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104-10256-10092 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (9/7/1967)

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7 September 1967


MEMORANDUM FOR :


SUBJECT


Chief, TSD/LSS


:  Mitchell L. WerBell


       1. On the morning of 10 August 1967 several Department
 of Defense, ARPA  (Advanced Research Projects Agency)
 personnel and myself were assembled in a Pentagon office to
 witness a demonstration of some silenced handguns.

      2.  A Mr. Mitchell L. WerBell entered the room
 carrying a small black handbag. WerBell is a short, stocky,
 flashy individual who sports a large handlebar mustache and
 experiences no difficulty in letting people know he is around.

      3.  After introductions WerBell whipped two 22 cal.
handguns  equipped with silencers from his bag and fired a
clip of live rounds from each gun into a telephone book he had
tossed on the floor. Both guns, one using 22 cal shorts the
other 22 long rifle cartridges, were well quieted. Although
WerBell-passed  the unloaded weapons around for inspection
he wouldn't permit anyone to disassemble the silencers stating
that the system was proprietary and he didn't want the tech-
nique for quieting disclosed before he had it patented. He
spared no words in extoling the superiority of his technique
stating that it was far better than anything CIA has, e. g. he
said the screen rubber-washer system that CIA used on the
22 cal. Hi Standard was much inferior to his.

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