Speaker 1: I was a Communist for the FBI, starring Dana Andrews
Speaker 1: and an exciting tale of danger and espionage. I was
Speaker 1: a Communist for the FBI. From the actual records and
Speaker 1: authentic experiences of Matt Savetic how many of the incidents
Speaker 1: in this unusual story. Here is our star, Dana Andrews
Speaker 1: as Matt savedic Oover, nine fantastic years lived as a
Speaker 1: Communist for the FBI. The heart is deceitful above all things,
Speaker 1: and desperately wicked. You'll find that quotation in the Bible.
Speaker 1: I found the proof of it in the Communist Party.
Speaker 1: It wasn't hard to find at all, but believe me,
Speaker 1: it was brutally hard to accept. This story will illustrate
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 2: In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Samatic
Speaker 2: under coverman.
Speaker 1: Now Here is.
Speaker 2: Dana Andrews as Matt Savadic undercoverman. This story from the
Speaker 2: Confidential File is marked The Crossed Heart.
Speaker 1: The strange town miles from home. You know what it's like,
Speaker 1: the streets, looking for secrets or surprises, study the crowds,
Speaker 1: the blur of bland impersonal faces, taking someone you might know,
Speaker 1: something familiar, to give you that sense of belonging. That's
Speaker 1: how it usually is with strangers. But I was an
Speaker 1: unusual stranger. My visit to this town was sponsored by
Speaker 1: the Communist Party. I wasn't permitted to take my natural
Speaker 1: instincts with me. Every instinct of reaction and reaction was
Speaker 1: planned and prescribed by my far seeing red comrades. I
Speaker 1: was to report to this address, a private residence. I
Speaker 1: was to ask for a missus Breen. Then I was
Speaker 1: to let nature, as authorized by the Commis, take its course.
Speaker 1: How do you do er good evening? I'm looking for
Speaker 1: missus Breen.
Speaker 3: I'm missus Breen. Won't you come in? You come in,
Speaker 3: young man?
Speaker 4: Come in?
Speaker 3: Are you catch your death out there?
Speaker 1: Yea, this little old lady, the shawl of white hair,
Speaker 1: the remless glasses. No, she was the type you write
Speaker 1: songs about, not the sort you're associated with. Red. I
Speaker 1: followed her through the gloomy age heavy house into a
Speaker 1: room that had been set aside as a little office.
Speaker 1: Watching her gestures too gentle, so prim and proper, I
Speaker 1: felt sure that somehow the Kamis or I had made
Speaker 1: a mistake.
Speaker 5: Here we are.
Speaker 3: It's so much more comfortable in here.
Speaker 1: Isn't it, Yes, yes it is.
Speaker 3: Now let me see. Oh, I'm forever misplacing those applications.
Speaker 3: Here we are your name please.
Speaker 1: Oh savedic Matt savedices.
Speaker 4: Or see see c V E T.
Speaker 1: I see missus Breen. I think your rage. I think
Speaker 1: there's been somewhere Well.
Speaker 3: Never mind, let's just say over thirty under forty, all right,
Speaker 3: all right now now i'd say you're oh about six
Speaker 3: feet tall?
Speaker 1: About that now, any.
Speaker 3: Preference of the types types of what oh silly girls.
Speaker 1: Of course girls? Look I now now now.
Speaker 3: Nothing to worry about. All information is strictly confidential. Our
Speaker 3: service is licensed by the state. What kind of service,
Speaker 3: same as anywhere else. Once you subscribe, I give you
Speaker 3: three names and telephone numbers, chosen according to your personal
Speaker 3: tastes and specifications. If you aren't satisfied, just call in
Speaker 3: and I'll give you three more fifteen dollars for a
Speaker 3: month's service, twenty five for three months.
Speaker 1: That's the usual rate.
Speaker 3: No, now, don't start fretting. I've been expecting you, comrade,
Speaker 3: forgive me for confusing you. So we just have to
Speaker 3: be so very careful, you know, I know. Now I've
Speaker 3: arranged a day for you for to night a date. Well,
Speaker 3: that's why you're here, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 1: I'm not the least bit sure why i'm here, Comrade
Speaker 1: brain Er, uh.
Speaker 3: Uh, missus brain, mister sthetic.
Speaker 1: We must be careful, must must must, Okay, Well, tell
Speaker 1: me about my date.
Speaker 3: Her name is Claram Malone. A good client, a very
Speaker 3: important client, to be a club. I see she's a
Speaker 3: widow with quite a bit of money, rather pretty too.
Speaker 3: You call for her, take her to dinner, and most important,
Speaker 3: you'll collect an envelope from her.
Speaker 1: What's in it?
Speaker 3: Money? She owes the club some money? See that you
Speaker 3: bring it to me immediately. Now here's her name, her
Speaker 3: phone number, her address.
Speaker 1: Here you are, biaker biker, This is Red. I just
Speaker 1: joined the Lonely Hearts Club. What a lonely Hearts club?
Speaker 1: Some kind of calmi front. Well, I don't know yet.
Speaker 1: I'll know more after Tonight's tonight my first date. Clara Malone,
Speaker 1: a wealthy widow. I understand. I called her a while
Speaker 1: ago and got no answer. I'll keep at it, man,
Speaker 1: If we can do anything from this office, well not yet.
Speaker 1: Just be there when I need you.
Speaker 4: Do.
Speaker 1: No answer on Clara Malone's line. It was getting late now,
Speaker 1: Missus Breen's place was closed, and I could risk violating
Speaker 1: party orders. So I decided to go directly to the
Speaker 1: address missus brain had given me. Maybe by the time
Speaker 1: I got there, Clara Malone would have arrived too. She
Speaker 1: wasn't home yet. I guess I could see a light
Speaker 1: in her apartment to the crack in the door. But
Speaker 1: either she was out or she Hello. This might be
Speaker 1: Clara Malone. She didn't look like she needed a lonely
Speaker 1: hearts club to supply her with dates. But then you
Speaker 1: never know. She came straight for this apartment looking for someone.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, yes, I was looking for miss Malone.
Speaker 3: I'm Miss Malone, Clara Malone. Oh no, I'm Judy, Clara's sister.
Speaker 3: Isn't she home yet?
Speaker 1: Well, she hasn't answered the door.
Speaker 3: That's funny. Is there anything I can do?
Speaker 1: Not exactly say, Clara and I have a day for
Speaker 1: the night.
Speaker 3: Oh well, come on in. Then she should be home
Speaker 3: any minute.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 4: She might have run down to the store.
Speaker 1: What's the matter?
Speaker 4: No, No, what is it?
Speaker 1: What's the name? Holy smoke? Param Malone had a good
Speaker 1: reason for not answering the door she was dead. My
Speaker 1: first instincts told me to get out of that fast.
Speaker 1: But from the looks of things, her death was a suicide,
Speaker 1: and Judith wasted no time in calling the police. The
Speaker 1: police inspector, a tired, shabby little guy named by Jack,
Speaker 1: thought it was a suicide too. He wasn't sure, and
Speaker 1: then his job he had to be sure.
Speaker 4: Sorry, we had to bring you too, all the way
Speaker 4: down here, but you know how it is said down.
Speaker 5: Miss Malone, Thank you, inspector.
Speaker 4: Are you too? What's your name again?
Speaker 1: Sethetic?
Speaker 4: That's right, you were a friend of the deceased. Sthetic.
Speaker 1: Oh, I never saw her before the night. This is
Speaker 1: my first day in tom.
Speaker 3: But you told me you had a date with Clara.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, it was a blind date, mutual friend.
Speaker 4: How about it, Miss Malone? This guy a friend of
Speaker 4: your sisters.
Speaker 3: I don't know, inspector.
Speaker 4: Don't you share that apartment with your sister?
Speaker 3: Yes? But Para dated a lot of men I knew
Speaker 3: nothing about. Too many.
Speaker 4: I suppose too many.
Speaker 3: She's been terribly unhappy since her husband died. Lonely and unhappy.
Speaker 4: Any special reason for killing yourself finances?
Speaker 3: No, she inherited a lot of money from her husband.
Speaker 3: He didn't care about money much. Bector, do you think
Speaker 3: it wasn't suicide? I mean, do you think that Clara alone?
Speaker 1: Oh, it looks like suicide, all right, Miss Malone, probably is.
Speaker 1: The Corners report isn't then yet. There are a few
Speaker 1: funny angles to this mess.
Speaker 3: But who who would want it to hurt Clara?
Speaker 4: She was a lonely widow, she had money.
Speaker 1: She did it a lot of strange guys, too many,
Speaker 1: you said, like sweedik can somehow he knew her phone
Speaker 1: number and address, but he didn't know her. That's a minute.
Speaker 1: I'm a cops swetic. My job don't give me much
Speaker 1: time to trust people. Listen, I'm a mind skipper, didn't though,
Speaker 1: both of you. Sorry for all the troublem.
Speaker 4: Miss Malone.
Speaker 3: It's all right, Inspector.
Speaker 1: I own Hecker unless it's necessary, thank you, say asthetic.
Speaker 1: You'd better stay around town a while. If the coroner
Speaker 1: comes in with any surprise decisions, we'll want you for questioning.
Speaker 1: I couldn't leave town anyway. I was under orders from
Speaker 1: the Reds, but I couldn't let the police know that
Speaker 1: I had some vital questions to put the sweet old
Speaker 1: missus Breen like, how did the Reds figure in Clara's death?
Speaker 1: If it was murder? Was I to be the patsy
Speaker 1: for the party? But she wasn't to be found. Her
Speaker 1: house was dark, locked up. I waited around a while,
Speaker 1: no use. I headed for my hotel to get some sleep.
Speaker 3: Oh, good evening, comrades, chittik, you're back, girly, How did
Speaker 3: you get in here? Oh please don't be angry with me.
Speaker 3: I told the room clerk I was your mother and
Speaker 3: I wanted to surprise you.
Speaker 1: Well you did, You're full of surprises.
Speaker 3: I just didn't want you to be burdened too long
Speaker 3: with that envelope temptation.
Speaker 1: You know what envelope?
Speaker 3: What the envelope you collected from Clara?
Speaker 1: She's dead, Missus Breen, cold Stone dead.
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: You know full well what I'm talking about. Clara Malone
Speaker 1: was dead when I got to her apartment. It looks
Speaker 1: like suicide, but it may be murder.
Speaker 3: Murder.
Speaker 1: Skip the performance, Missus Breen, and get this straight. If
Speaker 1: that phone rings, it'll be the police. They'll want been
Speaker 1: ringing all evening.
Speaker 3: Oh it will probably ring again.
Speaker 1: Well, if it does, it's because the cops have a
Speaker 1: good reason to suspect me of killing Clara Malone. I'll
Speaker 1: have to tell them about you and your Lonely Hearts club.
Speaker 3: No, comrade Steatic, you mustn't do that. No, Watch, the
Speaker 3: Party can't afford to be involved in that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: If you did that, we'd see that. You the phone,
Speaker 3: comrade Static, Well aren't you going to answer it? Look,
Speaker 3: if it's the police, I'm going to member, young men,
Speaker 3: the police operate according to bourgeois concepts of justice. The
Speaker 3: Party has its own concepts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know, you'd got to answer the phone.
Speaker 3: Answer it, Come ahead, right now?
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dana Andrews, starring as Matt Sevek, and
Speaker 1: I was a communist for the FBI and the second
Speaker 1: act of our story. The telephone can be an instrument
Speaker 1: of torture, and right now I was its victim. The
Speaker 1: receiver was at my ear. I'd spoken at greeting into
Speaker 1: the mouthpiece. Then there was a moment's silence, bitter, excruciating silence.
Speaker 1: I glanced at Missus Breen standing at my elbow. Told
Speaker 1: me that a murder charge would be delightful compared to
Speaker 1: what the comments would do to me. If I told
Speaker 1: the truth to the police. Hello Svedk, Yes, inspect if
Speaker 1: check at police headquarters.
Speaker 4: I've been trying to get you all evening.
Speaker 1: What do you want?
Speaker 4: You better get down here for some more questioning.
Speaker 1: Now, well it's it's pretty late. I now you got
Speaker 1: the coroner's report. Yeah, you're coming down here?
Speaker 4: Or should I send a car up for you?
Speaker 3: Well, I'll be down, I was saying, Conrad, the party
Speaker 3: has its own way of treating those who violated it confidence.
Speaker 1: You mean they let me be charged with the murder
Speaker 1: I didn't commit.
Speaker 3: What can they do?
Speaker 6: Comment?
Speaker 3: After all, what's more important the life of one young
Speaker 3: man or the life of the proletariat?
Speaker 5: Revolt?
Speaker 7: Okay, come in, spetic.
Speaker 4: Sit down? No, no, over here, you look nervous.
Speaker 1: It's late, and inspect and I'm tired me too. We
Speaker 1: got the coroner's report on Clara Malone. He's satisfied that
Speaker 1: it's suicide. Well then then what do you want.
Speaker 4: I'm not satisfying. Sec why'd you come to this city?
Speaker 1: Business?
Speaker 4: What business?
Speaker 1: Just business?
Speaker 4: Business with Clara Malone? No?
Speaker 1: No, that was just a day yeah, arranged by a
Speaker 1: mutual friend, a business associate. All right, yeah, look the
Speaker 1: report from Parah Malone's bank. She inherited three hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars when her husband died. Look what's left. She's practically broke.
Speaker 1: Where did it go?
Speaker 4: Wherever it went?
Speaker 1: It went during the last year or so, somebody was
Speaker 1: bleeding this dame dry sphetic. She has a couple of
Speaker 1: kids away at an exclusive private school, but she has
Speaker 1: You didn't know that, no, swhenk I warn you, either
Speaker 1: you tell us what you know or don't inspect. Well,
Speaker 1: then talk to you, idiot. I'm trying to give you
Speaker 1: a break. Pharah Malone was the victim of a shakedown speedic.
Speaker 1: Whoever's responsible is just as responsible for her suicide, directly
Speaker 1: or indirectly.
Speaker 4: In spite of you. I intend to find out who
Speaker 4: and why and how.
Speaker 1: I wish I could help inspect her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll bet okay, so it get out, get out of.
Speaker 1: Here secretly, and I hoped Inspector Bicheck would fulfill his threat.
Speaker 1: I left police headquarters praying silently that he'd be able
Speaker 1: to pinish suspicions on missus Breen and the Kamis. But
Speaker 1: I couldn't help him. I'm sure I might have been
Speaker 1: noble and named names, but nobility comes hard when you
Speaker 1: know the Kami technique for vengeance. The streets of the
Speaker 1: Strange City were even stranger now. They were empty, silent,
Speaker 1: wet with that pre dawned mist in here. Hurry, sorry, pal,
Speaker 1: I'm going the other way. Hey, what's a big idea?
Speaker 5: Let's go on, Kurty, I said, ah, good, thank you, George.
Speaker 1: Any trouble, No trouble, Comrade Breen, you keep mighty odd
Speaker 1: hours for a woman of your age, Missus Breen.
Speaker 3: I'm dedicated to my work. It makes a difference. That's
Speaker 3: all for now, George. Okay, are you all right, Comrade City?
Speaker 1: No, I don't like being shoved around by that that
Speaker 1: goon boy of yours.
Speaker 3: He's comrade. I'd like to know what you told the police. Nothing,
Speaker 3: Oh now, comedy.
Speaker 1: If I did tell them anything about you or this club,
Speaker 1: don't you think you'd know by now?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Of course?
Speaker 3: Do the police know anything about us?
Speaker 1: Just hunches. The coroner called Clara Malone's death a suicide,
Speaker 1: but the inspector thinks there's blackmail involved.
Speaker 3: Where did he learn that?
Speaker 1: Well, he's not a fool, you know. He checked Clara's
Speaker 1: bank account and learned that she went through a lot
Speaker 1: of money in a big hurry.
Speaker 3: I wonder how much that sister of hers knows.
Speaker 1: Not too much from what I could see.
Speaker 3: We've got to be sure, comrade, We've got to be sure. Well,
Speaker 3: So would you mind finding out for me? Please? What
Speaker 3: oh you've met Judith? If you've talked with her, find
Speaker 3: out what she knows about the club, the blackmail anything.
Speaker 3: If she knows more than she should, then then what
Speaker 3: we'll see, we'll see. Your job now is to find
Speaker 3: out what she knows before she tells the police.
Speaker 1: The COMMI web was being spun again. This time the
Speaker 1: victim was to be Judith Malone. I had to keep
Speaker 1: her free of that web somehow, But I had to
Speaker 1: keep myself clear that web too. Maybe there was a way,
Speaker 1: some way to turn the web against the spinner, to
Speaker 1: strangle the Commis with their own vicious weapon. It was
Speaker 1: worth a try. One good try, biker, biker, This is
Speaker 1: Red Hi, what's up? I need some bugs and lines fast? Okay,
Speaker 1: they don't know yet the local field office, do they no?
Speaker 1: All right, I'll call them from here. Is there a
Speaker 1: grocery store?
Speaker 4: Are you any grocery store? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Roger's Market down the street.
Speaker 4: There'll be a package for you there in an hour.
Speaker 1: What name do you want to use? Oh Matthews?
Speaker 7: Okay, pick up your groceries in an hour, mister Matthews.
Speaker 1: And my groceries were waiting for me in an hour.
Speaker 1: The package was camouflaged pretty well, but I knew the
Speaker 1: equipment I needed. Was there coils of wire, small microphones, earphones,
Speaker 1: the works. My next step was to call missus brain
Speaker 1: and tell some whoppers.
Speaker 3: You mean she knows the whole story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Clara told her everything, But Judith has a pretty
Speaker 1: sensible latitude about it.
Speaker 3: Has she told the police yet?
Speaker 1: Oh, she's more sensible than that. There's one simple way
Speaker 1: to keep Judith quiet.
Speaker 3: Oh, don't be foolish. We captures violence now, It would just.
Speaker 1: Create more suspicion violence now terms, Yes, did she tell
Speaker 1: you that she hated add it pretty strongly? You had
Speaker 1: better phone her, make an appointment, make her an offer.
Speaker 3: Shall I visit her place?
Speaker 1: No cops all over the neighborhood?
Speaker 3: Well, how could I get her to come here?
Speaker 1: Tell her you realize that silence is golden. Tell her
Speaker 1: you have some important information about her sister. I should
Speaker 1: do it. I hope I checked in at missus Breen's
Speaker 1: place later and learned that she'd made an appointment with
Speaker 1: Judith Malone for eight thirty that night, about six o'clock,
Speaker 1: missus Breen decided to go out for a bite to eat.
Speaker 3: Want to join me, comrad snittik Oh.
Speaker 1: No thanks, I'll stay here. Judith may change her mind.
Speaker 1: Can't take any chances.
Speaker 3: Well, you're probably right. Incidentally, you'll be here tonight when
Speaker 3: I see her, won't you.
Speaker 1: You don't want me here too many of us might
Speaker 1: overemphasize the importance, make her boost the price even more,
Speaker 1: all right, and remember she's quite a little actress. She'll
Speaker 1: play the innocent role right up to the hilt. But
Speaker 1: don't let her fool you.
Speaker 3: Don't what a young man. I will be back soon.
Speaker 1: Take your time. I have nothing to do anyway. There
Speaker 1: was plenty to do, of course. As soon as missus
Speaker 1: Breen was gone, I unwrapped my groceries, which I'd hidden
Speaker 1: in the shrubs outside the house. As quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: I wired her office for sounds, one tiny microphone under
Speaker 1: the rug near her desk, another near the big arm chair.
Speaker 1: I ran the wires up behind the drapers out the
Speaker 1: windows and into the shrubs where the miniature recording set
Speaker 1: up would be located. Back in the little office, I
Speaker 1: was about to test the microphones.
Speaker 4: And SCHUEK, what there's missus brain? What?
Speaker 1: She she went out for something to eat?
Speaker 4: Why that Malone David is here?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: I thought eight thirty or?
Speaker 4: She says she was nervous, couldn't wait? No, better, get
Speaker 4: Comrade Breen.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I'll go. I know where she's eating.
Speaker 1: Uh have you been here in the house all this time?
Speaker 4: Sure? Where'd you think i'd be?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 1: Nothing? Just just curious, that's all. I went out the
Speaker 1: back door to avoid Judith. There was no chance to
Speaker 1: test the equipment. Now, no chance for anything but cold
Speaker 1: naked luck. When Missus Breen went inside to meet Judith,
Speaker 1: I ducked behind the shrubbery, switched on the recorder, dusted
Speaker 1: the earphone, and prayed, Oh, come on, come on, pick
Speaker 1: it up, pick it up, Come on, please, pick it up.
Speaker 3: Please please?
Speaker 6: About time we got straight to the point, miss Malone.
Speaker 6: I'm willing to pay any reasonable price for your silence.
Speaker 3: Silence? What have I to be silent about?
Speaker 6: Oh, let's stop playing parsome, young lady. We'll go to
Speaker 6: any length to stop you from telling the police what
Speaker 6: you know. We prefer to do business on a purely
Speaker 6: financial basis. So here are my terms, and I expect
Speaker 6: you to accept them.
Speaker 4: Did you get a decent recording of it?
Speaker 6: Matt?
Speaker 1: We have all we need to hang a blackmail charge
Speaker 1: on Missus Breen and the local comedy speaker.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 2: I'll let the police know it was an FBI operation
Speaker 2: at our file on Missus Brain indicated that kind of checker.
Speaker 1: Okay, that'll clear me with the party. Be sure the
Speaker 1: local papers get the same story.
Speaker 2: And our phone Inspector Bicheck to tell him to expect
Speaker 2: the record.
Speaker 1: He has it already so soon. I had it delivered
Speaker 1: to him direct. But you'd better call and explain what
Speaker 1: it's all about.
Speaker 7: I'll do it right now.
Speaker 1: See you soon, man, Yeah, bigger soon.
Speaker 4: Later.
Speaker 1: I stood in the shadows across the street from Missus
Speaker 1: Breen's house. A police car was parked at the curb.
Speaker 1: One by one, I saw the light in the house
Speaker 1: blink out. Then the door opened and an inspected by
Speaker 1: check came out with Judith, Missus Breen, and the red
Speaker 1: goon George. When the car drove away, the street became
Speaker 1: a dark ribbon of silence stretched across the strange city. Again.
Speaker 1: Walking across town, I felt the hollow distinction that only
Speaker 1: a stranger can feel. But I'd be a stranger in
Speaker 1: any city anywhere I had to be. It was my job.
Speaker 1: I had to walk alone. Dana Andrews will return in
Speaker 1: just a moment. This is Dana Andrews friends with a
Speaker 1: reminder that most precious commodities increase in value as they
Speaker 1: become less accessible. But freedom is the one exception. The
Speaker 1: more the world sees of it, the more valuable it becomes.
Speaker 1: Let's increase the value of our freedom by sharing it
Speaker 1: with the world. In this story, as in all others, names,
Speaker 1: dates and places are fictitious to protect innocent persons. Next week,
Speaker 1: another fantastic adventure. Join us, won't you