Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 Use 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System - Date: 6/2/2015 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90110-10088 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 105-79067-2 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: — 07/21/1959 PAGES: 1 SUBJECTS : ( JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4 CURRENT STATUS: = Withhold DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 08/06/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : MEMO v9.1 'Docld:32334095 Page 1
© | Sir Sydney OAKES o ye you. asked for information about OAKES and his activities. map Wheto ba fe ee TE pe NR be f f ~ OAKES. went to Cuba. in April, but according to a reliable source, , Sir Sydney's business associate, was in Havana during that month. / believed that LONG, who is a Canadian subject, was travelling on a Danish passport issued by Please refer to your memorandum 12961 dated 11 Juné1959 in which The Bahamas Police have been unable to confirm that Sir Sydney | George;HONG, It is cana? went to Havana secretly and ;!e” | - See ' 1 p 4 ot { Sir Sydney, who is Danish Consul in Nassau. It is believed that LONG has been _associated with Sir Sydney in arms trafficking for at least eighteen months. Welland Corporation is presumably Welland Aviation Inc. an aircraft charter firm reportedly owned by Sir Sydney. The firm has one twin- engined 'Piper Apache' aircraft. The firm's Nassau dress is P.0.B. 201 - the Box number of 'Sidpitt Agency', Sir Sydney's firm.-fWelland Aviation Inc. also has an office at 1322 S.E. llth Street, Pompano.Peach, Florida. _ | The source mentioned in paragraph 1 above recalls meeting a man with a name like-YPERIFANOS in Miami in March 1959.- Source says that this man-is an accredited dealer in agricultural machinery and may be connected with Black Eagle Associates of 1360, Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx 53, New York. Black Eagle deals in arms _and.ammunition.and_is apparently interested in supplying arms to the rebels.in the Caribbean, — a i ALP WE tir On 16th May 1959 Sir Sydney went to Miami from Nassau. About three days later source produced the attached list of. arms and ammunition which had been typed by LONG and allegedly dictated to him by Sir Sydney. Source gave this list to MarvinA®DEN, a United States citizen who has been working as a floor covering salesman in Nassau for the past four years. According to source, ODEN is also a member of a gtin smuggling and dope running ring in _ ase Messe a = This list was discussed at a meeting held in the British Colonial Hotel, Nassau on or about 20th 2018 N. Bay Rod. i ¥_ 1959 at which George LONG, JoSsMEROLA of, Rod..,Miemi Beach sa” present. ~ Paes BAlMMDANNION of Pompano Beach, Florida Were At this meeting the possibility of buying four 'Vosper! M.T.B.'s IN and four 'Gay Dragon! M.T.B.'s, all fully equipped and valued at about a quarter of a million dollars each, was discussed. These names are stated to have been RN N given to your office in Miami in early June 1959 as being arms traffickers, 7 \‘\ Nassau for the personal particular = It is believed that MBROLA. has recently been arrested in We have asked the authorities in of LONG and ODEN, a the United States. . “A a. REG95 ZO 788 paw Du EO Hi ton~h- 24 AUG 4 1959 A ] us : nt 46 —_ ty a oO eae bY Sita 5 _ an 6 - sify on: GADR ™~ a CeogeB Declassify ADR J zB ero” | - 5. \ : i FROM sat eg JUL 22 1959