Originator: FBI
From: MX
To: HQ
Document date: 08/24/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 97-3224-7

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08/24/1962

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MANUEL FUEGO

MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B; 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/12/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS : MEMO

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OPTIONAL FORENO, 10

UNITED STATES & /ERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (97-3224)

DATE: 8/24/62

FROM

CIA HAS NO ORLESECAN TO MANUEL FUEGO, aka

PAUSAGE OF CIA INFORMATIO RECISTRATION ACI

INTHIS DOCUMENT. EXCEPT BRACES

KA 518 Intelligence, Department of the Army:

puRéBulet 6/28/62 to Assistant Chief of Staff for

On 8/13/62, It. CO1. JOSE IUISYAGUILAR DEXLEON,

Minister of Labor and social Welfare, National Palace,

Guatemala City, Guatemala, furnished

the following infor-

mation:

6-11-98

5668 SpeER

CLASSIFIED BY

DECLASSIPY ON: 25X /

(FFK)

viler

CRIED

SHOWD

4. $

DAD

He stated he first met subject as MANUEL FIRESTONE,

together with an individual by the name of WERBELL and

another by the name of KANE several months ago.

these individuals had somehow met Colonel ENRIQUEXPERAIMA GaTE

Minister of Defense of the Guatemalan Government.

in turn asked It. Col. AGUILAR DE LEON to sit in on the

meeting with subject and the other two as PERALIA and

AGUILAR are close friends and as PERALTA wanted him also

to act as an interpreter, inasmuch as he speaks good

English.

"charge:of G-2 0f

the Guatemalan Army and is still connected with G-2 even

though occupying the position of a Minister. (C)

Subject and his companions proposed to sell to

the Guatemalan Government arms and ammunition and also

offered to provide mercenaries.

In the latter regard, they

mentioned Cubans, French and other nationalities.

At the

same time, they requested credentials identifying them as

agents of the Guatemalan Government.

He said he did not

like the proposition, especially the offer of mercenartes,

and did not hesitate to furnish his opinion to colonel

PERALIA.

Colonel PERALIA did not accept the piler

do

business with the subject and his companions

3'2

Bureau

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97-3224-1

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SECRET

Subsequently on several occasions, subject or

one of his companions has tried

to influence It. Col.

AGUILAR DE LEON to convince the Minister of Defense to

accept their proposition.

He said they have invited him

to lunch on several occasions, which he has not accepted,

and he personally feels that they have wanted to bribe

him, but have not directly propositioned him in this

regard.

He said the last time he heard from them was

several weeks ago when they telephoned his residence and

left a number where they could be contacted at the Maya

Excelsior Hotel in Guatemala City. Lit. Col. AGUILAR DE

LEON did not talk to them on this

occasion and did not

return the call.

• He stated that he had turned the business

cards of subject's companions over to Colonel JAMES Decua"

*LAND, Army Attache, Guatemala City. He promised that

should they receive any additional Information in this

regard, he will make it available.

on 8/13/62, LIKE TAYLOR OF the CIA station,

American Embassy, Guatemala City,

advised that MIGUELITO

YDIGORAS, son of President MIGUEL YDIGORAS of Guatemala,

5) Chad advised him on the previous week that he received a

telephone call from two individuals who furnished their

names as MITCHELL L. WERBELL and ARTHUR J. SMITH. They

advised that they were staying at the Maya Excelsior Hotel

and said they were waiting for PINEIRO.

They seemed to

think PINEIRO was someone MIGUELITO would know and said

that as soon as he arrived, they would contact him regard-

ing an important deal CAlIKE TAYLoR stated that MIGUELITO

requested

any information his. office might have on WERBELL,

SMITH and PINEIRO, as he claimed that he did not know any

of these individuals.

TAYLOR davised that thereafter he had sent a wire

to his headquarters in Washington and received a reply that

approximately three years ago, MITCHELL I. WERBELL waS

involved in a plan to ship arms to Ecuador.. His headquarters

advised there was no identifiable information on SMITH.

It was further informed that there is an individual by the

name of PINEIRO Who was in Cuban G-2,

but it was not known

whether this individual was identical.

on 8/13/62, TAYLORI

received a telephone

who stated he had just remembered WERBELL and SMITH mentioned

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