werBell_jfk_assasin.htm 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.” …… 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 http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg29765.html 36. Dunkin, op. cit. Among other antiterrorism trainees at WerBell's camp in Powder Springs have been several members of U.S. presidential candidate Lyndon Larouche's U.S. Labor Party. The Marxist turned extreme rightist and anti-Semitic U.S. Labor Party has voluntarily sent the FBI and local police forces "intelligence" reports on left wing movements, and regularly exchanges information with one Roy Frankhouser, the self-proclaimed Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania and active member of the American Nazi Party — see the New York Times, 7 October 1979. |