The MGM Crime Reporter introduces FBI Special Agent Jack Sampson, who talks about wartime industrial espionage and the damage done by foreign agents on US soil receiving information through what are innocent means of those passing the information unwittingly to them. Changing the names to protect the innocent, he talks about one case initiated by a bombing at Harmon Industries, where a shipment of materials key to the war effort were destroyed. Five loading dock workers were questioned, they who were the only ones who knew internally about the shipment, and how they may have spread information of the shipment through social chit chat. Checking places such as where the men got their hair cut or where they ate, Sampson's team found that the background of waitress Beulah Anderson at the Elite Café did not check out. They discovered that she was really a foreign spy gathering intel on key Harmon shipments through this social chatter of Harmon workers eating at the café. The FBI couldn't pick her up until they found out her local team and how she was disseminating that information to them.
—Huggo