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This is Your FBI: Killer for Hire

This is Your FBI · July 11, 1952 · 29 min · 4,244 words

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Tonight, the Sub-it-of-R-F-B-I-Fire bank robbery, its title, Killer for Hire. We often hear crime referred to as big business.

This is not an accurate comparison. To a certain extent, the underworld has adopted some methods of large businesses. It controls huge amounts of capital, requires keen management and planning, demands efficiency of its employees in carrying out its orders. But here the similarity ends. Whereas businessmen can survey and graft their future prospects with some degree of accuracy, criminals cannot.

For the simple reason that slip-ups disloyalty of their underlings, unanticipated moves on the part of law and force but officials. All these are unpredictable hazards. The underworld and can never close its books, knowing for sure that all the figures are in.

Tonight your FBI presents another case from its files. It shows how a well-planned crime can go wrong. Even years after its apparently successful completion, tonight's FBI file opens in a smart nightclub located in a large Midwestern city.

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