This Is Your FBI: The Corruptors

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Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, kidnapping. It's title, The Corruptors. In connection with tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, we bring you a message from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

Mr. Hoover's words are, and I quote, in every community, there are some men who would like to corrupt the public officials and to profit from that corruption. In a few places those men have succeeded, and where discovery has been made, there was great publicity given to the venal politicians.

That is as it should be, but your FBI wishes to emphasize one important point, or every official found guilty of accepting a bribe, or an indirect payoff. There are thousands upon thousands of honest, sincere, hard-working men and women.

Because people represent the overwhelming majority who regard public service as a public trust, who give living everyday proof that democracy does work. Tonight's file opens in a western city. We are in the living room of an old house occupied by Frank Madison and his wife Mary.