your excellences request i applied for special leave from the bureau in order to make an investigation in your state my notes contained all the essential facts but my injuries make this transcription into a present of a manuscript painfully slow one finally completed will submit the following as a full report on parole conditions which resulted in the release of dangerous criminals who had once returned to their lives of crime realize of course your identity must not go beyond the three of us in this room it's only fair to warn you that two previous investigators fared rather badly we found one of them with enough lead to start a pipe factory the other simply disappeared thanks for warning me oh thank you  whoa gentleman i left washington in such a hurry that i wasn't given a very complete briefing on your particular problem but offhand i would say the trouble is in your parole board during the past six months prisoners of such low character have been  other than proven mouth for reasons of office you see that kind of ties things up doesn't one gentleman i've been figuring how to go about this investigation forgive me for placing governor i think better this way trust company hold up oh yes i remember now murdoch was paroled and then quietly skipped the country so quietly in fact that not even the grapevine has the information as yet and you propose to assume the identity of murdoch that's right only i'll call myself rick carson since murdoch naturally would be using an alias now as murdoch alias rick carson i must become friendly with someone who has been through the parole mill in order to find out how  was engineered have you any one in mind no but it should be someone whose parole was obviously bought i figure that if someone pays for all someone must receive the money while you are working undercover as richard murdoch or rick carson you have to avoid any contact with the police even in an emergency is my private telephone number where you can reach me any time day or night thank you metropolitan six to six seven at the pilot and six to six seven i remember now serving time for attempted murder bob or do you have anything to say about that yeah it was a funny read a lot of things about my trials now plenty bad so does your police record you think you've learned your lesson  jones it seems to me that keeping a man behind bars when he can earn a living is a needless waste of taxpayers money i vote for his parole and your decision reverend as you well know i usually bend over backwards to give the misguided unfortunates a chance but in the case of harry palmer my conscience compels me to oppose use parole and your decision mr perkins bomber deliberately broke the law not once but many times green a man like palmer makes a travesty of justice i am positively against proline well it seems were evenly divided to four and two against bombers prove consequently as chairman of this board becomes my duty to cast the deciding vote over a decision like this must come from the heart as well as the mind must be tempered with humanity and understanding i watched palmer when he made his plea and i'm convinced of is  glenda who was working as a waitress at the pastime club so i decided to hang around delete that hang around so i decided to drop around the club to look the situation over one group of hangers on seemed to tired him it was difficult find out how they were quite cold about it the tie in was a lucrative sideline which jo jo operated an illegal punch board reckons the three salesmen were blackie old some frank mitchell and kid red but they sold to the co operative customers who are always glad to make a dishonest dollar cheaply another of joe joe's willing workers spent most of his spare time trying to cheat a slot machine carrying his working hours he called on the less co operative prospects for these he had three convincing arguments to hard long police and prison record such were evidently the powers of harry palmer he didn't trust me from the very first however during the two weeks until thomas paroled i managed to every cop in the state might be one of black and could investigate and we know exactly how things stand j b i that's me joe joe's girl the investigation morning to run an aspirin no thanks just my to find out something very interesting and we got the dope on them all right good old broken down joint as the flight of stairs where we came up this is the vault is a real old fashioned can those stairs made a little tough because we had to back down and we couldn't see who was coming up any way let me ask you another question i call the commissioner and told him i was all set to buy a parole for a pal of mine named money cooper but i had to have two thousand dollars he agreed but as the boys were somewhat suspicious of me and in order to gain their of well anyway rob bandit ignores jewels two thousand cash nailing or sold civic leader was held up last night and relieved i don't think i know the word pass through the grapevine that i'd pull that job and the boys who hung out around the pair's time club immediately started to accept me as one of the boys as it i turned over five hundred dollars to palmer and went with him to make the contact for cooper's p when we reached the lobby of an office building palmer told me i couldn't go upstairs with him this was disappointing but i heard him tell the elevator operated to take him to the fifth floor so i checked the names of all the tenants on that particular floor they were  believe your kind were less than an hour ago he laid five hundred dollars on my desk and gave me a long spiel about knowing that i was your lawyer and that you came to see me any time you wanted to get anybody out of the pen naturally i told him that i use the bracelet you've been talking so much about thanks i don't know what to say daddy i have mentioned connections to assume a question probably is now that you do handle my legitimate hunting around for i would delete that coming around make it fumbling about fumbling about for a new lead i looked up the grief stricken and embittered gland pretending to her that i wanted to avenge her husband's murder which had cost me five hundred dollars and i showed her the list of tenants occupying the fifth floor of the building to which palmer and i had gone to  of course you would you know i had to pull a little job to get the money for my needs for oh you mean angus although i don't know anybody naming the show i want to point it joe joe i'd like to get money out of the for you is another thousand thank you i like to have a receipt oh sure sure he you know that's not bad course it's a little expensive hundred thousand dollars and throw but it's not bad what about the balance the balance sheet get the day money's paroled from prison return to your duties and you'll be informed of our decision later thank you thank you very much that means to be put away for life criminal why should the state have to support this man for life that's the wrong attitude i agree with mr perkins i'm opposed the man deserves a chance every man deserves a chance once again we seem to be evenly divide because i couldn't understand why anyone would give a job to a multiple loser like money cooper i decided to check the county assessor's records to find out what i could about suspecting the set up however was not enough i still had to obtain the proof that afternoon i worked out a strategic plan although commission commissioner this is hendrix that's right yes naturally commissioner i'm going out to the easily farm oh incidentally i told the boys at the pastime club that i would meet cooper out of the farm but commissioner this is just one thing and i hope you won't let me down on this see and list cooper is picked up at the prison gates when he is released if he should happen to come out of the ainslie farm at the same time i'm there and get one good look at me trade my career is murdock or carson or hendricks will come to a very sudden and painful end oh you have nothing to worry about of a score hendricks i've already notified four states of cooper's impending parole i'll be right there to arrest him the minute he steps foot outside the prison gates fine commissioner around a crowded tomorrow afternoon i think by that time i should have this whole set up in the bank yes what do you want looking for money cooper home mani cooper is supposed to be workin him while he ate a body here by the name of cooper i love games but i happen to know the money cooper was prone to work on this farm told you that sector noon sometime you make yourself to home i've got to get the horses ready and up to your congressman yeah i hadn't figured on road to school visiting the farm i realized his presence might have set my plans but i had to take the gamble so i waited until ainslie had disappeared i had brought along an instrument which the commissioner of police had provided and taking advantage of ainslie's absence i decided to make i quickly ascertained that no one else was near i fixed in my mind the details of the room and then found a suitable place in which to conceal the precious instrument it was the latest type of sound recorder one set to operate it needed no further attention since it would automatically start when someone spoke and stopped again when the voice concluded it could pick up voice frequencies within a radius of fifty feet and could record continuously for four hours list of names and addresses of the parole board members that i left with you this morning yes i have it right here i i want you to send each one of them the following how it urgent you meet me and farm without delay drop don't lose any time when i get back to town i'll come over and explain everything you go by to send those telegrams to every member of the parole board i assume that only the one member who was mixed up in the parole conspiracy would know what was meant by the farm and the signature barney adjusted desk i had the keen satisfaction of knowing that my jones arrived in the car with my primary  back we're safer here than it is for the time i was confident the recording machine was doing its work but to make the record admissible as evidence in court i would have to swear that i had seen the people inside that room and to identify their voices it was only one way to do this i well i don't like blankly explanations but you can speak freely rick but you see folks i'm not exactly on speaking terms with the law and when i saw a couple of cars parked outside especially with my friend money being one of the other states i hello yes operator must be my secretary calling me back yesterday bruce plenty of time to pick up cooper on his release from prison yet the extradition papers arrived too late to arrest him and report on cooper yet kept him hold of him it was picked up by three men who took him away in a car after has no report cooper must be someplace we've got to prevent him from reaching the ainslie farm go ahead i don't like to set up a trace of cooper not a word from hendricks should have contacted us long before this a glass of water this is palmer i'm very anxious to get some information about rick carson now it's all right he's working with us oh thank you so you are he said you were helping him a federal agent and it's one thing they teach us next how to use a gun the first one that makes a move get but i suppose we'll have to teach him how to speak jim you go up there