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This Is Your FBI: Prisoner of War

This Is Your FBI · October 6, 1950 · 29 min · 4,279 words

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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.

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for this middle commercial from the equitable society, you in about 14 minutes. Tonight's FBI file, prisoner of war. After too short a respite.

This nation is again engaged in war, notwithstanding every effort we made to avoid that conflict. Like the last war, and most of the preceding ones, the battlefield, the place where bullets are flying, is in another land far from these shores.

However distant we might find ourselves from the nearest enemy artillery though. We are in a zone of danger, for as wars are fought today, there is no such thing as a non-combatant. Almost all of us, in or out of uniform, are permanently enlisted, as we were during World War II.

There were those among us during that period though, who, while not wearing the uniform of the enemy, worked for an Axis victory, worked in our very midst, and called themselves Americans. Tonight's file opens in the year 1944 in a large office located on the second story of a building on the building's trusser in Berlin. Behind a big desk sits a lean hard-faced

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