Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DODGE, HAROLD F.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/15/1967
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

5/1/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10287-10336

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 92-3267-751

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DODGE, HAROLD F.

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 03/15/1967

PAGES:

151

SUBJECTS :

IRO, ASSOC AKA, DESCR, AFF, TEST, REL, INTY, FORGERY,

ARREST, RES, TRA

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS:

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 04/17/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: RPT, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGES 2A,2B, INDEX PAGES A-K, INC ADMIN PAGE

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

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ADMINISTRATIVE

Information copies are being sent to the offices

indicated inasmuch as they have conducted investigation in

this case in the past and in the future may have leads to

cover.

For over forty years subject has used the name

JOHN ROSSELLI.

In 1936 he filed a report of birth in Chicago,

Illinois, in the name of JOHN ROSELLI.

However, because he

has for many years spelled his name ROSSELLI this is the

spelling that will be used throughout this report, The

title will be continued as JOHN ROSELLI.

Intensive discreet investigation has been conducted

since the first part of 1964, when information was first

received that ROSSELLI's true name was FILIPPO SACCO

endeavoring to develop other facts to prove this identity.

A report was not submitted previously because no

Open investigation would

have in all probability compromised the original informant

and endangered his physical

well being or even his life.

This

condition still

exists and, therefore,

the source of this

information should be carefully guarded and under no circum-

stances be disseminated outside the Bureau.

LA 4448-CTE originally furnished the information

that ROSSELLI's true name is FILIPPO SACCO. He also furnished

information which lead to the identification of TANCREDI

mer cate

TORIORA, a former associate of ROSSELLI in Boston, Massachusetts,

and Los Angeles, California.

LA 4448-CTE also furnished considerable other infor-

mation concerning ROSSELLI's past life which furnished leads

in this investigation.

TANCREDI TORTORA was convicted in Boston, Massachusetts,

in 1934 for a murder he committed in Boston in 1922. He was in a

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fugitive status from 1922 until 1934. In 1950 he was released

from prison and deported to Italy where he presently resides

in Acerra, Italy, which is located in the vicinity of Naples.

I TANCREDI TORTORA has been interviewed on several

occasions and has advised that he knows JOHN ROSSELLI's true

name is FILIPPO SACCO.

He first met FILIPPO SACCO in Boston,

Massachusetts; in the early 1920's and stated that FILIPPO

SACCO first started using the name JOHN ROSSELLI in about

ea usear the name g

1923 when TORTORA, ROSSELLI, and one PASQUALE CAPPIELLO were

employed as track

hands for

the Pere Marquette Railroad in

the Detroit, Michigan - Buffalo, New York, areas.

The files

of the Pere Marquette have been

checked, but no record was

found of the employment of any of these

three men.

TORTORA furnished considerable background information

concerning ROSSELLI's activities.

, Investigation conducted on

the basis of TORTORA's information as well as information

furnished by LA 4448-CTE developed no further individuals who

knew ROSSELLI'S true name was FILIPPO SACCO.

TORTORA has declined to be a witness in this matter

and has declined to furnish a deposition setting forth his

knowledge in this matter.

He has requested that the fact that

he has

furnished information be kept confidential.

In the details of this report every effort has been

made to conceal the identity of IA 4448-CTE and TANCREDI

TORTORA.

Some of the information furnished by them is known

only to them and to report it would disclose

the source and,

therefore, it has not been reported.

When information was received regarding ROSSELLI'S

true identity it was considered likely that if ROSSELLI was

confronted with this information he might be persuaded to

cooperate with the Bureau.

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On the same date he also was charged with a telephone

call to JOsePaW. SHIMON, Arlington, Virginia, who is a former

Inspector of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.

INFORMANTS

The informants mentioned in the first part of the

details of this report are LA 4448-CTE and TANCREDI TORTORA.

They were not mentioned by a T symbol in the details

of this report as it was not desired to disclose the fact that

only two sources had furnished information concerning ROSSELLI'S

identity.

ROSSELLI has made statements to IA 4448-CTE that

only five

people know of his dual identity who might

have

furnished this information.

He stated that one was in

Italy, three were in New York, and one was in Boston.

LEADS

LAS VEGAS

AT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Will continue to conduct

investigation concerning ROSSELLI's activities in Las Vegas.

LOS ANGELES

AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: WIll conduct continuine

investigation concerning ROSSELLI's activities.

(?) Will maintain contact with AUSA RICHARD COLEMAN,

Chief, Special Prosecutions Unit, USA's Office.

The New York and Boston Offices currently have pending

investigation in this matter.

These leads are not being

restated and future leads will be sent out by separate

communication.

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BIRTH RECORD

on September 24, 1964, the Central Bureau, Criminal

Division, Italian National Police, Rome, Italy furnished a

COpy of a birth certificate of EILIPPO SACCO which reflects

that he was born in Esperia,

Province of Frosinone, taJ,

on July 4, 1905, the son of VINCENZO SACCO and, MARIANTONIA

PASCALE SACCO.

The birth certificate shows

SACCo's first

name as FILIPPO. The Italian National Police also furnished

information that FILIPPO,

FILIPO, PHILLIPO, Or PHILIP SACCC

immigrated to the United States in either 1906 or 1907 with

his parents but it was not possible to determine on

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CONFYDENTIAL

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POLICE RECORD CHECKS

The fingerprints of JOHN ROSSELLI were checked through

the fingerprint cards maintained by the Boston, Massachusetts,

Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police on

maintainec

April 30, 1964, and May 1, 1964, respectively. No fingerprint

record of ROSSELLI was located.

In November, 1964, ROSSELLI's fingerprints were

checked against the fingerprints in the files of the Chicago

Police Department without effecting an identification.

On February 23, 1905, Lieutenant JOSEPH MC CARTHY,

Bavonne, New Jersey, Police Department, advised IC HERBERT C.

MEYER that the records of this department contained no infor-

mation concerning JOHN ROSSELLI or his aliases including the last.

name, of SAcco.

In July of 1966 the fingerprints of JOHN ROSSELLI

were

searched through files of the Royal Canadian Mounted

Police,

Ottawa, Canada, with negative results.

On June 28, 1966, SA AUGUST J. MICEK caused the

fingerprint card of JOHN ROSSELLI to be

searched through the

records of the Bureau of Criminal Identification of the

New York City Police Department with negative results.

on January 14, 1955, the FBI advised INS at Los

Angeles that ROSSELLI's fingerprints had been searched in

Germany, but no record found.

On December 2, 1954, the Bureau advised INS, LOS

Angeles, that ROSSELLI'S

fingerprints had been searched in

Italy, but no record was found.

On March 25, 1964, the files of the Office of the

Massachusetts Commissioner of probation, Suffold County

Court House, Pemberton Square, Boston, Massachusetts, a

central

repository for criminal and traffic conviction

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INFORMATION CONCERNING

VINCENZO AND MARIA SACCO

On September 24, 1954, the Central Bureau, Criminal

DiVISiOn, Italian Nationarolice, Rome, Italy, Jurnishe

information that VINCENZO FEDERICO SACCO, the son of FILIPPO

SACCO and TERESA COLOZZE, was corn en "ember

9, 1384, at

Esperia, Province of Frosinone, Italy.

The Italian National Police also advised that MARIA

ANTONIA CONCETTA PASCALE, the daughter of GIACOMO PASCALE and

CATERINA MONTESANTO PASCALE, WaS born on December

6, 1382,

in Esperia, Province of Frosinone, Italy. A

The records of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, State

House, Boston, Massachusetts, were checked by IC JOHN M.

CRAWFORD on March 25, 27, and April 10 and 29, 1904, which

reflected the lollowing:

VINCENZO SACCO, 13 Belmont Street,

Somerville, Massachusetts, a white male,

born 1884 in Italy.

Died October 13, 1918,

Somerville, Massachusetts, at age 34 years.

Married; wife MARIA; occupation of deceased,

laborer.

Father, FELIPPE SACCO, born in Italy.

TERESA CALAZI, born in Italy. Cause

influenza.

Pneumonia

contributory 383 Highland

Avenue.

burial, Holy Cross Cemetary,

Malden, Massachusetts,

on October 15, 1918.

Undertaker, J.A. LANGONE, 30 Prince Street,

Boston, Massachusetts.

Volume 108, page 123.

The records of the Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden,

Massachusetts, reflect that VINCENZO SACCO, Age 34, was buried

there October

15, 1918:

The undertaker was listed as

JOSEPH LANGONE.

SACCO's last residence

was 13 Belmont Street

Somerville, Massachusetts.

The owner of the lot was MARIA SACCO,

relation not noted, la Webster Avenue, East Boston, Massachusetts.

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