Of Scotland Yardxx-xx-xx xxx Absent Minded Professor

This is Clive Crook. Today I want to tell you something about the special branch of Scotland Yard. I expect you've heard of it. Judging from some detective novels, you'd imagine it consisted of a group of super Sherlock Holmeses for a call in when everything else has failed, but that is not true, is it, per se?

And no, Clive. The special branch of Scotland Yard is unit of a couple of hundred men who specialize in political crimes. They differ from their colleagues of the criminal investigation department in that they must be able to speak several languages.

In fact, the function of the special branch in official language is to guard the security of the state, or as a voice himself put it, to clear up political nuisances. So today, a special branch man may find himself guarding the king or the prime minister, probing the antecedents of political refugee who seeks the protection of British nationality,

tracking down the perpetrators of a bomb outrage or sauntering among the guests at a royal garden party. Clyde, why don't you tell the story the absent-minded professor. Alright, Percy, I will. It's a story which shows the far-reaching significance of political crime and how, wherever an international conspiracy may start, sooner or later its tentacles will come within the reach of the long arm of the special branch

of Scotland Yard. Autowar Canada September 1945. One war is over, but for at least one of the great powers. Another war a secret war of information and now war has never ceased it is late in the evening in the offices of the Canadian Ministry of Justice are almost deserted the last few employees are on the way home and one of the officials is