‘Released Under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 199? (44 USC 27107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 6/3/2015 Identification Form ; Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90110-10063 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: = CR 97-3575-4 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BELMONT TO: SIZOO TITLE: DATE: 08/28/1958 PAGES: 1 ‘ SUBJECTS : JOSEPH MEROLA JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 08/06/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : MEMO v9.1 : 8 BDocla: 32334070 Page 1
. Kennedy Assazsination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 2107 Hotes. DATE: 11-14-2017 Office Memorandum + onrrep sTATES GOVERNMENT - FROM eam! DATE: August 28, 1958 Tolson Boardman | Belmont Mohr ee Ne ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED Monge A _—_BEREIN 4S UNCLASSIFIED pee supyect: ALLEGED EXPEDITION TO OVERTHROW pyr jJy)as_BY Rosen HAITIAN GOVERNMENT Trotter NEUTRALITY ACT | — =. qf Tele. Room By Holloman Gandy 5, _ SAC Teague of Miami at 2:53 pem., August 28, advised he “Vf had been visited by the Vice Consul of Haiti, Rudolf Babour, about 45 minutes previously. Babour said he had information from an c unnamed informant who was a Haitian citizen. The informant told Babour there was going to be another shipment of arms to Port Au Prince, Haitis The informant wanted Babour to give him $10,000 for his operation. nformant said ere were 27 Americans tnvoluved including one Leonard’Bird and Josep erola (Teague said there was no record on Bird,and Merola is a top jewel thief who lives in Miami Beach.). \ . Informant told Babour that five FBI men are involved in this matter. Teague told Babour this was ridiculous. Babour said informant would not tell him who was involved until he got money. Informant . told Babour that there was a place for storage of arms and ammunition within one hour of Miamis also, there was a $70,000 cache of arms on an island between Florida and Haiti. Informant said further that some unknown pilot was allegedly given $10,000 to fly arms to Haiti. The pilot's wife is a cousin of a Mr. Dillard, who owns a lumber company in Miami. Dillard allegedly is trying to get a lumber contract in Haiti. Teague pressed the Vice Consul for the name of the informant but the Vice Consul did not give tt to him because he satd he was still dealing with the informant and that he would get further details. Teague told Babour that unless he gave him full informatio there was not much we could do regarding this. Teague furnished ,| © Babour the name of Wyatt, the Agent in Charge of Customs tn Miamt wl el because of the dllegation on shipment of arms. Teague is also . advising Customs. Ce ACTION: . 3 Lr told. Teague that he should run this out as far as he could based on the limited informations that he should try to identify the unknown pilot, and possibly interview Dilliard, the lumber man. I told him that as the allegation involves an alleged plot to send an expeditionary force to Haiti, we should conduct investigation until we could establish whether there was truth to the allegation. F eae oO (Lis Stzoo Mae £135 ee fe _G7SEP 158 es Mihi ny F7 | a — 4 | Docld: 32334070 Page 2?