Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 2/7/59
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/2/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90100-10099

RECORD SERIES:

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

HQ

52-72398-106

Released under the John

r. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Aet of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Note) .

Case#:NW 54027 Date:

08-25-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

MM

TO:

HQ

TITLE :

DATE :

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

02/07/1959

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JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA

THEFT OF 317 WEAPONS, 16 BLANKETS, 1 CARBINE RACK

OHIO NATIO

DOCUMENT TYPE:

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

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CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

07/29/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

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FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56)

FBI

Transmit the following in

Via

AIRTEL

Date:

2/7/59

PLAIN TEXT

(Type in plain text or code)

AIRMAIL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (52-72398)

FROM:

SAC, MIAMI (52-3290)

RE:

UNSUBS.; Theft of 311 Weapons.

16 Blankets, I Carbine Rack,

"Ohio National Guard Armory,

Canton

Öh10,

10/14/58;

STUART SUTOR: DANTED-HANNA, akaf'44

FUGITIVE

TGP; NM; ITSP; FFA

(00: CV)

On 2/5/59, Mrs. JOSEPH MEROLA telephonically

advised SA C. GRAHAM HURST that her husband is presently in

Havana and

she agreed to have MEROLA immediately contact

Miami upon his return to Miami.

MM 360-C advised SA CHARLES A. HARDISON on 2/6/59,

that NORMAN ROTHMAN, telephone UN 6-4030, Surfside, Fla., is

now in Cuba where he spends most of his time at Camaguey,

Cuba,

relative to his slot machine business.

VIv 360-0 stated that

ROTHMAN visits Miami occasionally on week-ends.

to be noted one NORMAN ROTHMAN, U. S. citizen,

was a passenger from Miami to Havana on 1/2/59, departing at

6:45 a.m., via Flight 601, Cubana Airlines, with of passengers

on board.

ROTHMAN was the only non-Cuban citizen on board.

This was the third plane to leave Miami for Havana following

the collapse of the BATISTA Government on 1/1/59.

Returning

passengers were Cuban revolutionaries exiled in the U.S.

and now departing in

a mad scramble..

3-Bureau (AM)

2-Cleveland (52-1918).

52-72398-106

1-Pittsburgh

(522-1687) (AInFo) REC- 8

25 FEB 9 1959

2-Miami

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED &C- Wick

GED: cms

(8)

HERBIN IS UACLASSIFIED

FEB 1

DATE 3/14/29 BY SPO

TAP/CA

Approved:

Sent

_M

Special Agent in Charge

Mr. Tolson

Mr. Belmont. a

Mr. DeLoach.

Mr. McGúire.

Mr. Mohr...

Mr

• Parsons

Rosen

Mr. Tamm

Mr. Trotter.

Mr. W.C.Sullivan

Tele. Room

Mr. Holloman

Miss Gandy

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