DL 92-208 | IDENTITY OF INFORMANTS Informants and their identifying T-symbols .are as follows: _ : . T=-1 is BETTY FLANAGAN, former PCI, Dallas Division, who was married at one time to VICTOR PETTA, IR. nephew of BUSTER LOICANO. T-2 is JO ANN SHAW, PCI, Dallas Division, who is being referred to in ths report as a male to further conceal her identity. T-3 is HERBERT A. COPE, Reporting Department, Dun and Bradstreet, Fort Worth, Texas. ~ T-4 is A. H. CLEVELAND, Collection Department, Continental National Bank, a confidential source, Dallas. Division. T-5 is CHARLES KUNKEL, Special Agent, U. S. Secret. Service, Dallas, Texas. oe T-6 is GRADY HAIRE, Investigator, Tarrant County Sheriff's Office, and a former Fort Worth Police Department detective for 35 years. T-7 is E. N. BUIE, Chief Criminal Investigator, Tarrant County Sheriff's Office, Fort Worth, Texas. - T-8 is JACK MOSELEY, Reporter, Fort Worth Press, newspaper. 7 T-9 is CHESLEY AUTEN, Special Agent, Texas | Department of Public Safety; Intelligence Section. Information regarding income tax evasion matters have been disseminated to WILLIAM GIBSON, Special Agent, Intelligence Division, Internal Revenue Service, U. S. Treasury Department, Dallas, Texas, by SA JOSEPH M. MYERS on March 22, 1961. =G-= COVER PAGE i Docld:32307TT65 Page 2
DL 92-208 702 Continental Life Building, Fort Worth, residence 4109 Angus Drive. Confidential [Informant Dallas T-l advised on March 20 and March 24, 1961, that she had known MARTIN BUSTER LOICANO for some time, having been closely associated with the LOICANO family’ through marriage. T-1l stated that BUSTER LOICANO has two children, a girl, JOAN PELIX, who resided — on Durham Street in Fort Werth, and who is approximately 25-26 years old. BUSTER LOICANG and his wife, MADELINE, according to T-1 also have a fourteen year old boy named, LARRY LOICANO. T-1 stated that JOAN FELIZ at one time was married to a popular singer known as CHARLEY APPLEWHITE and that after JOAN divorced CHARLEY she was married to a man named FELIX,who is believed by T=-1 to be employed by BUSTER LOICANO. T-1 stated that none of the LOICANO family ever discussed where BUSTER LOICANO was born, but that T-1l-~did know that part of the family had been born in Italy and ~ probably came into the U. S. at the port in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to T=-1, the older LOICANOs, parents of BUSTER, sold fruit when they first came to the U. S. and later were mixed up with bootlegging. T=-1 stated that VICTOR PETTA, JR., who now owns several Italian restaurants in Fort Worth, who is about 35 years old, is a newphew of BUSTER LOICANO and at one time was married to a Fort Worth call girl, BETTY FLANAGAN. T-1 stated that VICTOR PETTA and BETTY FLANAGAN in about 1950 operated a liquor store in the 1600 block of Houston Street in a building owned by BUSTER LOICANO. T-1 stated that at one time, VICTOR PETTA told her that when he was jast a small boy he was given the job of notifying BUSTER LOICANO and his brothers when anyone suspicious came while they were operating their bookie joint, by pushing a buzzer for them. T-1 stated that she had never heard of any schools that BUSTER LOICANO had attended however she believed that he did attend elementary school in Fort Worth. T-1l stated that BUSTER LOICANO spoke Italian and that his mother was unable to speak a word of English. T=1 stated that she did not know whether BUSTER LOICANO had any connection with JOSEPH FRANCIS CIVELLOSOf Dallas; Texas, but did know that he was very friendly with SAN gACEO of Galveston, Texas. T-1 stated that BUSTER LOICANO d his brother, FRANK LOICANO own the building at 1609 Houston Street and that’ FRANK LOICANO also deals in oil leases in the Continental Life Building. ~ - i Docld: 32307768 Page 3