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Paul H. Cullinan, until recently a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has opened his law office in association with his father, John J. Cullinan, as a member of the firm Cullinan and Cullinan in the Security Building, Main Street, Bridgeport. His father is a former president of the Brideport Bar and the Fairfield County Bar.

Mr. Cullinan graduated from Yale University in 1935, his father's alma mater, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. During the succeeding three years he was employed by the Bridgeport unit of the General Electric Company and by the Bethume-Kilby Inc., an advertising concern of Buffalo, New York, representing the latter in the Connecticut area.

Admitted to Bar

In 1938, he entered the Hartford College of Law, now a unit of the University of Connecticut, and graduated with a Degree of Bachelor of Law in 1941. Mr. Cullinan passed the Connecticut Bar Examination immediately after graduation and was admitted to the Connecticut Bar as an attorney.

On June 30, 1941, he was appointed as a Special Agent for the FBI. In September of that year he married Miss Janet Curran, of Rochester, New York and took his new bride to Salt Lake City, his first official assignment.

Mr. Cullinan was in Salt Lake City when the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbour, after which he was actively engaged in the numerous apprehensions of enemy alien Japanese and Germans in the states of Utah and Nevada.

With F.B.I. on Coast

In January of 1942, he was transferred to San Francisco, Cal., where his general security assignments were continued for several months, after which he was engaged in liaison work of a security nature, representing the F.B.I., with Army and Naval Intelligence Units, the District Office of Censorship, and the U.S. Customs in Northern California. He was engaged in that capacity until December of 1944 when he was transferred to the New Haven office of the F.B.I., where he was immediately assigned to duty in Fairfield County.

His resignation from active service became effective on November 9, at which time he joined his father in the practice of law, in the long established firm of Cullinan and Cullinan.