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This Is Your FBI: The Lonely Hearts Racket

This Is Your FBI · April 29, 1949 · 28 min · 4,082 words

The transcript of “The Lonely Hearts Racket”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast April 29, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays This Is Your FBI free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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United States. Tonight's FBI file, the Lonely Hearts racket. Crime is enjoying unparalleled prosperity. For the American criminal, the boom is on. In studying the records not only of the past year, but also of the pre-war years, it is apparent that this nation is not only not making any progress in fighting the crime wave,

but is actually losing ground. That fact points up the inevitable corollary that unless some real progress is made in the near future, unless some important victories are won against that army of criminals, the crime wave may engulf us all. However, defeat at their hands is not inevitable, even as it wasn't inevitable when the Axis forces held democracy by the throat

during World War II. Victory against the Legion of Crime can be won, but it will only be won the way NA War is won, by the combined efforts of all the people. Tonight's fire opens in a neighborhood dance hall located in the residential section of one of our large eastern cities. A group of people is scattered about the hall obviously

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