Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 04/30/1973
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Nöte).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/4/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90115-10096

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

97-4882-NR

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

MM

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

04/30/1973

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DOCUMENT TYPE :

CLASSIFICATION:

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

EDWIN MARGER

MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL III

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

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Redact

08/07/1998

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POLICE FORCE,

NASSAU, BAHAMAS, FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING

Berms

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RECENTLY HIS OFFICE HAS LEARNED THAT ERRINGTON W. WATKINS,

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PRESENTLY IN LONDON, ENGLAND. WAIKINS IS TALKING WITH THE

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WITH WATKINS IS AN AMERICAN NAMED MITCHELL BELL, PRESIDENT

OF DEFENSE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, POWDER SPRINGS, GA., AND

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STRACHAN DESIRED ANY INFORMATION RE BELL, MARGER OR DEFENSE

SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL WHICH THE BUREAU CAN PROVIDE.

'(G-1)(u)

ON 4/27/73, A RELIABLE CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE ADVISED THAT

ERRINGTON W. WAIKINS FROM ABACO ISLAND, BAHAMAS, A MEMBER OF

THE BAHAMIAN PARLIAMENT, WAS AMONG A GROUP OF PERSONS FROM

ABACO WHO RECENTLY CONTACTED GEORGE WACKENHUT OF THE WACKENHUT

OORP•, MIAMI, FLAO, AN AGENCY THAI FURNISHES SECURITY GUARDS.

ALSO AMONG THE GROUP WAS ONE PAUL BETHEL, A BAHAMIAN FROM ABACO

AND AN INDIVIDUAL WHOSE NAME SOURCE DID NOT KNOW, BUT WHO

PEPRESENTED DEFENSE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL. THIS GROUP WAS

CONTACTING WACKENHUT TO INQUIRE IF HE COULD TRAIN A GROUP OF

MEN FOR THEM IN THE USE OF FIREARMS AND GUARD TECHNIQUES. U

ADMINI STRATIVE.

CONFIDENIIAL SOURCE REFERRED TO HEREIN IS FORMER FBI

SA FRANK: SMITH, WHO UNTIL JUST RECENTLY WAS EMPLOYED BY THE

BENGUET CORP. OF AMERICA, MIAMI, WHICH COMPANY HAS BUSINESS

INTERESTS IN THE BAHAMAS. SMITH REQUESTED THAT HIS IDENTITY

NOT BE REVEALED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS INFORMATION IN THAT

FORMER FBI SA JIM HASTINGS, WHO WORKS FOR WACKETHUT CORP•S

HAD TOLD HIM OF IHIS IN THE STRICTESI OF CONFIDENCE.

HASTINGSL

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