 The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents this is your FBI This is your FBI an official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community Before enacting tonight's timely case I'd like to call your attention to a very significant fact about the sponsor of tonight's program the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States And that's the increasing number of women who are becoming members of the Equitable Society More and more women are seeking security through life insurance They call on equitable society representatives Eager to know of the many uses and applications of modern life insurance in fact a number of our equitable society Representatives are themselves women I'll tell you about one of them later Just like the men they realize the value of life insurance both to the individual policyholder and to the community They know that by serving equitable society members They serve America Tonight's FBI file the bogus war bride Tonight's case from the files of your FBI Presents another in the series of demonstrations of gratitude for the heroic sacrifices of the returned veteran being performed daily by that Lower rung member of America's criminal society He was first in lying first in cheating and first in the pockets of his countrymen the swindler In a certain bar of Times Square, which became a favorite oasis of GIs during the war Two of the last three vacant stools have been quickly spotted by the deliriously happy couple just coming in the door Well, here we are baby Why don't you give us a couple of champagne cocktails? Okay? We got a lot of celebrating to do tonight, huh, Betty brother. Oh, listen to that rather what? Rather be here than any sport on earth That's what you kill me with those quick comebacks baby, you know That's what got me into this mess to start with What do you mean by that George that night in Piccadilly when I asked you to marry me you came back with yes So quick I didn't have a chance to change me blooming mind Well, if that's the way you feel about it. I'll get right back on the boat and go would you really baby? I say what a jolly big lawyer. I am what Drink oh thanks, baby Here's to the Queen Mary for bringing me Princess Betty is to you love Congratulations, chum. Huh? Congratulations. Oh, thanks, man. My bride still stuck over there, huh may take another six months What a pity. Yeah, it's tough Anyway, let me join in drinking to your reunion. Thanks. It's awfully nice. Oh, yeah. Well, here's to you Here's hoping you and your missus beat that six-month wrap rather You know Confidentially pal my wife here would still be stuck over there, too If I hadn't run on to a way to do a little finetling. Oh What's matter? I want us to get arrested on our first night. What do you mean get arrested talking about how we worked it That's why look baby the soldier here's one of us Well, you can't tell who else might be listening there's no police in here just because you don't see any brass buttons Okay, okay. Look, I don't know how you worked it to get your wife over but I'd sure like to know Well, I guess you can tell from the way Betty's putting the clamps on me that it's kind of a down under proposition If you know what I mean anything that will get my wife over here is all right with me after all She's she's got a right to be here, hasn't she? Come on. Let's all move over to that empty booth in the corner. Okay. Come on, baby. All right, oh Excuse me, mister Slide in sugar surely Now look pal. Yeah, maybe I better tell you first how much this deal cost me how much 500 smackers 500 can't you raise it? I Guess I can now these guys work fast. I'll have the dough tomorrow that fast enough. Yeah, I guess so. Okay What's the proposition? Was it all right with you if I tell him Betty after all I gotta help a buddy, you know Okay If you can raise 500 bucks tomorrow, you can get your wife over here in two or three weeks Just like I did really sure and here's how it works In the local field office of the FBI Assistant agent in charge Everett has just summoned special agent Grafton to his office You sent for me, mr. Everett. Yes, Grafton. I just got a special teletype and director Hoover Swindle case he wants us to go to work on right away. Yes, sir It's a fake passport racket being worked against returned veterans whose foreign brides are still over there Oh Due to the tremendous backlog of applications for passports and other necessary papers It may be several months before some of the wives can get over here I know so the racketeer spots a veteran whose wife is way down the list and sells them a fake American passport to send to his wife Mm-hmm. Have we got any lead two of these fake passports were picked up in London yesterday when two brides Presented them for inspection. I see they're being rushed to us by airmail But in the meantime here the names and addresses of the two husbands here in the city aren't they liable to arrest on a conspiracy charge? Technically yes, but mr. Hoover has no desire to arrest a veteran for trying to get his wife over here All we want is their cooperation in exposing the swindlers Well, then I better try to contact them right away. One of them lives out in Jackson Heights The other one up near Columbia University Here are the addresses Okay, I see if you can get a good description of who sold them the passports and how and where they were contacted right Passports of the sucker nearly ready, baby just about Oh, look can that accent will you when we're not working on somebody? Okay sugar But if I slip out a character in the middle of a deal sometime Well, it just might be raw. They're embarrassing for us. Don't you know you and your British understatement Look George, you better get some more of this kind of paper from the station or we're about out never mind We'll get some more when we get to the west coast. Yeah, but we only got enough left for What did you say I said we'll get some more paper in the west coast. What do you mean west coast? That's where we're going. How come look, baby We've been sprinkling these phony passports around here like confetti and making lots of nice dough, too I know and the way to keep the dough is to change scenery before we get caught We'll make you think thank nothing. We're hotter than a couple of tamales right now, so so two more suckers after tonight And we had for frisco why frisco? Because my pet there is a very sad situation out there, too Yeah, there's a lot of poor GIs out there with wives way out in Australia. Oh Well, of course And I must do something for me blooming sisters down under what? Can I come in mr. Everett? Oh come ahead Grafton and did you locate the husbands? I talked to one of them the others out of town what you find out? Well, I got a pretty good description of the swindlers good. How many are there a man and a woman? Oh, yes He's around 35. She's younger and speaks with a British accent They play the midtown bars frequented by servicemen and put on a big act about how happy they are to be reunited She plays the part of his British bride who's just arrived I see and some serviceman whose wife is still overseas butts in and asks how they managed it and there's another victim ready to be taken Of course this chap $500. Well, obviously the swindler didn't produce a phony passport on the spot at their first meeting I mean no the victim raised the money and they met again next day to complete the deal But he had no idea of where to contact the swindler in the meantime. That's right First contact was at a bar and the second meeting took place at the victim's house. All right Phone the descriptions of the swindlers to the police department and see if they check with anybody They have a record on right and I'll get every available agent We have and get them started covering all midtown bars at once Hello, oh, hello there everything set I talked to the guy what they wanted. Yeah. Yeah, but look I I already raised the 500 bucks. They can't back out on me. I gotta get my wife over here Okay, you're gonna get it here. Yeah, but you just said keep your shirt on will you you're in I don't get it Look, I'm not letting her buddy down. I talked the guys into making a deal for you. Yeah, they're the new customers You see oh, so I promised I'd deliver yours for him and collect the dough for them Then you've got it sure. Yeah. Yeah, where will I meet you at that same bar? Sure, I know I'll meet you wherever you say Okay, how about your place swell 36 cherry Lane down the village basement apartment Nobody like that in your files a sergeant. Okay. Well, thanks a lot anyway Please headquarters hasn't got anything on the graph from now Then I'll teletype the descriptions to Washington to see if identification has got anything that checks Okay, you better hop out and cover a few midtown bars yourself for a while, right? Take the area between Broadway and 8th Avenue from 46 to 49th. I've got the rest covered Want me to call in in case something breaks? Yeah, and I hope there's a break before another victim loses $500 to Just a minute. Oh, hello George. Come on in. Okay Look, I can't stay long guys gave me an hour to get back with the dough and besides Betty Don't know I'm doing this is she'd be scared to death. I was afraid you might change your mind yourself on the way down here Ah, you know, I never let her buddy down. I know Okay Where's the dough? Where's the passport? I got it right here. Well, let's see it What's the matter? You think it's a gag? I just want to see what I'm getting for my money, didn't you? Yeah Sure. Well, okay Hey, yeah, thanks, and I'm telling you apparently it's a perfect imitation, too Uh-huh all the information you gave me and your wife is fixed up in their right All you got to do is paste a picture on there and you're all set Yeah, all set to get my wife and me in a jam maybe and lose 500 bucks besides What she'd have as much chance of getting through on this is she what on a hat check? What are you talking about my wife came through on one and I thought the lion mister I got wise to your racket this morning. You rocked a pal of mine on the same deal. Look buddy. You got me wrong I'm not mixed up in any racket. I said cut out lion, but I'm telling you that I went through with this Just to get you down here and the reason I haven't got a couple of cops waiting for you It's because I wanted to do a little work on you myself first. Now what do you mean? 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Yes Yes, all right, and thanks a lot inspector. We'll have an agent over there right away Grapplin, what's up? That was Inspector Riley of the homicide squad The next serviceman was shot and seriously wounded a little while ago in his village apartment I see we don't know whether it has any connection with the shooting, but a fake passport made out for his wife was found in the man's pocket Oh, oh, the police are taking him now to st. Anthony's hospital for the time you get there. He may have regained consciousness Well, I'm on my way ask the police to let you have that fake passport It might be our best lead to date in case the chap doesn't recover and get back as soon as you can will you right? Stuff together quick, baby. We got a scram. What's all the excitement? I had to let the sucker have it Somebody put him wise he was waiting for me with both fists George, you mean you you think I'm gonna stand there let him work on me You stupid fool you look baby don't stand here gab when I killed a guy. Don't you understand? Well, if you're sure you're killing that's not so bad What do you mean? We'll have a tough time tying it in with you George You had sense enough to bring it back with you didn't you what? Don't tell me you left that fake passport down there Yeah, yeah, I did oh Stop your beef and will you we got to get out of here not me Huh, we're a lot better off staying right here. Why do you figure that? Somebody put him wise to us thinking also put the cops wise to what we look like okay, but we'll be watching every train Bus an airline for all right you stay here, baby, but I'm getting a minute. They catch you. I fall to yeah, but we know dice George sticking right here with me understand Okay, sit down genius Give me the whole story Well, I talked to the victim mr. Everett good. What'd you get captain a swindler? We've been looking for shot him, but he was apparently in such a hurry to get away He left the fake passport behind was he able to give more than a description of the swindler only that he's known as George And the girl is Betty that's all I see the fingerprints of both of them are probably on this fake passport We'll put it through for a check right away And we ought to have another lead in the kind of paper they used and making them up right Shall I take a sample of it and start checking stationers to see who handles it and who's been buying it? Yes, you start the ball rolling on that while I cover on all train bus near terminals right and then we'll Hey, wait a minute. Yeah We'll watch the travel terminals anyway They're probably taking a smarter course of staying under right here In that case, it's up to us to smoke them out And I think I've got an idea that'll do just that I'm getting There's not a thing in the morning paper, but your little stunt last night You ought to hire a press agent. I'm on the wisecracks. Well, oh for heaven's sake relax You've been jumping up and down like a sewing machine all morning. I've got a right to be jumpy haven't I you don't hear my knees knocking do you I don't like it. They're not being anything in the paper about it. I told you to get a press agent. I don't mean that Well, what do you mean look? Sometimes cops keep things like this out of the paper on purpose Like what purpose like when they suspect somebody you're doing the job and don't want the papers to tell him So and make him harder to catch will you stop feeling the police breathing on your neck way off and y'all Wait a minute wait a minute What is it? Well genius You can relax. Why would you find? Newspaper didn't ignore your little party last night after all. What's it say? The sucker is not dead. What? Then what do you mean relax in the hospital? We'll recover and all he will say for publication at this time is that the shooting was all a mistake And he refuses to identify the person who did it Kid Well, what do you know? I think you ought to send him some flowers George I think we ought to get out of here now. Let's head for the coast like I said wait How would you like for us to make maybe a lot of money all at once first how do you mean? Sell on another passport. Oh, are you crazy? We're both crazy if we don't make this thing who to According to the paper here the rich and social rich at Adams X GI is having all manner of trouble getting His bloom in British broad over here. Don't you know? Yeah, yeah He's crying about it In the plush depths of his penthouse apartment, and here's the address I'll make up a book for him right away. You trade it to mr. Adams for five thousand and we'll be off for Frisco Here's the report on that fingerprint check mr. Every identify them. Yes, sir. The man is George Canton Ilias George Patterson and the girl his accomplice Betty Douglas former nightclub entertainer both have swindling records Good enough and we've located the stationer who sells the paper used in the fake passports Oh, he identifies George Canton as one of his customers, but has no address for Canton Well, we won't worry too much about that right now. I have a plan in mind that should solve all our worries Well, it's about time you show California here we come you did okay. Oh that guy Adams was like shooting lions in the zoo baby How much five G's just like you said where it's right here give it to mama, huh? You heard me. I said give it to mama sweetheart. I can at first. I want to see if it's all here The marriage you think I can add yeah, I think you can subtract too Don't trust me, huh? The last guy I trusted was the last guy Hey, what's the idea? Why haven't you got your stuff packed yet only take a minute? I guess you didn't have much faith in my salesmanship, huh, baby not after your performance last night all right All right lay off that now we it's all turned out sweet, hasn't it? I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed anyway until we're on Keep quiet too late for that Whoever it is. Mr. Hurd is talking Okay, you go to the door and throw it open. I'll be ready with a blast. Go on do what I tell you Hello, then Well, mr. Inans, that's right, and your butler do What's the idea if you brought the young lady with you? We wouldn't have had to follow you here What do you mean? I mean miss that we're really special agents of the FBI. I'll take that gun Your victim down at the hospital is ready to identify you for publication now Come on Forging and counterfeiting a government document the passport swindlers are now serving full term in the federal penitentiary After he has paid his debt to the United States government The man called George must still stand trial on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder in New York state And once again your FBI joins with your local law enforcement officers in urging you The potential victims of swindlers to be wary of the stranger with a proposition If the proposition is sound it will keep long enough for you to investigate it and the person who offers it If it is unsound your investigation will prove it to be so That is your duty to yourself and to society Next week another exciting adventure story from the files of your FBI. 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