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“olfirsi 14-00000 0 (1 oT TT TBT 0 6 © 2 © itch O%Pel CI PCI • unsmith to the MloAt Side Roger Bl’illioms no weapons given to him by friendly in Operational Negation of Insurgency forces in Vietnam, he said, and they and Countersubversion, tied in with • excerpted by per”
“major, if uncertain. INGRAM WORKS in a well equipped ey—I prefer the aristocracy." Helin 1. his attention to Southeeat Asia. Mo VerRell recalls with relish qvean r ‘n. the operation.(Wenr 1e/1 **S Mot- A machine shop-lah attached to the without question an elitist. Not urpria W”
“aristocra- • that in counterinsurgency, the pri Vietnam Superhawk on bringing the enemy to Its knees, or 1096, and WerBell was NGRAM WORKS in a well equipped cy 1 prefer the aristocracy." He is mary' problem was a lack of depth In. N THE LATE 60s, WerBell turned itsWerBell gr”
“neighboring countries. He won in United States are the busings of nation, WerBell replied jauntily, wonder they do not collapse. There are American father and his Scottish born out" Thailand, "working closely with the State Department in Washington, anem you work for the comp”
“equipped one of its boys. His-paramilitary work,5 which consists of advising, and some- W. A‘ father track Ni- ", ‘!• 077: vs. rifle under the other. times directly assisting foreign gov-1.1 fee” ggr, but t’re plant ! l :! / Wphind them, propelling himself vie- C>ne iny i •:”
“Row and again. Wet Bell's name has charge of the design operation and use in cancer research.. mespore urap- ons he believed had Ilie and spiriting some 10 anti Castrotes awfully quickly urmine here The pa into the news: The first issue of uhose name is on the Model 11-subma- A”
“revolt. He was, of world with such deadly and efficient' in the U.S. armed Military Armaments is there, too. (Bo- he was.) I of his agency and then formed his course, on the side of the government, weapons? No, "I see no reason to he- ramilitary "adviser." hind Environmental Ind”
“policies of the e a friend for an ex- are so loaded with weapons that it Is a sylvania, shortly after his Russian, is to shoot ’em and cut the hearts Its neighboring countries. He was in United States are the business of the American father and his Scottish born: out." Thailan”
“one of these cover organi of small arms, demolition devices sion, occasionally glancing at his zations has been clandestinely cre and other commando skills at the wrist chronometer—he must be ated, financed and managed from proving grounds of Mitch Wer- back at the farm by ni”
“dedicated to killing people. Environ- weapons for the U.S. Army end other counterinsar- snugly into a dispatch € 017 pletely matter-of-fact when he mental Industries, WerBell says, is WerRell recovered from cleg injury. Armaments makes the case. talks about firearms, and death”
“14-00000 tilvegeef. wifterte .: IF/licnt nur breaks otil anyechice ill the world. former OSS man Hitch i’eriBell is onger etsiel able to supply weapons to either side- or both. Anel he’s 1[T only one of several ,8 (:1 high-flying operators in a dork and growing trad”
“8 “0 The flamboyant son of a . Cossack colonel. Mitchell WerBell 11 has been Lva involved in several Caribbean adventures Y and misadventures. Now. as —dees the Bahamas nears - independence, the wealthy At) =-=- arms-dealer has his sights - set on Abaco... ; D. By”
“occasional tr The way WerBell operates, this vidual pieces—is properly registered. : : father was an officer in the Russian ***-hi-1- ----*‘" asticcinmuntst activities,” he to it a sense of dash and discipline that grocery and liquor states.: means defending established regim”
“But that was the old, appreciative, recipients of WerDell’s ration as he went. He got a degree if made himself available to anticommu- sion equipment, stuff that lets you sur r, WerBell hit the swashbuckling WerBell. The new, low- journalism from the University of ■ nist regi”
“sort of a hobby, but 1 established regimes. Apparently the market tor suppressors . then it became my main drive in life. the ragtag, bickering bunch of Cuban feeling in Powder Springs, WerBell de exiles had seldom seen. Perhaps his lictatorships, against is not very large”
“gunrunning and tank- riding Mitch WerBell every now and then sales. Defense Systems International, they Goll • leprus • Horsebatt riding • Se-ming • Fishing • Fire monde, At Your Favorite Store say, does not suffer from such tunnel vi- ine actorwodawAnt • Esterent tsos sur”
“what to make the shop; he hadn’t been by in several r.ngs.". the direction of Gordon Ingram, who putting his early medical training tc ties and began experimenting with of the brash Wer Bell, and he and his months, he said, "and things change use in cancer research. weapons o”
“14-00000 winnu wctitdop (tintyhel) .11 suuniis com- dedicated tu killing people. Environ- weapons for the U.S. Army and other counterinsur W’erBell recovered from a leg injury. Armaments makes the case, too), com. er-of-fact when he mental Industries, WerBell says, is plete with”
“International, Mill- different. Wer Bell’s first assault on are indeed—-not merely se tary Armaments Corporation“and Abaco has been psychological.' With rious but experienced, pow- Sionics Inc., he design's and manu- - great skill and ruthless persuasive- —erful and farsighted.”
“of his personality. well steeled, M ia treetaially sell, the foreofull suppreruin of coups riglically to see that his awesome He comes by both his militarism atusf foreern about wommunR*. -I ilonad-d WerBell war already petive in the % Let, retelbiont and the like. collertson of”
“PRICES IN SOUTH FLORIDA! ele about any goddam thing we do,” WerBell standard ,45 automatics to single-shot says. It is a conclusion that is neither COME IN OR CALL—SEE FOR YOURSELF! 9 assassination pistols. Daggers, bayonets difficult nor illogical. It may not, however, and t”
“scol-evebinituan J 14-00000 7 09 111 • 1 Si ©- 61 .. @ itch erpel •isho• Ia i 1 see nir weapons given to him by friendly in Operational" By Roger W’illieirns forces in Vietnam, he said, and they and ‘ nonteenirenee ing is excerpted byipre Envctonnta r.*‘* Onisnir”
“more, and in the mide. iWerBell pulled out His- first major paramilitary opera then was .1the Dominican Republic D DES WERUELL feel • 8 conscience about PPPs world with sich dewity and he was.) whis agency and then formed his during the 1963 revolt, lle was, of torecs and ”
“spirit enables was: 1) four-square for the cause of the yering. him to walk upright and confident among his fellowmen. His presence C.e-EX-,LE Council for a Free Abaco, and 2) recruiting The people who hire the firm, WerBell is a strong protection, and his words send British m”
“hemisphere I.am totally opposed to it, • well. It has about 12 employees, includ- forces—statinned in the U.S. He itved • WerBell purchased the Dobbs estate. party was captured The Cubans, the mainly to see what *1* It and to the spread of ideological germs ing four machinists ”
“communism or other so- | East, too, ‘ llow much of this moving the second Dominican government tices it in a unique ence between our supplying arms to, else, Wer Bell says, is In the business cial issues. He has the face and bear- ;in WAS military, WerBell won't say, man to reac”
“14-00000 The Owner of Guns Seized In 1974 Will Sell Them MARIETTA C.Sept. 4 (AP) —Mitchell L. WerBell 3d of. — --------- Marietta has agreed to quit the : —=— arms trade, which in the past has frequently in volved him in ——;___ international intrigue. _ /. In a deal wor”
“like Weritell's wen, :We:Hr!) or him friends meant to area bpstalrs right down to the office.” taste for guerrilla-type wia rfare he delighted to discover n Note kmezi- Three years ago, WerBell's weapons can always be suppressed by tPse ostbute the weapons to rightiring “Upstai”
“braska Separated: 31 October 1973 Address at time of separation: 2609 N. Potomac Arlington, Virginia 3. Mitchell Livingston WERBELL III, the principal owner of the arms manufacturing firm Defense Systems International and an international arms dealer, has been encouraging a group”
“it seems that everyone associated with WerBell takes gun i hand for target practice at one time w another. Bennett Bintlff, chairman cl the board of Butterflies Defense Systems International, plays marksman with * handgun aren't, / FREE Gleaming colorful glass butter flie”
“sensible until-he begins Europe, and 1 moved into the Far tion, but he practices it in a unique unique American enterprise. Nobody the second Dominican government arms business. I don’t see 2311 talking about communism or other so- East, too.” How much of this moving manner. M”
“both — is doing for the Abaconian secessionists is some at Miami's lying about of the Hon. W. E. Errington what uncertain. So far, there has been (Eric) Watkins, a member of the Bahami- some lobbying of Parliament in London by an Parliament from Abaco, clenching a Marger, a l”
“was Was: I'm doing nowi-here he ges- major anti-Castro exploit wad % speed claren, "The well ich II, ‘Ann tare thorized to manufacture them.. tel: 'em I'm prepared tea purehzan t only does not trouble Wer Bell, it a citizen of both the U.S. and Rissis, tires at the arsenal on ”
“degree is made himself available t.santicommu- sion. equipment, stuft that lets you sur- swashbuckling Wer Bel! The se-m. st page of The Atlanta Constitution counterinsurgency techniques journalism from the University 0: : nist regimes that wanted help in fight- prise the hell ”
“faithfully cast in the mold • of commerce ate finance, but been suspret, the conversation from which most of the chief in- by no mneans a negligible would have been brief.) spectors of large American police coral hump, either. In fact, Abaco The agent on the island —most depar”
“WerBell. in “ 1-87092298 the invasion... .Powder Springs. Ga." In another Suffice it to say that the entire episode incident, incident. a congressional subcommittee questioned him about his role in an was typified by the fact that the 68-foot aborted attempt to launch an”
“I’m just lucky.” WerBell. Charges against WerBell, More than just luck, however, WerBell’s however, were dropped on orders of propensity for being in the crucial place then-Attorney . General Ramsey Clark. at the crucial time seems to stem from a WerBell now declines to discu”
“anticonitr dresses in military clothing of indeter- Before long, he was dabbling in WerBell, by contrast, is a business- ample, are outlawed by the National, Latin American dictatorships. “Before Wer Bell’s netivitles and his hawkish ment, too. Wer Bell is tin minate origin, a”
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“non an • re/vmn are nee 0. In combat didn’t titillate him he vestiges of Prohibition ‘era' gangland with a grin, "Our function ion was was to : keep mment of a coalition government. to win it. wars.. phrases There is nothing phony in Contrary to eyminat opinven Pov v'dnt part”
“place where the . - The network, after spending upwards “pastoral air is occasionally shattered by of $170,000 on the proposed documentary. the flashing of a red light that goes on Project Nassau, decided to scrap it. "As whenever the electronic gate is opened, it is," a CBS N”
“ntrast, is a business ample, are outlawed by the National minate origin, and he embellishes the Fidel took over in Cuba, we were views on the conflict (WerBell opposed Communist menace; it is n fight that. i in military adven- Firearms Act, along with sawed off image by talking”
“ED. rzudg MAVA 6V Bm V % liai Wai Garden of Eve? E 22 Iea eg TROPIC THE MIMI HERALD SUNDAY MAGAZINE LEs BN July 1.1973 . Vol. 7 No. 25 ma m= t. SM EE THE COVER- Arms dealer Mitchell Liv ingston WerBeli III lies in an 007 mold ml I(--S. of guns and intrigues Among”
“manufacture his suppressors, to weapons and to warfare, and lie has government was looking tavoratily 00 WerBell out of the country, but noth- anger. He specializes in the weapons WerBell must pay a specialitax of $500 ndel’at that point." ing came of it. WerBell’s “independent ”
“LAST WEEK INTRODUCED HIMSELF AT A LOCAL NIGHT CLUB AS CHIEF OF WOFIRM IN THAILAND. BA 2. WERBELL HAS A HISTORY OF SHOWING UP IN TROUBLE SPOTS WHERE HE CAN MAKE A FAST BUCK. HE IMPLIES THAT HE IS U.S. GOVT CONNECTED AND PRESENTS A DEMONSTRATION OF A VARIETY OF EXOTIC WEAPO”
“14-00000 ■ th 2 suddenly grown bigger. And to be more specific about this, when 1 say that, I can tell you that it in a fact that last Thursday night the new Ambassador from the Bahamas in Washington got Congressman Andrew Young to one side at a reception and they dis”
“14-00000 CAST9 — Hitch 4CCF retetc ma inns SOinctt on the East River, WerBell finally his valise and displayed its contents: aa F half-dozen missile guns, both hand and shoulder weapons, which fire a sina gerefed rocket instead ef the conventional ballet. Werlell ha”
“know really what U.S. State Department’s Caribbean Black or Red Soft Leather... Affairs Desk.• was going on, and it was an interlude of $14. entertainment as far as I’m concerned." It is not a completely unfamiliar expe- rience to WerBell to have elements of the The role he ”
“model er, young Match and dependent group." He says he does not round after round from sell to individuals, not even if they’re to blast would be assassins a few years 1*j n’o the bullet shattered certified anticommunists. ago. Then there is a small, brass-fitted tomobile th”