Document date: 04/17/2018
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SAC, Philadelphia (92-1027)

REC 30

Director, FBI

(92-6054)

LA COSA NOSTRA

AR

-739

1 - Mr. Green

9/9/64

JUNE

MAILED 19

Re your FD 143 dated 9/2/64.

Authority granted to continue PH 705-c* for a

90-day period.

Furnish the Bureau a weekly airtel summary

of significant information obtained from this source.

your recommendations regarding continuation beyond the

to brat the subait

authorized period to reach the Bureau five days prior to the

expiration of this authority.

For your information and future guidance, when

submitting reconmendations that a misur be continued, you

should do so on a UACB basis following Iten 17 on the

FD-143.

1 - J. D. Donohue (815 RB)

NOTE: This misur is located in the Philadelphia apartment of

PH 672-C-TE. This Top Echelon informant san admitted member of

La Cosa Nostra who has provided detailed information relating to

Lạ Cosa Nostra in Philadelphia.

Source was installed on 8/7/64,

at which time Philadelphia Office reported they had a unique

opportunity to make such installation since the ibformant's family

was out of the city. The informant has ho knowledge of this

installation.

One of the primary reasons for making the installation

was information developed that meetings might take place at the

is on he would not be

informant's residence, possibly at times when he would not be present.

This source also serves to corroborate information furnished by the

informant.

Philadelphia Office reports that during the briefsus

period of time

it has been activated there have not been any meetings

at the apartment.

This is partially due to the informant's work

schedule.

The informant is endeavoring to arrange an appointment

with Angelo Bruno, head of La Cosa Nostra in Philadelphia, to request

permission to use

the apartment in connection with Bruno's numbers

operation. The cost to operate this misur is minimal. It is felt

that it has an excellent potential and it is recommended that

Philadelphia Office

be authorized to continue it for a

90-day period.

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FD-143 (Rev. 4-2-63)

optional fORM NO. 10

3010-106

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

Director, FBI

JUNE

(Bufile 92-6054

• DATE:

9/2/64

SAC, Philadelphia (92-1027-Sub D)

SUBJECT:

JUSTIFICATION FOR CONTINUATION OF TECHNICAL OR MICROPHONE SURVEILLANCE

RE:

Title

LA COSA NOSTRA

Character of Case

Field Office

Symbol Number

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Philadelphia

PH 705-04

Type of Surveillance:

Microphone)

Acon mift

1. Name of person or órganization on whom surveillance placed:

ROCCO SCAFIDI

2. Address where installation

made. Also give exact room number or area

covered:

Dining room, first floor apartment, 1531 South

Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

3: Location of monitoring plant:

Central plant.

4. Dates of initial authorization and installation:

Activated 11:02 a.m., 8/7/64.

5: Previous and other installations on the same subject (with dates and places) :

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6. Il installation is a technical surellance, ansver fpliging augetions:

Not applicable

Is a trunk line utilized?

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c.

Is the surveillance on a switchboard?

Is the surveillance on a public coin operated telephone?!

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PH 92-1027-Sub D

do: Is surveillance on a private line or a party line?

e. If a party line, how many parties?

7. If a microphone surveillance involved, state number of microphones actually

used and location of each:

One microphone, living room, first floor apartment,

1531 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

8. Is the Installation part of a tel-mike? If so, give symbol of other side

of the combination:

NO

9. Specific examples of valuable information obtained since previous report

with indication of specific value of each item and the date information

received.

State what use was made of each item involved:

(Add insert pages)

(See Page 2A)

10.

Could above information have been obtained from other sources and by other

means?

No

11. Number of live informants (in field division) who cover same subject:,

PH 614-C-TE, slightly

12. Has security factor changed since installation?

No, security still maintained.

13. Any request for the surveillance by outside agency (give name, title and

agency) :

No

14. Cost of Plant Premises:

a. Rental costs for plant premises: $2,407.86

b.. Give total number

of other surveillances monitored at same plant.

microphone surveillances

technical

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PH 92-1027-Sub D

c. If any others, set out the proportionate cost of instant

surveillance:

$17.52 per

month for regular leased lines to CP.

15.

Cost of Leased Line for instant installation?

There 1s no bill for leased line utilized in this

installation.

16. Personnel Costs:

ai Give total number of special employees and/or Special Agents

working at plant and total salary costs.

5 SEs @ $9,475

• $47,375.00-

2 clerks: 1@6,575&

1@5,795-

12,370.00

20% Of 1 SA @15,100

8, 020. U

62,765.00

b. Total number of man hours per week spent at plant?

2 clerks and 5 SEs

280 hours

SA.

8 hours

288 hours

c.

If other installations monitored at same plant, list

proportionate number of man hours per week spent on

instant surveillance: *

2.88 man hours

d. If other installations monitored at same plant, list

proportionate salary expense per annum for instant

surveillance:

$627.65

17. Remarks (By SAC) :

As previously explained, the purpose of this installation

was to nave the Installation

so that technical coverage could

be afforded meetings between

SCAFIDI, a known member of La Cosa

Nostra, and his associates.

It is also a means to check the

reliability of SCAFIDI, who is PH 672-C-TE.

To date the source

has furnished information regarding SCAFIDI's personal activi-

ties. Due to his work schedule, he has been unable to bring

about many meetings.

He is at the present time endeavoring to

arrange an appointment with Commission member ANGELO BRUNO to

obtain permission from BRUNo to allow his apartment to be used

two or more days weekly in BRUNO's illegal numbers operation.

This will furnish information heretofore unavailable to this

division, if the source is successful in accomplishing this

arrangement. It is therefore recommended that this source be

continued considering that it has not had any breach of security

(See Page 3A)

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