This Is Your FBI: The Traitor

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The Official Broadgads from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Residents transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

From time to time in the 30s and early 40s, most men and women ask themselves, What will I be doing when I'm 65 years old? What are my chances of being 100% self-supporting when it's time to stop work?

Well, that's largely up to you and the decision you make right now. One such opportunity for an important decision will be offered to you in our middle commercial. It tells about the equitable society's independent 60s plan.

This plan means exactly what it says, financial independence for you in your 60s. Do you like that idea? Then please listen carefully to this important message from the Equitable Society coming in about fourteen minutes.

Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, espionage, it's titled The Traitor. Guarding against enemy spies is one of the oldest problems of law enforcement. In chapter two of the book of Joshua in the Bible we read, and Joshua set out two men to spy secretly saying, go view the land, even Jericho.

Today no one knows the number of spies from totalitarian countries operating in our country. Certainly they amount to many, many times more than two, particularly when you include even the native-born citizens who place allegiance to a foreign ideology above love of countries.

Today espionage has been developed into a science, directed and conducted by experts. Combating this army of imported and domestic spies is one of the chief responsibilities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tonight's case from the official FBI files was selected because it is one of many in which a lead from an alert and patriotic private citizen