This is Your FBI: The House on 92nd Street

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, as a departure, we bring you the preview of a sensational motion picture, the House on 92nd Street, produced by 20th Century Fox, with the actual cooperation of the FBI.

It reveals the most daring espionage plot of World War II. This dramatic screenplay stars William Iath, Lloyd Nolan and Signe Hassel, and we have them here in person for our preview. This is your FBI Presents, the House on 92nd Street.

Back in 1939, the mechanized legions of Adolf Hitler were overrunning the face of Europe, crowding civilization into a dark corner. The ever-increasing number of Nazi booms in this country, the growing network of German spies, Clearly indicated that Hitler would not stop at the borders of Europe.

And so the FBI, always on the alert to protect the safety of the nation, went to work. Every known suspect was watched. Their every move recorded for the files. The FBI could not declare open war against the treacherous Germans in this country, but it could and did keep a 24-hour watch on them, so that when the time came,

Those Nazis could do nothing to help Hilt Hitler make good his threat of yesterday Germany. Today Europe, tomorrow the world. As our story opens on an afternoon in the spring of 1939, William Dietrich, a good-looking, husky young man is standing near a pole vaulting pit on a college athletic field.