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C4FBI 520416 e00 (Audition) Little
Red Schoolhouse
C4FBI 520423 e01 I Walk Alone
C4FBI 520430 e02 I Can't Sleep
C4FBI 520507 e03 Little Red Schoolhouse
C4FBI 520514 e04 Red Red Herring
C4FBI 520521 e05 Pit Viper
C4FBI 520528 e06 Traitors for Hire
C4FBI 520604 e07 Card Game in the
Clouds
C4FBI 520611 e08 American Kremlin
C4FBI 520618 e09 Tight Wire
C4FBI 520625 e10 A Riot Made to
Order
C4FBI 520702 e11 Where the Red Men
Roam
C4FBI 520709 e12 The Dangerous Dollars
C4FBI 520716 e13 Rich Man, Poor
Man
C4FBI 520723 e14 Canadian Crossfire
C4FBI 520730 e15 Draw the Red Curtain
C4FBI 520806 e16 Red Clouds on the
Good Earth
C4FBI 520813 e17 Exit on the Left
C4FBI 520820 e18 The Red Record
C4FBI 520827 e19 Burnt Offering
C4FBI 520903 e20 Squeeze Play
C4FBI 520910 e21 Violence Preferred
C4FBI 520917 e22 The Rat Race
C4FBI 520924 e23 Jump to the Whip
C4FBI 521001 e24 Pennies from the
Dead
C4FBI 521008 e25 A Suit for the
Party
C4FBI 521015 e26 The Party Got Rough
C4FBI 521022 e27 Little Boy Red
C4FBI 521029 e28 The Unwelcome Hosts
C4FBI 521105 e29 No Second Chance
C4FBI 521112 e30 The Red Gate
C4FBI 521119 e31 Red Rover, Red
Rover
C4FBI 521126 e32 Home Improvement
C4FBI 521203 e33 Red Clay
C4FBI 521210 e34 The Kiss of Death
C4FBI 521217 e35 Treason Comes in
Cans
C4FBI 521224 e36 The Flames Burned
Red
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This series capitalized on the new Red scare of the early
1950s: 78 episodes were recorded, without any assistance from the FBI,
which refused to cooperate.
It didn't matter: anti-Communist hysteria
was at a peak, and by the end of 1952 I Was a Communist was scheduled
on more than 600 stations. The show was based on the book (and subsequent
movie) by Matt Cvetic and purportedly told of his adventures as an undercover
operative who joined the Communist Party to spy from within. Many of
the stories contained double-edged conflicts: Cvetic constantly jockeyed
for information, wyalking a tightrope among suspicious Party officials
while unable to reveal his true mission even to his family, who shunned
him. Communists were stereotyped, much as 
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more espionage, see also 
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