 The Communist for the FBI Starring Dana Andrews in an exciting tale of danger and espionage. I was a communist for the FBI Many of the incidents in the story you're about to hear are based on the actual records and authentic experiences of Matt Sevetik who for nine fantastic years Live as a communist for the FBI Here is our star Dana Andrews as Matt Sevetik Externally you look the same nine years later a little more settled-looking a little more tolerant of things a little tired But that's all they think Inside are the ruins Inside is the wreckage of loneliness and compromise and disappointment and fear That's the price you pay for being for nine years a communist for the FBI like me In a moment listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Sevetik under cover man Here is Dana Andrews as Matt Sevetik under cover man This story from the confidential file is marked the wrong green I stumble out of comrade repchenko's office feeling like a guy who's just caught a live grenade and can't let go All I can think of is get to a pay station and call my FBI contact and maybe he can get the stinger out We arranged to meet at rendezvous green Currently a vacant garage away from things in the north side It's a place where a case of jitters can smoke and paste the concrete and flip his lid a little until the memies go away rendezvous green High-class luggage they're going to supply me and take my best clothes along the man said they get easy man Take it easy. All they want me to do this time is commit a felony All I'm supposed to do is pass a lot of counterfeit money at this plush resort. That's all simple This could be a break for us man We've suspected the reds of pouring counterfeit money into resorts where important foreign delegations are staying object To undermine confidence in our exchange and in our government generally also trade a little bad money for good There's a pan-american monetary conference going on at glade of the lakes The reds want you to riddle a place with bad currency Well, what about the effect of those counterfeits on the foreign delegates? You've got a risk red just this once more Prevent it's ever happening again. Lots of people gonna get stuck with bad paper. We'll replace it with good bills. Be worth it You game Matt I'm game. All right, and the season is wide open on me I packed my best clothes and comrade rev chinko promote some nifty luggage for me Also an aircraft beacon tight diamond ring. Don't ask me where the comrades got it In the lobby Matthew Savettex luggage leads all the rest in class dash in quality a Young field marshal escorts me to my $18 room where I'm supposed to relax in a pool of cold Sweat and await for the word from the party. I don't wait very long I like her right away. Perhaps 20 pretty appealing both right-looking anyway Friendly she could be my kid sister and in that two-second inventory I find myself wishing fervently that she isn't a communist. I've brought you the envelope. Oh Come in, please You are Matthew Savette. I'm Roberta King people call me Bobby though What people? Oh, everybody. I have the envelope my handbag Thanks Is that all the father says you'll hear from him later or for me You more than likely dad's so busy. He's an engraver, you know, do you always run their errands for them? Who? Never mind Where can you be reached Bobby? We'll be in touch Yeah Goodbye for now. Mr. Svettik. Oh, uh, shall I wait around? No, no, thank you I hope you have a very pleasant stay. Mr. Svettik. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Goodbye Bobby Is Matthew Svettik who are you? Oh, yeah, she's just left why good I haven't picked the winners. It's been her drove selkies just as well What the main object is to spend but what have I win what the money aside spend only your own money Is that clear? I get it. What about Bobby? What about it and and okay? Hello Hello, open the sealed envelope Bobby's left with me $2,000 in 20s 50s and a few hundreds. I take out a few bills and put the rest under the mattress I unpack shower shave and assume the correct attitude of a guy with $400 luggage and a taste for their better things of life I go downstairs to make my initial report to the FBI from the pay station long distance to headquarters operator Operator I deposited my money. When do I get value hello? Oh, never mind operator Hello there Bobby. I tried to call your room in the house. Oh, it's a picasius that you've seen you go into the booth here Yeah, I getting some lukewarm tips on the horses. Oh Well your money came back. Didn't you complete your call? It's not my dough my call was local but how could the operators mistake? I guess Let's go play the races. Hmm I'm here to get rid of some phony money for the party and I know now that pretty Bobby is assigned to see that I do it I'm sorry Bobby and I repair to the turf club for refreshment and high horse strategy Now pick me a winner Bobby not me I can't pick daisies without getting torn well in that case pick me two horses a parlay We'll lose everything. It's only money Or is it? What do you mean or is it? All right, pick two Excuse me, senior a seniorita your partner I Have difficulty to pay for my refreshments the bartender says you are How you say a loader eh? I can change that hundred for you. That's your problem. Yes. Yes, and many times two fifties Okay, excellent. Excellent. Thank you. You're a deep pardon You made a fast reputation for non thrift around here above know who that was big wheel in the Latin delegation The big wheel ought to go around with smaller change now. Where were we? Top secret in the six bomb blasts in the seven get it top secret bomb blasts. See only bomb Bast see bomb that no L. Oh That's right. Anyhow a hundred on top secret to ride on bomb best. How can we lose? huh Anyhow, it's fun Too bad. It can't be more fun. Why can't it be? First of all, I'm old enough to be your not your big brother. Oh Maybe that Bobby, why are you staying so close to me? Father told me you're his responsibility. Do you say in what way? He says you're an old friend and a good comrade, huh? Sure. All right We'll be good comrades too, right? Yeah It could only happen in pictures or to me a Nag named so what is the favorite in the sixth but disqualifies for crowding and top secret wriggles in first Then with the 12 to 1 take from top secret riding on bomb best bomb best promotes himself first across the finish line I take my three thousand dollar profit in honest money One with counterfeit money and sneak away like a thief It could only happen in the pics or in the fix I part with Bobby in the lobby and go up to my room Bobby in the lobby the pics or the fix the money is funny plenty of rhyme But not very much reason than what I've gotten myself into this time I unlocked the door of my room and walk into an acute heart condition Come in Matt How the dickens close the door friend? When did you get in? How did you get in? Influence does the management know your FBI the FBI man at the day desk knows I'm FBI the day clerk We can't let an international conference go on police. Oh Well, I see you found the envelope of funny money first place We look is behind pictures and under the mattress. Have you had a chance to look at the stuff closely? Uh-huh Pretty good stuff isn't it frighteningly good. It's almost perfect counterfeiting Yeah, I get the shakes every time I pass any of it. I can understand Look with these bad bills going into circulation, aren't we going to make a pretty bad impression on the Latin American monetary Delegates, that's the big point with the reds How far do we have to go along with it though? I told you Matt They've got to take risks this once more in the hope of breaking up this particular racket for keeps Do I go on helping undermine confidence in our dollar right in the middle of a pan-american money conference every victory costs Casualties to our side suppose one of those sour bank notes Who would that be? Oh, I don't know who is it? Oh Bobby, who's Bobby? Wait a second Bobby Go someplace up the closet. I'll get rid of her for a couple of minutes. All right. No That's one minute. I mean one of those 50s first. Hey, yeah, here. Yeah, but don't let me smother. Would you? I mean can't squeeze through a mere crack in the wall. Oh Bobby. I'm not quite dressed and I need change for this 50 You're going to a masquerade as far as with the men. I'll be a good kid and change this 50 downstairs. Will you? It's hit your shoes out sir. I'll be glad to polish them. Thanks a lot Bobby back in three minutes. All right, come on Who did you say Bobby was? She's an engraver's daughter. Oh She sounds cute. I better leave one ago. He's good So I'll ask Watch yourself No sentiment. No But here I am waiting for Bobby King to come back Wondering if she'll break that phony bill for me because if she does break it it means she doesn't know it's counterfeit and She'll be in the clear All of a sudden one of the big issues of this fight I'm in is the corruption of young people like Bobby King at least Bobby King is a big issue with me suddenly So please Bobby change that bill Change that queer 50 and Pan American conference or not Bobby. You'll be the big news to me After all, I'm only old enough to be your brother Yeah Oh Come in Bobby Back to Dana Andrews starring as Matt's a vatic and I was a communist for the FBI and the second act of our story I Wait for that door to open and for Bobby King to walk in with or without change from that bad 50 dollar bill If she has the change she's passed counterfeit money for it, but she's proved she's innocent in any of the peculiar skull Duggery going on around here lately Somebody funny look you've gotten your face Bob Did did you change the 50? Terrible time. Did you change it? Finally had to use your magic name though Bobby I don't know why I did that Because you felt very big brotherly towards me all at once What what did you want to talk to me about? I thought to worry what you had against me After all you did say for us to be good friends Comrades, I think I said yes But I'm not worried now. I mean either and then it came to me in a flash of inspiration If you're going to be alone for dinner, you might like pleasant as well as ornamental company like you Why thank you, Mrs. Vedic. I'd love to have dinner with you. How nice of you to think of it. I had help Then there in the hotel dining room could be pleasant if people didn't keep recognizing me as the dude who parlayed two dogs into three grand All at once the Latin delegation across the room Excited voices and converging hotel officials The rumor flies from table to table Ruiz a big wheel in the delegation has paid the check for the counterfeit $50 bill And suddenly Ruiz and the manager are looking toward me Ruiz is nodding I pay my check with good currency and without waiting for the change. I hurry Bobby out of there It's no good on the terrace cropped the manager overhauls us Mr. Svendick miss if I may have a word with you. I am taking this young lady home No, I may speak to both of you, please go ahead in my office, Mr. Svendick All right Now that may I ask your name miss? Well, yes, my name. No, you may not ask. I don't mind Matt I'm mine. I'm mine very much I want to know this man's business with us before we answer any questions at all very well, Mr. Svendick keep it down cough. You're getting shrill I'll tell you then for two days now a flood of counterfeit money has been disorganizing things here the pan-american delegation is greatly disturbed as am I as am I Get on with it tonight. Senior Ruiz chairman of the group was embarrassed when he offered us a bad $50 bill He says you gave it to him in the turf club. I'll better that I gave him two fifties in the turf club Both of them good. Where's the other one Ruiz spent it their excellent counterfeit if they're so good It's a matter for experts to determine not a head waiter of the cashier. Don't you think I'm sure the bill was counterfeit Then somebody gave it to me counterfeit. You admit there are a lot of them around Don't bother this lady and me about it. This lady, Mr. Svendick broke a different $50 bill today in your name. That's right The cashier put it aside. We put aside all bills of $50 are over with data concerning who passed it when etc In the light of recent events. I must consider that bill suspect also how absurd in insulting Well, Mr. Svendick why sympathize with your predicament I'm wanting to have the bill the young lady broke for me examined here in my presence and by an expert Not by you not by your head waiter or some hysterical cashier But an expert certainly if I'm not mistaken as an engraving expert here in your community I insist that you call him at once to establish my innocence. It can't establish your innocence He can only establish that the bill is good at bad. If it is bad like the other we must presume the possibility of guilt Call him. What's his name? Cain. Mr. Miro Cain. He's in the telephone director Croft puts in a call for Cain then we wait for my accomplished red accomplice to appear I'm not worried about the outcome. I can't lose then Miro Cain arrives He peers at us without recognition through his thick lenses. No introductions and so delicate a matter Cain studied the bill for a few seconds Hmm Yes Well, Mr. Cain, I wish I had a thousand such counterfeit bills. Mr. Croft Then it's good a certain amount of attrition from handling which may sometimes be deceptive, but otherwise perfect So good that I'm willing to accept it as my fee $50 exact by all means, Mr. Cain and thank you. Thank you Hmm and to you, Mr. Cervetti my sincere appreciation for your sympathetic cooperation in this matter. Oh, that's all right, Mr. Croft you're in a spot They'll go Bobby. Thank you, Mr. Cervetti Mr. Cervetti, I'd rather be alone. Thank you. I go for a long walk I feel choked smothered by the oppressive events of these two days Cain's verdict is what I expected of course And I credit his wit in managing to pocket the evidence as well It's Bobby that disturbs me. Is she hurt and humiliated by her experience tonight? Does she suspect me in spite of my vindication or is it all part of the act? Is she as red as her father? My head is whirling. I go back to the hotel and lie down fully clothed sleepless Beyond comfort. Yeah Cain. Yeah, come in Come in. Thank you Lock the door Okay. Thank you It was shrewd of you to contrive for me to be the expert this evening comrade Cervetti Shrewd of you to contrive to take the evidence with you as your fee comrade. Thank you That is not why I took it. Oh, I took it as evidence Yes, to be used against you by the control commission of the Communist Party comrade Cervetti What are you talking about saying simply that it was no falsehood to tell mr. Croft tonight that this $50 bill was good because It is good. Well, it can't be what it is Not if it's the one I gave Bobby to change for me This is the one you gave her a change for you and it is a perfectly good United States note And I want to know why it is good Why is it not counterfeit like the rest all the bills I gave you were counterfeit? Why isn't this? That's very I don't wait. Did you get a good $50 bill? I don't know perhaps the control commission will refresh your memory I don't know how the bill got mixed up with the phonies. I tell you perhaps this will make you remember I don't think the control commission will approve of unauthorized gunplay either comrade came now understand this If I am seized by the police or the FBI it will not be merely as a communist but as a counterfeit I will not suffer that comrade so many I Have a daughter who means much to me discuss this with that daughter who means so much to you Ask her if she switched bills when she cashed the one I gave her have a good idea. She'd do it. Why I don't know Answer it. I'll have you covered from my pocket Bobby Why are you here? I was not there I heard everything Rebutted Don't don't touch me. I heard you say not merely a communist but a counterfeit Not merely a communist then You are not one of us. No, you are one of them And father I'm going out of here now father. I'm going to the FBI No You're not rebutted before it's too late for you Rebutted I warn you I'll shoot He means it Bobby Bobby don't go rebutted Don't go. I warn you Bobby. He'll shoot I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it Now I hate them the revolution the party I Hate them all He hates them all which means he isn't likely to report his suspicions of me to the party blood is told in my favor Cain stumbles out of the room dazed and broken I sit on the edge of the bed It's my FBI contact. I tell him what's happened I want the FBI to get to Cain before the party does Cain can be salvaged for decent human purposes after he settled his debt to society Then my contact tells me things you see Matt when you found me in your room I'd already substituted good money for all the counterfeit money that was still left I get there was enough of a bad stuff floating around lots of people stuck with that wrong green We'll make it good and cheap at the price Nice work Matt take a walk get some sleep, and then we'll talk hang up I take a walk for cleansing air to walk the pure night We've taken casualties. All right, Mike Bobby decent level whimsical Bobby. I Find the good people when I always lose them again That's how it's got to be I'm a communist for the FBI. I Walk alone Dana Andrews will return in just a moment This is Dana Andrews. I'd like to remind you that the play you've just heard is firmly based in fact Places people and other data have been changed to protect the innocent Cases like the foregoing are not rare in the communist FBI conflict This story like others in this series is based on incidents in the experience of Matt's a very who worked undercover for the FBI Next week another exciting and revealing adventure. So we will