The files reveal the results of an intense two-month investigation into Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr. [Nancy Pelosi's father], a Maryland politician who served in a long career as a member of Congress and mayor of Baltimore...
Elsewhere in the trove, agents wrote about the son [Franklin Roosevelt D’Alesandro], who was arrested and acquitted on charges that saw others convicted of raping two young girls, aged 11 and 13...
In the same memo, which begins on page 38 of the collection, the agent summarizes allegations that a powerful D’Alesandro took payoffs from applicants to the police force, and that he helped to hinder the investigation and prosecution of crimes...
Elsewhere, the memo cites a “confidential source, who has furnished reliable information in the past,” reporting that D’Alesandro appeared onstage at a 1943 rally for the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, which was formed in 1943 by the Coummunist Party USA as a Soviet front group, according to the FBI.
The following year, the memo notes, D’Alesandro was reported as the main speaker at an event for the International Workers Order, an insurance organization placed on a list of subversive organizations by the U.S. attorney general in 1947 and later disbanded by order of the New York State Insurance Department for being too closely aligned with the Communist Party, in violation of regulations prohibiting political activity in the industry.