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104-10182-10092 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/29/1964)

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       1.  In response to  the Station's request contained  in
  reference for information  on Mitchell Livingston WER-SELL,  111,
  this is to provide the Station with  some pertinent personal  data
  on him, and to recommend that  the Station, i.e., Theodore R. KETTNE
  avoid contact with him in operational  matters but, to the extent
  securely possible, monitor his activities  in the area.

      2.  WER-BELL,  born on 8  !arch 1918 in Philadelphia,
 Pennsylvania,  was married in 1942 to dildegarde  Elizabeth
 HEMMERICH, and  has six children.  He was  an Army first lieutenant
 when recruited by  KUTW'IN, Aith which service he saw duty with some
 distinction in  the China Theater during the second  half of 1945.

      3.  In 1953 he established  his own business,  Mitchell Kerbell
 Public Relations and  Advertising Company, in Atlanta,  Georgia,
 which went out of business  in 1959, due to insolvency  caused
 primarily by his injudicious  and unorthodox traIUe  ractices.

          Subject is well-known  to KUdARK, whose officers have
 categorized him variously  as unscrupiTous, a wheeler-dealer9
 and a promoter of grandiose  schemes; as a man who lives beyond
 his means; and as a high-pressure  advertising and promotion
 man.

     S-   In the summer of 1959 Subject  offered his services to
KUBAk', claiming  knowledge of Cuban and  Dominican affairs.
Although a  POA was granted oh 4 August  1959 for his use as a
source of  information on revolutionary  activities in the
Caribbean  area, it evolved that the information  he provided was
of little value.   It was further judged that Subject  wished to


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