Originator: FBI
From: PG
To: HQ
Document date: 1961-01-26 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: 124-90104-10217

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-2940-65

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: PG

TO: HQ

TITLE:

• DATE: 01/26/1961

PAGES: 23

SUBJECTS :

SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 3;4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

07/31/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS : RPT

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Report Form

FD-263 (5-12-55.)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Reporting Office

PITTSBURGH

TITLE OF CASE

Office of Origin

PITTSBURGH

SEBASTIAN JOHN

IA ROCCA,

aka

Date

JAN 26:061

Report made by

ROBERT A. VOEGE

CHARACTER OF CASE

Investigative Period

11/1/60-1/24/51

ANTI-RACKETEERING

Typed By:

fpg

XX676xX

REFERENCE

Report of SA ROBERT A. VOEGE, Pittsburgh, 11/16/60.

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LEADS

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 in

and the occasional visits

made by LA ROCCA and

his assoulate, former plitsourgh top toodlum, ANTONIO RIPaPI,

to the vicinity during the school year. RIPEPI also has a :

son attending the academy.

Approved

Copies made:

Spocial Agent

in Charde

(3-Bureau (92-2940)

-Philadelphia (Into 192-491

-Pittsburgh (92-226

.. All:

Do not write in spaces below

92-2940-605

B JAN

30 1961

REC- 42

fe in t31103

67 FEB 241967

Property of FBI - This report is lowed to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which lowned.

I U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICES 1958 O- 888318

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a great deal of emphasis is being placed on legitimate

enterprises in the motel field as

far as this trio is

concerned.

8) Will maintain contact with the USA and USM for the

WDPA 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.

9) Will closely follow any criminal procedures in local

courts relating to those associates of LA ROCCA in an

effort to determine whether the name of LA ROCCA is brought

up in the proceedings or whether his influenêe is sought

in any manner.

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 particularly FIORE 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

Pittsburgh. Iniormant still

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

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 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

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COVER PAGE

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coverage of the Genovese-Nelson interests and is also contri-

buting information regarding the VOLPE brothers who are

close associates of GENOVESE and LA ROCCA.

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 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 informa-

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.

AL BUCK, former Allegheny County Detective and now Vice-Presi-

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.

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.

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-upswwith the GENOVESE organization in

Pittsburgh.

WILLIAM A. DOBKIN, 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,

is a member of the MANNARINO organization.

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 surveill-

ances of the establishments frequented by the subject when

he is in the Pittsburgh vicinity.

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COVER PAGE

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INFORMANT COVERAGE RELATING TO THIS REPORT

PG I-I is PG 615-C who was contacted by SA THOMAS G. FORSYTH,

III, on 9/30/60.

PG T-2 is PG 585-C,,

who was contacted by SA ROBERT A. VOGE

on111/23, 12/6, 12/23/60 and 1/18/61. '

PG I-3 1S GEORGE "MOON" MESSER, a PCI of the Pittsburgh

Office who was contacted by SA VOEGE on 11/23, 12/6, 12/27/60

and 1/18/61.

G I-4 1S DAVID A. SMITH.

Treasurer of the City of Pittsburgh,

who was

contacted by SA RICHARD GORDON DOUCE on 12/1/60 anc

who has

requested

that his identity be kept confidential.

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SSM

Employees of Company and Their Annual Incomes

PG T-4, who has expressed an unwillingness to appear before

any future Federal or state proceedings, advised that the

following individuals are employed by SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA

at the North Star Cement Block Company, 12 McCandless St.,

Pittsburgh:

SOCIAL

NAME

SECURITY NUMBER

ANNUAL INCOME

ANTHONY SCIORILLI

112 North Matilda St.,

Pittsburgh 24, Pa.

FRED S. WOODFORK

614 Vanilla Way

Pittsburgh 6, Pa.

HERMAN A. SMITH

254 Meyran Ave.

Pittsburgh 13, Pa.

CLEMENT H. REDSHAW

105 Manville Dr.

Pittsburgh 37, Pa.

FRANKLIN K. BULLION

5270 Butler St.

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

ROBERT E. CAVALLUCCIA

255 Service Way

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

ALBERT J. MASLEN

183 Burrows St.

Pittsburgh 13, Pa.

DONALD P. TURNER

2130 W. Pike St.

Houston, Pa.

FRANK J. CIROCCO

1212 Arch St..

Pittsburgh 12, Pa.

190-10-3019

206-03-5406

167-01-2425

199-10-9861

410-36-3604

200-20-4682

200-07-0420

234-56-8841

$7,123.65

3,823.34

6,259.01

5,035.45

4,514.88

5,058.62

4,668.36

331.32

1,539.97

184-14-4258

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NAME

JACOB S. GEORGE

5403. Butler St.

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

JOSEPH E. BRYAN

439 Kathleen St.

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

LOUIS R. SAALINGER

709 Maytide St..

Pittsburgh 10, Pa.

STEPHEN JENCA

5206. Natrona Way

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

ROY L. VEY

1153 Cornell St.

Pittsburgh 12, Pa.

ORLANDO M. PRINCIPE

4204 Main St.

Pittsburgh 24, Pa.

JOHN IRWIN

2503 5th Ave.,

Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

LEONARD A. YAGATICH

1424 Fallowfield Ave.

Pittsburgh 16, Pa.

ROBERT THACKER

226 Sylvania St.

Pittsburgh, Pa..

AUGUST BULLION

5223 Berlin Way

Pittsburgh 1, Pa.

CARMELO TRAPANI

4776 Sciota St.

Pittsburgh 24, Pa.

SOCIAL

SECURITY NUMBER

190-24-7201

177-18-9068

164-28-1015

167-10-4008

188-18-9241

194-28-0383

185-12-4668

1203-22-3715

178-26-6365

278-28-3867

165-26-2632

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ANNUAL INCOME

$3,132.38

1, 306.18

1,285.13

989.00

5,300.00

896.27

1,531.72

2,566.79

2,155.73

483.45

1,369.30

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NAME

SOCIAL

SECURITY NUMBER

ANNUAL INCOME

OLIVER E. SHERWOOD

1509 Celtic St.

Pittsburgh 10, Pa.

187-30-5880

39.60

LEROY W. WILLIAMS

543 Rosedale St.

Pittsburgh 21, Pa.

160-22-9414

608.51

FRANCIS J. ROGALSKI

461 Robinson Court

Pittsburgh 13, Pa.

173-16-5201

255.54

Automobiles Registered to Employees

On December 9, 1960, MRS. FAY JUMPER, Supervisor, Bureau of

Motor Vehicles, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg,

Pa., advised IC ROBERT MILTON WENNER that a search of the

records of her office reflected the following information

regarding the make, model, and license numbers of the auto-

mobiles registered

to persons employed by LA ROCCA:

1)

ANTHONY SCIORILLI (ANTONIO per Bureau of Motor

Vehicles records), 112 North Matilda Street, Pittsburgr

24, Pa. - 1954 Buick sedan, Serial No. A5010005,

Pennsylvania title number

C10424612, Pennsylvania

registration H37-212 with 1960 sticker 1725210.

2) FRED. S. WOODFORD, 614 Vanilla Way, Pittsburgh 6,

Pa. - No 1959 or 1960 motor vehicle registration in

file.

3) HERMAN A. SMITH 254 Meyran Ave., Pittsburgh 13,

Pa. - 1955 Pontiac sedan, Serial No. P755S21165,

rennsy vania title number E11290270, Pennsylvania

registration. 424-172 with 1960 stocker 2185943.

4) CLEMENT H. REDSHAW, 105 Manville Drive, Pittsburgh

fliera, - No 1959 or 1960 motor vehicle registration in

5) FRANKLIN K. BULLION, 5270 Butler St., Pittsburgh 1,

Pa. - No 1959 or 1960 motor vehicle registration in file.

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