The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents.

This is your FVI.

This is your FBI.

The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

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Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, armed robbery.

It's titled, The Innocent Santa Claus.

Nearly all criminals are emotionally childish, undefendable and unscrupulous.

Some, like the characters you'll meet in tonight's dramatization from FBI files, are more vicious than others.

But make no mistake about it.

The dashing and charming Robin Hood types are few and far between.

Criminals taint with unhappiness the lives of all those with whom they come in contact.

The little niceties of life, the decent courteous kindnesses.

The Christmas spirit itself that make up normal people's lives are completely foreign to the vast majority of them.

Whatever they do is for themselves alone.

One of your FBI's major purposes in bringing you these programs

is to present the underworld as it really is,

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