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This Is Your FBI: Communist Agent

This Is Your FBI · December 1, 1950 · 29 min · 4,172 words

The transcript of “Communist Agent”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast December 1, 1950. 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 primescribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community the Equitable Life Assurance Society has nearly 8,000 trained

representatives from coast to coast, serving more than four million members. Tonight, one of our equitable society representatives has a brief message on social security. Because of recent changes in the Social Security Law, about 10 million new social security numbers are being issued.

Once more, those who have old numbers receive greatly increased benefits, so this is a good time to look at your financial situation, to see what lies ahead for you and your family. You'll get a lot of help in this job from the equitable society's famous fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers.

Listen carefully in about 14 minutes when Mr. Keating will tell you more about equitable's fact-finding chart and how it can help you. Tonight, FBI file number 295. It's subject, subversive activities. It's title, Communist Agent.

The United States is a nation founded in the blood of revolution. Perhaps for that reason we as a people have always been uncommonly tolerant of minorities. However, there is a minority group among us today whose motives bear looking into.

That group is the American Communist Party, and those who, while not belonging, subscribe to its ideals. What would these people, if successful in their attempt to in their attempt to overthrow this government, bring us as a substitute.

Thomas Jefferson, a man they hold nothing but contempt for, once wrote, the God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. The man who made the Communist International a reality, Nikolai Lening, also had some words to say about liberty.

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