JOSEPH R MEROLA
Originator: CIA
From: C/WH/2
To: DOMESTIC COLLECTION DIVISION
Document date: 03/11/1974
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1104-10074-10170

2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

SLERET

11 March 1974

MEMCRAIDUM FOR: Somestic Collection Division

ATTENTION:

(Mr. Shaun P. Ryan) 03

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

Joseph ko MEROLA

нн 25826, 8 ґаплагу 19743

1.

On 10 January 1974 the HH/2/GS desk receired the

referenced memorandum from the Domestic Collection Division

indicating the Miami field office had been in contact with one

JosepA R. MEROLA.

MEROLA had just returned from a business

trip to El Salvador; zand he reported that a friend of his

had

identified aAr. Gremillion in the Political Section of the

American Embissy in San Salvador as a suspect ClA representative.

Headquarters traces on Joseph R. MEROLA Indicated that on several:

MEROLA while the latter was in San Salvador.

stated that both within the Embassy community and at social

functions MEROLA had frequently referred to his contact with

the ClA, past and present.

He also volunteered this infor-

mation to a former Station contact.

2.

In light of the above, it would appear that MEROLA

nöd taken advantage of his agency contacts

in an inappropriate

renner to the potentia

embarrassment of the San Salvador

Station.

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He would, accordingly,

appreciate that this be given

consideration in your assesgrent of the advantage of

your

we centect with him.

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