Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MYERS, JOSEPH M.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 4/6/61
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/24/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10293-10126

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 92-5203-1

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: MYERS, JOSEPH M.

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

04/06/1961

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DOCUMENT TYPE :

CLASSIFICATION :

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/02/1998

JFC, ASSOC, GAMBLING ACT, BUSS

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

OPENING CRITERIA :

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COMMENTS:

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DL 92-208

IDENTITY OF INFORMANTS

Informants and their identifying I-symbols are

as

follows:

T-l is BETTY FLANAGAN, former PCI, Dallas Division,

who was married at one time to VICTOR PETTA, JR. nephew

of

BUSTER LOICANO.

T-2 is JO ANN SHAW, PCI, Dallas Division, who is

being referred to in this report

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.

T-6 is GRADY HAIRE, Investigator,

Tarrant County

Sheriff's Office, and

a former

Fort Worth Police Department

detective for 35

years.

To 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.

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.

COVER

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DL 92-208

702 Continental Life

Building, Fort Worth, residence 4109

Angus Drive.

Confidential Informant Dallas T-1 advised on

March 20 and March 24, 196k, that she had

known MARTIN BUSTER

LOICANO for some time,

having been closely associated with

the LOICANO family through marriage.

Tol stated that BUSTER

LOICANO has two

T-l 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 Tol to be employed by BUSTER LOICANO.

discussed

I-l stated that none of the LOICANO family ever

where BUSTER LOICANO was born, but that T-l-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.

Tol stated that VICTOR PETTA,

IR., 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.

FLANAGAN in about 1950 operated a liquor store in the 1600

block of Houston Street in a building owned by BUSTER LOICANO.

I-I stated that at one time, VICTOR PETTA told her that when

he was just 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-l 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-1 stated

that BUSTER LOICANO spoke Italian and that his mother was unable

to speak a word of English.

T=l stated that she did not know

whether BUSTER LOICANO had any connection with JOSEPH FRANCIS

CIVELLO of Dallas, Texas, but did know that he was very friendly

with SAM

Lot No and his brother, PRANK LOICANO own the building at

Galveston, Texas -

T-1 stated that BUSTER

1609 Houston Street and

that' FRANK LOICANO also deals in oil

leases in the Continental Life Building.

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