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This is Your FBI: The Return of the Mob
This is Your FBI · August 30, 1946 · 29 min · 4,009 words
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The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents, This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The 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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Tonight's FBI file, the return of the mob. Last year, America celebrated victory as over two powerful external foes.
Victory is made possible only by the perfect coordination, the perfect teamwork of every Every unit of every branch of the armed forces and civilian production. Today America is at war against the mighty internal foe, a powerful army of criminals sweeping the nation with the biggest crime wave in her entire history.
And victory in this war will depend likewise on perfect teamwork, the perfect teamwork of all branches of law enforcement, local, state and federal, plus the cooperation of you, the American Citizen, teamwork of the kind that smashed a criminal kingdom, and tonight's case from the files of your FBI.
Twenty years ago, the White Horse Tavern in the City of Riverdale was a popular speakeasy, and the throne-room of one of the most powerful mobs of that era. Today this tavern is only a second-rate bar and grill, looking as worn and grimy as the middle-aged man who was just entered the front door and crossed to the bar.
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