Biography

December 14, 1918 · USA

December 17, 1997 · Glens Falls, New York, USA (cardiac arrest)

Anthony Ulasewicz

Anthony "Tony" Ulasewicz, the son of Polish immigrants, was born in New York on 14th December, 1918. His father, Joseph Ulasewicz was a tailor in the garment industry. His mother, Leokedia Smolski was a janitor, died of viral pneumonia, when he was a boy.

Ulasewicz attended Stanislaus Parochial School and Peter Stuyvesant Public High School. In 1937 Ulasewicz joined the Army National Guard. He was stationed at the 168th Street Armory, in Manhattan.

On 17th February, 1943, Ulasewicz joined the New York City Police Department. He started off as a patrolman in Harlem's Twenty-Fifth Precinct. Later he served in the United States Army during the Second World War.

In 1949 Ulasewicz joined the NYPD's Bureau of Special Service and Investigation (BOSSI). His assignments included escorting and guarding the security of world leaders and their families. People who Ulasewicz protected included Paul Robeson, Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, John F. Kennedy, Rafael Trujillo and Fulgencio Batista.

Soon after being elected to office, President Richard Nixon decided that the White House should establish an in-house investigative capability that could be used to obtain sensitive political information. Jack Caulfield, a former member of the New York City Police Department, was hired by H. R. Haldeman in May 1968.

In March, 1969, John Ehrlichman had a meeting with Caulfield and asked him to set up a private security entity in Washington to provide investigative support for the White House. Soon afterwards Caulfield employed Ulasewicz to carry out this work. He retired from the NYPD in 1969 after 27 years to work as a private investigator for them.

Known as the Watergate Bagman, he delivered $219,000 in hush money to G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt. He also investigated the private lives of prominent democrats such as Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

Several years after the Watergate hearings, he was sentenced to a year's probation for filing false income tax returns for 1971 and 1972.

His last name was pronounced you-LASS-uh-wits.