CABLE: NO ADDITIONAL HQS TRACES ON EDGAR LEMMENS AND CO.
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From: DIRECTOR
To: FR/NEW YORK
Document date: 03/17/1975
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1. NO ADDITIONAL HQS TRACES ON EDGAR LEMMENS AND CO: OTHER

TIRLEMONT,

THAN CONFIRMATION THAT IT LICENSED DEALER OF ARMS LOCATED IN ERADATE

BELGIUM AND THAT IT IMPORTED FROM NEW YORK TO BELGIUM A SILENT SUB-

MACHINE GUN WHICH LATER SHOWED UP IN SPAIN CONNECTED WITH BASQUE

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2. MICHELL L. WERBELL, III (201-259910} IS PARTNER OF DEFENSE

SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL INC. OF POWDER SPRINGS, GEORGIATA LICENSED

ARMS DEALER. HE BORN A MAR 1916- PHILADELPHIA. HAS HAS LENGA

20L ON WERBELL WHO HAS LONG HISTORY POPPING UP IN AREAS AND SITUATIONS

WHERE CAN MAKE FEW FAST BUCKS. HE CHARACTERIZED AS UNSCRUPULOUS:

WHEELER-DEALER AND PROMOTER. OF GRANDIOSE SCHEMES. HE OF OPERATIONAL

INTEREST IN MID-1959. WHEN BECAME INVOLVED WITH ANTI-CASTRO PLOTTERS

IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND OFFERED PROVIDE BKHERALD WITH INFO ON

REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES IN CARIBBEAN. HE GRANTED POA IN AUGUST

1559 BUT THIS CANCELLED OCTOBER 1959 WHEN HIS INFO PROVED BE OF

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LITTLE VALUE AND IT SUSPECTED THAT HE USING BKHERALD& FUNDS TO

PROMOTE PERSONAL INTERESTS. EVER SINCE, BKHERALD HAS BEEN DIS-

CLAIMING WERBELL WHO HAS REPEATEDLY ATTEMPTED PROMOTE SELF AS REP

OF LNBUZZ AND BKHERALD: SINCE MUCH OF BKHERALD INFO ON WERBELL

ORIGINATES LNERGO, WE SUGGEST LNERGO REP/NEW YORK PERFORM TRACE

THROUGH HIS OFFICIAL CHANNEL.. CABOVE INFO MAY NOT BE PASSED FOREIGN

NATIONALS BECAUSE WERBELL WODUAL CITIZEN.} Y

3.: ONLY TRACE ON MITCHELL WERBELL IV IS THAT HE ALSO INVOLVED

FATHER'S

IN/BARBERS ARMS BUSINESS TRADE. HE HAS HAD NO CONNECTION WITH

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