Originator: FBI
From: PG
To: HQ
Document date: 1960-07-14 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/11/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90104-10207

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2940-57

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case# Nw

F4578 Date: 10-28-2021

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

PG

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 07/14/1960

'PAGES :

11

SUBJECTS :

SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/31/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: RPT

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Reporting Offico

PITTSBURGH

TITLE OF CASE

Office of Origin

PITTSBURGH

SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA,

aka.,

Date

7/14/60

Report made by

Investigative Period

5/20 - 7/7/60

ROBERT A. VOECE

CHARACTER OF CASE

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Typod By:

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REFERENCES

Report of SA ROBERT A. VOEGE, Pittsburgh, 5/24/60.

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LEADS

PHILADELPHIA - INFO

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,

wayne,

Pa., and the occasional visits made by LA ROCCA and

former Pittsburgh Top Hoodlum ANTONIO RIPEPI to the vicinity

during the school year.

PITTSBURGH

Approved

Copies made:

AT PITTSBURGH, PA. (ALLEGHENY COUNTY)

1.

will make spot surveillances in the Pittsburgh vioinity of the

establisments regularly isited by LA ROCCA and, when advisable,

BLIZ

Do not write in spaces below

2 " Bureau (92-2940) 1C6 4712

92

2940-52

- Philadelphia (Info)

REC- 56

EX- 105

(92-497)

2 - Pittsburgh (92-226)

# JUL 18 1960

STAT

Property of FBI — This report is looned ito you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which loaned.

# U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1986 @ 388318

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PG 92-226

PG 573-C, who is extremely friendly with the GENOVESE brothers

ana particularly flore GENoVesE, younger brother of MIKE GENOVESE,

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 GENOVESE

and other members of Pittsburgh's racketeering element in her

role as a medium-priced prostitute. Informant is presently

traveling with Mes. ormer world, widow of JAKE MINTZ, co-owner

I EGGARD CHARLES,

s neavyweight 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 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 VOLE brothers who are close associates

of GENOVESE and LA ROCCA.

GEORGE "ZIP" ZAPPA, a POI 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 of the Pittsburgh Office 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 both LA ROCCA and GENOVESE.

MiSS MARIAN FOGEL, a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office who is being

utilized for information concerning Pittsburgh prostitution

activities and as a check on the activities of PG 585-0.

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PG 92-226

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

Pittsburgh. from which he can obtain information regarding bank

loans made to Pittsburgh top hoodlums.

is also familiar

with the activities of several of Pittsburgh's Top Hoodlums,

particularly those of la RoccA, Irom having worked on criminal

matters for many years in the City of Pittsburgh.

HERMAN ISRAEL, a confidential source of the Pittsburgh Office

who is being utilized for information comerning the MANNARINO

organization in New Kensington, Pa., and who is also furnishing

information regarding tie-ups with the GENOVESE organization in

Pittsburgh.

WILLIAM A. DOBKIN, a confidential source of the Pittsburgh office

who was extremely

helpful to. Pittsburgh Agents during the investiga-

tion of the RALPH KINER extortion investigation several years

ago and whose brother-in-law, NORMAN FARBER, is a member of the

MANNARINO organization.

in an eriort to increase criminal intormant coverage, th€

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

PG T-1 IS WILLIAM MEREDITH, Special Agent, Bell Telephone Company

of Pennsylvania, who was contacted by IC GEORGE C. DIPPOLD on

7/5/60, and who has requested that his identity be concealed.

PG T-2 is PG 585-C who was contacted by SA ROBERT A. VOEGE on

6/17/60 and 7/5/60.

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