This Is Your FBI: The Traveling Swindle

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.

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Tonight, the subject of our FBI file. Impersonation, its title. The Traveling Swindle. The Criminal Mind, while warped and maladjusted, still functions in much the same manner as any other mind. It observes, it memorizes, it forms opinions.

And one of these opinions seems to be that the American public is very gullible. Basing many of their activities on this theory, criminals constantly endanger the public through the evils of fraud and misrepresentation. Many of these crimes seem more serious than others, but from the able-bodied beggar, who masquerades as a cripple, to the fly-by-night stockbroker, their stuck-in-trade is fraud.

And as in tonight's case, your law enforcement agencies must depend on your cooperation to wipe it out. Tonight's FBI file opens in a Midwestern state. It is late afternoon. A travel war in Sudan labors faithfully along a tree-shaded road as it pulls a heavy house trailer behind it.