Originator: FBI
From: PG
To: HQ
Document date: 1959-08-03 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 :

124-90104-10172

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2940-49

64578 Date: 10-28-2021

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

PG

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

08/03/1959

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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 :

RPT

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Report-Forma

PD-263 (5-12-55)

Reporting Ofice

TITLE OF CASE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

PITTSBURGH

Otfice of Origin

PITTSBURGH

Dato

8/3/59

Report made by

ROBERT A. VOEGE

CHARACTER OF CASE

SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA, aka.

Investigative Period

6/24 - 7/28/59

ANTI-RACKETEER ING

Typed By:

A PR

Approved

Copies made:

REFERENCE

Report of SA ROBERT A. VOEGE, Pittsburgh, 6/29/59

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LEADS

PHILADELPHIA - Information

Copy being sent above office in view of the attencance of

the adopted son of subject at Valley Forge Academy, wayne, Pa.

JACKSONVILLE

AT DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA

Will ascertain the identity of the subscriber to telephone,

CL 2-9609, from which number a collect telephone call was mace to

the LA ROCCA residence on 6/14/59 and will set out pertinent back-

ground concening this individual.

2.

If the aforementioned individual is not known to

the Jacksonville Office, will interview exhaustively to

determine the relationship of this individual to LA RoccA or

Do not write in spaces below

2 Bureau

1(92-2940) 16647138

2

Jacksonville

2

Miami (92-163)

1

Philadelpha (92-497)

2

Pittsburgh

(92-226)

92-2940-49

(Info)

AUG 7 1969

53 AUG 13 1959

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

#U. B. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1058. 0-944750

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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 racket associates and personal

business contacts of the

subject not now known to the Pittsburgh Office and will

further identify and obtain appropriate background information

of subscribers to telephone numbers called.

4.

Will continue to conduct discreet surveillances

of the subject whenever practicable to note any pertinent

contacts made by him.

5.

Will set out appropriate leads on tangible results

obtained from a mail cover placed on the North Star Cement Block

Company, 12 McCandless Street, with the Postal Inspector at the

Pittsburgh Post Office.

6.

Will remain alert to any new subpoenaes received by the

United States Marshal at Pittsburgh for service to. LA ROCCA.

Will maintain contact with the Chief of Police of

the. McCandless Township Police Department and arrange for

immediate notification by him of any unusual activity in the

CRIMINAL INFORMANT COVERAGE.

The following indhiduals 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 whoas formerly employed as a

waitress in the Red Eagle Club, once known as the Genovese

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Get 17,

PG 92-226

Cocktail Lounge, 412 Larimer Avenue, Pittsburgh.

Informant

still visits this establishment and comes in contant

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 MINIZ, 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. MESSER 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 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

known as Club 30, who is being utilized for

information Concernins 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-C.

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 "Exchange in Pittsburgh from which he can obtain infor-

mation regarding bank loans made to Pittsburgh top hoodlums.

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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 fletsourgr

Office who is being utlized for information concerning 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 investigation of the RALPH KINER extortion

investigation several years ago and whose brther-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

surveillances of the establishments frequented by the subject

when he is in the

Pittsburgh vicinity.

It is anticipated that THOMAS MARTIN, Vice-President,

of the Real Estate Department of the Fidelity Trust Company,

Potter Branch, in Pittsburgh, will keep the Pittsburgh Office

advised of any new developments concerning the commenced

construction of a motel financed by MIKE GENOVESE and ARTHUR D.

NELSON in the Monroeville, Pa., vicinity which would undoubtedly

have to have the approval and

overall financial backing of

SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA.

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PG: 92-226

Immigration and Naturalization Service at Pittsburgh which

is looking into his Petition for Naturalization. Informant

said that she does not believe LA ROCCA will leave Pittsburgh

as long as he is so close to getting his citizenship status

resolved inasmuch as it has been the foremost thought in his

mind for many years.

PG T-3 further advised that LA ROCCA goes

home nightly instead of visiting friends as he used to do

and seems to be generally keeping himself available.

The aforementioned informant advised that she is now

dating "RED' GIORDANO, New Kensington, Pa., racketeer, and close

associate of the MANNARINO brothers (Pittsburgh and national

top hoodlums)

Informant explained that the dates are unscheduled

for the most part and that he usually takes his dates to New

Kensington's gambling establishments which are controlled by the

MANNARINO brothers.. Informant said he knows that she is aware

of his indictment by a Federal Grand Jury at Pittsburgh as a

co-conspirator in the theft of rifles at a Canton, Ohio, armory

for shipment to Cuban rebels during October, 1958, but never

speaks of this or his other racket activities.

Informant said

that although GIORDANO is married, he enjoys dating other

women, and is not afraid to spend money.

Informant advised that

he mentions the MANNARINO brothers by name occasionally and has

mentioned the name LA ROCCA to her on only one occasion in

connection with a social contact.

D. TRAVEL

PG T-3 and PG I-4, who has furnishea reliable

information in the past, both advised that SEBASTIAN JORN

LA ROCCA has not traveled outside the Pittsburgh vicinity

since his appearance before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee

on June Il, 1959, to their knowleage. Both advised that they

expect LA ROCCA

to stay at home until his citizenship status

is resolved and that he seems particularly worried about this

aspect of his life.

E. MISCELLANEOUS

Status of LA ROCCA With the Immigration and

Naturalization Service

NED HEIMOVITZ, Naturalization Examiner, Immigration

HErEWED BY SATUFK TASK FORCE

1/23/52 de

• RELEASE IN FULL

RELEASE IN PART

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TOTAL DENIAL

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PG 92-220

PG T-1

PG T-2

PG T-3'

PG I-4

INFORMANTS

WILLIAM MEREDITH, Special Agent, Bell Telephone Company

of. Pennsylvania,

who was contacted by SA HAROLD L.

STEVENS on 7/24/59 and who has requested that his

identity be concealed.

H. W. GLENN, Postal Inspector, U.S. Post Office,

Pittsburgh,

Pa., who was cöntacted by SA ROBERI

A.

VOEGE on 7/20/59 and who has requested that his

identity be concealed.

PG 585-C, who was contacted by SA VOEGE on 7/27/59

GEORGE "MOON" MESSER, a PCI of the Pittsburgh Office

Who was contacted by SA VOEGE on 7/28/59

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