This is Your FBI: The Straw Hat Shakedown

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents, This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of a 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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women on the way up. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file extortion. It's titled the Straw Hat Shakedown. The many different types of law-breaking with which your FBI is called on to deal. is one large group which might be classified as crime by terror. In every case, the basis of such a crime is a threat, call it blackmail or extortion, and the threat is undesirable

publicity for the victim, call it racketeering, and the usual menace is damaged to the victim's property or his business. In almost every case, however, the threat is fundamentally a bluff because the criminal has good reason to fear publicity even more than the individual he threatens. When the prospective victim keeps his head, he can turn this fear to his