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This is Your FBI: Death in the Tropics

This is Your FBI · July 12, 1946 · 29 min · 3,868 words

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The Equitable Life Assurance 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.

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How easy it is to build Social Security into full security. Tonight's FBI file, Death in the Tropics. They familiar-addage as it that the best-laid schemes of mice and men oft times go astray, to which we might add, while those of criminals inevitably go astray.

One of the most monstrous criminals of all times, Adolph Hitler, was defeated by the inexorable truth of this, and day after day lesser criminals such as those into night's case from the files of your FBI, are likewise vanquished by it. For the evil schemes of men are as fragile as the mines which create them, and they crush like eggshells against the

rock-ribbed eternity of justice. In a rather lavish apartment in Midtown Manhattan, a young woman is just admitting their guest. He is one damn Ogden, junior partner of the firm of Durant and Ogden, specialist in interstate commerce. Hi Jackie. Come in Dan. Thanks Milly. Where's Jack? Inside getting dressed. Oh. Want a drink? No thanks baby. Wow. Tonight's the night, huh? Yep. What's the setup? Pretty big job.

Huh? Nearly 4,000 cases of bonded whiskey. Hey! Got a knock off four trucks. It's really a tough order. Ah, we got it all laid out. Everybody knows what they're supposed to do. It shouldn't be any trouble.

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