Sa oe FC FFPerHrAee re FF JFK Assassination System Date: 5/11/201 Identification Form meee Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-90104-10210 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  92-2940-60 : Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: PG TO: HQ TITLE: _ DATE: — 11/16/1960 PAGES: 12 SUBJECTS : SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 07/31/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : RPT TF eee v9.1 NW 45836 DociId:32332912 Page i
. as , e a __ -.. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Investigative Period 9/13-10/31/60 Office of Origin PITTSBURGH Reporting Office PITTSBURGH TITLE OF CASE SEBASTIAN JOHN°LA ROCCA, aka. Report made by ROBERT A. VOEGE CHARACTER OF CASE ANTI-RACKETEERING 0 AY REFERENCE Report of SA SAMUEL A. MILLER, Pittsburgh, 9/15/60. -P- LEADS NEWARK ( INFORMATION ) A copy of this report is being sent to the Newark Office for information purposes in view of the fact that the Newark Office has an outstanding lead in this matter. PHILADELPHIA (INFORMATION) A copy of this report is being sent to the Philadelphia Office for information purposes in view of the attendance of the adopted son of LA ROCCA at Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa., and the ad occasional visits made by LA ROCCA and former Pittsburgh top hoodlum’? ’ ANTONIO RIPEPI to the vicinity during the school year. ae pe Approved Vk a Do not write in spaces below Copies made: 5 ; ‘3sBureau (92-2940) LIN N+ OO | Me 50 I-Newark (Info) arene ——— 1-Philadelphia (tefo} (92-497) _— EX- 130 : | / ! ; . 7 C . (: _ ~— _ Cafiy Rad Wo Oven Li Lp raed ae Oh pq? ot ea rrr - 4@ AMY/BR DELS s! IEGH DATED ....-.--- ol a CB UREAS vI povunsifant PRINTING OFFICE: 1986 O—sess19 i Z F on rae ” A > 8 ¢ NW 45836 DociId:32332912 Page 2 ——
NW 45836 ee . | -Sneeen . PG, 92-226 PITTSBURGH At Pittsburgh, Pa. (Allegheny County) 1. Will continue contacting established potential and actual eriminal informants of the Pittsburgh Office in order that complete coverage may be obtained regarding any new interests of LA ROCCA and his close associates MIKE GENOVESE and ARTHUR D. NELSON, noting that a great deal of emphasis is being . Placed on legitimate enterprises as far as this trio is concerned. 2. Will maintain contact with the Chief of Police of the McCandless Township Police Department and those officers conduct- ing regular spot checks in the neighborhood in which LA ROCCA resides’ so that immediate notification by them may be. made of any unusual activity observed in the vicinity of that residence. 3. Will maintain contact with the U.S. Attorney and the U.S. . Marshal for the Western District of Pennsylvania so that any new information concerning the issuance of a subpoena for the appearance of LA ROCCA or his associates anywhere may be immediately brought to the attention of the Pittsburgh FBI Office. 4, Will check the listo toll calls made from Forest 4-5296, the home telephone of LA ROCCA; for the names of racket associates and personal business contacts of the subject: not now known to the Pittsburgh Office and will further identify and obtain appropriate background information of subscribers to telephone numbers recently called. 5. Will make spot surveillances in the Pittsburgh vicinity of the establishments regularly visited by LA ROCCA and, when advisable, will conduct physical surveillances of the subject on a ,periodic basis so that his habits and pertinent, contacts may be ascertained. CRIMINAL INFORMANT COVERAGE The following individuals are presently being utilized by the | Pittsburgh Office in the SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA investigation: | PG 573-C, who is extremely friendly ‘with the GENOVESE brothers ~ and particularily F FIORE GENOVESE, younger prother of MIKE GENOVESE, Pye -B- i COVER PAGE AHi\oa — SODA : ee ‘ DociId:32332912 Page 3
+ — activities and as a check on the activities of PG 585-c. PG 92-226 and who is presently being utilized for the general coverage of the Red Eagle Club and its visitors. PG 585-C, 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 Ave., Pittsburgh. Informant still visits this establishment and comes in constant contact with MIKE @ENOVESE 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. i OTHER 4 SE ES a PCI who is presently very active in urgh numbers operations and who was arrested during | the month of August, 1958, in connection with his operation. He 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 who are close associates of GENOVESE and LA ROCCA. . . - ee of the Pittsburgh Office presently engage n racket activity in the City of Pittsburgh who is being 7 utilized for general coverage of lottery and numbers operations in the Pittsburgh area. L mer orem a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office who is part n (a) 1€. notorious gambling establishment at Chester, W.Va., known as Club 30, who is being utilized for information concerning the club and the interest in it of Pittsburgh hoodlums associated w th LA ROCCA and GENOVESE. a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office who is being niformation concerning Pittsburgh prostitution AL BUCK, former Allegheny County Detective and now Vice President of the Fidelity Trust Co., Loan Department, Pittsburgh, who is: being utilized for his knowledge of the Bankers Exchange in -C- COVER PAGE SO OG— WHO ——_— NW 45836 DociId:32332912 Page 4
[20g D TT SE re ne re een Sn en mer ne nn et terme me nema a pa RO a me tn a et en ne ? " - a en - ~— “~ PG 92-226 Pittsburgh from which he. can obtain Anformation regarding bank loans made to Pittsburgh top hoodlums. BUCK is also familiar with the activities of several of. Pittsburgh's top hoodlums, particularly those of LA ROCCA, from having worked on criminal matters for many years. in the City of Pittsburgh. 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. [| 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, isa member of the MANNARINO organization. OTHER 4 In an effort to increase criminal informant coverage, the PCIs under development are being contacted on a continuing and regular basis so that information obtained from them may be used on a day-to-day basis in connection with spot surveillances of the establishments frequented by the subject when he is in the Pittsburgh vicinity. INFORMANT COVERAGE RELATING TO THIS REPORT The source who furnished information relating to the telephone toll calls made to and from the LA ROCCA residence is WILLIAM MEREDITH, SA, Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, who. was contacted by’ IC GEORGE C. DIPPOLD on 10/30/60 and who has requested - that his identity be concealed... OTHER 4 PG T-1 fd POL of the Pittsburgh Office who was. contacted by EGE on 9/13/60 PG T-2 is PG 585-C who was contacted by SA ROBERT A. VOEGE on | | 9/16/60. | PG T-3 is PG 612-C who was contacted by SA RICHARD GORDON DOUCE | on 10/4/60 a ‘) -D*- COVER PAGE | AD l9ed ~ LOH IS va a ee NW 45836 DociId:32332912 Page 5