Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DRAIN, VINCENT E.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 12/24/1957
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/23/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10288-10364

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

92-2824-8, 9, 10

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

DRAIN, VINCENT E.

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 12/24/1957

PAGES:

35

SUBJECTS :

JFC, PERSONAL HISTORY, BKG, CRIMINAL RECORD,

ASSOC, CRIMINAL ACT, LEGITIMATE ENTERPRISES,

HANGOUTS, TRA, PERSONAL HABITS AND PECULIARITIES,

PHYSICAL DESCR, PHOTO

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC 2 MEMO

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DI. 92-36

Dallas Confidential Informant T-2, of known rellabilty

and who has furnished reliable information in the past,

advised SA VINCENT E. DRAIN on November 22, 1957>

that he had

known CIVELLO for several years and knew him when Informant

was Assistant District Attorney of Dallas County.

He stated

he had had no information of any kind which would indicate

CIVELLO had been engaged in 1llegal activities. In the city of

Dallas.

JULIUS SCHEPPS, a highly respectable citizen and

large wholesale liquor dealer, Dallas, Texas, advised SA

VINCENT E. DRAIN on December 19, 1957, that he was closely

acquainted with CIVELLO and that he did not know of any under-

world activitles being conducted by CIVELLO and that it was his

belief that any that any that would be carried on by CIVELLo

probably would be with Eastern underworld characters. SCHEPPS

tiger.

had no basis for stating that, other than the recent publicty

that he had read in the newspapers concerning CIVELLO.

(E) LEGITIMATE ENTERPRISES

On September 5, 1956, CIVELLO advised SA PAUL H.

• RAINES that he was employed by his protner-in-Law,

ROSS MUSSO,

at the Love Field Grocery, Dallas, Texas, from 1944-46; that he

then went Into partnership with his brother, CHARLES CIVELLO,

and FRANK L. MONIE, doing business

as Premier Food Company,

for about one year; that in 1948, he and ROSS MUSSO repurchased

the Love Field Grocery and operated it as partners until 1952,

when it was sold.

Thereafter, he, together with wusso and

CHARLES CIVELLO organized Civello's Imports, 4236-38 Oak Lawn

Avenue, Dallas, Texas, where they handle imported foods,

Italian products, both as wholesalers and retailers and

retail liquor dealers.

He said he had "dabbled" in real estate

as a partner in the oil business with HARRY D. KAHN, 2014

Adolphus Tower Building.

Dallas,

Texas:

among other partners

in the enterprise.

He stated that all of his present

interests

were owned together with his brother-in-law, ROSS MUSSO, and

that his gross income would be between: $11, 300 and $17,000 plus

per year.

On December 2, 1957, Agent TAYLOR of the Dallas

Office of 'the Bureau of

Narcotics advised he had learned from

a confidential source that CIVELLO reportedly had reported

Income Of $9, 664.40 In 1952: 44,086-93 VerO BET

B7A993F0CE.

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D

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RELCASE IN FULL

RELEASE IN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

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DI 92-36

INFORMANT PAGE

T-1 1s MARVIN DAVISON, District Manager, South-

western Bell Telephone Company, Dallas, Texas.

T-2 1S PCI H. P. WHITE.

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