RECORD OF CONVERSATION BETWEEN OGC AND DEA, DOD RE WERBELL ON 16 NOV 1976.
Originator: CIA
From: LLOYD, WALTER, ASSOC. GEN. COUNSEL
To: MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Document date: 11/19/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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• 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

19 November 1976

_ MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

FROM

: Walter I. Lloyd

Associate General Counsel

SUBJECT : Werbell, Michael Livingston, III

1. This is to record the substance of a conversation between the

undersigned and Mr. Arthur Egbert of the Internal Security Division of

the Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice, on 16

November.

2. Mr. Egbert advised that William Walker, DEA agent assigned

to the Werbell prosecution in Miami, Florida, had suggested Egbert contact

the undersigned to obtain background information concerning Werbell

incident to an investigation being conducted by the Internal Security"

Division of DEA. The undersigned arranged to call Mr. Egbert back

his office (phone No. 382-1096). In the interim I confirmed his identity

through Matt Jodziewicz and that he has been in touch with the General

Law Division of OGC incident to the King case. Egbert suggested his files

contain only newspaper clippings concerning Werbell and he is in need of

more particulars. I confirmed that we have considerable information on

Werbell but suggested DEA contact the Department of Justice and the FBI

to obtain data held within the Justice Department. I pointed out that to a

very large extent materials we possess are also possessed by the Depart-

ment of Justice and, in particular, the FBI.

3. Egbert expressed appreciation for the suggestion and indicated

he would contact the FBI and obtain the records possessed by his Depart-

ment. I suggested he might contact Morton Sitver and Charles Jaffee of

the Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Section of Justice who had discussed

with us the prosecution of Werbell in the DEA case in Miami. In addition,

I suggested that there are established liaison contacts for DEA with the

Directorate of Operations and with the Office of Security through which

information we possess can be obtained in a routine manner. Otherwise,

if he had any difficulties or needed specific assistance he should contact

the undersigned.

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Original - OGC SUBJ: LIT. CRIM. - Werbell, Mitchell L.

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