Originator: FBI
From: PG
To: HQ
Document date: 09/19/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/12/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90104-10111

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 92-2940-245

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

PG

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 09/19/1961

'PAGES:

25

SUBJECTS :

SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 02/05/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS:

RPT

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

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

58262 Date: 09.22-2022

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JEK Act 5 (9) (2) (D)

PG T-2 is

a potential criminal informant of

the Pittsburgh Office who was contacted by SA JAMES B. FANNING

on 7/10/61.

PG T-3 is PG 631-C who was contacted by SA JAMES O. PONDER

on 6/26/61.

PC T-4 1S (SID JEANNETTE, Manager, Southern Bell Telephone

and Telegraph Company,

Pompano Beach, Florida, who was con-

tacted on 7/24/01 by SA. JAMES J. KEARNEY of the Miami

office and who has requested that his identity be concealed.

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FRANK/BAGNATO

2101 North 56th Terrace

Hollywood, Florida

Belease in part,

IRS 1/14/98/06

per

VINCENS/ BOVE

1174 Garfield

HoLlywood, Elanida,

1917

a white male, age 44, painter,

former operator of the Bove

Decorating Company at New Haven,

Connecticut for 20 years before

arrival in Hollywood.

C.

ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES

PG I-I has advised that ROY VEY, the plant manager at the

North Star Cement Block Company, 12 McCandless Avenue,

is extremely worried that his mother

may

the Intelligence Unit of the Internal

Revenue Service (IRS) at Pittsburgh and will attempt to

help him by lying to Federal Investigators:

SA ROBERT MADDEN, Intelligence Unit; IRS, advised that

JFK

Law 11(a)

D. LEGITIMATE ENTERPRISES

North Star Cement Block Company, Pittsburgh,

Pa. (SEBASTIAN JOAN LA ROCCA, President)

PG T-1 advised that on July 21, 1901, the new automatior

system at the North Star Cement Block Company experiencec

a failure and

that a hurried call to the Newark, New

Jersey,

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manufacturer would probably bring a representative to

Pittsburgh to service the system which he understands

originally cost $30,000.

The

afore-mentioned informant advised that the North Star

Cement Block Company has recently considered constructing

a bomb shelter at the LA ROCCA residence as a sales pro-

motion stunt and experiment.

He said that if it is well

received, the construction of bomb shelters for Pittsburgh

residents will be advertised in Pittsburgh newspapers

so that business may ultimately be increased at North Star.

Possible Transaction Involving LA ROCCA--

GENOVESE Organization and Howard Johnson

Restaurant Chain

ARTHUR D. NELSON,

aka, ARCHlE, who fronts the Phoenix ano

1'o1t Gate Motels at Monroeville, Pa., for the LA ROCCA.-

GENOVEsE organization, has advised that he hopes to close a

deal with the Howard Johnson Restaurant Chain which will

Motel in Monroeville within the next year. He advised that

financially for many years.

SA ROBERT MADDEN

has advised that

Intelligence Unit, IRS, Pittsburgh.

Pa

JFK Law 11(a)

LOWERY BELL, Chief Architect for the Howard Johnson Restaurant

Chain whose offices

are located in Miami,

Florida, visited

Pittsourgh on August 3, 1901, ana advised SA ROBERT A. VOEGE

that a motor lodge at the Toll Gate Motel site in Monroeville

is definitely in the planning stage and that an investigation

Of ARTHUR D. NELSON, aka, ARCHIE,

is presently being con-

ducted. He stated

that investigators have found nothing

thus far to indicate that NELSON has any criminal associations

but that if this became known he believes the franchise

would definitely be withdrawn and that no further considera-

tion would be given to this project.

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