CABLE-REGARDING JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA U.S. CITIZEN, AN OCCASIONAL CONTACT OF OUR OVERT OFFICE IN MIAMI.
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: MIAMI
Document date: 12/06/1974
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1- REGARDING JOSEFH RAYMOND. I: ER OLA 6201-2578047.

U.S. CITIZEN, SUBJECT PARA 1 REF, PLEASE INFORI, DEA THE FOLLOWING:

JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA, AN OCCASTONAL CONTACT OF OUR OVERT OFFICE IN

¡ITAMI SINCE 1961, PERIODICALLY. PIOVIDES THAT OFFICE WITH FOREGIGN

POSITIVE INTELLIGENOCE INFORMATION: IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE FBI BE

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2. DEA MAS INFORMED BKHERALD JUNE 74 THAT MEROLA WAS OF

OPERATIONAL INTEREST. THEY REQUESTED TRACES AND STATED HE REPORTEDLY

WORKED FOR EKHERALD IN LATE 1950'S. WE REPLIED THAT NR. MEROLA HAD

NEVER WORKED FOR BKHERALD, ALTHOUGH WE WERE AUARE THAT HE HAD MADE

SUCH CLAIMS ON NUMBER OF PREVIOUS INSTANCES: Y

.3. HES RELAYING FOR STATION USE ONLY WA/MIAMI 20664, 11 JAN 74

AND DIRECTOR 502254: 37 JAM 74= WHICH REPORTS DEROGATORY INFORMATION

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