This is Your FBI: Pearl Harbor

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, and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

The 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 we bring you a special FBI presentation commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Stretching tonight from the quiet meadows of France, the hillsides of Italy, and across the sands of North Africa to the jungle islands of the Pacific, of the Pacific, are gardens of little white crosses, where almost 275,000 American boys lie in eternal condemnation of that day four years ago, which will live forever in

infamy. Sunday, December 7, 1941, the day the Japan stabbed America in the back at Pearl But long before Pearl Harbor plunged us into global war with them, the Axis nations through their agents in this country were plotting and working against the internal security of America, protected against the interference by those same principles of freedom they sought

to destroy. Then on September 3, 1939, Hitler began the murder of Poland, the first flame of world of conflict ratio america had to prepare her defense and take aggressive steps to safeguard them three days after that ruthless invasion director jay Edgar Hoover of the federal bureau of investigation your fbi assembled his staff and extraordinary second

gentleman i have here a directive from the president of the united states attorney general has been requested by me to instruct the federal bureau of investigation, the Department of Justice, to take charge of investigative work in matters relating to espionage, sabotage, and violations of the neutrality regulations. This task must be conducted in a comprehensive and effective manner on a national basis, and all information