124-90110-10083| AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: | HY 50953 Bocld: 32334090 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-901 10-10083 HQ CR 105-89923-184 Document Information FBI MM HQ 04/13/1961 3 CLIP JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 1A; 4 Redact 08/06/1998 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA TT 12 Page 1 Date: 6/2/2015
- if. : whe . — eT . 4% Pres ab & _ tyh “a = oF Ve. a Gy, fe bn A Biétsonsy ! i : 4 Mobr ah PR Slmont pin free PP Callahan £ Conrad og co Radio 0 azcla HAS NO oB JECTION TO ‘ Dae" RCLASSIF.C ANDIO sfaios URGENT IN THIS Me Noi (Ves pee Phone i SAC, MIAMI 131836 ANTERNAL SEG (5 ouBA. CUBA LS=@GUBA. BUFILES 4105-89923, 137-6257 9587-58729 «, en’, 3 LAST MM 722 C FURNISHED FOLLOWING RE JOSEPH EROLA, Ny FORMER Ci’, NOW SUSPECT IN "UNSUBS (TWO) ARMED ROSBERY™ Beaect, ss) APPROXIMATELY $117,200 IN JEWELRY AND CASH, RESIDENCE OF eet EDITH, AND FRITZ DORIGO, HALLANDRELE, FLORIDA, MARCH 20, 1961, Rants a ITSP,’ MAJOR THEFT, OO MIAMI." MEROLA RECENTLY TOLD CI HE . NR IS“CONNECTED WITH CIA IN SOME CAPACITY IN WHICH HE CLAIMED TO ve aa 2%, HAVE ACCESS TO ALL FORMS EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING FIREARMS AND ze Oey AMMUNITION, BEING FURNISHED BY CIA TO SOME ANTI CASTRO GROUP, YY MEROLA CLAIMED CIA SENDS THIS EQUIPMENT TO MEROLAS HOME WHERE \ i IT 1S , SUBSEQUENTLY PICKED UP BY BOAT FROM REAR MEROLA RESIDENCE. Ss CLAIMED HE !1S REQUIRED HAVE CUBANS WHO OBTAIN GUNS SIGN RECEIPT %S Oy FOR SAME, OPERATION TAKES PLACE UNDER COVER DARKNESS. CLAIMED TO HAVE TAKEN FROM EQUIPMENT SEVERAL AUTOMATICS EQUIPPED WITH SILENCERS. INFORMANT CLAIMS MEROLA IS MARMING THE OUTFIT" AND IS FURNISHING THESE WEAPONS TO VARIOUS HOODLUM Mio to olf FOR SUM $500 EACH. MEROLA EXHIBITED ONE SUCH AUTOMATIC TO CI ; AND DEMONSTRATED BY FIRING SHOT INTO AIR. Cl "COULD NOT HEAR A THING." ON APRIL 5 JOHN NOBLE, COVERT CIA AGENT WORKING OPERATIONAL LEVEL, ADVISED DID NOT BELIEVE CIA HAD OPERATIONA k INTEREST IN MEROLA BUT WOULD CHECK.. ON APRIL 6 HE ADVISED { YNRECORDED COPY FILED If the intelligence ‘contained in the above message i is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably paraphrased inorder to protect the Bureau’s cryptographic systems. CIA HAD NO* OPERATIONAL INTEREST, IN NERO. of wocder med LARA Le a sit vid crimenrh ZuPr nena? WG thin | qh : £0 rerteerins TEANSPORPATION OF BYOLTN PROPERTY yr . , eo on a 298 , agin ee | Pate SBAPR 26 198° ane HY 50953 Doctd: 32334090 Page 2
= > 4-41 (Rev. 1-25-61) . 2 wo ~ ~ Tolson . ; . ; Parsons Foy Mohr — ; Belmont Callahan DECODED COPY Coma Evans Malone Rosen _... Tavel Trotter W.C. Sullivan Tele. Room Ingram <3 Radio | maleletype = SEO: PAGE TWO: FROM SAC, 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 RTERRY KNAUT" DOCKED BEHIND HIS HOME AND IMPLIED THIS WAS HIS BOAT AND 1T 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 2700). GLEICHAUF STATED MEROLA | NOT WORKING FOR CIA a FRENTE SO FAR AS CAN DETERMINE. ON « APRIL 5 Jeovert CIA AGENT, FURNISHED MIAME LIST BOATS BETNG USED IN VARIOUS OPERATIONS IN WHICH CIA HAS INTEREST. “TERRY KNOTY" ON THIS LIST. AFTER SEVERAL “UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT VARONA PERSONALLY, ON APRIL 13 } JORGEXWQRAN, SECRETARY TO MANUEL ANTONIO DE VARONA LOREDO, I “er / || GENERAL COORDINATOR OF FRENTE, CONFIDENTIALLY ADVISED MEROLA 7“ VP IS WORKING ON THE BOAT "TERRY KNOTT" OWNED BY MOVIMIENTO DE ION, MRR, WHICH IS MEMBER ORGANIZATION OF FRENTE. MORAN STATED £3 fogat WAS OPERATED BY SANTIAGOYBABUM . , APRIL 8 AND JOSE "PEPE" AMRIOLA WAS IN CHARGE OF "TERRY KNOTT Ay zs \ We loeetbeng? | RECUPERAGION DE LA REVOLUC ape ete” @inie ' | | If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably k paraphrased inorder to protect the Bureau’s cryptographic systems. | HW §0953 Dactd: 32334090 Page 3