OUTGOING CABLE - REGARDING JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA.
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: LA/MIAMI
Document date: 12/06/1974
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

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

HIIAMI SINCE 196L, PERIODICALLY PROVIDES THAT OFFICE LITH FOREGIGN

POSITIVE INTELLIGENUCE INFORMATION. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE FBI BE

CONTACTED FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. Y

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

OPERATIONAL INTEREST. THEY REQUESTED TRACES AND STATED HE REPORTEDLY

WORKED FOR BKHERALD IN LATE 1950'S. WE REFLIED THAT MR. MEROLA HAD

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

SUCH CLAIMS ON NUMBER OF PREVIOUS INSTANCES: Y

.3. HOS RELAYING FOR STATION USE ONLY UH/MIAMI 20664, 11 JAM 74

ALID DIRECTOR 502254, L? JAN 74, WHICH REPORTS DEROGATORY INFORMATION

ON MEROLA. Y

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MEROLA BEING PROCESSED INTO THE ISR AS DEA SOURCE. WILL

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S. PLEASE ADVISE LOCAL DEA ORLANDO O BATIST A VIERA'S

OCCUPATION AS DETECTIVE IS INCLUDED IN CATEGORY OF PERSONS WHOSE. OPS

USE IS PROHIBITED THROUGHOUT THE INTEL COMMUNITY AND IS® 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 III CEASE ANY OTHER U.S.

GOVERNMENT AGENCY EXPRESSES OPS INTEREST. DEA HEADQUARTERS IS BEING

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bo THE FOLLOWING MAY GE PASSED TO DEA: BATISTA WAS BORI

10 JULY 1,933, HAVAMA, CUBA, WAS IN CUBAN NAVY; ARRIVED IN U.S. IN

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

WAS IN PRISON SEVERAL MONTHS IN 1759 IN CUBA ACCUSED OF BEING NENBER

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

REVOLUTION, SUBSEGUENTLY RELEASED. SUBJECT OF OPS INTEREST TO

BKHERALD IN 1963-1964; INTEREST DROPPED IN ISL4 AND SUBJECT

TERMINATED WITHOUT PREJUDICE• ASK DEA TO REFER TO FBI FOR MORE

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SATISFACTORILY TREAT HIS SEASICKNESS. IN 64, SUBJECT INTERVIEUED BY

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

IN DROUG OPERATIONS. SUBJECT REVEALED HIS EKHERALD CONNECTIONS TO

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#REQUESTED PRIORITY TRACES ON MEROLA AND BATISTA, DEA SOURCES AND

REGISTER IN ISR.

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