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This Is Your FBI: The Saboteurs

This Is Your FBI · March 30, 1951 · 25 min · 3,391 words

The transcript of “The Saboteurs”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast March 30, 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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This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file. S.B.N.I.

It's titled... The Sabotur! The FBI file chosen for tonight concerns a case which goes back to World War II. By presidential order two years before Pearl Harbor, The Federal Bureau of Investigation was named the official clearinghouse for all reports of suspected sabotage in espionage.

In one single day during the conflict, over 2,500 such reports were received. Each one of them had to be checked separately. Tonight's case will serve to remind you that special agents of the FBI have now had vast experience combating all the tricks and strategies of spies, traitors and saboteurs.

In the present emergency, whether it be enemy agent from without, or fifth-colonists from within, you may be sure that your FBI is ready. The night's file opens just off the Atlantic coast late one night during the war.

A small, crescent moon throws a dim light on the ocean. Just enough so four men in a small rubber boat can see where they're going. like two so those not rowing can wave farewell to the U-boat they have just left. Admiral Dernot says carried out his assignment. He has brought four saboteurs to this country.

The rest is up to them. Now the rubber boat reaches the shore. Four men jump out and sail us from the U-boat return to the submarine. On the beach the men take shovels and dig. In a few minutes enough of a hole has been made. The equipment the saboteurs have brought us buried. That job finished. The leader of the group gathers them together and says,

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