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New York Times Article - July 7, 1975
NEWARK, July 18(UPI)—A former clerk‐typist for the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified today that she smuggled secret files on John DiGilio, a reputed Mafia enforcer, out of the office by stuffing them into her purse and girdle.
Irene Kuczynski, 22 years old, of Bayonne, testified that she took the names of F.B.I. informants, a wiretap transcript and other secret documents from Mr. DiGilio's file at the request of her boyfriend, George, who, she said, both threatened and beat her.
“I loved George, and the times before I started taking the files out he would beat me up,” she testified.
Mrs. Kuczynski, the first F.B.I. employe since 1924 to be convicted of a felony, has been guarded by United States marshals since she pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy and agreed to testify against Mr. DiGilio, 43, and three others.
This case was United States of America v. John Digilio et al.
The evidence at trial tended to show that from the fall of 1971 through the spring of 1972 DiGilio, acting first through Lupo and Szwandrak and later through Grillo, procured the unauthorized copying of documents in the FBI files. The documents which were copied related to an investigation of alleged criminal activity by DiGilio. The unauthorized copies were made by Irene Klimansky, a clerk-typist in the Newark, New Jersey office of the FBI, during her working hours and with government paper and copying equipment. The original records were returned by Klimansky to the proper files. She delivered the copies of the documents to her then-fiance, George Kuczynski. Kuczynski delivered the copies from time to time to DiGilio's intermediaries
Digilio and two associates would be convicted
NEWARK, July 18(UPI)—A former clerk‐typist for the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified today that she smuggled secret files on John DiGilio, a reputed Mafia enforcer, out of the office by stuffing them into her purse and girdle.
Irene Kuczynski, 22 years old, of Bayonne, testified that she took the names of F.B.I. informants, a wiretap transcript and other secret documents from Mr. DiGilio's file at the request of her boyfriend, George, who, she said, both threatened and beat her.
“I loved George, and the times before I started taking the files out he would beat me up,” she testified.
Mrs. Kuczynski, the first F.B.I. employe since 1924 to be convicted of a felony, has been guarded by United States marshals since she pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy and agreed to testify against Mr. DiGilio, 43, and three others.
This case was United States of America v. John Digilio et al.
The evidence at trial tended to show that from the fall of 1971 through the spring of 1972 DiGilio, acting first through Lupo and Szwandrak and later through Grillo, procured the unauthorized copying of documents in the FBI files. The documents which were copied related to an investigation of alleged criminal activity by DiGilio. The unauthorized copies were made by Irene Klimansky, a clerk-typist in the Newark, New Jersey office of the FBI, during her working hours and with government paper and copying equipment. The original records were returned by Klimansky to the proper files. She delivered the copies of the documents to her then-fiance, George Kuczynski. Kuczynski delivered the copies from time to time to DiGilio's intermediaries
Digilio and two associates would be convicted