AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : /RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32303521 Page 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : JFK Assassination System Date: 5/28/201 Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10284-10033 HQ _ CR 92-2972-52 Document Information FBI VOEGE, ROBERT A. DIRECTOR, FBI 10/28/1960 19 SMO, NEWS ARTIC, GRAND JURY, INDICTMENT, RACK AND SUBV, ASSOC, GENOVESE, MIKE PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 05/19/1998 INDEFINITE
\ PG 92-235 2. Will maintain contact with law enforcement officers assigned to the Richland Township PD.and the Chief of Police of the West Deer Township PD in order that immediate notification by these departments may be made of any unusual activity in the vicinity of the GENOVESE residence in Gibsonia, Pa. 3. Will set out appropriate leads on tangible results obtained from telephone coverage placed on the residence of the subject, bearing in mind that many of the calls will be from and to his wife who is now residing at Gibsonia, Pa. 4. Will continue to make spot surveillances of the establish- ments regularly visited by GENOVESE .in the Pittsburgh vicinity and, when advisable, will conduct physical surveillances of GENOVESE on a selective and periodic. basis in an effort to ascertain more fully his habits. 5, Will bring any new developments regarding numbers activity in the Pittsburgh vicinity, and particularly in the East Liberty Section of Pittsburgh, to the attention of all agents covering leads in the anti-racketeering "Top Hoodlum" program. 6, Will maintain contact with the offices of the U. S. Attorney and the U. S. Marshal, WDPA, Pittsburgh, so that any new information concerning the issuance of a subpoena for the appearance of GENOVESE or his associates anywhere may be immediately brought to the attention of the Pittsburgh Office of the FBI. 4 CRIMINAL INFORMANT COVERAGE The following individuals areppresently being utilized by the Pittsburgh Office in the MIKE GENOVESE investigation: PG 573-C, who is extremely friendly with the GENOVESE brothers and particularly FIORE GENOVESE, subject's younger brother, and who is presently being utilized for the general coverage of the Red Eagle Club and its visitors. \ -B- COVER PAGE Docld: 323035271 Page 2?
PG 92-235 PG 585-C, criminal informant of the Pittsburgh Office, who is well acquainted with most of Pittsburgh's top hoodlums and who was formerly employed as a waitress in the Red Eagle Club, once known as the Genovese Cocktail Lounge, 412 Larimer Avenue, Pittsburgh. She 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. GEORGE "MOON" MESSER, a PCI who is presently very active in Pittsburgh numbers operations, and who was arrested during the month of August, 1958, in connection with his operations. MESSER is intimately acquainted with many Pittsburgh top. hoodlums and racketeers through association with them when they began their racket careers. He is presently being utilized for coverage of the GENOVESE-NELSON interests and is also contributing information regarding the VOLPE brothers, former Pittsburgh top hoodlums who are close associates of GENOVESE. GEORGE "ZIP" ZRPPA, a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office, presently engaged in racket activity in the city of Pittsburgh, who is ' peing utilized for general coverage of lottery and numbers operations in the Pittsburgh area. HENRY J. BARBER, a PCI who ts part owner of the notorious gambling establishment at Chester, W. Va., known as Club 30, iF who is being utilized for information concerning the Club and the interest in it of Pittsburgh hoodlums associated with GENOVESE. Miss MARIAN FOGEL, a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office, who is being utilized for information concerning Pittsburgh prostitu- tion activities and as a check on the activities of PG 585-C. HERMAN ISRAEL;.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. -C- COVER PAGE ho ’ Docld: 323035271 Page 3
PG 92-235 : | WILLIAM A. DOBKIN, a confidential source of the Pittsburgh Office, who was extremely helpful to Pittsburgh Agents during the investigation of the RALPH KINER extortion investigation several years ago. and whose brother-in-law, NORMAN,FARBER, is a member of the MANNARINO organization. TOMMY HAYES, a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office, who is_ acquainted with executives of many of Pittsburgh's large service companies. ‘ THOMAS MARTIN, Vice President of the Real Estate Department of the Fidelity Savings and Trust Company, Potter Branch, Pittsburgh, who has kept the Pittsburgh Office advised of new developments relating to the construction of the GENOVESE- NELSON-owned Phoenix Motel. at Monroeville, Pa. AUGUST BECKER, .a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office, who is a next- door neighbor of GENOVESE and who is supplying on a continuing basis information concerning the personal life of GENOVESE and his family while in their farm home in Gibsonia, Pa.« JOHN ANDREW ESTOCIN, a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office, who was, until recently, employed by GENOVESE at the Phoenix Motel in Monroeville and who is in a position to furnish continuing information relating to the legitimate business operations of the GENOVESE-NELSON partnership. In an effort to increase criminal informant coverage, those PCIs under development are being contacted on a continuing and regular basis so that the information obtained from them may be used on a day-to-day basis in connection with surveil- lances of the subject. : INFORMANT COVERAGE RELATING TO THIS REPORT PG T-1 is AUGUST BECKER, a potential criminal informant of the Pittsburgh Office who was contacted on 9/13 and 9/16/60 by SA ROBERT A, VOEGE. oS The source who furnished information relating to the telephone toll calls made to the GENOVESE residence is GEORGE M. KEEFER, Vice President and General Manager of the North Pittsburgh Telephone Company at Gibsonia, Pa., who was contacted by SA VOEGE on 9/16/60 and who has requested that his identity be concealed. ~D- COVER PAGE Docld: 323035271 Page 4
PG 92-235 PG T-2 is GEORGE”MOON" MESSER, a potential criminal informant of the Pittsburgh Office who was contacted by SA VOEGE on PG T-3 is PG 585-C who was contacted by SA VOEGE on 9/16/60, PG T-4 is JOHN ANDREW ESTOCIN, a potential criminal informant of the Pittsburgh Office who was contacted by SA VOEGE on 9/16/60. - E*¥ - COVER PAGE Docld: 32303521 Page 5