JFK Assassination System Date.  — -5/28/201 Identification Form nn Agency Information FBI AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10284-10041 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 100-42303-594 ‘ ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : - CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : Document Information FBI MADVAY, J. EDWARD DIRECTOR, FBI 05/12/1959 61 ~~ SMO, ASSOC, SJL, AMATO, FRANK, MAFIA, DEVELOPMENT, BKG, INTV, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 05/19/1998 INDEFINITE OO rr ee v9.1 Docld: 32303529 Page 1
eee Sara SS a etter ge EE ES Epp me eee | ee PG 9-363 INFORMANTS PG T-1 is PCI GEORGE "MOON" MESSER contacted by SA ROBERT A. VOEGE. PG 7-2 is PG 536-C contacted by SA THOMAS C. ALLEN. | ‘Leaps — _ PITTSBURGH oe AT PITTSBURGH, PA. (ALLEGHENY:-COUNTY) 1. Will contact Bureau of Narcotics for any information. compiled on organized groups. 2. Will report results of interviews with West Virginia ‘and Western Pennsylvania state and/or local law enforcement officers or other responsible persons y . who are being interviewed and who might logically have past or present information about organized ~ crime, Mafia, "Black Hand"groups, organizations, syndicates, etc. ~ A m2 & COVER PAGE Docld: 32303529 Page 2?
re . ~ Sy - | PG 94-363 | | | | A. BACKGROUND 1. Origin and Development ss The Pennsylvania State Police furnished the Pittsburgh FBI | Office a copy of a report dated October 14, 1942, which was a written by Detective JOHN CHRIN, Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) entitled "Mafia Society's Activities in Labor," in which . . Detective .CHRIN referred to several prominent Western Pennsylvania racketeers as members of the Black Hand or of the Mafia. No evidence is contained in CHRIN's report to | the effect that these racketeers are actually Mafia members, but merely refers to them as such. ba: CHRIN, in his report, also mentioned the society knewn as the _— Villa Rosa, beneficial association organized by JACK ANCELLIERE , a North Side, Pittsburgh; racketeer, and composed of''a group.of ; _ fellow Sicilians, ~as~an organization of Pennsylvania Black Handers. Unverified allegations have come to the attention of this office from other sources to the effect that thesia Rosa Society might be a Bhack Hand group. ‘ owe In Detective CHRIN's report, he indicates that in.1942, there | were at least two hundred members of the Black Hand in ; Pittsburgh and vicinity. : . | PG .T-1, who has furnished reliable information in the past, ~ .} during a discussion about the Mafia, (advised that jtl a Mafia was never used wgen he was a partner of JOHNAGA ROCCA, °., ban SAMSMANNARINO and FRAN \YMATO in a business relationship.” He “Baia that his partners’ were referred to by everyone, including \ himself, as "Black Handers" and that they employed a group of < Italian toughs who carried out collection duties. “He said that most of these toughs carried no guns or knives, but were armed constantly with a twelve inch to fifteen inch cue stick which they sawed off and weighted with lead. He said that a hole bored in the end of the sawed off cue stick was filled with the lead and was then corked. He advised that he carried one himself for many years and would still have it if he had not left it in the glove compartment of an automobile he sold. (He | said that this cue stick was given to him by NIKB\GENOVESE, \ 3 its original owner, who told him to use it "for pro ff ection," pat He said that during this period the local hoodlums and toughs had great respect for the power and temper of LA ROCCA. who was Docld: 32303529 Page 3