Originator: FBI
From: PG
To: HQ
Document date: 1960-04-08 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/11/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES:

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-90104-10205

HQ

92-2940-55

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

sassination Records Collection Act

192 |44 USC 2107 Notel. Case#:N°

54578 Date: 10-28-2021

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

PG

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 04/08/1960

'PAGES:

18

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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Report Form

8D-263 (5-12-55)

Reporting Offoo

TITLE OF CASE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVES UA FION

PITTSBURGH

Offico of Origia

PITTSBURGH

SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA,

aka

APR 8 1960

Investigativo Period

1/1/60-3/28/60

Report mado by

ROBERT A. VOEGE

CHARACTER OF CASE:

ANTI-RACKETEERING

Typod By:

jeb

Approved

Copies made:

REFERENCES

Report of SA ROBERT A. VOEGE, Pittsburgh, 1/8/60.

Pittsburgh letter to Bureau, 1/13/60.

Bureau letter to Pittsburgh, 2/1/60.

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LEADS

JACKSONVILLE and MIAMI-- INFORMATION

Jacksonville and Miami are being furnished a copy of this

report for information purposes in the light of allegations

made by the wife of LA ROCCA and Pittsburgh informants

concerning

• the travel of LA ROCCA to Florida and Cuba

during his disappearance from Pittsburgh following the

Apalachin, N.Y., conference of hoodlums during November,

1957.

With the background supplied it is felt that these offices

can intelligently handle the

coverage of any future leads

In Charge

2-Bureau (92-2940)10c4712

*-Jacksonville

(Inio)

I-Miami (92-163)

(Info)

1-Iniladelpnia (92-497) (Info)

2-Fittsburgh (92-226)

Do not write in spaces below

92-2940-

55

REC-

ME APR 12 1960

EX:107,

13510

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

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PG 92-226

Will check the list of toll calls made from FOrest

4-5296, the home telephone of LA ROCCA, for the names of

associates and personal business contacts of the

subject not now known to the Pittsburgh Office and will

further identify and obtain appropriate background infor-

mation of subscribers to telephone numbers called.

8. Wilt remain close to a separate investigation being

LA ROCCA had knowledge of this operation and will attempt

to develop other confidential informants in the Mc Candless

Township area in this

regard.

Will attempt to determine the interest, if any, SEBASTIAN

JOHN LA ROCCA has in the Toll Gate Motel in Monroeville, Pa.,

and his plans, if any, to expand the motel operation which MIKE

GENOVESE now controls.

CRIMINAL INFORMANT COVERAGEN

The following individuals are presently being utilized by the

Pittsburgh. Office in the SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA investigation:

PG 573-0, who is extremely friendly with the GENOVESE brothers

and particularly FlORE GENOVESE, Younger brother of MIKE

GENOVESE, and who is presently being utilized for the general

coverage of the Rea Eagle Club and its visitors.

PG 505-C, who is

well acquainted with most of pittsburgh's

top hoodlums and

who was formerly employed as a wadtress in

the

Red tagle Club, once known as the Genovese Cocktail Lounge,

412 Larimer Avenue, 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 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 operation.

He

is intimately acquainted with many Pittsburgh top hoodlums and

racketeers through association with them when they began their

He is presently being utilized for coverage

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PG 92-226

of the GENOVESE-NELSON interests and is also contributing

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 oflottery and numbers

operations in the Pittsburgh area.

HENRYO, 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.

AL BUCK, former Allegheny County Detective and now Vice-

President of the Fidelity Trust Company, Loan Department,

Pittsburgh,

who is being utilized for his knowledge of the

Bankers Exhange 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,

ra., and who is also furnishing

information regarding tie-ups with

the GENOVESE organization in

Pittsburgh.

WILLIAM A. DOBKIN, a confidetial source of the Pittsburgh

Office who was extremely helpful to Pittsburgh Agents during

the inestigation of the RALPH KINER extortion investigation

several years ago and whose brother-intaw, 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

surveillances, of the establishments frequented by the subject.

when he is in the Pittsburgh vicinity.

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PG 92-226

INFORMANTS

Bell Telephone

DIPPOLD on March 22, 1960, and who has requested that his

identity be concealed.

PG T-2 Is GEORGE "MOON" MESSER, a PCI of the Pittsburgh

Office who was contacted by SA ROBERT A. VOEGE on January 26,

1960, February 4, 1960, and February 18, 1960.

PG I-3 is PG 585-C who was contacted by SA VOEGE on January 14,

1960, March 7, 1960, and

March 27, 1960.

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