Speaker 1: I was a Communist for the FBI, starring Dana Andrews
Speaker 1: and an exciting tale of danger and espionage.
Speaker 2: I was a Communist for the FBI. You're about to
Speaker 2: hear a strange story. Names, dates, and places are, for
Speaker 2: obvious reasons, fictional, but many of these incidents are based
Speaker 2: on the actual experiences of Matt Savetic two. For nine
Speaker 2: fantastic years lived as a communist for the FBI. Here
Speaker 2: is our star, Dana Andrews at Matt Savetic.
Speaker 1: Comrade. It's a word that should stand for something good,
Speaker 1: but I learned to hate it as the symbol of
Speaker 1: the most vicious hypocrisy in the world. One thing I
Speaker 1: knew for sure, being a comrade was one of the
Speaker 1: most dangerous occupations in the world for a man who
Speaker 1: believed in freedom.
Speaker 2: In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Savedic
Speaker 2: under coverman. Now Here is Dana Andrews as Matt Sabbatic
Speaker 2: under coverman. This story from the Confidential File is marked
Speaker 2: the Canadian backbone.
Speaker 3: Comrade, that's fay m what Samari? Look up? Uh? Oh
Speaker 3: common Drake? What time is it? Little after midnight? Get dressed?
Speaker 3: Do you have to deliver this package to a comrade
Speaker 3: in Calgary.
Speaker 1: Calgary, in Canada. Your train leads in twenty minutes. That
Speaker 1: package must be very important.
Speaker 3: It is if you fail.
Speaker 4: If anything happens to the package, well it's nothing to
Speaker 4: what will happen to you.
Speaker 1: With that thought to comfort me, I was escorted by
Speaker 1: Comrade Drake to the station. In a few hours, I
Speaker 1: was crossing Victoria Jubilee Bridge into Montreal, and by morning
Speaker 1: I was having breakfast aboard the Canadian Pacific Stremeliner heading west.
Speaker 5: You need to see, but may I join you?
Speaker 1: She was young, square jawed, wearing glasses and a smile
Speaker 1: like a garfish.
Speaker 3: For no apparent reason.
Speaker 1: The chill of fear my spine as she sat down
Speaker 1: at my table.
Speaker 5: Let me see. I ask for the menu.
Speaker 6: Of course here, thank you.
Speaker 3: I can recommend the sausage.
Speaker 6: It's deliciousness, Susan, do you I would be just Susan?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm Matt, save.
Speaker 5: Susan, And oh yes, I like that. We wouldn't make
Speaker 5: good neighbors, you and I.
Speaker 7: I have the compartment next to yours. We are neighbors
Speaker 7: all the way to Calgary.
Speaker 1: What makes you think I'm going to Calgary.
Speaker 7: Well, I must have helped you tell report and I yes.
Speaker 5: Of course that was it.
Speaker 1: Mystery's ruined my appetite, mister. Yeah, you see, Suzanne, I
Speaker 1: didn't tell the porter my destination. I didn't tell anyone.
Speaker 3: Who is it? Conductor?
Speaker 1: Oh, come on in, and I got my ticket.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 8: Don't you recognize the man of nine Angels.
Speaker 1: Mister Ferguson, secret service. Nice to see you again, lad,
Speaker 1: same here.
Speaker 9: You better let me see that package.
Speaker 1: You know everything, don't you. It's my business man. It's
Speaker 1: tough business. This time with a strong box I steal
Speaker 1: and I don't have the key.
Speaker 8: I suspected as much. That's why I brought these tools of.
Speaker 3: Mine, picklocks.
Speaker 1: You did come prepared. It's going to someone in Calgary
Speaker 1: who I don't know yet. He'll identify himself to me.
Speaker 1: Ah money, Hey, look at the size of those bills.
Speaker 9: What a sight for an honest Scott to see.
Speaker 1: Must be nearly half a million dollars. Mister Ferguson, what's
Speaker 1: this all about?
Speaker 9: A trouble?
Speaker 1: Lots and lots of trouble in Calgary.
Speaker 3: That's the center of it.
Speaker 8: There's been too many breakdowns and troubles of all kinds.
Speaker 8: Recently on the railroads and airlines, there too many.
Speaker 1: To be accidents coming sabotaged.
Speaker 3: Ay, that's my thinking.
Speaker 8: And if I'm right, this money is intended to help
Speaker 8: the Reds and ludge their operations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, while stopping this money, will.
Speaker 3: I'm not stopping it? Huh.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they only get more money. The Reds have other sources.
Speaker 3: You know that, I'm sure.
Speaker 8: But if you start the whole Commie ring, Matt, particularly
Speaker 8: the leader, I need.
Speaker 3: Names and proof.
Speaker 1: That's a big order.
Speaker 8: The communist in charge will have to keep records to
Speaker 8: account for so much money.
Speaker 9: All you'll have to do is to locate those books.
Speaker 3: Me. You can do it, Matt.
Speaker 1: If I was working with them, yes, But I'm not
Speaker 1: part of the Calgary cell, I'm only a courier. When
Speaker 1: I hand over the money, they'll expect me to go home.
Speaker 9: Then I guess you should go home.
Speaker 1: Try and understand, mister Ferguson. If I hang around asking questions,
Speaker 1: they'll crucify.
Speaker 8: All right, laddie, Why if anything happened to you, it
Speaker 8: would be on my conscience forever?
Speaker 1: What conscience?
Speaker 3: Of course?
Speaker 9: If you insist upon risking your lip, I cannot.
Speaker 3: Stop you try.
Speaker 1: It would do no good.
Speaker 3: You're a stubborn fool mat sabetic.
Speaker 1: Staying in Calgary was going to be about as healthy
Speaker 1: is skipping rope with a rattlesnake, unless I came up
Speaker 1: with a very good reason. But two days later, as
Speaker 1: the train sliced threw the great wheat fields of Saskatchewan
Speaker 1: and the endless cattle ranches of Alberta, I still didn't
Speaker 1: have an answer. Then finally we pulled into Calgary, a sprawling,
Speaker 1: oversized cowtown with a bow and elbow rivers. She can't
Speaker 1: journeys in for me and half a million communist dollars, please, Chory,
Speaker 1: But if you'll excuse me, I was expecting someone to meet.
Speaker 3: Me, and of course this is to meet me. I
Speaker 3: am Jacques Pier.
Speaker 1: You're also psychic. It seems must be a Poitier family trait.
Speaker 1: First she knows my destination and now you know my name?
Speaker 1: What kind of a crystal ball you too?
Speaker 6: Use? I can extreme day, I don't forget it.
Speaker 1: I have to meet something.
Speaker 3: Maybe mister may we welcome to calcul Cobrad.
Speaker 5: I think he is surprised.
Speaker 1: Papa, he is indeed, Oh here's the package, camera Partier
Speaker 1: it must have great value for you to send your
Speaker 1: daughter to help me guard it.
Speaker 4: Wee, but his value does not concern you. I hope
Speaker 4: you found Suzanne an agreeable traveling companion.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, indeed the loveliest bodyguard I ever had.
Speaker 3: She is a very efficient worker for the party too.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm sure she is. Why I wish I could
Speaker 1: remain for a visit Susanne, that I know you're a comrade,
Speaker 1: I'm sure i'd enjoy a.
Speaker 4: Last whyne oh Papa call.
Speaker 3: Can you delete your return? Well?
Speaker 1: Yes, then to set.
Speaker 3: Her you will stay at a house and be an
Speaker 3: honored kids.
Speaker 1: Thank you, comrade. That means a great deal to me,
Speaker 1: perhaps to all of us.
Speaker 3: You understand Susanne is without the houseband yet who knows,
Speaker 3: my son, you may be the luck you on.
Speaker 1: The Poitier house turned out to be a large break
Speaker 1: affair near the Provincial Institute of Technology and Arts, and
Speaker 1: came equipped with a strange albino butler, a board low
Speaker 1: enough to break his back, but whose pink eyes forgot
Speaker 1: to smile when I did.
Speaker 4: Oh Tom turn pre take Messius Sthetic's luggage to the
Speaker 4: guest room.
Speaker 3: Is visiting us for a.
Speaker 10: Few days, of course, mister Poitier, Shall I unpack your
Speaker 10: bags and hang things.
Speaker 1: Up for yourself?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, I can do it.
Speaker 10: No, it's no trouble at all, sir, mister Poitier. Yes,
Speaker 10: your associates are waiting for you and missus Anne in
Speaker 10: the library.
Speaker 4: Oh, missus sthetic. Perhaps you'd better left thought and show
Speaker 4: you to your room now.
Speaker 1: Oh certainly I'd like to freshen up a bed this.
Speaker 3: Way, he s.
Speaker 1: To Poitiers, associous, Perhaps I know them? Do you know
Speaker 1: their names?
Speaker 3: Don't?
Speaker 11: I doubt you know them?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 11: Shall I run about first?
Speaker 1: So it's me?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 1: Do you think anyone would mind if I ran down
Speaker 1: and borrowed a book from the library to read what
Speaker 1: I soaked?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that, sir.
Speaker 1: No, sir.
Speaker 10: Mister Potier has a fearsome temper when anyone interrupts his conferences.
Speaker 11: Excuse me, I'll draw you about, sir.
Speaker 1: Well, what a nice friendly place?
Speaker 5: Give you good advicement?
Speaker 3: No did he come?
Speaker 1: And why what goes on downstairs?
Speaker 6: That? I am sorry?
Speaker 5: But Papa and I we have stick to orders. Do
Speaker 5: not even discuss the work we are doing.
Speaker 3: Ordered? I don't your father was in Charna.
Speaker 5: No, he is only the livers on men for our leader.
Speaker 5: But I am saying too much and you ask too
Speaker 5: many question. I would not like having to report you as.
Speaker 7: Being overly curious about it, but if it became necessary.
Speaker 1: I would keep that in mind.
Speaker 7: You do that the result of any such report would
Speaker 7: bring down on you the most severe disciplinary reaction.
Speaker 1: You will understand what that means, well, I sure do. Good.
Speaker 7: Then let's talk about things more pleasant. Eh, what would
Speaker 7: you like for dinner?
Speaker 5: I am a very good cook, and.
Speaker 1: That's about it, mister Ferguson. Not much to show for
Speaker 1: three days. But they're making a point out. I'm not
Speaker 1: letting me see or hear a thing either. Cagy ones,
Speaker 1: no argument about that. Every time I step out of
Speaker 1: my room, I seem to have one of the plotiers
Speaker 1: or that pink eyed butler Thornton for company. Even getting
Speaker 1: away for an hour tonight was like breaking out of jail.
Speaker 9: And every day the sabotage bruise worse.
Speaker 1: You know, I've read the papers. It's causing a real bottleneck.
Speaker 9: We'll have to move in soon.
Speaker 1: You can't, not until we know who the Kami leader
Speaker 1: is and where he keeps his records with no proof,
Speaker 1: for rest will be futile.
Speaker 9: Don't you think I know that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt, do you have a chance I'll make one,
Speaker 1: mister Ferguson somehow, all.
Speaker 9: Right, lad be careful that I wouldn't want anything.
Speaker 1: To that is I sure I know?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Good night, Miss Ferguson. There was no more time for caution.
Speaker 1: The next night, after pretending to go to sleep, I
Speaker 1: slipped down to listen at the library door during one
Speaker 1: of Comerad Poitier's mysterious conferences. It was a poor gamble,
Speaker 1: for all I heard was a mumble of voices. I
Speaker 1: was on the verge of trying to look through the
Speaker 1: keyhole when I saw Suzanne coming on the hall toward me.
Speaker 1: There was no way to avoid discovery.
Speaker 3: I was trapped. Now back to.
Speaker 2: Dana Andrews starring as Matt Savedic and I was a
Speaker 2: communist for the FBI and the second act of our story.
Speaker 1: I was trying to help Canadian counter espion Eyes break
Speaker 1: up a big commye sabotage ring operating out of Calgary.
Speaker 1: But as I eaves dropped on Comrade Fattier's secret meeting,
Speaker 1: I found myself caught by the approach of lad not
Speaker 1: so lovely Suzanne. What else can I do? I knocked, Matt?
Speaker 5: What are you doing now?
Speaker 1: Yes, static, Hi, Susanne.
Speaker 5: I do not know. I saw, I'm just taking How.
Speaker 1: Can I say, Comrade Poitier, you pay very little heed
Speaker 1: to warning, and for a butler, you don't pay much
Speaker 1: attention to a guest's request. I asked to see.
Speaker 11: Yes, perhaps you'd better come in.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Oh excuse me, Comrade Poitier. I didn't realize you
Speaker 1: were busy.
Speaker 13: The meeting is adjourn comrades, good night.
Speaker 1: Oh look, you didn't have to break up.
Speaker 9: Oh, Comrade Matt, why.
Speaker 3: Did you do this foolish thing? Huh?
Speaker 1: Well, I I guess I thought it was time to
Speaker 1: talk to you alone about some things alone.
Speaker 3: Who shall get to see Susann?
Speaker 5: You here?
Speaker 13: Yes, Papa, I heard too, Jack, but I'm afraid I'll
Speaker 13: need some explanation.
Speaker 3: But it is obvious and ASPI. He came to speak
Speaker 3: to me about Susanne named the spy.
Speaker 7: Oh he knocked the door, that the activity.
Speaker 4: If he was a spy, would he have been trusted
Speaker 4: to bring us the money to continue our work?
Speaker 3: Give him a cham.
Speaker 13: Yes, yes, we will without find all right, all right,
Speaker 13: but if he causes us any trouble, you'll both answer
Speaker 13: for it along with him.
Speaker 1: Oh no, look, stop doing it favors. I'm a party
Speaker 1: member too, remember.
Speaker 11: Yes, but you haven't been cleared for this kind of work, comrade.
Speaker 1: Cleared that thags you as MVD.
Speaker 11: That's true.
Speaker 13: I'm an agent of the secret police, but I'm more
Speaker 13: than that. I'm in charge of this operation.
Speaker 1: All right, Harris, drive slow through the park. Yes, well, Thornton,
Speaker 1: what is Butler the horse?
Speaker 3: Uh huh?
Speaker 1: But I haven't any ideas where he keeps his records yet, Matt.
Speaker 9: I think Thornton's books may be right in the Pottier house.
Speaker 1: You'd have to have them close at hand, That figures,
Speaker 1: But you'll have to be sure if you.
Speaker 9: Can win Thornton over work with him. Preparing for the
Speaker 9: big piece of sabotage.
Speaker 1: That's a dream.
Speaker 3: He won't let me even.
Speaker 9: Tell him, you know, the secret shipment of copper. A
Speaker 9: big double train will coming through Calgary.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow, No dice, you'd have ways to check out.
Speaker 3: Let him the train is coming.
Speaker 1: Oh and it might work, but it's risky if Thornton
Speaker 1: doesn't let me work on it. We won't be able
Speaker 1: to stop him from sabotaging train.
Speaker 3: It's worth the risk. Okay, how do I get work
Speaker 3: to you?
Speaker 9: We'll have the house surrounded like a blanket.
Speaker 8: If you can get outside, we'll contact you, and if not,
Speaker 8: then get a signal to us.
Speaker 1: We'll be ready to move in and I'll be ready
Speaker 1: to move out. You better drop me now. I'll have
Speaker 1: to meets then where drug store on Niples Street. I
Speaker 1: promised to treat.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Comrade met I love our working together, don't you.
Speaker 6: You bet we have so much in common, you and
Speaker 6: I You you haven't spoken to my father yet.
Speaker 1: Oh well, that is because of the way things worked out.
Speaker 1: I decided it would be best to move myself first.
Speaker 9: Oh you don't dat I must.
Speaker 1: Or Comrade Thornton will believe we're putting sentiment ahead of
Speaker 1: our work.
Speaker 9: Oh buddy, I'll worry.
Speaker 1: Comrade Susanne. I discovered something tonight that I think will
Speaker 1: do the trick. I'll show him I can be just
Speaker 1: as valuable to the party as anyone else.
Speaker 3: But of course you can.
Speaker 1: I'll do it tonight.
Speaker 10: If he's still up, Oh, come right in. I hope
Speaker 10: your work went well this evening.
Speaker 5: Fine, comrade, who better than that?
Speaker 1: Tell him sure? I picked up some important information from
Speaker 1: the Chief Dispatcher's office.
Speaker 11: One of the clerks, what kind of information?
Speaker 1: A big trainload of copper secret shipment due to pass
Speaker 1: you hear tomorrow? Oh, what kind of reaction is.
Speaker 11: That you're lying? Stik.
Speaker 13: I have my own sources of information, and I checked
Speaker 13: them only this afternoon. But there is no copper train
Speaker 13: schedule tomorrow, And.
Speaker 1: I say there is, check again.
Speaker 11: Don't worry, I will, or maybe you'd better worry.
Speaker 1: I took the common Chief's advice. I worried if Ferguson
Speaker 1: had made a mistake about the copper shipment. I was
Speaker 1: due for a long rest from breathing. Thornton plainly suspected
Speaker 1: that I was a spy, and my story just a
Speaker 1: trick to get his group to betray itself. I had
Speaker 1: no illusions as to what would happen if he became
Speaker 1: sure of it.
Speaker 5: You don't want to downstairs.
Speaker 3: What happened did Thornton find me? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Come on, Suzanne, you know I.
Speaker 6: Want to believe you, but I have to be sure
Speaker 6: that you are not what Comrade Thornton's stake.
Speaker 1: Well, I do won't take long. Na in the cellar way,
Speaker 1: what's the idea.
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 1: More course, what's in this room? The bodies.
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 11: Come in, comrade, So then you'll go back upstairs coming
Speaker 11: in mm hm oh yeah, this is my private room
Speaker 11: where how can I plan our work?
Speaker 3: We our most important work.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I get the idea. I've just been
Speaker 1: taken out of the doghouse.
Speaker 3: It's right.
Speaker 11: It seems I made a mistake about your comrade seating.
Speaker 1: Oh well, don't bother to apologize.
Speaker 11: I wasn't going to.
Speaker 13: I acted as I felt proper on the information I had.
Speaker 13: Only as it turned out my information was wrong.
Speaker 1: The train is coming through here tomorrow.
Speaker 13: Then, just as you said it would, you proved yourself
Speaker 13: both alert and loyal to the party. Comrade, we can
Speaker 13: use these things.
Speaker 1: Thanks. I've also got an idea how this job can
Speaker 1: be done more effectively. Your work has always been in
Speaker 1: or close to the railroad yards.
Speaker 3: But where else where would you pick?
Speaker 11: Comrade?
Speaker 1: Kicking horse passed where the railroad enters the Rockies. It's
Speaker 1: forty miles from here.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: If we arranged a real accident to happen in that.
Speaker 13: Past, ah, it would be many feet you're right, Job,
Speaker 13: it would take weeks to retrieve that coppa and repair
Speaker 13: the line.
Speaker 1: You don't have much time to set this up, and
Speaker 1: if you don't mind, I'd like to work with you
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 11: Well, why not, Job, get my records out of the safe.
Speaker 11: We'll see whom we have to do this job.
Speaker 1: I watched this, Comradequoitier opened a hidden floor safe and
Speaker 1: brought out a familiar strong box along with the records.
Speaker 1: It was time to signal Ferguson now, But that didn't
Speaker 1: look so easy from a small cellar room with no windows.
Speaker 1: Then I noticed the potbellied stove.
Speaker 11: Their tension, Comrade, but yeah, it's cold in here. Some
Speaker 11: wood in the stove.
Speaker 1: Then, along with the wood, I added my handkerchief, and
Speaker 1: when the fire was smoking good, I reached for the
Speaker 1: damper up on the stove pipe. I opened it for
Speaker 1: three quick short intervals, followed by a long one. Somewhere
Speaker 1: above the house. I knew the smoke was rising in
Speaker 1: puffs that spelled out the Morse code letter V, the
Speaker 1: for for victory. I could only pray that Ferguson saw.
Speaker 3: It and understood, Comrade Steak, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's this damper.
Speaker 3: It seems to be stuck headed open.
Speaker 11: Now leave it that way, all right? That should complete
Speaker 11: the plan, Jacques, you said, and laye the kicking horse.
Speaker 5: Pass just came for you from the United States for me.
Speaker 1: Let's see it. Oh no, what's the matter and take
Speaker 1: a look. They want me back home immediately.
Speaker 11: They're upset with your comrade for staying so long.
Speaker 1: So what, I don't care. I can't leave now, just
Speaker 1: when we come.
Speaker 13: Since when do our personal desires come to more obedience
Speaker 13: to the party.
Speaker 1: Well they don't, But I can't leave.
Speaker 11: If you're needed in America, you must go at once.
Speaker 3: But no, not right now, but you must what.
Speaker 5: Comes first.
Speaker 6: Our own feelings cannot interfere.
Speaker 5: With with our duty.
Speaker 1: Sure, but I can't see that.
Speaker 14: I have to go, says immediately. That means now, well,
Speaker 14: I guess you're right, and I'll leave right away. The
Speaker 14: sooner the better, yes, comrade, as you say.
Speaker 3: The sooner the better.
Speaker 1: I set a world's record packing my bags and left
Speaker 1: for an awkward farewell and kiss from both the poitiers
Speaker 1: who wished me the kami version of godspeed, which means
Speaker 1: just leave out the word God. Two blocks away I
Speaker 1: found Ferguson waiting to signal the raid to begin.
Speaker 9: Folks, signals you must think you're an American Indian.
Speaker 1: I did the trick. You'll find Thornton's records and the
Speaker 1: money in a floor safe and a room in the cellar.
Speaker 3: Cold.
Speaker 8: Good work, mat We are ready to move in, stubborn,
Speaker 8: fool that you'll be. Sometimes it's the pleasure to have
Speaker 8: you around, saying to you, sir, and thanks for the telegram.
Speaker 9: Well, now, I couldn't take a chance on you're being
Speaker 9: hurt or maybe killed in one of our own raids.
Speaker 3: Could I would look terrible on my records.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you saved me from a fate worse than that,
Speaker 1: mister Ferguson.
Speaker 3: Worse.
Speaker 1: Lad when you raid the house, take a good look
Speaker 1: at Suzanne Poitier. I think you'll see what I mean, Advisor.
Speaker 1: Once again, a job was finished, and yet the fight
Speaker 1: was never ended. For the Fergusons and myself. In Canada,
Speaker 1: as in every country dedicated to the principles of freedom,
Speaker 1: men like us would always be joining hands in silent
Speaker 1: war against the forces of communism. But even as we
Speaker 1: fought together, I remained a man who must continue to
Speaker 1: walk alone.
Speaker 12: Ana Andrews will return in just a moment. This is
Speaker 12: Dana Andrews.
Speaker 1: All over the world, people like you and I and
Speaker 1: the folks next door are faced with the insidious threat
Speaker 1: of communism. We can meet that threat only by being alert,
Speaker 1: by never closing our eyes to the fact that it
Speaker 1: is a threat. Join us next week when we bring
Speaker 1: you another thrilling experience of Matt Sivedic. Won't you