JFK Assassination System Date: 5/11/201 Identification Form “Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-90104-10205 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  92-2940-55 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: PG TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 04/08/1960 “PAGES: 18 SUBJECTS : . SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: = 07/31/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE RPT COMMENTS : TT A —_—S SCS —_-—--— ————————————————————————nh— a eeSSSSSSFSSSSSSSFSFSFFSSsSF v9.1 NW 45836 Docid:32332907 Page i
Office of Origin Investigative Period “ PITTSBURGH 1/1/60-3/28/60_. ROBERT A. VOEGE. ° CHARACTER OF CASE. _ - PITTSBURGH TITLE OF CASE SEBASTIAN JOHN ta ROCCA, aka , ANTI-RACKETEERING ~~ poy REFERENCES TS we hte AS . So COMO pate SBE Report of SA ROBERT A, VOEGE, Pittsburgh, 1/8/60, 4 ' Pittsburgh lette to Bureau, 1/13/60. VOLES log, RA Bureau letter to Pittsburgh, 2/1/60. / - P- y LEADS | JACKSONVILLE and MIAMI--INFORMATION ——ee ee REE SNP URMAL LON Jacksonville and Miami are being furnished a copy of ‘this report for information purposes in the light of allegations made by the wife of LA ROCCA and Pittsburgh informants concerning the travel of LA ROCCA to Florida and Cuba during his disappearance from Pittsburgh following the Apalachin, N.Y., conference of hoodlums during November, 1957. with the background supplied it is felt that these offices ° oa can intelligently handle the coverage of any future leads Special Agent A In Charge LE 2-Bureau (g2-2egh4o)lec 47/2 4 d<Jacksonville (Info) 1-Miami (92-1653) (Info) 1-Philadelphia (92-47) (Info 2-Pittsburgh (92-226) Do not write in spaces below “REQ tp tee pe ifs ies has Property of PBI - This report is loaned to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which loaned. NW 45836 - DocId: 32332907 Page 2 ® U. S$. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1955 O—344750
PG 92-226 7. Will check the list of toll calls made from FOrest 4-5296, the home telephone of LA ROCCA, for the names of ie racket associates and personal business contacts of the % subject mot now known to the Pittsburgh Office and will Fo: further identify and : ‘obtain appropriate background infor- oe mation of subscribers to telephone numbers called. - 8, Wade remain close to a separate investigation being . condueted concerning theyrunning of stolen guns to the Cuban + - rebedissduring the latterpportion of 1958 to determine whether LA ROCCA had knowledge ‘oP this operation and will attempt 1 Lo. zdevelop other confidential informants in the Mc Candless Beliyship area in this regard, 9. Will. attempt to determine the interest, if any, SEBASTIAN JOHN LA EROCCA has in the Toll Gate Motel in Monroeville, Pa., and his” plans,-if any, to expand the motel operation which MIKE GENOVESE now \centrols. CRIMINAL INFORMANT COVERAGE) The following individuals are presently being utilized by the Pittsburgh Office in the SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA investigation: PG 573-6, who is extremely friendly with the GENOVESE brothers and particularly FIORE GENOVESE, younger brother of MIKE : GENOVESE, and who is presently being utilized for the general , coverage of the Red Eagle Club and its visitors. OTHER 4 PG 585-C, who is well acquainted with most of Pittsburgh's top hoodlums and who was formerly employed as a Wadtress in * the Red Eagle Club, once known as the Genovese Coééktail Lounge, 412 Larimer Avenue, Pittsburgh. Informant still visits this establishment and comes in constant contact with MIKE GENOVESE and other members of Pittsburgh's racketeering element in her role as a medium-priced prostitute. Informant is presently traveling with Mrs. JULIA MINTZ, widow of JAKE MINTZ, co-owner of EZZARD CHARLES, former world's heavyweight boxing champion. She is presently being utilized for the coverage of the . GENOVESE-LA ROCCA-NELSON interests. —— PCI who is presently very active in | ittsburgh numbers operations and who was arrested during the month of ‘August, 1958, in connection with his operation. He | is intimately acquainted with many Pittsburgh top hoodlums and racketeers through association with them when they began their — | a racket careers. He is presently being utilized for coverage i| . ! -C- | COVER PAGE KAyes > \e ¢ 7 NW 45836 DociId:32332907 Page 3
PG 92-226 of the GENOVESE-NELSON interests and is also contributing information regarding the VOLPE brothers who are close SE and LA ROCCA, OTHER 4 a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office presently engaged in racket activity in the City of Pittsburgh who is being utilized for general coverage oflottery and numbers operations in the Pittsburgh area. [____d a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office who is part owner: 0 / he. notorious gambling establishment at Chester, W. Vass known as Club 30, who is being utilized for information concerning the club and the interest in it of Pittsburgh hoodlums associated with both LA ROCCA and GENOVESE, a a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office who is being utilized for information concerning Pittsburgh prostitution activities and’as a check on the activities of PG 585-C, - AL BUCK, former Allegheny County. Detective and now Vice- President of the Fidelity Trust Company, Loan Department, Pittsburgh, who is being utilized for his knowledge of the Bankers Exhange in Pittsburgh from which he can obtain information, regarding bank loans made to Pittsburgh top hoodlums.. /BUCK is also familiar with the activities of several of, Pittsburgh's top hoodlums, particularly those of LA ROCCA, from having worked on criminal matters for many years in the City of Pittsburgh. [| a confidential source of the Pittsburgh Office who is being utilized for information concerning the MANNARINO organization in New Kensington, Pa., and who is also furnishing information regarding tie-ups with the GENOVESE organization in Pittsburgh, a confidetial source of the Pittsburgh Office who was extremely helpful to Pittsburgh Agents during the inestigation of the RALPH KINER extortion investigation several years ago and whose brother-indaw, NORMAN FARBER, is a member of the MANNARINO organization. In an effort to increase criminal informant coverage, the PCIs under development are being contacted on a continuing and regular basis so that information obtained from them may be used on a day-to-day basis in connection with spot . surveillances of the establishments frequented by the subject when he is in the Pittsburgh vicinity. -D- COVER PAGE Agyen =\eoe* NW 45836 Docid:32332907 Page 4
- PG 92-226 INFORMANTS _ PG T-1 is WILLIAM MEREDITH, Special Agent, Beil Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, who was contacted by SE GEORGE C. DIPPOLD on March 22, 1960, and who has requested that his identity be concealed. OTHER 4 Office who was contacte y SA ROBERT A, VOEGE on January 26, 1960, February 4, 1960, and February 18, 1960. PG T-3 is PG 585-C who was contacted by SA VOEGE on January 14, 1960, March 7, 1960, and March 27, 1960. a rn ee ee oe ar JPW \OSVS BE A AL eS SRE ST Sree ee NW 45836 DociId:32332907 Page 5