This Is Your FBI: Hollywood Shakedown

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 transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society representative in your community a Shrewed psychologist who has had contacts with numerous leaders of American business once remarked

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words describe you? Then you'll be interested in about fourteen minutes when I give full details of the equitable plan for men and women on the way up. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, extortion, its title, the Hollywood Shakedown. Tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been chosen for two important reasons. One will develop as the story unfolds. The

second reason is to point out to you that there are times when being what is known as a good sport and get a person into very serious trouble. Figuring out just what makes people become criminals is a tough job, even for experts in this field, but they do know that some of us have a deep psychological need to be liked. And FBI records show that this

desire for the approval of others can often lead to crime. In the beginning the favor asked may seem only just a bit shady to those who can't say no at the right time, but it may They lead them on far deeper than they first thought possible.