Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, PG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 8/11/61
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/28/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES:

FBI

124-10283-10142

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2918-2ND NR 100

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

SAC, PG

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 08/11/1961

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/11/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

v9.1

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COMGUNICAMORS DEVON

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PM NP

TO, DIRECTOR, FBI -92-2914--92-2918

FROM, SAC,. PITISBURSH 92-2-36--92-228

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GABRIEL MANNARINO, AKA, ARO, SAMUEL MANNARINO, AKA, AR. ON

EIGHT ELEVEN INSTANT, DJ ATTORNEY WILLIAM KEHOE TELEPHONICALL!

CONTACTED SA THOMAS GO FORSYTH III FROM MIAMI, FLA. HE SAID

HE AND DJ ATTORNEY KENNY INTERVIEWED JOSEPH RO MEROLA PAST TWO

DAYS IN MIAMI AND FELT MEROLA WAS: COOPERATING RE MANNARINOS.

MEROLA SAID WILL NOT TESTIFY. KEHOE HAD MEROLA: AGREE TO INTERVIEW

BY BUAGENTS BUT MEROLA WILL NOT TALK WITH AGENTS OF MIAMI OFFICE,

WILL NOT COME TO PITTSBURGH AND INSISTS DJ ATTORNEY KENNY BE

PRESENT DURING INTERVIEW. MEROLA AGREEABLE TO INTERVIEW IN MIAMI

BY SA JOHN SO PORTELLA, WITH WHOM HE HAS AT LEAST A SURFACE

FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIP, AND SA FORSYTH WHO IS HANDLING MANNARINO

INVESTIGATIONS, KEHOE ASKED IF SAS PORTELLA AND FORSYTH COULD

COME TO MIAMI ON AUGUST FOURTEEN NEXT FOR INTERVIEW AND WAS

ADVISED HE SHOULD MAKE REQUEST THROUGH NORMAL CHANNELS. KEHOE

SAID HE WOULD CALL AAG SILBERLING AT DU AND HAVE HIM MAKE

REQUEST OF BUREAU. KEHOE FEELS THAT SINCE SAS PORTELLA AND

FORSYTH ARE MORE FAMILIAR THAN HE WITH ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATES 1961

2- 2918-

NOT RECORDE

167 AUG 17 1964

ORIGINAL COPT

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MOF MANNARINOS AND OF MEROLA: THEY CAN CONDUCT A MORE PENETRATIVE

QUESTIONING OF MEROLA. FORSYTH AND PORTELLA WILL TAKE NO

ACTION VACBO

END ACK PPSL

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