AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER :. RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: ‘PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : _ RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW :: OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : neem v9.1 WW 45836 Doocld: 3233328153 JFK Assassination System Identification Form “Agency Information FBI 124-90104-10111 HQ 92-2940-245 Document Information FBI PG HQ 09/19/1961 25 SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4; 11(a) Redact 02/05/1999 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS RPT 32 Page i Date: 5/12/201
on 6/26/61. PG 92-2260 7 / gRK Act 6 (4) PG T-2 a potential criminal informant of the Pitsburg ice who was contacted by SA JAMES B, FANNING. on 7/10/61, . | . PG T-3 is PG 631-C who was contacted by SA JAMES 0. PONDER PG T-4 is @ID WEANNETTE, Manager, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph“Company, Pompano Beach, Florida, who was con- tacted on 7/24/61 by SA JAMES J, KEARNEY of the Miami Office and who has requested that. his identity be concealed. ~ s any ~ BY - COVER. PAGE MW 45836 Docld: 32332813 Page 2
I va : : . ' ; ; aa . _— oy ; : : . . - % . oo. . . PG 92-226 i . - FRANK/BAGNATO _ 2101 North 56th Terrace fale a white male, age 44, ‘painter, © on aN former operator of the Bove | awit Decorating Company at New Have, AK . .Connecticut for 20 years before py oo _ arrival in Hollywood. | C, ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES | | : . i PG T-1 has advised that ROY VEY, the plant manager at the North Star Cement Block Company, 12 McCandless Avenue, ittsburgh, Pa., is extremely worried that his mother may  , OO be Subpoened by the Intelligence Unit of the Internal - | Revenue Service (IRS) at Pittsburgh and will attempt to | help him by lying. to Federal Investigators. SA ROBERT MADDEN, Intelligence Unit, IRS, advised that 4 Law ll(a) D. LEGITINATE ENTERPRISES North Star Cement Block Company, Pittsburgh, _ Pa. (SEBASTTAN JOHN LA ROCCA, President) - PG T-1 advised that on July 21, 1961, the new automation system at the North Star Cement Block Company experienced a failure and that a hurried.call to the Newark, New Jersey, MW 45836 Docld: 32332313 Page 3
PG 92-226 manufacturer would probably bring a representative to 7 Pittsburgh to service the » System which he understands “| originally cost $30, 000. = The’ afore-mentioned informant advised that the North Star oF Cement Block Company has recently consideréd constructing a bomb: Shelter at the LA ROCCA residence as a sales pro- _motion stunt and experiment. He said that if it is well received, the construction of bomb shelters for Pittsburgh residents will be advertised in Pittsburgh newspapers ‘So that business may ultimately be increased at North Star. Possible Transaction Involving LA ROCCA-- | GENOVESE Organization and Howard Johnson 7 —— a Restaurant Chain | - , oo ARTHUR D, NELSON, aka, ARCHIE, who fronts the Phoenix and. 7 Toll Gate Motels at Monroeville, Pa., for the LA ROCCA. . GENOVESE organization, has advised that he hopes to close a 4 deal with the Howard Johnson Restaurant Chain which will ON build him a motor lodge at the location of his Toll Gate 4 Motel in Monroeville within the next year. He advised that this means a great deal to him inasmuch as a Howard Johnson franchise is difficult to obtain and means clear Sailing financially for many years, SA ROBERT MADDEN Intelli ence Unit a Pittsbur ny Pa has advised that ““JEK Law 11 a) LOWERY BELL, Chief Architect for the Howard Johnson Restaurant Chain whose offices are located in Miami, Florida, visited . Pittsburgh on August 3, 1961, and advised SA ROBERT A,. VOEGE that a motor lodge at the Toll Gate Motel site in Monroeville is definitely in the planning stage and that an investigation — of ARTHUR D. NELSON, aka, ARCHIE, is presently being con- — ducted, He stated that ‘investigators have found nothing ‘thus far. to indicate that NELSON has any criminal associations but that if this became known he believes the franchise 4 would definitely be withdrawn and that no further considera - tion would be given to this project. ~ 14 - ee ne . oo _ ae ee ae : ; 3 WwW 456936 Doocld:32332813 Page 4