Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: AT
To: HQ
Document date: 01/22/1975
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90115-10045

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 62-108665-NR

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ORIGINATOR: FBI

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TO: HQ

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DATE:

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01/22/1975

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MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL III

[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

08/07/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

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

DATES 11-14-2017

SECRET

NROUT AT CODED

10:15 PM NITEL JANUARY 229.

1979 SSP

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

NEW YORK

(105-1371872

SALT LAKE CITY

FROM :

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(105-58235

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NIDENTIFIED INDIVIDUAL

FROM POWDER SPRINGS, GEORGIA, IG

CONTACTED BY WILLIAN

LIAN ALKAN PHONETIC DY PHONE OWES I ABA

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MITCHELL LIVING STO RA

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FILE 62-T00665

NEW YORR VILE 10S-75116, ATLANTA FILE

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40705- 263921-19

(S)

ON AUGUST 19, 1974, ROBERT WOOD, BROWN TRANSPORI, STONE

MOUNIAIN, GEORGIA, AUVISED PHONE CALL RECEIVED BY CLERK Ok

THAT OFFICE PROM UNKNOWN IRDIVIDUAL WHO SAID HE WAS DEFEASEJAN

1975

92/-

SYSTEMS AND WHO INQUIRED IF BROWN TRANSPORT WOULD SHIP AMAN A

ASSEMBLED MACHINE GUNS TO SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, FOR EXPORTATION

- TO

ETHE ARAG NATIONS (S)

62-106668 (lucilel)

17r

105-26

ORIGINAL FILED IN

CLASSIFIED BY: 5668 SIP/sC

REASON: 1.5

(B,c, d)

DECLASSIFY ON: X (1)(5)(6)

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5 MAN. MAN. 51975

662-108665-

NOT RECOR

102 FEB 24 1975

SECRED

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DATE: 11-14-2017

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AT [OS-S823765) SECRET

ON OCIOBER 3, 1974, AN ARTICLE APPEARING IN IHE "AILANIA

CONSPITUTION", AN ATLANTA DAILY NEWSPAPER, REVEALED MITCHELL

WERBELL, IVOS AND HOWARD

HEANDON ARRESTED BY FEDORAL

AGENTS WHEN THEY SOLD SEVEN KAND-HELD MACHINE GUNS AND FOUR

SILENCERS FOR $1,205 AT A DEKALE COUNTY MOTEL. "ALSO NAMED

IN THE INDICIMENT WAS DEFENSE SERVICES CO., THE POWDER SPRINGS

MUNITIONS FIRM OPERATED BY WERBELL AND HIS FATHER, MITCHELL

VERBELL, III, AN ARMAMENTS EXPERI ONCE LINKED TO AN ABORTED

ATTEMPI BY MERCENARIES TO INVADE MAITI AND SET IP AN ANTI-

CASTRO BASE THERE."

ON DECENDER 7, 1974, AN ARTICLE APPEARING IN THE "ATLANIA

CONSTITUTION' REVEALED UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT

AGENIS CONPISCATED MORE THAN $300,0D0 WORTH OF GUNS AND

SILENCERS FROM WERBELL, I1I. WERBELL SAID AGENTS SEIZED

2,Ü00 AUTOMATIC WEAPONS AND 1,500 SILENCERS. MOST OF THE

WEAPONS WERE INGRAM SUBMACHINE GUNS EQUIPPED WITH SILENCERS.

ON JANUARY 22, 1975, SPECIAL AGENT GEORGE THOMAS, BUREAU OF

ALCOHOL, TOBAÇCO AND FIREARMS, AILANTA, GEORGIA, ADVISED

GEORGE HA/SALESKY AND WERBELL,

CORPORATION, 440 GLOVER, SOE., MARIETIA, GEORGIA, UNTIL

APPROXIMATELY ONE AND ONE HALF YEARS AGO, WHEN THEY SPLIT

2037

DRIVE

Nit"

GA

SECRED

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AT

LUS-5823 5) SECREI

AND VERBELL SET UP DEFENSE SYSTEMS, SALESKY STILL OPERATES

MILITARY ARMANENI CORPORATIONS A COMPETITOR OF DEFENSE SYSTEMS,

AND HAS CLASS 3 FIREARMS LICENSE, WHICH ALLOWS MANUFACIURE AND

EXPORT OF FULLY AUTOMATIC WEAPONS• HE DESCRIBED SALESKY AS A

WHITE MALE, 5'10", 55-52 YEARS OLD, 185-185 POUNDS, GRAYING

BLACK NAIR, WEARS GOLD WIRE-RIMMED GLASSES; WELL DRESSED.

SOUTMERN BELL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY FOR GREATER ATLANTA

AREA INDICATES GEORGE N, SALESKY RESIDES AT 2037 DEBORAH

DRIVE, NOE., DEKALO COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND SUBSCRIBES TO TELE-

PHONE NUMBER 325-3767. IGLEPHONE NUMBER FOR MILITARY ARMAMENT

CORPORATION IS 428-3342.

AILANIA INDICES NEGATIVE CONCERNING SALESKY.

ATLANTA FILE 105-5782 REFLECIS THE BELGIAN SECURITY SERVICE

AUVISED LEGAI, PARIS, THAT ON OCIOBER 25, 1974, A SHIPMENI OF

THREE CASES OF 146 KILOGRAMS OF "S.M.G. AND SURPRESSORS, 6M

PEN 9MM, 1M PEN 45, 2611 II/.385* ARRIVED NATIONAL AIRPORI,

EVENTED, DELGIUM, FOR EDGARD MOXIUNDIS, SUSPEOTEO

SUPPLIER OF ARMS TO IRISH REPUDLICAN ARMY AND THE BUZKADI TA

AZKATASUNAI, BASQUE TERRORIST GROUP. THE SHIPMENT WAS SENT

SY MILITARY ARMAMENI CORPORATION, 4400 GLOVER, MARIETTA,

GEORGIA• BUREAU OF ALGOHOL, TABACCO AND FIREARIIS ADVISED (SO

SFCRED

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A: 05-552335) SECRET

SHIPMENT WOULD INCLUDE SIX MODEL ID MACHINE GUNS, CALIBER 9MM;

ONE MODEL LÜ MACHINE GUN, •45 CALIBER; AND 26 MODEL 11

MACHINE GUNS, • 380 CALIBER. MACHINE GUNS DESIGNED TO BE

FITTED WITH SOUND SURPRESSORS. (S)

NO INTERVIEUS IF WERBELL, III, OR SALESKY CONTEMPLATED

VACB.

EN

HOLD FOR THREE MORE

SECRETE

621086645.

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