Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: PG
To: HQ
Document date: 06/26/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote) .

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

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Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER:

FBI

124-90104-10436

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 92-2940-376

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM:

PG

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 06/26/1962

'PAGES:

6

SUBJECTS :

SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/31/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

MEMO

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 71745-2228

(42-28-60)

OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

SECRET

DIRECTOR, FBI (Bufile 92-2940

JUNE

DATE:

6/26/62

FROM

3, PITTSBURGH (92-226-Sub 2)

SUBJECT: JUSTIFICATION FOR CONTINUATION OF TECHNICAL OR MICROPHONE SURVEILIANCE

RE: Title SEBASTIAN JOHN

LA ROCCA, aka

Character of Case

ANTI-RACKETEERING

14,326

classie. 596650/607

Declassity on: OADR- 13/86

Field Office

Pittsburgh

PA

Type of Surveillance:

Microphone,) Microphone (MUTT

installation)

cory myt

1. Name of person or organization on whom surveillance placed:

SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA: (Owner, North Star Cement Block Company,

12 McCandless Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.)

2. Address where installation made. Also give exact room number or area

covered:

The Pittsburgh Office of the North Star Cement Block Company,

12. McCandless Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.

3.

Location of monitoring plant:

Pittsburgh FBI Office, 450 Union Trust Building, Fifth

Avenue and Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.

4. Dates of initial authorization and installation:

Initial authorization: 1/26/61

Installation: 1/30/61 (actually activated on 2/7/61)

5. Previous and other installations on the same subject (with dates and plaçes):

No other installations

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

CLASSIFIED BY 5668 SCo/Ge

HEREIN 1 UNCIAESIVTED

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312/98

If installation is a technical surveillance, answer following questions

(There is no tesur involved in this installation)

Is a trunk line utilized?

0X-105

b. " Is the surveillance on a switchboard?

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c. Is the surveillance on a public con To bi,o!

-operated telephone?

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SECRED

d. Is surveillance on a private line or a party line?

e. If a party line, how many parties?

7. If a microphone surveillance involved, state number of microphones actually

used and location of each:

One MUTT unit is installed and concealed in the floor space

between subject's business office and lavatory.

8. Is the installation part of a tel-mike? If so, give symbol of other side

of the combination:

Not part of a tel-mike.

9. Specific examples of valuable information obtained since previous report

with indication of specific value of each item and the date information

received. State what use was made of each item involved: (Add insert pages)

Consult insert pages. All information was utilized for

intelligence purposes and appropriate dissemination was made

where pertinent.

10. Could above information have been obtained from other sources and by other

means?

No.

11. Number of live informants (in field division) who cover same subject:

Two live informants cover LA ROCCA but there are no live

informants furnishing information relative to the North

Star Cement Block Company•

12. Has security factor changed since installation?

No change.

13. Any request for the surveillance by outside agency (give name, title and

agency):

No requests made.

14. Cost of Plant Premises:

a. Rental costs for plant premises: None (costs included in

office rental

b

onitored at same plant

1/8/62* One mate unit

was installed on 6/6/62 in connection

with Bufile 100-217722 and will be activated as soon as a

line problem is resolved, probably by 7/2/62.

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PG 92-226-Sub 2

• If any others, set out the proportionate cost o.

Instant surveillance

Not applicable.

15. Cost of Leased Line for instant installation?

$9.31

16. Personnel Costs:

a. Give total number of special employees and/or Special Agents

working at plant and total salary costs.

One Special Employee (GS-9)

at $7,425 per annum, monitors PG 622-C**and both units of

PG 177-S* from 8:15 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Monday through Friday

Pring periods of inactivity this Special Employee is

wee to perform regular duties as an applicant correlator. (See

b.

Total number of man hours per week spent at plant? Supplemental Page

44 hours

c. If other installations monitored at same plant, list

proportionate number of man hours per week spent on

instant surveillance: 15 hours or approximately 33 percent

of the total time spent monitoring all units.

d. If other installations monitored at same plant, list

proportionate salary expense per annum for instant

surveillance:

GS-5:

Approximately $2,606

GS-9: Approximately $4,010

17.

Remarks (By SAC):

A great deal of potential has been demonstrated by this informant

and information received on a daily basis is being utilized

continually by those Agents assigned

to the Criminal Intelligence

Program in the Pittsburgh Office. Financial developments

relating to the North Star Cement Block Company assume prime

importance when it is realized that LA ROCCA has been designated

as the prime target subject of an intensification program

looking toward early prosecution on any Federal violation.

LA ROCCA and the supervisory employees of North Star have

spoken freely enough for this informant to ascertain their

reactions to investigations being conducted by both the

Internal Revenue Service and the FBI at Pittsburgh. (See

supplemental page 3a)

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PG 92-226-Sub 2

16a. Personnel Cost (continued) :

annum, monitors PG 622-C*

16c.

When the installation relating to Bufile 100-217722

is activated, the proportionate number of man hours per

week spent on PG 622-C* will be reduced below 33 percent.

17. Remarks (continued) :

The Pittsburgh Office is looking for a great deal more, as

far as

specific criminal intelligence information is concerned,

in relation to the GENOVESE-LA ROCCA organization. In my

opinion the

position of prominence this

phase of our activity

has attained, as well as the issuance of recent Bureau

instructions

in this regard, and the information received thus

far by the Pittsburgh Office justifies the continuation of this

installation.

The Bureau will be promptly advised of the extent of any

possible violations developed as a result of this technical

surveillance.

The LA ROCCA investigation and this coverage in

particular is being given my personal attention on a continuing

basis and I will insure that constant efforts are made to

establish a Federal violation against this individual. When

information of immediate interest or significance is received,

it will be promptly brought to the Bureau's attention in the

daily teletype being submitted

relative to LA ROCCA.

IN VIEW OF THE CONVICTION OF LA ROCCA FOR ASSAULT WITH INTENT

TO KILL AND HIS ARREST FOR CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON, HE MAY

BE ARMED AND SHOULD BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS.

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DATE: - 11-11-2017

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PG 92-226-Sub 2

Insert to FD-143 entitled,

"JUSTIFICATION FOR CONTINUATION OF

TECHNICAL OR MICROPHONE SURVEILLANCE."

The most important information furnished by this informant

since the submission of the last FD-143 on 3/22/62

concerns a meeting of JOHN CONTI, alleged nephew of

SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA, who is general manager at

the North Star Cement Block Company in Pittsburgh, and

SAMUEL MANNARINO of the MANNARINO organization of

kensington, fa., on whom an intensification target-type

investigation is being conducted. It was noted by the

informant that these two met last on a business proposition

, on Sunday, 6/3/62.

It was

indicated that MANNARINO owns 600 acres of ground

and is

now dealing with the North Star Cement Block Company

to build homes on his property.

Thebbüilding of 123

of these homes was to begin immediately and it was

indicated that MANNARINO is definitely part of the

entire proposition.

As a result of this information, the Bureau has advised

that this matter should be given thorough investigative

attention in connection with disruption objectives

and

possible future prosecution.

on 6/11/62, the Pittsburgh Office ascertained that there

was considerable inductance and cross-talk on cable 56,

counts 341 through 50 as well as considerable AC voltage

running as high as two volts on count 348. CSPG 175-s

was

contacted concerning this undesirable

condition and

he immediately referred the matter to the Engineering

Department of the Bell Telephone Co.

Due to the complexity

of these existing conditions monitoring of the misur

and tesur operations was discontinued on 6/11/62 until

the lines can be cleared and balanced.

The Pittsburgh

Office has not, therefore, e the benefit of the knowledge

of the operations within

Star Cement Block

Co. since the aforementioned date..y.:

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