Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: VOEGE, ROBERT A.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/28/1960
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/28/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10284-10033

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NOMBER: CR 92-2972-52

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

FBI

VOEGE, ROBERT A.

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 10/28/1960

PAGES:

19

SUBJECTS :

SMO, NEWS ARTIC, GRAND JURY, INDICTMENT, RACK AND

SUBV, ASSOC, GENOVESE, MIKE

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/19/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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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.

CRIMINAB 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.

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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" ZAPPA, a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office, presently

engaged in racket activity in the city of Pittsburgh, who is

being utilized for general coverage of lottery and numbers

operations in the Pittsburgh area.

HENRY J. BARBER, a PCI who is part owner of the 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

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.

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WILLIAM A. DOBKIN, a confidential

source of the Pittsourgh

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-I 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.

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.

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PG T-2 is GEORGE"MOON" MESSER, a potential criminal informant

of the Pittsburgh Office who

was contacted by SA VOEGE on

9/13/60..

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

the Pittsburgh Office who

was

contacted by SA VEGE on

9/16/60.

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