Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: PG
To: HQ
Document date: 05/15/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/12/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90104-10017

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2940-160

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: PG

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 05/15/1961

• PAGES:

8

SUBJECTS :

JURISTIFICATION FOR CONTINUATION OF TECHNICAL OR

MICROPHONE

SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 1B

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/31/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

MEMO

v9.1

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (4D-9& 2107 Hotel

DATE: 11-14-2017

; STANDARD FORM NO. 64

(4-4-50)

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Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO

FROM

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2940)

DATE: 5/15/61

SAC, PITTSBURGH (92-226-Sub 2) JUNE

JUSTIFICATION FOR CONTINUATION OF TECHNICAL OR MICROPHONE SURVEILLANCE

RE: Title SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA; aka.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED* 21,326

DATE 5/8/86

Character of Case ANTI-RACKETEERING

Field Office

Symbol Number

Fittsburgh Y-DONE. INF

PG 622-6*

Type of Surveillance: (Technical or

Microphone)

Microphone (MUTT

Installation)

1. Name of, person or organization on whom surveillance placed:

SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA (Owner, North Star Cement Block Co.,

12 McCandless Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.)

2. - Address where installation made. Also give exact room number or area

covered:

The Pittsburgh Office of the North Star Cement Block Co.,

12 McCandless Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.

3. Location of monitoring plant: Pittsburgh FBI Office, 450 Union

Trust Building, Fifth Avenue and Grant Street,

Pittsburgh, Pa

4. Dates of initial authorization and installation:

Initial authorization: 1/26/61

Installation: 1/30/61 (actually activated on 2/7/61)

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

No other installations

6. If installation is a technical surveillance, answer following questions:

(There 1s

no tesur involved in this installation)

a.

Is a trunk line utilized?

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b.

Is the surveillance on a switchboard?

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e. Is the purvel and in a pa

Bureau (RM) MIESHY

1-Pittsburgh

Insell fpublic coin-operated telephone?

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Bilk Sit

Ex - 102

GECEINED

86 MAY

19 1961

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d. 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 MUTT unit is installed and concealed

in the floor space between subject's business office and

lavatory.

Is the installation part of

a tel-mike? If so, give symbol of other side

of the combination: Not part of a tel-mike.

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)

Consult insert pages. All information was utilized for

intelligence purposes and appropriate dissemination was made where

urt 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:

Two live informants cover LA ROCCA but there are no live

informants furnishing information relating to the North Star

Cement Block Company.

12.

Has security factor changed

since installation? No change

13.

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

agency): No requests made

14. Costs of Plant Premises:

a. Rental costs for

ofrice rentalj*lant promises: None, (costs Included in

b. Give total number of other surveillances monitored at same plant.

One misur (PG 148-S*) installed on 4/16/57)

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