This Is Your FBI: The Pan American Patriots 02/22/1946

Summary

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Podcast Summary: “This Is Your FBI: The Pan American Patriots”

Podcast: Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
Episode Date: January 11, 2026 (original air date: 02/22/1946)
Host/Announcer: Choice Classic Radio

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Episode Overview

This vintage radio episode from This Is Your FBI dramatizes a real-life-inspired story from the FBI’s “secret war diary” during WWII. It’s one of the rare tales focusing on foreign operations, specifically the Bureau’s efforts to root out Nazi espionage in South America. Set in 1942, the plot centers around American and allied agents racing to dismantle a Nazi spy ring transmitting shipping information to Berlin from a South American port city.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Breakdown

1. Setting the Scene: Post-VJ Day Secrecy [02:39]

• The episode opens with context: after WWII, the FBI’s covert battles against Nazi agents are made public—especially those beyond U.S. borders.
• Importance of South America is established as a key bridge for Allied supply lines; Nazi agents use hidden transmitters in the region.

2. Introducing the Main Players at Casa Managua Nightclub [04:15]

• Vera Morgan: A mysterious, witty, attractive woman (supposedly American or English).
• Raphael Corinto: A young South American tied to a major shipping company, seemingly smitten by Vera.
  • Their early exchange is playful and flirty, with Vera keeping Raphael at arm’s length:

    “Raphael, if you don't mind. You're crushing my corsage.” – Vera Morgan [04:15]

3. FBI Intelligence Operation [06:22]

• Special Agents Jim Phillips and Stanley Douglas set up a radio receiver to trace the Nazi transmission.

• Local police and FBI collaborate after arresting a suspected Nazi agent, gaining access to the Nazi codebook.

• Urgency increases as high-level shipping movement details—valuable to the Nazis—are sent out.

  “German agents have just transmitted to Berlin some very important information on American ship movements and cargo going out of this port.” – Jim Phillips [08:16]

4. The Disappearance of Raphael Corinto [08:34]

• Raphael vanishes; suspicion quickly shifts to connections between his disappearance and leaked shipping data.
• The authorities hypothesize that finding the illegal transmitter will lead them to both the Nazi ring and Corinto.

5. Vera’s Betrayal and the Nazi Lair [09:46]

• Raphael regains consciousness and realizes he’s been held by Nazis, who’ve extracted information from him using drugs.
• Vera is revealed as the ringleader—her affectionate facade turns sinister:

  “That's right. But why should he work for me?” – Vera Morgan, after being exposed as a double agent [10:58]

6. Locating the Spy Hideout [11:23, 12:01]

• FBI agents triangulate the transmitter to a mountain lodge outside the city.
• Police organize a raid, but Vera and her accomplices prepare to flee.

7. Murder at the Lodge and Clues Left Behind [13:53, 17:10–18:15]

• Vera shoots Raphael before escaping.
• Law enforcement arrives moments too late, finding only evidence: a small-caliber shell and a lipstick-marked cigarette.
  • “Looks like it might have been fired by one of those little pearl handle jobs that women use.” – Agent Douglas [17:48]
  • Clues include imported cigarettes and the murder weapon, leading them to focus on Vera.

8. Pursuing Vera: The Tobacco Clue & Undercover Work [20:47–24:39]

• Agents trace the rare Turkish/Egyptian cigarettes to Vera Morgan.
• Jim Phillips attempts to befriend and surveil Vera at her hotel and at the pool under the pretense of romantic interest.
• Vera remains elusive, but suspicions grow:

  “I guess I just wasn’t cut out for the job of tackling a Mata Hari, Stan.” – Jim Phillips [23:47]

9. Final Confrontation & Vera’s Capture [25:23–26:42]

• At a dinner party hosted by Vera at Casa Managua, the FBI and police set a trap.
• Vera tries to recreate her earlier seduction and murder, but this time Phillips is ready.
  • “We're all under arrest, I'm afraid. That means you. You too, Vera.” – Jim Phillips [26:29]
  • Evidence, including the pistol and cigarettes, ties Vera to the murder.

10. Resolution & Reflections [27:06–27:53]

• Vera and her accomplice are tried and convicted by local authorities.
• The narrator reflects on the importance of the FBI’s clandestine operations outside the United States.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Seriousness and Deception:

  “You see, I do have my serious moment.” – Vera Morgan [05:55]

• Revelation of Double-Cross:

  “He called you Fräulein?” – Raphael Corinto
  “That's right. But why should he work for me?” – Vera Morgan [10:58]

• On Evidence at the Crime Scene:

  “Small caliber, too. Looks like it might have been fired by one of those little pearl handle jobs that women use.” – Agent Douglas [17:48] “Cigarette stub, lipstick on it. Yes.” – Mr. Solano [17:54]

• On the Spy’s Psychology:

  “Agents of an enemy country differ from the average professional criminal in their objectives only. Both employ the same general methods: treachery, cunning, deception, surprise, violence.” – Narrator [16:28]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:39] – FBI narrator opens with wartime secrecy and the South American espionage setting
• [04:15] – Casa Managua nightclub: Vera and Raphael’s first scene
• [06:22] – FBI’s radio surveillance introduced
• [08:34] – Revelation that Raphael has gone missing
• [09:46] – Raphael’s confrontation with the Nazis and Vera’s betrayal revealed
• [11:23], [12:01] – Agents map the location of Nazi radio; authorities ready a raid
• [13:53], [17:10–17:52] – Scene at the mountain lodge, murder of Raphael Corinto, and discovery of evidence
• [20:47–21:15] – Investigation of the Turkish cigarette clue
• [23:06–24:39] – Jim Phillips attempts to trap Vera through a social encounter
• [25:23–26:42] – Dinner at nightclub, FBI trap is sprung, Vera arrested
• [27:06–27:53] – Epilogue: justice served, significance of FBI foreign operations

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Style & Tone

• The dialogue is classic 1940s radio drama: clipped, clever, with a film-noir sensibility.
• Agents and criminals trade quips amidst international intrigue; Vera’s femme fatale role is especially pronounced.
• The narrative emphasizes patriotism, sacrifice, and the FBI’s perseverance in the shadowy world of espionage.

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Conclusion

The Pan American Patriots blends romance, deception, and international intrigue, highlighting the FBI’s critical wartime role outside U.S. borders. This suspenseful episode demonstrates how keen observation, scientific analysis, and dogged fieldwork intersected to dismantle a Nazi spy ring—and ultimately, to bring murderers to justice.

Ideal for fans of old-time radio, mystery, and historical spy thrillers, this episode offers an engaging glimpse into both classic dramatic storytelling and the real, often unsung, dangers of WWII counterintelligence.

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Transcript

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[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

During the past few months following VJ Day, many pages of your FBI's secret war diary have been made public. Pages which tell the thrilling story of your FBI's victory over Axis agents here at home. But until now, the seal on a certain other chapter has remained unbroken. A chapter which might be entitled Foreign Operations. Tonight we shall break that seal and bring you for the first time a story of your FBI's foreign operations in South America. Among the most vital points along America's line of communications and supply to the Mediterranean and Middle east during the war were certain ports and relay bases in South America. But in the fall of 1942, information on operations at these points was still getting through to Berlin by secret Nazi radio transmitters. Here was a job for your FBI. And this particular story opens on a certain night in the capital city of a certain South American country friendly to America, but not yet at War with the accident. Easily the most striking couple on the dance floor of the famous Casa Managua nightclub this night is the very attractive blonde young girl, American, or perhaps English, and the tall, handsome young South American who at this moment, suddenly presses the girl closer to him.

[Vera Morgan]

Raphael, if you don't mind. You're crushing my corsage.

[Raphael Corinto]

Forget your corsage, my dear Vera. I'll get you a dozen more thousand more.

[Vera Morgan]

Then you can envy me as a float in the Flower Carnival.

[Raphael Corinto]

Darling, can't you be serious for just one moment?

[Vera Morgan]

No, I'm allergic to it.

[Raphael Corinto]

Vera, for the millionth time, will you mind?

[Vera Morgan]

No.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Why not?

[Vera Morgan]

Because, for one thing, you're a slave to that old shipping company.

[Raphael Corinto]

Well, then I give it up and be your slave. Your humble, groveling, devoted slave for the rest of my life.

[Vera Morgan]

I wouldn't have that on a bed. Raphael, I'm going out on the terrace for some fresh air. And if you will put your hands in your pockets now and leave them there, you may come with me.

[Raphael Corinto]

What a girl. What a girl. Go ahead, darling.

[Vera Morgan]

Thanks. May I have a cigarette?

[Raphael Corinto]

Sorry, my hands are imprisoned in my pockets.

[Jim Phillips]

Oh.

[Vera Morgan]

I'll grant them a temporary parole.

[Raphael Corinto]

Good.

[Jim Phillips]

Here you are.

[Vera Morgan]

Thank you.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

And.

[Vera Morgan]

The moon is lovely.

[Raphael Corinto]

Yes.

[Vera Morgan]

Do you know the lines? Yon rising moon that looks for us again how oft hereafter will she wax and wane how oft hereafter rising look for us through this same garden and for one in vain.

[Jim Phillips]

It's beautiful.

[Vera Morgan]

You see, I do have my serious moment.

[Raphael Corinto]

Oh, darling.

[Vera Morgan]

Raphael, look behind you.

[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

In a house in another part of the city, Special agents James Phillips and Stanley Douglas of the FBI, working by permission of and in cooperation with the director of National Police, have established a shortwave radio receiver for the purpose of locating and monitoring the illegal Nazi transmitter known to be operating somewhere in or near the city. Three days ago, they had just picked up the transmitter for the first time when suddenly it stopped sending. It is now two nights after the incident at the Casa Managua. Douglas at the receiver keeps a listening vigil.

[Jim Phillips]

With the headphones still dead Air, Stan?

[Raphael Corinto]

Not a peep.

[Jim Phillips]

Maybe they've been changing the location of the transmitter.

[Raphael Corinto]

Shouldn't take them three days to do that, Jim.

[Jim Phillips]

Maybe they've also been waiting to get.

[Narrator / Announcer]

Hold of important information.

[Raphael Corinto]

Like what?

[Jim Phillips]

That I wouldn't know. But when they do start sending again, we'll know what they're talking about.

[Narrator / Announcer]

What do you mean?

[Jim Phillips]

The police arrested a Nazi agent this afternoon. And when he was confronted with the ironclad case built up against Him. He told all he knew.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Oh.

[Jim Phillips]

Here's the whole breakdown on the code the Germans are using.

[Raphael Corinto]

Hey, what a break.

[Jim Phillips]

Yes. Want me to relieve you a while there?

[Raphael Corinto]

Yeah. I'd like to stretch my legs and get some coffee, if you don't mind.

[Jim Phillips]

Right. Is the antenna angled in the direction we picked them up before?

[Raphael Corinto]

It is now. I've been all around with it, but I have.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Hey, wait.

[Raphael Corinto]

Wait a minute.

[Jim Phillips]

That's something.

[Raphael Corinto]

I think so. It's. It's awfully faint, and it may not be them.

[Jim Phillips]

See if you can bring it up with the antenna that does it.

[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

All right, Jim.

[Raphael Corinto]

It's them. That's their call signal.

[Jim Phillips]

Good. You spell out the message. I'll take it down and decode it.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Come in, Senor Phillips.

[Jim Phillips]

Thank you, sir.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Have you picked up something?

[Jim Phillips]

Yes. And thanks to your men getting that code, we know what that something is.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Yes?

[Jim Phillips]

German agents have just transmitted to Berlin some very important information on American ship movements and cargo going out of this port.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Shipping information.

[Jim Phillips]

Yes, sir.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

I see.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

And there could be a connection between the two.

[Jim Phillips]

I beg your pardon, sir.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Senor Phillips, not an hour ago, we received a report here at headquarters that Rafael Corinto is missing. He's missing two days now.

[Jim Phillips]

Rafael Corinto?

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Si, si. Is connected with one of the Allied shipping firms here.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

Oh.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

And he would have access to information on all shipping that enters or leaves this port.

[Jim Phillips]

Then I should say there could be a connection.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

What is your suggestion?

[Jim Phillips]

I have an idea that if we find that German transmitter. Find Corinto too.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

But finding the transmitter, that is the problem.

[Jim Phillips]

A problem that my partner may have solved by now.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

How?

[Jim Phillips]

Once a transmitter has been picked up, its position can be determined with mathematical precision. I'll get back over to our house, and as soon as my partner has the answer, I'll contact you. Sir.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

You are sufficiently awake. One of your hosts.

[Jim Phillips]

Where am I?

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

That is not important.

[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

What?

[Raphael Corinto]

What happened to me?

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

It's quite obvious, isn't it?

[Raphael Corinto]

You are Germans.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

That's right.

[Raphael Corinto]

Nazis.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

Correct again, sir. And in the name of our Fuhrer, I thank you for having rendered us a great service.

[Raphael Corinto]

What do you mean?

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

You have given us much valuable shipping information which is now in the hands of our intelligence in Berlin.

[Raphael Corinto]

I don't believe you.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

You didn't give it willingly. After two days, we had to resort to giving you the drugs. Copolamine.

[Raphael Corinto]

Two days? I have been here two days. What about the girl who was with me? What have you done with her? Answer me. Where is Vera?

[Vera Morgan]

Oh, darling.

[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

Darling.

[Raphael Corinto]

Are you all right?

[Vera Morgan]

Yes, I'm fine, thank you.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

What shall we do with him?

[Vera Morgan]

Just let him stay here, Frulein.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Vera.

[Raphael Corinto]

He called you Frulein?

[Vera Morgan]

That's right. But why should he work for me?

[Raphael Corinto]

Vera?

[Vera Morgan]

You see, Raphael, as I said on the terrace the other night, I do have my sister side too.

[Jim Phillips]

Mr. Solano, I think we have some good news for you.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

You found the German radio transmitter.

[Jim Phillips]

My partner here, Mr. Douglas, has determined its location on this map.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Good. Where is it?

[Jim Phillips]

Show him. Stand right.

[Raphael Corinto]

I've checked my own calculations three times, Mr. Solano, and I'm pretty sure this is right.

[Jim Phillips]

Sure.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Show me, please.

[Raphael Corinto]

I'd swear the transmitter is located within this tiny circle I've drawn.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

At this point in the mountains, about.

[Raphael Corinto]

10 miles airline west of the city.

[Jim Phillips]

Mr. Solano, are there any houses or vacation resort buildings around there?

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Let me think. There is one small lodge hidden in a strip of woods and overlooking the valley below.

[Raphael Corinto]

That must be the place. Joe.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

What do you wish me to do now?

[Jim Phillips]

Senor Phillips, you have authority to arrest anyone operating an unlicensed radio transmitter. And Rafael Corinto is missing. And if he was abducted, whether by German agents or anyone else, that is a crime.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

Yes.

[Jim Phillips]

And time is precious. They may decide to move the transmitter again any moment. And our work would have to be done over again.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Then we shall leave immediately. Pablo. En cinco minutos.

[Vera Morgan]

Renner.

[Jim Phillips]

Yes.

[Vera Morgan]

Is the transmitter dismantled and ready to go?

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

In a few more minutes.

[Raphael Corinto]

Good.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

I don't understand why we are moving. Only just established ourselves here.

[Vera Morgan]

Can't take the chance of having our position located.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

But moving so often is a risk.

[Vera Morgan]

Renner. Let me handle things, please.

[Jim Phillips]

Very well.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

What shall we do with your friend?

[Vera Morgan]

I'm seeing him now. Let me know when the transmitter's in the car. How are you, Raphael?

[Raphael Corinto]

What do you want?

[Vera Morgan]

I've just come in to say goodbye.

[Raphael Corinto]

Don't talk to me, darling.

[Vera Morgan]

No parting.

[Jim Phillips]

Please leave me alone.

[Vera Morgan]

That sounds like the voice of frustrated love.

[Raphael Corinto]

The voice of so something that you wouldn't understand.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Really?

[Raphael Corinto]

You've made me betray the friends of my country.

[Narrator / Announcer]

A Nazi would not understand that.

[Vera Morgan]

Oh, Raphael, you are so delightful. I really hate to leave you.

[Raphael Corinto]

Please go away.

[Vera Morgan]

Not until I've made our parting final. Sorry, Raphael.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

The car's ready for.

[Vera Morgan]

Oh, thank you, Brenner. It's a lovely day for a drive.

[Narrator / Announcer]

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[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

Agents of an enemy country, differ from the average professional criminal in their objectives only. Both employ the same general methods in achieving them. Treachery, cunning, deception, surprise, violence. And both leave traces of their crimes, traces which eventually make a trail leading the forces of justice to them. It was barely 10 minutes after the girl, Vera, the leader of the ring of German agents in the South American capital, shot Raphael Corinto. That FBI Agents Phillips and Douglas, accompanied by the director of National Police and a force of men, arrived at the mountain lodge. They have now just entered the deserted quarters.

[Jim Phillips]

Well, they've cleared out of here all right, Mr. Solano.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

See, by all the signs in your Phillips, they seem to have left in a hurry.

[Jim Phillips]

Ordinarily, that would indicate they'd received a tip that we were coming.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Well, there was no time for that.

[Jim Phillips]

I know. I guess they simply just decided to move again. And unfortunately for us, they timed it right.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

But Corintho, what did they do with him?

[Jim Phillips]

Yes, Dan.

[Narrator / Announcer]

In here.

[Raphael Corinto]

Look.

[Jim Phillips]

Oh, that answers what they did with Corinto, Mr. Solano.

[Raphael Corinto]

It was the work of an automatic. Jim, I just picked up this empty cartridge.

[Jim Phillips]

Small caliber, too.

[Raphael Corinto]

Looks like it might have been fired by one of those little pearl handle jobs that women use.

[Jim Phillips]

Say, look in this ashtray.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

Cigarette stuff, lipstick on it. Yes.

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[Jim Phillips]

It's not an American blend of tobacco anyway.

[Raphael Corinto]

English?

[Jim Phillips]

No, that'd be straight Virginia tobacco. And this one has a Turkish or Egyptian odor.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

We can have it analyzed in the laboratories.

[Jim Phillips]

Yes, miss. Cartridge, too.

[Raphael Corinto]

And the bullet in Coro's body.

[Jim Phillips]

Well, I guess there's nothing more to.

[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

Be done here then.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

I should have the men take care of Corinto's body and we return to headquarters at once.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

Well, and if the police should have determined the other location of our transmitter, they will find. Find Corinto's body.

[Vera Morgan]

What of it? His body won't tell him where we're going.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

But there is murder for Lyman. The police may start a general roundup of all suspected German agents.

[Vera Morgan]

Is the risk of our job too great for you, Brenner?

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

It is not fair.

[Vera Morgan]

Perhaps you would like me to send you back to Germany to fight.

[Nazi Agent / Brenner]

What are your plans for them?

[Vera Morgan]

Your orders are to set up the transmitter when we've arrived at the new location. Yes, I'm returning to the city, to the Hotel Esplanade tonight. You are to report to me there at noon tomorrow.

[Raphael Corinto]

Very well.

[Vera Morgan]

Corintho has helped us to achieve one objective. Now we must move on to another. I must Make a new contact, Bruno. I wonder what he'll be like.

[Jim Phillips]

Stan.

[Raphael Corinto]

Oh, hello, Jim.

[Jim Phillips]

Get the ballistic report from Solano's office yet?

[Raphael Corinto]

Yep. I just phoned it over.25 caliber automatic, American make.

[Jim Phillips]

And I think I've got a lead on the girl who fired us.

[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

What?

[Jim Phillips]

I've been tracking down the source of that Egyptian cigarette.

[Raphael Corinto]

Huh.

[Jim Phillips]

Only one tobacco shop in the city imports them and he has only two customers for them. Well, one customer is an attache of the British Embassy who specializes. Spent some years in Cairo.

[Raphael Corinto]

Eliminate that one.

[Jim Phillips]

And the other is an attractive young girl, a Miss Vera Morgan.

[Raphael Corinto]

Who's she?

[Jim Phillips]

The tobacconists think she might be American or English, but I'm going to find out if she's German.

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

How?

[Jim Phillips]

She lives at the Hotel Esplanade. You think I'll look all right in swimming trunks, Dan?

[Raphael Corinto]

What do you mean?

[Jim Phillips]

According to the assistant manager of the hotel, Ms. Morgan usually takes a dip in the hotel pool. Pool? Every afternoon about 4 o'. Clock. And it's a quarter of four now. So long, Stan.

[Vera Morgan]

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not.

[Jim Phillips]

I planned it this way.

[Vera Morgan]

I. I beg your pardon?

[Jim Phillips]

I misjudged your last two dives and you didn't bump in them.

[Vera Morgan]

So you deliberately plotted this collision.

[Jim Phillips]

Do you mind?

[Vera Morgan]

No.

[Jim Phillips]

Well, shall we sit down here and talk? Or isn't that being done in 20ft of water?

[Vera Morgan]

I'll race you to the side.

[Narrator / Announcer]

Right.

[Vera Morgan]

No good. It was a tie.

[Jim Phillips]

May I help you up?

[Vera Morgan]

No, thanks. I can make it.

[Jim Phillips]

Now, what time are we having dinner this evening?

[Vera Morgan]

Did you say your name was Swift?

[Jim Phillips]

No, it's Jim Phillips. Who are you?

[Vera Morgan]

Don't tell me you haven't already found out.

[Jim Phillips]

I'd rather hear you say it.

[Vera Morgan]

All right. Born in Connecticut. My parents moved to Paris when I was 4, to South America when I was 18. My mother is dead, my father's infant and can't get home. Now, how does your biography go?

[Jim Phillips]

Born in Cleveland, went to engineering school. Came the war, and here I am working in South America and looking into a pair of the most exciting blue gray eyes in the world. And how am I doing?

[Vera Morgan]

An engineer. How fascinating. If I'd been a man, that's what I would have been.

[Jim Phillips]

Personally, I'm glad you turned out this way.

[Vera Morgan]

Working in the mines down there?

[Jim Phillips]

No. Doing a little stuff for Uncle Sam. They call it hush hush, you know.

[Vera Morgan]

Oh, sorry.

[Jim Phillips]

You haven't answered my question. What time are we having dinner?

[Vera Morgan]

Why don't you call for me about 8:30?

[Jim Phillips]

It's a date. Well, I guess I just wasn't cut out for the job of tackling a mata, Harry, Stan.

[Raphael Corinto]

Must be pleasant work, though.

[Jim Phillips]

It's two weeks I've been working on that girl now. Lunching, swimming and dining and dancing and driving. I haven't tripped her up once.

[Raphael Corinto]

How about you?

[Jim Phillips]

What do you mean?

[Raphael Corinto]

You told her you were an engineer down here on a hush hush job. What's she done about that? Questioning you, I mean.

[Jim Phillips]

He's been pretty neat about it. Nothing obvious enough to incriminate herself yet.

[Raphael Corinto]

Maybe I've got some incriminating information.

[Jim Phillips]

What?

[Raphael Corinto]

Solano's office called me just before you walked in. Oh? They found out where Corinto was the night he was abducted.

[Jim Phillips]

Yeah? Where?

[Raphael Corinto]

Casa Managua. And he went there with Vera Morgan. And that was the last time Corinto was seen alive. Maybe we ought to go over there tonight and have a little look around and see what's what. Or have you got a date?

[Jim Phillips]

Tentatively, but.

[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

Oh, excuse me.

[Jim Phillips]

Hello? Oh, hello, Vera. Yes. Why. Why, yes, of course. I'd love to. You know that. Where? Where? Yes, yes, I'll join you there. Bye. Well, I've got a date now, Stan. She's giving a little dinner party for me tonight at the Casa Manag.

[Vera Morgan]

You dance beautifully, Jim.

[Jim Phillips]

Thanks for letting me hold you in my arms again, darling.

[Vera Morgan]

I wanted to get away from those stuffy people.

[Jim Phillips]

I know.

[Vera Morgan]

Jim.

[Jim Phillips]

Yes, dear?

[Vera Morgan]

I'd like to go out on the terrace and get some fresh air.

[Jim Phillips]

Wonderful idea. Let's go. After you, dear.

[Vera Morgan]

Thank you. May I have a cigarette?

[Jim Phillips]

Yeah.

[Vera Morgan]

Thanks.

[Jim Phillips]

Here's a life.

[Vera Morgan]

Oh, the moon is lovely do you know the lines? Yon rising moon that looks for us again how oft hereafter will she wax and wane how oft hereafter rising look for us through this same garden and for one in vain. You see, Jim, I do have my serious side.

[Jim Phillips]

And I have my serious eye, too, darling.

[Vera Morgan]

I. Jim, look. Look out.

[Jim Phillips]

Don't worry. We already have.

[Vera Morgan]

What?

[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

Grab that gun.

[Raphael Corinto]

Stay where you are.

[Vera Morgan]

What's going on?

[Jim Phillips]

We're all under arrest, I'm afraid. That means you. You too, Vera.

[Vera Morgan]

Oh, what do you mean?

[Mr. Solano / Police Official]

We searched your sweet senorita after you left to come here tonight. We have found the pistol with which you killed Rafael Corinto. You will come with us now.

[Vera Morgan]

Jim, what is all this?

[Jim Phillips]

Well, Vera, it's like I said a moment ago. I, too have my serious side. As a special agent of the FBI.

[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

Vera Morgan and her Nazi accomplice were tried and convicted by the local authorities. For the murder of Raphael Corinto. You have just heard for the first time a page from your FBI's Secret War Diary of Foreign Operations. While your FBI humanly takes pride in the success of its work against enemy agents abroad as well as at home during the war, this story was presented solely for the purpose of reporting to those whom the FBI serves you, the citizens of America. Of reporting that your FBI has duly carried out its single obligation to protect the lives and property and welfare of your country. Wherever flies the American flag.

[Jim Phillips]

Flag.

[Narrator / Announcer]

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[Narrator / FBI Commentary]

Next week we will bring you another colorful story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Castaway Killer.

[Narrator / Announcer]

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