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Approved | 1h 28min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 16 October 1945 (France)
Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the FBI in a Nazi spy ring.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Writers: Barré Lyndon, Charles G. Booth, John Monks Jr.
Stars: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso
Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the FBI in a Nazi spy ring.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Writers: Barré Lyndon, Charles G. Booth, John Monks Jr.
Stars: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso
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00:02:16Vigilant.
00:02:18Tireless.
00:02:19Implacable.
00:02:21The most silent service of the United States in peace or war
00:02:24is the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:02:28The Bureau went to war with Germany long before hostilities began.
00:02:33No word or picture could then make public the crucial war service of the FBI.
00:02:39But now it can be told.
00:02:41In 1939, with thousands of known and suspected enemy agents invading the Americas,
00:02:48the FBI started building up its force of special agents and employees
00:02:53from 2,000 to a war peak of 15,000.
00:02:59Before being sent into the field,
00:03:01each new agent had to learn all the modern techniques of crime detection,
00:03:06such as the use of a specially treated X-ray mirror
00:03:10through which an FBI man can see without being seen.
00:03:16The Federal Bureau of Investigation had to be the world's most efficient
00:03:20intelligence and counter-espionage service.
00:03:24For war is thought, and thought is information.
00:03:29And he who knows most strikes hardest.
00:03:33By examining the intercepted mail of unsuspecting Nazi agents,
00:03:38the FBI uncovered many secret channels of communication.
00:03:42Between the lines of an innocent-appearing letter,
00:03:45invisibly coded in an obsolete German shorthand,
00:03:49were important instructions for one group of spies.
00:03:53The Bureau's infinitely painstaking system
00:03:56of sifting and recording every scrap of potential information
00:04:00paid handsome dividends.
00:04:03The FBI was adding new names to its long list of Germans known to be dangerous.
00:04:08And each day as fresh investigative reports came in from the field,
00:04:13FBI officials saw more clearly
00:04:16the pattern of German espionage in the United States.
00:04:20Nucleus of the Nazi network in America
00:04:23was the German embassy in Washington,
00:04:26protected until a declaration of war by diplomatic immunity.
00:04:31Long before December 7, 1941,
00:04:34from a vantage point nearby,
00:04:37G-men photographed the actions of hundreds of suspects.
00:04:42These are the actual films taken by the FBI.
00:04:46They gave Director Hoover and his men a daily record
00:04:50and description of all embassy visitors.
00:04:53This continuous photographic surveillance
00:04:56provided a permanent record to be studied intensively
00:04:59whenever new developments took place.
00:05:02The Bureau soon discovered that the embassy was being used
00:05:06to disperse money for subversive activity in the United States.
00:05:10The Bureau also knew that the embassy had a shortwave radio
00:05:14and was in direct communication with Germany.
00:05:17No one was watched more closely by the FBI
00:05:21than the arrogant Baron Ulrich von Gienen.
00:05:24Although accredited as an embassy official,
00:05:27he was actually chief of the German Gestapo in America.
00:05:31Equally important were pompous Vice Admiral Witthof Emden
00:05:36and his suave assistant Helmut Raeber,
00:05:39experts in obtaining information about ships and cargoes.
00:05:44Dr. Hans Thompson, the German charge d'affaires,
00:05:48tried to win American collaborators.
00:05:51So did his associate, General Karl Batesch.
00:05:55Parading before hidden FBI cameras were the embassy secretaries.
00:05:59These girls spent evenings in the company of American servicemen.
00:06:03They were having fun,
00:06:06but they were also diligently accumulating information for Germany.
00:06:10The FBI watched them discreetly, knew all about them.
00:06:14By relentless surveillance of embassy officials
00:06:18and all those with whom they associated,
00:06:21the FBI learned that Germany was recruiting American Nazis
00:06:25for its espionage service.
00:06:28In 1939, Nazi fronts like Fritz Kuhn
00:06:31and his German-American Bund were flourishing.
00:06:34The Germans said they were only social gatherings,
00:06:37but the FBI knew that these societies were part of a well-laid German plan
00:06:42to build up a fifth column in the United States.
00:06:48In 1939, on the campus of a Midwestern university
00:06:52not far from Columbus, Ohio,
00:06:55there was a brilliant young student.
00:06:58Born of German-American parents who were proud of his college record,
00:07:02he was preparing to become a diesel engineer.
00:07:06His name was William Dietrich.
00:07:09Just before graduation, Dietrich was approached by German representatives
00:07:14who offered him a free trip to Germany and a well-paying job on arrival.
00:07:19Dietrich reported the incident to the FBI.
00:07:23When the meaning of the German invitation was explained to him,
00:07:27Dietrich offered his services to the Bureau.
00:07:33With money generously supplied by the Germans,
00:07:36Dietrich bought passage at the German Tourist Bureau in New York City.
00:07:41The Germans felt that Dietrich was an extremely valuable man.
00:07:45So did the FBI.
00:07:51Ten days later, Dietrich was 3,500 miles from New York
00:07:55in Germany's great port city of Hamburg.
00:07:59On the Klopstockstrasse was a second-rate hotel,
00:08:02the Pension Klopstock,
00:08:05which housed the German high command's notorious school for spies.
00:08:09Here were trained hundreds of recruits for the Abwehr,
00:08:13Germany's super-secret espionage and sabotage service.
00:08:19Like Dietrich, many of his classmates had been recruited in the United States,
00:08:24and back to the United States they would go when they were properly equipped.
00:08:34Synthesis of the FBI's counterespionage offensive in World War II
00:08:39is the Christopher case,
00:08:42which opened, as great cases often do,
00:08:45by accident, a little accident,
00:08:49at Bowling Green in New York City.
00:08:54This is the scene of the incident,
00:08:57where a group of officers,
00:09:00armed with rifles and machine guns,
00:09:03attacked a group of students
00:09:06who were on their way to school.
00:09:09This is the scene of the incident,
00:09:12where a group of officers,
00:09:15armed with rifles and machine guns,
00:09:18attacked a group of students
00:09:21who were on their way to school.
00:09:52Might as well take it easy, Joe. He's through.
00:09:56Somewhere in the dark web of war
00:09:59was Christopher, the dead man's companion,
00:10:03the man who had retrieved his friend's briefcase and vanished.
00:10:09Who was he?
00:10:11He's got a Spanish passport.
00:10:13Francisco Ruiz.
00:10:15Hey, Doc, look at this. It's all in German.
00:10:19Huh.
00:10:25I don't know who he is.
00:10:27I don't know who he is.
00:10:29I don't know who he is.
00:10:31I don't know who he is.
00:10:33I don't know who he is.
00:10:35Stuff about ships, I think.
00:10:38And here.
00:10:40Sprantkerngeschoss.
00:10:42That means, uh...
00:10:45That means incendiary bullet.
00:10:49Weight, 148 grains.
00:10:51Load, 46 grains.
00:10:53DuPont, 11-27 powder.
00:10:57Can you read Spanish, too?
00:11:00There's something funny about this.
00:11:02We'd better get his fingerprints and turn them over to the FBI.
00:11:07Fingerprinting.
00:11:14To the desk of FBI Inspector George A. Briggs
00:11:18came the report on the death of Francisco Ruiz.
00:11:22He's dead.
00:11:24He's dead.
00:11:26He's dead.
00:11:28The cause of the death of Francisco Ruiz
00:11:31in the FBI Identification Division
00:11:34are nearly 100 million sets of fingerprints,
00:11:37so organized that it takes less than five minutes
00:11:40to identify a set of fingerprints with those on file.
00:11:45No fingerprints were listed under the name of Francisco Ruiz,
00:11:49but regardless of name,
00:11:51once his print was classified,
00:11:54the search for the individual's identity was a simple matter.
00:12:14There's something coming now.
00:12:16Yeah. It's in cipher.
00:12:20This stuff is fugitive.
00:12:22We'd better get a shot of it before it dissolves.
00:12:32You set?
00:12:34Okay.
00:12:35Send a copy to cryptanalysis.
00:12:37Yes, sir.
00:12:46Is this what you're looking for?
00:12:48Well, let's see.
00:12:52It certainly is. Thanks a lot, Frank.
00:13:11Here it is, Mr. Briggs.
00:13:16Herr Christoph wird sich auf Prozess 97 konzentrieren.
00:13:26Herr Christoph wird sich auf Prozess 97 konzentrieren.
00:13:31That translates, Mr. Christopher will concentrate on Process 97.
00:13:36What's that?
00:13:38Herr Christoph, Mr. Christopher, will concentrate on Process 97.
00:13:42That's all?
00:13:43That's all.
00:13:44All right. Thank you.
00:13:47Inspector Briggs knew
00:13:49that the most important American military secret in history
00:13:54was Process 97.
00:13:56Set up a conference with military and naval intelligence immediately.
00:14:00That's all.
00:14:05In several remote places,
00:14:07under strict military protection,
00:14:09American scientists were developing Process 97,
00:14:13the secret ingredient of the atomic bomb,
00:14:16an explosive derived from the metal uranium
00:14:19so powerful and devastating
00:14:21that one relatively small bomb gave promise
00:14:25of having the destructive power of 20,000 tons of TNT.
00:14:40A presidential directive gave the FBI
00:14:43the responsibility of coordinating all counterespionage investigations.
00:14:48At a series of conferences with army and naval intelligence officers,
00:14:53the FBI reviewed the case of Francisco Ruiz,
00:14:57from whose effects had come the startling information
00:15:00that foreign agents had learned about Process 97
00:15:03and were actually attempting to steal the secret.
00:15:07Plans were formulated to erect an impenetrable and absolute barrier.
00:15:12Have you any other information, Mr. Briggs?
00:15:16No, not at this time.
00:15:18Mr. Briggs.
00:15:19Yes, Admiral?
00:15:20Who is this Mr. Christopher?
00:15:24I wish we knew.
00:15:30Meanwhile, after six months of intensive training,
00:15:34Dietrich had completed his course at the Pension Klopstock
00:15:38and was ready for assignment.
00:15:47For your first needs, $50,000.
00:15:53You will make three contacts only.
00:15:56Elsa Gephardt, Colonel Hammerson, and Adolf Klein.
00:16:00You will keep them in funds.
00:16:02Yes, sir.
00:16:03To reach New York, go directly to Elsa Gephardt on East 92nd Street.
00:16:08You will establish contact with Hammerson and Klein through her.
00:16:11Yes, sir.
00:16:12These are your credentials.
00:16:15They are on microfilm.
00:16:22You will need these.
00:16:24Draft card, registration, classification card,
00:16:29birth certificate, driver's license, New York State,
00:16:33Navy and Army discharge papers,
00:16:36Social Security card.
00:16:40No one could tell them from the originals.
00:16:45One thing more.
00:16:47There is one person in the United States
00:16:49who can countermand the orders I have given you.
00:16:53If you receive instructions from Mr. Christopher,
00:16:57abandon whatever you may be doing
00:16:59and place yourself entirely at his disposal.
00:17:04Mr. Christopher, is all of this clear?
00:17:08Yes, sir.
00:17:17Good-bye, Colonel.
00:17:18Good-bye.
00:17:22Within a few days, Dietrich was in Lisbon, Portugal.
00:17:25Communication center for international espionage.
00:17:29He went immediately to an address given him by the FBI.
00:17:48Say, there's something wrong with this watch.
00:17:50I wonder if you'd look at it.
00:17:56I'll have to examine it.
00:17:58Would you please?
00:18:17I'm sorry, sir.
00:18:18I won't be able to repair this watch.
00:18:22I understand.
00:18:24Thanks.
00:18:3432 hours later, a special courier
00:18:36coming by transatlantic clipper
00:18:38brought Dietrich's credentials
00:18:40to FBI headquarters in Washington.
00:18:50Inspector Briggs was given the responsibility
00:18:53of solving the Christopher case.
00:18:56Behind him were all the resources of the FBI.
00:19:01That translates.
00:19:03William Dietrich is specifically authorized
00:19:05to receive all reports for transmission direct.
00:19:14That means you're instructed to look to him for all payments.
00:19:24That would mean he is forbidden
00:19:27to have any contact with agents known to you.
00:19:37Change that last line.
00:19:39Change it to read,
00:19:41he is authorized to contact all agents known to you.
00:19:45Right.
00:19:563 hours later, a special courier
00:19:58coming by transatlantic clipper
00:20:00brought the new watch to the FBI.
00:20:22Is that a new watch?
00:20:23Yes.
00:20:24Did it cost more than $100?
00:20:26I don't remember exactly.
00:20:28Do you mind if I take a look at it?
00:20:30Certainly.
00:20:33There you go.
00:20:39What is the value of this watch?
00:20:49It's about $90.
00:20:54Here's your watch.
00:21:04You can go that way.
00:21:24Just off Madison Avenue in uptown New York,
00:21:27there was a five-story dwelling.
00:21:30This was soon to become known among all FBI men
00:21:34as the house on 92nd Street.
00:21:53The house on 92nd Street.
00:22:24May I help you?
00:22:26Ms. Elsa Gebhardt?
00:22:27Yes.
00:22:28I'm Bill Dietrich.
00:22:30I have a message for you from Felix.
00:22:32How is Felix?
00:22:34You mean Felix Brown of Miami, of course.
00:22:36I mean Felix Strauss of Hamburg.
00:22:40He asked me to pay his respects.
00:22:48He gave you these.
00:22:51Would you care to sit down?
00:23:13The new one has arrived, Bill Dietrich.
00:23:16I have his credentials here.
00:23:20Max, turn off the light.
00:23:35Is it authorized to contact all agents known to you?
00:23:49Yes.
00:24:10Everything all right?
00:24:12You'll want your credentials back.
00:24:15I brought you some money.
00:24:20You know what I'm going to do over here.
00:24:23I've been expecting you.
00:24:25I understand you can help me make certain contacts.
00:24:28Yes.
00:24:29We can start right away.
00:24:31Would you come with me?
00:24:44Come on.
00:25:02This is Bill Dietrich.
00:25:11Where are you from?
00:25:13Germany.
00:25:14Where in Germany?
00:25:15Hamburg.
00:25:19Who gave you the instructions to come to America?
00:25:22Colonel Strauss.
00:25:23How did you get here?
00:25:25I came by freighter.
00:25:26From Hamburg?
00:25:27No, from Lisbon, Portugal.
00:25:29When did you leave Lisbon?
00:25:30Three weeks ago.
00:25:32How long did you stay there?
00:25:33Two days. I had to wait for the freighter.
00:25:35You stayed undercover?
00:25:36Yes, at the Grand Hotel.
00:25:38Who did you contact in Lisbon?
00:25:41No one.
00:25:42How do you know that?
00:25:43I had strict orders not to contact anyone.
00:25:46When did you get here?
00:25:50I don't see why I have to answer all these questions.
00:25:52Didn't you show them my credentials?
00:25:54Yes.
00:25:55We've seen them.
00:25:57Maybe he doesn't want to tell us when he got here.
00:25:59Is that right, Mr. Dietrich?
00:26:01I have no authority...
00:26:02You got off the boat at 10.17 this morning.
00:26:07You left the pier at 10.50.
00:26:09You took a cab to the Martinique Hotel...
00:26:11at 32nd and Broad.
00:26:13You checked in and stayed there until 12.30.
00:26:16Then you took a bus to 42nd Street and Times Square...
00:26:19and walked to the Silver Dollar at 46th Street...
00:26:21and had a cup of java.
00:26:23Then you come here.
00:26:24Why didn't you come right here?
00:26:25Why did you go to a hotel?
00:26:26Well, I wanted to take a bath, and then I...
00:26:32Well, it looks like you know all about me.
00:26:34Yeah, we're going to keep on knowing.
00:26:37Before you arrived, we worked in small groups...
00:26:39unknown to one another.
00:26:40I see.
00:26:41What's so special about you, Mr. Dietrich...
00:26:44that you are allowed to know all our agents?
00:26:47Those are the orders.
00:26:48It looks like we're all taking a chance on you, mister.
00:26:52Everybody takes a chance.
00:26:54Hamburg wants their agents to be in a position...
00:26:56to send information direct...
00:26:58through me...
00:26:59in the event of emergencies.
00:27:02Who are these people?
00:27:04Max Korbel.
00:27:05Conrad Arno.
00:27:07They used to be with the Eisener Wachtbund.
00:27:10Johanna Schmidt.
00:27:11She has special duties.
00:27:14Gestapo.
00:27:15I know about you from Hamburg.
00:27:17What do you know?
00:27:21Usual things.
00:27:22What's your job?
00:27:25We've got to get stuff through faster.
00:27:27Radio's best, so I'm going to set up a short wave station.
00:27:30I'll need some help.
00:27:32What kind of help?
00:27:33Radio parts, mostly.
00:27:35It'd look suspicious if I bought them all myself.
00:27:37What do you want?
00:27:39I have a list here.
00:27:42I'll let you know where you can send them.
00:27:51This stuff is hard to get.
00:27:52I know, but Hamburg needs a station here.
00:27:54Conrad will get them for you.
00:27:57As soon as I find the right location...
00:27:59I'm going to open up an office.
00:28:01People with information can contact me there.
00:28:03Send me word as soon as you're ready to operate.
00:28:06I'll get it to the others.
00:28:08I want to contact Colonel Hammerson.
00:28:11I can arrange that.
00:28:13I have some money for him.
00:28:19I want to get started as quickly as possible.
00:28:22Certainly.
00:28:32So that's the guy from Hamburg.
00:28:35What do you think, Elsa?
00:28:39He has good credentials, but...
00:28:41How do we know?
00:28:43They look good, so what?
00:28:45No.
00:28:47No, I don't trust that guy.
00:28:49He knows too much.
00:28:51We won't take any chances.
00:28:54I'll check with Hamburg for confirmation.
00:28:56How?
00:28:58Hammerson.
00:28:59He can get a message through by mail to Brazil.
00:29:02A courier will take it by Italian airlines to the car.
00:29:06It's simple from there.
00:29:08Max, contact Hammerson.
00:29:10Tell him I want to see him today.
00:29:12Yes.
00:29:28Following a prearranged plan to maintain contact with Dietrich,
00:29:33Inspector Briggs set up a special office in New York City.
00:29:39Here's some air raid literature for you to pass out.
00:29:42I want to know who lives in that house and what floors they live on.
00:29:46Do we have a layout to be outside?
00:29:48No, we'll get that later.
00:29:49Okay, we'll get right up there.
00:29:59New York City, New York
00:30:10Good morning.
00:30:11Good morning.
00:30:12Is the superintendent in?
00:30:13No, he isn't.
00:30:14Can I help you? I'm his wife.
00:30:16This is in regard to air raid precautions.
00:30:18Air raid?
00:30:20We're at war?
00:30:21No, not yet, ma'am.
00:30:22We hope, of course, we won't be.
00:30:24But if war should come, all of us want to be ready.
00:30:26Yes, of course.
00:30:27We're making a survey of everyone living in this block.
00:30:30What is your name, please?
00:30:31Castle, Frida Castle.
00:30:34Would you let us know who's in the apartments here?
00:30:36Just Miss Gebhardt.
00:30:38She rents the whole house.
00:30:39She has a dress store.
00:30:41Miss Gebhardt, your husband and yourself?
00:30:43That's right.
00:30:44Are you here most of the time?
00:30:46Yes.
00:30:47My husband is a pianist.
00:30:48He goes all over places.
00:30:50I see.
00:30:51Well, I guess that's all.
00:30:52Oh, here's some air raid literature if you'd like.
00:30:54Be particularly careful about lights.
00:30:56Yes, sir.
00:31:00Just off Columbus Circle in New York City,
00:31:03Bill Dietrich, posing as a consultant engineer,
00:31:06rented an office and established his place of business.
00:31:11The office looked legitimate.
00:31:13He was almost ready to receive callers.
00:31:27KNOCKING ON DOOR
00:31:43Morning.
00:31:44Good morning. Are you Mr. Dietrich?
00:31:46That's right.
00:31:47I believe we have a mutual acquaintance.
00:31:49Felix Strassen.
00:31:51Come in.
00:31:53Felix Strassen, yes, I, uh...
00:31:55I knew him in Hamburg.
00:31:58I feel sure it must be the same man.
00:32:00I'm Colonel Hammerson.
00:32:01Glad to know it. Won't you sit down?
00:32:23Looking for something, Colonel?
00:32:25I'm just naturally cautious.
00:32:52KNOCKING ON DOOR
00:33:12I, uh, just moved in.
00:33:15Things are a little bit upset.
00:33:17Yes, I see.
00:33:20I have something for you.
00:33:23It's a microphone.
00:33:25Thanks.
00:33:28It confirms you have funds for me.
00:33:31And you have something for Hamburg.
00:33:34We'll see.
00:33:37You must have good sources of information.
00:33:44I've had considerable experience.
00:33:46You've heard of me, of course.
00:33:48Oh, yes.
00:33:50During the last war, I worked with Captain Boyette,
00:33:53Fritz von Pappen, Count von Berstow.
00:33:57This time, the stakes are higher.
00:34:00The personal danger proportionately greater.
00:34:05With my record, I'm very careful.
00:34:09You been here long?
00:34:11Not very long, no.
00:34:13They supplied you with adequate funds.
00:34:15I can pay for information.
00:34:17That's in the credentials.
00:34:19Takes a great deal of money, you know.
00:34:24We're willing to pay.
00:34:26I think perhaps Hamburg might be interested
00:34:28in an entirely new type of gun
00:34:30the United States Army is testing.
00:34:34It's a wonderful gun. I've seen it.
00:34:40It projects an anti-tank rocket.
00:34:42Guiding fins are folded inside the barrel.
00:34:47Here are complete details of recent shipments
00:34:49of Bel Air Acobras and Curtiss P-40s
00:34:51to England and Russia.
00:34:56This is special information on the new Lockheed P-38s.
00:35:01The speed and armament of this plane is strictly secret.
00:35:05Or was, until I got hold of this.
00:35:08I'll send these to Hamburg.
00:35:10Terribly difficult information to get.
00:35:13But there it is.
00:35:18I was instructed to give you this.
00:35:23I was told you could put me in touch
00:35:25with a Mr. Adolf Klein.
00:35:29Adolf Klein?
00:35:31Yes.
00:35:33He's a very good man.
00:35:34Adolf Klein.
00:35:36Adolf Klein?
00:35:38For shipping information.
00:35:40I have orders to contact him.
00:35:43I'll arrange it.
00:35:44Good.
00:35:47Cigarette?
00:35:48Thanks.
00:35:56How can I get in touch with Christopher?
00:35:59Why?
00:36:01He's my boss. I've never even met him.
00:36:04He's my boss too.
00:36:06Yes?
00:36:08I haven't met him either.
00:36:12You'll take care of me on Klein?
00:36:15Oh yes.
00:36:17Where will I find him?
00:36:19I'll contact him and arrange a meeting.
00:36:22When will this be?
00:36:25I'll let you know.
00:36:34In a secluded cottage less than an hour's drive from Manhattan,
00:36:38Agent Dietrich set up a shortwave radio transmitter.
00:36:44Hamburg complimented Dietrich on the speed and efficiency
00:36:48with which he got his reports through to Germany
00:36:51and their instructions back to the United States.
00:36:56They did not know
00:36:58that Dietrich's little shortwave radio
00:37:01had a limited range
00:37:02and that all his messages were beamed
00:37:05to a secret FBI long-range radio station not far away.
00:37:10From this point,
00:37:12the FBI relayed Dietrich's messages to Germany
00:37:15on the wavelength and schedule
00:37:18and in the code that the Germans had given him.
00:37:21He in turn received all replies and instructions from Germany
00:37:25the same way
00:37:27through the counter-espionage station of the FBI.
00:37:33But all messages in both directions
00:37:36were first teletyped to Washington
00:37:38for immediate examination.
00:37:47All messages to Germany were held before relaying
00:37:51until the Army and Navy had rendered them harmless
00:37:55or perhaps
00:37:57had skillfully doctored them to mislead and confuse
00:38:00the German high command.
00:38:04Besides operating his radio station,
00:38:07Dietrich extended his contacts with the German spy ring.
00:38:11As their payoff man, the enemy's agents had to come to him.
00:38:16Some tried to sell information of no importance.
00:38:20Others brought highly secret data.
00:38:23The FBI's hidden movie cameras and microphones
00:38:27recorded all Dietrich's visitors.
00:38:31Hello?
00:38:33Suddenly and disastrously, Japan struck at Pearl Harbor.
00:38:37On this momentous, infamous Sunday,
00:38:41the FBI sprang into action just as swiftly and effectively
00:38:45as the rest of the nation's armed forces.
00:38:47The FBI sprang into action just as swiftly and effectively
00:38:51as the rest of the nation's armed forces.
00:39:17The FBI sprang into action just as swiftly and effectively
00:39:21as the rest of the nation's armed forces.
00:39:48Within 24 hours, all known enemy agents and saboteurs
00:39:52Within 24 hours, all known enemy agents and saboteurs
00:39:55were taken into custody,
00:39:58with a few purposeful exceptions.
00:40:01with a few purposeful exceptions.
00:40:03Important agents like Colonel Hammerson,
00:40:06Elsa Gebhardt,
00:40:08Conrad Arnauf,
00:40:10and Johanna Schmidt were left at liberty.
00:40:13This was to justify the continued liberty of Bill Dietrich.
00:40:17And because, watched closely,
00:40:21they could still help more than harm the American people.
00:40:25They still knew, or might know,
00:40:28things and people not yet known to the FBI,
00:40:32such as Adolf Klein
00:40:35and Mr. Christopher.
00:40:47Oh, Colonel Hammerson.
00:40:49Hello, Dietrich.
00:40:54Is it sort of dangerous for you to be coming here now?
00:40:57Yes. The war makes everything difficult.
00:40:59Every day they're picking up more of our agents.
00:41:02But I've made contact with Adolf Klein.
00:41:04When can I see him?
00:41:05Immediately. You'll have to come with me now.
00:41:07Good.
00:41:09Where are we going?
00:41:11I'm not at liberty to say. Come on.
00:41:23Calling Car 70. Calling Car 70.
00:41:26Come in, Car 70. Over.
00:41:28Car 70, standing by. Over.
00:41:31Mr. H. going down an elevator with D.
00:41:34Mr. H. going down an elevator with D.
00:41:36Mr. H. going down an elevator with D.
00:41:38Mr. H. going down an elevator with D.
00:41:40Follow and advise. Over.
00:41:42Okay. Will do.
00:41:44Off and clear.
00:42:00Here it is.
00:42:06Alain O'Klein.
00:42:08There'll be someone there to introduce you.
00:42:11Well, aren't you going in with me?
00:42:13No, I shan't see you again for a long time.
00:42:15We've got to be very careful from now on.
00:42:19Good night.
00:42:21Good night.
00:42:37Good evening.
00:42:39Hello.
00:42:41Meet Adolph Klein.
00:42:43How are you?
00:42:53Glad to know you, Adolph Klein.
00:43:07And Felix.
00:43:17Is that all?
00:43:21It takes money to operate.
00:43:24You talk. I'll pay.
00:43:26The Britannia sails for England tonight.
00:43:29A Dutch boat, the Delft Dyke, goes with her.
00:43:33She'll join convoy
00:43:3530 miles due east of Sandy Hook.
00:43:39The Delft Dyke carries a cargo of munitions and planes.
00:43:46The Britannia sails for England tonight.
00:43:49A Dutch boat, the Delft Dyke, goes with her.
00:43:52She'll join convoy
00:43:54May I have it?
00:44:11Who is that?
00:44:13It's Gus Hausman. He works for me.
00:44:15He's drunk.
00:44:17He is a good man for information when he isn't drinking.
00:44:24Hello, Gus.
00:44:26Hello, Rita.
00:44:33Who are these people?
00:44:35Friends of mine.
00:44:38You're the pay-off man.
00:44:40Is that right?
00:44:42That's right, Gus. He's going to take good care of us.
00:44:44Take care of you?
00:44:46You know where he gets his dope on ships, don't you?
00:44:49I give it all. That's where he gets it.
00:44:51Who's going to take care of me?
00:44:53Come on, Gus. I'll buy you a drink.
00:44:55I had a drink.
00:44:58How would you like to know that Queen Mary is back again?
00:45:02She's loaded 40,000 drums of oil.
00:45:05How would you like to know where she's going?
00:45:08Australia. That's where she's going.
00:45:11She's full of troops.
00:45:14How much is always that worth?
00:45:16I pay Clyde.
00:45:18He'll take care of it.
00:45:19You pay Clyde.
00:45:21Who pays me?
00:45:23I'm going to take care of you, Gus.
00:45:25You take care of nobody.
00:45:28Are you going to pay off?
00:45:31You'll have to operate through Clyde.
00:45:34Okay.
00:45:36Okay.
00:45:38Let's forget the whole thing.
00:45:40Find a way to get some real dough.
00:45:42Maybe I was just spilling inside story on what's going on around here.
00:45:46Shut up!
00:45:47I don't know who you are, sister.
00:45:49But tell me again when I come to see you.
00:45:52I'll bring you a nail file and cut through the bars.
00:46:07Look.
00:46:09She knows what she's doing.
00:46:18Hey, Bud.
00:46:20Got a match?
00:46:22What?
00:46:24You got a match?
00:46:33You want a light, huh?
00:46:35Yeah, Bud.
00:46:37How you feeling?
00:46:47I'm fine.
00:47:17Four hundred.
00:47:20Four fifteen.
00:47:22Five.
00:47:24Five fifteen.
00:47:34Well, that isn't much money to operate.
00:47:37I've got to pay for it.
00:47:39I've got to pay for it.
00:47:41I've got to pay for it.
00:47:43I've got to pay for it.
00:47:45I've got to pay for it.
00:47:47I've got to pay a lot of people.
00:47:49You'll be paid well enough.
00:47:52You seen Mr. Christopher lately?
00:47:56Hey, who are you?
00:47:58You were told about me?
00:48:00Don't you trust me?
00:48:02You're fooling around with a lot of stuff that's none of your business.
00:48:05Now, wait a minute, I thought it was nice...
00:48:07I've got to be sure that my information is getting through.
00:48:09That's my job.
00:48:11Maybe, but I've got to be sure.
00:48:14I'm going to send my information through Mr. Christopher.
00:48:17I'm working for Christopher.
00:48:19And what are you asking about him for?
00:48:21The wars change things.
00:48:23Only Mr. Christopher can change things.
00:48:27Well, that's the way you want it.
00:48:29That's the way it's going to be.
00:48:31While you're sticking your nose in things, you might take a little trip.
00:48:34With Gus.
00:48:40Good night, Clyde.
00:48:42I don't even know you.
00:48:47Good night.
00:49:15Where have you been?
00:49:17In the office.
00:49:19Where were you last night?
00:49:21The radio station.
00:49:23Weren't you supposed to meet Clyde last night?
00:49:26Yeah, I met him.
00:49:48You have to get this to Hamburg,
00:49:50just as fast as you can make the transmission.
00:49:52What is it?
00:49:54If we hadn't done anything else
00:49:56in all the years we have been here,
00:49:58this information would be more than worth it.
00:50:02It's up to you now.
00:50:04This is your chance.
00:50:06I'll get it through.
00:50:12Cigarette?
00:50:14No.
00:50:15Cigarette?
00:50:17Thank you, I don't smoke.
00:50:31Could I see them?
00:50:33You'll have these papers back here tomorrow night.
00:50:42Tomorrow night?
00:50:43It's a tough order.
00:50:45I've got to put this in the cold.
00:50:47It'll take time.
00:50:49Orders are not to be questioned.
00:50:52It'd save time if I could burn them when I was finished.
00:50:55This information will also be sent by mail tomorrow night.
00:50:58These orders come from Mr. Christopher.
00:51:01Christopher?
00:51:03Yes.
00:51:05They were delivered to me less than an hour ago.
00:51:43I just saw Dietrich leaving.
00:51:45What?
00:51:47I don't know.
00:51:49He said he'd be back in an hour.
00:51:51I don't know where he is.
00:51:53He said he'd be back in an hour.
00:51:55He said he'd be back in an hour.
00:51:57He said he'd be back in an hour.
00:51:59He said he'd be back in an hour.
00:52:01He said he'd be back in an hour.
00:52:03He said he'd be back in an hour.
00:52:05He said he'd be back in an hour.
00:52:07He said he'd be back in an hour.
00:52:09He said he'd be back in an hour.
00:52:11He said he'd be back in an hour.
00:52:13Good morning.
00:52:15Did he tell you about Adolph Klein?
00:52:17No. What about him?
00:52:19He was picked up last night.
00:52:21Violation of selective service. FBI.
00:52:24Dietrich was with him.
00:52:26When he was picked up?
00:52:28That I don't know.
00:52:30He didn't tell me.
00:52:32I wonder if he knew.
00:52:34We've got to be careful about Dietrich.
00:52:37Have you been able to get through the confirmation copy yet?
00:52:40It takes time.
00:52:41I won't be satisfied until I have it in my hands.
00:52:44Have you any reason to suspect him?
00:52:46No.
00:52:48There may be nothing at all to worry about.
00:52:51But until that confirmation copy comes from Hamburg, he must be watched.
00:52:56We are doing our most important work right now.
00:53:00Dietsch is a vital part of that work.
00:53:03If he fails, we all fail.
00:53:07Max?
00:53:08Yeah?
00:53:09Get down to the radio station, cover Dietrich, and keep him covered.
00:53:20Less than an hour after Dietrich received his instructions from Elsa Gebhardt,
00:53:25an important envelope reached Inspector Briggs.
00:53:29The envelope contained the data Elsa Gebhardt had given him,
00:53:33together with an important clue.
00:53:35The cigarette butt, stained with lipstick,
00:53:38which Dietrich had found on Elsa's desk.
00:53:41The contents of the envelope were so unusual
00:53:44that Inspector Briggs rushed to FBI headquarters in Washington,
00:53:48and presently a distinguished physicist, sent for by Briggs,
00:53:52was flown to Washington.
00:53:54He was Dr. Arthur C. Appleton, 72-year-old chief of the Central Laboratory,
00:54:00where the final secret experiments on Process 97 were being conducted.
00:54:16Gentlemen, these papers contain data on Process 97.
00:54:20It is appallingly accurate.
00:54:23These are details of experiments which we made barely two days ago.
00:54:30Dr. Appleton, we must send this information on through to Germany.
00:54:36Now, would it be possible to change a few details
00:54:40in order to set their scientists off the track
00:54:43without arousing the slightest suspicion?
00:54:45Of course it is.
00:54:46It would?
00:54:47We've been thrown hundreds of times ourselves by the slightest error.
00:54:51Now, we're going to need your help to change that data.
00:54:55Do you think you can do it tonight?
00:54:57I can start immediately.
00:55:00Inspector Briggs ordered the Central Laboratories
00:55:02placed under strict and continuous surveillance.
00:55:06Through an X-ray mirror in the rear of an ordinary delivery truck,
00:55:10movies were taken
00:55:12of even the most trusted individuals working on Process 97.
00:55:18This method of surveillance
00:55:20enabled the 400 FBI agents now assigned to the case
00:55:25to become familiar with the faces of every worker
00:55:28permitted to leave the plant.
00:55:31This facilitated the FBI's difficult job
00:55:34of tracing all of their activities and all of their contacts.
00:55:56Let's go up to my office.
00:56:01The cigarette which Dietrich was shrewd enough to take
00:56:04from Elsa Gebhardt's desk
00:56:06was examined by FBI technicians.
00:56:09Without a doubt,
00:56:11the woman who had delivered the data from Mr. Christopher
00:56:14was the woman who had left the cigarette.
00:56:17It was still the only lead to her identity.
00:56:21First, a portion of the stained cigarette
00:56:24was examined by spectrograph
00:56:26to determine what properties it contained.
00:56:40The lipstick could then be identified
00:56:42by comparison with all known brands.
00:56:45That's fine. Send it along as soon as you can.
00:56:48Here's the lab report on the lipstick.
00:56:55The analysis revealed a particular brand of lipstick
00:56:59used by 98 different beauty parlors in New York City.
00:57:04By checking the clients and operators' profiles,
00:57:07it was possible to determine
00:57:09whether the lipstick contained a particular brand.
00:57:13By checking the clients and operators of these establishments,
00:57:17against the records of every known suspect,
00:57:20the FBI narrowed their search
00:57:22to one particular beauty parlor
00:57:25and one particular suspect,
00:57:28Louise Badger.
00:57:31Well, what does it mean to cause so much trouble?
00:57:34Don't you know?
00:57:36I understood. Family messages from people in Germany
00:57:39to be smuggled underground.
00:57:41I saw no harm in it.
00:57:43Perfectly innocent messages.
00:57:45That's all.
00:57:46Now, let's stop this little game and get down to real honest facts.
00:57:50I've told you the facts.
00:57:52We know a great deal about you, Miss Badger.
00:57:55You once worked on a North German Lloyd lineup.
00:57:58You were a hairdresser.
00:58:00You used to bring across letters from Germany
00:58:02and mail them when you got ashore.
00:58:04I never knew what was in them.
00:58:06They were letters of instructions to German agents in this country,
00:58:09working as a courier for the German secret service.
00:58:12Right now, you're what we call a sleeper agent.
00:58:16You were planted here a long time ago by the Nazis.
00:58:19You lived a normal, inconspicuous life for years,
00:58:23making friends, earning a living,
00:58:26just waiting until you got a call for the one particular job.
00:58:31And they saved you for a big one.
00:58:34But you made one mistake.
00:58:37You took the trouble of becoming an American citizen.
00:58:41And that, Miss Badger, makes you a traitor.
00:58:44I've done nothing since the war began.
00:58:46Nothing, I swear it.
00:58:47All right, now let's get back to this envelope.
00:58:49Where did you take it?
00:58:51I was told to take it to a house on 92nd Street.
00:58:54And who told you to take it there?
00:58:56I don't know.
00:58:57Could it have been a name like Mr. Christopher?
00:59:00I don't know that name.
00:59:01Are you sure?
00:59:03Yes, I know the name, but I don't know who he is.
00:59:05I've never seen him.
00:59:06Have you ever delivered messages any other place?
00:59:09Just the house and to a bookstore.
00:59:12Bookstore.
00:59:13If something goes wrong, I deliver the messages there.
00:59:16What bookstore?
00:59:18Some 59th Street.
00:59:20I think the name is Lang.
00:59:22Aren't you sure?
00:59:23Yes, it's Lang's bookstore.
00:59:26You have a friend who's a scientist.
00:59:28He's engaged in very important war work.
00:59:31What is his name?
00:59:32I have no friend.
00:59:33Yes, you have.
00:59:34Because he visits you at your home.
00:59:41There is your friend.
00:59:45And there is your home.
00:59:46And the name of your friend is Charles Ogden Roper.
00:59:59Keep this young lady in custody.
01:00:04Yes.
01:00:12I want a surveillance made of Lang's bookshop on 59th Street.
01:00:15Right.
01:00:16We've been through the Vaggia apartment.
01:00:18Did you find anything?
01:00:19Yes, we found the typewriter and the checks.
01:00:21That's the one that was used to copy the data.
01:00:23Then Roper is the man who's been getting it out.
01:00:25Shall we pick him up?
01:00:26No, we can't pick him up until we find out how he does it.
01:00:31We've got a man under 24-hour surveillance.
01:00:34He never leaves that laboratory without being thoroughly searched.
01:00:37And still, he's getting the stuff out.
01:00:40That's our problem.
01:00:41That's what we have to solve.
01:00:43How does he do it?
01:00:47How does he do it?
01:00:52The following day, an unusual message from Germany
01:00:55was picked up by the FBI monitoring station
01:00:58and relayed on to Dietrich.
01:01:00It was also teletyped to Briggs.
01:01:25DETECTOR BEEPING
01:01:30BEEPING
01:01:34BEEPING
01:01:56BEEPING
01:02:08Hey! You're in the wrong lane!
01:02:12BEEPING
01:02:19Stop a black coupe. 516 New York.
01:02:22Last three numbers. One man driving.
01:02:25DETECTOR BEEPING
01:02:56Let me see your driver's license.
01:02:58I haven't got it with me.
01:03:00Well, let's see your registration card.
01:03:02I haven't got that either.
01:03:03Okay, buddy, you better come down to the station house with me.
01:03:05We want to check up on you.
01:03:09Have you anything to say?
01:03:11I prefer not to say anything till I talk to my lawyer.
01:03:15All right. What's your lawyer's name and telephone number?
01:03:19Rector 23515.
01:03:22Rector 23515.
01:03:24Ask for Mr. Briggs.
01:03:27You received that message from Hamburg today?
01:03:33That's right.
01:03:34Have you done anything about it?
01:03:36Well, not yet, Mr. Briggs.
01:03:38I was about to contact you for advice when the message came to meet you.
01:03:41Oh.
01:03:43We think that this may be the lead that we've been looking for.
01:03:47It might be.
01:03:48What does it mean to you?
01:03:50Gedächtniskünstler.
01:03:52That's a, um...
01:03:54A familiar word in Hamburg for a very special type of agent.
01:03:57Oh.
01:03:58It's, um, the name of a performer
01:04:01who accomplishes spectacular feats of memory.
01:04:05A memory artist.
01:04:07Memory artist?
01:04:09Hamburg's always looking for people with unusual memories.
01:04:13They take a special course just to improve their memories further.
01:04:16Yes, but do you think that a man,
01:04:18even with a very unusual memory,
01:04:21could get those formulas out?
01:04:23All that complicated stuff?
01:04:25Sounds incredible, but that's what they're trying to do.
01:04:28Oh, sure, it is incredible.
01:04:31Memory artist.
01:04:33Photographic mind.
01:04:35Mm-hmm.
01:04:36A little bit at a time, well, it...
01:04:39It may be a lead. Maybe it's the solution.
01:04:43What'll I do about the message?
01:04:46Well, you just send it through your regular channels.
01:04:49Oh, anything new on Christopher?
01:04:51No, not yet.
01:04:52Mm-hmm.
01:04:53Well, I'll arrange for your bail and fine.
01:04:56Oh, uh, when you give the message to Elsa,
01:04:59why, be very sore at the police, huh?
01:05:01Yes, sir.
01:05:02Don't overplay it, you know.
01:05:05The FBI had to know every detail
01:05:08of Charles Ogden Roper's life.
01:05:11Yeah, I remember that crazy act,
01:05:13but I can't remember the name.
01:05:15Never could remember names.
01:05:17Does this sound like it?
01:05:19His performance in clubs, Sunday school entertainments,
01:05:22banquets, special parties,
01:05:24demonstrates amazing feats of memory.
01:05:26Oh, don't pay any attention to it.
01:05:28It's just a memory.
01:05:30Performs amazing feats of memory.
01:05:32What kind of feats? What's the angle?
01:05:34Well, you see, people call for things from the audience, you know.
01:05:37They want to hear stuff out of highbrow books.
01:05:40You know, this guy can keep 14 games in chess
01:05:42going at the same time.
01:05:44Chess?
01:05:45Boy, there is a lousy game.
01:05:47But 14 games going at the same time
01:05:49would take a remarkable memory.
01:05:51Sure it does, but it ain't box office.
01:05:53I'll tell you what.
01:05:54I'll tell you what.
01:05:56I'll tell you what.
01:05:58Sure it does, but it ain't box office.
01:06:00I'll take this along. You'll get it back.
01:06:02Don't worry, brother. That act is out of date.
01:06:22Mr. Roper.
01:06:24Yes?
01:06:25I'd like to see you in my office.
01:06:27Certainly.
01:06:51This is Mr. Briggs of the FBI.
01:06:54Mr. Roper, my credentials.
01:06:56Sit down, won't you?
01:07:04You recognize those?
01:07:07Those are photostats of Process 97.
01:07:11They were stolen from here.
01:07:15I understand that you're one of the workers
01:07:17allowed to leave the Institute.
01:07:19A few evenings each week, yes.
01:07:21You always spend those evenings with a friend in town.
01:07:24We play chess.
01:07:26Chess?
01:07:27I never go anywhere else.
01:07:29She's an old friend of mine. I've known her a long time.
01:07:32How long?
01:07:33About three years.
01:07:36Shortly after we intercepted this data,
01:07:38$5,000 was paid into your bank account.
01:07:41That money was from securities I'd sold.
01:07:44Doctor, what do you want to know?
01:07:47This gentleman thinks that you memorized
01:07:49parts of that formula before you left here.
01:07:51And when you got to your friend's house,
01:07:53you set them down.
01:07:57We know all about you, Roper.
01:07:59We've traced you back to the day you were born.
01:08:03We even know the approximate date
01:08:05that you're scheduled to die.
01:08:08You might be interested in this.
01:08:12That's an intercepted message direct from Germany.
01:08:17It'll save a lot of trouble all around
01:08:19if you'll cooperate with us.
01:08:24What do you want to know?
01:08:26You typed the formula on a typewriter
01:08:28owned by your friend and gave them to her, didn't you?
01:08:32Yes.
01:08:33What other contacts have you made?
01:08:36I received several messages at my friend's house.
01:08:39From a man by the name of Hammerson?
01:08:41Yes.
01:08:42What did he say?
01:08:44He said that he was going to kill me.
01:08:46He said that he was going to kill me.
01:08:48He said he was going to kill me.
01:08:50He said he was going to kill me.
01:08:53I don't remember.
01:08:54You don't remember?
01:08:56A man who can keep 14 games of chess going at the same time
01:08:59and you don't remember?
01:09:02You've been playing with a very dangerous group of German agents.
01:09:06We know, we've seen them work.
01:09:08They don't mind murder.
01:09:10You were the next one on their list
01:09:13as soon as you finished your job.
01:09:16Did you ever get a message from a man by the name of Christopher?
01:09:19Yes.
01:09:20Now, isn't it possible that Mr. Christopher and Colonel Hammerson
01:09:22are one and the same?
01:09:24I don't know.
01:09:25I've never seen either of them.
01:09:26Did you ever deliver Process 97 data
01:09:28to any other place besides Louise Varger's apartment?
01:09:34Yes.
01:09:35After she was arrested,
01:09:37I received instructions to take the data to another address.
01:09:41I made my last delivery this morning.
01:09:44And where was that?
01:09:45Lang's Bookshop on 59th Street.
01:09:48I put the material in a book.
01:09:50What book?
01:09:54Spencer's First Principles.
01:09:57And what was it you delivered?
01:10:02What was it, Roper?
01:10:04I gave them the latest data on our final...
01:10:11On our final experiments.
01:10:15Thank you, Doctor.
01:10:20Put that man under arrest.
01:10:21I'm going to call Walker.
01:10:22Yes, sir.
01:10:32For some time, Lang's Bookshop
01:10:35on busy 59th Street
01:10:37was under constant surveillance.
01:10:40Every person who entered or left the store
01:10:44was being photographed by FBI agents
01:10:47from an office directly across the street.
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01:11:58Can I help you?
01:12:00Yes, I believe you can.
01:12:02Are you looking for some particular book?
01:12:04Yes, but I can't seem to find it.
01:12:05Well, what is it?
01:12:07Have you by any chance got a copy of Spencer's First Principles?
01:12:11Spencer's First Principles?
01:12:14Oh, I haven't had a copy of that for some time.
01:12:17I might be able to get it for you.
01:12:19That's funny.
01:12:20A friend of mine said he picked up a copy here.
01:12:22That's very possible.
01:12:24Although it must have been some time ago.
01:12:26No, this morning.
01:12:28I'm afraid your friend made a mistake.
01:12:31Oh, excuse me, I have a customer.
01:12:33I don't think you're going to have any customers for some time.
01:12:36I'm from the FBI.
01:12:38We'd like to talk to you at our office.
01:12:41Now?
01:12:42Right now.
01:12:56Johanna, we've got to get this through today.
01:12:59Where's Bill?
01:13:00At his radio station.
01:13:01Now, you and Conrad take this out there.
01:13:04Stay there while he puts it into code.
01:13:06Make sure that he sends it.
01:13:08Because everything depends on you getting that through.
01:13:11He'll send it.
01:13:12Then bring it back here.
01:13:13Do you have a version copy on Bill come yet?
01:13:15No.
01:13:16We expect it any time now.
01:13:17The clipper's been delayed.
01:13:18Do you think we ought to take this chance on him?
01:13:20There's nothing else we can do.
01:13:22He's still our fastest channel to Hamburg.
01:13:24We've got to take a chance.
01:13:25Okay, let's go.
01:13:44Where have you been?
01:13:45I've just seen the courier from the clipper.
01:13:48He brought the message.
01:13:49Well, give it to me.
01:13:52Come on.
01:14:13Come on.
01:14:43He's forbidden to contact any agents known to you.
01:14:49Next!
01:15:14Come on.
01:15:28We have a message for you.
01:15:29You've got no business to come here.
01:15:31We've got order to come.
01:15:44This kind of thing's dangerous.
01:15:46We weren't followed.
01:15:49This is from Elsa.
01:15:50You have to send it immediately.
01:15:52This is important.
01:16:02I have to put this in code.
01:16:03That takes time.
01:16:04Do it right away.
01:16:06Wait a minute.
01:16:08Did you say you can reach Hamburg with this?
01:16:10Did you say you can reach Hamburg with this?
01:16:14That's what he said.
01:16:16You are crazy.
01:16:18Look at the coils.
01:16:20They're only two and a half meters.
01:16:23This wouldn't carry more than 20 or 30 miles.
01:16:27This isn't the stuff he got you.
01:16:30That's right.
01:16:31I made a few improvements.
01:16:32This setup wouldn't carry across the Atlantic.
01:16:36How do you know?
01:16:38Of course, I'm going to try.
01:16:41Go ahead.
01:16:47The call signal is AOR.
01:17:02That's not Bill sending.
01:17:03I know his fist.
01:17:05Better answer it.
01:17:08So?
01:17:17What's that?
01:17:19That's not Hamburg.
01:17:21There's no MASH.
01:17:23It's coming from somewhere nearby.
01:17:28Where is it coming from?
01:17:29How would I know?
01:17:31It's not up to me to ask questions.
01:17:33I follow instructions the same as you.
01:17:34Maybe it's a relay station picking up messages from a small set like this
01:17:38and boosting them across when conditions are right.
01:17:40That's a new one.
01:17:42Transmissions across the Atlantic are uncertain.
01:17:44I can't sit here all day waiting to send messages.
01:17:47I don't believe you, mister.
01:17:58Elsa wants to see you.
01:18:00What for?
01:18:01She don't want you to send no messages.
01:18:03What's up, Max?
01:18:06Got a message from Hamburg.
01:18:08Him?
01:18:09Yeah.
01:18:11Elsa wants to see him.
01:18:15Get going.
01:18:33What'll that do?
01:18:47It'll make him talk.
01:18:50It takes time.
01:18:52Three injections.
01:18:54In about an hour, he'll be answering questions.
01:18:57What'll it do to him?
01:18:59He'll tell the truth.
01:19:01Scopolamine.
01:19:02Drug's part of the brain.
01:19:05I want to know about that envelope and his radio
01:19:08and a lot of other things.
01:19:14We got the picture of the last pickup at the bookshop.
01:19:16Lange's identified the man.
01:19:18Good.
01:19:19Match that with all the film we've got on the Christopher case.
01:19:21The Varger house, Dietrich's office, the gown shop.
01:19:24Everything we've got.
01:19:25Right.
01:19:26That's the man who picked up the book.
01:19:27Lange's confirmed that.
01:19:28And that's the match.
01:19:29Well, there's no question about it.
01:19:30Frieda Kessel's husband is Mr. Christopher,
01:19:31the third member of that household.
01:19:32You mean the man posing as her husband?
01:19:33Yeah.
01:19:34Come on.
01:19:35Let's go.
01:19:36Come on.
01:19:37Come on.
01:19:38Come on.
01:19:39Come on.
01:19:40Come on.
01:19:41Come on.
01:19:42Come on.
01:19:43Come on.
01:19:44Come on.
01:19:45Come on.
01:19:46Come on.
01:19:47Come on.
01:19:48Come on.
01:19:49Come on.
01:19:50Come on.
01:19:51Come on.
01:19:52Come on.
01:19:53Come on.
01:19:54Come on.
01:19:55Come on.
01:19:56We're going out and pick up Mr. Christopher.
01:20:11Wake up.
01:20:12Wake up and talk.
01:20:15We can wait.
01:20:25Or else you'll get hurt.
01:20:37If you're not going any place, come on.
01:20:39We're special agents of the FBI, you're under arrest.
01:20:59Why did you send that information?
01:21:09Give him another shot, that won't do any good.
01:21:11Well, he's no good to us as he is.
01:21:13What's the range of your radio?
01:21:3030 miles.
01:21:35And someone relays your messages to Hamburg?
01:21:38Yes.
01:21:40Who?
01:21:42Who operates the relay?
01:21:47You sold the others out, didn't you?
01:21:49You had them arrested.
01:22:07Everything looks all right.
01:22:09Let's see if we can find a phone downstairs.
01:22:13If he doesn't tell us what we want to know, shoot him.
01:22:16Look, let's not lose our heads.
01:22:34Yes?
01:22:58I'm a special agent of the FBI.
01:23:00The apartment is surrounded.
01:23:02What is it?
01:23:03We'll give you exactly two minutes.
01:23:06Women will come out first.
01:23:08The men will follow, hands above their heads.
01:23:16It's the FBI.
01:23:30He's got two minutes.
01:23:32Burn everything.
01:23:33Put it in the fireplace.
01:23:46Johanna, give me the papers on Process 97.
01:23:51We've already failed once today.
01:23:53We cannot fail again.
01:23:54Nothing matters except getting this information through.
01:23:56Our lives, nothing.
01:23:58There's one chance left.
01:23:59To contact the courier from Hamburg.
01:24:01I've got to get out of here.
01:24:02You'll have to cover for me.
01:24:03Delay them all you can.
01:24:05It may mean the lives of every single one of us,
01:24:07but this information must be on its way to Hamburg tonight.
01:24:14I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:45I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:46I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:47I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:48I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:49I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:50I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:51I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:52I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:53I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:54I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:55I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:56I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:57I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:58I want nothing to do with it.
01:24:59I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:00I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:01I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:02I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:03I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:04I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:05I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:06I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:07I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:08I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:09I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:10I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:11I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:12I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:13I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:14I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:15I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:16I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:17I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:18I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:19I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:20I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:21I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:22I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:23I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:24I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:25I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:26I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:27I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:28I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:29I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:30I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:31I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:32I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:33I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:34I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:35I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:36I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:37I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:38I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:39I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:40I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:41I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:42I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:43I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:44I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:45I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:46I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:47I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:48I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:49I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:50I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:52I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:54I want nothing to do with it.
01:25:56We'll keep talking.
01:25:58Come on, come on.
01:25:59Come on.
01:26:00Come on, come on.
01:26:01Where are you going?
01:26:02Just the same way.
01:26:03Simple, they are treating him like a chimp for whatever reason.
01:26:09Ann, let him go.
01:26:11You're all innocent.
01:26:13You are innocent.
01:26:15He's in trouble, I'm going to mix it with the evidence.
01:26:18And then he'll punish you.
01:26:20Thus ended the Christopher case.
01:26:23Elsa Gebhardt, alias Mr. Christopher,
01:26:27was no more successful than other foreign espionage agents.
01:26:32Process 97, the atomic bomb,
01:26:36America's top war secret,
01:26:39remains a secret.
01:26:42After the United States went to war, December 7, 1941,
01:26:4716,440 enemy agents,
01:26:51saboteurs, and dangerous enemy aliens were arrested.
01:26:55Six have already been executed.
01:26:58Thousands were interned.
01:27:01Others were imprisoned for a sum total of 1,880 years.
01:27:06All of them,
01:27:09All of the thoroughly laid enemy plans for a fifth column
01:27:13were smashed before they could be put into operation.
01:27:17Not one single act of enemy-directed sabotage
01:27:21was perpetrated within the United States,
01:27:25nor was one major war secret stolen.
01:27:29The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to be the implacable foe
01:27:33of all enemies of the United States.
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