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This Is Your FBI: The Adopted Thief

This Is Your FBI · August 10, 1951 · 29 min · 3,955 words

The transcript of “The Adopted Thief”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast August 10, 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. Present and transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.

And the Equitable Society is representative in your community. E-E-F. Those three letters, E-E-F, have helped make it possible for thousands of bright ambitious boys and girls to equip themselves to lead happier, more successful lives.

E-E-F stands for Equitable Education Fund. An Equitable Education Fund is the painless way to pay for a college education. It's the way for a parent to make sure that his boy or girl will enjoy the advantage of a college education.

In about 14 minutes, I'll give full information on this equitable educational plan created by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, Larsenie, its title, The Adopted Thief.

In making the decision to broadcast this series as a public service, your FBI had several objectives. One of the most important was to focus the spotlight of publicity. on what goes on behind the scenes in the underworld.

For the more thoroughly you, the people, are alerted to the stratagems and techniques of criminals. The better able you are to recognize a crime in the making, to take steps for self-protection, to make the moves that help bring criminals to justice.

There comes a moment in many criminal acts when, if the intended victim is on guard, The whole plot will fall to pieces. Tonight's FBI file illustrates such a case. Tonight's FBI file opens in a fashionable suburb of a large Midwestern city.

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