“Released under the John F. DATE: 11-14-2017 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 : Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 23107 Hote). JFK Assassination System _ Identification Form , Agency Information FBI 124-10216-10353 HQ 92-2914-6TH NR 49 Document Information FBI SAC, PG DIRECTOR, FBI 10/29/1958 4 GM, ARREST, B/F INT, THP, SUBPOENA, WIT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 05/14/1998 INDEFINITE Date: 5/28/201 v9.1 Docld:32296077T Page 1
i | j DATE: ar od ey } Released under the John F. Kennedy A 11-14-2017 & . oa . Aa} \) FBI DATE: 10/29/58 Transmit the following in Via (Priority or Method TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2918) (92-2914) _ 00; Pittsburgh Enclosed for the assistance of Philadelphia is one photograph each of Pittsburgh top hoodlums GABRIEL MANNARINO, FBI No. 854850, and SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA, FBI No. 96725. For the benefit of Philadelphia, PG 545-C, who has furnished eonsiderable information concerning subjects! legitimate | enterprises particularly real estate transactions involving SAM MANNARINO, advised during 2/58 that SAM MANNARINO during early 1957 mentioned he had purchased a hunting lodge surrounded by 200 acres of land. At the time PG 545-C understood MANNARINO to say the lodge was located in Somerset..County, Pa., and extensive investigation has been conducted to date in an effort to identify the hunting “lodge since several sources here believe the lodge would be an excellent hide-out for GABRIEL MANNARINO, who disappeared from New Kensington, Pa., - , (¢ - Bureau (3- 92-2918 - menaete ty (Enel. 2) 7: @- BEL /- 6 — Pittsburgh (2- 92-22 1- 137-68 RGD: be _ _ _ (15) }Docld: 32296077 Page 2? Type in plain text or CO e “i { “or Mailing) ssassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}.
#etease onder the Joln F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hofer. DATE: 11-14-2017 . .¢ . i t 7 - bo oo PG 92-236 | ) S | PG. 92-228. / . | ‘ . _ t | during 12/57 to-avoid being served with. a subpoena before a Federal Grand Jury in the Southern District of New York inquiring into the significance of the conference of . © hoodlums at Apalachin, New York, 11/14/57. As a matter of information, Senator JOHN MC CLELLAN, Chairman of the U. Ss. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor ‘or Management Field, has issued statements to the press that he considers GABRIEL MANNARINO one of the most important witnesses yet to be heard by the committee. Since MANNARINO's . | disappearance from New Kensington in 12/57 various reports | have been received that MANNARINO and LA ROCCA are hiding, out together. In cornection with efforts to identify the location of the hunting lodge PG 545-C on 10/28/58 learned through JACK © : KRUPA, a New Kensington, Pa., councilman.and life-long friend . and hunting companion of the MANNARINO brothers, that SAM , “MANNARINO's hunting’ lodge is not located in Somerset County, fa., but. is actually a twenty room farm house generally _ referred to as a hunting lodge surrounded by approximately 200 acres of densely wooded land in Pennsylvania near the _ Pennsylvania-Maryland border approximately a fifteen minute “ arive by automobile from Hagerstown, Maryland. PG 545-C¢ was unable to obtain any additional identifying information - pecause of the likelihood of arising KRUPA's suspicions. . Examination of available maps of the area indicate that ° 4 the hunting lodge must be located in Franklin County probably in the general vicinity of Waynesboro and Greencastle, Pa. So , PG 545-C also recalled that he was in SAM MANNARINO's office at the Ken Iron and Steel Company, New Kensington, during 12/57, when the press and radio carried the first accounts of MANNARINO. being called before the. Federal Grand Jury’ : 4 in New York. Informant stated that while he was at the office Deputy Marshals were attempting to locate GABRIEL MANNARINO when. his brother SAM recéived a phone call from . GABRIEL MANNARINO and hurriedly told him "They are trying . to serve you with a subpoena, take off for the brush." PG 545-C said that in view of MANNARINO's prolonged _ disappearance it seems logical to assume that if SAM . - MANNARINO's remarks were interpreted literally his advice "take off for the brush" could have been his subtle aA . | I — = A a eee RA AE i i Docld: 32296077 Page 3
‘Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotey. DATE: 11-14-2017 : ° og o . C oo oo eo; PG 92-228 ! ; | | PG. 92=236 . } way of telling GABRIEL to hide. oubsat the hunting lodge. With respect ‘to background. information concerning the ‘lodge | or farm house near the. Maryland border’ PG 545-C pointed _ _ out. that KRUPA who has been a frequent visitor to the location told him that. SAM MANNARINO : has: several. four wheel - drives trucks.and other heavy equipment parked on the property that are used from time to time by some of the local residents. Informant said that according to. KRUPA the general area. is thickly populated with whiskey . stills and that local: game wardens are reluctant to . enter the. area. apparently because some of them have been mistaken for ATU Agents and fired upon by moonshiners. PG 5A5=¢. also developed from KRUPA that occasionally while | | on® ‘hunting: trips.with SAM MANNARINO they would stay in a hotel in.a nearby town (possibly Waynesboro) instead of Sleeping over night at the farm house. Philadelphia through. Recorder . of. Deeds for. Franklin county, Pa., attempt to identify the 200 acres of. land and hunting” lodge owned by SAM.MANNARINO. The property is probably | a - recorded in MANNARINO's name, however, if county records =." ‘fail to disclose desired. information check names of the © followingywho in the past. have, been used as legitimate business - fronts by MANNARINO: a wo ROSE -MANNARINO (wife) VICTOR: and MINNIE CARLUCEI: (son-in-law and aaughter) GENEVIEVE MORENO (SAM MANNARINO's private secretary) | KATHLEEN MORENO (secretary's daughter) JACK KRUPA If property recorded in- Franklin County records’. obtain . brief legal description, volume and page’ number where. recorded and examine Pennsylvania Transfer Tax Stamps- ' attached to deed in. order ‘that sale price. may be: computed. mS oe ae Boe. “ { Docld: 32296077 Page 4
| ‘Released wider the John F. Kennedy Assassination ‘Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USc 2107 Hote}. DATE: 11-14-2017 . . . ‘ te ; . #4 } a) o cs a. eee ~ ae we oeet zee Sane ee . & we “N 5 PG 92-228 PG 92=236 In addition Philadelphia at ‘Waynesboro; Pas» and vicinity near the Maryland border display photos of GABRIEL MANNARINO and JOHN LA ROCCA to game wardens, reliable police officers se and sources to locate the hunting’ lodge and determine whether © _MANNARINO and LA ROCCA are hiding out at that location or ; an have been ‘there. in the past six to ten months. . ! Should the lodge be located extreme caution should be used +e ma, ‘vicin _information P RSON RECORDS oF THE PITTSBURGH POLICE, DEPARTMENT DISCLOSE i | SAMUEL MAD REY CL |