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124-90124-10055] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFK Assassination System Date: 5/4/2015
Identification Form
Agency Information
AGENCY : FBI
RECORD NUMER : 124-90124-10055
RECORD SERIES HQ
AGENCY FILE NUMER CR 97-3224-NR
Document Information
ORIGINATOR : FBI
FROM: MX
TO HQ
TITLE :
DATE : 10/11/1962
PAGES : 4
SUBJECTS
MANUEL FUEGO
MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL
DOCUMENT TYPE PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
CLASSIFICATION Secret
RESTRICTIONS IA; IB; 1C; 4
CURRENT STATUS Redact
DATE OF LAST REVIEW 09/12/1998
OPENING CRITERIA INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA
COMMENTS MEMO
v9.1 19
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SECRET
Lt 19 pointed out that CIA in both
Managua, Nicaragua, ana Guatemala_City,
18 investigating thl8 matter] and lthe U,S , Army
Attache
>
Guatemala City, hab aled done 8Ome Investlgation
through hls close contact with Lt_ Colonel JOSE LUIS
AGUILAR DE LEON, who 18 the confidential bource abroad
mentioned in the acc ompanying report :JAltades or feacltons
Diclass_A+m
SCOTT HOLLOWAY
9ead
of the CIA Station; bN
Fgalq
[Anerican EmbassykeManagua Nicaragua, advised on
9-5-62 tbejeNOEE PALLAIS
9
who 19 T-1 In the accompany-
report the finaxeial enterpris of General
ANASTASIO SOMOZA of Nicaragua _
EoeEowAgucateer
that
PALLAIS has been[in close contact with the CIA Office
In regard to this was made available for
contact by
F9o5toA;e4e7b63
was
Gubgequentl nterviewed
@at the CIA Manegua _ HOLLOWAY he
personally has
faslede6u Mged
[Genera1
GOMoZAGoted
to have
anything to do wlth WERBELL , SMITH and associates
He stated he feels the offer to sell arms and ammunition
and provLde mercenaries which was made to the
Guatemalan Government was 9f sec ondary interest
MICHAEL F TAYLORZ or the CIA Station,
American Guatemala Cfty, advised On
September
Eb;3;zg2"
10, that it was ascertained that
the woman Who accompanied WERBELL to Managua 18
LUCY | LUCHIEN who owns, the Duplex Bullding in
Guatemala She ` returned Guatemala City
On September
eti;
2 or 3, 1962.
TAYLOR edvised that when ARTHUR L. SMITH
left Guatemala City on September 3, 1962, he left 25
a f 'orwarding addrese 1025 Sulte
405, Washington; DoC, According
Gojiectio EA VSRSNEAGEf;
to told
the manager of the Maye Excelsior Hotel that ne had
the clearance of CIA_
S) GAYLor] stated that MIGUELITO YDIGORAS _
9
son
of the President Of"' Cuatemala, advised that neither
WERBELL nor SMITH had made personal contact With hin_
At the request of MIGUELITO YDIGORAS , the Judicial)
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only
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Police put 2 surveillance On WERBELL and SMITH, which
epparently was rather obvious The police al8o
monltored their One conversationg . Subsequently, lZne
Judicial
Rohecajgavpea
CIA tat SMITH had made
one telephone call to MARIO GARCIA KOHLY in Wabhington,
D.C and another to a man by the name of DIGGS or BRIGGS
in Washington, D.C_ He also made a telephone call to Handy o Jones and Handy, Marine Architects Miami,
Florida _ SMTTH received a telephone call which was
reported a3 been from ARNOLD in Washington but
S)IAYLOR]stated that CIA believes it was from' FRANK
AUSTIN
9
who he said Is connected with MARIO GARCIA KOHLY
In Washington
WERBELL; triedto make :telephonic contact with
FRANK ` MARSHALL, Minister Qf Public Security- of Costa
Rica X( u)
In telephone calls made just prior to 8-20-62
mention was made of meeting someone referred to only.
as M the general"at the Hotel El San Salvador ,
El Salvador Acc ording to
@AEo8agvzdva:
does not believe
the_meeting took place In San. Salvador 88 planned_
S(TAYLORl had previously mentioned on 8-13-62 that when
WERBELL and SMITH first contacted MIGUELITO YDIGORAS
during early August , 1962, they stated they
were
Waiting for PINEIRO and beemed to think PINEIRO was
someone YDIGORAS would Iow They stated
contact-him as soon a8 PINEIRO arrived _
Etheor/8aydsed
on 9-10-62 that it had been ascertained that Colonel
JOSE_ PINEIRO PAEZ was apparently the One were
expeoting.
6)TAYLOR7stated that the telephone conversation
between "SMITH, WERBELL an the individuals they were talking to were rather cryptic and (Ehe
Judicial
folica@beateetlIt
little more than the Identities
of the individuals making the calls
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they
they
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SOURCES
SECREE
[The confidentlal 8ource abroad 18 Lt_
0
Colonel
JOSE LUIZ AGUILAR LEON_ Minister of Labor and Socia1
Welfare, Netional Police, Guatemala City, Guatemala
T-l isYNOEL PALLAIS _ first coubin of President LUIS
SOMOZA,and General ANASTASIO SOMOZA of Nicaragua=
who handleg financial enterprises of General SOMOZA
Located in instant report : ource concealed as (he 18
8 contact Qf CIA, Managua, Nzcaragua
CLASSIFICATION
Enokoged repcrt 16 claestfted "Confzdential"
@s it contalna information from an officialJof @ foreign
Csj
government Jand from an Individuat who hag close
connections with a second (foreign government Both
@CsJ
requested the information be regarded 2s confTdential
STATUS
While this case and also the cage on MANUEL
FUEGO , RA Central Amerlca, are being placed in an
RUC status, they w1ll be reopened 1f any pertinent
information 18 received ,
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