Mr.
Schiff: From Long Beach, California, to a Coast Guard ship to
a boat in the Pacific Ocean...
Mr.
Norregard: "It's also the story of a couple of brave Agents,
namely Jim R. Freeman and Conrad B. Hassell."
Mr.
Schiff: That's retired FBI Agent Pete Norregard. He says the
FBI got a call from a Coast Guard commander...
Mr.
Norregard: "He reported that one of their motorized ships, referred
to as cutters, observed a stolen 50 foot ketch, a two-masted
sailing ship formerly belonging to Spencer Tracy."
Mr.
Schiff: The FBI works cases involving crime on the high seas.
Norregard says the Agents, Freeman and Hassell, literally swung
into action helping the Coast Guard...
Mr.
Norregard: "They were immediately hustled aboard one of the
large Coast Guard helicopters with their suits and their ties
flapping in the wind."
Mr.
Schiff: Norregard says they were flown to the Coast Guard cutter.
Then, in the dark...
Mr.
Norregard: "They jumped from the Coast Guard cutter to the stolen
ketch, onto wet decks and moving decks."
Mr.
Schiff:There was gunfire and one of the subjects had a machete.
Three men were taken into custody and prosecuted. I'm Neal Schiff
and that's the FBI's Closed Case of the Week."
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