124-90110-10083
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AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 105-89923-184
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JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA
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INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA
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FROM SAC, MIAMI 131836
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BUFILES 105-89923, 137-6257,87-58729.,
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APRIL 3 LAST MM 722 C FURNISHED FOLLOWING RE JOSEPH RMEROLA,
FORMER CI, NOW SUSPECT IN "UNSUBS (TWO) ARMED ROBBERY"
APPROXIMATELY $117,200 IN JEWELRY AND CASH, RESIDENCE OF
EDITH AND FRITZ DORIGO, HALLANDALE, FLORIDA, MARCH 20, 1961,
MAJOR THEFT, 00 MIAMI."
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MEROLA RECENTLY TOLD CI HE
Brazil
FLA.
IS CONNECTED WITH CIA IN SOME CAPACITY IN WHICH HE CLAIMED TO
HAVE ACCESS TO ALL FORMS EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING FIREARMS AND
AMMUNITION, BEING FURNISHED BY CIA TO SOME ANTI CASTRO GROUP.
MEROLA CLAIMED CIA SENDS THIS EQUIPMENT TO MEROLAS HOME WHERE
IT IS SUBSEQUENTLY PICKED UP BY BOAT FROM REAR MEROLA RESIDENCE
CLAIMED HE IS REQUIRED HAVE CUBANS WHO OBTAIN GUNS SIGN RECEIPT
FOR SAME. OPERATION TAKES PLACE UNDER COVER DARKNESS. CLAIMED
TO HAVE TAKEN FROM EQUIPMENT SEVERAL AUTOMATICS EQUIPPED WITH
SILENCERS.. INFORMANT CLAIMS MEROLA IS WARMING THE OUTFIT"
AND IS FURNISHING THESE WEAPONS TO VARIOUS HOODLUM ACQUAINTANCE
FOR SUM $500 EACH. MEROLA EXHIBITED ONE SUCH AUTOMATIC TO CI
AND DEMONSTRATED BY FIRING SHOT INTO AIR. CI "COULD NOT HEAR
A THING. ON APRIL 5 JOHN NOBLE, COVERT CIA AGENT WORKING
OPERATIONAL LEVEL, ADVISED DID NOT BELIEVE CIA HAD OPERATIONAL
INTEREST IN MEROLA BUT WOULD CHECK. ON APRIL 6 HE ADVISED.
CIA HAD NOT OPERATIONAL INTEREST IN MEROIREC 32
ON APRIL 7 JUSTIN
Tel to miami chut of
APR 24, 1961
CRIMINAL INFORMANT
INTERSTATE TEANSPORTATION OF STOLEN PROPERTY
63 APR 26 196
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MIAMI
131836
GLEICHAUF, OVERT CIA REPRESENTATIVE, MIAMI, ADVISED ABOUT TWO
MONTHS AGO HE WENT TO MEROLAS HOME AFTER MEROLA PESTERED HIM
WITH PHONE CALLS OFFERING RENT PLANE OR HELICOPTER TO CLA
FOR USE BY FRENTE REVOLUCIONARIO DEMOCRATICO, ANTI CASTRO
ORGANIZATION UTILIZED BY CLIP. MEROLA SHOWED GLEICHAUF BOAT
TERRY KNAUT" DOCKED BEHIND HIS HOME AND IMPLIED THIS WAS
HIS BOAT AND IT HAD ALREADY BEEN USED BY FRENTE. MEROLA
SEEMED EAGER GET OUT OF U. S. AND SUGGESTED CIA USE HIM ON
SOME MISSION TO BRAZIL WHERE MEROLA PLANNED WORK OUT DEAL
TO SHIP WHISKEY TO BRAZIL DUTY FREE THROUGH BRAZILIAN
POLITICIAN. GLEICHAUF TOLD MEROLA HE WAS NOT INTERESTED.
AFTER FURTHER CHECK, GLEICHAUF ADVISED MIAMI THIS BOAT HAS
BEEN USED ON ONE OR MORE OPERATIONS BY FRENTE, BUT NOT
LIKELY BE USED AGAIN BECAUSE IN BAD SHAPE. BOAT 63 FEET,
BEARS REGISTRATION NUMBER 270404. GLEICHAUF STATED MEROLA
NOT WORKING FOR CIA OR FRENTE SO FAR AS CAN DETERMINE. ON
APRIL 5 DAVID GLASS ✓ COVERT CIA AGENT, FURNISHED MIAMI LIST
BOATS BEING USED IN VARIOUS OPERATIONS IN WHICH CIA HAS
INTEREST. TERRY KNOTT" ON THIS LIST. AFTER SEVERAL
“UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT VARONA PERSONALLY, ON APRIL 13
JORGE MORAN, SECRETARY TO MANUEL ANTONIO DE VARONA LOREDO,
GENERAL COORDINATOR OF FRENTE, CONFIDENTIALLY ADVISED MEROLA
IS WORKING ON THE BOAT "TERRY KNOTT" OWNED BY MOVIMIENTO DE
RECUPERACION DE LA REVOLUCION, MRR, WHICH IS MEMBER ORGANIZATION
OF FRENTE. MORAN STATED BOAT WAS OPERATED BY SANTI AGO, BABUM
APRIL 8 AND JOSE "PEPE" VARRIOLA WAS IN CHARGE OF "TERRY KNOTT'
No locality
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