Official Personnel Record of Joseph Tucker Phillips, born 1877 - died 1959

I requested the records of my grandfather and was surprised that it contained not only personnel records but many records on important cases he worked through his time as Prohibition Agent, Deputy Administrator, Special Investigator and Investigator in Charge, stationed in Louisville, Kentucky. Some of the people whose correspondence are included are E.C. Yellowley, Frank Rickey (Branch Rickey's brother) Congressman B. Carroll Reece (Tennessee) and futher on Eliot Ness. The following are just the first four years and only partial records. 1922-1925. There are 26 pieces that are still being looked at for declassification.

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Edward C. Yellowley, became an enforcement agent for the Federal Internal Revenue Service, “and in 1925, was assigned to the Chicago Prohibition Enforcement Office. His information on the illicit beer business controlled by the late gang leader, Al Capone, was part of the government’s case when Capone was convicted and imprisoned for income tax evasion.” It was E. C. Yellowley who called in the group of agents who were to be known as “The Untouchables.” (Washington Post, Feb. 9, 1962)

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