This is Your FBI: The Surplus Swindle

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.

In about 14 minutes, the sponsor of this program, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, something important to say to homeowners, a message which over the past eight weeks has led thousands of Americans to request more information about the equitable society's assured home ownership plan.

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Tonight's FBI file, the surplus swindle. Upon whom should rest the greater weight of guilt for illicit operations? The criminal operator himself? Or the professing good citizen with his double code of ethics who denounces the criminal on Main Street and trades with him in the alley?

Tonight's case from the files of your FBI was inspired by this hypocrisy of the professing good citizen, who underwrites illicit commerce. And a Chicago apartment hotel overlooking Lake Michigan, an attractive young woman dressed to go out for the evening is pacing the floor in a fit-of-ill temper.

Presently the cause of her ill temper inserts a key in the door. Trudy! Trudy, my dear! I'm right here! Oh, oh. Hello darling. I said hello. I heard you. Trudy darling, you look lovely. Beautiful. In fact, you're simply... Where have you been? How's that my love? You were taking me for cocktails at six