I Was a Communist for the FBI - Little Red Schoolhouse 1952-04-06

I was a Communist for the FBI. Starring Dana Andrews and an exciting tale of danger and espionage. I was a Communist for the FBI. The story you are about to hear is based on the actual records and authentic experiences of Matt Savetic, an undercover agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation two four nine fantastic years lived as a Communist for the FBI. Here is our star, Dana Andrews as Matt Savedic undercover agent. You can read it in the official report, the whole story of my life as a Communist for the FBI. I was in the party. I saw it work for nine years. I recorded the Communist conspiracy against the United States from within. This is part of the story. In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Savetic, FBI undercover agent. Now Here is Dana Andrews as Matt Savedic, FBI undercover agent. This story from the confidential file is marked Little Red Schoolhouse. Hey, that's where you're walking. What are you trying to do? Chum live dangerously. I'm sorry nuts, excuse me, buddy, but if you got a match, sure, thanks. Keep him it's a red nine. Today, tomorrow's red eight. Hello, Matt, it's been a long time since we worked together. When did you get transferred from Detroit ed a month ago? Oh? Becomes our car, hopping back with me? Okay, kwine, take off. Let's make it fast. You know how the party checks on my time. I wish we could offer you more protection, Matt. I know I'm on my own. The report a new Soviet agent has arrived from lennonically going training in propaganda and infiltration. I'm one of them, and this new Soviet agent is. Going to meet with us for briefing and an assignment of some important jobs. Anything else meeting places to be changed. This new Soviet agent isn't taking any chances. I don't even know his name yet. When do you meet him? To night six? Got'll drop me off now, any place along here? Yeah, pull it up, Glenn. Any last instructions, yes, man, I want a full report by mail. Also let me know by phone if you can the name of this new agent and the location in your meeting place. I'll let you know. It'sh it. Get him quick, Ah, sure? What's up? That man walking away in the corner who was watching us Hosy Vasili Connor story, I suspected Soviet agent. He's new here. We had him in the office for a routine check. You, ed, that makes him the boy from Lenyon Institute. Yes, right, possibly he knows I am FBI, so you'd better start praying he didn't get a good look at you with me. If he did and he recognizes you later. Heare that details, I know what will happen. I'm in the party. Remember whether Ed Grayson remembered or not, I did. It was the price of my life. When six o'clock came, I was picked up and driven to a small, isolated brick house. Inside were five people, four men and a girl. Introductions told me the girl's name was Stephanie, and seating arrangements put us together in a corner. Close up, her dark loveliness was almost like a blow. Comrade Mat, Comrade Matthew. No, I like Comrade Mat, but a hard tough like you. It's a tough world, Comrade Stephanie. No room for softness. We're nothing. The party and its beliefs are everything. Do you disagree with that? Of course not, comrade men. The only that being near you makes me feel like a woman. Is that so terrible? That's dangerous talk. I'd be more careful. I'm always careful. We'll talk more later. Conrad's I am. I bring you greetings from Cobras Titan. He thanks you for your loyal work, but he also desires more work, more sacrifice, especially from you. Picked comrades. You are to lead the way to revolution the Soviet state of America. While I listened, I carefully surveyed the room, the people, until I knew I would remember every detail. Vasili Cornistoy was a big man six' one maybe two, weight around two, hundred black, haired with eyes that got to smile when he. Did those eyes tabbed, me AND i Knew connistoy's memory was at. Work when the meeting was, over he kept me for a private. Talk something to. Drink no thanks. Was. DRY i have had the feeling all evening that we have met, before, comrades, tragic. Not THAT i can. Recall, Well no, MATTER i remember SOMETIMES i always do you have a way? Home there was a cab standing on a mile from. Here it's a nice, walk. Very, well good, night, Comminator. Come Ad matt over. Here oh it's, you, Comment. Stephanie my car was you ride into town with. Me. Oh, thanks you, drive nice, car nice, girl nice. Night quite a. Combination i'm glad you like. It, OH i didn't SAY i liked. IT i said it was quite a. Combination you are a, here aren't? You? THEN i SUPPOSE i have been pretty obvious you. Have, wow that's some curve, now with a drop off of a hundred. Feet if you ever went over that, embankment it would be. Curtains you should go, slower so should? You you needn't be. Rude matt says that you're the first man in a long Time i've been attracted to. Map, alright, alright comrade MAD i know it's heresy for a party, member the FEELINGS i was hoping you might. Understand don't take it. Easy step. In you're, tired and you're saying things that could get you into. Trouble, YEAH i GUESS i am. Dying MAY i put my head on your? Shoulder? Sure thanks a nice, feeling your shoulders. Strong WHAT i said about the, COMBINATION i mean the car and The. Knight and, ME i like. It do you excuse? Me why did you turn off the ignition for a? Month? Why this is? Why WHEN i got to my. Hotel dawn was breaking BEFORE i went to. Sleep, HOWEVER i made a call to a certain number and left the message For Ed grayson to meet me that morning with a wiring. Crew five hours sleep AND i was in a clump of woods near the Little red, schoolhouse listening To ed give orders to a half dozen men loaded with wiring. Equipment all, right Man fredericks checked the, House. Gasmeter no one's there, now but that doesn't mean they won't come back at any. Time so do you work fast and do it? GOOD i got. Moving the MIC's better be well hit in ed kind Of stoy's sharp and. Suspicious you'd have to tear down the walls to find. These did you recognize? You, yes but he can't remember where. Yet how long is it going to be? HERE i don't, know long enough to give us a briefing in our. Assignments we've got a lot of tape. Recording we won't miss a thing that. Happens. Good i'll walk down now and grab a taxi and return to the house in the. Open that, way i'll be there to warn your men At connistoy or the others show. Up, yeah that smart. Idea when will the wiring job be finished all six. Five if it goes, fast. It's running it pretty. Close meetings starts at six. Thirty do the best we. CAN i returned, later and for the next four and a half, HOURS i played watchdog in the front porch of The Red. House from, INSIDE i could hear the sounds Of grayson's men at. Work at five forty, two THE fbi men reported that job. Finished they were packing up their equipment to leave by the back. DOOR i went around the. CURVE i Saw connostary's car. Approaching beat it you, guys flysh red Flash Rent, Well COMRA sweti. What are you doing here so? Early? HI i thought i'd like to talk to, you COMIC, consti, oh let's go, inside all? Right WHAT i? Mean it's so, nice? Adio why don't we just stay on the. PORCH i can talk. Here crazy if you could be spotted out here, inside al But, comrade you'd better keep it in mind THAT i give the. Orders. HI i guess being inside is not so bad after. All what's the matter with? You you look as if you expected to see? Something what is? IT i merely wanted to be sure we were. ALONE i have a report to make about one of our. Comrades oh is that so which? One Comrade. Stephanie she shows definite signs of bourgeois. EMOTIONALISM i, see and you had better watch. Her keep me in FORM i. Will you really are. A, fanatic aren't, You Comrade. SWEATI i believe and follow the party. Line, oh don't mistake. Me we need if. FANATICS i WISH i could remember WHERE i have seen you. Before haunts me as if it's important THAT i should. Remember the next. Few days were a growing fever of tension for. Me the briefing was hard and. THOROUGH i had little time to do anything but, study and this was complicated by constant invitations to study With Comrade. Stephanie and always hanging over my head was the thread Of conistoy's possible. Remembrance of seeing me with an fy eye. Man, finally the last day of the week rolled round. Tonight, comrades you receive your. Assignments you have been well. Trained now you will act on that. Training we will organize infiltration of. Schools that is, correct, You Comrades, vetick receive a. Choice plut do you Know Bryson? University? Yes small college not far north, here though. Small bryson is a highly respected, school an example to many other. Colleges you And Comrade, stephane you will see that the seeds of communism are planted. There will not. Fail Commande, Conati. I'm sure you. Won't, comrades swetick about WHERE i have seen. You perhaps you were around my hotel for some. Reason, no, no, well don't. Worry maybe by the time you finish your. ASSIGNMENT i will. Remember now back To Dana andrews starring As Matt, savek AND i was A communist for THE fbi and the second act of our, story. How? Long how long DID i have before The soviet? Agent connistoy remembered seeing me with AN fbi. Man the knowledge of what would happen when he did was a cold leaden ball in my. Stomach as With Comrade, STEPHANIE i listened To connostoy's final instructions on our new assignment to Infiltrate Bryson. University there is. One professor At bryson who will be your best, Asset, comrades A Professor. Walden Is he a fellow, traveler a very reluctant. One you would have to play down everything except how communism will save the oppressed from the tyranny of. Fascism baldon is fond of helping. Underdogs, well can you get us a big, Name Comra, connistoy someone to lecture the. STUDENTS i will send a wire tonight To Philip, stanley the. Singer, yes he has a big. Reputation the kids will listen to, him even if he is a pink or. CHUMP i, Come he'll. Come he's a thoroughgoing. Exhibitionist now it is some expense. Money Comrade. Stephanie, Yes i'm sending you with Comrades retick for only one, reason so you can have the opportunity to get your thinking straight by watching. His, well DON i don't understand. You he is an exemplary party. Worker if you are, wise when you come, back you will be. Two that's. All good, night good, night coma, Connaisty. Oh Comerad, Eh i've just remembered WHERE i saw. You where at the meeting of The Control commission the first DAY i arrived back here for delaying. Institute oh, NO i wasn't at that. MEETING i SWEAR i had better remember it soon or it will be the death of. Me Bryson university the usual ivid buildings and rolling green. Campus littered with. Students Professor walden turned out to be a, thin white. Haired man with bent iron rimmed. Spectacles his office is a six foot square. Of stale air wrapped around a battered desk and a stack of. Papers you're coming. To see me like this has posed quite a moral, problem. Mississovetic, yes, indeed there's quite a. Problem you. SEE i am not SURE i am in complete synpathy with communist, teaching. Of, course but we're not here to ask you to become a communist. Professor we merely ask you to work with us and bringing relief to the unfortunates of the. World oh, well in that, case what CAN i do to have two? Things give us a list of students you believe to be in sympathy with our, cause and the others we're going to organize a. Lecture Philip, stanley the famous, singer is flying. All the way out here to address the. Students it would be nice if you could act as master of ceremonies and introduce. Him, oh, why of, Course i'll be Delighted Philip. Stanley, Indeed. Professor wallen gave us a list of a dozen, names and we went right to work on. It heading the list was a boy Named Roger. Vanning we found him in the student, union a hodgepodge of noise and, smoke which figures as the social center of any. College, goodness, man this is Like Marti. Gras we'll never find. Him all this may show it, well but keep moving and you'll be. Crushed why of this? One she's no great all the. Way looks like you've made a hit. Seventy ask him if he Knows? Vanning all, right excuse, me but do you know WHERE i can Find Roger? Vanning? Oh why to take a seat, Here dolly for. You i'd go on, Now jord's. DAD i ain't cruising for. Bruising come, On, stephanie And Roger vanning looks like a kid who can. Vote you'd better handle him. Alone i'll try the next one on our, List Grace, brockett meet you. Later so you, see Miss, brockett it's up to the intelligentsia like yourself to lead the. OTHERS i understand, perfectly Mister, sabetic AND i can promise you at least twenty students for the. Meeting Good Philip stanley will know of your. WORK i can assure you he. WILL i, mean of, course That i'm naturally quite pleased to be connected with Mister stanley in such a worthy. Cause you may tell him he can depend Upon Grace. Prockett, Sure i'll tell. HIM a. Four days of, work and we had nearly two hundred students lined up for our. DEMONSTRATIONS i hired a hall near the, campus decorated it with the usual banners and. Slogans during last minute, preparations my mind was On Conna. Star would he have? Remembered? Yet perhaps he? Had and even now the goon squad was on its. Way ha, ho, me. Me, me me, me all these are terrible acoustic, sthetic perfectly. Awful really shouldn't sing at all in a barn like, This after, all you, know these boys and girls are my. Public they deserve to hear me at my. Desk oh, absolutely Missus. Stanley, however just being able to see you in person and hear your words of truth will inspire these young people to magnificent. Heights they recognize you with something far greater than a singing. Star greater than a, star of, course you'll. Be known as a social, leader a man destined to sway multitudes towards the goal of true socialistic. Society, WELL i haven't thought of it that. Way excuse, me STUD i Think i'll go run over this. Speech you prefer me better practice at knuckle. AHEAD i HOPE i can keep my dinner WHEN i hear. It, sure what is? IT i just want to check plans with. You, Okay after his, Song stanley will give his talk at the. End when he starts the, international you'll Give Grace sprockett and the other agitators the signal to jump up and begin a community saying out of. IT i am in the, crowds good and. Excited sprocket and. Company lead them off for a demonstration On Faculty, road and be sure. The placards and signs are ready for them to pick up on the way. Out come, on let's get this thing. Rolling. Ladies and gentlemen Of. Bryson this evening marks the beginning of a new movement here And, bryson a movement that will excite you as it has excited. Me tonight we are striking a blow against the fresh. All my beltit friendgy here At, BRYSON i want to thank you for your wonderful reception of my humble talent and. Words in closing this, MEETING i can only think of the words of a. Song dear to my, heart and dear to the hearts of all who have compassion for the more unfortunate of this. Earth sing it with. Me the words are on the sheets of paper you found in your. Seats that's, it the international singer with, Me Ah Ray Victims. Off Privan Rise. Off for ye who are A. Hello everything went off like. Clockwork excited by the speeches and, music and led by the Screaming Grace sprocket and a, cohort the thoughtless kids eagerly snatched up the waiting plackets and signs to start the demonstration on the. Campus for an. Hour stephanie AND i watched from the background as the, shouting chanting students paraded on packery. Roll not a very pretty side. Net are you? Crazy that's exactly what we. Wanted please that your riot for? Sure? Right that's WHY i called. Him come, On, stephanie our work here is. Done here we, Are, stephanie back at the little red. Schoolhouse come, on kind of start waiting for. Us let him wait for a. Minute i'm sick of. It. Net i'm sick of. Rottenness of a lying and Cheating let's quit the. Party you AND i would you go away? Together what must be stupid mind proping to me this? Way what are? You what are you going to? Do what do you Think i'm going to? Do i'm going to report. You the party has ways of dealing with. Treason hold, on please. Don't do me in. That i'm, sorry it's too. Late get. INSIDE i had to. Report you did a good, job. Comrade what's the? Trouble you look? ANGRY i am. Angry this trader just tried to make me quit the. Party oh did? SHE i told, You Comrat. Stephanie Comrade stetik is as solid as The. Kremlin he sure. Is wait a, MINUTE i MEAN i. Was just being, tested testing high ranking party. Members is my, job comrades, Better i'm an. Agent of THE. Mvd, now if you excuse, Me i'll have to get back to town and file my. Report tested after all my years in the. Party happens to all of. Us oh, oh, YES i have something for you with. A reward here in this. Drawer reward this put up your hands? Gone what's this all? ABOUT i don't understand if the. Agent that's WHERE i saw. You you were talking to AN fbi. MAN i told YOU i would. Remember, now, LOOK i can explain that my car you dirty sto. Move what do you plan to? Do do you mind telling? Me? YES i will be glad. TO i want you to have time to be. Afraid we are going to arrange a little suiside your. Suicide my only hope was THE fbi. Surveillance connostoy AND i were at his car when THE fbi men moved. In on the. Run the Ed grayson Leading, connostoy opened the car door just As grayson squeezed a shot over our. HEAD i hit the dirt in that precious second When conostoi's attention was distracted By, grayson And connostoy made his. Break. STOPS fbi fire laced the night with red as it went over. Me But connistoy had a good. Start he was getting away when he hit that bad curve doing seventy and there was nothing on earth that could save. Him as his car skidded over the steep. Embankment, no he was calling an. Ambulance kind of story's, dead but a clearoud tellas. Not the police handles as an Accident i'll stick around squared with. Him it's a tough way to. Go lucky for, you, Though, matt you're free to keep on with your. Work. Yeah he was the only one who, knew, Well i'd better get out of. HERE i Think i'll walk up and take a last look at the Little Red. Schoolhouse, no it wasn't the end of a story or the. Beginning it was just a part of the strange. WAR i was. Fighting freedom's a good. Cause it made me feel, contented. Even THOUGH i knew that until the war was, Won i'd always be a man who walked. Along our, Star Dana andrews will return in a. Moment this Is Dana. Andrews these stories we bring you are not. Fiction they are dramatizations based on actual events and happenings that took place here in this, country in the real life experiences Of Matt. Sevetic for obvious, reasons all, names dates and localities have been. Changed next, week we'll dramatize another exciting adventure From Matt sevetic's official. Records we hope you will join. Us back bow the