“purchase order for the procurement of a Soviet T-54 tank, the order having originated with DIA. BND officials have often stated that CUMMINGS is a CIA agent. o. A form dated 1 June 1967 was directed to the Interagency Source Register by "DA", presumably Department of the A”
“ARMORED DIVISION, APO NY, NY 09076. 6, RECOMMEND THAT MURKINSON ANDRHIODLEHOOVER NOT BE CONTACTED AS they would not have had ANY contact with white. ANY INFO they might FURNISH WOULD BE HEARSAY. 7. ACTION OFFICER, S/A JOHN HAROY, AV 552-2490/5202, REGRADED UNCLASSIFIED REVIE”
“retained in the files of OSI District 7 and will be ocreleased to proper authority upon request. Gf + 11. On 15 July 1969, S. F. REEVES, GS-8,SSAN: 261-50-7220, Shipment Planner, 3201st Transportation Squadron, Eglin AFB, Florida, advised at Eglin AFB that a review of his fi”
“00 00 *.4. January 1969, dir. Roma B. Young, SM acknowledged ny 28 969 mome cited above in writing and notified me that the requested to the vendor vin the Transportati on Officer, Dobbins Air Force Base could not be accomplished because of the lack of official documentatio”
“the most inopportune time so far as the investi- gation is concerned. I was not at all sure that the CONFIDENTIAL NW 65924 Docld:32364661 Page 2 22306 CONFIDENTIAL Agency's response, if it had to become public, would not, be embarrassing to the Committee. I said that I assumed th”
“born: DJun 3.5,‘ l. 513. 10 4326FX RICHARD H. SKAHAM 16-21 October 1969 LUG ‘*1:"7 i >1 bzi 51 07 Di 8-1 MS VIOLATIONS; 08% District 50, 9 October 69 Office of Secre try of Dafense/Advance hesoaroh a S> OSD/ARPA) advised he was introduced to WERBELL during Jan 69 by C”
“A ‘s 134-3315 Memo of SA EDWARD F. GAMBER, dated 9/29/60, NY captioned IS R" . 10, Memo at NY captioned o A WARD GAUBERa dated NY airtel and LHM to Bureau, dated 9/30/60, % finest/ 17 captioned MISCELLANEOUS i INFORMATION CONCERNING 12. Memo of SA EDWARD 11 « GA”
“personally out there, too, and was offered the same op portunity. I did not avail myself of it because of the time element, but I was offered the same opportunity. Mr. Rankin. Mr. Helms, can you explain, according to the limitations of security, the reasons why we examined m”
“antique arms when contents were known to be automatic weapons. GARTA received authorization and funding citation number for WERBELL’s shipment from the Counselor for Administration, U.S. Embassy, Bangkok. This was only shipment processed by CARTA for WERBELL. CARTA did not kn”
“89 a "chorterd and tuot this 12383 cycle was currently loaned to R xriend CL 43s in the state 02 Florida. mnoin exhibited to Jay STAFFORD and his brother, a number of newspaper articles and clippings 00 AM -DI: Into SAN anG V C.1 Lo-WA stated were (ne zaulc oX 23 Ce A comst”
“-2- Lt. Col. Marriott told Mr. WerDell he thought the museum would be grateful for them. Mr. Werlall stated ha did not file any Forms 6 on any of the firearas and had no knowledge of anyone else filing them. Sionice is in the business of developing and mufacturing silencers ”
“ammunition to them; this letter reflects shipment received on 11 April 1969. C. Two copies of AF Form 1149 (with air movement desig- nator FB 5629 8325X002, 20 Nov 68) . reflecting the shipment of a total of 12 captured enemy weapons, 19 magazines, 2 pouches with magazines, ”
“area. SUBJECT, as a representative of AFATL while on TDY in SEA could send captured enemy weapons of any type or quantity 0 11 A T T O 05 to AFATL for test purposes, based on his judgment, if he followed r,0 iJFKARCA, 1992 ad In Accordance With established procedures whic”
“1 State Dept. Telegram BANGKOK 8458 dated 25 June 69 Subject Export License for Ingram Submachine Gun”
“WILLIAM R. THOMPSON, which is quoted verbatim as -.AD/PM - WRT:ml 16 June 1969 "MEN ANDUM FOR: The Assistant Director for Program Management, RIC-T SUBJECT: Shipment of Box Containing Armaments to Armaments . Reviewed By AFOSI Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base For Publi”
“FL, telephonically advised that his agency had initiated an investigation concerning the involvement of SIONICS, Ine in this matter but that results of their inquiry were not yet available. COSBIN advised that lift agency would furnish the results of their investigation upon ”
“C. King, and Richard Bissell coordinated on it. It was forwarded to the DDCI for release. General Cabell attached a handwritten buck-slip: "Return to: Chief, W.H. Div., unacted upon.") trite di %3 " 47 - 0PDET ulohiaLICD 1 Y9 21 T7 . 4X6 4 s t: e fr 0A”
“one year. 3. On 9 Oct 69 EUGENE D. LAWRENCE, MSgt, FE 407-38-0038, Director of Air Trans- portation, 3201st Trans Sq, EAFB, FL, made available to the writer copies of all military air shipment manifests for the months of May, June and July 1969. Re- view of these manifests di”
“T24+/H 4122 Chief, TO/Security 21 April 1960 1 Chief, Security Staff,G Identi-Kit E7EASACE: Mono from Chief, 1S/Secaity, to Chief, S5/QL, dated 21 March 1960, Subject as above. 10 1. Go 5 April 1960 the undersigned interviewed Cater Aadsamen - County Sheriffs Department,”
“employment by this Staff. 4. I then called Mr. Earmar. and advised him of the above. Mr. Earman indicated that he was sure the Director would be very pleased to hear that a suitable agreement had been reached, but that the Director also would undoubtedly raise the question o”
“0 0 07D A copy of the above mentioned documents are appended to this report as attachments. 12. On 15 July 1969, CLARENCE M. COOLEY, GS-9, SSAN: 505-32- 7744, Logistics Officer, AFATL (ATDA-Log), was interviewed at Eglin AFB, Florida, and advised as follows: On 13 March 196”
“efficiently coordinated and that we in the Bureau were closely scrutinizing each situation as it develops where both Agencies had an interest. The Agent suggested that Mr. Helms might desire to alert appropriate.. subordinates in the Agency on this point. 62 07 7 REC-51 . CO”
“11. On 15 July 1969, S. F. REEVES, GS-8, SSAN: 261-50-7220, Shipment Planner, 3201st Transportation Squaton, Eglin AFB, Florida, advised -, Eglin AFB that a review his files revealed a copy of a GBL, N. F-0,648,922, dated 28 March 1969, with an ■attached DD Form 1149 (REQUISI”
“always shipped by serial number, in accordance with the SOP which so specifies. 74 On 27 August 1969, EUCLIDS P. BEAUDOIN, GS-12, SSAN: 087-14-3917, Staff Transportation Office, 3201st Transportation Squadron, Eglin AS®, Fl., advised at Ms duty station that sometime subsequen”
“mate- rial it had acquired from Mr.. Kaiser's concern. ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSI FIED DATE 1116/00 BY SP2ALMKP NW 6”
“07D18-1 DETAILS (Cont’a) WERBELL related that Forms were not filed on any of the firearms either by him or to his knowledge by anyone else. WEHBELL concluded that prior to the passing of the Gun Control Act of 1968, the procedures used for exporting and importing of the fire”
“memorandum. During this conversation there was no discussion of previous operations except a brief discussion of the COBRA and AAMTOROD MTOIRD:teams and Lansdale did not ask, according to Cheever’s recollection, any specific questions concerning assets inside or prior operati”
“his request would be brought to high-level attention but that a response of any kind at all could not be assured. Phillips stated that he did not know Pahl Bethel very well, but it was not Bethel who introduced him to Lobez-Fresquet. He said that that introduction was made b”
“went to the storage facility with SUBJECT and Capt JERRY McEWEN where the two boxes were opened and were found to contain weapons and ammunition. Among the weapons there was one that had apparently been damaged in combat and both SUBJECT and McEWEN expressed a great deal of i”
“hat this would not be necessary. He returned our exhibits and told us to consider the matter closed. : Cook Arthur E. Dooley CI/RGA SECRET 56-44 NW 65990 Docld:32403437 Page 5”
“03 2 After several Decks of Mr WJ Bell's dround throngli SEA "I was becoming Travel i ng Concerned and wanted to close of his busmers and send hin home . Ine out the mouth of Nov 68 d located huin and istinsted Lin that I felt our busmers was over and he should prepare t”
“VIEWS. THE LETTER WAS Forwarded TO WASHiNGTON AS AN SS0 BACK CHANNEL MESSAGE AND HAS SINCE BEEN CLEARED BY DOD FOR RELEASE TO CONGRESSMAN MILFORD. THE TEXT OF THIS LETTER WAS GIVEN TO COS BY GENERAL HOLLINGSWORTH. 2. QUOTE " DEAR MR. MILFORD: SECRET”
“: (Was that Company operation or Naval The people Intelligence operation?), "No, Company operation. " who were involved in that were Dr. Louis Conte- Aquerra (sp?); he asked my assistance and I went to see my CO, w ho was Sam Jenis. Conte-Aquerra was associated with the Comp”
“using. Lt. Col. Causes stated that in view of this discussion we could anticipate that he would be levying requirements on us in the near future for support in the W/T field. j. Secret Writing. A discussion of S/W techniques revealed that if a request for the issuance of S/W”
“King’s birthday. The GFA was informed that WERBELL wanted to ship one, or two heavy cartons to Thailand. The CFA then gave CARTA the Bangkok U.S. Embassy funding citation, with instructions to have same added to WERBELL*s travel orders. He then asked the CFA: "Do you know what”
“ation, subject and file number of each document have been typed on each envelope for identification. C. (SCI Staff responded to Reference A in a memorandum dated 10 April 1978 to PCS/LOC. D. Bill Sturbitts of SA/C/LA will respond directly to PCS/LOC concerning the information req”
“Well, it would depend on how much it cost. 19 I think that Karamessines could sign off up to $50,000 and 20 beyond that it had to be signed off on by Helms, I think. That s 21 my best recollection. And I don't know — as annual review 22 was conducted, and of course the di”
“Florida, of June 13, 1969, signed: Roso B. Young.), 7"V .• unenidt Ca Bun. *, 2 "A second box, allegedly containing assortment of firearms was delivered to the MEDC warehouse on or about 10 May 0.969, according to the Memorandum for the Record of June 13, 1969, signed Ros”
“0 07D 18-1 DETAILS 1. This investigation was requested by the Commander, Eglin AFB, Florida on 7 July 1969, based on a request from the . Commander, Air Force Armament Laboratory (AFATL), Eglin AFB, to determine the circumstances surrounding the importation of three boxes”
“was manifested by your willingness to ignore assigned working hours and press on as long As any hope existed for obtaining results. ,1 4 .CAs you are aware, the results achieved by you have significance beyond the boundaries of the Navy. The full import cannot be com plete”
“at Eglin AFB. Deputy Comdr, AFATL, advised SUBJECT had no known authority to send weapons from SEA nor to ship weapons to Sionics; Sionics does not have AF contract. Records reflect SUBJECT, since Nov 68, has placed 7 long distance telephone calls to Sionics, at government exp”
“of Lt Col P. A. MARRIOTT. At this time Colonel HOBAUGH attempted to contact SUBJECT, but was unable to do so as SUBJECT was on leave; however, he left a message for SUBJECT to call him. the next day. The next day SUBJECT called Colonel HOBAUGH and was instructed to telephonic”
“52 07D18-1 DETAILS" 1. On 28 July 1969, SUBJECT Voluntarily appeared at OSI Detachment 710. Eglin AFB, FL and released a previously prepared signed, notarized, undated statement pertinent portions of which are set forth as follows: * Nty assignment is Assistant to the Comma”
“brief discussion of the COBRA andANCORQD, teams and Lansdale did not ask, according to Cheever's recollection, any specific questions concerning assets inside or prior operations which SOURCE:w°uH logically have led to the discussions at the time sy^yp. of the Matahambre oper”
“INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE. 3. SUGGESTIONS : . A. I SUGGEST REPRESENTATIVES OF YOUR COMMITTEE CONTACT PERSONNEL CONCERNED, - - LOCATED AT "US ARMY SECURITY AGENCY (ASA)" HEADQUARTERS, ARLINGTON HALL STATION, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA AS TO WHAT THIS MISSION WAS, ITS DATA STORAGE LOCAT”
“., W a s h in g to n , D .C . 2 0 0 0 3 19 Miss Culbreth. Let me ask just a few questions that 20 might sort of help us a little bit in our housekeeping opera- 21 tions when we get to the point of trying to tie everything up 22 on these. 23 With regard to the informatio”
“thought it entirely possible that Helms and Karamessines could have handled this ... on th eir own. M* 5 * * * * * * * ascotied .4. Halpern said that Evan Parker had come into the office of the DD/P shortly before Helms became DDCI, and had returned from Honolulu for that ”
“also. John mentioned that he had stolen something and had sold it. John described the object in great detail, as to size, dimensions, and color, but never said what it was. Sources could only recall that it was about one and a half feet long with - fins on the end. Sources th”
“SECLET 20 May 1965 : MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, CI/OA ATTN: George Ballin. VIA: Chief, RID/RB SUBJECT: DBA-48364, dated 8 August 1963 -DBA-23559, dated 6 October 1962 5. .f S ty 6 rH + W il P 1 ‘A thorough and systematic search for the-above documents J a 5% - ”
“33. MR [from WH/4], 15 Nov 60, sub: [Transcript of Tape of] Telephone Conversation between C/JMARC and William D. Pawley on 14 Nov 60. - 385 TOP SECRET”