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124-90110-10083

2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Date:

Identification Form

6/2/2015

Agency Information

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FBI

124-90110-10083

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CR 105-89923-184

Document Information

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TITLE:

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MM

HQ

DATE: 04/13/1961

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

CLIP

JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/06/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS:

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Radio

CODED COPY

SECRET

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINER

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4-13-51

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Marsons,

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2 CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSINCT

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RELEASE OF OK

FORMATION

IV THIS DOCUMENT. EXCOONORMIERS

KP 5-210198

5-30-48

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DIRECTOR

JFK,

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CLASSIFIED BY

DECLASSIEY ON:

FROM SAC, MIAMI

131836

Declassify on:

MUK

INTERNAL SECURITY-CUBA

COLTS

OY ISOGUBA.

BUFILES 105-87923s +37-6257-87-587290

APRIL 3 LAST MM 722 C FURNISHED FOLLOWING RE JOSEPH B

XMEROLA,

FORMER CI, NOW SUSPECT IN "UNSUBS (TWO ARMED ROBBER

APPROXIMATELY $117,200 IN JEWELRY AND CASA,

RESIDENCE OF

Brad il

BLA.

EDITH

AND FRITZ DORIGO, HALLANDALE, FLORIDA, MARCH 20, 1961, 004

ITSP,

MAJOR THEFT, 00

MIAMI." MEROLA RECENTLY TOLD CI HE

IS CONNECTED WITH CIA IN SOME CAPACITY IN WHICH HE CLAIMED TO

HAVE ACCESS TO ALL FORMS EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING FIREARMS AND

AMMUNITION, BEING FURNISHED BY CIA TO SOME ANTI CASTRO GROUP.

MEROLA CLAIMED CIA SENDS THIS EQUIPMENT TO MEROLAS HOME WHERE

IT IS

CLAIMED HE IS REQUIRED HAVE CUBANS WHO OBTAIN GUNS SIGN RECEIPT

SUBSEQUENTLY PICKED UP BY BOAT FROM REAR MEROLA RESIDENCE *2

FOR SAME. OPERATION TAKES PLACE UNDER COVER DARKNESS: CLAIMED

TO HAVE TAKEN FROM EQUIPMENT SEVERAL AUTOMATICS EQUIPPED WITH

SILENCERS.

INFORMANT CLAIMS MEROLA IS WARMING THE OUTFIT"

AND IS FUANISHING THESE WEAPONS TO VARIOUS HOODLUM AGQUAINTANEES

SUM $500 EACH. MEROLA EXHIBITED ONE SUCH AUTOMATIC TO CI

AND DEMONSTRATED BY FIRING SHOT INTO AIR. CI "COULD NOT HEAR

A THING. "

ÓN APRIL 5 JOHN NOBLE, COVERT CIA AGENT WORKING

OPERATIONAL LEVEL, ADVISED DID NOT BELIEVE CIA HAD OPERATIONAL

INTEREST IN

I MEROLA BUT WOULD CHECK.. ON APRIL 6 HE ADVISED

CIA HAD NO! OPERATIONAL

INTEREST IN MEROREG SON APRIL 7 JUSTIN

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NUTERSTATE TrANSPORTATION O STOLEN PROPERTY

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If the intelligence contained in

the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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DECODED COPY

Radio

Ix Teletype

Tolson -

Parsons

Mohr -

Belmont

Callahan

Conrad

DeLoach-

Evans

Malone

Rosen

Tavel.

Trotter

w.C. Sullivan -

Tele. Room -

Ingram

Gandy

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

ITERRY KNAUT" DOCKED BEHIND HIS HOME AND IMPLIED THIS WAS

HIS BOAT AND IT HAD ALREADY BEEN USED BY FRENTE. MEROLA

SEEMED EAGER GET OUT OF U. SO 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 270404. GLEICHAUF STATED MEROLA

NOT WORKING FOR CIA OR FRENTE SO FAR AS CAN DETERMINE. ON ...

APRIL 5 DAVID GLASS, COVERT CIA AGENT, FURNISHED MIAMI LIST

BOATS BEING USED IN VARIOUS OPERATIONS IN WHICH CIA HAS

INTEREST. "TERRY KNOT'" ON THIS LIST.. AFTER SEVERAL

**UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT VARONA PERSONALLY, ON APRIL 13

JORGEXTORANe. SECRETARY TO MANUEL ANTONIO DE VARONA LOREDO,

GENERAL COORDINATOR OF FRENTE, CONFIDENTIALLY ADVISED MEROLA

IS WORKING ON THE BOAT "TERRY KNOTT" OWNED BY MOVIMIENTO DE

SECUPERACION DE LA REVOLUGTONG MRS WHICH IS MEMBER ORGANILATTON

OF FRENTE. MORAN STATED

QAT WAS OPERATED BY SANT I A GOX BABUM

APRIL 8 AND JOSE "PEPE"'

BRIOLA WAS IN CHARGE OF "TERRY KNOTT

localitu

If the intelligence contained in the above message is to be disseminated outside the Bureau, it is suggested that it be suitably

paraphrased in order to protect the Bureau's cryptographic systems.

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