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This is Your FBI: The Innocent Santa Claus

This is Your FBI · December 21, 1951 · 29 min · 4,438 words

The transcript of “The Innocent Santa Claus”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast December 21, 1951. 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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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. Oh, if you contemplate placing a mortgage on your home, it will pay you to remember those letters. They stand for the Assured Home Ownership Plan of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. A money-saving home-saving plan designed to speed the day when you can say, No mortgage on my house, I own it free and clear.

If that appeals to you, please listen carefully in about 13 minutes for full information on the Equitable A-H-O Plan. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file armed robbery, its title, the Inosan Santa Claus. Nearly all criminals are emotionally childish, undependable, and unscrupulous.

Some like the characters you'll meet in tonight's dramatization from FBI files are more vicious than others. But make no mistake about it. The dashing and charming Robin Hood types are few and far between. taint with unhappiness the lives of all those with whom they come in contact. The little niceties of life, the decent courteous kindnesses, the Christmas spirit itself that make up normal people's

lives are completely foreign to the vast majority of them. Whatever they do is for themselves alone. One of your FBI's major purposes in bringing you these programs is to present the underworld as it really is, without glamour, without sentimentality. Tonight's FBI file opens in a cheap hotel room in the downtown district of a large eastern city. A 12-year-old girl

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