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This is Your FBI: The Perilous Secret

This is Your FBI · April 14, 1950 · 29 min · 4,212 words

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The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI! This is your FBI! The official broadcast 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.

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Tonight FBI file, the perilous secret! Unless you, someone in your family, or one of your close friends, is engaged in the profession of law enforcement, it is very doubtful that you are entirely aware of the daily, constant presence of crime.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation makes that statement with the full knowledge that this official broadcast from its files is heard in many remote hamlets as well as in larger cities. wherever you may find yourself at the moment, crime is somewhere near.

You need no more proof than the fact that one out of every 19 people in this country have fingerprint arrest records. Do you know more than 19 people? If you do, it is possible that at least one of them has such a record at FBI headquarters in Washington.

That figure holds true not alone for the slum sections of large metropolitan centers, but for every part of the nation. People are arrested in huddles and in mansions, in bleak corners of the desert and outside the general stores in small towns. They are in short, arrested everywhere, because crime is everywhere. Criminals have infested the land until they are as much

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