This Is Your FBI: The Protection Peddlers

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's representative in your community A-H-O A. H. O. Those three letters A. H. O. are important to homeowners. A. H. O. stands for

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Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, extortion. It's titled, The Protection Pedalers. Day in and day out, year after year, FBI agents come in contact with the worst side of American life. There is always danger that these constant associations with shady and vicious characters might make a law enforcement official lose confidence in human nature in general,

might make him cynical, discouraged. Then along comes someone who renews his faith in the essential decency of mankind. He may be a humble respectable citizen who refuses to be intimidated by racketeers, or he may be what is known as an honest cop, and they are the vast, vast majority of all policemen, who put public service

above self-interest. These people cooperate, testify on behalf of law and order. A tough case is cracked wide open. Another FBI file is closed. It is to these often unrewarded unsung heroes that your FBI wishes to pay tribute tonight. Our FBI file opens in a western city. Two men are playing golf. One of them middle-aged with an unlit cigar clenched between