This Is Your FBI: Hollywood Shakedown

This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The subject of our FBI file... Extortion. It's titled...

The Hollywood Shake Down. Since the passage by Congress of the Federal Extortion Statute in 1932, the number of such crimes has been drastically reduced. However, it is probably safe to say that some form of extortion is practiced almost daily in some parts of the country.

This evening's program is brought to you not to acquaint you with the modus operandi of the typical felon who commits this type of crime, for there is no average extortion case. The circumstances in each instance are different.

However, this case history is dramatized in the hope of reaching people who are being victimized by extortioners, and who, through fear, are now keeping it a secret. If this description fits you, protect yourself. Protect everyone except the criminal by instantly notifying the nearest field office of your FBI.

Their telephone number is on page 1 of your local directory. Tonight's FBI file opens in the fan mail department of a motion picture studio. A letter from my hometown. Somebody was left after you moved.

Hey, Smell, it's green. No one? Huh? Went school together. What you want? Picture Lionel Butler. Oh, let's dig a good one. Okay. Hey, maybe I ought to put a little note to Alice. I should get a kick out of it.

When or she's there and see listen dear Ruth Elmore I have received certain information from Bertha Kingman You know that information I mean and you also know what would happen if it was made public I am willing to sell all my material for ten thousand dollars If you agree to pay put an ad in the papers do not go to the police with this if you do I will kill you