WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:17.120 I was a Communist for the FBI, starring Dana Andrews 2 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:20.839 and an exciting tale of danger and espionage. I was 3 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:35.439 a Communist for the FBI. Many of the incidents and 4 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:38.320 the story you're about to hear are based on the 5 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:42.240 actual records and authentic experiences of Matt Savetic two for 6 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:46.640 nine fantastic years lived as a Communist for the FBI. 7 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:51.520 Here is our star, Dana Andrews as Matt Savetic. A 8 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:54.560 night of terror that stretched out for nine long years. 9 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:57.520 That was my experience as a Communist for the FBI. 10 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:01.560 I feared and hated every minute of it. But believe me, mister, 11 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:04.040 you'd fear and hate it a lot more if the 12 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:07.400 Communists ever got control of this country. Because fear and 13 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:10.159 hate is the basis of my story. And it may 14 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:13.159 surprise you to learn that, without knowing it, you're helping 15 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:20.079 to finance your own terror. In a moment, listen to 16 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:47.280 Dana Andrews as Mat Savedic under cover man. Now Here 17 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:52.040 is Dana Andrews as Mat Savitic under cover man. This 18 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:58.439 story from the confidential file is marked the Red Octopus. 19 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:06.719 After the comrade has given me my orders and left, 20 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:10.560 I walked to a chair and sit down. Heavenly, I've 21 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:14.039 been scared before, but never as badly as this. I'm 22 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:17.360 under orders to report to the Communist Control Committee in 23 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:21.159 New York, and the Control Committee is the American Communist 24 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:26.039 secret police, the dispensers of party discipline. Later, when I 25 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:29.039 have my nerves under better control, I formed the FBI 26 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:30.919 and the range to be picked up for a conference. 27 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:35.159 I'm at the designated corner long before the agent drives 28 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:35.960 up and stops in. 29 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:36.319 Front of me. 30 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:50.800 Get in mad. Thanks, Oh what's wrong boy? You look 31 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:51.759 as though you've been in a fight. 32 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:56.759 Oh just nervous. I cut myself shaving. A Red Control 33 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:02.439 committee wants me in New York immediately, and I've been 34 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:05.080 ordered to advise all my local contacts not to worry 35 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:09.319 about me. I may be gone indefinitely. It doesn't sound good, 36 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.840 there's the understatement of the week. It sounds as though 37 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.240 I've slipped somewhere and the Commons are going to give 38 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:16.840 me the works. 39 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:18.080 Yeah. 40 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:20.400 I ain't got any suggestions. 41 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.159 No, Matt, I'm going to pass the buck to you. 42 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:27.879 If you accept this party invitation, it'll have to be 43 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:31.120 as a volunteer. You mean I have a choice. 44 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.199 Oh, The Bureau isn't going to order you to commit suicide. 45 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:36.680 Somehow, I don't find that very consoling. 46 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:39.159 But naturally matter if you do decide to follow party 47 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:41.840 orders and meet with the Controlled Committee, our New. 48 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:43.759 York offers will give you all possible protection. 49 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:47.240 In other words, you really want me to go. 50 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:50.280 There's always the chance you might pick up some vital information. 51 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:52.240 Yeah, I know. 52 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:54.759 You'll think it over. 53 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:55.199 Man. 54 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:58.159 If you decide against going, nobody in the Bureau will 55 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:02.560 think any less of you. Naturally, it'll end your value 56 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:03.639 as an undercover man. 57 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:08.879 Yeah, let me out at the next corner. Will you sure. 58 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:11.360 You made up your mind already? 59 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:14.439 No, that's why I want to Maybe if I walk 60 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.480 around a little like, think this out better? 61 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:20.000 You let me know what you decide as soon as possible. 62 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:21.480 Man, I'll call it in the morning. 63 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:21.839 Good. 64 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:30.560 I have a long ways to walk back to my place, 65 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.240 but even walking can't help the kind of thinking that 66 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:36.680 I have to do. Maybe the Controlled Committee isn't just 67 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.800 setting me up to knock me down. Maybe I'm going 68 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.199 to be given an assignment that will be vitally important 69 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.519 to the fight against communism. Maybe I'll be given an 70 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:49.759 assignment that looks important but it's really a trap. Maybe 71 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:54.040 maybe I'm going nuts. I'm all the way home and 72 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:56.959 I haven't decided what to do. Then I opened the 73 00:04:56.959 --> 00:05:00.879 door of my room, and a decision is made for me. 74 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:08.240 Comrade s Yes, I am Comrade Miller, Comrade Swetik sent 75 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.879 by the Control Committee to escort you back. 76 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:13.360 To New York, escort me to New York. 77 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:16.000 You didn't get the orders, Oh. 78 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:18.519 Yes, but just an hour or so ago, and they 79 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:20.439 didn't say anything about anyone coming for me. 80 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:24.560 I know, but the recent disturbing information leaks prompted the 81 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:26.959 committee to take no chances in this case. 82 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:30.920 Well, I was supposed to notify all my local contacts 83 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.800 that I might be away, and definitely you can write them. 84 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:34.360 From New York. 85 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:36.120 Now, please get your things together. 86 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:38.759 I have reservations for us on a plane that leaves 87 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:39.680 a little after midnight. 88 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:42.480 Plane. I was going to take a bus. 89 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:43.959 A bus makes too many stops. 90 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:45.439 I see. 91 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:49.480 It sounds as though I've suddenly become pretty important to 92 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:51.319 the Control Committee. 93 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:53.480 Very important. 94 00:05:53.879 --> 00:06:02.639 Comrade Swetic says that I want to slug him and run. 95 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:06.839 But where can a communist run and find safety? Besides, 96 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:10.040 Mill is a big man, a real Control Committee goon, 97 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:12.439 and if I didn't knock him out with the first punch, 98 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.279 my trying to escape would convict me of every crime 99 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:18.639 in the Party book. So I pack and go to 100 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.879 the airport with Miller, without a chance to notify the 101 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.720 FBI that I'm leaving. Aboard the plane, I try to 102 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:28.240 find out why I'm being taken to New York, but 103 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:32.000 Miller won't talk. The first information I get comes to 104 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:34.800 me in the bleak, sound proofed interrogation chamber of the 105 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:38.439 Control Committee, where Comrade Miller leaves me with Comrade Rice. 106 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:41.279 Sit down, Comrade Svitek. 107 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:45.160 I don't mind standing, Comrade Rice, sauid yourself. What's all 108 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:47.759 this about? First I get orders to report to the 109 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.600 Control Committee, and before I can follow the orders, I'm 110 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:51.800 picked up and brought here. 111 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:54.959 This is a very serious matter, Comrade Svitik. It was 112 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.600 decided that we must move quickly and take no chances. 113 00:06:57.959 --> 00:06:59.639 I've been through that with Comrade Miller. 114 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:05.680 What's the charge, charge, Comrade, there's no charge at the moment. 115 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:09.240 Oh, and why have I been hauled around like a 116 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:10.000 party criminal? 117 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:14.360 Believe me, Comrade, we don't transport party criminals by plane. 118 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.240 You're here for an extremely delicate. 119 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:25.000 Assignment, an assignment that catches me by surprise, and I 120 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:27.279 sink into the chair. I'd refuse just a moment ago, 121 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:29.920 and I look up and I see Comrade Rice. 122 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:30.639 Watching me closely. 123 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:35.160 I tell him I'm sorry. I suddenly felt very tired. 124 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:38.480 And don't apologize, Comrades Vedic. Here at the Control Committee, 125 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:39.959 we see that reaction frequently. 126 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:41.519 Yeah, I can understand that. 127 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:45.160 As for your assignment, Comrades Vedik, what do you know 128 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:48.000 about a Comrade Hillman Hillman? 129 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:51.759 Why? I know that there's one who heads the party's 130 00:07:51.959 --> 00:07:53.199 commercial enterprises. 131 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:56.639 That's the one. Have you ever had any contact with him? 132 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:57.279 No? 133 00:07:57.639 --> 00:07:57.959 Why? 134 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:01.160 We have reason to believe that Comrade Hillman has been 135 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.759 injuring the party by using his position for his own 136 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:07.600 financial interests. In fact, were as sure of it, but 137 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.959 we can't prove it. So so we brought you to 138 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:12.360 New York to get that proof. 139 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.079 I thought Hillman operated out of New Orleans. 140 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:19.319 He does normally, but he has such great organizational ability 141 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:21.319 that we brought him to New York to direct our 142 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:25.240 operation against the waterfront. Now he seems to feel that 143 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:28.480 he is bigger than the Party has. That Hilman can 144 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:31.519 give you the details. He's too useful to destroy, but 145 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.679 he has to be controlled. We're assigning you to him 146 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:38.240 as his assistant to get concrete evidence which will justify 147 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:39.360 our disciplining him. 148 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:42.919 Am I the first to be given this assignment, Comrade. 149 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:47.960 Rice, No, there have been others. The waterfront is not 150 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:52.559 a drawing room, Comrade Cetik. There's always violence there, and 151 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:56.120 Hillman's assistants are always in the middle, in the middle 152 00:08:56.159 --> 00:09:00.000 of what whatever comes up. So far, those who try 153 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:03.360 to remain faithful and fulfill their obligations to the party 154 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:07.120 have somehow run a foul of Hillman's friends in the MVD. 155 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:10.639 Those who have switched their allegiance to Hillman have been 156 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:11.960 dealt with by the committee. 157 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:13.960 Doesn't sound like a great future. 158 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.919 We're hoping, comrade Sthetic, that you will be more clever 159 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:19.320 and luckier than those who have preceded you. 160 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:21.639 If I've been luckier, you'd never have called me. 161 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:27.200 Perhaps we thought you were more clever. 162 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:35.879 That crack doesn't make me feel either lucky or clever. 163 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:38.559 And if I didn't like to set up before, I 164 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:41.720 want no part of it now. This is strictly a 165 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:45.200 pigeon trap, and I'm the pigeon, and there's no backing out. 166 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:49.320 While these thoughts are racing through my mind, Rice calls 167 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:51.240 Comrade Millery and in orders him to take me to 168 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:55.159 Comrade Hillman. Then we walk through a miserable, foggy night 169 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:58.799 to a dingy waterfront office where I meet Comrade Hillman. 170 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:04.600 Well, Comrade Miller, what do I owe the pleasure of 171 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:05.120 this visit? 172 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:07.759 I brought you an assistant, Comrade Hillman. 173 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:11.559 Another the Control Committee feels that Comrade SVETI could. 174 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:13.639 Learn a lot from watching your operations. 175 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.879 I see ye. In that case, welcome to the waterfront, 176 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:17.639 Comrade Vedic. 177 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:18.919 Thank you, Comra Jellen. 178 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:22.360 Well, would the Controlled Committee like to have Comrades Vedic start? 179 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:23.799 Oh, we'll leave that to you. 180 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:27.120 Just be sure he gets a clear picture of everything 181 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:28.000 you're doing here. 182 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:32.200 That goes without saying, Comrade oh good, I. 183 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:34.240 Will expect to hear from you laked this evening cover 184 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:36.519 swift all right, I'll see that he gets away in 185 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:37.240 plenty of time. 186 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:42.279 Thank you? 187 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:50.639 Did I miss anything funny? Comment? Something very funny, Comrades Vedic, Well, 188 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:52.159 if you're not going to let me in on it, 189 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:54.360 maybe you'd better start beating me on the project. 190 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:57.720 Oh well, that's quite simple. Our job has a dual 191 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:01.200 purpose to infiltrate the waterfront Party members and so be 192 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:03.279 in a position to delay the shipping of war goods 193 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:06.679 and to fatten the party's finances. 194 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:10.879 How's that done by taking over unions and sipening off views? 195 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:15.440 I think so, petty, comrade. Our party members on the 196 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.519 docks have access to warehouses where quantities of valuable goods 197 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:23.200 are stored. These goods we distribute through party controlled manufacturing 198 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:25.799 and retail outlets. It considerable profit. 199 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:31.039 You mean the Communist Party is officially sponsoring these waterfront thefts. 200 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.679 Oh, certainly not, comrades FETI. Well, I've set up a 201 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:39.000 separate organization to handle this business, an organization which use 202 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:40.360 my assistant will head. 203 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:43.399 And if anything goes wrong, I'm the patsy. 204 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:48.000 Huh. There's always that chance. However, according to the newspapers, 205 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:52.679 these wholesale thefts are all part of the unsavory waterfront mess. 206 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:56.559 In other words, the party gets the money, someone else 207 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:57.200 gets the blank. 208 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:02.519 That's about right. It's a perfect But now fools like 209 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:04.639 comrade Miller want this gold mine stopped. 210 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:07.759 Well, I haven't been told anything about any part of this. 211 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:10.799 What's their reasoning the big heats. 212 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.759 On and they're afraid you're going to have to choose 213 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:16.799 sides before tomorrow night. Comrade Semetic, what do you mean? 214 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:19.840 The Control Committee has put you in a spot where 215 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:23.200 you can't stay neutral. You're either with me or you're 216 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:27.440 against me. You don't have much time to choose. I 217 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:32.600 don't have much choice either, do I? Oh? 218 00:12:32.679 --> 00:12:32.919 Yes? 219 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:37.120 It shows between Comrade Miller, who handles waterfront discipline for 220 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.759 the Control Committee, and Comrade Bruski, who performs the same 221 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.919 duties for my Friends and the MVD, they're both magicians 222 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:49.799 when it comes to making men disappear. 223 00:13:06.200 --> 00:13:20.559 Now back to Dana Andrews starring as Matt Sivedk and 224 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.399 I was a Communist for the FBI and the second 225 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:37.519 act of our story. While I'm considering the unlovely choice 226 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:40.960 that Comrade Hillman has offered me, a chance to disappear 227 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.879 at the hands of either the Controlled Committee or the MVD, 228 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:47.440 he goes on to the next step and communist technique, 229 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:52.720 the technique which offers inescapable punishment and possible reward to 230 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:56.919 any person or country whose cooperation is needed. The possible 231 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.960 reward he offered me was definitely negative. A mere possible 232 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:02.320 chance to avoid trouble. 233 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.320 This operation, Comrades Vedic, is temporary and picky yune in 234 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:07.799 comparison to my regular job. 235 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:11.360 I understand that you had all the party's commercial enterprises. 236 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:15.200 Oh, yes, you name it. I operated. Would you like 237 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:15.519 to be. 238 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:15.879 Part of it? 239 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:19.279 Well, sounds like a spot where a guy could pick 240 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:22.600 up a fast buck for himself without crossing party interest. 241 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:27.519 Now, the party's never suffered, and I've done very well 242 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:33.159 for myself. Really, eh, but don't get any ideas about 243 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:36.519 pronouncing me, Comrade. I would deny it. It would be 244 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:40.159 your word against mine. And I have some very powerful 245 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:42.440 friends in both the COMMONSARN and the MVD. 246 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:45.720 I have some friends on the Control Committee. 247 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:50.919 Naturally, your predecessors had friends too, Yet none of them 248 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:56.039 survived a single report that recommended action against me. Quite 249 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:02.559 a coincidence, yes, coincidence. What do you intend to report 250 00:15:02.559 --> 00:15:04.240 to the committee that. 251 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:08.960 So far you've been very helpful and informative, Comrade Hillman. 252 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:14.000 Yeah, we'll be sure you don't go any farther than that. Huh. 253 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:17.399 We'll discuss this again in the morning, after you've made 254 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:29.759 your report, after. 255 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.519 I've made my report. Nice spot, isn't it? Hillman's as 256 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:30.480 good as told me that he's using the party for 257 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:33.559 his own financial gain. But I can't prove it, and 258 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:36.879 if I try, Hillman's MVD friends will knock me off. 259 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:39.200 As far as I can see, There's only one thing 260 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:42.080 for me to do, and that's run for it. Then, 261 00:15:42.159 --> 00:15:44.000 just as I leave the water front, the car pulls 262 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:46.000 up in front of me and the doors thrown open, and. 263 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:47.759 Inside says get him, Sevetic. 264 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:50.279 There's nothing else I can do, so I get it. 265 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:53.840 I'm Ryan Svedic with a bureau here in New York. 266 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:55.720 Here are my credentials. 267 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:57.440 How did you know I was here? 268 00:15:57.600 --> 00:15:59.559 One of our men covering your airport saw you aboard 269 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:00.840 the plane and phoned ahead. 270 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:03.200 We've had a tail on you ever since you landed 271 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:03.759 in New York. 272 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:13.360 After Ryan, here is my report, he asks me to 273 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:16.559 stay with the assignment and to string along with Hillman. 274 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.960 We've known about this waterfront business for some time, Man, 275 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:22.080 but we don't have enough men to cover every dock and. 276 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:23.000 Warehouse every night. 277 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:25.799 I can understand that the real blow to the wrench. 278 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:27.480 If you could help us catch them in the act, 279 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:31.559 Hillman particularly, we could jail the gang involved, confiscate their 280 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.679 property be a real big step toward buttoning up the 281 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:35.960 waterfront operations. 282 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:39.480 I'll see what I can do. I can't understand why 283 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:41.960 the committee hasn't the range to have Hillman just disappear. 284 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:47.360 Say yeah, Hillman must have a friend on the committee 285 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:50.679 who tips him off on reports made against him. If 286 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:52.200 I knew who that guy was, We'll. 287 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.279 Put a twenty four hour tail on Hillman immediately and 288 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:56.720 see who contacts him after you've made this first report. 289 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:04.039 After Ryan gives me an emergency phone number to call 290 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:07.079 just in case, he lets me out, and I go 291 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:09.839 before the committee and make my non committal report on 292 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:12.880 Comrade Hillman. I try to say nothing that can be 293 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:16.920 used against me by either side. I'm apparently successful at 294 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:19.359 any rate. The committee doesn't reprimand me, and when I 295 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.160 walk into Hillman's office the next morning, I get a 296 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:23.279 very friendly reception. 297 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:24.799 Earlier report was. 298 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:28.160 Very satisfactory to me, Comrade Svedk, I think we'll get along. 299 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:31.359 I hope the committee is satisfied too, And according to 300 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:35.000 my information, there weren't any openly adverse comments. They may 301 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:38.599 question me more closely next time. They want this warehouse 302 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:43.000 looting stopped. Before the party is publicly involved. This waterfront 303 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:45.400 operation is much more important than a few dollars. 304 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.039 Well, you'll know all the answers, but I don't think 305 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:49.640 you'll give them to the committee. 306 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:52.480 I know that, But how can you be so sure? 307 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:56.240 Because before you leave this office, you're going to call 308 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:58.960 the party's trucking company in order eight vans to be 309 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:03.440 at Warehouse twenty three at ten thirty tonight. Go on, 310 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.079 at ten fifteen tonight, you will go to Warehouse twenty three. 311 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.440 There you'll be contacted by a man who'll identify himself 312 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:13.160 as Comrade Broski, the warehouse watchman. 313 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:15.359 Oh that's convenient. 314 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:17.680 Oh, very As soon as the trucks arrive, you will 315 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:20.200 help Comrade Brusky load them with the warehouse goods. 316 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:23.000 He indicates, you aren't afraid of my getting this evidence 317 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:24.799 and turning it against. 318 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:29.000 You, No, comrade, because before you leave here, you're also 319 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:31.160 going to call a committee and clear the use of 320 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:36.039 the truck, certifying that they'll be used for regular party business. Now, 321 00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:37.720 I don't think you'll give me any trouble. 322 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:41.359 No, I don't believe I will. 323 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:44.519 Good, make your phone calls and then go and get 324 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:47.839 some rest. We're going to have a busy night ahead 325 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:52.839 of us. 326 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:55.480 I have a busy night ahead of me, all right, 327 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:57.799 And when it's all over, Hillman will be able to 328 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:00.799 shift the party's disciplinary action from him elf to me, 329 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:06.119 because this death will be my responsibility. After clearing the trucks, 330 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:10.400 while Hillman listens, I go out and away from the waterfront, 331 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:13.079 and as soon as I think I'm safe, I call 332 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:15.200 the emergency number that Ryan gave me and make my 333 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:16.400 report to the FBI. 334 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:18.920 This is the break we've been looking for. 335 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:21.599 Matt Well. The break I'm looking for is a chance 336 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:23.000 to get out of this with my neck. 337 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:27.319 I can imagine. Say we think we learn the identity 338 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:29.039 of Hillman's contact on the committee. 339 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:29.640 Who is it? 340 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:30.799 A guy named Houston. 341 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.640 According to our operative, he's the only committee member known 342 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:36.000 to us who's contacted Hillman since you made your report. 343 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:37.440 Well, that's good news. 344 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:39.200 At least you know your enemy. 345 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:42.079 Yeah, and that may be the break I'm looking for, 346 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:44.119 as well as the one the bureau wants. 347 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:46.039 Oh what do you have in mind, Matt Well? 348 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:48.440 It isn't clear yet, and it may not work at all. 349 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:57.480 I'll call you back this afternoon. I have an idea, 350 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:00.960 all right. If I'm lucky, and it works. I'll be 351 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:04.519 a party hero. Everything depends on the accuracy of the 352 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:08.759 FBI's assumption that Comrade Juston is Hillman's contact on the committee. 353 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:12.160 It isn't easy to keep the nervous quiver out of 354 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:13.880 my voice when I talk to Comrade Rice. 355 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:17.000 Why aren't you with Comrade Hillman, Comrade Svedik. 356 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:20.720 I can't tell you that, Comrade Rice, until you agree 357 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:24.680 to one condition. But is it before I make any statement, 358 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:29.359 bring Comrade Juston here and hold him in communicado until 359 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:30.039 tomorrow morning. 360 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:32.440 But Comrade Juston's a member of the Control Committee. 361 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:35.079 I know that, and I want you to arrest him 362 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:38.319 and me before I tell you anything more. 363 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:40.240 This is a weird request. 364 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:44.359 It's a weird situation, and if I refuse it, then 365 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:46.200 I don't know a thing. Comrade. 366 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:49.279 I think I see what you're driving at, Comrade Svedik, 367 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:52.039 And since you've vised to be placed under arrest too, 368 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.759 I'll accept your condition. I hope for your sake that 369 00:20:55.799 --> 00:21:01.359 your information concerning Comrade Justin is correct. What's your charge 370 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:02.039 against him? 371 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:04.440 He's your information leak to Hillman? 372 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:05.480 Can you prove it? 373 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:08.640 I hope so? At any rate, he gave Hillman the 374 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.079 details of my report to the committee, a report I 375 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:12.640 deliberately made non committal. 376 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:14.759 This is still just words. 377 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:18.039 I'll give you more than just words. After my report, 378 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:20.920 Hillman took me into his confidence to the extent of 379 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:23.720 ordering me to steal a shipment of merchandise from Warehouse 380 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:25.960 twenty three at ten thirty tonight. 381 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:27.839 Is that what you cleared those trucks for? 382 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:30.759 That's right with Hillman standing right next to me. 383 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:33.240 But how could he expect to get away with it? 384 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:36.400 Juston is the key? As long as he was free 385 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:39.720 to warn Hillman, you could never catch them. They must 386 00:21:39.720 --> 00:21:41.680 have been splitting up a large share. 387 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:41.920 Of the loot. 388 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:46.279 But how can we catch Hillman in the act. 389 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:51.240 Couldn'tuston be persuaded to call Hillman at the last moment 390 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:54.000 tonight and tell him that you had placed me under arrest, 391 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:56.759 that Hilman will have to supervise the job himself. 392 00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:01.680 Comrade Juston can be persuaded to do it. Anything as 393 00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:04.319 to whether or not Hillman will accept his suggestion, well, 394 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:07.400 your future depends on that. 395 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.519 Now I start the real sweat. Comrade Rice has accepted 396 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:20.039 my plan so readily that I begin to wonder if 397 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:23.640 maybe he's Hillman's contact, and when he tells me to 398 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:26.720 go to my hotel room alone, I watch my step, 399 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:29.960 crossing every street for fear he has an accident plan 400 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.359 for me. Nothing happens the first three or four blocks, though, 401 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.599