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This is Your FBI: Espionage - Cora Lee Williamson, Spy

This is Your FBI · June 8, 1945 · 29 min · 4,029 words

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This is your FBI. This is your FBI, an official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Your FBI, you look for national security, and for the Equitable Society for financial security.

These two great institutions are dedicated to the protection of you, your home, and your country. The night, the story of a crime against our nation. S. Bienaurs. 1939. That year the continent of Europe already echoed the cries of people under aggression.

On the continent of Asia, far beyond our western shores was Japan. A dedicated nation, a dedicated people. dedicated to war upon the United States. But we did not know this yet. Within our western gates were more japs, thousands of them.

Were they dedicated to being good American citizens? Or were there among them some dedicated to our destruction? Here was a vital task for the FBI. The safety and security of America might depend on what they found out.

A Sunday afternoon in 1939, two FBI agents from the San Francisco office stood on a pier at the San Francisco waterfront watching a Japanese cruiser warp into the dock. How big would you have figured that crowd, Sam?

I'd say, uh... Well at least it's uh... Pretty excited for Japs, aren't they? Well, it's a big day for them, Larry. There's an often they get a chance to pay their respects to a big shot from Japan.

I know. Well, is this Prince Suji a member of the royal family? Yes. They sure are giving him the sundae bows or... ...funny how they can fawn to that caste system of that. That first line that shook hands with the prince were all top bracket boy.

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