 Communist for the FBI Starring Dana Andrews and an exciting tale of danger and espionage. I was a communist for the FBI From the actual records and authentic experiences of Matt's CIVETIC come many of the incidents in this unusual story Here is our star Dana Andrews as Matt's CIVETIC who for nine fantastic years Lived as a communist for the FBI For nine long years I lived a dream but a dream filled with strangely gesturing menacing figures and portents of disaster Sometimes the figures didn't menace but beckoned temptingly Attractively and I wanted desperately to answer they promised decent human satisfactions But I couldn't answer I had my job to do and my role to play and in that job One travels the safest who travels alone In a moment listen to Dana Andrews as Matt's CIVETIC under cover man Here is Dana Andrews as Matt's CIVETIC under cover man This story from the confidential file is marked the red snow Over the telephone comrade ref chinco's tone of voice is imperative Report the headquarters at once urgent and special I walk into ref chinco's office no ref chinco Somebody else is sitting behind my chief's desk A dreadful blood-chilling caricature of a man The kind of figure that editorial page cartoonists draw to represent famine He's lean with a yellowish skin and leaden lips in a derisive mouth His sparse hair is parted almost obscenely over his melon-like skull He sits back in ref chinco's chair and looks at me with smoky contemptuous eyes Nothing good can come from an apparition like that and it doesn't Sit down comrade sedeck. I expected comrade ref chinco is uh, please sit down Okay I am comrade daggett All right Naturally comrade ref chinco could not intimate the nature of my business with you Urgent and special is how he put it at least I have in this drawer A handful of related items so Do they suggest anything to you? Eh, what if they do? What's the idea? This teaspoon, packet of matches, eyedropper, hypodermic needle and the small paper of powder represent, of course a crude narcotic addict's outfit All right, what about it? You are committed to do whatever the party requires of you, correct comrade sedeck? Correct Suppose I should ask you to heat some water in this teaspoon Disolve the heroin in this packet in the water And inject it into your arm That's enough daggett. You can put all that assorted junk right back into your desk drawer and find yourself another boy Do you say you would disobey party orders on that? Yes. That's where I draw the line A party can make anything out of it that they want to Good Good We want no sniveling spineless hopsters babbling all our secrets in exchange for a jolt of cheap heroin Then what's the idea? Here Here is an envelope containing two thousand dollars in cash Take it And There is an area on the east side overrun with drug and dope pushers and their overlords go there Buy all the drugs you can $2,000 worth morphine cocaine heroin marijuana Accent on heroin But I learned the vocabulary of the dope addict from this small manual we have had prepared Learned everything about the dope racket everything a big order Experience everything and find out who is at the top of the east side syndicate Be careful naturally You'll be moving among desperate people jealous of the huge profits all as addicts Completely irresponsible and heedless of consequence It's a nice assignment comrade one of the most important. We've ever given you may I ask why you may not Sit down comrade. Let me brief you on your urgent and special assignment When I finally swim out of that office, I'm sick and giddy with refulsion I've got to tell the FBI got to reassure myself of a sound sane bottom to this reeking opiometers abyss I'm expected to explore for what unspeakable reason And now the FBI's unlisted number from a pay station 10 minutes later I'm parked on the side street with my FBI contact behind the wheel I've seen him serious before I've never seen him this serious All right, it's big matt Anything touching on narcotics has to be big big and dirty and yeah What are they up to now exactly where we're depending on you to find out matt Learn the business thoroughly and reach the top guns dagget said We've been trying to find out who heads up the east side mob for a long time But this goes a lot further than that tag. I'm it again and matt You're heading into the most vicious irresponsible crowd anywhere in crime. That's right rub it in Watch yourself matt. That's what comrade daggett said I studied at dopey lingo and daggett's handy little guidebook Taxi over to the east side and then walk slowly down the teeming tenement streets Memorizing my ugly little lesson M's for morphine h heroin c cocaine or snow Bang a muggle to smoke marijuana hooked addicted Mainliner veteran addict etc etc until I can use them in sentences I find a basement cafe specified by comrade daggett I order a sandwich and button hole the unkempt waiter before he can travel Uh waiter It's your problem bud Hey look chum. I'm kicking the habit, but I I need a ration. Got any ideas? I don't know what you're talking about sonny boy. I got money plenty Translate, maybe I'll understand. There's ten bucks under the asterisks That case She had a girl in the phone booth. Yeah, she's plenty hooked. She'll help you out. Thanks. Here she comes now Hey ellie. Yeah Prince charming to see you Take it from there sonny boy You the fella who wants to see me Yeah, sit down ellie. I haven't got but a minute So uh, they told me you know where a guy can get a bindle That's right Give me the money and I'll help you out. I want to buy direct. I'm buying big. See you said just a bindle To you I said big my connections got to know his customers It'll juice me then It isn't that easy the feds are cracking down, you know What do I have to do to get this connection of yours? There's a way all right. All right then Well, I'll have to cross to the north side where they don't know me Who the drug is the real legit pharmacies. I mean You've got some money Mia, I'm all for broke 50 do for a while. Yes Yeah Here you you take this key to my apartment Before you waited my flat until you get a phone call from a drugist on the north side He'll ask for dr. Fairbie He'll tell you that I'm there wanting an old prescription. He's got that on file. It's it's to be refilled for my mother He's not allowed to do it by law, but I'll get him to call you about it anyhow You want the drugist? No, I'm not dr. Fairbie the only prescription he ever got from dr. Fairbie I planted there. Yeah, but dr. Fairbie's telephone number must be on the prescription form How'd you get him to call you a number? It's it's my number on the prescription form We get them sort of printed up for us Forwarded and counterfeit prescriptions. It's simple go ahead Well, you tell the drugist it's okay, and you'll send him a prescription in the morning. Sure Okay, I'll put on my doctor hat only How does all this hocus pocus get me to the big dealers in h? You come to the big guy with some real pure usp type m that you didn't get legit and Well, you're just one of the boys then No, narcotics bureau fed would go around looting honest drug is to make a pinch. Would they that figures How am I doing? You're doing great Would you want to tell me your name? It just called me Matt I'm ellie. Yes, I know. Well, we'd better get going on it, huh? I find ellie's incredibly wretched flat and waited the phone there for an hour Shuddering in the tawdry gloom of this place where ellie spends her lonely drug clouded hours The rats who bring kids like ellie to the squalor the rats dirty dirty rotten Yes, dr. Fairbie, please. Oh, this is dr. Fairbie. Oh, good evening, dr Doctor, there's a young lady here asking me to refill a narcotic prescription for a mother 50 tablets morphine sulfate hd one quarter grain one tab tid prn for pain Patient is missus thornwall. Oh, yes She insisted I call you although I told her I can't refill the prescription doctor Well, uh, couldn't you give her the tablets and I'll send you a new prescription first thing in the morning Oh, it's not regular doctor. Yes, I know You see I'm held strictly accountable for all narcotics I realize that but the patient will suffer severe pain unless she has a medication Well, uh, would you mail me the prescription tomorrow without fail? Oh, I certainly will. Thank you very much Goodbye, doctor. Bye I hang up feeling dirty and polluted I'm acceptable now in a society of pushers and drug traffickers I've made it traffic in narcotics I've used a helpless and pitiful addict to obtain illicit m The rats dirty obscene murdering soul destroying rats I won't hate them I've got to work with them I wait in ellis dingy flat fairly to come back hour Two hours. Where is she? All of a sudden a terrible thought hits me. Has she used that m on herself? Where is she? Where is she? Hello ellie? Hello Hello, who is this? Hello, I say Dead hung up. No, I'm scared. Who was that on the line? Why that stealthy hang up Who was it? Checking on me, maybe Making sure I was still there turning me down until What? This isn't my line This is way off my beat I can't stand still for this one It's too much. There's soul wrecking worse than murder and I'm in it I can't go for this anymore the FBI. I've got to go to the FBI. I want answer Let me hang up on me again This war of bears I want answer Hello? Hello? Hello, what are you here? Hello? Hello, I'm back to Dana Andrews starring as Matt Sevatic And I was a communist for the FBI and the second act of our story I'm scared but good. Who was that on the line? Why that stealthy hang up? I know somebody Somebody checking on me holding me down here making sure I'm in the apartment Penning me down here until What? The FBI. I've got to talk to the FBI I can't take this. I've got to get out of here All right, Matt. We'll park here and talk it over Well, I'm sorry. I blew my top like that I guess I should have come down to the FBI headquarters I think we slipped out okay though, Matt. That was just going all creepy I couldn't stay in that awful flat anymore Make some sort of plausible explanation to this Ellie Go back, you mean? I think it's important you do Matt. Oh, I feel filthy. I know It's a mean vicious racket. We're fighting. What's it all about? Do you happen to know? What are the commies up to now? You got any idea at all? Matt The communist control of vast isiatic area If they decide to go into the traffic in a big way, they can get it wholesale and how it's a bomb, Matt Now I'm scared. We all are How do I figure on all this? Why me? The rents will need an organization a machinery for their narcotics racket distributioner sales force that knows the ropes They can build their own or they can take over an operation. That's already in being. I get it. I say Getting to the top man planting evidence on him through you How then threatening to expose him It's sort of up to you Matt You got any date on this Ellie girl? Whatever name is probably the casualty one of the many poor kid She's new to me. I'll check right away with the bureau of narcotics Poor kid poor kid's s plural Well, I better get back and see if she's back yet Matt, yeah Call me after you've seen her again, will you? Sure, you want me to I want to keep hearing from you now Sounds ominous. Call me that's all Huh, that's her place. Just ask about some fight tickets or something If everything's okay. Okay. I may even call you. Oh, I give you a number, didn't I? Yeah Okay Along I want to walk I'm gonna collect my nerve again But I take care to cross the street when I get near the FBI headquarters again I wait at the bus stop Breathing deeply trying to steady myself And then the taxi slides past me and my reeling world blows up in my head I can't be wrong about the girl in the backseat. It's Ellie off her beat cruising past FBI headquarters She must have made that phone call to me then trying to scare me into making a false move into betraying myself She must have made the call from across the street and then trailed me to the FBI when I left her apartment Sweet pathetic wistful little ellay communist plant I signal a taxi Showdown in sweet unfortunate little ellay's ugly flat. There you are matt come in Yeah, here. I am Where was I? I said ellay Well, I can tell you I sure got that m from the drugstore, right? Fine 12 and a half grains of real usp pure m you flash that at swine in he'll know you're safe Swiney swiney is my pusher friend Sounds like just the right name for him too. Yeah, here's the stuff and it's all there too. I I wouldn't touch a grain of it You're a doll ellay a real doll. He's coming right over Who swiney? I called him to come But for what do you want to buy stuff from him? You said my goodness I want to talk to you first ellay sure Ellay I want to know exactly what you were doing around the commerce building a few minutes ago Who me? You were there not 10 minutes ago. You were seen. Well, you you can just tell whoever saw me that he was seeing things All right ellay and suppose you roll up your sleeve show me your arm. What for? You claim you're a hopster, but you may line this stuff. All right I want to see the needle punctures on your arm to prove it. What's the matter? Don't you believe me? We can't risk any informers miss raggan informers. You heard me informers Sneak fbi or bureau of narcotics informers spying on us running to the fbi in the commerce You're crazy running to the bureau of narcotics yapping all you know to the feds Are all up your sleeve. I won't you'll do as I tell you. I don't have to and I'll do it for you Stop stop I'll show you You're hurting my arm Cut cut who are you? Yes, ellay, who is this guy? I don't know What's with this wrestling around and twisting the arm? We were just horse playing that's all You got some m? M? I don't know what you mean You called told swiney you had some m? What? Oh Oh Matt Matt give him the m we got give him the m Why should I? You want to do business with me? You want to do business with me or not? Uh huh Okay Here real prescription stuff Are you the big guy? Tell me What's this business about you running to the fbi flapping them out, huh? Who me? But that's the silliest thing ever Let's think at the door will you Answer the question That's crazy can you imagine Me going to the cops Like this maybe you uh You got a mistake huh fella I just wanted to be sure the game we're in This case you're out of line Elly's okay Ain't you okay elly Sure How'd you know my name? Elly's a mainliner from way back Ain't you elly? Sure way back Elly couldn't get by without a daily ration Could you elly? That's right I have a question for you right now Just to prove you the real thing You're going to bang the stuff right now Ain't you elly? Wait a minute Sure Of course Here's the stuff Here's an outfit Shoot Right now? I mean Shoot I'll take it that's for me I'm waiting for a call about some fight tickets Hello I told you Two at the ringside stupid So how about a couple further back then What? Well that's an awful price way up there What about those cancellations You just found an unfederal informer I see And that puts me in quite a jam It does? Yeah a date with this daemon I'm all hemmed in up in the bleachers someplace You need us? And don't miss foolish How do you like that Depend on these guys and they'll ruin you Okay elly show the boyfriend how you do Okay I brought you glass of water Show the fella All right I believe the both of you Now let's get down to business He wants to buy a lot of stuff from you We ain't in a rush How you missed him As a matter of fact I am Won't take you a bit a minute Girl likes a little privacy Can't you and Matt go into the next room? No I'll go then I'll be right back Sit down elly You got the H Heat water in a spoon and go Show the fella I stare at that awful drama An excruciating slow motion The big guy viciously Sadisticly torturing elly Punishing her in this ghastly way If she isn't an addict And I know now that she isn't Punishing her by making an addict of her Again But she won't crack She's going to go through with it She fills the dropper Now the warm solution of H in the teaspoon Adjusts the needle to the tip of the dropper My throat is thick I can't breathe I can't let it go through with this With a glass of water I'll reach for the glass of water and stumble Stole for time Stole yourself I'm sorry You slob, you knocked the stuff out of elly spoon I just reached for the glass of water and stumbled It's alright, I can get along without my ration for now That's alright kid I just happen to have another Bindle for you But honest, I don't have to have it Not right now I got it I tell you Yeah Yeah And let's go Get your heads all of it Grab that guy Okay, I can get out now and walk Sorry you cut your hands so badly, man Sorry The comrades will love me in this bandage We just had to make it look as if we wanted you to To keep you in the clear with the commies What happens to comrade Daggett Now that we've got the key man Daggett will be easy Anything else? I'm still thinking of elly What if she had to shoot that H into a vein She'd have been hooked all over again Maybe beyond hope this time That little girl plays for keeps, man I'd like to see her again Uh-uh Why not? Are we ever told her that you were a big operator Who might lead us to the big guy She thinks I'm a dope merchant Or a communist She despises me I guess It's got to be that way, Matt Why? Matt She goes one day She's cornered again And gets hooked A drug addict has no will She'd talk Then where would I be? Yeah You know what's wrong, boys Only in the street My cut hand trobs me now It doesn't matter Because there's still rough weather ahead But no snow No red snow drifting and sifting into our lives Not if we're at tenth, this game is elly Maybe I'll see her again When this fight is over And one When she can come out of the shadow of the poppy But I can stop being a living contradiction Until then I'm still a communist For the FBI I walk alone Dana Andrews will return in just a moment This is Dana Andrews The story you've just heard Detailed another victory In the continuing fight Against the forces of evil in America Like all these stories, it stemmed from fact The tales are disguised naturally But the spirit of fact remains In all its power and significance Next week, another adventure From the file of Matt Sevetic Who worked undercover for the FBI It's quite an experience, so be listening Next week, thank you