AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : ~ AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 NW 45636 DoclId: 32333045 JFK Assassination System Identification Form ‘Agency Information FBI 124-90104-10343 HQ 92-2940-319 Document Information FBI PG HQ 01/08/1962 16 SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4; 11(a) Redact 02/05/1999 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS RPT Page i Date: 5/12/201 od
Pad ‘Report Form a 263 (5:12-55:)- F263 (12:55. : 2 a Reporting Office: . ‘Office of Origin PITTSBURGH | PITTSBURGH Date | Investigative Period Report made by , ROBERT A. VOEGE > CHARACTER OF CASE TITLE OF CASE Typed By: jab SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA, aka, ANTI-RACKETEERING - REFERENCE Report of SA ROBERT A. VOEGE, Pittsburgh, 12/6/61. 8 > LEAD PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH, PA. (ALLEGHENY COUNTY) Will follow and report activities of SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA and his associates in accordance with Bureau instructions. ‘bay ee "ORK Act 6 (4) 7 informant Coverage Relating to This Report” PG T-1 if_id a potential criminal informant By of the Pittsburgh Office who was contacted on 10/13 and 29 7 and 11/7 and 19/61 by SA NORMAN T, THOMPSON. ‘Special Agent — in Charqe Do not write in spaces below T-usA, Pittsburgh 2- pittsburgh (9F5 226) ebeGNE Pac tt id OX SOUT ail “— wediust Property of FB{ — - This report is loaned 8. an ‘b MW 45836 Docld:32333045 Page 2 the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be ‘dis ‘buted outside the agency to which ‘loaned. \30°U. S. GOVERNMENT.PRINTING OFFICE: 1956 ‘O—385319
i 4 “* - 2 PG 92-226 PG T-2 is PG 576-C who was contacted on 11/3/61 by SA ROBERT A. VOEGE, PG T-3 is WILLIAM MEREDITH, Chief Special Agent, Bell 4, Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pa., co who was contacted by SA VOEGE on 10/26/61 and who has requested that his identity be concealed, ; PG T-4 is PG 526-C who was contacted on 11/10/61 by A SA J, EDWARD KERN, PG T-5 is PG 622-C* who is contacted by SA VOEGE on a daily basis. -Bx. . COVER PAGE " , ALI 4 ~losir / 2 ~ MW 45836 Docld: 32333045 Page 3
PG 92-226 like to determine who this is prior to his departure for Florida on a short vacation, date unknown. The informant Said that LA ROCCA is extremely thankful that Pittsburgh } newspapers did not receive any publicity concerning the failure of his adopted son to register and the subsequent interview. He indicated that the entire affair could have been "messy". According to the informant, LA ROCCA said that in an effort to determine whether his telephone at his Ingomar, Pa., residence is tapped, he would intentionally place a call telling an unknown individual that he would be going to New York and would Give that individual a non-existent New York address. He would thereafter wait to determine the action taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. — D, LEGITIMATE ENTERPRISES North Star Cement Block Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA, President PG T-5 has adised that on November 7, 1961, LA ROCCA visited the North Star.Cement Block Company in Pittsburgh for a short emergency meeting and advised company officials that if there was no other solution to problems facing the company he would invest $50,000 for more complete automation to save the plant from destruction. He was concerned during this meeting about the quality of block being produced by North Star. The aforementioned informant advised that on November 17; 1961, North Star began expanding the building materials line and planned to send at least one and possibly two individuals now holding executive positions out on the road as salesmen to increase sales within a short period. Other Legitimate Activities wa BSE AC ULVACLES information Concerning Note Co-signed for ANTHONY LA ROCCA |. EEN OS TOP ANTHONY LA ROCCA | Special Agent ROBERT MADDEN, Intelligence Unit, Interns Revenue Service, Pittsburgh, Pa., has advised that , pet rR $. aps y/9h jp | : 45636 Docld:32333045 Page 4
“BG 92-226 Information Relating. to the -S. d. Gully | Bank at Farrell, Pa. During. the course of investigation in the.LA ROCCA matter, it has been determined that the North Star Cement Block Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., was obligated, as of 1959, to the S. J. Gully Bank, to the extent of approximately $29,000. On. November 3, 1961, JOHN MULLANEY, Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, requested information concerning the possibility of a current or recent affiliation. by the. .aforementioned bank with any Federal regulatory. agency. On November 3; 1961, CHARLES HOUTT, Assistant. cashier, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Pittsburgh Branch, advised that he personally recalls the S. J. Gully Bank of Farrell, Pa., as a private bank prior to the. time it sold out approximately five or six years ago; that he — has never known of the S. J. Gully Bank being a national bank, a member of the Federal Reserve System, or to be insured ‘by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and that according to the current directory of member banks in the fourth Federal Reserve District, which includes Farrell, Pa., the S..J. Gully Bank is not .a member of the Federal Reserve ‘System. on November 3, 1961, DREW DIEDRICK, Examiner, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 245 Rodilin Drive, Pittsburgh’ 35, Pa., advised SA FRANK E, ALLISON that he has been employed in> the Western Pennsylvania area since 1949 “as an examiner, and that during this period the S. J. Gully Bank of Farrell, Pa., was never ‘subject to examination by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and is not now subject to such an examination. He stated that if the bank was FDIC insured, it would be subject to examination by FDIC examiners, and he would have knowledge of this fact. 11 MW 45836 Docld:32333045 Page 5 FK Law li(a) of