This is Your FBI: Salesman of Espionage

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Tonight's FBI file, Salesman of espionage. A few months ago, we presented a special version of the official FBI motion picture, House on 92nd Street, which told for the first time the dramatic story of your FBI's war against some of the Nazi agents of espionage in America.

Yet we turn back to the period immediately preceding December 7, 1941, and bring you another story of counter-espionage on the home front. We break the seal on a chapter from the file, German operations Galveston.

In the days immediately prior to America's entry into the war, increased FBI surveillance under a presidential directive had so restricted the maneuverability of Nazi agents known to the FBI that the Nazis were forced in many cases to employ professional artists of intrigue, those whose business it is to spy for monetary profit. In some cases those agents were German,