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This is Your FBI: Old Lady Larceny
This is Your FBI · February 21, 1947 · 29 min · 4,178 words
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Tonight, FBI file, old lady Lassini. There are certain incontrovertible facts about which no well-informed person can argue. Facts which are accepted to be as valid as the truth that the atomic bomb is deadly.
But there are the facts which are equally true which are not accepted, and for the most part they concern people. There are currently some two billion people in the world. Despite what some would have you believe, the accident of geography has nothing to do with whether or not they are good people or evil ones.
For no person, anywhere in the world, is composed exclusively of good qualities or bad. Everyone has a capacity for both. In some, the good is paramount, and public spirited citizens are the result. Others give way to evil, and criminals are born.
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