The Defectors
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A senator who is married gets trapped by a foreign agent who snapped a picture of him with another woman in a bad situation. The agent makes him try to pass a law that would harm America. But the senator chooses to fight back because even though he made mistakes in his personal life, he still loves his country.
Sen. Luther K. Hotchkiss and his paramour, Chickie Paradise, are picked up when their car breaks down outside Washington by John J. Milrose, an agent for a Communist country. Hotchkiss doesn’t know it, but his wife, Marguerite, is having an affair with Milrose, who has been sent to America to somehow blackmail Hotchkiss into introducing a bill in the Senate which would give back to Mexico the states of Texas, California, and Arizona.
A married senator is blackmailed by a spy who managed to take a photograph of the senator in an embarrassing position with another woman. The spy forces him to propose a legislation that might hurt the interests of the U.S. But the senator decides to fight back as he only lacks in moral, but not patriotic fervor.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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