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This is Your FBI: The Serviceman's Fraud

This is Your FBI · October 26, 1945 · 29 min · 4,186 words

The transcript of “The Serviceman's Fraud”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast October 26, 1945. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays This is Your FBI free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Equitable Society presents, 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.

To your FBI, you look for national security, and to the Equitable Society for financial security. These two great institutions are dedicated to the protection of you, your home, and your country. Tonight's file, the service man's fraud.

The war is over and the fighting men are coming home. But for the FBI, the war, the fight against fascism is not over. In a sense it still goes on, because the fight against democracy still goes on.

Not only overseas, but right here in this country, in a Midwestern state, for example, where a thin, white-haired man named Martin Bessemer was trying to form an organization called the United Brotherhood of America. Bessemer made his speeches in a large hall, and in his audiences were many veterans of our war against fascism.

Directly behind this hall, he had his offices, a large, utter reception room and a small inner office used only by Bessemer, By his red-haired secretary and by his business manager, a hard, quiet, face man called Frank Kingston.

Well, I...you finished topping that letter? Right over there. Oh, okay. When's Beth and we're going to sign it? Oh, as he finishes rousing the rattle. Oh, you know, baby, a million copies of this order open a few thousand vets with plenty of separation, baby.

They could all hear him talk. Know something funny, Frank. I listened to him the other day. And you almost believed him almost I'd had my purse. I would have handed over the membership fee and joined up The more stackers who feel that way the more money in the bank for us all right. Yeah, we're at it together, baby

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