Neville tells his audience that the New York Times front page had just reported, for the first time, a fantastic robbery of a bejeweled sword from a Russian museum roughly a year earlier -- Soviet authorities had suppressed the story until they recovered the sword and caught the thieves. He connects it to a comedy film he had seen a month before, with an almost identical plot set in Greece and Turkey, offering the real event as proof of his claim that 'there is no fiction.'