CABLE RE JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 12/06/1974
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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U.S. CITINZEN, SUBJECT PARA I REF, PLEASE INFORM DEA THE FOLLOWING:

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

MIAMI SINCE 1961 PERIODICALLY PROVIDES THAT OFFICE WITH FORESIGN

POSITIVE INTELLIGENECE INFORMATION. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE FBI BE

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

OPERATIONAL: INTEREST... THEY REQUESTED TRACES AND STATED HE REPORTEDLY

WORKED FOR SKHERALD IN LATE 1950'S. • WE REPLIED THAT MR. MEROLA HAD

NEVER WORKED FOR BKHERALD. ALTHOGUGH WE WERE AWARE THAT HE HAD MADE

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USE IS PROHIBITED THROUGHOUT THE INTEL COMMUNITY AND ISR POLICY

PRECLUDES HIS REGISTRATION. HOWEVER, EMPHASIZE TO DEA THAT THIS FACT

NOT INTENDED TO PROHIBIT THEIR USE OF SUBJECT. BATISTA WILL BE

RECORDED AS A CONTACT OF DEA IN BHERALD FILES IN CEASE ANY OTHER U.S.

GOVERNMENT AGENCY EXPRESSES OPS INTEREST• DEA HEADQUARTERS IS BEING :

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b.. THE FOLLOWING MAY BE PASSED TO DEA: BATISTA WAS BORN

10 JULY 1937, HAVANA, CUBA, WAS IN CUBAN NAVY; ARRIVED IN U.S• IN

EARLY GO'S AS EXILE. SUBJECT IS MARRIED TO DAISY DE LA DO TORRE.

WAS IN PRISON SEVERAL MONTHS IN 1959 IN CUBA ACCUSED OF BEING MEMBER

OF BASTISTA'S ARMED FORCES AND HAVEING IDEAS OPPOSED TO CASTRO

REVOLUTION, SUBSEQUENTLY RELEASED. SUBJECT OF OPS INTEREST TO

BKHERALD IN 1463-1964; INTEREST DROPPED IN 1964 AND SUBJECT

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OPERATIONS; HOWEVER POA CANCELLED WHEN HE CLAIMED HE UNABLE

SATISFACTORILY TREAT HIS SEASICKNESS. IN 64, SUBJECT INTERVIEWED BY

FBI IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA RE. GROUP OF CUBANS IN MIAMI INVOLVED

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