Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: LO
Document date: 03/19/1975
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/4/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90115-10055

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 62-108665-NR

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: HQ

TO: LO

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

03/19/1975

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MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL III

ABACO INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Confidential

RESTRICTIONS: 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/07/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

MEMO

v9.1

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Released under

DATE:

11-14-201

Johit P. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

CONRIDENTAE

1

1

Foreign Liaison Unit

- Mr. V. H. Nasca

Larch 19, 1975

16654

Re: ABACO INDET

SMAS

NOVALENT

Reference is moda

your comunication inted

warch ll,

1375,

Jour reference

• T 52/5.1(6)

interested cifices have been advised of the

"'Esquire" article and in the ovent any pertinent

mation

is received it will be furnished to you.

Ve have

no specifie cormonts to make at this time conceratur

the

matters

discused la the referenced connunication (2)

163-37482

97-5435

(Phillips)

62-108665

(Werbell)

MI-5 file

(100-769)76)

VHN: j ms

(8)

Classitied by

7306

Exempt from GDS Catego

Date of Declassication Indefinate

144-77

128028

NOTE:

Esquire magazine carried article dealing with

captioned movement which is involved in efforts to separate

Abaco (in the Bahamas) from the Bahamas.

We have been aware

of these efforts for some time.

Isquire magazine in February,

1975, carried article dealing with this matter and cited a

number of individuals involved including Mitchell Werbell who

is well known as an arms dealer.

Among other things, the

article indicated training of some Abaco people was going on

near Atlanta and that a forward headquarters had been set up in

The interested offices have been alerted and in the

we obtain any pertinent data it will appropriately

disseminated to the interested agencies including

MI-5.

on

3/19/25

Delivered to Washington Representative of MI-5

dals

TAPRO 11975

CONSIDENTIAL®

CLASSIFIED BY: 5668 SL0/GCL

REASON: 1.5 (ed)

DUPLICATE YELLOW DECLASSIFY ON: X (5X6)

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