DATE: 11-14-2017 ai 7 LRM NO. 16 < - : : : a BN ‘ : Wo Be a | NS - _ tlED -SfATES GOVERNMENT Ne Z a ‘Memorandum | : TO: » DIRECTOR, FBI (92- 52940) DATE: 2/10/65 | | ATIN: FBI LABORATORY, ELECTRONICS SECTION ~ ! FROM gow SAC, PITTSBURGH (92- 226-Sub 2) SUBJECT: SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA, aka JUNE. AR ; ; (00: PITTSBURGH) ' CS, According to criminal informants throughout the - @ United States, SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA is the head of the Pittsburgh family of La Cosa Nostra. An Apalachin attendee, who escaped the New York State Police dragnet, LA ROCCA maintains a residence at Ingomar, Pa., from which he directs his Pittsburgh operation and where he is contacted by MIKE GENOVESE, who is number-one. lieutenant in his organization, each weekend for personal instructions. LA ROCCA has been under consideration for technical ahi . coverage of his-house since December, 1960. Since then it aT | | has been deemed almost impossible to effect conventional misur coverage of his house because he has a-.full=time . maid and yardman who both reside - ‘on his premises and who rarely, if ever, leave the premises. However, in aaa January, 1961, Mutt coverage of subject's office in his ‘ 2p ‘North Star Cement Block Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., was al established but this coverage did not prove productive and the coverage was discontinued. Due to the national importance of this subject, it is deemed imperative that every effort be made to establish technical coverage of / subject's residence in spite of the fact that the same security conditions prevail. In view of this dire need for coverage, this office is tentatively considering the technical feasibility/of effecting REMI or Zam coverage.) a C ' For the information and assistance of the Laboratory, _ Subject 's telepnone system,number 364- -5296, consists of FG )- Bureau (RM)CC EX. g - WY GA A ——— 1 - Pittsburgh = Vey lug ~ Stig HLW/pjw : . FEB 1965 (3) & ® oy KE i Docld: 32332665 Page 2? @éased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 usc 2107 norey.
LReleased under the*John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44° Us¢C 2107 Hote; . DATE: 11-14-2017 2 Os A py s a? <3 A, on 4 PG 92-226-Sub 2 a one main, one wall, and one portable instrument, all of the 500 series and all serviced by said telephone number of cable 6, pair 198. This cable is an aerial cable which terminates on telephone pole 6/3, located east of and adjacent to his house,.on the east side i of Brant Avenue, Ingomar, Pa., where his working pair goes underground and ingresses into his house. Patr 198. multiples on pole 5/6 on Lindsey Avenue, which parallels Brant Avenue, at an approximate distance of 2: average- city blocks from subject's house, and this pair has no additional multiples enroute to the Forest Central Office. -The case agent has several neighborhood sources in the immediate vicinity of subject's house, any one of who could provide the necessary space for securély housing a suitably "alarmed" unit. The wire-miles from subject's house to the Forest :Central Office, thence ~ to the Grant Central Office and into the Pittsburgh Office | Consolidate Plant is approximately 13 wire-miles. 8.6 miles of this cable runs between the Forest and Grant Central Offices. The available pairs are of 19 gauge H88 facility, with load coils located every _ — 1000 feet. In the 300 - 3000 c/p/s voice range, the db toss is 4.3 at a measured 1050 ohms maximum, A SA HAROLD LEE WILLIAMS has no available technical information applying to the RFMT or Zam units and has | never had an opportunity to employ either unit. The . [ Laboratory is requested to immediately advise whether either unit can be successfully employed under the | above given technical considerations. If so, the Laboratory ’ is requested to additionally advise the nature of V/ the desired alarm system employed in securely housing the RFMT unit.) The abowe requests do not imply authority to conduct a preliminary survey as they are intended for technical elucidation only. The | Laboratory is requested to expedite the above requested , information inasmuch as the subject is presently in - Florida for a few Weeks and it is anticipated that a survey and installation could reasonably be mad in the near future. . € t al om aah ie, <€ “y Docld: 323327665 Page 3