Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: PG
To: HQ
Document date: 07/19/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/12/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-90104-10069

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2940-207

Released under the John

Assassination Recorde

Collection Act of

1992

$44 USC 2107 Note!.

Case#:NW 45836 Date:

11-16-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

PG

TO :

HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 07/19/1961

PAGES:

8

SUBJECTS:

JUSTIFICATION FOR CONTINUATION OF TECHNICAL OR

MICROPHONE SU

SEBASTIAN JOHN LAROCCA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 02/05/1999

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF IRS

COMMENTS: MEMO

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64-

FD-143

(4-4-50)

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (92-2940)

DATE: 7/19/61

COM : SAC, PITTSBURGH (92-226 Sub. 2)

SUBJECT:

JUSTIFICATION FOR CONTINUATION OF TECHNICAL OR MICROPHONE SURVEILLANCE

SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA; aka.

RE: Title

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED 811326

DATE 5/8/86

Character of Case ANTI-RACKETÈERING

Field Office

Pittsburgh

Symbol Number

PG , 622-C*

Type

of-Surveillance: Technical or

Migrophone)

Microphone (MUTI

CONF. INE. Installation)

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

SEBASTIAN JOHN LA ROCCA (Owner,

North

Star Cement Block Co.,

12 McCandless Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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

covered:

Te Panders venue, pf ta went st.

North Star Cement Block Co.

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 places):

No other installations

XP.

6.

EX-113

Is installation is a tEsteal curvailuice, arever folloite gustone: = 20%

no tesur involved in this installation

Is a trunk line utilized?

b. Is the .

surveillance on a switchboard?

i a-54 1961

c. Is the surveillance on a public coin-operated telephone?

Bureau (RM)

Pittsburgh

RAV : mef

(2)

ettes To

47-260601

Nor

ROC: MR.

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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

10.

whella perte herormation 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 relating to the North Star

Cement Block Co.

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.

Costs of Plant Premises:

a.

Rental costs for plant premises:

None (costs included in

office rental)

b.

Give total number of other surveillances monitored at same plant.

One misur (PG 148-S*, Installed on 4/16/57)

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Release in part

PerIRS 1/M/98/80.

1961, and that this accident had occurred at Johnstown, Pa.,

where the only witness

was a policeman.

Information from

the informant indicated that his car had been hit from

behind, that he had sustained no personal injuries and

that damages were not severe but would cost more than

$200.

on July 5, 1961, information was obtained which indicated

that the adopted son of LA ROCCA would come to work at

the North Star Cement Block Company in the very near

future but that his specific duties had not yet been

Orders from LA ROCCA were given to the

effect that supervisory officials should not make the

job too easy or too inviting inasmuch as he would like

the bay to attend college.

On July 12, 1961, it was ascertained from the Intelligence

Unit of the Internal Revenue Service at PIttsburgh that

JER Law (a)

Through the coverage

supplied by this informant it was ascertained that the

North Star Cement Block Company was contacted telephonically

by Mrs. VEY before she talked to Internal Revenue Service

Agents

waiting to interview her on her front porch.

She

feigned a severe heart condition and refused to cooperate

with Internal Revenue Service Agents. VEY, in the interim,

discussed the visit of the Internal Revenue Service Agents

not the the

with the informant and indicated that he was extremely

worried about his mother being subpoenaed and possibly

being responsible for sending him to jail through her

own ingnorance of legal procedure.

he was extremely worried about a banking account at

the First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Bellevue,

a., and would seek legal counsel regarding this. Information

obtained from this informant was disseminated to the

Intelligence Unit of the Internal Revenue Service at

Pittsburgh and it was indicated by ROBERT MADDEN, a

Special Agent handling the investigation of LA ROCCA,

that this information was invaluable and would be utilized

immediately in conducting a further investigation of VEY

and his financial activities.

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