IWCF 77 Panic Plan

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I was a 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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I was a communist for the FBI.
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Many of the incidents in the story you're about to
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hear are based on the actual records and authentic experiences
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of Matt Svetik, who for nine fantastic years lived as
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a communist for the FBI. Here is our star, Dana Andrews,
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as Matt Svetik. In a legend, there is a rock
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100 miles high. And once every thousand years, a small
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bird visits that rock to sharpen its beak. And when
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the beak of that tiny bird has worn away that
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hundred-mile-high rock to a pebble, then one day of eternity
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shall have passed. Seems to me I passed a lot
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of such days, endless, fearful, terrible days without end. Nine
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long years of eternal days, being afraid, being two people,
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being a communist for the FBI. In a moment, listen
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to Dana Andrews as Matt Sabatik, undercover man. Now, here
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is Dana Andrews as Matt Sabatik, undercover man. This story
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from the confidential file is marked Panic Plan.
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The heat has been with us for weeks now. Blistering,
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humid heat from a cloudless sky. No rain for weeks.
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None in sight. The city's reservoir is running dangerously low.
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Everybody's out of sorts. And I've just had a small
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shock phoning into communist headquarters for instructions and getting a
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woman on the wire. I put in a hurry a
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phone call to the FBI and meet my contact in
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a small restaurant booth. Turns out he's as anxious to
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see me as I am to see him.
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I'm puzzled, Matt. I'm glad you asked for this meeting.
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And here I was going to lean on your strong shoulder.
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What's up?
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Matt, I don't quite know. Have you phoned communist headquarters
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today yet?
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Yeah, that's just what I wanted to talk to you about.
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The woman got on the phone and wanted to see
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me after lunch. It's been happening all over town, Matt.
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Seems as almost a special red offensive is in the wind.
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A lot of really top quality elite corps reds, so
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to speak, have taken over the town.
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New faces with old records.
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Any ideas at all?
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Unless it has to do with the local election, excuse me.
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I'll look into it the best I can.
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Will you?
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We're a little worried.
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Keep in touch, Mac.
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The FBI leaves the booth, and I look at the paper,
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like any insurance salesman taking a breather and a bite.
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Continued hot and dry. Reservoirs at record low. New water
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restrictions pressed. It's serious. A big city slowly being wrung
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bone dry by the merciless drought. Everybody's worried. And then
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something delightfully cool and refreshing in a white gabardine suit
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stops at my booth, and I feel better at once,
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but not for long.
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Would you mind terribly if I joined you?
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What? No, not at all.
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Oh, uh, please don't stand up.
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Here, let me move the table a little bit. There.
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There we are.
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Thank you.
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That's my last physical effort for the summer season. I'm dead.
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Isn't it terrible? Oh, miss, may I have a menu
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and a glass of water, please?
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People aren't going to like you.
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Because I ask for water? Well, they don't serve it
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during the drought unless you ask for it, and I'm thirsty.
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Aren't you?
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Well, it's... You implied that you were feeling the heat.
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I know, but under the circumstances, I.
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Oh, miss.
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No, please.
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Will you make that two glasses of water here, please?
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I wish I hadn't done that.
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You will ask for water wherever you go, and you'll
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complain loudly when it's denied.
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What?
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You will also comment loudly in crowds that there is
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plenty of water and there is no need whatever for.
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The proposed Snow River Aqueduct, the city vote, on Tuesday.
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Oh. Yes? Now I recognize that voice. I thought you
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wanted to see me in your office and after lunch.
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I often change my plans.
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Do you often follow trusted party members, too?
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Sometimes I meet interesting new people that way. Like the
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man you were talking to before I stepped in here.
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Oh, he's a business contact of mine. I sell life
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insurance as a front and it helps pay the bills, too.
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Check on that.
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While I'm at it, perhaps I should check on the
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license of the car he drove away in, too.
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Sure.
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Go ahead.
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Well, down to business now.
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I'm Claire.
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You probably know all about me.
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Yes, ma'am.
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I do.
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Yeah. Well, here comes the waitress. What would you like
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for lunch, Claire? Beside water. She orders busily, each day,
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but well. I'm worried. I've got to get to a
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phone and tell the FBI that Claire, the comely comrade,
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has seen us together and has jotted down his license
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number just for kicks. I manage to excuse myself and
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go to the bank of telephone booths near the kitchen.
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My man is in his office. I beat him on
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the latest developments. And now, I hang up and step
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out of the phone booth and almost bowl over comrade
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Claire as I step out. Oh, I'm sorry.
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Yes, I had to make a call too, but I'm true.
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Well, I had this business call to make.
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You've already explained that. I understand. Now, we'd better go.
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Where?
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To do our share of blanketing the city with anti-aqueduct
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sentiment and rumors.
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We all have our quotes. The brass not excluded. Come now.
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Coming, Mother. Restaurant after restaurant, lunch counter after lunch counter.
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Ordering lightly, but speaking loudly for water. Then going into
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our little red agitation propaganda routine. And through it all,
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I keep wondering if she's put wheels in motion to
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check on that FBI license. By evening, the heat and
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the anxiety and the pace have me limp and drawn.
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She's precious as a baby.
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I'm the one who yells tap.
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Tired, darling?
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Oh, no.
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You're just looking at an unusually animated corpse.
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Oh, it's not that bad.
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No, but can we call it a day?
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I'll tell you what. You'll feel wonderful after a long,
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refreshing shower and shave. Now, where do you want to
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have dinner?
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Oh, no, please.
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No, but this will be a charming place that I'll
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let you pick out and we won't discuss business. Now,
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where do you want to be dropped?
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On my head.
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Come now.
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How's that for you? How's that? I dropped Comrade Claire
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at her hotel, changed taxes twice, and in that hot,
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humid twilight, whooped like mad into the park where I've
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arranged to meet my FBI man. He's sitting on a
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bench reading a paper in the dying light. I sit
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next to him. He doesn't look up, and I don't
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look at him as they both talk, hardly to each other. I, uh,
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Check the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
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Huh?
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They'll change the registration of the car to the insurance
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company name I gave them.
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How fast?
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That's the question. What have you been doing?
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Propagandizing around town to kill the aqueduct bill.
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Naturally. The commies know that this city would be crippled
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in an attack without an equated water system.
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Claire says the town's blanketed with propaganda teams.
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Hence the big influx of new commie faces.
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Look, I can't stay, but keep on that license thing, please.
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Now, watch your color type for a word. It won't
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leave the office.
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Thanks.
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I gotta go. Dinner was clear.
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Have a nice evening, Charlie.
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You haven't told me how I look, Nancy.
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I don't know how you always manage that fresh-out-of-a-bad-box look.
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You look fine.
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Fresh out of a ringer. Pick a nice place for dinner, though.
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We're not going to dinner.
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By golly, the taxi driver thinks we're going to dinner.
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Oh, driver, change that to 19 Colonial Park East.
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Not going to dinner?
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I changed my mind only a minute ago.
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But, mother, you let me choose.
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Oh, stop that, man. I began to think it's far.
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More important for us to go to a little gathering
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Kimmy Bleeker is having tonight.
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That'd be Kimball Bleeker, wouldn't it? Publishes the Sun graphic.
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We ought to have a very serious chat with Kimmy.
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Oh, is he on our side?
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Well, let's say he's always taken a large personal and parental.
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Interest in me.
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All right.
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We'll say that.
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Also, he happens to be honestly against the proposed aqueduct.
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Like so many perfectly responsible taxpayers in town.
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Speech.
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At any rate.
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That's where we're going.
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And we weren't going to discuss business tonight. 19 Colonial
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Park East is just the right plush background for a
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proletarian like Claire in her $ 185 dinner gown She's made
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it clear that Kimball Bleeker, publisher, isn't a red, but
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he can be you, which is sometimes even better. He's
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a large, 50-ish sort of millionaire, and I see frequent
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evidences during the raucous evening of his large personal and
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parental interest in Claire. It's easy to see what Claire
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is aiming for. Along toward midnight, she stops dancing with
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Kimball and comes over to me.
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Let's get out of this for a second. Kimball's study
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will be fine.
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She leads me out of the stuffy, though air-conditioned room
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into a delightfully fresh air-conditioned room. I'm prepared to bet
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important money that Kimble Bleeker never read those books in
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his study.
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It'll be cool and quiet in here.
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It'll be cool and quiet in a foundry after that.
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I've thought of a plan.
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Involving our host out there?
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Kimmy can be exceedingly helpful.
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What's the plan?
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First of all, You have to be chairman of the
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newly formed League for Civil Economy. You're a former expert
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on public relations, and you can name any big companies
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you can talk sensibly about that have employed you.
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What's the scheme?
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We're going to.
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Tell Kimball Bleeker that the water in number three reservoir
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is contaminated.
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What?
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At least it is widely rumored by the grapevine. And
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a number of people served by reservoir three have become.
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Ill in recent days.
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Okay, that's no good.
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Even if we say that the proponents of the aqueduct
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contaminated the reservoir?
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But it's such an improbable lie.
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But it's such a big one. Everybody will think it
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must be so.
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Will Kimball believe it?
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Darling, he wants to believe it.
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In your capacity as chairman of the League, the story
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has come to you with increasing frequency lately.
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Does he know you're a communist?
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He loathes communists.
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The End I've got to get out of this one.
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If that hulking, fatuous admirer of Claire's publishes that rumor,
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even as a rumor, the city could panic. And all
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at once, Claire has endowed me with all the authority
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Kimball needs to print a rumor he'd like to believe anyhow.
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This is one case where the good I can do
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by spying on the party is outweighed by the harm
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I can do to my own countrymen. I want none
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of this, but how to get out of it safely.
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Yes. Oh, I'll take the call in here, Kimmy. Thank you, dear.
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Hello?
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Yes.
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Oh.
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I was told it was an insurance deal from the start.
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Thank you. Comrade Svedek.
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Greg?
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I have a suggestion. From now on, do exactly as
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you're ordered.
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That's right.
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Exactly. From now on. It might be a very good idea.
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THE END.
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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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I Was a Communist for the FBI.
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I don't know what report Claire has just gotten on
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the FBI cast under suspicion. At least not to prove
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my good faith. The rumor to that excuse for a journalist,
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Kimball Bleeker. That's all he wants to know. He goes
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to the telephone to phone in the story for the
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early morning edition. I go back to my hotel feeling
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like a traitor. Too late to call the FBI and
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see what they know about changing that license plate registration.
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First thing in the morning, the phone wakes me.
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It's Claire down in the lobby.
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Get decent, Matt. I'm coming straight up.
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Too late to call the FBI again.
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You look terrible. Go in and get shaved. We have
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lots of work to do.
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I'd like to have a little breakfast if I'm going out.
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We'll have breakfast later.
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You have an office in a vacant store on Belly
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Street where the staff of the Citizens Committee for a
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Civic Economy.
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Is already hard at work.
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Already? Doing what?
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Answering questions, cleverly spreading the rumor about the contaminated reservoir,
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distributing literature.
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And waiting for your leadership.
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What about the Morning Sun graphic?
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Editor Kimball Bleecker wants to know indignantly if there's any
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truth in the ugly rumor, thus spreading rumors still further.
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Great.
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You don't sound as if it's so great.
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It's dawn for me. I haven't had any breakfast.
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Oh.
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Several impressionable hysterics in.
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The third reservoir district have already keeled over from the
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contaminated water.
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Psychologists.
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And the denials that will come never catch up with
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the accusations.
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That's basic smear technique principle.
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Why don't you run down and get some breakfast while
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I get shaved?
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Oh, no. I'll just wait out here and make some
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phone calls.
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It's no use. Beneath that schoolgirl's simplicity is a will
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and a heart of carbon steel. I get no chance
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to call the FBI. All day, I sit in the
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Citizens Committee headquarters answering questions, denouncing the aqueduct people, and
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helping the snowballing rumor that they've tampered with our precious
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water supply. Not until closing time, when Claire has a
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date with publisher Bleeker, do I get to a telephone.
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I make an appointment with my FBI contact, same place,
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in the park. We don't want another car license jotted down.
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I don't know what comrade Claire could have heard about
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the car registration, whatever her sources are. We're still waiting
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for a teletype from the state capitol.
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Man, I couldn't take a chance. I had to play
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the loyal commie to the hilt, and I feel rotten.
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I must say, your comrade friends are doing a handsome
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job on this ugly little operation.
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My comrade friends are right there with pamphlets on how
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to boil the water or improvise crude equipment for distilling it.
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What have you done for your country? They've got us
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in an awful spot, Max. That I know.
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They're forcing us to run in water in tank trucks
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from outlying areas.
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And how they've got to run a spot.
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Derry tank cars are going to run in water tonight.
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A fleet of brand new aluminum gasoline trucks are all
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set to go.
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I'll give out the comments. We'll know all about it.
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Sure they know. They forced our hand in it. And
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notice their shrewd timing.
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Friday night.
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And we'll have to buck the heavy weekend traffic pouring
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out of the city.
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Seldom have so few made so much grief for so many. Well.
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We've made our move. The counties are probably ready for theirs.
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Better get back to your hotel and wait.
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Matt.
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Matt. Where have you been?
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I've been waiting down here in the lobby more than
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an hour.
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Well, you had a date with Bleeker. You're dead for it.
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Emergency orders.
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Work. Work? What kind of work? Never mind.
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I've had a rented car at the curb for an
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hour and one of our men waiting. Come on.
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Where to?
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Stonewall Jackson Turnpike. The man has his orders, too.
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Stonewall Jackson Turnpike?
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Hurry.
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It's late already.
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Stonewall Jackson Turnpike, Mother.
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Stop that.
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Sorry.
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A fleet of tank trucks is moving water into the
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city tonight.
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That's good, isn't it?
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Almost a hundred of our cars driven by party members
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are on every highway leading into the city tonight. Some
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will break down simply to snarl traffic, but others are
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particularly assigned to run out of gas.
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Uh-huh.
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They will hail the new gasoline tankers, which we know
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to contain water.
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We will demonstrate that they contain water. The denials that
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the reservoir is contaminated will fall flat. The feeling against
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the pro-aqueduct people will run high, and the aqueduct bill.
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Will be defeated Tuesday. And there'll be no aqueduct to
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strengthen the city against certain emergencies.
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Good.
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Yeah, fine.
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Oh, stop here, Comrade Davis.
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You want him to stop in all this traffic?
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Here, darling, is where we run out of gas.
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It's all worked out with such wicked beauty. Such fearful
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perfection and complete utility. But then silent comrade named Davis
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stops the car on the shoulder of the teeming highway,
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and he stays behind the wheel. I wonder why. Claire
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and I get out. I must say, she makes an
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appealing figure beside me.
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We don't want passenger cars to stop, and we don't
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want to signal tankers that really contain gasoline.
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I hope a state trooper doesn't stop us. There.
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There, that's one of the new aluminum jobs.
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Now. Claire.
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Claire, look out.
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Are you crazy or something? Are you crazy?
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Do you want to get killed?
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I'm terribly sorry, driver. You could have got killed.
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She didn't realize the danger, driver. She didn't realize. How
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could she not realize?
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Please, sir.
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Do you want to die a good-looking girl like you?
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We ran out of gas, and it's miles to a
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gas station.
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There's nothing I can do for you, mister.
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I'm sorry.
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Just a gallon of gasoline?
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Hey, we're jamming up traffic.
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Well, pay for the gasoline, of course.
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Yes, we'll pay you well.
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Look, that's a metered valve on that tanker, mister.
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I can't monkey with that gasoline. A measly gallon? I
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monkey with metered fuel. It's worth my job. I... Hey, you!
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Hey, hey, don't do that!
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We look toward the trailer of the huge eight-wheeler. At
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the valve, swinging a wrench is Comrade Davison. And in
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his other hand, confident that the tanker contains only water,
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he holds a flickering automatic lighter.
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Blow it up! Blow it up!
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It happens in a twice-split second. The valve opens. A
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sparkling column of fluid gushes from the valve. A sheet
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of white flame! I'm on my back in the grass.
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Crowds murmuring around me. Like a dream. No stars, no sky.
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Sound of that awful blast still rolling around in my ears.
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I feel all right. What about Claire, the driver, the comrade,
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the dealer?
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Wait.
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That's thunder. And then a splatter of water on my forehead.
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Another.
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More. It's raining. That laugh. Four days later, I can
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see Claire at the hospital. She's not bad, but she'll
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always wonder what went wrong with the perfect plan for panic.
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I walk out into the corridor where the FBI man
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is waiting. It's safe enough now. The Red Brethren aren't
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sticking their necks out just to visit Comrade Clare.
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How is she, Matt?
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Pretty good.
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Miracle only, Comrade Davis got killed.
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He asked for it. How did it look for the
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Aqueduct Bond issue today?
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I think it'll win.
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You think? Ought to be a shoe-in. Haven't the voters
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been told that the commies were against the Aqueduct all
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the time? That they're the ones who started those false rumors? No, Matt.
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And we're not going to tell them.
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What?
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That's just what the companies want us to do.
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That's ridiculous on the face of it.
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It'll be eight years before the aqueduct can be in operation, right?
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Maybe ten, putting that big pipe underground.
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The aqueduct is defense construction, right?
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Definitely.
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Suppose the Reds plan to attack this country someday. They'd
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be against certain defense.
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Construction, right? Depending on when they plan to attack.
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Or, putting it differently, they won't be ready to attack
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until after the aqueduct is finished At least another eight years.
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That's another way of.
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Wait a minute. We can't tell the people that.
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Why not?
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Well, it'll lull us into thinking we're safe from attack
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for the next eight years. It'll completely sabotage our defense efforts.
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And that is exactly what the Reds wanted. So we'd
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reveal for them that they were afraid of the aqueduct
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at that eight years' head. And lull us into that
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dangerous false security.
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Hmm.
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No, I'm scared.
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Comrade Clare was bluffing about that license number, if that helps.
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What she should have done was check the weather bureau
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to see if it just might rain Friday night.
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You did?
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And took a chance and called off Operation Water Wagon
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at the last minute. The blessed rain, huh?
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I leave the hospital and take the elevator to the street.
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Unnerved a little. realizing the full skill and cunning of
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the enemy. This time, the object has been to trick
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us into lowering our guard for eight perhaps fatal years.
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The street is swept clean by the rain. It's cool
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at last and brisk. The heat wave is broken. But
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nobody greets me familiarly to make the old time-honored platitudes
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about the weather. They used to when they knew me. Now,
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I'm a communist for the FBI. I walk alone. I
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walk alone.
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Dana Andrews will return in just a moment.
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This is Dana Andrews. The worst tyranny of all is
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tyranny over the minds of men. Our greatest Americans have
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always fought that worst of oppressions. Panic, hysteria, surrender to rumor,
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or tyranny over your minds. Reject them. In tonight's story
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of such a tyranny, names and characters have been changed
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for obvious reasons. Next week, another exciting story stemming from
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the experiences of Matt Svetik, who worked undercover for the FBI.
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Join us then, won't you?
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Thank you.