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Show "I Was A Communist For The F.B.I." Coming To The Grove Little did Matt Cvetic, a United Unit-ed States Employment Service interviewer in Pittsburg, realize when in 1939 his application for admission into the U.S. Army Intelligence had been rejected for physical reasons, that this move was to be the first link in a chain of events which nine years later wrecked havoc within the ranks of the Communist Party operating operat-ing in this country and resulted in the smashing of a Red ring segment. Because he was in a position to place Communists in vital industries, in-dustries, the F. B. I. considered Cvetic an ideal key man for getting get-ting the goods on suspected Reds. They approached him and asked if he'd consent to do his country a great service by mingling with the Communists and reporting their activities to the law enforcement enforce-ment agency. Cvetic was reminded of an existing ex-isting threat to his life that would be connected with this work, also the fact that his undercover un-dercover assignment was to remain re-main a secret from even his closest clos-est relatives who during the nine years that followed literally hated hat-ed him as a man who had "sold out" to the Commies. After considerable con-siderable thought, Cvetic agreed to do the job a job filled witli fear and terror and murder a job which left Cvetic friendless except for his Red comrades a job that wasn't finished until the top eleven Communist leaders were tried in New York two years ago in the trial presided over by Judge Harold R. Medina. When Cvetic's startling reports of his experiences as an undercover under-cover agent were made public in a scries of articles for the Saturday Satur-day Evening Post, Warner Bros., immediately began negotiations to film Cvetic's life among the Communists, and now present an important screen story of the most timely topic of today in "I Was A Communist For the F. B. I." the true life drama which begins be-gins at the Grove Theatre on Friday. To portray the leading role of Matt Cvetic, the studio assigned assign-ed Frank Lovejoy, already known for successful rugged-type roles. Also to insure realism, many of the names, places, and incidents that figured prominently in Cvetic's Cvet-ic's experiences are actually mentioned in the film. |
