Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: DOJ
Document date: 08/22/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/2/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90101-10044

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

52-72398-329

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Note! .

Case#:NW 54027 Date:

08-25-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: HQ

TO: DOJ

TITLE :

DATE: 08/22/1961

PAGES:

1

SUBJECTS :

JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA

STUART SUTOR

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/29/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

LET

v9.1

HH. 54027

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AUG 2 2 1961

Tolson

Belmont

Mohr -

Callahan

Conrad

DeLoach.

Evans w

Malone

Rosen

Sullivan

Tavel

Trotter

Tele. Room

Ingram

Gandy -

NH. 54027

COMM-FBI

Assistant

Attorney General

Herbert d. Miller, dr.

Director, FBI

August 24, 1961

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNGLASSIFIED

DATE 5/16/19 BYSPaTAPCA

STUART SUTOR, MT AL.

THEFT OF GOVERNVENT PROPERTY;

INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF

STOLEN PROPERTY; FEDERAL

FIREARMS ACT, NEUIRALITY MATTERS;

CONSPIRACY

Information has been received by our Miami office

from an informant who has requested that his identity not be

revealed, that Joseph Merole, one of those convicted in

captioned matter, has been naking statements that he would

not have to serve any of the sentence imposed upon him.

Merola was one of six subjects convicted in

United States District Court, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

in

January, 1960, for his participation in the case Involving

the October,

1953, burglary of a National Guard Armory In

Canton, Ohio, in which rifles, carbines, and submachine guns

valued at over $25,000 were stolen. Verola was sentenced on

to a term of five years' imprisonment and

nano, a Ta was remind seen and bette

February 5, 1960. - This conviction has been upheld by the

Third Cireuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme

Court

on June 19,

1961, denied his patition for a writ of

certiorari. Merola and other defendants are to report to

the United States Marshal in Pittsburgh by noon on August 25,

1961, to conmence service of their sentences.

Merola is reported by the informant to have stated

that this matter has been taken care of in Philadelphia and

it has cost him a

"tremendous bundle" to have his ponding five

year sentence suspended and be placed on probation.

Merola

further indicated

that he was to appear beiore a Federal judge

in Pittsburgh on the 24th or

25th of August when he was supposed

to start serving his sentence and will be placed on probation

at that time.

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No action has been

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Note:

This info received from MM 722-C, close

associate of Merola.

Merola

has been in contact with Departmental Attorney William Sa

AM

and has admitted to Agents that he was

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