CIA OPERATIVE IN EL SALVADOR.
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF, MIAMI FILE OFFICE
To: CHIEF, DOMESTIC COLLECTION DIVISION
Document date: 1974-01-04 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA

FROM : CHIEF, MIAMI FILE OFFICE

TO

: CHIEF, DOMESTIC COLLECTION DIVISION

TITLE

: CIA OPERATIVE IN EL SALVADOR.

DATE

: 01/04/1974

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SUBJECTS

: EL SALVADOR

WITHHELD

JEK ASSASSINATION

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24 POUR (5 079) 189-11.0

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

Yours.

: Chief, Domestic Collection Division

ATIN

: Support Branch/oss (JGross)

1201 : Chief, Miami Field Office

SUBJECT: CIA Operative in El Salvador

MIM-006-74

DATE: 4 January 1974

1.

Joe Merola contacted the Miami Office on 21 December 1973 to

explain that he recently had spoken with a friend of his in San Salvedor,

El Salvador.

The friend, who allegedly worke for the El Salvadoren

Secret Service, told Merola that when he (Merola) coces to,El Salvador

not to g0 to the US Embassy to

see a man named Vermillion! The friend

told Merola that Vermillion is the Comercial Attache at the embassy

and is under surveillance because ha is suspected of being the CIA wan

in San Salvador. Merola told his friend that he did not knou a can

nered Vermillion, nor would he ever have cause to see such a wan.

The

friend then told Marole that he was only telling hin for his oun good,

and that if he (Merola) were to see this Vermillion that Merola would

become & suspacted CIA agent as vell.

2.

Merola said that he vas passing this information to us in case

we did indeed have a man in San

Salvador by the sace of Vermillion.

Marole has been a contact of the Miant Field Office for some ten years,

and during that period he has passed to this office sore very reliable

infornation.

BRUCE E. MATHARING

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