CIA IMPERSONATOR CONVICTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303420040-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: January 21, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE, APPMRIED SALT Ii!I0-RE SUi`J
ON PAGE ' I?- , 21 January 1982
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Ry-Allebra Bennett t^; August, 1981, Mr. Locco told the savings and loan
official that the PLO was watching her and her
A federal jury yesterday convicted .a 35-year- mother and that their lives were also in danger
.old Baltimore man of conning a bank officer into because of their association with him, the woman
giving him $31,500-some of which was embez- testified.
zled bank. funds-by- pretending he --was a CIA -- During the course of the scheme, she turned
agentwhose life was in danger. : over $11,500 in bank funds through unauthorized
The jury returned guilty verdicts-against Fer " .loans and thefts of two savings accounts, testimo-
ruccio Locco, of the 5900 block Winthrop avenue ny showed...
for,' impersonating a federal officer and using the Mr. Locco not only persuaded here to obtain
official to embezzle money from the-Hamilton that money but also induced her mother to turn
Federal Savings and Loan Association:;,: t over $13,000, representing her entire retirement
According to testimony in the case,~Mr. Locco fund held at- that bank, and obtained $9,000 from
took advantage of the. affections of the woman, the woman's friend, the victimized financial offi-
who was assistant secretary of the-savings and '--cer said.
-loan in the 5600' block Harford road;::where-she . But the money was not used to buy safety, tes-
had been employed since 1968.:.::; timony showed.
Mr. Locco was a customer at Hamilton Feder- In a statement he made to U.S. marshals after
al and ' in the fall of 1979 the two began seeing his arrest, Mr. Locco said he used the money to
each other socially; according to court papers.: ; buy clothes, and pay for a weekend in Ocean City
According to testimony, last May, Mr. Locco and a 10-day holiday in Daytona Beach, Fla., for
told the woman. that he was a CIA agent and was him and his girl friend, for whom he purchased a
being blackmailed by the Palestine Liberation Or- new car...
ganization because of his participation in the ill- " He also gave some of the money to his children
fated rescue attempt of the hostages in Iran in and to his former wife, he said in the statement,
1980. :f` }'' but denied asking the savings and loan secretary
The woman said that Mr. Locco would periodi- to get money from Hamilton Federal. '
cally leave town and also claimed to have under- 'The woman was not charged in the embezzle-
gone guerrilla training in Guatemala. ments. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Ulwick,
As the scheme progressed between May and who prosecuted the case, declined to say why.
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