EPISODE · Sep 9, 2026 · 27 MIN
I Was a Communist for the FBI - The Sleeper
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Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.Matt Cvetic, an underground FBI agent in the Communist party, is currently in a clandestine meeting with Comrade Revson, his superior in the party. For the past few moments, Revson seems worried. He has been reading an official looking paper delivered to him by a drop messenger. He turns to Matt and says "Uh, Cvetic, I have an assignment for you, from the highest source". Matt asks "The Kremlin, in person?" Revson says "Cvetic, you know Shepherd Riker?" Matt Cvetic says "Of course, that loud communist baiter". Revson says "Shepard Riker is an extremely dangerous man. His work in Washington is strategic, and his personal campaign against the party is embarrassing". Matt says "It's time we did something about him, too". Revson says "We are about to do something now. Mrs. Riker lives in this city". Matt asks "What's she got to do with it?" Revson says "She is one of us". Matt says "Mrs. Shepard Riker is a communist? She can't be. It just isn't in the books". Revson says "But, she is. She joined the party ten years ago. She was most attractive and very young. Too attractive for the ordinary work of the party, so we assigned her to return to her usual life, and to forget she was a member, until we should call upon her for special duty. These orders are it". Matt asks "We are calling her back to active service?" Revson says "You will make an appointment with Mrs. Riker. Her assignment is to use her influence with her husband to make him cease, entirely, his attacks on the Communist Party". Matt says "Suppose she'd rather forget that she was a communist, and says no to the proposition?" Revson says "We will entertain no alternatives".
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