF’ ‘ - security office of. Mr. WERBELL’s statements. This . | , should insure that any follow-up inquiry concerning ‘those statements would be properly coordinated with - ' such other investigations.as.may-be in process. |
14-00000 Oe MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WH/7 SUBJECT: _ Possible Clandestiné Planning Involving Haiti dated 15 January 1970 ee On 28 January 1970, Mr, M.tchell Livingston WerBelt If, ent of SIONICS, Inc., told” TC casey Cochrane; USAF, REFERENCE: © - Memeorandum for C/WH/7, Same Subject, | ‘reference to the plan being initiated in Canada isa s blind and that’ ” the plotting is based in Haiti. He also stated that he has been approached to provide the equivalent of five million dollars worth of arms to the group and that the plotting has ¥ rench backing. 2. The above information was received ‘from LTC Cochrane by LTC Charles Williamson, USMC, and is provided to WH/7 for ‘disposition and action. This information, to the beat of our know- ledge, has not been acted upon by SACSA; however, Mr. W erBell concerned. that:no, accion. As. being:taken or, appa rent. interest. eee re ae - - Chief, Ground Brann Special Cperations Division
20 January 1970 - 4 MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE: SUBJECT : Mitchell Livingston WERBELL 111 REFERENCE : Memo from C/SOD/GB to C/WH/7 dtd 15 Jan 1970 _ Subject: Possible Clandestine Planning. Involving | | ae not nO Haiti . , - , i | | a 1. _SOD/GB, advised 19 January 1969, ye co after, my- ‘phone “eal to. pointing out the third - ee ow gency aspect of “the wer “report, “that Col.-Whiliangon 20 ee oes -his friend Col. COTES. and that the a Le ; @varde the “infa ‘#8 “being-none- fois. Coci ‘of! eine beets Ty and was telling his friend ‘(Wi113 amson): about it as’a ; private citizen, ~ &e 2, Suggest we just use Williamson as the source. i secsys he yl tind tae was CWE ate ip ype nO. Corl wre 7! “ grace. | ; Distribution: eed Shee tp teptt  carfes WA 201-259910 7 notes ae a = tee UE os oe a a a ‘= 100-9- [ig Se op TAM Sue ies + SRD er SE “ec Tet a eer tent dbe MAT eZ pease _ _ i = WH/7/HT Chrono wo et lL SI Gee.
14-00000 ‘MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WH/7. 4 : j SUBJECT: . Possible Clandestine Planning involving Haité i i ; ! ns o The Vice President of SIONICS Inc., Mr. Mitchell Livingston | WerBe-li Ul, contacted LTC. Barney Cochrane, USAF, assigned to ‘ - SACSA, in early January 1970 and said that he learned of the existence | cial clandestine Operation based perhaps. in Canada _ oe neve af Llt on of Plans fora FB ape. BOP ate egime within the next four m months. effort has: ‘a-good nants, of. : b : l he kiawe, ‘concern 4 ing the Organization and its plan to interested U. 1S. authorities, 2. The above information was obiained from LTC Cochrane by ; j LTC Charlee Williamson, USMC, aasigned toSOD/GB. SOD and the ' Office of Security have an exteasiva file on bir. WerBell who has a. jong history of worldwide involvement in borderline and sometimes _ illegal international gun deals, It ia felt by LTC Cochrane that Mr. WerBell's story is plausible and warrants further investigation, Mr. WerBell's motive for revealing thia type of information at present pe -could be.2 an.effort: lieve. .pregeure:onhis: firm: and himeelf- -for. gun y rm to UL Se port c 1 “tee ze ~ a) L , port. control” regulations, and are  belny investigated and’warranta pénding. ~ 3. To the best of our knowledge, no action has been taken on ‘thie fete information -by- SACGSA, hes gare eg! loko -naes Suen p degreh Lise sn eesate x de Chief, Ground Branch ‘Special Cperations Division,
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ot eee ALE SECATIARIAY DIESEUINATIC.: 2] eo anare’ oO RETURN T2 planes CJencsm e . ern la ® | (Cf rive is es ene no, a . wT : nt ee re ce ee te ~~ te RE ene ee ON?: ry ° ° ° FUE, VE : . ’ ——~—— a nn ENE dlest e ie tgseilicatlen}, : . {dete end tio Picdy . .- Qrelerante mimes) . SECRET Se PAGE TWO rae sO, . ents Orneceo2 003 eo ?T or - SOURCE COMNENTED THAT WERBELL'S MOTIVE FO2 REVEALING WilS 1 INFORIIA TION TO U.S, AUTHORITIES AT.THIS TIX = ouAY BE THE _ HOPE OF RELIEZY ING PRESSURE On HIS FIRM ar HINSELF FOR -vp-teBUSENESS ARANSS OLIONS. RELIEVED. “10. LEE. -PRES STLY.UNDE weenie + new oeteny o 3. THE FILES OF THIS AGENCY REFLECT THA? WEREELL IS ~ VICE PRESIDENT OF SIONICS, INC., OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AND THAT HE EAS BEEN ‘THE SUBJECT OF PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS BY YOUR BYEEAU IN CONNECTION WITH ITS NWWMROUS BUSINESS oe _ TRANSACTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA, THIS. “AGE NCY WOULD APPRECIATE mii? ALLEGED OPERATION REFERRED * gO IN PSRIGRAPA ‘Two AEOVS, END OF MESSAGE BSep ONY“ Peo" $6P OOF ‘Pron C/SOn/GB 8 ioe os eas : ; Subject: Possible Clandestine Planning Involvi: ne Halti . Dated  % -15 January 1970 ; : . to ee de Pt 1 a a c/\ H/R_ —T fe RT 6 owe so, 6 anee SoD/cGB ¢ sua NELLIAN A", BROE 4 3 C/CI/LIAISON Oise ae "ork HD : Fi , 3 a : . . 1 ‘ . a : : COOADINATING CEFICERS . , 4 RELEASING orricss | ' § FC 'R ET aU ams ‘ tae sare Pe une Oats . 5 REPROODUCTIGN SY GTHER THAN THz ISSUING Orr : Cor RO. ‘sn perpen geese aerner eaten eerencaseennenacDanandbintndng tata anaes nn anes
Tren) ae wank i - . mo oppege ote af vs JU Ears | ; ; { | | | TO: Chief, Counterintelligence Divieloa ae | 7 Dlrectorate of Special Investigations | - The Inspector General, USAF , FROM:.~. Deputy Director for Plans | SUBJECT: O wERBELL, Mitchell Livingston I : | - .. ° . & Reference le madé to your request dated 28 May 1969 | woe as tanbiewnnce tele ner en oaceralag Sabject, bora & Marc’ 1918 ja Philadeiphia, Peansylvania. | , “The files of this office costala the following “informiatioas =~ 2 ee ™ ere Pree pipes with antleCASTRO plotters In the Domtaicaa Repablic. Further investigation disclosed Subject to be asc rupalons--a whesiar- _ dealér acd promoter of grandiose schemes, with a history of moeteripnlizing la areas and altuations where he can make a quick profit, The report olau sévéeaisd that Sahisct, in his foreiga dealings, had misrepresented himoelf ae aa employee of the. United States Government and the Central Intelligence Agency. March 1969 Subject was.in Thailand conducting of | i } i ! condect buaiaces with the Royal Thal Goveriment. ~~ ween ! i i t ’ Encl. }aamecheck ; CC: . Department of State CC: Defease Intelligence Agency. CC: Foderal Bureau cf tovestigatios.. 4 oO . RID/CE: ~~ JKS/MB/nke , ee ‘ BASEDON: DIR-88114, 19 March 1969 (to FILE IN; —-201-2599104 FO/O a
74-90000 2 “SEC 8 ET-- TELEPOUCH © DISP NO = FT8A=33,068 DATE = 38 JUNE 1969 - - s FILM - NONE . ; INDEX - NONE . FILE = NONE ; y - TO = CHIEF, FAR EAST DIVISION , INFO - NONE. FROM - CHIEF OF station, —_—_—i| SUBJECT -7 SIONICS INC, PROPOSAL TO RTG FOR SNIPER TRAINING PROGRAM . . ACTION. | =. NONE 1969, WHEN HE WAS IN CONTACT WITH BPP IN 3ANGKOK, AFTE® PFCEIVING DIR 38114 IN RESPONSE TO OUR TRACE 8EQUEST, WE SUGGESTED TO SPP THAT. THEY WOULD DO WELL TO AVOID. HIM. WE HEAPD NOTHING OF HIM FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. HOWEVER, IN LATE APRIL AND EARLY MAY HE WAS BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT AND, WE DTEOVEPED, IN TOUCH WITH A VARIETY F HIS REPUTATION TO KEY PERSONALITIES If THE MISSION INCLUDING . . —ATBASSAD OR; DEFENSE ATTACHE, ARPA, SA/CI, U.S. ARMY CIC, OST AND IN ANY WAY 3Y THE U.S, GOVERNMENT. HIS Name HAS COME UP CONSIST- “ENTLY FOR PAST SEVERAL MONTHS AND WE HAVE PULLED VERY FEW PUNCHES IW DESCRIBING KIM, EITHE® TO AMERICANS 08 THAIS, IN FACT, WE WOOTE "fd MEMORANDUM EXPRESSING OUP DESECVATIONS, PASSED IT TO J-2 “ACTHAT, AND SUGGESTED HE BRIEF THE J-2 MINIST®Y OF DEFENSE ACCOPDINGLY. WE ALSO SENT A 8U97N NOTICE MESSAGE, ] TO.ALL FE STATIONS. 3. AFTER DYNAMIC BEGINNING, WE°3ELL IS NOW SUFFERING EXPECTED SECRET TELEPOUCH “FTSA+S3,088 . Ss PAGE: «ONE eren 2O0I-2S9GWo et ¢ wv
TELEPOUCH “FISAS33;¢68 PASE Two ; . SETBACKS, THE EMBASSY HAS TEFUSED TO ENDOPSE HIM AND HIS. PRODUCTS. . MACTHAT HAS AGREED TO FUSNISH TO RTG SOME OF THE ITEMS HE was ATTEMPTING TO PEDDLE, AND ®7¢ HAS COOLED CONSIDE®ASLY P€ SONICS PASTIC IPATION IN ANY ASPEDT OF COUNTER INSURGENCY EFFORT, WEP= BELL'S PUNYING. MATE, MAGEE WATSON, HAS ALPEADY LEFT THAILAND. 7 “WERBELL IS SUPPOSED TO LEAVE SHOPTLY, WE WILL MISS HIM. te 4 EDGAR N, DANAGE So ee _ pia hd DISTRIBUTION VIA TELEPOUCH 2 = CHIEF, FE DIVISION a ieoeteet ats Corian nto on
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CsB.e fer TAGIAT Dissesun: nor. C1iass ceo NIGSSAGE Tota, Cope "pouring 4ND/O@ INiT:ALS - BEEN BY PERBON, URI? MOTD + £80o87 | BECR ET Meares baa oa panne (wires Filed te} Mi vteeceee rr cree eee renee ASvancs Cory C] 1s9uLD C] S.0TTEO F 3 vote C] ves o NO classiey 1 fia NO. OV ccenemeneneee ay, : RREP TO FILE NO... ‘ rie mo Cecr to "prance _ eastaoy C) sia. PAGE. 2 ISECRET at (So WERBELL IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN, BORN 1919, e 4 o. SERVED IN OSS, HAS SHAVEN HEAD AND ‘HANDLEBAR .. S . _ MUSTACHE. REF ADVISES THAT FULL DETAILS OF HIS sg’ “THAT HE HAS AN UNSAVORY REPUTATION, KAS NO U.S. GOVT CONNECTIONS, AND ANY DEALINGS WITH HIM SHOULD BE APPROACHED WITH EXTREME CAUTION, 4. FOR SAIGON: WE UNDERSTAND. THAT. WERBELL « =] RECENTLY VISITED SAIGON AND ) DID HIS THING WITH GEN,’ wee 18 flow | SET HTN uP A SuiPER TRai NENG PROGRAM: Se FILEs 281-259910 AND ,VERBELL™ BR SE Sha Re LS ‘s E_G-R ET. ete lee ay teins apretclggltt ame, Bn a Oo SERA SB eh wee eth og ad es) ee! > 9 6 « &
14-00000 a. SIONICS Tah PEACH TCH Cece hn E. At LarnTS GLORGA 35173 ° 20 May 1999 - Rie Chi: Marshal Dawee Chullasapya , . Chief, Joint Chiefs of Staff , . Supreme Command, RTAF Bangkok, Thailand ys 4 ec _--Dear Air Chief Marsbal Dawee: ‘Sionies, Inc. ia pleased to submit thia proposal in response to the usgent requireiient to neutralise the communists terrorist ' (hreat in the border areas of Thailand. This requirement was _ first brought io our-a:tention during the recent trip to threatened . border areag of Thailand made by yourself, Air Vice Marshal Manob, and Major General Prasart, accompanied by our field representative’ to Thailand, Mr. Mitchell L. WerBell, HL. This urgent requirem you during your recent visit of General Eisenhower. | ent. was of course further discussed with 19 Washington to atiend the funeral In consequence we have prepared a pilot program with the objective of neutralizing sue Cornmunist terrorist threat in Thailand. Wo “pave enti.led ihe program "Neutraliaa:ion of she Communist Torroriat Threat in Thailand" with short title NCTTT. In scope the NCTTT enconipasses live major phases and spans a twelve month program. Basically we ofier a proven program based, in part, on the out- giandingly successiul.U. S, th Division Sniper Program in the Delta of Vietnaun. Finally, and most impor.catly, thie program is also based on Special Operations programs executed by members of ne Sionics organization during wartime, couneringurgency and in Sou:h Asia, Europe, South America, guerrilla operations executed Nominican Republic, and Vietnam. We have selected a eam of highly qualified experts whose combined . “capabilities represen: all the disciplines required to :he planning and execu.ion of this program.. :
in view oi he abuve, Sidnics, Inc, assures you that ‘he full resources of the Corpora ion-vill-be provided for ‘he successful performance of this vork, We loo« forward to he oppor.unl.y of serving the Royal Thai Governiien:. incorder te con'ribute :o the duflea: of Cominuniat terroriam and vubversion in Thailand. i Wilh Warm Personal Regard and Respect. ‘Sincerely. Sionics Ce “teed Fred N. Brown President 2 ec sss ec EE PE APOE Sarge ANAND ora gD a NE
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inc. ib es ,onse reese gee Ob. ia I Pope eeribetangte te nsatrathg the her unink terra het te vobred oy responsilts writers Of tay joyal site lata kv Te . o . : : Wecoyorniant ef snavilanwt.. °. o . . ; ; wee lave eaained phe aro.len in cetail and nave Cow luced . tae the ual je cananilitics cf HIUYTCS, Tac. can provide one Ansvar to neor ping Constunist tecrorisre in Shailant. ue nave . on, Yes .Oraing on, CF wil] soon pecoae involved  , . ; F CaaS tye sich Vill insure imraeciate working : celerents’ for rou tae. ceased —e < (ae eras with th 2 cad successful relationships wits U.S. jovarnment ang incus~ Inc. would and= eras “problem 6f 2 ing Communist Final n that re ig our oninis he metrocoloqy sy procesal. sill i ta field a taan of srofessional nad iia ilitary tecinicians, yacned bv suahigder wt avordarriate sunpert. ana resources, that will be fully capanle Of exscutiag this plan : to tha complet: satisiaction of tne Royal Thad Vovernasent. To . . Pol ; ‘ : j
= # 2 ? ta The aL Ue No: have: persone) immediately available trak represent. rounter-insurgency operatic exverience: and Aner B Va octew “fo tme neture ef the prolia , this rroposal is “la sbeall’ an oetliad tan indicatina how the eperation will ‘he accom: Lisinte sis volume oresents our operationsl proposal, fleas with a proposed management plan, a summary ef corporate ‘oxmerience, and -the resunes of: the military and technical’ oo a a re personae] cS, Inc. propesces to asgicn to the effort. The Cest Frovecay is submitted separatsly a3 VOLUME IT. we
a b dan whiel sill contrite to tie neutrali-- totter. > far CAtHasd sh tegrorise Goat im Uhailerd. A at . . a . : . 7 . 2 ‘ mee we  Gundamoncal coguirewints for Prowler volution: . . i “GGtos, Int. consider that the basie success of this plan @ . 3 * - . wiki denen in larde e -casure of fielding a team of knowledgeable | “of. “linciviacuals who: 1. aos thailand und :the considerate Communist - i i” . threat to ita worder arcas, i hie tue prducipal cersonalities in the Qlechad=-Goveciment(03s)-concernsd we orineiva S. : - cae in Unailand, ‘South Vietnas, and Washinjeon, J. C. concerned with: - i assisting t.e to in neutralizing this throat, 4, ‘Lully understand the thraat of Communist “terrorisre and subversion and possess the- kndwlodge“and-skilkleoo 77" to counteract © tactics, teccnizdes. organizathonal and training vrocedures, and veanons and equipeent tachniques/enployrent to defeat this G. Poscess long exnerience and preven sKills ¥ 1 li a re . 2 a . é 08 MIS LIP EB Tal st oe,
74-00000 “by definition the nestralizat a © Comuunis et terrorism Consists of the seciulizea application of vounter-ins Surgency operations by the exployment of intelli> genee: nsycholojical operations; hunter-hkiller operations ‘to. include jungle, mountain, air, riverin @, Lorder, and village od —. secucity operations; communications; logistics; specialized : : training and eqitiprent,-and other techniques. SIONICS; Inc. considers that the techniques designes by our Corporation. to a ae “neutralize Coninunist tefforisn _in the border areas of ‘Thailand is based on sound past experience. in this field and would lead en to the development of a wide- “Spread organization and: system: : within the Royal. tad Armed Forces (DARD, the Border Patral Sarat Police. (BPP), and ‘tha Thai National. Police CTNP) to. sounteract ae acs! the Communist threat. cannot be accom! ished without, reliance on sound and. informed military judgement based oA proven techniques. SIONICS, Inc. has pioneered in the development - of tnese techniques which permit the systematic development and usc in analysis and. execution of militar ¥. and technical judge- “The techniqués: and equipment developed for tnis purpose «_—. me are cesigned and, operate for the “usual or normal” case in which - be -usedaundér*Gombat- conditionssn The: apability thats - FLEE accrues fron the employment of these tec hniques and equipment in unusual or peculiar Situations should be considered a bonus effect rather than an expected | mode of. cperation. . om
5 ftp le eee 4 o weer ve Siti fieaeb Paorors Relate ge solving tthe Problea_ taeda clanndne fer cuctiesseue ceudler=insurcency , Therou ti “navbeow. of tra: ony, weather, oe wetloas und caver ilitie:, and intimate tb ation vituin to: o-erational area. Andi - Laenidbe, one of tho critical. factors in counter-insuryeneys  Gweracions ix She ivenorouical op rations «ffort that. ruse i weares vitin any oberation of this tyne. whe key to success ix to identify, infiltrate. bloc, ambush, thicteise ecatralize t ‘Of ancrations ic <a Strihkeohii whea Ae is »9st vulnerable, in ‘individuals that man. these teams 48 <Cil as tigi. whe cemsand and direct then, will nave to ato ee opocially trained, fvulpped, oreanized, and, above all, psychologically procuared for these op2rations. qata tals operation to ice Successful must Lena. Gove rnmont
i fooarrest or nawtralies Cornunist Gurrorast: . ' the ootder areas of Tuailan:. j ue tb toy rant [3 tis. | featralization of. fomeuunist “errorist mares oe | in inailan:! (xeeeed. fos : : aad ° - bs | _ =. The scope. of this program cncompasses a. velve i . . . vad a Laritu, Live hare cparation as follows: , ae ‘Planning, oreparation:. cand ynase ag hrea of aserational responsinility, initiation of iiunter/ailler everations, oryanization, training ana ins rtioa of two add Zitional : ‘ “SO fsx VLatoons. . . ‘ o i Poage [Yo - tvaluation of operations to include , plannin.s, loyistics penetration missions. Preoaration for further expansion of LCE! as racuired. : , B. Seuedule ‘See Figura l.. a . eld s : : °, ae ~ oo ak ye . a . “ Sa Bs
ae the vroject. “nese personnel, led by Mr. “itchell L. werbell, JAYL, Stestes + ivld, Uepresentative in ‘Thailand and Vietnam, will be . . backe.) uy appropriate civilian technical rersuanei vic would provide expertise ar reguired in the general fields of sniper ee, oy i ‘ana special operations training and the maintenance of the operational eyuipnent and yeapons. “The Corporation would assign ; ‘ fe these people to. projects, in accordance with their individual oe as aan a a . i capatilition. Program Schedule ~~ See. Figure 1 (NCTTT Program Schewule, ' iwelve “Months sj. i a Coe . , : : ; - ee! oe oe a ae first week. after initiation of the : During -the= x ind aS Tage Et me Beech “Fie “et program and organization of the joint MRDC/SIONICS Operations Planning Group (JSOPG). At tnis time he will receive an indoctrination — _ Orientation and guidance from appropriate Sypreme Command and =~ “HRDC personnel. Coordination, communications channels and- In this regard, liaison requirements will be established. will consist of the selection cf appropriate Sniper Training | Team personnel from MLA units and Special Operations Hunter/ — ' Killer Platoon personnel from appropriate RTAF, BPP and TNP : -7- } I a Ite
vga tf at wlbo resuin Wcthe tan previously trained snicer- eersendll gr@ocanle on lucy vith che clack jaather bivision in. . " . Viet. fac cerseumed wera trained iv the U. 3. J¥th vivision . é Spiper vyainin. fvocras in the Vietnam Selta.  Juring this Phase - wrsonnel «i)l oe organized into the SU "/S Plateon structure. mee During the period 6th through. the 12th week, i Lateon vorionmne) woulda be yrtergoing the sniner training progran consistin: of uasie :irinug Yositions and integrated acts of SACOLING, « wduitionally, durias thas neriod, JSOPS would estab- lisa standing overating procedures and effect the liaison with * 2 augrépriate ATAP, OPPsand TNP units in the joint Tactical Area. ve. QS Cperstions “esponsibility (TAOR) selecte:i for the pilot 7 TB nates 1 Pe -for insertion into tne TAOK. _Ouring. the next phase, the operational pnase, the three tfunter/viller teams of the First Provisional SG it/K 'Platoon would i:e inserted’ into the TAOR and stablished with appropriate Whai oilicary and para--ilitarcv border control with approoriate JSOPG onrosite numbers in order to insure proper employment of the teams. It is. . . . . . 2 , team personnel ve exrected to actually direct cr enter into operational activities of-the Special Operations imnter/filler , : and tecinicalpersonnel “2.5 srojram.for the first Erovisional. Srecialtperations unter, cn. cenfen es
frou cptering iste wanyy! verb cel feembant achive! wha huOaveke Fe . , . @uaran 6 pational peices te (4th, sti. Gth, 7th, a “ leh, ane Pro we aklnt)” be jaresoning k nid follow slosaly £9 - . fay Ter er achivities sesh eenduer wath thei: 3 44 cog? be rryarts —_ PontanEcas gvaluation of. tan” activities vuriad the cetire Fo coraticaal RAGS rontinaiae evaiuation of tre score Program wee : soula we carrie: on. it sore time be teen the Stn and 6th ; nantine a petsal oocision woyl La Maio with "RDC officials” _ for racmaieniatiens to be made to the .RTAF. Suprere Command for - \ : eg. ithe sxpansioa of tean activity and the inclusion of the two add tional epecial Oserations Yunter/Killer Clatonas into a i ow wpe : ‘Souci Uneration® canter ti Ler convent for farther operations ao--ghenenoperations.woald.. | ere A. Ani] 2@Fn1ss Cate” He an hot pursuit" of Co across the “ardar onerations © operational phase, antire insertion and terrorists. suring tne is to. 2 underser rec that .ps yehological azerations will be # contucte? 2t all tires in conjunction with Sp “edt séial operations” wie final taree mont.s of the 12 assary of Srecial sperations Fe
. erqani zation : daqenont: - (Seo Figure 2)) 5 7) ft y “CAUSE AL chase imoortance whieh: STONES, Inc. PLEAS Le ah + rancid ero ure, we iyi neen close top lianane= 8 Sa) at Pr stata warts VeAT Op Mame cae thie “reject. Te hesponcials officer (Mr, eeowhl) a8 © olsoetar Ind Vice Pedsident of STOUICS and will rerore Siror ttly fo tie iresident of the Corzoration,. “In this 7 “Ts Manner, we zan ’wssure vou that te the extent hecssary, the full - : resources of F the Corporation can be mace available to yuarantes a i: a full, satisfactory rroyram. ; re a ‘ In janaging this oreject we proposed to guarantee continually and consistency throughout the entir re period of. os this effort. ag ney to this, of. course, rests. with the _ bersonnel: assijn Tae BIRT ye Pen oe SO “avoided, and DER ERM FURIE ta (SS OM BRE? Pt “adeauate everlan wherever possible. & full resume on vir. NerBell may be found in Fart VI of this proposal. . It is to be noted oan that he has nad considerable experience in the’ counter- insurgency field, saving served in “South Vietnam and the Par East for SIONICS s Since Sentember of 1968. Ne has had long exverience weapons AS: cst _— wute unit: ‘Connaivter of a ‘Svecial NAP aiseeadie dreay in: OES units operating. in tae rar East. Since S¢enscontinuously-<int Gt exotic wearonry and is the holder of Several Patents in this field. Since 1958; he has devoted practically all of is time in anti-conmunist activities throughout Central and Scuth America ay vt
14-00000 bo detavetdes and chovelast ont of caeanons ¢ ° oy tle Be Petar  anattedr wishes assisted oy at as UL rere bs cee eeat onsres chesen from unin wide cognk gtine AMG Rnowbedge of counter in jurgchey Experts threucneue the frag sOrld. Cs }ould be assisted waen necessary Ly “ajor Ueneral ; : harold f. satson, Jirector @f SIQUICS and in caarye of tecunical planning. dis Snoeleage and oackyround in corporate planning, vorld-wide Soverincs ani corporate contracts is considered invaluavie to tia GlunicS yroup.
General Concept’ . The purpose of this progran will be te strike 8 the Coinunist: insurgents where they are rost vulnerable and to. mesh the operations of selected Special Operations Hunter/Killerc Teams into: present Royal Thai -Governiient ongoing Counterinsurgency a a Proyrams based ‘on’ the proven ana historic causes of victory over. the’ Cosminists: ts ee ie Aggressive anti- guerrilla tactics. if Removal of sections of the population thus ‘depriving insurgents of contact with the people. Removal of - the support of the population. cateyories of insurgent vulnerability: tO , 1.. Insurgent base area system which, although: fragmented, is a coherent complex of combat, combat support, and. ‘combat service support facilities and activities which, embrace... ~. toe _ ‘" populated as well as remote areas. In this, Special Operations final combat may use escape routes that will subject them ideally to ambush by Nunter/Killer Teams. In this, the classic principals of “the hammer and anvil operation” will be employed. Helicopter . ; 1 3~ & r 3
bape ian Ad wit Bo hragecad ‘erations fentor/siller wears will OPP ee wa sd tle leery Areas and villac-. CwUloNeSs in crder Te TPE ene to everate oirestiy “ithin tra Sopulation against anc within - : : ade lo .lanise terrorists operate. ee era tional! py, Sing Nase T= Planning, Trovaration, and 7 . Installation of “raining Center, e + Tried iation of. plannin.: oy SISuIes Progra “anager wether, Suprens 4 Ca.irand ment ¢f an aye rrovi sional: Sp pecial omrations Nunter/Killer a Vlatcon., fn this. the WSOP hay D@ expanfel to include selected Personael tron HUESAG, VEIL, and ARP. as required, ge ‘Training Center and Srojtam Te roe nale IEE ARG Mrojtan . (1) Establishze y Center 1 ra tions. “ratning contr SHLD ce estanlish 2e “designated. a3 a wasis for sero) rersonnel, a team of one officer and ten SOFAS E66" a Fecuired to train this taam it wil) [2 necessary to draw this team free tre ten menbers of the ATA DBlaecr eantier Division who ' a sok -
ision Sniper Ooherk in. a . = > . aa Soleeurizin;: techaicues. cviditéional ish of ices. and °- 5 ge be we ee@rcanneb ohio ce revised to staff sto ceater with instructors . cin veecial cservefone, artillery fire atjustsent, savivation, ‘sap reading ane azcertion operations. A certain number of Train- 2 ing Contec coumand adwinistrative nersonnel vill also he required... nd * ? ot (2) Training Pactlity s enipel training facility will be constructed ~ |, ‘ v to accommodate 329 students. The facility should include a 40 xy j noint firing range and adjaceat classrooms. The range saould ; : Le iuilt with taract facilities at 150, 399, 699, and 306 meters. A aoviny target should bo built on the 300 meter butt in addition “86 the timed targets | 4. fap sto ar eS ein oy at that pesition. by urgent .T3 recuast to JUSMAG. These rifles are glass bedded into imprejnated stocks which are impervious to water, The rifles ! .-. ave carefully tuned to’ provide a hich dejrea of accuracy. - 7 ee . (2) The accurized 4-14 rifles will be ballistic cam. Tne siunt reticle includes a pair of stadia ; of the tele il the varving the Stadi scone nt lines define 4.30 inch area on the target, the ballistic cam ~14- QV :
Te se Watt ration Virtudlds: eliminated @EOQh: ve = EE "oan iiternate tow wed arcurived rifle could ve - tae 4 celencons, Dhese Stents wre a Fixeci 2.2 M ’ . 2 ith a est reticle. elias the “84 tha sniper must accurately estimate eae qua target range and withec hold over Bus CALE: OF adjuse- tre clevating Lecnanisn on the sigat to the estimated range. i , “ ° (3) Ford night conrations at leant one half of the shi poe vifjes.-:ill. be wuicned wita the Varo Starlight ; : “Seopa. Are Ptarlicat Scopes‘ will Se mounted on the d-14 rifles At .the—gaiper sepooY and zeroed durin: training. Tue sniver ee! : : ° : O-n stove/ritle/suppressor combination curing sub- — : retaiag 4 hocndure..assures retention -of-zero in sniper training ‘and combat cwust be T.6gnn U.S. National saten Grade. ~ 3) ALD M-14 sniper’ rifjes will be filled with! tae SLOLics=uis-2 noise Suppressor. (feo Thelésure 1 for comalete wescriction). As neted as0ve, cach stuacnt will retain oon i omc oe subsequent” preussr iGonsginatis ‘operations... * > we rs Tore ° . , a /(8)) Caditional te the basic sngver riflse/ Ae8 CO Po/SUDEEISIOK. cows inwiior i}1Le“equipped““-~= = with alternate noise - uo ressed waasonis on az yewuired by the
wie b celrction at Paruouen! mie gooPC will, during the 4th and Sth veck peloet 1 tatal of HO highly qualified ant rolivated versonnel. Seudents acre jest ints the eniger program will L> selected from svobisterrs. “es “nO ALD selected rust. save 23/29 vision, “ht expe artic iflenan and be well entivated holdiersi: caperience in competitive varkamanship is oreferrea ‘ ’ wut ia ret “andatory. a organization ate tte serene ee sta SR ee eae wih b se atveiahe vate. ‘This figure is based on the everage ateri- tion rate 2t the U. S. 9th Division Sniper school in Vietnam. “pus, total training strength will be 2 officers, 12 NCOs, and 66 Junior ..CG's or enlisted men for a total of 89 officers Cc. vraining Progra ar” Prior to selection and organization of wetatt-studsnt..candidates.. £08 . coprations munter/viller Platoon (9 WfX pltn.) a tra progran will be orapared and rehearse? with the following 4s yasic precents:
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' : ° ie i | | | tos oniper’s covitios or that of an errr esas Be friendly unit. i ee . (iid) sual rictties firiaa. will be " | Conaueted omriag toe hetate vael oof tre courte. sithocette targets * | . Gry ha ey ab Late shd,605 eared VO ottieks wit, eigne targets | being’ “nya: if geen anaes | luring tye Onualit day courses Ven aOints. vill me agar for a ‘first reune nit anc Live ‘points for “Poca secon? round hie, a hax inure score ‘is 165 points, A minimum «- malifying séore is 130.0", a : [orto (iv). Pxperience gained from the Us ss. Ith Bivision sAdyer Se 002 ‘snows that app Zoxivately 50% of the students successfully donplete _the course. - Thus. at least double. e . . pasrnannananananesinincinnthenennsnenn a ae bie ue. doer cf final candidates reanired ‘shouldbe selected to attend: ‘tha: scnool. a . a4 gui grent oe : ; ot _ €ee- igure 4. 3. Pease ast ~ Develon:cdt an: and Ins sertion of ilunte: u/tiller,  Teans ; ji Ipitiat: E2on Of perations 2 fh. a.- Ins ertion (See Figure $.) - paring this phase: the First TS Provisional ; - 50, G/8 Pltn, vill Se inserted into a tactica? Area of Operational eS esponsibility CSRUR) 4 uncer operational sorrel Of @ Xoyal Taai. “rey OF Porder i atrol bolice unit. Tam Pla toon will Ooverate under oe ouetational ccatrol cf the RTA:or upp Commander Whewill be advised in the employment of the ‘Special Oneratioaal team and - the (thres uater/Fillar: Tear Ss by selected mumcers of the JSOPG, | ; : j ; : i: a 7 . «1g 2 etre ce ee renee ae ey 17 eR eee 2 Ae ere me é F P z g E F 5 Fee = F: bs 2 - 2 m
1400000. x ne is taken under tire © te tur mudet ovdration of the rifle. hl. dnaitiation ef Creratte ; Pedtiadle and uneib pier ort are untelbin ccd, eu. Gb we weeded te watey man ble fellas ims tyes if a er ee re we tc: wtudles estrone: SAdpers fren di/s Year. ill vo attaches to ee OP! units ane fecleyed Sith arbush -:truls. whis technique’. . ; : i . : nas heen tac nonat cuseessful rethiod of evolevrent. Teo technisucs - - de . : . . haga aiploved fith a ‘Latoen. avbush, tha eniizers will revain slose ta the SLatoon. cewrand pose. Shen an elinent of the slateos foo the snivers are alerted to that location. loctively at-enight wit the starlijiit scope GRE a ; { i Bey seave and ‘MirAd2. guspressor _ - . & a . > et * and Saco 2 sup sressors or wit the Pt £ uuriay cayligne. TE tae is but‘one Viet Joac in the area, - i 4 L \ ] vy aonninerc.. In thitoeay the amzusn posi-  . rh tiot and locaticn ef automatic wearoens are not compromised ‘due “en a croud of couwnunists .”  @ aroxoach the hilling zone, the snipers anyon the leaders and cudio overators chile the slatoon fires into the yeneral kill Se oi NEY settee ooo zone. oarotuer tecanigue will be used in an ambush ts that of . . ° ; waving tae snaicurs fire tracers to mark tie flanks of an eneny forse weden had anuroacheé the position ia an area other than . wustifie:n bill gene. Snivers are also use! to enyage tae emery whoo orea the ambusa site in order to atterzt to draw fire a =19-— VA
14-00000 Cooragratareds.  Vads voids the Ciselocure of sata atle weapons re Vecitress and letenation. at otagacre ‘inet cr other antivcistur- . i eae Sant ari biies Seton. wit pecurits Lilevent in fue “oe ween mekhned of enclovaent vill ré that of placing snipers and a five te cbspat man security Glusent in a carefully selected. sniner/accush pesition. Tae géneral araa wil be selected by | EOP commander after consiterins enery activity in carat the advices. cf the snirer tear. The team «will thea to 4 uTA or HEP forward position wiere it is joined sy the security clement equipped with ‘i-1lo's, an 47%, and an 4N/PeRce2s . ‘gacio, ‘the sniper/ancusn position. will be ty pes cou a ei just -hricr | te dark’ dad selected to ‘provide taxizum rane of fires and loca-. ‘shan sitiin aureasonable distance fror a friendly unit. ‘the - ~ tigain, continucus surveillance ef the arca. Lye fatigue. navinjg the snioers alternat2 use of the at night is ninivized by “Starlight scove througnout the night. The 179 is an especially -yseful weanon at the sniper/antush position. As an example, the. have been ovserved in a tree line or vegetated - @ “ wo enemy Frecucntls area in tehieh a shot was not possible cue to low Light ievel, csing tracer fire and hy directing (:72 Cire into the area, the . wecurity e@lanane forcec tne enemy to move ang expose thenselves to subsejuen® anigesc fire. ‘ eee nee ee : (ii) Stay-cehinds . ufit Seams trained for long racge operations will im uxtrenoly cffective in engaging eneny ariushers whoa follow = ~20- . ; . . “s  seeteertrecta stra ne te Sih EE NNtNtiettie = ee ees
A ofea ch othourat a: it soves from one lecitien to another. ’ et pad arae. 4 “pdnee tearm with 2 993 Teen Uescucibrcvcbanent is ecdewiea fe sieve lone reno ahscrvatica of hhe mute aver wibltn _ too unit etbb vate] van: caer Off the eae yas tiesy toilow in unifectordt: tacie tedéscape siguts and woecs suppressors FoF 4) ce asbe- $9 engage ‘the enery at rates sut to vou meters. an DAR SMarene@ .uoneb, Cee eneey Wall ungalis net Be ceutious awoub- soo dis cover and. conscalment. jxhus, he presents an cxcollent target for tie H/K cea. |” mont a ed iii) .off-fet eo . / fa) X VARGO. Xenon, seare. Liens will Le! used to illumi- $a. iuhe scope is Ga nas oortion of the infraras haac that is ciak and : Nate covertiy an crea with vink light. win star bee fansit Jnaar the visilde tight portion of tha snecteum., cy using a pink filter ena ot Conan seared light an area ern se flid: inated with invisioie liges chat reyisters in the starlight scopey.- This- Phenomena sili ue used in two types of aniver. activity: village , 4 vor neriretor neaurity and ambush operations. Sroleyrent of the’ ce ee . : Sritle/scano/sacoressor comzination will freyientiy result in , tite ufan.y receriviny cany casualties itefare2 he has been taken Cundar fire... ' (-) Avbushes «ill be conducter,bv sclaciny a search ey Tt y Slight suminond t/4 ten vehicle 1260 to 1590 seters from a road . Lo . . : Pa ; 4 a . ‘intersection. nipers gquinned with starlight ccaoncs and MAW-2 —- ntersection and bas bidapressarta wllio om:slaced 399 meters from the ate f onerater. The sniver ' maintain radio ventact witha the searchlis ‘{ 1
g-D0000 af tos intersection and PLP cong red of cee re illervaatien 7s hay taccemraundats weer in on: SiLb zone ete GPE gS cia ep Me grioer tens, Wiad, for of fesetting 8 the oadsei gray fra tes vearehbight oie whaciag Me searcul ight em lfd fog ocecbicks iat covdtbon resoty Frost the arhusn nite, tie ones ta tos cillcrene will nee be alerted by the’ noise lof i “Tthoe vunain: velicle angine. he acgeloyet in Vase carp eoqurity Oe: rations .: she searc! Llight, - sounted an a 1/4 ton voniele resnonds ‘to racio equinsed sninoer ‘gitner on the periFetier er on aznusn: positions  teaus in oordticns a ot fe tae oribeter, the, hack grouns noise of a village. or’ \ ally ecnevals the noise of the angine and: ; : i | - WA yiak Livht/sniper combination will. - id 7 é zg t is fixed. bese caan ua } ae i oo . . 1 activity orreiye. sea renlignt Crow. In forsare base carpe) the ‘ nee nena . 8 seurcalight resin’ in tie center “of the case carn end, oy swing- , \ . jay its sear, through 369 dagrees, covertly illuminates avenues “- o£ approach into the position. with this metncd it is again essential that the sniver. teams maintain radio contact with .the fy. oa ; Searchlight craw. Ghed pink Light is particularly useful during ae .. 5 “ the-dark of the moon period. (iv) Counter Snirer | u/! Taams are effective in coynterine eneny . cow iece:- gnirer activity. . Mach team, equipped with its telescopic j sigut anc "49 Spotting Scope, will search ths arga of 3uspectad se enirer activity. ‘he octical equinment vermits a detailed . search of Cistant areas. A recent exanele, in Vietnan, is os -Zin~ i ° | : | RAR 4 . . I. ° : ! *: \ af . | ; ry ran |
she oof aoanit, ifter saving bez ire imag ct Vier Cong oniper tear. searciued Neosree Vie obra at co otiead eater mn aml tog Virt Cong salpec Tyne lea fea oe teocdo ped bes oniover Ger. May Siseever hs pa tree at 7ge geters Gistesce. sidle ons Sroohinlaga tine clic asdmg hae vay Cir. nny reund; ill ing: tne Yiet Cony snipers. ; (vw) eAgnt eunter vrerat tons - . Highe Hanter, Coerations will ie conducted, to “mark tar jets. A sniper toan of 2 an placed ina lead helicopter OLuerve toe pround with the etarlignt scopes mounted on their rifles. tie eneny ts siyhtec, tae snipers engage with . ‘tracers. olicorter gua ships, follovine.at a higher altitude . tien angrse the targecs. Artillery and iLurination’are™ 7 ’ acjuated ng tyryst.as necessary. 2 *. ae . “ oe (vi) pecial uerationd”. tn . the upeeial tuecation Year, eniver-trained, “aAGLb oe erbploved undoes Platoon Commander centrol for coun-de- ain, cabotage/durolition, ang sniper activities ayainst the nd . . . ry - : ° . ‘ anewy as lictated uy the situation ani remArarvents of the GA/ET ars counter terrorist olan. ae Dsauent Operations Ty annerience is yained vith combined Saiper . ’ s@ae And est. unit “CA or UPP operations, the Special vperations . . and eunter/“ilier ‘Yeass. gill gradually exnand ovoerations. to Fulfill their cwsie roles -- that of incunendontiy overating teans movin, vilanatly to intardict, amvusa ana destroy the cneny ° -23- @ abe
PE he Og OT 2 so oeNathera ant meas facigewan. fad. : ; . a oa as ares Canny fee g : te oa toa “.abagan pated 22 2 ea: won oin Gabiga fron i ee oe > " ue Ps yreholovical Gperatio eee Fee mere ee el mn ee meee tll eee me att ne vunter/riller operations in conjunction with an VAT aet Te ml its, er with @rG Mebile @rainin, Unbts use include “rovisior Lar coin srenensive! psycholojica) o:vrations. there is : EY PERL Letter designed to strike turror inte ge heart of - the coin anist rerrorist than “to see ‘is comraias#in-arus killed, ~ — as geky waqio, by a sdlent. bullet firat ‘from sor: "unknown" cht tistant scarce. hus, the infnerent long-range flasibility. os ane afévetitentic of ne rifle/scope/rasceassor/ssince conbina=. . a tien ough ies ceoleited ss its fullest. tucer capuaiens, ‘silver (9; wullce’ orevreniag, leaflet drogs, alrborn: lours aakear “talking Div ererstiosts, aad ctner classic osychelocical operations mo tecanicues isust 21) drum home tae theme eat tha nosmunaist terror- i ist is ae lencer “ate in Kis Fea# nor cocs he enjoy ; s the classic cusrriils initiative as he cnea was taught to believe. | i slowith astute and aanpive osvenelesical everations will be onmToved to cestroy Conzuniet terrerists «ill to fight. and, cost iscortantly, to rious. tribesmen fros joinin: comurenist ranks. 3 he c G ) , Aisenuraga rob “24-0 — oe a + a t i 7 a : : . . r ‘ , aide. ‘ i a : a wet . ak : by ; Naat - . 8? i : wis BOM
cnc ' should: adhere to ‘accepted principles of field experimentation Unit will. make appropriate “rétommendations to ARDC for. continua- oo ibe ana ‘expansion ‘of > the: NCTTT. Program beyond the 12: month co, : See Figure 1. , a “Tir operations. as described in Paragraph D. above. ‘and Phase III operations the 24th week. 4, phase WV - Evaluation the NCTTT Proqeam will be gubject tu, close and contin- “ping evaluation Ly a “RDC ‘Test and, Evaluacion Team organized and faedded Ly’ the JSOPG. Conprehensive records and test data wild be yathere ed and analyzed in ordér to amend operational con: cepts wad “oryanizations ¢ as well as. administrative, togistical, “and training “techniques as required. The est anc Lvaluation ‘Team as appropriate; Ce the ‘evaluation should be an elaboration Of cormion sense. ‘and. convenient ordering of evaluation. matters ‘so ‘that: the itunter/Kilier Teams encounter: minitsun - interruptions. wn _Uson completion ‘of the Evaluation Phase the. TSE planned’ period. 5. Phase V- “EX ansion of © erations as indicated on Figure 1, preparation for the Expansion of operations Phase commences in the tenth week of ghe. NCTIT with the organization of the Second RTG Provisional 50 W/k Platoon. The six-week training program for the Second -.-. --- Platoon starts the 13th ‘week upon graduation of the Firs’ Platoon. The second Flatoon deploys in the 18th week and conducts Phase : Commencing with the 14th week, the Third Provisional . 2TG so H/iKk Pltn. is organized commencing training the 1sth week, -25- eee ee mate
whlhb Gave tee a@utiens. + Sional Su LaPe, aganicr Bee Vetians yan oF Phase Ti? toer’s (FTL thas te tirea or. Mb yteaas totetbaa, thutse Sterna eevbonma auto oy Sniner Phd Nes. ener ab ine Geddes fo ony unit tarrecgcace| Poti ried, - i . mo, ; ek tes re of Pause TIP (end cf & centas) anc Sollow- luy Ceseuioncations cf the -URC T6E Geurn, tee Sucrane Ceoand (3) organize fae biree olatcons into a trovi- VA Sespoay (fee fiqure 6) anc con tinue furteer overa- tions, or (3) teassiyn Special o-eération. Tears to RTA, as required -and ceutinue furtnér operations. . “so a puring tnesfinal three meatha of. the ACTTT Program, —— -. sil} ie nrevressively (2xianded+to provide for\protec- tion of additional villages. Oserations will be coutinued deep. inte oneny centrolled arcas utilizing hulicomter or parachute’ insertion techuntgess. PALO paracimte insertion techniques will . - i be curleyet in areas where the enemy is especially vijilant.: carried out whenever nossille to avhush, Choerations snould be . . é attach, “arracs, and pursue the enemy as tar as 169 to 20 miles aes TN eld eacS, wroviaiag HLG narwission is obtained. Pas. ~ gare areas should be astuslished Ta crear te accoereolishn tuis, or wit.in friendivwe tue er oteur indigetous tribal villages for bee ee eventual extraction ny hel'lcopter , Yestureration, and se tea: Fes “ Fe te cee att ane meme ee cts eras e Or ten. abreraft.  arrever possible, sitilar onerations should aM “oRnUbebend Fires: tag TORURLE horéer.. . a ; | : I ' ae t ~26- i . i. H : oi e .! ovals i . “we . ie . Hq . ‘ dow t a?
14-00000 6. ruture Operations At the end of Phase V the ‘ICT nt should have proved itself as ane oft the vost effective counter- - insuryeney programs . “available: to the RTC. As an-example, in € months operations the 72 snipers of the U.S. 9th Division attained. over 600 confirmed rills, ‘the majotity © of, which were. made at night with ‘the Meld. rifle/starlight Scope /SIONICS-HA-A2 sunpressor combin- ation. In. .effecting this admirable record, 2.37) cartridges were. expended’ per, ‘eit, nti the current cost of 28¢ for. one National. atch cartridge, ‘this avetages to, 38¢ per kill. ghis is obviously an oversinplifieation, but. it highlights an ‘extremely “S Buccessful. “and > economical rethod. “of ‘countering communist terrorism “along the, borders of hettand. a “AS. a final. note, this tyne of. operatior is as vet . in its nascent stages. ¢ Complete operational techniques that will result, from execution of the 12 month NCTTT will. undoubtedly disclose additional and more ‘effective techniques of killing or neutralizing ‘communist terrorists in Thailand and will contriLute border areas. =e Ie a
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14-00000 RIG PROVES TONAL ~ SPRCLAL OPE CATIONS we ee HUNTER /RULLES 4 EAT Ot cee LISP OF MAJOR TPEMS OF EauiipieNt 1. PLATOON «HEADQUARTERS (1 Set) a. “TRDIVIDUAL EOUIPSENT _Me14 accurized Rifles | ST ART Sniper Scopes .(M-84-Scope, Alternate) a : Siohics MAW-A2? Suobressors "VARQ Starlight Scopes Mr16 w/MAW-Al Sup. PRC-25.0r Cqiv.- Radio Trans./Recvr. be PRO ID OO AD RO by PLATOON WEAPONS & EQUIPMENT POOL a set) or LE ; io Ne LG &/MAWH-AL Sup. .. 8 .M-TQ: Ingram SMG w/Sionics Sup. 8 Pistol (To. b desig. ) w/Sionics Sup. 5 "6 § Cases 33-40. Aind-Hand Grenades’ . mo, Poo "20- Cases’ HALFA ‘38mm Phosphorus Grenades’ a vo cote _' 1000: Rounds .38;,. .45 of Smm Flare Bullets | “ -; Bemol ition: and Incendiary. Fe guipment ’ and Supplies as > required a oe : es $0 “H/K OR W/i TEAS EQUIP: SENT (4 Sets) 9 H- Ld. Accurized Rifles . : 9 ART Sniper Scopes (M-84 Scope, Alt.) . 9 Sionics MAW-A2 Suopressors 9 VARO Starlight Scopes ; 1 PRT-4 Radio Transmitter ' 9 PRT-9. Helmet. Radio Receivers. - . , a Demolition and Incendiary Supplies and Eauipnent as. required , FIGURE. 4 - EQUIPMENT | OE ee ee Capa bagsanemntinsieetankedieiee ee »~ . 7 . basa bcp 4h
14-00000 “TACTICAL AREA OF OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY . ab : (TAOR) . ee TYPICAL. N/K TEAM AREA DEPLOYMENT os . _ ¢ Nm mL ATH, ata or sii : . oe AREY HODTT ar, De tote . STOMD
RTG PROVISTONAL SPECIAL OPERATIONS HUNTER KILLER COMPANY ee | ne SP OPNS , HUNTER KILLER | . . & nen Tear segememes oo renee _ . _ mT ere ad TO RT mw eateeee em eats sem ce SoS RS emetenety eeRESTED arm SP + A SET te aan, } wes see BO meee a . 1 | co own “f —— obo -- " SPEC. OPNS ; 1 Cape. Co.. Cader. , | —. j 2 Les Xo | HUNTER KILLER | 1 lat See. j oa — i 1 Jr. NCO/EN-RTO | { STRENGTH 5. 0 19-800 7 09 dt. NCO/EM 124 Total a ; . PIGURE 6 -RTG PROV. *SO H/K COMPANY _ Ww NEON PREMIO eerie coher ‘°
PART |: PUNTER PERIOD) COVER myer Planning, Preparation, and Training Phases 6 t . nade) — JIMELAND COST ESTIMATE months ; PERFORMANCE DURING PERIOD: Phase tr Planning, Preparation . oo ane jnstalluivn of Tiaiaieg | Center, through Phase He Organization and Trai ning. ESTIMATE OF PROJECT COSTS . * . f: . . Salaries (direct charges at.actual rate): ae eee + Totals . | Program Director, Senior Technical : Advisor level: ; — ‘rian mos, @ $ av. per man-mo.: ~ $$. . _ Assistant Director, Technical Advisor, or Engineer level: © . , -man mos. © $v. per man- mo. . $ Gunsmith, Armoter, or Technician level; en oT . man= mos. € $ = -av. per man-~ mo. '§ ; Total billable. salaries: ae ; ne a , $ oo ‘Salary related costs. (Employee insurance, Overseas spay incentives, sick leaves, etc. Estimated at % $ . fa Overtime premium payor Estimated at - ze $— Office ahd Secretarial: _ an ' $ | Purchased ‘expendable materials and services? : $ | Travel: ‘ $ ! Long-distance communication charges: $_ 4 TOTAL ESTIMATED COSTS $ | ‘FIXED FEE (7%) ’ $ TOTAL: Estimated Costs and Fixed Fee $_ | ARMAMENT AND EQUIPMENT ° . To be negotiated ata later date depending on availability ~ ns . of arins and equipment through | Thai or U.S, Government | official ch annels. | . . # | : | | 2VR ry i , . i
Oe . me. ee} UME: ~ PERFORMANCE OPARY ti: Cperanonal . Program Director, man-mos. ‘@S Assistant Directory ; . man “INOS. mn ind Evaluation, Phase IME, AS AND CC COST | hot ot IMAT E agtie se & . - : PPRIC OED CCIM EDD . ranks DERENT, PREMIO: Phase [lz Deployment, initiation vt Operations, through yo.) Phase AV: Evaluation of ESTIMAT a OK PROJEC?- COSTS ; Salaric = (direca charges at actual. rates)! Senior Technical Advisor level! av. per man-mo. . i} ‘Technical Advisor, or Engineer level: ; @ $a. per man-mo.. Gunsimith, Armorer, or Technician: devel: “Salary rela! ted costs (E: nployee, insurance, Ov erseas pay’ @ incentives, sick.leaves, etc. | . e ‘Overtime premiuin pay , Office and Secretarial: Travel: Long-distance communication charges: . os TORAL ESTIMATED-COSTS ~ FIXED FRE (7%) man-mos. @$ oe” J BVe per man nes Total billable salaries: or, | Estimated at e ' &., jEsiimated at re Purchased expendable materials, and services: . ‘TOTAL: E stimated Costs and Fixed Fee ARMAMENT AND EQUIPMENT. official channels. Insertion and Program HL hf fh ii fe 4 To be negotiated ata later date ° depending on availability ° of arms and equipment through Thai or U.S. Governinent wmutee a oa 2
14-0000 . + ~ a TIME A AND COST P RSTIMATE IME PERIOD COVERED: months PER RORMANCE DURING Pi RIOD: Phase Vio Expansion of Operations. ESTIMA TE OF PROJECT © Cc br cosyTs: 1 5 : Totals ‘Sataries (airect charges ‘at actual rates): Program Director, Senior Technical Advisor level: man-mos, @ $ ‘av. per man -im0. wa . nti | Assistant Director, Technical Advisor, or Engineer lev el: a -man- mos, © § “___ av. per man-mo. pe Gunsmith, Armorer, or Technical level: man-mos. @ $_ __ av, per man- mio. . Total bil Mable. salaries: . _ Salary related costs (Employee insurance, Overseas, pay incentives, sick leaves, etc. Estimated at Fe | Estimated a at | _! % 1. {fH th Overtime premium pay Office and. Secretarial: oO . a 7 = i oo, . “Purchased expendable matefials, and services:. . “. Travel: oo. : ; oe os wh. | - . ‘Long-distance communication charges? TOTAL ESTIMATED COSTS © a FIXED FEE (7%) , . TOTAL: Estimated Costs and Fixed Fee 2, 4p . t , 1 J 4 7 ARMAMENT AND EQUIPMENT To be negotiated at a later date depending on availability of arms and equipment through Thai or U.S, Government official channels. AQ vk * ° *
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To ? chier, OP /RD” . PROM SUBJECT: So on CONFIDENTIAL ee wr ta ae ener, - + “eed oom (es — vate . ’ - : . "UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - : . ~ M emorandum irK ann . and DATE: hk March’ 1968 YAR CS Bete Ouran yb 28107 BAKER, Bruce Arman On 7 February, this gent}enan vagaroet my oftice. His address is: reuse Arman BR oe oo, 11379 President Drive, N. E. 4 y.sA CIT LSA Blaine Villace, Minnesota a eS , oF Mr. Baker stated that he :has been ‘in contact with a » Mr. mrneuEny “70 /~ - 2S <0 ~WERBELL, ITI of Powder. Springs, Georgia.’ “Mey Baker ‘says ‘that. Mr. Werbell, is-in -the business of manufacturing weapons and delivering them by air throughout the world. Mr. Baker understands that Mr. Werbell does this for the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. Baker says that-Mr. Werbcll is a supposedly reputable man. Baker understands, from Werbell, that Baker will have to get a CIA security ‘clearance to fly for Werbell. Mr Baker has served in the military. ‘He has had some paramilitary. “". training. Hé belongs in a “jump club" and now participates in oo. oB this Werbell "CIA" clearance. ““Preefall", etc. He has a Morse Code prcficiency and a Radio License Second Class.. Hé has Spanish language proficiency and would be willing te collect for us. This man persists on pursuing me re this CIA/verbell relationship. ‘I tell him I don't know a thing about it. It seems he has a smuggling record when he was 17 and he's afraid this may keep hin ‘from getting {~ CONFIDENTIAL
14-00000 Pee een gens nae mone fen iar dtedihs out . aityechere in the rardd, ° : . : ; fowmer OSS man : : ; . Mitch Weritell is ceuer : - aad able to sippply weapons to either side — or both, Aad he’s only one of several St rare high-flying operators in oa dork and. growing trade ne : Be dns.ded od. PeSCTI VENT 9 _ Tit is eatinely possible, as claimedt, that ro eee Taproy rtp sc togy pommnnwmaers ee : mune of America’s hich-rankiay alhieials «4 wee . peeeisad ae aedvaate ofthe ont | break of fie dilities wich ended fu feraels  } “hHatvheher” Vclory over her Aral net 8 ' . tors. Got cl least oie Amevicai authority: - ‘ . or inedern twarfae hb Ele i raddy. i. : . aionstieland, panvadelkeal -oretinie Os r . Pos ; ce tae ener bieg HEED Mitchell Livingston : a Oe . Worbell PEE Ted days nebo she Middle | ees, fe oa ast Piha: beuaat Jieet June: he left hie H ; : co . Geor venttey tdiver att hear tasfore . - daybreak, drove the 23 niles to Athaita ym a sirpart ia TQ asbictes and bosrdedt a jet for . New Vork daend carved : _ saltie }s hacLbeen eur tor : in Goss a mo . , ant, Werke’ checked! leat ihe : ~ a wenb to adenble reer . . the calice. and set i between le diemade sever jdione ealls sfeaked ap ins ai feather , . notebenk. Precis dy ab noon. be reeatered , _ , thecle tori purbeed the “abby 7 batten rice vel of SHPO Grr CLDES Obs hh eerinil ghata whautfeurstriven he Sahat was. : ‘ - Hoof frome. dane: Xs n wfeeete de bare 0 FOPAgse festrre, ! é ; nem 5 ne t ;
14-00000 : ; i a i ‘ i : : + t ‘ ‘ : . : ‘, i : ‘ i ; ; ’ 1 ! * : ' i . : i H 7h : ‘ i ~ : ; i E vee ante ante ee ae TM ee tee ctee so one, ae an ements ee ree See - : es | . oe dae : : Mitch Ser Bell and tee aides look over route un-atap priority a nigh slelivery of weapons Soinewhe, ¢ in the Caribbean, faa. rae ; i onthe East-River, Werfsell finally opened 7 . | ? ay : his valise and displayed its contents: a i : ; half-dozen missile sans, both hand and : i : Oe _ shoulder weapons, which fire a sinall, self. i : 4 ‘ eB a guided rocket intead of the conventional ‘ . hale WerBell had designed and Iaile : | vome of them himself, : i ; Sround hid, crowding the vacht’s st: : : ; ArouR hia, crower the yacht’s state: : 2 ' i room, sulid-lookins, sowhor men watched : ° i ; inteatly as Werllell demoustrated the new : : firearms’ awesane potential. Latee that ‘ - : evening, reealling the demonstration over i. adrink back in the eity, Werbell would ° i. deseribe his nautical hosts only hy saying, [nti en nent oe 42 “They were... let’s just eall them very baportat friemls of Terael, They'd been wacted that within days the Mideast would beat war, They ivere there to make sure. $ j 1 i that one way or another Tract got ae atthe very best weaponry there is Not-just : a a 1 i for the campaiion stead, but for the sland. alfwhich is hound in keep the Middle Bact ' tinder tou jon for vears.! : Aaudestine mectings like this are part af Mitch Werlcll’s stock ivtrade. He is a ' firearms broker of We new breed bnewn : as SLMs--onenitions manipulators, Ina | world of doekdized wars--front Yeren to . . .
* Arms brokers ure a eurions blend of past ind present. Here 5 . . t . wee - Parnis as wel Serapans sean ub Lis Gye av sell theda. praises ia heme. Werbell, dashing «3.4 Prussica anvlle, tests MBA reck : Angela to Boliyia—-JEAL's are the new eo . VUEPOs of international poli Lusiness to know even befove diplomats de _-awhere tecsions are breiving that bring po- tential customers, ‘Uheir most. satisfying vary that some- shttus eynibul is the dis siete t . — where an the globe thei merchandise: ts ides of the same conflict. : Heading suith fram SEkuni, one’s first t : Jogk at the Bxhaaas schooners aud con ‘verte chasers plowing the blee water | : with exeoees 6f aris from such deaters, fee. 7 walls so meh as the rum-runiag > Loom ef Prohibition vears. But a diigent : stodent seo discovers that aleolol and cel catrecments have Hide in common; ihe ay . ' hiencime the destiny of govern- ieal parties —and the irade in HH AEIOHS, po whe conn) them, : j fon assassinativn aiteupt et Sante Dhuuinge’s iniiitary steorig jes. Mitonio habert. Driving bone emrigne, Lvona Sirert. Coneral e the or sth sven stive . frais their - 1 i seucting away, beck and forth, oa both i i ans hissiness is a vast, worldwide 43
74-00000,, sluting the mona furming poried: u shepes, pet an caistal poctern te Fy tare pores ad the wer hd antiy, r OM the stad pt. ainies, tee foe the ¢ taks, As the ike ete wil Was shoverbany dria the cert qaad the clicks dhempedves titers, Vinally che cach bloeks frog toe, Vb adhe chasy ser im. he dee in the oricky’ erthva che ciatte Etoune cand e Teasing Grigg peels veoou the y ies. apene donexc is what Happens pve aibe. Dts outside edges alles thawed £ flawed? ewe cuvely stil What to acne rede away first we that che cube a tates it sphere, ‘Che polkwons of earch wend thioudh che same proces, “The Comer ef che cuath blocks thawed fasce than the sides. Phen, while the cares were il frocen, the whole ames was sabiacrgcd fur a shore time by an ice-choked Hood iver. Phe eh of avaiee swept away. the thased moreriab and whea che water sab. sided, what sas deft were dome-shaped Mims mounds, ; Ino areas where che curning water had catercdl thom for anty ashort tine, the umonnels weeehig A ae the water Towed longer, mine dhawing took place and the ere io ry satisfying theory. But as ‘uual, viher écieations have: picked: Baws tie it. - For one thing, they question if the aca had che set of Uimdte which Rirchic de- stibes. Phey say it.was not nich colder W itis today. And they doubt if the pfairies were swept by a oud of water deep enough ie cover all the mounds, Po wauld live Had to be over lau feet deep. Some-of the cities are gapher-theory men. ‘Phe pocket gapher theory bas heen ‘around for-23 years: gaining any : swendily. ft purticubitly excites biologists, heen: if Miura nouns really cure oe to have been made by gophers they LADLIEST SALESRIEN . do frum page AS} THE § [Cetin e he head the stanter of silencer equipped submachine suis, he knew thar a ivag- mutichpated csent owas taking plice— a adtoaph was beiag my rile ro RED him. Vo duck the awasins butlers, the gen eral daopped sideways, His arm suaked behind he front seat of che limousine re wha differgae and wholly unexpected sort ol weapon. . fi the cart jeep. the geteuail’s chick bodsgucid, Maj Viena Garein, Wicked aospriigdoadcd: switch on the brown stick undey his acim. bbe thy comierted inte amin peat faiths ah load: stick —attelale utere aisle hameher speed SR caliber racket projectile. Posi aehilling (SEP OOSEL? the sald misale | Treat Che rset powertal Jisockguat rere it exbtcnee Liew apart the wirbhiehd al the attackers Obfnicbile. Phe eae dara and) iter’. . Quride the phon. confines of the Ee- te sek oth yee ste fear SS PeITTeret Ty thie al renee” JAINIAN ¢ Uses emer erarasftereen eer nemesis, manent nt _ his own subinachine gun hong tne acack. Bat frbert’s He was srved by. a wold des che gros ONCE LAty cytes stpousen made by fares qiboase the Dine: aw enaaab eee pt nian, sonepler puss titity fast enauered sha Gd serves of the ut be was inak fret Wadldasian, Pe bree of wont opest the Uneey Wh Victor S aise with ihe Cancd Staes Fish aust ihe Service. vias point at. he sever there ae Mfimta meveds, here aie abo sephers, widhibe excepuionof Mian Preirie where the: finest ciotinds of all are found. Aad ctime there were gophers on Mims rah aitie, toa, Evidence proves ae. ‘The guplier they cae titking aboist is aol Drawa andmod doeks raitier The ant, and is called a “packer” gopher he- cre it has sn fardisicd packer ta. ins cheek for carrying around fork aint aese material |. This is, the w: the gepher theory, As the Vashon ice Sheet retrenteck, and ve aetition grew up ia its wake . packer gop: Wis bem mor ing in from: the south, gaobably anly ad- sancing a linndred feer or so ina xopher cnention, Finally at the southern cod of Puger Sound, dhey man inte a new your eanergicen forest which had sprang Lup ales of them. Gophers will net live ia the shine af a forest so into of pashing on farther, they diez inlon the paaicies, tein against pre dators they alae deep. Each Mima mouad represents whit ae ‘one.time was che “renitory” of an ancient gopher funily, When chey buile their fornping tunnels, they kept on drageing a fitile more soil back raward the boue site tithey touk freue it Micy tha: sands of venrs, these tifinitesimal amounis ob soit would ave built up inte a Minta mound, “Uhe inyytereis imemed rots withe bintorists explain: osamethis As a pre which five fi! “Pad peg Eonansis ail purnt ot AN one 5 searadiemere tae 2 sie frou awo te LO inch lave heen fourel ine site above their base” And hes gopher shove a stane Che size ‘of wa dette up! to the top of lds nest} Whar che nest theory wilh be is anny. Dealy’s gress. bot dhe altimete ici of confasdon bas atee ady been added. Phere are those who say dhe Mis peotanials care prowing, Nor is this a new idea. Over 30 years ago, farmers in the area sturted aiking pout it. “Sure chesre growing, When it way a hid they were level with the top of die chicken coop. | Now they're sevgenl inches cilles.” The srowing theury cannot be poked off with a heatty chuckle either, Some keen observers have heen toking the idea scriously—-Dector Sheffer. for ont—sb though nobody can prove. scicniifically whether ihey are‘giowing, shrinking or saving the same. [nefact, only ome thing is sue bout the whole: Mima haste. Hf ris nét-déene soon, there will not he many Mima iounds-teft ta pazeke over. Acces of thei fiave been leveled for fartaing. Sail others have bower ahug up for ‘gravel pits and cut throwgh tor high- wats and raifroads. Not that! the curser sation-minded Sete oof Washington would ever fet them disappear entirely. A good ching, too. Because if chow mys tery mounds redly are growin, we are suing io have mote. pussles ta seapple with like wi H on earth is making chem siow bigger? And where, by sll that is WEG, Ane they seiug to cml: Joan Mute, peroml achidons with a number of Louein stroug moa, and the powdly Denn eau warlord bay beet an especially close fled And ie was Werkell who had in oyented and delivered: the shootin: stick that apparently saved the situation, Moreover, Weerball discovered, From a detailed devaiption of the asdioias’ gus, thatthe airbush wei paths, tan, capie fren alot he hud passed on to the Pouitdeed veancd forces come yours calier. . faavelition to the aid worbkbvide, aia aitivais Code che capes ahene supplied by the private dealers isa dhop in Che seas ce oworldl ruenover ja iaunitigns ix Gti ‘aed at SSN billien dollars a year Sab miunigous madvulatas | Werbell wacom for che ‘heate Se rOw ing perian oft sotviot business. Phe bench of paivate ain hip micas dite Che rmderecdapedt foes een sensatiedin bh wrote, al tend af Pre “So fauetle are the nor sterner, st jes Preees Last apubry sippsid thu dhe coin dy cof sere TASS TOL Oty Ub Etds T save Of arr pegimne cn dhe a anuhers oo. Gae werk bet Maret, tia Anreviccsas tinhort’s escape. Pie has warna, were killed in Viet Nam. Duritig he same week im Latin America, where unde. chired pucrridla winflare rages in fadfae dosent countries, the death toll was near nna. Vhese sucrrilla conflicts are no fonger waged with fowline picees and cane is are aswell armed inthe goverment troops.” the OS. Cen: teal Fatcligence Agency reveatal re: sendy. “Often, the guerrillas’ weapons sve more ineeorn. And hey fre thou. fs of rounds in cuch encounter.” Phe veaular aries in tern, sre Sious to resstablish Cheer ena bhaules, “Vhe-geer Ow. steal excrwhelining superiority in firepawes, Plan presad. chey Stade to con troversial ordncuice--nepalin bar nas: caus ganes. special iabaray reckers baile to cast entite hocses--whieh mast often be bought in dhe black atienet Down briefly iiy Workl War ff pots, the aeniiieny Leet i fate 2 clboran wat it meidtcal pie. had become a wane 2 Tintepea dent openers fond tbat it was often wah dat th ge! esse iy HOweser, mtee, for ena wide: uetopus ty Pe te sible lo cedelpeee tix ceaeperetes Lite ter geen of bags the
3 4-00000 i ° yo “This is ohay, bat when are Yow going ‘to: teach me ta chase y i a ww , periment did! an odd Hcedle publiciad or tinkerers: Mitch WerBell: was still a - . iia: it suddcaly revoked Heenses ts ex: sen habbsit, who planted and shipped aa : "port munitiom co the: Cuban saver tropical fruits for we tiviing when fhe de- - tet ment oof Proident Basta seloped--iat his tonie workshop—wliatt is rot . General Bausta had loag been ane of todiy cousidcred the nese musvle ai : . Washington's favorite clients. but Cut leicer om the internation marker. : oor Was gaeked by internal dporders. ‘The Sure political instinct amd diplomatic so Sete Deparumcat bud decided as a pok skill are essemiab ia the succesful na - Hiead pestare po curtail the Tow of aay oo nipadadon of CHIE os a. . te eet. to dim by lesa the citi (8. ae on - ANedresy MeNauehionl sian of Car A . . nn seHing firearms bad became comrdetely dats moss ¢ sGaguiied military d : fy canhioedh Anold friend would be sud: and woofer RAE suidron der . ne vdenly denied a paidhup munitions ship. treed aims healer, exphined: Phe ~ Week. An ostersibde Outer: in sew ce telawe tlio gebosomenwhene diy this bese : Middle East, weuld be suddenly jinited bess GHD started oot with a commnon jae te bid on some coveted hardware, “ight. Ihe hig cuiperadions fn grown . ee PRO ent, serpetatians awere tam ised ‘te dealing with covermments, fat trang Gy the Space Depaaonents naib che independent. wha were sy fut smaller lations. tidependent ordnance salesmen wef quicker an saeir toe, recaguived that wo moved into the crcuaan Less troubled be owas cusier tea deal with eT NE ed tipe wand day toihiy: poles ubanges, 0 departinents. foot they were preporad toomake deat and Sapieonc, av hod aonice onder for . _ tele zoods wyifily, Anew Pietetspe machine guns. , fom. perhaps a svourp . : - of global sans merchant eumergedothe oof Kiadish freedom: Eehteis who ony , : auceeesfal nmiiass Muanipubstor, Ele their hundredalot av Gills roifed os hick : ; ea he bad sa anice CUPIC ReUPEn® € Fogtst tinp- ieals saul a plitaiio bamdted watch. fhe med aa the vente of the Bris OPicers’ Bess, tooted Se ehe whole ier national firearny Ieatcasiiy, : MEMES cence a brat specrum, “1 ; Fane frome the ote lally Heeteed, emi . neudly sespeciable Werlell ta aaa jaus, Pianuiian bean run se bran whoa Uti te SU fap usdine eloce Ws is belicved toy Leave fie the Coptinenedd unceraordd tenia PFs Fae gp bs. ie - xf sy begs Tevet . . ed Pe eG. Ui ob a hastiubess phe . pores, . With sense eeeurions sites ussdul Se oM Gop tee stare cue pohehias of aniag ey otfer from. sawana spline heak, oy fianin Phanting MG pe guns, toon he ort Tea seater maspae brceel: Ghiowar in fers rh, hie Tracwbepeed, N25 fer thousaed! sends. evervihias very fee. Feeent ulate te miove tte sbipmeadt of Wert Gothiiny ond around ghe Werhh vou needed eniee E : foaia Wotan. av! Because thins Vie we eterna f sttis Works, & ber bern to Wash ‘ hogtied abo agin with NEL wee, Ara tuaw, JNon von, our traditions of political Stil a Ned Pear gles State Peparis CRA ar ORE Vengg qemeles afer ja tie tes cde daitaai wa tue wa Cierny Kier tf is tay, AGhtee more, it sa hitimeorey tao.” bec poing on which mag thes Measa posi. GH Phaitan gueaticed, but never Carthe Nicted. mn “)yooputlin this war: “Exetsane Loons chat «mall CORRIes fie Ghingeable. Fhey have MUnY stile feet Sevcruments, A lovut ihe big cor- . ‘ perations had fearced tu live with thar: Bua the sastl i: sendtones appreciated sancthing chen tit big powers icin 1@ have many snuftancons Sovcramente | Mews srinked a huge. white, trinup phant erin. “les the ame East atid We, : Phink noth Russiat: England? France} : No difference, my friend. Remember fag ; sear ihe, Moreccan Zovernincat went to . the French Forvign Olfice trving to ex: tradite ene of rhci¢ exiles. Bem Barka? Ves Andsthe Freneh Forcign Office said: asylum... the sacred frcedoin of choice -. and purer: fate.” So the Morne. Cis wert to the inviable governmens, ip Vrendh Déligente. And they. made a’ Hule deal And Drench. Intelligence. june. “How row want this Ben Barka Bem e Barre f delivered. barged ar seated?’ Eh? No dif. feience. my fricand.* : ftis a face. shared by-governmentasl im Pi siders aiound the world, that great power politics have seca a resureence ull old. fashioned | Mfsct imaiiiiniom. “Puke the > “ curious case of Jolin Richard Mawke 20, a beapded Rei a fiom Cornwall vio, : ‘ potonment—benber : t . ights a speeinliew. - ; . One day cary last year, Eugenie An demon a UUs: tQpmoentative im the Caited Nations spoke in the Genert Assembly, woseemnd oy he prontisi decks that eb man (awke wort BOLO prin the : . for lone. dary hoappeared 4% an ag, cuvions UN ane ~-EEawt ut “Tt hot yet been comcicted al anyebing, dle” poke, . stile Tntae he Gor the baclereuned phy ef che macer Hominctes the workin el nay be modern ninnitions Ceatings, Mara Ponurak a NAP Wer faved of some stoutnberypporep for its forees in Angate aid fos state, Tondo proaches Hoa request re Huy 29 Tee tohoutbers. tank Sete Depart seestton, gt : epost Was turned fos Maiwed N: ' purcey suppl Hat there were: Hatton mere favor Cispasedt to ls . He perhaps bees wete drool . by orhe Antolin i oer pes Ves voburale. e far aaperienesd M Stonth deal dovehed over cine * pep elodkirs, . “Phere aw sone . ProwaS atistecear te . . . th. be ATI es ane mee Piuletme xinere rt cme ext
“ys Samed specleb radio cies Tee as der ascs teats ean Gy dariaee fin tess Gran three morte Chr md ide feuds. Piqiae. te ew tne sve co Pore i Wane tte he war tet by tie € a Stiss qunitiens bar, ‘was pak S060 fer cade High ateup tan hinds: of snishectory, ‘ oo oo Tesegiiay 7 ffavhe Although ex periaes : the fee, rhe deal : YU ttree planes had boob nicks anier SUIT pod ds « there could Le see tied places, at a ie stion, in amvobe’s mined what’ they , we for” he tld a visitor recetithy” tia sO, ind Nevertheless, question of sores. arose in some minds. Qne day disuke wee wus arrested cout alaaiged wich vob 3 Sake U.S. Munidetivs Act by exporting mc , : . “Tanabers without Wrinew Stace Depaect we : “ment approval, . . a . A the tial’ the prosecution susin- . . : . tained’ that the United States guicrn- : ” : Sent hail neieher Qisewn about, nor coun uo “tenanced Ebiawkels fights Uhe pilot f # tone defender: Edin Mager. a Miami : . lawyerpilot, who hus be sclopin : 0 tmuaitions kiiv fate-a specialty, Mar proved that ES, iatelligence did have ov ‘hei Knowledg . | Bertngal . er woe, Perry ng hiscthind Bus, Uawke bad se , To dewninta a paesoup for over Washing. . , “ton amd Dlandered: ace st “prohibited “gone over the White House. The Fea : ; > Aviation Rey Wadioed ap amt : : oo : ‘order tok dows at Washington Nagional Ainpart he whe fiepectet cad questicned, using the code word “Sp thawke net clearance to condane his Highs, After an . 7 Efawke’s aerese, chee scemeal ta be ae wee prautethae the inddceat cver eccirved, Toe — he oviginal BAA report of che incideae) eee had myueriously vanished. Bat Moaigee fiaaly manaved to come up with a copy of the report Pogedher with dhe Ciotonis declarion for the same plone. it proved : . » the Hawger's) point suliciently te brieag row, “0 hej jury reolived some olheial hy sank y ‘ panke nist doce boon favalved.” Afaiger - . expheined. “sand they felo Pbawke shouted . not be muale the sy : - 2 Miaser  howeser, appreciates othe. Ameeican Hhleciane: “Reep in iaind,” he Vahataverictv of roles cnrene powe c BAYS, mast fs thaw. Preghe €ON it aaaise plas che be: bin siticolonialist, At ct thteroneronal confesente, the lenishieuae. the puseclor aban dam fic demmunmeans qadustry, COHOPUS. HE OPV SCanettoMas GE ON- tinser scale the pritedpledt porcifie, nin png? Siomad friends pose ports. five see ret cay rece s ene wae bortlesseags farin prosidene” it . see the powerfat anetignensilfa eter da its ann NaGunab Security. rb if oats Lae thane of Ehieler strated: revs. Arid ose forth phere’. mwas to recoils ath this rovadinc, Piscvs ative phe MOMS. cone Sars teny te: fall. fon”? aT Pactots ate cone a : tivrrorpe before, Ghatae Kehe fewer Mis tied Nosye. ctsee etanne efi cde stot tteale Dounait, nope oF the -plane exports .to_ ub When Plawke put the 3-26 - ve. Acfenicr euadry t tdetipacien Piatse his ows apna dhe id sed cat Ais Hee geety ape neaney, Wor tb odne Fekete, a eebstasa pee hie wl fog WR and: tc contirband baad be nese eters do Senele Asecaiea Saeed cured to adhe quiunitions busines, ble cen Coteated (on foaclproed methenls of ak Hveving Coaralicand by wa fic “Cnn hing eeettal dhe Be ahead fre aris strtes beasties trooee defi ferns ate Alot sate ted War fl t Pertelsecie fave has wy dose et Pee trethe f. fa ag eka 4 dra deaet Meas, the flties, his oils hea foutele was equally beowena iibeobs aint sos crnaenite froyientiy ina! ene cotmdEy, PAVE rebeb tau tee aut casier sale.” he otic tebd a diedd, " Uhey waur wh Pokete's ever yen cto gat far chem, But with poe ernmicnts you have an easton delivery.” Such aa expert trader abone che “Afins. quite Conse Auilrew MeN comfirins that: doing busines» ith ‘ hupers bauane resdines demiunds a cacher fare sariety of special af Phe “te tine J went io Cahanbe fore ¢ ais “| 1 ight it “teoutel he a ele ‘ale % “te al, wba it wasn’a. CE was onbeccines, first. rate Cuil at bade MeN: tughton exobhiuned, keted hated sienades by the hundred at Siva eacle ‘at pttay Garands with saac aps ae Sth: Bagtish Stighound armored HN under SEROOU, Bere pe kes, "Beldag cera divided - n coh aa Ope rete {" fe which the aie Peowhae ie Ohad ered the pear. ihe saat teas Eira slaty ney corded Dearcdy tube pei it terest. “Pi one cevoniog ives (6 a Riek enous doteh mueridieir dt was che Cabin Clin ss searetaas, Macho. Pe toad ine IY Wales Sdisbhators, bet whe Wade nenerab a pate li fuete PE ogiven rhe What da seu ane -Psaidl Weve bec oiking paises for five dha Bunche jusg rine, "You Knew, MeNanuhon he sid. Cyan am imibiceite. bua avouie a pilos aad dike pilote—Parat pilot Pag “if. fetime shuw sou what a price fist ie” Seo the tropacad wenpons tule, Ale Naunfvon beamed a “price tie’ is the Fittest it on eant safes gimtiieS. For cach, ftom. dace diffcrent prices niust be listed, One is the cunent tather price of the item in qaction, Daaad-new, retail: for an Mebaifle this inigfit be S100. The wo | oud peice shows the ancuu for which the weapou had heen purchawd: in che casc ofan MLE dille, olfered as sunplus by a government which had buoughe it ia 19IG and wiichoused fe ever simec, che original yu cmaybuve bee a tor lower, say S80 The clinch figure is the reab sales ein is acing for Vis sutpltn item ia the case af the same rifle, this-veab sales pre might be $50, To lone the dead: seu use conchae ‘by madd bie up iwe hills of sale, sail Me Naughton, “Ohne liste abe curtent. brand: hew imeket. priee—this pou ta the gea- crabs auditors. “Phe sccoml bill of sie Tava fete “ftprased, we 78
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