JFK Assassination System Date: 5/28/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10283-10150 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  92-2918-102 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC,MM TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE : DATE: 08/18/1961 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT . CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: — 09/11/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : i v9) Docld:32303138 Page 1 14
° ~ . : . . ° 7 j “FR 36 (Rev. 12-13-56) : a ; . tn” an ; 2 . o™ 7 ; ; FBI : Date: . 8/18/61 Transmit the following in PLAIN TEXT : ; ‘ ; (Type in plain text or code) | Via AIRTEL CO ATRMATIL | Le - (Priority or Method of Mailing) | Sn ee L — (RTT TT mm me - \ TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (92- 2918) FROM: SAC, MIAMI (92-155) 40 ae RE: “GABRIEL MANNARINO , aka 4 - & _ AR Se /§ carer uamantn0, aka fo - AR ~ (00; Pittsburgh) o% . OS ReButel to Pittsburgh 8/17/61, with reference. to a _ Pittsburgh estimating the value ‘and recommendation of MEROLA a as to. whether {or not he should be included in the top echelon 4 eriminal itonmnet program. a . a a Sgro yas formerly a CI of the Miami Office, It | 5 was necessary 6, discontinue him as such for reasons previously a furnished the Bureau and no change has come about whereby Miami A. recommends gonsideration be given to him as a CI, It is recom- PS “mended that™any information he may desire to furnish be ob- ff fe - tained from him, however, the same not sought inasmuch as it i ao is believed MEROLA would use this to his own advantage and to i t the embarrassment of the Bureau at a subsequent time, Oo Bureau (AM) - te & — /M- 2 _..2 ° Pittsburgh-(1 - 92- 236) (1 - °  92- -228) € 92 - oad | Oy Fob _ 3 © Miami (1 - 87- ~8049) (1 2: A3T- 2065). - "  CHWS:ame — - | 77 ee (8) a pee, mB a ut 0G 2 -~ as ue 196 ~ qe ale Ot @\ C Gs well i “ 4 WES ae Sent Approved’ oe tA p . Special Agent ¥ Charge Docld: 32303135 Page 2? x wf
FBI Date: (Type.in plain tent or code) “Priority or ; Method of Mailing) | “On the night of 8/17/61, MM 722-c, who is. a close yds associate of MEROLA and who is a close associate’ of one MEL q ADLER, who is an associate of MEROLA, advised he had been j informed by MEROLA and by ADLER that. MRROLA has been stating f that he will not have to serve any time in the case entitled. "STUART SUTOR, Et Al; ITSP;/TGT; FFA; NM; .CONSPIRACYs" . 1 MEROLA has stated. ‘that the matter has been taken care ae in.. | -Philadelphia and it has cost -him a "tremendous bundle" . have his pending five year sentence: suspended and have him a. placed on probation, He has indicated this will transpire. next Thursday or Friday, on the 24th or 25th of August, when he was Supposed to start ‘serving his sentence. He . 7 allegedly, is to appear before the Federal Judge in Pittsburgh |. at that time to be placed on probation, - : 7 MEROLA is presently a top jewel thief ‘of the Miami. Of fice; and is known.to be, and has admitted-to the Pittsburgh ' Agents, that he pulled the major theft this last winter ‘at the Hofbrau ‘Haus in. Hallandéle, _ Flas . Miami requests the Bureau give authority to oO Pittsburgh to inform: the Federal Judge at Pittsburgh concem- ing statements made by MEROLA; These are namely, that he has Spent a “tremendous bundle" to have his case fixed in Pitts- . burgh to-where he will be placed on probation rather than ‘ serve his pending five year sentence. Approved: a Sent ; . Special Agent in Charge — Docld: 32303135 Page 3 re nr cee ge i eR