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This Is Your FBI: Wide Open City
This Is Your FBI · November 14, 1952 · 29 min · 4,323 words
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Tonight the subject of our FBI file kidnapping its title wide open city. America has always been a growing land an expanding nation pushing toward tomorrow. At this moment new communities are springing up like gawky adolescence, full grown before they are hardly aware of it. A sudden oil strike, a giant engineering project, a rich mineral discovery or a huge industrial development may produce a sudden flow of population
and create an overnight metropolis. But two often criminals and racketeers, you're by easy money and the instability of rapidly developing communities are among the first arrivals at modern frontier towns. Your federal Bureau of Investigation is always alert to this potential danger and always ready to cooperate with hard pressed local authorities in matters of mutual interest.
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