Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
Document date: 07/21/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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DATE: 11-14-2017

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AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-90110-10088

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

CR 105-79067-2

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07/21/1959

JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA

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PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

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21 July, 1959.

Sir Sydney OAKES

Please refer to your memorandum 12961 dated 11 June 1959 in which

you asked for information about OAKES and his activitieo

The Bahamas Police have been unable to confirm that Sir Sydney

OAKES. went to Cuba in April, but according to a reliable source,

George LONG,

Sir Sydney's business associate, was in Havana during that month. It is CANADA

believed that LONG,

who is a Canadian subject, went to Havana secretly and -2'44

travelling on a Danish passport issued by Sir Sydney, who is Danish

Consul in Nassau.

It is believed that LONG has been associated with Sir

Sydney in arms trafficking for at least eighteen months:

Welland Corporation is presumably Welland Aviation Inc. an

aircraft charter firm reportedly owned by Sir Sydney.

The firm has one twin-

engined 'Piper Apache' aircraft.

Box number of 'Sidpitt Agency'

The firm's Nassau address is P.O.B. 201 - the

has an office at 1322 S.I. Lith Stret, Piano 2. he Tor A letion Inc. 2200

The source mentioned in paragraph 1 above recalls meeting a man

with a name like-YPERIFANOS in Miami in March 1959. Source says that this

man is an accredited dealer in agricultural machinery and may be connected with

„Black Eagle Associates of 1360, Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx 53, New York..

Eagle deals in arms-and ammunition and is apparently interested in supplying

arms to the rebels in the caribbean..

On 16th May 1959 Sir Sydney went to Miami from Nassau.

three days later source produced the attached list of arms and ammunition which

had been typed by LONG and allegedly dictated to him by Sir Sydney. Source

gave this list to MarvinODEN, a United States citizen who has been working as

a floor covering salesman in Nassau for the past four years. According to

source, ODEN is also a member of a fun smuggling and dope running ring in

This list was discussed at a meeting held in the British Colonial

Hotel, Nassau on or about 20th May 1959 at which George LONG, Joer vEROLE of

2018 N. Bay Rode, Miami Beach and BillXDANNION of Pompano Beach, Florida Were

At this meeting the possibility of buying four

and four 'Gay Dragon' M.T.B. 's, all fully equipped and valued at about a quarter

of a million dollars each, was discussed.

These names are stated to have been

given to your office in Miami in early June 1959 as being arms treffickers. (

We have asked the authorities in Nassau for the personal particulars

Of LONG A MEN. It is believed that MEROLA has recently been arrested in

the United States.

REG 35

1051911400

let Miami calendi

7/31/59

24 AUG

4

1959

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Declassify on:

• CADR

/ ENCLOSURE

"JP FILED

UNRECORDED

FROM STOTT

JUL 2 2 1959

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