Record
Case file
1947-09-26
FBI Records: The Vault, John (Handsome Johnny) Roselli, Part 03
FBI Chicago reports (file 58-194), September 1947: interviews of truck-company salesmen who wrote letters for D'Andrea's parole (Vault, John Roselli Part 03)
The four-page Part 03 holds Chicago interview reports of about 26 September 1947. Sales officials of the Mack Truck Company and the International Harvester Company said they had written letters urging Phillip D'Andrea's parole after dealings over trucks, and said no money, threats or pressure were used.
- Date
- 1947-09-26
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. No page image is stored: the legible pages print a private person's home address, so the page shows a document plate.
Part 03 of the FBI Vault’s John Roselli file has four scanned pages, all headed “Chicago File #58-194.” The research for this archive read them through the viewer’s OCR; scans 2 and 4 are largely illegible.
Two sales officials were interviewed. A Mack Truck Company official said that in about 1939 he had tried to sell trucks to D’Andrea’s cartage business, that the deal was never completed, and that years later a former employee of that business asked him for a letter supporting D’Andrea’s parole, which he “gladly” wrote. An International Harvester Company salesman, interviewed on September 26, 1947, said he wrote a letter “in behalf of PHILIP D’ANDREA” to the Parole Board at the request of a salesman who had worked under him, after a 1938 or 1939 sale of trucks to a cartage company run by D’Andrea’s nephew. He said “that he did not receive any moneys for writing this letter, and that he wrote it of his own free will.”
The interviewees are private persons and are not named here. Their statements are their own accounts as the agents recorded them. An interview filed in Part 06 records the Parole Board chairman’s recollection that parole letters came on the letterheads of reputable concerns “such as International Harvester.”
