Originator: FBI
From: PG
To: HQ
Document date: 08/17/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/12/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90104-10079

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2940-217

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection act of

1992(44 USC 2107 Note]. Case#:NW

64578 Date: 12-14-2022

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

PG

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

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SUBJECTS :

08/17/1961

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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:

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FEDERAL BUREA: 9E ME CAMION

U. S. DEPARIMENI DE JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

AUG 1% 1961

TELETYPE

REG

Mr. Tolson_

Mr. Belmont_

Mr. Mohr.

Mr. Callahan.

Mr. Conrad.

Mr. DeLoach

Mr. Evans-

Mr. Malone.

Mr. Rosen

Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Tavel

Mr. Trotter.

Tele. Room

Mr. Ingram

Miss Gandy

URGENT

8-17-51

1-58

DLH

TO DIRECTOR, FBI

92-2940

FROM SAC, PITTSBURGH 92-226

pickust

SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA, AKA., AR. RE PITTSBURGH TELETYPE,

AUG. SIXTEEN LAST. JOSEPH MEROLA, DURING INTERVIEW AT

MIAMI, FLAO, AUG. FOURTEEN LAST, AFTER ADVISING HE WISHED HIS

IDENTITY PROTECTED AND THAT HE WOULD NOT TESTIFY, FURNISHED

INFORMATION CONCERNING GABRIEL AND SAM MANNARINO AND ASSOCIATES,

MEROLA CHARACTERIZED GABRIEL MANNARINO AS SECOND ONLY TO

ACTIVE JOHN LA ROCCA, PITTSBURGH, AND INACTIVE FRANK ANATO A

BRADDOCK, PA., AS LOP/MEN /IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA OF NATIONAL

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CRIME SYNDICATE, REFERRED TO BY MEROLA AS QUOTE THE OUTFIT

UNQUOTE. INASMUCH AS AMATO IS RETIRED OR INACTIVE, MEROLA

HAS IN ESSENCE IDENTIFIED LA ROCCA AS TOP NATIONAL CRIME

SYNDICATE MAN IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

REG 55

END AND ACK PLS

92-2940-217

2-00 PM OK FBI, WA

TU DISV

JA"

3102

ITS AUG 18 1961

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Q3 AUG &5 1001

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