CIA OPERATIVE IN EL SALVADOR.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF, MIAMI FILE OFFICE
To: CHIEF, DOMESTIC COLLECTION DIVISION
Document date: 1/4/74
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CONFIDENTIAL

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CONFIDENTIAL

Memorandum

TO

ATTN :

FROM :

: Chief, Domestic Collection Div1s10n

Support Branch/oss (JGross)

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 Salvador

El Salvador. The friend, who allegedly works for the El Salvadoran:

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

not to 80 to the US Embassyato

see a man named

So The friend

told Merola that

Is the Commercial Attache at the embassy

and is under surveillance because he is suspected of being the CIA man

In San Salvadorp Merole told his friend that he did not know a man.

nor would he ever have cause to see such a man. The

friend then told Meröle that he was

only telling him for his own

good,

and that if he (Merola) were to see this

that Merola would

became a suspected CIA agent as well.

2.

we did indeed have a man in San Salvador by the name

Merola sald that he was passing this Information to us in Sob

Merole has been a contact of the Miami Field Office for some ten years,

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

Information.

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