JFK Assassination System Date: 5/11/201 Identification Form “Agency Information Peleased under the John AGENCY: FBI . - Kennedy RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90104-10161 Assassination Records oOllection Act of 1992 RECORD SERIES : HO (44 USC 2107 Note). ; ase#:NU 56792 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER: —92-2940-39 mi in20ie Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: PG TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 10/22/1958 “PAGES: 23 SUBJECTS : SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4; 10(a)2 CURRENT STATUS: _ Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 07/31/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS: RPT kN v9.1 HW 56792 Bocld: 32332663 Page 1
fr . ra 4 By i Uw L FEDERAi: BUREAU OF INVE.sTIGATION.. _. REPORTING orice OFFICE OF ORIGIN © DATE INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD 9/2,5,9, PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH _ OCT 22 195g |12,16-18, 23-26, 29, 30; TITLE OF CASE. REPORT MADE BY my Dg mA yb, TYPED BY SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA, was.. ROBERT A. VOECGE ; smo CHARACTER OF. CASE | ‘ANTI -RACKETEERING | 7 ven | SYNOPSIS: ; : . , ° 7 to Pittsburgh, Pa., vicinity but believe he contacts his residence. I regularly in some manner. Adopted son of LA RGCGA returned to Valley 5 Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa., on 9/16/58 and gave two i checks totaling $1,525 to Finance Officer. Both checks were drawn om Washington Trust Office of Western Pennsylvania N tional Bank at Pittsburgh. Subpoenas still outstanding for . appear before FGJ for nd U.S. Senate Select Committee on ' Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field. Matters of interest concerning associates of LA ROCCA and status with other Government agencies set forth. IN VIEW Of THE OF THE SUBJECT FOR ASSAULT WITH INTENT. TO KTGL AW FOR CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON, HE MAY BE ARMED CONSIDERED DANGEROUS. -=~=~*~C~*“‘“‘“‘“S;SCS*”*”*”™S:™S™S”S™C™C~™S (PAergnvors and informants advise that LA RO@CCA has still not returned ARREST sett tam “JFK Law 10(a)2 7 oa SPECIAL AGENT © —_ AV - | IN CHARGE V GA BGY: . vv f; COP} MADE: - 2 )~ Bureau (ee coho Ice 42 O 1..- Baltimore (92-149) (Info) ~~ Buffalo (92-87) .. . Detroit .. Jacksonville (Info) _ ag OCT 23 1958. Miami (92-163) (Info) foe ‘New-York (92-325) - Philadelphia (92-197) (Info) rgh (92-2 Pittsbu Rr FM! reh > BNOVS BOE PROPERTY OF FBI.—This report is loaned.to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which loane. HW 56792 DBocld:32332663 Page 2?
CC) ; | oo OQ PG 92-226 The informant recalled that SPINELLI was a non-drinker. who.had been. born and raised in Italy and still. had a wife and two | children. living there. He described SPINELLI as. about. 6'4" | in-height-and. said that. he was known in the area as a professional. ' killer who hired out on out-of-town jobs. He stated that. when SPINELLI was crossed.up. in some manner by the VOLPE brothers in connection with some stills he owned: personally, he became so | enraged. that he vowed he would kill all three. The informant stated that he was with SPINELLI when SPINELLI obtained the weapon with which he killed the VOLPEs and left a. moonshine joint without saying where he was going. He said.he later. heard: the.details.of the shooting. from by=-standers. whe told: . him that: SPINELLI. had encountered the three VOLPE brothers . eating breakfast at Bazzanno's Restaurant on Wylie Avenue 5” Pittsburgh, at. which time he gunned them te death. eS The. informant - recalled that SPINELLI gathered his few personal pelongings together and immediately fled to New York where he — encountered the brother of the BAZZANNO who ran the Pittsburgh restaurant. He stated that. SPINELLI killed this individual. and: that. the. newspapers. related that BAZZANNO was. discovered’. with more than(150 ice pick holes in him and various. sections . of his body cut off. He recalled. that SPINGLLI then fled to Ttaly and ‘had. nerve enough to settle with his family in the same town in which the elder VOLPE was an officiel. He recalled that. | the: elder. VOLPE: was then responsibie for having SPINELLI sentenced to .25 years in prison in Italy because he eould not be extradited to. the. United States. Sees : Lh The. informant. advised that. follows ing the murder. of his brothers, -LOULS. VOLPE ‘was incarcerated by the Pittsburgh Police Department who: thought he had something to do with the. SPINELLI-VOLPE: feud. --; He recalled: laughingly that when LOUIS, now.a close associate of “-SEBASEIAN - -JOHN LA ROCCA,.was released from jail, there were a- “great many newspapermen on-hand and when a flash bulb went. off unexpectedly , LOULS fainted, believing he was shot; He recalled that: during’ the early 1920's,. numbers operations in the Pittsburgh vicinity were incidental to moonshine operations.and that: most... moonshiners carried. numbers. cards in their back pockets. He: suggested-that.the Pittsburgh Police Department. became . interested in: numbers_only: when moonshine. became no longer. profitable. for them, “He advised that he.still sees both LOUIS and. JOSEPH.VOLPE.: on occasion and has. seen both of them with MIKE GENOVESE" ane: JOHN: ‘LA ROCA. HW 56792 DBocld:32332663 Page 3
A 4 ~ FG 92-226 F. _ MISCELLANEGUS Status of of, LAR ROCCA, with Immigration and. Naturalization ‘Service | on september 30, 1958, a discussion was hei with HAROLD. LAUVER, Agent in. Charge of.Investigations; HARRY GOULD, Acting- in-Charge of Naturalization Examinations; and. NED HEIMOVITZ, Naturalization: Examiner, concerning. LA ROCCA's status as far as the Immigration - and. Naturalization Service (INS) is concerned... It was learned that the LA ROCCA matter. is. still in. pending. status. and.that. the Pittsburgh.office.has ‘received no further instructions.in this | yegard.. LAUVER: advised that.although there is no active and specific investigation being. conducted on LA ROGCA, determination — must be. made.  eoncerning the: final. disposition. of: his: naturalization petition... OO . . Coe Sa ns fle bg GOULD. advised. that. he believes the. INS will simply, await: ‘the: . return of LA ROCCA pefore: taking further. action on his: petition. He. explained. that only in that way will the Government be able. to have the petition dismissed "on merit" and with prejudice so..that.LA ROCCA will: be. unable. to re-petition within a.five-year period, HEIMOVITZ. advised that he feels sure that he could go into United States Federal District Court at any time and obtain the denial of the petition on the grounds that LA ROCGA has failed to prosecute it. He suggested, however, that when LA ROCCA — returns he will be expected to give a satisfactory account of his Wheredbouts during. the period he was not in the. Pittsburgh. vicinity and. to. show. why he: did not. COMPLY. with. two. subpoenas. sent to his residence... . LAUVER - advised. ‘that: ‘the ba. ‘ROCCA file. was. ‘gent bo: ‘the ‘District Ghief..of Investigations of INS at..70 Columbus Avene, New. York City,.on September .19, 1958, upon request. He said he. is-quite:: eertain that the file will be reviewed by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and was requested specifically for that. purpose. oe . : Information Regarding. Subpoenas Wi with Which | LA RO ROCCA Must B Be S Served ALBERT DIMEOLO, United States: Marshal. for the. Western. District of -Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh, advised SA VOEGE on October 10, 1958, HW 56792 that he has received no new information regarding LA ROCCA_and that he still has two subpoenas outstanding for service tol 25 ee | . REVIEWED BY EW JERK TASK FORCE _= 2] - JFK Law 10(a)2 on Qhelordah [J] RELEASE iN PART | TOTAL DENIAL os GWQM IF ola) Docld: 323327863 Page 4
TJEK Law 10(a)2 PG 92=226 | a . before the Federal Grand Jury. for the | | to ive evidence in regard to an alleged | Violation of and. that “the second is a subpoena for the appearance of LA ROCCA before © -the United: States Senate Select Gonimittee on Improper Activities in-the Labor or Management Field. He stated that the dates for | these appearances have not yet been set and that he cannot do- ; anything further regarding them until LA ROCCA returns to. - Pittsburgh or is located in.some other jurisdiction. He advised that he-will immediately notify the: Pittsburgh office in the event. he ‘Should learn anything regarding. LA ROCCA In “‘bhis: regard. surveillences. Conducted Relating to- This’ Investigation Spot surveillances were made on September 2, 5, 12, 18, 26 and 29 and on October 3. and 10, 1958, at 900 West Ingomar Road; Tngomar, - ‘and: at 12 McCandless Street, Pittsburgh.. Nothing of interest to ‘this investigation was observed: ‘during these spot surveiilances:. °° ; ot IN VIEW OF THE CONVICTION OF THE. SUBJECT. FOR ASSAULT WITH “INTEN® TO" ND HI uC ARRYING A CONCEALED MEAPON, HE’ MAT BE HE ‘MAY BE (7 22 — DHih-39 (1D ~\ HW 56792 DBocld:32332663 Page 5
an address where he could write to Mr. AND! sb was contacted on September 12; 1958, by SA N Ck Tn Ee en Re aE eer ate PG 92-226 pe 1 is Al ‘BUCK, ‘former Allegheny County Detective and _ now. Mice ~ President of the Fidelity Trust Company, Loan Depantnent, Pittsburgh, Pa., who was contacted on Getober 6, .1958, SA ROBERT A. VOEGE and who “has requested that nis ‘Ade nvity ‘be . concealed... Co t- 2is H, We GLENN, Postal Inspector, United ‘States Post office, Pittsburgh, who was contacted on Getober 3, .1958; by SA. ‘VOEGE and who has. requested that his identity be concealed. f=3 is GEORGE "MOON" MESSER, a@ PCL of the Pittsburgh. office who was - ‘contacted on September 29, 1958, by SA VGEGE ; T-4 is am anonymous informant who, on June 16, 1958, . ‘contacted Assistant Attorney General D, MALCOLM ANDERSON at the United. States. Department of Justice, Washington, DP. €,., by letter. offering to furnish information to him regarding the activities of Pittsburgh top hoodlums and racketeers. On that date he Suggested that an insert be placed in the personal.’ column of... “The. Pittsburgh Press" referring to him as " ER” and - ‘furnishing A post. etfice bex has been rented by the” Pittsburgh FBI Office and numerous letters regarding the activities of Pittsburgh top hoodlums and racketeers have been received to date. He has still not been identified. T-5 is Miss MARIAN FOGEL, a PCI of the Pitt . Office, who ©. THOMPSON, m6. is PG 573-0 who was contacted on Avgest 17, 18, 19 and 20, 1958, and again on September 16, 17 and 18, 1958, by SA JOHN S, | PORTELLA. Te is HERMAN ISRAEL of the Scott Rug Company, Pittsburgh, a confidential source of the Pittsburgh Office, who was contacted on August 19, 1958, .by SA PORTELLA, T-8 is WILLIAM A. DOBKIN, 3215 Kennett Square, Pittsburgh, a confidential source of the Pittsburgh office, who-was contacted on August 25, 1958, by SA PORTELLA. T-9 is JEK Act © a PCI of the Pittsburgh office, who was contacted on October 9, 1958, by SH VOEGE. = 23 - 4 HW 56792 DBocld:32332663 Page 6 i i !