This Is Your FBI: The Masquerader

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents, This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The Office of Broadgast 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.

A famous American once warned us that, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. All of us, of course, want security, but not at the price of freedom. That is why the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States was formed.

And why today there are more than five million Americans who are members of the Equitable Society of their own free will. In about fourteen minutes we have something to tell you about the Equitable Society's eight thousand representatives and how they may help you to enjoy the freedom from worry and the peace of mind that may come with membership in the equitable society.

Tonight, the subject of our FBI file. Impersonation. It's title. The Mascorator. Occasionally, it is possible to remove any ill-after effects of a crime. When a criminal is apprehended after a burglary, for example, and his loot is returned intact to the victim, no one has penalized except the lawbreaker.

However, such complete restitution is never possible in the case of one particular criminal, the imposter. He usually works with forged credentials or fictitious letters of introduction from well-known people. Even after the imposter is apprehended, he leaves in his wake a wave of suspicion, a feeling on the part of his victims that never again will they be able to believe anyone.

The case you are about to hear is the story of one of those criminals. It's one of the most brazen impostors in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tonight's fire lapins in the rural district of a Midwestern state.