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The Communist for the FBI.
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Starring Dana Andrews and an exciting tale of danger and espionage.
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I was a communist for the FBI.
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The Communist for the FBI.
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From the actual records and authentic experiences of Matt Siverik
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come many of the incidents in this unusual story. Here
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is our star, Dana Andrews, as Matt Siverik, who for
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nine fantastic years lived as a communist for the FBI.
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After nine years in the Communist Party, you're bound to
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get the idea.
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I did.
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It's a game, a vicious game of follow the leader.
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The problem is the followers never become leaders, and the
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leaders are all doomed to disaster. So nobody wins when
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you play the red game, and everybody, everybody loses.
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In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Svetik,
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Undercover Man.
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Undercover Man.
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Now here is Dana Andrews as Matt Svetik, undercover man.
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This story from the confidential file is marked, The Inhuman Element.
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The Inhuman Element.
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No cell meeting this time. No secret discussions in a
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hidden room. No malicious business to transact.
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Not tonight.
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Tonight is a night decreed by the commies as a
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social evening. Tonight the assignment is frivolity, whether you feel
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frivolous or not. Food, drinks, all you want. But don't
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want more than your party's superior.
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Laughter? Sure, laugh all you want.
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But let your cell leader laugh first, or you may
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find yourself laughing at the wrong thing. That's Comrade Critts,
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Melvin Critts, number one correspondent for the big party publications.
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They're letting him laugh all he wants tonight because he's
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the guest of honor. This is a farewell party for him.
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He leaves on a new overseas assignment tomorrow.
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Where? I wish I knew. It might help if I knew.
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Hey, don't look so gloomy, Savinic. You couldn't possibly miss
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me that much. How long do you expect to be gone,
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you know? Oh, two weeks, ten days, something like that.
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I'm copping the fattest news beat of the decade. Come here. Okay.
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Know where the party's sending me? No.
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Orient.
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Fine. Come here. Hi-Sai. Huh? H-A-I-S-A-I. Hi-Sai. Red Gorilla Leader?
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Yup.
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What about him? Well, I'm getting the first and only
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interview with him. But nobody even knows who or where
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he is.
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Leaders do. High side works for them, you know.
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Sure, but how are you going to find him? The
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propaganda committee is fixing it for me.
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The first exclusive interview with the mysterious leader of the
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Red Gorilla Raiders.
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Hey, excuse me.
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What's wrong?
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It's a refreshment problem again.
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Another cripsy for old Mel Cripsy.
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Now I knew, but I didn't understand.
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High-sized guerrilla raids were the scourge of the American settlements
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in that part of the Orient, and High-Sci himself was
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that anonymous commie leader you'd read so much about, unidentified
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even after two years of calculated terrorizing. That mystery, that
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semi-legendary standing of his, was high-sized greatest strength. Why should
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the commies want to reveal his identity now? The next morning,
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posing as an indignant comrade, I paid the propaganda committee
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a visit.
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State your business, Wittig.
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We haven't much time for petty problems.
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Would you call the welfare of the party a petty problem,
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Comrade Logan?
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The point, the point. Get to the point.
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I don't like the assignment you've given Comrade Cripps.
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You don't like it?
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And just what do you know about it, sir?
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I know that you're sending him to an interview with Hi-Sai.
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Hi-Sai's greatest strength lies in his mystery. To reveal his
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identity now would be to.
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Just a moment. One moment. Did Comrade Cripps tell you this? Yes.
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He talks too much.
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Only to those he can trust.
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I wonder.
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Well, he told no one but me. We've been close
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friends for years.
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He felt he had to confide in someone in case
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anything happened.
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All right, all right. What else do you know, Svetik?
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I know I don't like the assignment.
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It's... Your likes and dislikes are of no concern to
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the Propaganda Committee, Comrade.
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Maybe not.
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But remember, I was sent to this area by the
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Regional Policy Board. They'd be most interested in any report
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I might file.
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Oh.
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The board knows all about it, comrade.
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The entire upper echelon of the party is involved in this.
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We could never establish contact with Hi-Sai without their help.
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Oh. Oh, I see.
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Our national board in New York has been in touch
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with the party nerve center in Europe. They, in turn,
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have issued orders to the Orient to let Cripps through,
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to lead him to Hi-Sai's headquarters.
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Wherever that may be.
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Oh, hi, Logan. Why?
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If we felt we could benefit by your judgment... we
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would have consulted you.
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Remember, Logan, you were judged by the minor members of
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the party, too. A foolish project like this might... Foolish?
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A project endorsed by party leaders all over the world? No, Svetik.
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Hi-Sai has become a symbol, a large symbol.
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This news story will link him closer to every communist,
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will make our comrades realize that Hi-Sai is working for them.
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Oh, is that the reason for the news story, Logan?
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Is Hi-Sai becoming too big for the party?
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That's all, Svetik. I am a busy man.
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Oh, that is the reason for all this, isn't it, Logan?
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The party's getting worried about Hi-Sai. The news story will
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tell the world that he's still just a puppet. That
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he's still linked directly with the cause. And if this
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theory of yours were true, Svetik... Wouldn't you approve?
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No.
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No?
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No.
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I'd be afraid that the news story would reveal too
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much about Hi-Sai.
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It might lead to his capture.
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Don't underestimate your superiors, comrade. We know what we are doing.
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Even if you and our enemies do not.
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Beaker?
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Beaker, this is Red. Hi.
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Got troubles?
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Listen, the party's sending Mel Cripps to the Orient, into
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Red territory.
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Cripps?
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The news guy?
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Yeah.
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With his Red complexion, he won't be able to get
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a passport.
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They'll probably fix a phony one for him.
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That'll be easy to stop.
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I'll just talk to him. No, no. Let him go.
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Why?
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Look, the whole party is doing a lot of international
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string pulling to get him over. They've arranged for him
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to interview Hi-Sai. You know, the guerrilla leader?
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Huh. Neatest trick of the week. We've been trying to
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find Hi-Sai for over a year. Well, this may do it.
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Let Cripps get his story. There may be some clues
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in it. Clues to Hi-Sai's identity.
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Well, we can use a few more clues, all right.
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What's the commie angle to all this?
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I don't know for sure, but I have a hunch.
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The party's worried that Hi-Sai's getting too big. They want
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to show the Reds that Hi-Sai isn't just an independent
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guerrilla leader.
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That he's working closely with the party. That figures.
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Maybe I'd better get word to Central Intelligence. Let them
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check the crypt stories.
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Check them while they're still warm. Then the CIA may
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be able to tag Hi-Sai before he holds up.
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Right, Matt. Thanks. Within a week, Mel Cripps had filed
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his first story.
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The commie press in America and all over the world
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hailed it as a tremendous scoop for the party. But
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the American government wasn't interested in scoops. They wanted Hi-Sai.
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The stories kept coming in for five days, cleverly written,
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liberally sprinkled with tantalizing facts about the guerrilla leader's headquarters,
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his henchmen, even a carefully worded physical description of Hi-Sai himself.
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The stories made it Pretty clear that Hi-Sai was working
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for the party all right. But they also cleared up
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some points about Hi-Sai's identity.
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Speaker.
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Speaker, this is Red. Been trying to reach you, chum.
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About the Hi-Sai stories? Yeah. Happy?
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No.
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What's wrong?
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We dug enough clues out of the articles to put
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together a good picture of Hi-Sai.
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Great, then you... No, not great.
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We're pretty sure who Hi-Sai is now. In fact, the
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whole world will know him soon.
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So? So.
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According to what we know now, Hi-Sai is actually one
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of our own anti-communist leaders.
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What?
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It's George DePaul, a wealthy American planter over there.
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Well, DePaul's been fighting Hi-Sai.
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Yeah, that's what we thought. But from what we found
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in these articles, he is Hi-Sai. Every clue, every carefully
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guarded fact points right to him.
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Well, at least we know the truth about him now. Yeah.
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Whittle and the natives over there figured out. They trusted DePaul.
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He was their friend. Now, well, now they'll suspect every
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American who.
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Matt, are you sure this isn't another commie trick or something?
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No, Baker, they wouldn't send Mel Cripps that far for
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a trick.
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You'd better see that something is done about Carmen DePaul, though,
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and fast. Logan.
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Carmen Logan.
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Logan!
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What the devil are you cackling.
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About? Oh, dear.
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Delightful.
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A masterpiece, Frederick. An absolute masterpiece.
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The high-size stories, no doubt.
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Look, repercussions are being followed already.
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Here, read it.
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Read the headlines. It just came out.
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Anti-American riots in the Orient.
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Anti-communist natives turned on their American benefactors today as rioters
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stormed the plantation of... George DePaul, intent upon.
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Delightful.
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Utterly delightful.
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You enjoy seeing a comrade torn apart by a mob? Comrade?
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DePaul is high-sci, isn't he?
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Oh, Svetty, you're as gullible as those natives.
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Wait a minute. Isn't he high-sci? Well, of course not. But...
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The articles, they were all.
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Wait, did Paul is Hi-Sai's worst enemy?
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And now his own friends, his own friends are.
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Out to tear him to pieces. Wait a minute.
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Wait a minute, make sense, Logan. Logan, you told me
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the party was sending Cripps right to Hi-Sai himself.
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And it was done. And Cripps saw Hi-Sai. And he
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wrote what he saw.
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Yes, yes, indeed.
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Then what are you.
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He wrote it as he saw it, all right.
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But, uh, we, uh, did some editing and some rewriting
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here before publishing the stories.
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To... to... to make the world think Hi-Sci was George
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the Poor.
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But that was the whole idea, Sweatic, right from the start.
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We knew American intelligence would be checking the stories with
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uncommon interest.
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Did Cripps know that? Did he know his stories would
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be rewritten by... by... You?
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No, but he won't mind.
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It's rather pleasant to see anti-communists fighting anti-communists. I wouldn't
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have it any other way, would you, Conrad?
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Hmm?
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Oh, would you?
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Now back to Dana Andrews starring as Matt Siverik in
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I Was a Communist for the FBI and the second
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act of our story.
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A direct propaganda hit for the Reds. An international bullseye.
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And I could have stopped it. I should have known better.
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I should have recognized the twists and turns. But no.
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Instead, I assured the FBI that the Hi-Sci articles were true.
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I'd help turn American allies against a sincere American leader.
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Yes, Logan.
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I'm worried about you.
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I'm flattered.
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For two days, those demonstrations in the Orient have been
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going on. We're turning anti-communists into anti-Americans. But you don't
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seem the least bit pleased.
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I'm confused, I guess. At all? When is Cripps due home?
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Just confused, Svetik. Why the suspicions, Logan?
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You know more than you should. That can be dangerous, Svetik.
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But I've only drawn... Remember this.
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If anything occurs to reverse our favorable situation regarding the
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high-side project, I'll have good reason to hold you responsible.
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Why me?
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As I say, Svetik, it's dangerous to know more than
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you should.
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Too dangerous. From bad to worse.
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It would be suicide now for me to try to
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contact the FBI. Logan would be checking every move I made.
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All I could do was stand by, making noises like
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an ardent red, grinning like a satisfied commie, while American
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authorities and hot-headed natives built a case against an innocent man.
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And then, two nights later, there was more frivolity by assignment.
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A welcome home party for Mel Cripps. Maybe Cripps would
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be the answer. Maybe I could turn his reporter's instincts
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against the party.
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Maybe. Maybe. Maybe his training as a newshound would work
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for me.
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I'm a jolly good fellow.
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I'm a jolly good... Are you mad, old boy? Well,
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welcome home, Mel. Oh, old melancholy Matthew.
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Ha, ha.
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A long face at my farewell party and an even
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longer face at my welcome home shindig. It's a fine
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way to treat a pal.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Carmen. Because I've been thinking too hard.
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Oh, now you're the analytic type. Have you analyzed my
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series on the high side yet?
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Yes. I didn't like it. No kidding? No. How come?
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It wasn't your series. Well, sure it was. No.
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You reported the facts, but the propaganda committee changed them.
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To suit the party. What's wrong with that? You're a
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good reporter, one of the best.
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A good reporter's first concern is the truth. I, uh, well,
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I just wish you'd been given an assignment that didn't
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need revising.
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Listen, Svedek, I'm a reporter for the Communist Party. My
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first concern is the Communist cause. The only truth I
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know is the inevitable proletarian revolt.
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Careful, Svetik. Steady.
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That's two strikes in a row. Strike one, not seeing
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through the commie's overall scheme. Strike two, overestimating Cripps as
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a newsman and underestimating him as a red.
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One more strike and I'd be out.
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And before the evening was over, Comrade Logan was doing
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the pitching.
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In here, Svetik. Something wrong, Logan? Sit down.
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Now, what were you and Cripps talking about?
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Huh? Oh, nothing special. Small talk, mostly.
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I don't believe you.
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Well, ask him. Say, what's wrong with you? What did
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you expect us to be talking about?
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He told you nothing.
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About what?
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Logan, that suspicious mind of yours is beginning to back
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up on you.
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He told you nothing about his latest assignment? No. Has
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he got a new assignment? He just got back.
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He's leaving tomorrow for one of our satellite nations. From
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his conversation, did he seem to suspect the true nature of.
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He didn't even mention it. Why should he suspect? Yeah.
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Why should he suspect anything? Your trusted friend....
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Isn't coming back, Svedek.
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Cripps? Why? What's he done?
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It's unfortunate, but he's the only lower echelon party member
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who knows the real identity of Hi-Sai.
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That knowledge is a threat to party security. But Cripps
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is too loyal ever to tell what he knows about Hi-Sai. Loyal, yes.
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And human.
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Would you prefer a machine, Logan?
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Yes.
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But having none.
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We must purge ourselves of the most dangerous human elements.
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That's all, Svedek. Not a word of this to Cripps, comrade.
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Or you'll join him on his one-way journey.
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Look, Logan.
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Cripps probably has notes on his original story about Highside.
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Maybe even a copy of the unedited dispatch.
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Yes.
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Yes, that may be.
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And if he does have them, and they should fall into...
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Enemy hands? Yes.
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Good thinking, Switty.
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Good, good.
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If he has any notes on the real high side,
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the one person he'd give them to is you.
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Well, I could try.
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The simple, direct approach. In the interests of the party.
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He couldn't refuse that. And if he does?
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I'd have three men stationed in the street beneath his
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apartment window. If he gives you trouble, just flip the
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window shade up or down as a signal. When friendliness fails,
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violence usually succeeds.
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Come on in. Door's unlocked. Morning, Crips. Well, Matt boy,
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come on in, come on in. You give me a
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hand with this packing, huh? You've hardly had a chance
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to unpack, Mel. Another tripsie for old Mel Cripsie. Say,
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hand me those ties, will you? There you are. Thanks. There.
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One more suitcase to go. You look pretty happy about
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this trip. Why not? This is even a bigger story
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than the high-sign news beat.
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This time, I'm the first American reporter to penetrate that
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particular section.
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Of the Iron Curtain. Ha, ha. Hey, American. Well, technically, anyway.
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Say, speaking of that high-sign story, Colin, you don't happen
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to have any copies of the original dispatch, do you?
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Oh, you mean before they made George DePaul a goat? Sure, why?
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Well, it might be dangerous to keep it around. If
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it gets into the wrong hands, it would be pretty.
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Hey, you're right. You're right. Let me see.
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Ah, here it is.
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Boy, oh, boy. What the American government would do to
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get this little piece of paper. Let me see it.
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Sure.
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Now, wait a minute. I don't think the party wants
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this information bandied about among its members. No, don't be silly.
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Let's see it. Oh, no, no. You better not, Matt.
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Why invite trouble? I don't know. What are you looking for? Match.
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Got one? Match? Match? Oh, now, wait a minute, Mel. Oh,
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here's one.
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Here's one.
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Once this copy is burned, it... Now, cut it out,
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you idiot. Hey, what are you doing?
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You burn that copy and the party will burn me.
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Logan sent me here to get that dispatch from you.
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Why? For the files. Give it to me, Mel. I
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warn you, I... Oh! Let go! Let go of the medic!
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Give me that copy, Chris.
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The medic!
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Give it to me! Break it! Here, take it, take it.
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That's better. Now, get on with your packing. Yeah, yeah, sure.
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Comrade.
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Hold it, Svetik. What are you.
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Oh. That gun, a souvenir from high side? Stand still.
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Now take that dispatch out of your pocket and drop
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it on the table there.
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Do it! And if I don't? My trigger finger gets
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some exercise.
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You always shoot people in broad daylight, windows open, shades up?
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No.
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Okay, smart guy. Just stay put. Happy now? Thrilled. I
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like seclusion. Let's have that dispatch, Savitik. Right now.
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Okay, I'll count five.
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Think you'll need some help? One. Two. Stand still!
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Three.
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This is your last go around. I want that copy. Four. Okay, comrade,
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this is what happens to traitors. Hey, what puts the
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gun away, Cripps? Wait a minute, wait a minute. I
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care of him, comrade. Will you let me go?
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What are you doing?
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Well, the corner phrase, Logan. You came just in time.
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So I see.
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Cripps, is this how you treat a comrade, a trusted friend,
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sent here in the interest of a party?
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You sent him here? I told you that, Cripps.
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Did you find any notes or copies of the dispatch, Svetik?
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Well, he doesn't have them anymore.
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Oh?
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That true, Cripps? You gave our vital secret away?
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I gave the only copy I had to Svedek. Tell him, Svedek,
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show them.
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Is it true, Svedek?
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You saw the gun, Logan. What do you think? All right, comrades.
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Take comrade Cripps away.
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All right.
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Wait a minute, wait a minute.
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This is a frame-up. What are you doing? I gave
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the copy to.
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Svedek, I tell you.
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Take the traitor away before he attracts all the neighbors.
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Now, wait a minute.
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I tell you, I'm not a traitor.
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The party's my life.
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I swear, I gave the copy to Svedek. I'm not
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a traitor.
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Well, Sir Vedic, want to join us in seeing Comrade
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Cripps to his final assignment?
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No, thanks, Logan. I've seen enough.
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Your trusted friend, eh? I hope you're convinced, Sir Vedic.
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Trust and friendship are human elements. As you see, Comrade,
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humanity and communism don't mix.
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Yeah, I know, Logan. I know.
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When Logan had gone, I put the original, unedited copy
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of the dispatch into one of Mel Cripps' personal envelopes
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and addressed it to the FBI. Its content would identify
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the real High Sigh without a shadow of a doubt.
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George DePaul would be cleared of the false charges against him,
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and High Sigh would be brought to justice fast. Outside,
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I dropped the letter in a mailbox and walked away.
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The streets were empty, heavy with early morning silence. The
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city wasn't awake yet. The nation wasn't fully awake either.
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Nor was the world.
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Until the city, the nation, and the world were fully awake,
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I knew I must.
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Walk the empty streets in silence.
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I must walk the silent streets alone.
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Dana Andrews will return in just a moment. This is
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Dana Andrews, friends.
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One of the fundamental differences between tyranny and democracy is
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that in a tyranny, the people must follow the leader.
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In a democracy, the leader must follow the people. In
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the story you've just heard, names, dates, and places are
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fictitious to protect innocent persons. Many of these stories are
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based on incidents in the life of Matt Svetik, who
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worked undercover for the FBI.
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Next week, another fantastic adventure. Join us then, won't you?
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Thank you.
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The Communist for the FBI.
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Starring Dana Andrews and an exciting tale of danger and espionage.
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I was a communist for the FBI.
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The Communist for the FBI.
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From the actual records and authentic experiences of Matt Siverik
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come many of the incidents in this unusual story. Here
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is our star, Dana Andrews, as Matt Siverik, who for
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nine fantastic years lived as a communist for the FBI.
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After nine years in the Communist Party, you're bound to
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get the idea.
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I did.
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It's a game, a vicious game of follow the leader.
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The problem is the followers never become leaders, and the
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leaders are all doomed to disaster. So nobody wins when
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you play the red game, and everybody, everybody loses.
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In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Svetik,
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Undercover Man.
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Undercover Man.
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Now here is Dana Andrews as Matt Svetik, undercover man.
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This story from the confidential file is marked, The Inhuman Element.
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The Inhuman Element.
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No cell meeting this time. No secret discussions in a
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hidden room. No malicious business to transact.
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Not tonight.
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Tonight is a night decreed by the commies as a
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social evening. Tonight the assignment is frivolity, whether you feel
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frivolous or not. Food, drinks, all you want. But don't
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want more than your party's superior.
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Laughter? Sure, laugh all you want.
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But let your cell leader laugh first, or you may
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find yourself laughing at the wrong thing. That's Comrade Critts,
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Melvin Critts, number one correspondent for the big party publications.
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They're letting him laugh all he wants tonight because he's
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the guest of honor. This is a farewell party for him.
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He leaves on a new overseas assignment tomorrow.
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Where? I wish I knew. It might help if I knew.
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Hey, don't look so gloomy, Savinic. You couldn't possibly miss
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me that much. How long do you expect to be gone,
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you know? Oh, two weeks, ten days, something like that.
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I'm copping the fattest news beat of the decade. Come here. Okay.
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Know where the party's sending me? No.
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Orient.
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Fine. Come here. Hi-Sai. Huh? H-A-I-S-A-I. Hi-Sai. Red Gorilla Leader?
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Yup.
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What about him? Well, I'm getting the first and only
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interview with him. But nobody even knows who or where
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he is.
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Leaders do. High side works for them, you know.
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Sure, but how are you going to find him? The
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propaganda committee is fixing it for me.
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The first exclusive interview with the mysterious leader of the
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Red Gorilla Raiders.
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Hey, excuse me.
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What's wrong?
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It's a refreshment problem again.
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Another cripsy for old Mel Cripsy.
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Now I knew, but I didn't understand.
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High-sized guerrilla raids were the scourge of the American settlements
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in that part of the Orient, and High-Sci himself was
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that anonymous commie leader you'd read so much about, unidentified
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even after two years of calculated terrorizing. That mystery, that
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semi-legendary standing of his, was high-sized greatest strength. Why should
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the commies want to reveal his identity now? The next morning,
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posing as an indignant comrade, I paid the propaganda committee
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a visit.
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State your business, Wittig.
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We haven't much time for petty problems.
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Would you call the welfare of the party a petty problem,
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Comrade Logan?
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The point, the point. Get to the point.
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I don't like the assignment you've given Comrade Cripps.
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You don't like it?
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And just what do you know about it, sir?
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I know that you're sending him to an interview with Hi-Sai.
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Hi-Sai's greatest strength lies in his mystery. To reveal his
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identity now would be to.
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Just a moment. One moment. Did Comrade Cripps tell you this? Yes.
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He talks too much.
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Only to those he can trust.
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I wonder.
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Well, he told no one but me. We've been close
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friends for years.
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He felt he had to confide in someone in case
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anything happened.
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All right, all right. What else do you know, Svetik?
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I know I don't like the assignment.
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It's... Your likes and dislikes are of no concern to
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the Propaganda Committee, Comrade.
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Maybe not.
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But remember, I was sent to this area by the
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Regional Policy Board. They'd be most interested in any report
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I might file.
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Oh.
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The board knows all about it, comrade.
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The entire upper echelon of the party is involved in this.
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We could never establish contact with Hi-Sai without their help.
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Oh. Oh, I see.
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Our national board in New York has been in touch
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with the party nerve center in Europe. They, in turn,
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have issued orders to the Orient to let Cripps through,
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to lead him to Hi-Sai's headquarters.
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Wherever that may be.
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Oh, hi, Logan. Why?
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If we felt we could benefit by your judgment... we
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would have consulted you.
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Remember, Logan, you were judged by the minor members of
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the party, too. A foolish project like this might... Foolish?
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A project endorsed by party leaders all over the world? No, Svetik.
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Hi-Sai has become a symbol, a large symbol.
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This news story will link him closer to every communist,
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will make our comrades realize that Hi-Sai is working for them.
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Oh, is that the reason for the news story, Logan?
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Is Hi-Sai becoming too big for the party?
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That's all, Svetik. I am a busy man.
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Oh, that is the reason for all this, isn't it, Logan?
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The party's getting worried about Hi-Sai. The news story will
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tell the world that he's still just a puppet. That
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he's still linked directly with the cause. And if this
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theory of yours were true, Svetik... Wouldn't you approve?
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No.
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No?
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No.
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I'd be afraid that the news story would reveal too
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much about Hi-Sai.
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It might lead to his capture.
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Don't underestimate your superiors, comrade. We know what we are doing.
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Even if you and our enemies do not.
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Beaker?
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Beaker, this is Red. Hi.
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Got troubles?
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Listen, the party's sending Mel Cripps to the Orient, into
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Red territory.
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Cripps?
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The news guy?
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Yeah.
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With his Red complexion, he won't be able to get
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a passport.
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They'll probably fix a phony one for him.
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That'll be easy to stop.
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I'll just talk to him. No, no. Let him go.
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Why?
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Look, the whole party is doing a lot of international
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string pulling to get him over. They've arranged for him
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to interview Hi-Sai. You know, the guerrilla leader?
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Huh. Neatest trick of the week. We've been trying to
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find Hi-Sai for over a year. Well, this may do it.
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Let Cripps get his story. There may be some clues
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in it. Clues to Hi-Sai's identity.
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Well, we can use a few more clues, all right.
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What's the commie angle to all this?
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I don't know for sure, but I have a hunch.
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The party's worried that Hi-Sai's getting too big. They want
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to show the Reds that Hi-Sai isn't just an independent
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guerrilla leader.
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That he's working closely with the party. That figures.
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Maybe I'd better get word to Central Intelligence. Let them
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check the crypt stories.
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Check them while they're still warm. Then the CIA may
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be able to tag Hi-Sai before he holds up.
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Right, Matt. Thanks. Within a week, Mel Cripps had filed
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his first story.
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The commie press in America and all over the world
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hailed it as a tremendous scoop for the party. But
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the American government wasn't interested in scoops. They wanted Hi-Sai.
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The stories kept coming in for five days, cleverly written,
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liberally sprinkled with tantalizing facts about the guerrilla leader's headquarters,
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his henchmen, even a carefully worded physical description of Hi-Sai himself.
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The stories made it Pretty clear that Hi-Sai was working
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for the party all right. But they also cleared up
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some points about Hi-Sai's identity.
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Speaker.
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Speaker, this is Red. Been trying to reach you, chum.
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About the Hi-Sai stories? Yeah. Happy?
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No.
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What's wrong?
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We dug enough clues out of the articles to put
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together a good picture of Hi-Sai.
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Great, then you... No, not great.
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We're pretty sure who Hi-Sai is now. In fact, the
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whole world will know him soon.
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So? So.
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According to what we know now, Hi-Sai is actually one
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of our own anti-communist leaders.
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What?
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It's George DePaul, a wealthy American planter over there.
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Well, DePaul's been fighting Hi-Sai.
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Yeah, that's what we thought. But from what we found
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in these articles, he is Hi-Sai. Every clue, every carefully
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guarded fact points right to him.
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Well, at least we know the truth about him now. Yeah.
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Whittle and the natives over there figured out. They trusted DePaul.
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He was their friend. Now, well, now they'll suspect every
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American who.
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Matt, are you sure this isn't another commie trick or something?
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No, Baker, they wouldn't send Mel Cripps that far for
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a trick.
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You'd better see that something is done about Carmen DePaul, though,
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and fast. Logan.
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Carmen Logan.
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Logan!
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What the devil are you cackling.
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About? Oh, dear.
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Delightful.
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A masterpiece, Frederick. An absolute masterpiece.
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The high-size stories, no doubt.
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Look, repercussions are being followed already.
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Here, read it.
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Read the headlines. It just came out.
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Anti-American riots in the Orient.
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Anti-communist natives turned on their American benefactors today as rioters
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stormed the plantation of... George DePaul, intent upon.
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Delightful.
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Utterly delightful.
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You enjoy seeing a comrade torn apart by a mob? Comrade?
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DePaul is high-sci, isn't he?
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Oh, Svetty, you're as gullible as those natives.
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Wait a minute. Isn't he high-sci? Well, of course not. But...
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The articles, they were all.
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Wait, did Paul is Hi-Sai's worst enemy?
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And now his own friends, his own friends are.
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Out to tear him to pieces. Wait a minute.
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Wait a minute, make sense, Logan. Logan, you told me
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the party was sending Cripps right to Hi-Sai himself.
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And it was done. And Cripps saw Hi-Sai. And he
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wrote what he saw.
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Yes, yes, indeed.
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Then what are you.
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He wrote it as he saw it, all right.
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But, uh, we, uh, did some editing and some rewriting
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here before publishing the stories.
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To... to... to make the world think Hi-Sci was George
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the Poor.
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But that was the whole idea, Sweatic, right from the start.
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We knew American intelligence would be checking the stories with
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uncommon interest.
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Did Cripps know that? Did he know his stories would
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be rewritten by... by... You?
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No, but he won't mind.
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It's rather pleasant to see anti-communists fighting anti-communists. I wouldn't
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have it any other way, would you, Conrad?
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Hmm?
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Oh, would you?
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Now back to Dana Andrews starring as Matt Siverik in
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I Was a Communist for the FBI and the second
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act of our story.
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A direct propaganda hit for the Reds. An international bullseye.
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And I could have stopped it. I should have known better.
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I should have recognized the twists and turns. But no.
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Instead, I assured the FBI that the Hi-Sci articles were true.
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I'd help turn American allies against a sincere American leader.
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Yes, Logan.
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I'm worried about you.
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I'm flattered.
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For two days, those demonstrations in the Orient have been
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going on. We're turning anti-communists into anti-Americans. But you don't
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seem the least bit pleased.
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I'm confused, I guess. At all? When is Cripps due home?
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Just confused, Svetik. Why the suspicions, Logan?
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You know more than you should. That can be dangerous, Svetik.
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But I've only drawn... Remember this.
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If anything occurs to reverse our favorable situation regarding the
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high-side project, I'll have good reason to hold you responsible.
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Why me?
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As I say, Svetik, it's dangerous to know more than
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you should.
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Too dangerous. From bad to worse.
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It would be suicide now for me to try to
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contact the FBI. Logan would be checking every move I made.
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All I could do was stand by, making noises like
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an ardent red, grinning like a satisfied commie, while American
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authorities and hot-headed natives built a case against an innocent man.
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And then, two nights later, there was more frivolity by assignment.
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A welcome home party for Mel Cripps. Maybe Cripps would
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be the answer. Maybe I could turn his reporter's instincts
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against the party.
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Maybe. Maybe. Maybe his training as a newshound would work
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for me.
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I'm a jolly good fellow.
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I'm a jolly good... Are you mad, old boy? Well,
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welcome home, Mel. Oh, old melancholy Matthew.
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Ha, ha.
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A long face at my farewell party and an even
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longer face at my welcome home shindig. It's a fine
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way to treat a pal.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Carmen. Because I've been thinking too hard.
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Oh, now you're the analytic type. Have you analyzed my
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series on the high side yet?
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Yes. I didn't like it. No kidding? No. How come?
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It wasn't your series. Well, sure it was. No.
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You reported the facts, but the propaganda committee changed them.
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To suit the party. What's wrong with that? You're a
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good reporter, one of the best.
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A good reporter's first concern is the truth. I, uh, well,
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I just wish you'd been given an assignment that didn't
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need revising.
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Listen, Svedek, I'm a reporter for the Communist Party. My
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first concern is the Communist cause. The only truth I
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know is the inevitable proletarian revolt.
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Careful, Svetik. Steady.
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That's two strikes in a row. Strike one, not seeing
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through the commie's overall scheme. Strike two, overestimating Cripps as
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a newsman and underestimating him as a red.
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One more strike and I'd be out.
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And before the evening was over, Comrade Logan was doing
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the pitching.
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In here, Svetik. Something wrong, Logan? Sit down.
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Now, what were you and Cripps talking about?
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Huh? Oh, nothing special. Small talk, mostly.
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I don't believe you.
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Well, ask him. Say, what's wrong with you? What did
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you expect us to be talking about?
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He told you nothing.
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About what?
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Logan, that suspicious mind of yours is beginning to back
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up on you.
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He told you nothing about his latest assignment? No. Has
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he got a new assignment? He just got back.
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He's leaving tomorrow for one of our satellite nations. From
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his conversation, did he seem to suspect the true nature of.
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He didn't even mention it. Why should he suspect? Yeah.
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Why should he suspect anything? Your trusted friend....
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Isn't coming back, Svedek.
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Cripps? Why? What's he done?
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It's unfortunate, but he's the only lower echelon party member
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who knows the real identity of Hi-Sai.
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That knowledge is a threat to party security. But Cripps
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is too loyal ever to tell what he knows about Hi-Sai. Loyal, yes.
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And human.
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Would you prefer a machine, Logan?
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Yes.
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But having none.
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We must purge ourselves of the most dangerous human elements.
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That's all, Svedek. Not a word of this to Cripps, comrade.
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Or you'll join him on his one-way journey.
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Look, Logan.
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Cripps probably has notes on his original story about Highside.
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Maybe even a copy of the unedited dispatch.
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Yes.
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Yes, that may be.
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And if he does have them, and they should fall into...
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Enemy hands? Yes.
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Good thinking, Switty.
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Good, good.
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If he has any notes on the real high side,
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the one person he'd give them to is you.
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Well, I could try.
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The simple, direct approach. In the interests of the party.
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He couldn't refuse that. And if he does?
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I'd have three men stationed in the street beneath his
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apartment window. If he gives you trouble, just flip the
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window shade up or down as a signal. When friendliness fails,
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violence usually succeeds.
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Come on in. Door's unlocked. Morning, Crips. Well, Matt boy,
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come on in, come on in. You give me a
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hand with this packing, huh? You've hardly had a chance
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to unpack, Mel. Another tripsie for old Mel Cripsie. Say,
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hand me those ties, will you? There you are. Thanks. There.
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One more suitcase to go. You look pretty happy about
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this trip. Why not? This is even a bigger story
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than the high-sign news beat.
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This time, I'm the first American reporter to penetrate that
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particular section.
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Of the Iron Curtain. Ha, ha. Hey, American. Well, technically, anyway.
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Say, speaking of that high-sign story, Colin, you don't happen
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to have any copies of the original dispatch, do you?
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Oh, you mean before they made George DePaul a goat? Sure, why?
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Well, it might be dangerous to keep it around. If
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it gets into the wrong hands, it would be pretty.
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Hey, you're right. You're right. Let me see.
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Ah, here it is.
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Boy, oh, boy. What the American government would do to
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get this little piece of paper. Let me see it.
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Sure.
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Now, wait a minute. I don't think the party wants
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this information bandied about among its members. No, don't be silly.
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Let's see it. Oh, no, no. You better not, Matt.
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Why invite trouble? I don't know. What are you looking for? Match.
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Got one? Match? Match? Oh, now, wait a minute, Mel. Oh,
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here's one.
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Here's one.
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Once this copy is burned, it... Now, cut it out,
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you idiot. Hey, what are you doing?
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You burn that copy and the party will burn me.
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Logan sent me here to get that dispatch from you.
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Why? For the files. Give it to me, Mel. I
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warn you, I... Oh! Let go! Let go of the medic!
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Give me that copy, Chris.
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The medic!
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Give it to me! Break it! Here, take it, take it.
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That's better. Now, get on with your packing. Yeah, yeah, sure.
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Comrade.
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Hold it, Svetik. What are you.
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Oh. That gun, a souvenir from high side? Stand still.
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Now take that dispatch out of your pocket and drop
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it on the table there.
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Do it! And if I don't? My trigger finger gets
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some exercise.
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You always shoot people in broad daylight, windows open, shades up?
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No.
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Okay, smart guy. Just stay put. Happy now? Thrilled. I
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like seclusion. Let's have that dispatch, Savitik. Right now.
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Okay, I'll count five.
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Think you'll need some help? One. Two. Stand still!
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Three.
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This is your last go around. I want that copy. Four. Okay, comrade,
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this is what happens to traitors. Hey, what puts the
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gun away, Cripps? Wait a minute, wait a minute. I
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care of him, comrade. Will you let me go?
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What are you doing?
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Well, the corner phrase, Logan. You came just in time.
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So I see.
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Cripps, is this how you treat a comrade, a trusted friend,
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sent here in the interest of a party?
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You sent him here? I told you that, Cripps.
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Did you find any notes or copies of the dispatch, Svetik?
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Well, he doesn't have them anymore.
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Oh?
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That true, Cripps? You gave our vital secret away?
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I gave the only copy I had to Svedek. Tell him, Svedek,
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show them.
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Is it true, Svedek?
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You saw the gun, Logan. What do you think? All right, comrades.
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Take comrade Cripps away.
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All right.
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Wait a minute, wait a minute.
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This is a frame-up. What are you doing? I gave
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the copy to.
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Svedek, I tell you.
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Take the traitor away before he attracts all the neighbors.
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Now, wait a minute.
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I tell you, I'm not a traitor.
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The party's my life.
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I swear, I gave the copy to Svedek. I'm not
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a traitor.
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Well, Sir Vedic, want to join us in seeing Comrade
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Cripps to his final assignment?
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No, thanks, Logan. I've seen enough.
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Your trusted friend, eh? I hope you're convinced, Sir Vedic.
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Trust and friendship are human elements. As you see, Comrade,
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humanity and communism don't mix.
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Yeah, I know, Logan. I know.
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When Logan had gone, I put the original, unedited copy
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of the dispatch into one of Mel Cripps' personal envelopes
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and addressed it to the FBI. Its content would identify
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the real High Sigh without a shadow of a doubt.
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George DePaul would be cleared of the false charges against him,
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and High Sigh would be brought to justice fast. Outside,
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I dropped the letter in a mailbox and walked away.
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The streets were empty, heavy with early morning silence. The
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city wasn't awake yet. The nation wasn't fully awake either.
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Nor was the world.
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Until the city, the nation, and the world were fully awake,
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I knew I must.
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Walk the empty streets in silence.
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I must walk the silent streets alone.
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Dana Andrews will return in just a moment. This is
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Dana Andrews, friends.
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One of the fundamental differences between tyranny and democracy is
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that in a tyranny, the people must follow the leader.
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In a democracy, the leader must follow the people. In
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the story you've just heard, names, dates, and places are
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fictitious to protect innocent persons. Many of these stories are
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based on incidents in the life of Matt Svetik, who
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worked undercover for the FBI.
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Next week, another fantastic adventure. Join us then, won't you?
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Thank you.
