Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: DOS
Document date: 5/3/72
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:

Identification Form

5/4/2015

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90115-10108

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

97-4882-17

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

HQ

TO: DOS

TITLE :

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

05/03/1972

5

EDWIN MARGER

MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL III

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

Redact

08/07/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

MR

v9.1

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Aet of 1992 (14 USC 2107 Note) .

DATE: •11-14-2017

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FECEPAL CURERU DE INSESTIGATION

CSIMCIWCATICNS SECTION

1373

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PP RUEHOC RUEAIIX RUEBWJA

DE RUEHFB #0635 124005D

ZNY CCCCC ZZH

P 040015Z MAY 73

FM ACIING DIRECIOR, FBI

TO RUEHOW SECRETARY OF STATE

RUEAIIX DIRECTOR, CIA

RUEBWJA CRIMINAL DIVISION (DOJ ATIN: INTERNAL

• SECURITY SECTION

BT

EDWIN MARGER; MITCHELL WERBELL, IS- GREAI BRITAIN®

ON 4/27/73, A CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE ABROAD, FURNISHED

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATIONS * (G-1) (U)

RECENTLY IT WAS LEARNED THAT ERRINGTON W. WATKINS,

MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, BAHAMAS HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, FROM

ABACO ISLAND, WAS IN LONDON, ENGLAND.

WATKINS TALKED

WITH THE BRITISH ABOUT ABACO SECEDING FROM THE BAHAMA ISLANDS EG-I)(u)

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DATE: 11-14-2017

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WHEN THE ISLANDS RECEIVE THEIR INDEPENDENCE ON 7/10/73.

WATKINS DESIRES THAT ABACO REMAIN UNDER BRITISH CONTROL G-I (4)

WITH WATKINS WAS AN AMERICAN NAMED MITCHELL WERBELL,

PRESIDENT OF DEFENSE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, POWDER SPRINGS,

GEORGIA, AND ANOTHER AMERICAN NAMED EDWIN MARGER, A 44-YEAR OLD

LAWYER, NOT FURTHER IDENTIFIEDO /(G-I)(a)

ON 5/2/73, A SECOND SOURCE WHO HAS FURNISHED RELIABLE

INFORMATION IN THE PAST, FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

ON 4/13/73, THE WACKENHUI CORPORATION, MIAMI, FLORIDA, A COMPANY

WHICH TRAINS AND FURNISHES SECURITY GUARDS, WAS CONTACTED BY PAUL

BETHEL, MITCHELL LA WERBELL, III, CHARLES BALL, AND TWO OTHER

UNIDENTIFIABLE INDIVIDUALS. U

THIS SOURCE NOTED THAT BETHEL WAS FORMERLY THE PRESS SECRETARY

AI THE U.SO EMBASSY, HAVANA, CUBA, AND AN UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE FOR

THE U.S. SENATE,

REPUBLICAN PARTY, IN THE SIATE OF FLORIDA, 1972

ELECTIONS. HE IS CONSIDERED POLITICALLY CONSERVATIVE AND FEARS THAT

IF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS ARE GIVEN THEIR INDEPENDENCE, THEY

WILL BE INFILTRATED AND TAKEN OVER BY COMMUNIST ELEMENTS. U

WERBELL IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DEFENSE SYSTEMS

INTERNATIONAL, INCO, POWDER SPRINGS, GAO, ACCORDING IO THIS U

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