A Look at Mitch WerBell and the JFK Assassination ..... !
cdddraftsman
Our Man in Powder Springs
Ronald L. Ecker
November, 2004; updated February, 2008
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He was the real McCoy.
Bantam-sized, sporting a handlebar moustache and carrying a swagger
stick, Mitchell Livingston WerBell III was a wealthy bon vivant,
international arms dealer, designer of silencers, and right-wing
covert operator. Based at his 60-acre Powder Springs, Georgia, estate,
WerBell loved guns, fine whisky, and freelance coup d'etats. He was
referred to as the "Wizard of Whispering Death," 1 for being the
preeminent designer of the modern-day silencer, his work credited with
enabling the widespread use of silenced sniper rifles in the Vietnam
War. 2 There are those who suspect that in the John F. Kennedy
assassination some of the rifle shots (officially there were only
three, fired by alleged lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald) may have been
fired in Dealey Plaza using sound suppressors. Was the U.S.
intelligence community (or rogue agents thereof) involved in the
assassination conspiracy, as many researchers believe? If so, what
role, if any, was played by this Powder Springs wizard called "the
armorer of the CIA"? 3
In their book Deadly Secrets, Hinckle and Turner describe WerBell,
the son of a wealthy Czarist cavalry officer, as "at once the most
stylish and the craziest man" they have ever known. His life, they
note, was "like an Errol Flynn movie with Max Steiner music in the
background." 4 In World War II, he served as a secret agent in the
China-Burma theater for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS,
forerunner of the CIA, making WerBell, in Gaeton Fonzi's words, "a
dues-paid life member of the Old Boys network of American secret
intelligence"). 5
Photos from the 1960s show WerBell in South Vietnam
demonstrating weapons with his patented silencers for Vietnamese army
officers. In the late 1960s he traveled to and from Vietnam, Thailand,
and Cambodia, with a high security clearance and the temporary rank of
U.S. Army general, to confer with the appropriate CIA or foreign
officials on the subject of "programmatic liquidations." 6 Among his
foreign intrigues, WerBell did covert work for Cuban dictator Batista
in 1959 and for military strongman Imbert in the Dominican Republic in
1965; in the mid-1970s he helped some Bahamian secessionists try to
set up their own country on the island of Abaco; and he traveled to
Central America in 1982 to support Mario Sandoval Alarcon in an
attempted coup in Guatemala. 7
In 1966 WerBell served as adviser on Project Nassau,
a planned invasion of Haiti by Cuban and Haitian exiles to oust the
dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. CBS was going to film the
invasion, indeed was basically financing the project through its
production budget in exchange for the filming rights. 8 Project
leaders included Cuban exile Rolando ("El Tigre") Masferrer, who
planned to use Haiti as a base to invade Cuba, and Father Jean
Baptiste Georges, who planned to be the new President of Haiti. 9
The project was aborted in January 1967
with the arrest of 75 of the would-be invaders for conspiring to
violate the Neutrality Act. Project leaders were tried and convicted,
but the charges against WerBell were suddenly dropped, thanks
presumably to his CIA links. There was a Congressional investigation
of CBS on the question of aiding and abetting illegal acts. CBS
successfully argued in part that WerBell's CIA ties implied government
sanction of the planned invasion, recalling the CIA-backed invasion of
Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. 10
In 1967 WerBell went into business with Gordon Ingram, designer of a
small submachine gun, slightly larger than a conventional pistol, on
which WerBell suppressors were mounted, for a quiet and compact weapon
with military contracts in mind. 11
In 1973 WerBell's arms company Defense Services, Inc.
and his son Mitchell IV were indicted for allegedly trying to sell
some of the silenced Ingram submachine guns to a federal undercover
agent. The case was eventually thrown out of court, but the
indictments happened to coincide with WerBell being subpoened by a
Senate committee that was investigating Robert Vesco, a fugitive
financier living in Costa Rica. Vesco had sought through an
intermediary to purchase 2,000 silenced Ingrams from WerBell, with the
intent, some suspected, of taking over Costa Rica. (Also temporarily
residing in Costa Rica at this time were Mafia don Santo Trafficante
and anti-Castro Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch.)
The indictments prevented WerBell from testifying
before the Senate committee, and WerBell himself believed that the
indictments were a gag order to keep him from talking about Vesco.
"From now on, call me Mitch the Fifth," WerBell said after the
indictments were dropped. Bitter that his family had been dragged into
the affair, WerBell soon got out of the arms sales business,
concentrating instead on security work and counter-terrorism. 12
In 1976 WerBell was in trouble again.
He and four other men were tried in Florida on charges of conspiring
to import marijuana from Colombia for a profit of $100,000 each.
WerBell's lawyer Edwin Marger said that WerBell would never get
involved in a conspiracy to import marijuana. "Guns, revolutions,
maybe even assassinations," Marger said, "but he's not being tried for
that" 13.
The defense argued that WerBell and the others
were actually working undercover in President Richard Nixon's war on
drugs. 14 Lucien Conein, the legendary CIA agent and an old friend of
WerBell’s from their days together in the OSS, had joined Nixon’s new
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in 1972. (White House consultant and
former CIA agent E. Howard Hunt had considered hiring Conein for the
team that bungled the 1972 Watergate burglary. "If I'd been involved,"
Conein later said, "we'd have done it right.") 15 The defense claimed
that WerBell and Conein were "putting together assassination devices
for the DEA" to use against drug smugglers. 16 (The Senate in the
mid-1970s investigated allegations that the DEA was preparing to
arrange the assassination of drug lords, but nothing was ever proved.
According to Fonzi,
Conein indeed set up a DEA safe house or "office suite," funded by the
CIA, on Connecticut Avenue in Washington DC, where WerBell admitted
being in business with two former CIA men "manufacturing
ultrasophisticated assassination devices.") 17 The defense even moved
to subpoena Nixon and top White House aides John Ehrlichman and Egil
Krogh. Only Krogh testified, and denied any knowledge of the
defendants' alleged undercover operation. Conein was subpoenaed but
was not called to the witness stand. 18 It should be noted, before
leaving the subject of Conein, that either he or a remarkable
lookalike can be seen in a photograph taken as the presidential limo
was driving past him in Dallas only moments before the JFK
assassination. 19
The prosecution's star witness in WerBell's trial,
convicted drug-smuggler Kenneth Burnstine, was killed before the trial
started when a plane he was flying mysteriously stalled and crashed in
an air show in the Mohave Desert. Burnstine's last reported words were
"Oh no!" His death was a serious blow to the prosecution, and WerBell
and the other defendants were acquitted 20. "The government tried to
frame us all," said defendant John Nardi of Cleveland, "but the jury
didn't buy it" 21.
WerBell's friend Nardi was a Teamsters Union official
who had allegedly ordered the murder earlier that year of Cleveland
mobster Leo Moceri. 22 Nardi and "Irish mob" leader Danny Greene were
reportedly trying to take over control of the Cleveland organized
crime family. 23 Moceri had recently become underboss of the family,
which was headed by James "Jack White" Licavoli. 24 Moceri had also
told a government agent that Chicago mobster Sam Giancana and former
Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa had both been killed to protect the
secret of the CIA-Mafia plots to assassinate Castro. 25
(According to government informant Charles Crimaldi,
Hoffa was the original liaison between the CIA and Mafia in the Castro
plots.) 26 The late Chauncey Holt (who claimed to be the oldest of the
three "tramps" photographed in Dealey Plaza) alleged that Leo Moceri
was in Dallas on the day of the JFK assassination, having driven there
with Holt, Charles Nicoletti, and Joe Canty from Pete Licavoli's Grace
Ranch in Arizona. (Holt also claimed that Rolando Masferrer, WerBell's
later associate in the aborted invasion of Haiti, was one of the
intended recipients in Dallas of false Secret Service credentials
allegedly delivered by Holt.) 27
According to Moceri,
John Nardi had five associates who were killing people in the
Cleveland crime war by putting bombs in their cars. 28 Soon after
returning to Cleveland from his Florida trial, Nardi was shot at by
assailants in two cars but came away without a scratch. 29 In May
1977, Nardi's legs were blown off in a car bomb explosion. "It didn't
hurt," Nardi said, and died minutes later. 30
Another interesting friend of WerBell's was Gordon Novel, who some JFK
researchers suspect was the so-called Umbrella Man in Dealey Plaza at
the time of the assassination. Novel lived with WerBell in 1976. When
Novel was arrested for arson in 1977, it was WerBell who bailed him
out of jail. 31
Other WerBell associates whose names are familiar
from the JFK assassination literature were Gerry Patrick Hemming and
Bernardo de Torres. Hemming, who died in 2008, was a 6'6" ex-Marine
who was the founder of Interpen (Intercontinental Penetration Force),
a group of anti-Castro guerrillas who trained at No Name Key in the
Florida Keys in the early 1960s. Hemming claimed that he was made
monetary offers by Guy Banister and others to kill JFK, which he did
not accept. 32 De Torres is an anti-Castro Cuban exile referred to as
"Carlos" by Gaeton Fonzi in his book about the JFK investigation by
the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). Carlos was
alleged by a source in a Florida prison to have been "involved to some
degree in the Jack Kennedy thing" 33 For a time Hemming and de Torres
were both representatives of Mitch WerBell in his arms sales business.
34
Gerry Patrick Hemming
In 1977 WerBell went to work providing security for Lyndon LaRouche,
leader of a right-wing (formerly left-wing) movement called the
National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC). Major General John K.
Singlaub, who retired from the Army in 1978, met with two of
LaRouche's party officials in WerBell's home, and said that he found
them to be "a bunch of kooks of the worst form." They suggested, he
claimed, that "the military ought to in some way lead the country out
of its problems," implying a coup d'etat.
Nevertheless Singlaub,
who founded the anti-Communist U.S. Council for World Freedom in 1981,
returned to Powder Springs in 1982 to lecture at Sionics, originally
WerBell's arms company with Ingram, and now a counter-terrorist
training camp run by WerBell. (Sionics was an acronym for Studies in
Organized Negation of Insurgency and Counter Subversion.) At that time
LaRouche's security forces comprised many of WerBell's trainees. 35
According to Gaeton Fonzi,
who in the 1970s was a staff investigator for the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence and then for the HSCA, "someone who had been
close to WerBell" had suggested to the Senate committee that WerBell
was linked to the JFK assassination. 36 Fonzi therefore interviewed
WerBell in his gun-filled Powder Springs den. Fonzi later described
his host as a "delightfully entertaining fellow," though WerBell's
Sionics was in Fonzi's view "really a training camp for professional
killers." 37 Trainees at Sionics went through an intensive 10-day
course, including instruction in Quick Kill (QK) techniques, at a cost
of $3,000 paid in advance. 38
WerBell was "half bombed
when I was talking to him," Fonzi says, and it was difficult to get
WerBell to respond coherently in the day-long taped session. 39
WerBell told Fonzi, "I've always cooperated very closely" with the
CIA, but "I've never allowed them to pay me one goddamned dime. I
don't need it." He admitted to involvement in some Castro
assassination attempts. "I was sittin' in Miami," he said, "with a
goddamned million dollars in cash for the guy who was gonna take Fidel
out." But WerBell claimed to have no connection to the JFK hit. "Now I
didn't like Jack Kennedy," WerBell said, "I thought he was a shit to
begin with. But I was certain not to be involved in the assassination
of an American president, for Christsakes!" ("I was certain not to be
involved" was an interesting choice of words, suggesting that WerBell
at least knew of the plot.) At one point in the conversation, WerBell
fleetingly brought up the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald: "This guy Ruby
called, I didn't know who the hell he was, but that was years ago."
WerBell then "lapsed into a drunken mumble." Fonzi felt that the HSCA
should have called WerBell for formal questioning in its JFK
investigation, but significantly it did not do so. 40
The late Roy Hargraves told researcher Noel Twyman
in a 2001 interview that WerBell supplied silencers used in the JFK
assassination. Hargraves was an explosives expert and member of
Hemming's Interpen group. Hargraves said that he was in Dallas on
November 22, 1963 as part of a four-man support team led by anti-
Castro activist Felipe Vidal Santiago. (Vidal was captured on a
mission into Cuba in 1964 and executed.) The team, according to
Hargraves, was ordered to Dallas by CIA operative William Bishop,
whose instructions likely came from someone at the CIA's JM/WAVE
headquarters in Miami. 41 JM/WAVE's chief of operations was David
Sanchez Morales, who reported to station chief Theodore Shackley. One
night in 1973 Morales got drunk on scotch and told three friends,
after ranting about JFK, "Well, we took care of that son of a bitch,
didn't we?" 42 Former CIA agent E. Howard Hunt, who died in 2007,
stated on an audio tape left with his son that Vice President Lyndon
Johnson was behind the assassination, with the help of CIA agents
Morales, Cord Meyer, William Harvey, and David Atlee Phillips. 43
Many of the earwitnesses in Dealey Plaza
(74% of the 178 considered by the HSCA) 44 said they heard three shots
(the official Warren Commission number), but others said they heard
more, ranging from four shots (reported, for example, by railroad
supervisor S.M. Holland, who was on the triple underpass, from which
he also saw a puff of smoke from the trees on the grassy knoll), to
eight shots (reported in a signed sheriff's office statement by
construction worker A.J. Millican, who subsequently received a
terrifying phone threat and was not called to testify by the Warren
Commission). 45 The echoes that are produced by gunfire in a man-made
canyon like Dealey Plaza also made it difficult for people to tell
where all the shots came from. In addition, while a silencer
suppresses a rifle's muzzle blast, the sonic boom created by the
supersonic bullet is heard only as the bullet is moving past an
earwitness, who might therefore think that the shot came from a
direction opposite from the actual shooter. 46 The overall confusion
and ballistic evidence suggest that more than one weapon was used, and
that one or more shots were suppressed, in addition to an unsilenced
shot or shots from the Texas School Book Depository Building to draw
attention and thus implicate Oswald.
Having multiple shooters in Dallas--
with silencers used to mask certain positions--was not only necessary
to ensure a successful kill, but was consistent with an intent,
evident by the continuous efforts to get Castro and by the pre-
assassination creation of Oswald's pro-Castro legend, to paint the
assassination as a Castro plot, carried out by a hit team, thus
hopefully precipitating a vengeful invasion of Cuba. According to this
theory, the lone nut scenario--Oswald implausibly did it all by
himself with three shots--was concocted out of panic when Oswald, who
had supposedly been destined for elimination either immediately or
outside of the country, was taken alive by the Dallas police.
On WerBell's possible role in the JFK assassination,
Hargraves told Twyman: "Was WerBell the source of the silencers? Of
course! He's the only clean source. Every other source for silencers
would have strings attached to it. If you tried to get it from one of
the intelligence agencies, they'd want to know the whole thing. . . .
If (WerBell) got nailed he wouldn't give you up. And he knew if you
got busted with his stuff, you wouldn't give him up. There were so
many of the sound suppressors in circulation that he had deniability
at his end. There's no way to prove that you acquired them through
him." 47
Mitch WerBell and friend
In 1980, three years before his death, WerBell went to work handling
security for Larry Flynt, publisher of the adult magazine Hustler.
Ironically Flynt had his own connection of sorts to the events in
Dallas. Flynt was a paraplegic after being shot by an unknown
assailant in March 1978, two months after offering a reward of one
million dollars to anyone who could help solve the mystery of the JFK
assassination. The HSCA was in the midst of its investigation in 1978,
and Flynt may have been shot because the conspirators didn't need some
minor character in the JFK assassination coming forward to collect
Flynt's reward. 48 Meanwhile Bob Guccione, publisher of the adult
magazine Penthouse, charged that Flynt paid WerBell one million
dollars to have Guccione assassinated. 49
Mitchell Livingston WerBell III died of cancer at the age of 65. At
the first annual November in Dallas Conference in 1996, Interpen
founder Hemming told the conferees that WerBell, Conein, Hemming
himself, "and a long list of other people" should have been arrested
in the immediate aftermath of the JFK assassination. 50
One never knew when to take the colorful Hemming seriously. "The thing
is," he once told researcher Dick Russell, "you had so many people
planning the Kennedy thing, it was bound to happen." 51 But Hemming
also told Twyman, in an interview for Twyman's book Bloody Treason,
"If you want to get to the bottom of the JFK assassination, look at
WerBell." 52
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Footnotes:
1. Warren Hinckle and William Turner, Deadly Secrets: The CIA-Mafia
War against Castro and the Assassination of JFK (New York: Thunder's
Mouth Press, 1992), p. 393; Jim Hougan, Spooks: The Haunting of
America--The Private Use of Secret Agents (New York: William Morrow,
1978), p. 28.
2. Hewett, Carol, "Silencers, Sniper Rifles and the CIA," Probe, Nov.-
Dec. 1995; J. David Truby, Silencers, Snipers & Assassins: An Overview
of Whispering Death (Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1972), pp. 108-114.
3. Hinckle and Turner, p. 392.
4. Ibid., p. 400.
5. Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation (New York: Thunder's Mouth
Press, 1993), p. 67.
6. Hougan, p. 48; for the WerBell photos, see Truby, pp. 9, 11, 86,
106, 110, 120, and http://www.timelapse.dk/Welrod/dk/WerBell.htm.
7. Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter, "Growth of
Reagan's Contra Commitment," in The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret
Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (Cambridge, MA: South
End Press, 1987); Hinckle and Turner, p. 301; on the Abaco scheme, see
Hinckle and Turner, pp. 396-397.
8. Hougan, pp. 31-32; Hinckle and Turner, p. 301.
9. "Project Nassau," Cuban Information Archives (http://cuban-
exile.com/menu2/2pnassau.html).
10. "Project Nassau"; Hinckle and Turner, pp. 308-310.
11. "Ingram Mac 10," AEF Campaign: Operation Phoenix, n.d. (http://
www.aef-kampagne.de/english/ingramstory.htm); "Maruzen M11 Ingram,"
Airsoft Dynamics, 2000-2003 (
http://www.airsoftdynamics.net/shop/ADSstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=MZGBBM11).
In the early 1970s the rights to WerBell's and Ingram's weapons system
were sold to the Military Armament Corporation (MAC), of which WerBell
and his son Mitch IV became president and vice president respectively.
When the company failed to meet sales projections, WerBell agreed to
leave MAC in exchange for 7,000 of the silenced Ingram submachine guns
(half the MAC inventory), which he was free to sell through his own
new company, Defense Services, Inc. (Hougan, pp. 45-46).
12. Hinckle and Turner, pp. 397-400; Hougan, pp. 155-158, 187-201.
13. Gayle Pollard, "5 Acquitted in Drug Conspiracy Case," Miami
Herald, 1976, reprinted on website of Law Offices of Edwin Marger
L.L.C. (http://www.edmarger.com/
article_5acquittedInDrugConspiracy.htm), n.d.
14. Ibid.
15. "Lucien E. Conein," Arlington National Cemetery Website, 2003
(http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/conein.htm).
16. Pollard.
17. "Conein"; Fonzi, Investigation, p. 71.
18. Pollard.
19. Allan Eaglesham and Martha Schallhorn, "Familiar Faces in Dealey
Plaza," JFK/Deep Politics Quarterly, October 2000, reprinted at
http://www.memresearch.org/econ/faces/familiar_faces.htm.
20. A.J. Weberman, Coup D'etat in America Data Base, Nodule 21
( http://www.ajweberman.com/nodules/nodule21.htm).
21. Pollard.
22. Angelo Lonardo, Testimony before the Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations of the Senate Committee on Government Affairs, April 4,
1988.
23. House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), JFK Exhibit
F-553, v. 5, pp. 394-395.
24. Lonardo.
25. Anthony Summers, Conspiracy (New York: Paragon House, 1989), p.
495; Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1993, p. 172.
26. Scott, p. 171; Summers, p. 493.
27. Chauncey Holt, Transcript of Videotaped Interview by John Craig,
Phillip Rogers, and Gary Shaw (JFK Murder Solved, http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/holt1.html)
, October 19, 1991, transcribed by William E. Kelly, April, 1992.
28. HSCA, v. 5, pp. 392.
29. Rick Porrello, To Kill the Irishman: The War that Crippled the
Mafia (Cleveland: Next Hat Press, 2004).
30. Ibid.
31. Weberman.
32. Noel Twyman, Bloody Treason (Rancho Santa Fe, CA: Laurel
Publishing, 1997), pp. 705-712; Richard Russell, "An Ex-CIA Man's
Stunning Revelations on 'The Company,' JFK's Murder, and the Plot to
Kill Richard Nixon," Argosy Interview: Gerry Hemming (
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacover/belligerence/argosy-hemming.htm),
1975.
33. Fonzi, Investigation, pp. 232-242; see also Twyman, pp. 700-702.
34. Fonzi, Investigation, p. 237; ; "Bernardo de Torres," Spartacus
Educational ( http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKtorres.htm).
35. Marshall et al.
36. Gaeton Fonzi, Video Interview by the Fort Lauderdale JFK
Researcher Group, October 8, 1994.
37. Fonzi, Investigation, p. 67.
38. John Veit, with Robin Brown, "Quick Kill," Glock World Magazine
Online, 1993-2004.
39. Fonzi, Interview.
40. Fonzi, Investigation, p. 72.
41. Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked: What We Know about the
JFK Assassination after 40 Years (Southlake, Texas: JFK Lancer
Productions and Publications), pp. 290-292; Larry Hancock, JFK
Research News ( http://www.jfklancer.com/Dallas03.html).
42. Hancock, Someone, pp. 96-97; on Morales, see also Fonzi,
Investigation, pp. 380-390, and Twyman, pp. 451-454.
43. Erik Hedegaard, "The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt," Rolling
Stone, April 2007.
44. HSCA 5:502.
45. S.M. Holland, Voluntary Statement, Sheriff's Department, November
22, 1963, and Warren Commission Testimony, April 8, 1964; A.J.
Millican Statement, Decker Exhibit No. 5323, Warren Commission v. 19,
p. 486; Jim Marrs, Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy (New York:
Carroll & Graff, 1989), pp. 28-29. On the HSCA number of shot
statistics, see HSCA 5:502.
46. Hougan, pp. 35-36.
47. Hancock, pp. 273-274.
48. "Larry Flynt and JFK," Steamshovel Press (http://www.umsl.edu/
~skthoma/plword3.htm) n.d.
49. Hinckley and Turner, p. 400, citing the New York Post, October 27,
1988.
50. Gerry Patrick Hemming, The Gerry Patrick Hemming Panel, November
in Dallas Conference, November 1996.
51. Russell.
52. Twyman, p. 701.
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> Footnotes:
>
> 1. Warren Hinckle and William Turner, Deadly Secrets: The CIA-Mafia
> War against Castro and the Assassination of JFK (New York: Thunder's
> Mouth Press, 1992), p. 393; Jim Hougan, Spooks: The Haunting of
> America--The Private Use of Secret Agents (New York: William Morrow,
> 1978), p. 28.
>
> 2. Hewett, Carol, "Silencers, Sniper Rifles and the CIA," Probe, Nov.-
> Dec. 1995; J. David Truby, Silencers, Snipers & Assassins: An Overview
> of Whispering Death (Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1972), pp. 108-114.
>
> 3. Hinckle and Turner, p. 392.
>
> 4. Ibid., p. 400.
>
> 5. Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation (New York: Thunder's Mouth
> Press, 1993), p. 67.
>
> 6. Hougan, p. 48; for the WerBell photos, see Truby, pp. 9, 11, 86,
>
> 7. Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter, "Growth of
> Reagan's Contra Commitment," in The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret
> Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (Cambridge, MA: South
> End Press, 1987); Hinckle and Turner, p. 301; on the Abaco scheme, see
> Hinckle and Turner, pp. 396-397.
>
> 8. Hougan, pp. 31-32; Hinckle and Turner, p. 301.
>
> 9. "Project Nassau," Cuban Information Archives (http://cuban-
> exile.com/menu2/2pnassau.html).
>
> 10. "Project Nassau"; Hinckle and Turner, pp. 308-310.
>
> Airsoft Dynamics, 2000-2003 (http://www.airsoftdynamics.net/shop/ADSstore.cgi?user_action=detail&c...).
> In the early 1970s the rights to WerBell's and Ingram's weapons system
> were sold to the Military Armament Corporation (MAC), of which WerBell
> and his son Mitch IV became president and vice president respectively.
> When the company failed to meet sales projections, WerBell agreed to
> leave MAC in exchange for 7,000 of the silenced Ingram submachine guns
> (half the MAC inventory), which he was free to sell through his own
> new company, Defense Services, Inc. (Hougan, pp. 45-46).
>
> 12. Hinckle and Turner, pp. 397-400; Hougan, pp. 155-158, 187-201.
>
> 13. Gayle Pollard, "5 Acquitted in Drug Conspiracy Case," Miami
> Herald, 1976, reprinted on website of Law Offices of Edwin Marger
> L.L.C. (http://www.edmarger.com/
> article_5acquittedInDrugConspiracy.htm), n.d.
>
> 14. Ibid.
>
> 15. "Lucien E. Conein," Arlington National Cemetery Website, 2003
> (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/conein.htm).
>
> 16. Pollard.
>
> 17. "Conein"; Fonzi, Investigation, p. 71.
>
> 18. Pollard.
>
> 19. Allan Eaglesham and Martha Schallhorn, "Familiar Faces in Dealey
>
> 20. A.J. Weberman, Coup D'etat in America Data Base, Nodule 21
>
> 21. Pollard.
>
> 22. Angelo Lonardo, Testimony before the Permanent Subcommittee on
> Investigations of the Senate Committee on Government Affairs, April 4,
> 1988.
>
> 23. House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), JFK Exhibit
> F-553, v. 5, pp. 394-395.
>
> 24. Lonardo.
>
> 25. Anthony Summers, Conspiracy (New York: Paragon House, 1989), p.
> 495; Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (Berkeley:
> University of California Press, 1993, p. 172.
>
> 26. Scott, p. 171; Summers, p. 493.
>
> 27. Chauncey Holt, Transcript of Videotaped Interview by John Craig,
> , October 19, 1991, transcribed by William E. Kelly, April, 1992.
>
> 28. HSCA, v. 5, pp. 392.
>
> 29. Rick Porrello, To Kill the Irishman: The War that Crippled the
> Mafia (Cleveland: Next Hat Press, 2004).
>
> 30. Ibid.
>
> 31. Weberman.
>
> 32. Noel Twyman, Bloody Treason (Rancho Santa Fe, CA: Laurel
> Publishing, 1997), pp. 705-712; Richard Russell, "An Ex-CIA Man's
> Stunning Revelations on 'The Company,' JFK's Murder, and the Plot to
> 1975.
>
> 33. Fonzi, Investigation, pp. 232-242; see also Twyman, pp. 700-702.
>
> 34. Fonzi, Investigation, p. 237; ; "Bernardo de Torres," Spartacus
>
> 35. Marshall et al.
>
> 36. Gaeton Fonzi, Video Interview by the Fort Lauderdale JFK
> Researcher Group, October 8, 1994.
>
> 37. Fonzi, Investigation, p. 67.
>
> 38. John Veit, with Robin Brown, "Quick Kill," Glock World Magazine
> Online, 1993-2004.
>
> 39. Fonzi, Interview.
>
> 40. Fonzi, Investigation, p. 72.
>
> 41. Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked: What We Know about the
> JFK Assassination after 40 Years (Southlake, Texas: JFK Lancer
> Productions and Publications), pp. 290-292; Larry Hancock, JFK
It's a curious thing, all this!...I was looking up the recent dust up
about McCain and his old connects to Singlaub...Singlaub is one of
those Old China guys (which that dasterdly other site goes into) (and
which I often went over with posts about Old China!)..well...here's
wiki take on the World Council of Freedom which descended from the
Gitmos China Lobby:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Anti-Communist_League
And Webell of course took courses at Kunming....what a strange
tale!...one wonders too how overarching AIG has become since it's Old
China days!
And what's this, that Blackwater has a contract to guard Republican
politicians!! And who is this Charlie Black!?
And Singlaub...or was it Secord...belongs over in that thread about
the monkies on the keyboards!...as it was his idea..oh..wait..it was
Poindexter...what a fine kettle of carp!