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This Is Your FBI: Captain Larceny

This Is Your FBI · March 9, 1951 · 29 min · 4,405 words

The transcript of “Captain Larceny”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast March 9, 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 representatives in your community Midway in tonight's program in place of the usual commercial

We will bring you a special message on inflation from Thomas I Parkinson, president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, hi Jackie, it's title Captain Larceny.

Tonight's case from the files of your FBI brings out a significant fact. Despite the introduction of hundreds of scientific aids, of improved detection equipment and a faster communication. The most important factor in crime investigation is still brain power.

There is no substitute for human intelligence. That is why the qualifications for a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been made exceedingly exacting. Only picked men, those who measure up to the highest metal physical and character standards are chosen to serve in your FBI.

Tonight's file opens in a waterfront saloon as the bartender serves a customer a drink. Hey, that's four bits. Four bits. What do you do with a drunken sailor? What do you do with a drunken sailor?

What do you do with a drunken sailor? Oh, you little morning. Fetch me a handful of rye whiskey, Georgie Boy. Right. Well, don't distill the whiskey, son. Just pour it. Coming up. Gentlemen, to the sea.

First move in the morning always tickles. Another shot, Cap. First we better have a few words. What? Maybe inside this box I have a camera. A movie camera. I'm sorry, Cap. I can't handle any more stuff.

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