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| + | #REDIRECT[[Mitchell WerBel]] |
| − | |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_WerBell_III
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| − | |spartacus=http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKwerbell.htm
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| − | |default_sort=WerBell III, Mitchell Livingstone
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| − | |birth_date=1918
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| − | |birth_place=Philadelphia, USA
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| − | |death_date=1983
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| − | |ON_death_cause=heart attack?, cancer?
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| − | |constitutes=soldier, mercenary, arms dealer
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| − | ==Career==
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| − | Worked for the [[OSS]] in Kunming, China, with [[Ray Cline]].
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| − | === Death and courtroom poisoning claim ===
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| − | In the 1989 [[The Cotton Club (film)|''Cotton Club'']] murder case of [[Roy Radin]], Arthur Michael Pascal, then owner of a [[Beverly Hills]] security firm,<ref name=MC>{{cite news|author=Michael Connelly|title=Slaying Case Takes a New Twist With Security Firm Owner's Arrest Crime: A. Michael Pascal is charged with arranging the 1984 killing of a prostitute in Van Nuys. He'll be arraigned Monday|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 17, 1991|page=3|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-17/local/me-525_1_van-nuys}}</ref> testified that prosecution witness William Rider, Flynt's former brother in law and private security agent,<ref name=MC/> "told him of poisoning soldier of fortune Mitchell WerBell III in 1983 in order to take over WerBell's counterterrorist school based in Atlanta. Pascal said that Rider and... Flynt, poured four to six ounces of a [[digoxin]], a powerful heart relaxant, into WerBell's drink during a cocktail party at Flynt's Los Angeles mansion. WerBell, 65, a security consultant for Flynt... died of a heart attack at UCLA Medical Center a few days later."<ref name=DM/> Flynt and his attorney, [[Alan Isaacman]], were in Bangkok and "unavailable for comment, according to a Hustler magazine spokeswoman".<ref name=DM/> "Isaacman characterized an earlier Rider claim of a Flynt-paid murder contract as 'fantasy'."<ref name=DM/> Rider passed a polygraph test regarding "possible involvement in homicides," according to courtroom testimony.<ref name=DM>{{cite news|author=Dennis McDougal|title='Cotton Club' Witness Linked to Two Murders|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 30, 1989|page=3|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-30/local/me-2932_1_hustler-club-cotton-club-larry-flynt}}</ref> Pascal was later arraigned on a murder charge due to tapes Rider provided investigators.<ref name=MC/>
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| − | ==Death==
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| − | It is unclear whether this was naturally caused.
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