October 18, 2025 • 36 mins
Today's Adventure: An OSS agent parachutes into Germany to team up with a local operative to run an underground broadcast to undermine the Nazi propoganda.
Original Radio Broadcast: August 27, 1950
Originating in New York
Starring: Larry Haines, Lily Darvas, Berry Kroeger, Arnold Moss, Stefan Schnabel, Bob Wile, Jerry Jarrett,
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Original Radio Broadcast: August 27, 1950
Originating in New York
Starring: Larry Haines, Lily Darvas, Berry Kroeger, Arnold Moss, Stefan Schnabel, Bob Wile, Jerry Jarrett,
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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dot Great Detectives dot net. But now, from August twenty seventh,
nineteen fifty, here is the Black Radio.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the
enemy lines knowing you may never return alive? What you
have just heard is the question asked during the war
to agents of the OSS ordinary citizens who to this
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question answered yes. This is Cloak and Dagger, Black.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Warfare, espionage, international intrigue, These are the weapons of the OSS.
Today's story, the Black Radio concerns an SS agent who
broadcast a light propaganda from behind the enemy lines, and
is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files
of the Office of Strategic Services, A story that can
(02:15):
now be told.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It was one of those quiet days.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
The sun was splashing into the windows, and I was
marking time until lunch in the cafeteria and a date
I had with a regulated secretary. There were just the
two of us in the big gadget room of the
OSS in Washington, just me and Hank Martin, And all
of a sudden, Hank grabbed my arm.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Market down, air rate up.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Okay, okay, well the idea.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Oh I wish I had a camera just then?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
How did you look? Scare?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
What was that thing you just thrown aways basket?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Just a little noise maker? Great if you get in
a tight spot. All right, right, Look, let's start from
the beginning.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Huh. How does it work? Well?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Like you see, it's not very big, just about the
size of a lemon. Easy to slip into your pocket.
All you do is pull out the cap and throw
it and when.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
It explodes, pow.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We call it the Heady Lamar.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Major Longha, I have a job for you. When our
army has crossed the Rhine into Germany, the Fribourg will
become a strategic city. The less resistance we get from
the people when we make that advance, the less lives
will be lost. Up to date, we have no report
of any underground or partisan movement there.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
And the OSS wants me to go in there with
a black radio and soften them up.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Is that it's right?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Cut in on the Nazi local stations broadcast the information
we want them to get. Another of our agents infiltrated
that area over three months ago to get acquainted with
the city and locate utable hiding places for the radio.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Of course, her it will have to be moved every
time we use it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
That's right now. We haven't heard from our agents since
she was sent in. We didn't want her to run
the risk of trying to contact DOT.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Did you say she girl?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That's right? Have you any objection to working with a woman?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Oh? No, I mean no.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Her name was Lucille, The colonel said. I wondered if
she was anything like the Redhead as Lucille. Nobody had
heard from her for months, Maybe she'd been caught. Maybe
the Nazis had twisted out of her the reason she'd
been sent.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
To fry Boy.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Maybe maybe I'd have a reception committee of Germans waiting
for me.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
It gave me something to think about.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
On the plane flying over the Black Forest in Germany
a few weeks later, here's your anveal point straight.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Ahead, straight ahead and straight down, you mean running in? Ready, ready, go,
good luck.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I tossed the radio at first, then I jumped after it.
No matter how many times I jumped, that was always
the first time. The feeling of falling, sick, feeling like
a dream. I came to with a jaunty a sharp
pain across my thighs from the pull of the strap
and the crack of the chute.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Then there all.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Around me, I looked down on a black forest that
was blacker than ever at.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Four hundred four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
There were no Germans waiting, but no Lucio even there
was nothing but a foreign country. And up above the
plane faded away.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And it was gone, and I was alone.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
The radio had floated to earth about fifty feet away.
I checked, I made sure it was all right. Buried
my parachute and wondered what to do next. There was
a milk wagon coming down the road. I could hear
the milk cans swaying with the movement of the curt
I could see a shadowy figure holding the reins. I
dragged the radio behind a clump of bushes, and then
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I waited for the wagon to pass. For a moment,
I didn't recognize the saw, and then all of a sudden,
the words wrote themselves in my head.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Come away with me, Lucille in my merry old smoke, Gusil, Lucille.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
I'm sorry I was lead Mazio linge during a soldier
I know stopped to talk. I couldn't break away without
being impolite. Just as long as she got here, Harry Major,
Let's go. Yes, I was ever so glad to see
anyone in my life. Gee, but I didn't quite expect to.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Need knock me.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
What did you think i'd be like?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Now? Oh?
Speaker 8 (07:12):
I ah, come made well. I had no idea, no
doubt you.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Pictured a slim, young thing whould interest your intrigue. I've
been either slim nor young for longer than i'd like
to remember.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Tell me what did you do before the world.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Taught history in grade school. Now I'm helping to make it.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
It's a good feeling.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Until you consider the possibility of getting caught.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
We've got to make sure we don't get caught.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
There is always that possibility.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Major accepted, and it's much easier to take it if
it comes.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yeah, who is it, may I? Yeah? Come in? Well,
what do you want?
Speaker 9 (08:04):
It's your neighbor across the hall. I'm surely to make
your acquaintance. My name is Gruber.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Am I disturbing you? Helena? Well you know my name.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
I see as a as a poor old widower alone
in this world, with very few interests outside of the
future of the fatherland.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It is I make it my business to know everyone
in this roomy house.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
Do you You are right in Fribo only a few
days ago?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Nine, that's right.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
You have a medical discharge from the army. You are wounded.
It ANSI all.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Is there anything about me you don't know?
Speaker 9 (08:41):
Do not take offense my friend. I asked the landlady
about you. It was she who told me your information
is right here, grouper. I was wounded.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I spent two months in the hospital and I'd like
to be left alone.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
Yeah, you are a bit yeah, specifically life will not
be easy, but you must mix with people, make friends,
don't keep too much to yourself.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I wrote with me this bottle of schnapps and two
small classes. Will you not join me? Well, uh yes,
yea to the future, Helena, I'll drink to that.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
There was something about the old wind bag who rented
the room next door to me on the third floor that.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I didn't like. I couldn't put my finger on it.
Maybe it was the way his eyes like pattern leather buttons,
kept darting around the road. Kay.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Good schnapps, n yeah, very good. Not like we used
to get before the war. Of course, I'm not complaining.
It's such a little sacrifice to make for the right, yes,
of course.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:59):
What you're planning to do here in Friburg, Helana, Well,
I have my craft card as a union motion picture Projections.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I worked in a film house in Berlin before the
war and was hoping to find a position here.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
You've had no success yet, No, no yet.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
The motion picture house a block from the mining university.
Have you tried there? Well? No, I haven't do to
try it.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
Tell the manager, yes, Schmidt, but you are a friend
of mine. He's always complaining to me about being short
of help. That also is just a little sacrifice to
make for the right, of course, of course.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Uh, I'll go there tomorrow. Oh tell me, what is
your business? I?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Oh, I am a clerk, A clerk in the administration
building of Gestapo headquarters, mosh Naps. I may not have
liked the old wind bag, but I took his lead anyway.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I went to the movie house near the university and
got myself a job there on a day shift, and
I counted the hours until the Thursday, when i'd meet
Lucille at the deserted car barn we'd agreed on. On Wednesday,
I was in the projection room running a half hour
news reel, most of which was a close up with
Hitler making a speech.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
In Berlin and pulling at the mouth.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I looked down over the heads of the audience, wondered
if all of them were as enthusiastic about the fure
as they pretended to be. Wondered how much it would
take to push them into starting their own underground. Wondered
how many of them would be listening to their radio
the next month listening to me.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
How long.
Speaker 10 (11:51):
I came to tell you what. I'll tend that because
I came to tell you only have tomorrow afternoon off
tomorrow afternoon, but I don't understand this call. I will
want to you tomorrow night and stay hope. But tomorrow
night it is impossible, I mean longer. You have to
go drop here for ask you to take the night shift.
This once, I see no need for argument.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Oh but you see, it's what you have.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
To do that important that it cannot be postponed.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Nine schmid, that's so important. I'll be here the next night.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
At twenty minutes past ten, the feature film went off.
I set the machine. The news reel would run by
itself for half an.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Hour, no more.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I didn't give me much time before the reel would
run out, just a half hour to get to the
car run broadcast.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
We'll get back now.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
That's it to see you seven hundred and thirty kilo cycles.
But I can't seem to get reception.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Ah, they are signing off.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
This is Mark starts on car day, signing off until
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
There we go, your fingers crossed. Don't turn off your radios.
People of Freybourg. This is for you.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
I am your voice of freedom, bringing you news as
it actually exists, not as the propaganda ministry would like
you to believe.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
That's good, wonderful.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
It wasn't fifty sons of Friburg who died at the
Anzio beach had but five hundred. You mothers, wives, sweethearts,
who have not heard from your men. You think the
males are slow? Is that why you haven't received letters?
Your men will never write again. They were killed at Anzio. Women,
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They are taking your men away. What do you have
for compensation? You have no food, your code, and the
political leaders want to sacrifice everything but themselves. Haven't you
sacrificed enough?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Marck it leek.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
It's all right, and now until another time soon, this
is the voice of freedom.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Good night. I will not say hyle Hitler. I say instead,
God be with you.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
The first of many, God be with us both.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
We dismantled the radio.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I lifted it into the back of the notewag and
ran as fast as I could back to the theater
and slid in through.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
The side door. And then I heard it, Hey, longa longa,
Where where are you?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
He Schmidt? Well?
Speaker 10 (14:45):
What business had you to leave the protection during the
usual of the fure. I only hope your peace, you
have our league top up in the middle of his speech, Well.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Where where was I?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I was in the washroom.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
I was not going up to see.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
If you're poor and a sleep, how do lots go?
Pickure machine? Quickly up?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
When when did this happen?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Happened just a minute before, not dearly.
Speaker 10 (15:05):
If you wonder you couldn't heal the disturbance from the mushroom,
come up there.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I ran up the stairs to the
projection room.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
God must have been with me that first night.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
If the machine had broken down five minutes earlier, Schmidt
would have known I'd left the theater. The next week,
and the next and the next we were on the area.
We moved the radio to a deserted warehouse, to a
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cave in the black forest, to a barn on the
outskirts of time. As a voice of freedom, I told
the people of Fryborg, you are fighting a lost cause.
The losses of the Luftwaffer are seventy five percent higher
than reported resistance in all German occupied territory is growing stronger.
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People in the city but the same. We're as respectful
as ever to the Nazi soldiers that walked the streets.
None of them showed, by so much as a look
or a word, that they ever heard those broadcasts. And
then I received my first indication.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I saw you through the window of the coffee shop. Here, Lana,
May I join you at your table if you'd like? So?
Have you been listening to your radio lately? I have
no radio.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
If you get one, then I advise you not to
listen to Reichstatsune every day. Oh why, because the Gestapo
will arrest anyone caught listening to the man who calls
himself the Voice of Freedom.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
What does he talk about? This Voice of freedom? It's nonsense,
of course, a light propagand than nonsense. You sure you
have never heard him? I told you here, Growba, I
have no old radio. Of course I forgot. Why is
it he long? I have the feeling I've seen you
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somewhere before.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
It was ridiculous to suppose that he had ever seen
me before. But he told me one thing. The people
were listening, and the Gestapo was looking for me.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I'll help you.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Mark with that cough of yours. Perhaps i'd better broadcast tonight.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
No, no, no, I'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, people of Fribourg, this is your Voice of Freedom.
I want to tell you, my friends, how step by
step Hitler has developed his program. Step by step he
has carried it out successfully. First he took our men
and destroyed them. And now Hitler is destroying our cities
and our factories. Allied bomb will destroy all Germany. Our
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men are already dead in one hundred battlefields. This is
the purest greatest achievement for Germany. He is accomplishing it
all in less than twelve short years. Twelve short years
of hitler Rites's success.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
The adjemming the radio mark you'd better sign of.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
This is the voice of Freedom saying good night. I
will not say Hyle Hitler. I say instead, God be
with you.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
I'm afraid they may be closing in here, Sille.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
It's the first time the Chaanda broadcast. We'll have to
move fast, dismantle radio and.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Get out of here.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
The Vegan is right outside Horry.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Less than five minutes later we'd left the basement of
the schoolhouse near the cathedral. It's quiet in the streets,
too quiet, as if the city were holding its breath.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Something that happen.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Good night until Friday. You know the place.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Let me take the radio tonight.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Walk back to your room with it under your arm.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
What foolish you always take the risk of being caught
with I have the milk wagon.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
To hide it and the barn to bury it. We'd
better not stand it any longer. Good night again, and
take care of that car.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I started to walk quickly in the opposite direction. The
German triangulation had found the general location of the radio.
The neighborhood would be swarming with Gestapo any minute. The
headlights of the official car came out of nowhere around
the corner and blinded me. Here you are.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Started to run.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I talt into a doorway, up the stairs to the roof,
across the roof, down some stairs, again back into the street.
Somehow I'd shaken them. I was three of them, so
I had to find somewhere to go, somewhere to hide.
The movie house where I worked was close by. I
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went in through the side door, y punched down in
a seat, anonymous in the darkness. I was one of
hundreds of people watching the trap. And then something happened
in the film, and the soundtrack went.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
So that's another time.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
You people. Listen to me. There will be Noma Field tonight.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
Nothing you me.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Take your navigation of a free man, and.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
This one by right, that god thing from man I
seem coming into the theater through the side dock a
man who is planted for quistening by the Gestapo. You
will file out the exit one by one and row
by row with no talking.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
We mean to the right men to the left, there.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Will be noma.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Maybe my forge that done vacation would pass suspecsion easily,
but the men would chasing me had a general idea
of my height and weight.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I couldn't take the chance.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
I put my hand in my pocket and pulled out
a round disc about the size of a lemon. The
noise maker oss called the heady Lamara. I yanked out
the cat and through it I started a riot, all right.
The soldiers couldn't hold them back. They practically walked over them,
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and they rushed to get off. And I walked out too,
swept along, and the tied up panic.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Couldn't talk. You are a group just on your way
to work. I see, I will walk with you padway. Well,
if you'd like tonight, when you get home from your work,
listen to your aid.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
I told you I have no ready. I do keep
forgetting you are welcome to listen to mine. Then there
has to be an important announcement at seven o'clock. Announced
it about what I learned about it this morning at
the administration building where I work. Yes, there has to
be a hanging in the square at noon tomorrow and
a lined spy who was.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Caught with the radio. What did you say, spy? She
was picked up last night driving a milk Can you
imagine the job? Look? Are you?
Speaker 9 (22:27):
I haven't been well call I haven't caught the man,
the one who calls himself the voice of freedom, but
I have no doubt they will.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
So they're offering a large reward.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Are they.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Very bad? Helena? Tonight when you return from work and
remind me to give you some of my cough medicine.
It's very Oh, I turn off here. People say I
didn't stop buying for the cost medicine.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Work. I locked myself in my room and stayed up
all night looking out of the window about the ice
blue stars that hung over Germany. H and I tried
to think of something to do to help Lucille. Before
noon the next day, I went to the square, but
I still didn't have the answer.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
Isn't it frightening, Haraiah. The way an execution is draw
the people like it flies to honey? Is it destination?
Do you think of seeing someone else suffer?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
You tell me a group you should know? You're here?
So I am back then? So I do woo woman?
Have you anything to say before you die? People frightened?
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Remember what you heard on your radios? Remember what the
Voice of Freedom told you? The group, the group. You'll
need a claim you the fly world, I relied, Higa.
I think.
Speaker 9 (24:04):
With you.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
It happened quickly. It was all over here and I
hadn't done a thing to stop it. Yes, who is it? Only? I? Yeah? Groover?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Go away?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Will you please.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Go away?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I don't want to talk to.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Anyone, said my friend about the hanging this afternoon. No, no,
I I.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Just don't feel well. Don't torment yourself this way. There
was nothing you could do to prevent it. She did
not expect it.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
What are you talking about? Trust me?
Speaker 9 (24:54):
You have no one else to trust. The Guesta is
going to check and cross check every man's papers, every man, Fryborg.
Are you sure you can stand a thorough investigation?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Are you're crazy? Are you accusing me? Are the Voice
of Freedom I suspected it for a long time. I
was never sure. I was afraid to step forward soon now, no, no,
listen to me. I know you don't like me.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
I have not liked myself for years. I'm afraid of
my own schedule, afraid to think, afraid, afraid, but no
longer a global look.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I am a discharged soldier from the wellmark.
Speaker 9 (25:36):
I have made your face look familiar. It was not
your face, but it was something about you, your voice.
I thought I recognized it, and then I started to think.
I think I would have been afraid to think for years.
You came to Fryborg, but at the same time the
broadcast began. You you were too ignorant of what was
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going on. And then yesterday, as he had I was
almost sure.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Then no to be. I watched your face when she
was hanged, and then you have no one else. He
was right.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I had no one else, and I had to get
out of Fribork. Gruber offered to drive me across the
bridge that night. From there it would be only a
few miles to the border of France. With his official
pass from Gustappo headquarters, Gruber would be able to get
past the guard. I got into the trunk of the car.
It was opened just enough to let me breathe. I
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still didn't know whether to trust him. There was a
pretty big price on my head. The car slowed down
when he reached the bridge.
Speaker 12 (26:51):
Let me see your identification there you are.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
What is your business outside of fiboo? Official business for
the administration.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
This looks all right. I have orders to search all cars.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
Well, you can see that it's nothing in mine. Please,
will you hurry? I'm this is official business for.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
The one moment, one moment.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Not so first. What's in your trunk?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
The drunk?
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Well, go see for yourself. I have an American spy there.
I'm smuggling him across the board.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Don't be impudent, you understand. I'm sorry. I was just
having my little.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Joke, and I don't like jokes. You work as a
clerk for the administration, or your head swells you think
you're himler?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
All right, pass, I'm sorry, All right, Pass quickly, quickly
get out here.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I want to apologize for the things I thought when
you told the guard what she did.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
It was the only thing I could think of. It
the moment that would prevent him from searching the trunk well, goodbye,
yes and thank you, thank you.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
No, wait, don't feel the woman died for nothing. She
did not you, and she have given us the courage
to look at ourselves in the mirror. We will continue
to talk in whispers yeah, but after you have gone,
there will be many of us who will no longer
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thinking whispers yes, well, good bye, good bye.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Major Mark Langer made his way back to Allied lines.
When Fribourg was taken over some months later. It offered
little resistance thanks to the strong underground that had been
encouraged by the Black Radio US. Once again, the report
of another OSS agent closes with the words mission accomplished.
Listen again next week for another true adventure from the
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files of the OSS on.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 12 (29:25):
Heard in today's Cloak and Dagger Adventure as Mark was
Larry Haynes, Lucille Lily Darvas and Gruber Barry Kroger. Others
were Raymond Edward Johnson, Arnold Moss, Stevan Schnabel, Bob will
and Jerry Jarrow. Script was written by Winifred Wolf and
Jack Gordon. Music was under the direction of John Guard,
sound effects by Chehill Dick Gillespie, and Ark Cooper. Today's
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oss Adventure was based on the book Cloak and Dagger
by Cory Ford and Alistair McMain. This program was produced
by Lewis G. Cowan and Alfred Hollander under the direction
and supervision of Sherman Marx. Three Times Mean Good Times
on NBC. There's mystery and music Tonight on NBC. The
mystery is Sam Spade's latest case, in which the romantic
private Eye solves the caper of too many clients. The
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music is the NBC Symphony Summer Concert with Antal Dorati
as guest conductor, and the American Album of Familiar Music,
one of radio's best loved musical programs, which returns to
the air tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Three Times Mean Good Times on NBC.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Welcome Back.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The first three fourths of this episode is a really
great World War two espionage story, and then the final
minutes really take it to another level in terms of drama.
The death of Lucille was so powerful, courageous defiance in
the face of death. I will not say, hal Hitler,
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I say God be with you. And Gruber goes on
this whole journey as a person in some very subtle
ways that mark missus or missus interprets until the end
and really brings home what their effort has meant and accomplished.
It's a story about what courage means and how it
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affects and inspires others, and how sometimes you don't think
you're getting through to people, but you don't know what's
going on on the inside. And this is such a
very different performance for Barry Kroger in this series, who
more often than not it plays Nazi officers and heavies.
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This is just a beautifully nuanced performance and gives us
an idea of his reign. And Gruber has this line
when he is talking to Mark at the end that
we may talk in whispers, but we will no longer
think in whispers. And this is such a powerful point
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that's worth really highlighting. That the fascist regimes during World
War Two and later the communist regimes in the Cold
War thrived on keeping people in fear, and that's certainly
true of many regimes today. And it wasn't just fear
of speaking up, but being so afraid that you shut
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off your brain to what's going on. And it's just
such great insight. Now, in terms of lighter notes, I
did shuckle at Gruber's bluff to get past the guard
by telling the truth. I mean, it was hilarious, but
it was also really tense and going further towards the
other part of the story. When Mark was jumping out
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of the plane, I couldn't help but think about another
Larry Haynes's appearance in this series and jumping out of
the and how that went, and thought, yeah, he definitely
did have reason to be nervous. Listener comments and feedback
and we start out over on Spotify where mechanics sixty
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Speaker 5 (33:12):
Regarding roof of the World.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
How was it possible that Louise Barkley could pronounce Himalayan
as Himilian. Didn't they have rehearsals, I'd assume, so I
would just assume it was a technical goof on someone's part.
It's even possible that someone gave her the idea it
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was Himilian, or it could be a mistake she made
while recording and they just decided it was not worth
the effort to change it, or somebody missed it. Emmett
Wrights regarding the episode on Facebook, Dang, I like the show.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Too few of them were made.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Every episode has me guessing like today, I thought maybe
the Nazi was going to flip to the Americans. The
writing is uniformly good. It was also a lot of
fun to hear Ralph Bell in there. I think he
was one of the Tibetans. I believe so as well.
And this has been just a really great series that
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didn't receive the attention it deserved at the time and
has been a bit more obscure, and so we're really
glad to be able to highlight this. And then a
comment from Sasoff regarding the episode, a recommendation from Romel
It wasn't just Ralph Bell who played against his usual
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I've heard Jan Minor play a role that her to
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from in DC eight nine three four very enjoyable, entertaining, exciting,
but not to nail biting just right.
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dot Great Detectives dot net. But now, from August twenty seventh,
nineteen fifty, here is the Black Radio.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the
enemy lines knowing you may never return alive? What you
have just heard is the question asked during the war
to agents of the OSS ordinary citizens who to this
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question answered yes. This is Cloak and Dagger, Black.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Warfare, espionage, international intrigue, These are the weapons of the OSS.
Today's story, the Black Radio concerns an SS agent who
broadcast a light propaganda from behind the enemy lines, and
is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files
of the Office of Strategic Services, A story that can
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now be told.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It was one of those quiet days.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
The sun was splashing into the windows, and I was
marking time until lunch in the cafeteria and a date
I had with a regulated secretary. There were just the
two of us in the big gadget room of the
OSS in Washington, just me and Hank Martin, And all
of a sudden, Hank grabbed my arm.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Market down, air rate up.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Okay, okay, well the idea.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Oh I wish I had a camera just then?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
How did you look? Scare?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
What was that thing you just thrown aways basket?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Just a little noise maker? Great if you get in
a tight spot. All right, right, Look, let's start from
the beginning.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Huh. How does it work? Well?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Like you see, it's not very big, just about the
size of a lemon. Easy to slip into your pocket.
All you do is pull out the cap and throw
it and when.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
It explodes, pow.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We call it the Heady Lamar.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Major Longha, I have a job for you. When our
army has crossed the Rhine into Germany, the Fribourg will
become a strategic city. The less resistance we get from
the people when we make that advance, the less lives
will be lost. Up to date, we have no report
of any underground or partisan movement there.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
And the OSS wants me to go in there with
a black radio and soften them up.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Is that it's right?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Cut in on the Nazi local stations broadcast the information
we want them to get. Another of our agents infiltrated
that area over three months ago to get acquainted with
the city and locate utable hiding places for the radio.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Of course, her it will have to be moved every
time we use it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
That's right now. We haven't heard from our agents since
she was sent in. We didn't want her to run
the risk of trying to contact DOT.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Did you say she girl?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That's right? Have you any objection to working with a woman?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Oh? No, I mean no.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Her name was Lucille, The colonel said. I wondered if
she was anything like the Redhead as Lucille. Nobody had
heard from her for months, Maybe she'd been caught. Maybe
the Nazis had twisted out of her the reason she'd
been sent.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
To fry Boy.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Maybe maybe I'd have a reception committee of Germans waiting
for me.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
It gave me something to think about.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
On the plane flying over the Black Forest in Germany
a few weeks later, here's your anveal point straight.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Ahead, straight ahead and straight down, you mean running in? Ready, ready, go,
good luck.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I tossed the radio at first, then I jumped after it.
No matter how many times I jumped, that was always
the first time. The feeling of falling, sick, feeling like
a dream. I came to with a jaunty a sharp
pain across my thighs from the pull of the strap
and the crack of the chute.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Then there all.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Around me, I looked down on a black forest that
was blacker than ever at.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Four hundred four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
There were no Germans waiting, but no Lucio even there
was nothing but a foreign country. And up above the
plane faded away.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And it was gone, and I was alone.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
The radio had floated to earth about fifty feet away.
I checked, I made sure it was all right. Buried
my parachute and wondered what to do next. There was
a milk wagon coming down the road. I could hear
the milk cans swaying with the movement of the curt
I could see a shadowy figure holding the reins. I
dragged the radio behind a clump of bushes, and then
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I waited for the wagon to pass. For a moment,
I didn't recognize the saw, and then all of a sudden,
the words wrote themselves in my head.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Come away with me, Lucille in my merry old smoke, Gusil, Lucille.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
I'm sorry I was lead Mazio linge during a soldier
I know stopped to talk. I couldn't break away without
being impolite. Just as long as she got here, Harry Major,
Let's go. Yes, I was ever so glad to see
anyone in my life. Gee, but I didn't quite expect to.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Need knock me.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
What did you think i'd be like?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Now? Oh?
Speaker 8 (07:12):
I ah, come made well. I had no idea, no
doubt you.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Pictured a slim, young thing whould interest your intrigue. I've
been either slim nor young for longer than i'd like
to remember.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Tell me what did you do before the world.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Taught history in grade school. Now I'm helping to make it.
Speaker 8 (07:36):
It's a good feeling.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
Until you consider the possibility of getting caught.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
We've got to make sure we don't get caught.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
There is always that possibility.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Major accepted, and it's much easier to take it if
it comes.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Yeah, who is it, may I? Yeah? Come in? Well,
what do you want?
Speaker 9 (08:04):
It's your neighbor across the hall. I'm surely to make
your acquaintance. My name is Gruber.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Am I disturbing you? Helena? Well you know my name.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
I see as a as a poor old widower alone
in this world, with very few interests outside of the
future of the fatherland.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It is I make it my business to know everyone
in this roomy house.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
Do you You are right in Fribo only a few
days ago?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Nine, that's right.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
You have a medical discharge from the army. You are wounded.
It ANSI all.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Is there anything about me you don't know?
Speaker 9 (08:41):
Do not take offense my friend. I asked the landlady
about you. It was she who told me your information
is right here, grouper. I was wounded.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I spent two months in the hospital and I'd like
to be left alone.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
Yeah, you are a bit yeah, specifically life will not
be easy, but you must mix with people, make friends,
don't keep too much to yourself.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I wrote with me this bottle of schnapps and two
small classes. Will you not join me? Well, uh yes,
yea to the future, Helena, I'll drink to that.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
There was something about the old wind bag who rented
the room next door to me on the third floor that.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I didn't like. I couldn't put my finger on it.
Maybe it was the way his eyes like pattern leather buttons,
kept darting around the road. Kay.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
Good schnapps, n yeah, very good. Not like we used
to get before the war. Of course, I'm not complaining.
It's such a little sacrifice to make for the right, yes,
of course.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:59):
What you're planning to do here in Friburg, Helana, Well,
I have my craft card as a union motion picture Projections.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I worked in a film house in Berlin before the
war and was hoping to find a position here.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
You've had no success yet, No, no yet.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
The motion picture house a block from the mining university.
Have you tried there? Well? No, I haven't do to
try it.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
Tell the manager, yes, Schmidt, but you are a friend
of mine. He's always complaining to me about being short
of help. That also is just a little sacrifice to
make for the right, of course, of course.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Uh, I'll go there tomorrow. Oh tell me, what is
your business? I?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Oh, I am a clerk, A clerk in the administration
building of Gestapo headquarters, mosh Naps. I may not have
liked the old wind bag, but I took his lead anyway.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I went to the movie house near the university and
got myself a job there on a day shift, and
I counted the hours until the Thursday, when i'd meet
Lucille at the deserted car barn we'd agreed on. On Wednesday,
I was in the projection room running a half hour
news reel, most of which was a close up with
Hitler making a speech.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
In Berlin and pulling at the mouth.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I looked down over the heads of the audience, wondered
if all of them were as enthusiastic about the fure
as they pretended to be. Wondered how much it would
take to push them into starting their own underground. Wondered
how many of them would be listening to their radio
the next month listening to me.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
How long.
Speaker 10 (11:51):
I came to tell you what. I'll tend that because
I came to tell you only have tomorrow afternoon off
tomorrow afternoon, but I don't understand this call. I will
want to you tomorrow night and stay hope. But tomorrow
night it is impossible, I mean longer. You have to
go drop here for ask you to take the night shift.
This once, I see no need for argument.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Oh but you see, it's what you have.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
To do that important that it cannot be postponed.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Nine schmid, that's so important. I'll be here the next night.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
At twenty minutes past ten, the feature film went off.
I set the machine. The news reel would run by
itself for half an.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Hour, no more.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I didn't give me much time before the reel would
run out, just a half hour to get to the
car run broadcast.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
We'll get back now.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
That's it to see you seven hundred and thirty kilo cycles.
But I can't seem to get reception.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Ah, they are signing off.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
This is Mark starts on car day, signing off until
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
There we go, your fingers crossed. Don't turn off your radios.
People of Freybourg. This is for you.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
I am your voice of freedom, bringing you news as
it actually exists, not as the propaganda ministry would like
you to believe.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
That's good, wonderful.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
It wasn't fifty sons of Friburg who died at the
Anzio beach had but five hundred. You mothers, wives, sweethearts,
who have not heard from your men. You think the
males are slow? Is that why you haven't received letters?
Your men will never write again. They were killed at Anzio. Women,
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They are taking your men away. What do you have
for compensation? You have no food, your code, and the
political leaders want to sacrifice everything but themselves. Haven't you
sacrificed enough?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Marck it leek.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
It's all right, and now until another time soon, this
is the voice of freedom.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Good night. I will not say hyle Hitler. I say instead,
God be with you.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
The first of many, God be with us both.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
We dismantled the radio.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I lifted it into the back of the notewag and
ran as fast as I could back to the theater
and slid in through.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
The side door. And then I heard it, Hey, longa longa,
Where where are you?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
He Schmidt? Well?
Speaker 10 (14:45):
What business had you to leave the protection during the
usual of the fure. I only hope your peace, you
have our league top up in the middle of his speech, Well.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Where where was I?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I was in the washroom.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
I was not going up to see.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
If you're poor and a sleep, how do lots go?
Pickure machine? Quickly up?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
When when did this happen?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Happened just a minute before, not dearly.
Speaker 10 (15:05):
If you wonder you couldn't heal the disturbance from the mushroom,
come up there.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I ran up the stairs to the
projection room.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
God must have been with me that first night.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
If the machine had broken down five minutes earlier, Schmidt
would have known I'd left the theater. The next week,
and the next and the next we were on the area.
We moved the radio to a deserted warehouse, to a
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cave in the black forest, to a barn on the
outskirts of time. As a voice of freedom, I told
the people of Fryborg, you are fighting a lost cause.
The losses of the Luftwaffer are seventy five percent higher
than reported resistance in all German occupied territory is growing stronger.
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People in the city but the same. We're as respectful
as ever to the Nazi soldiers that walked the streets.
None of them showed, by so much as a look
or a word, that they ever heard those broadcasts. And
then I received my first indication.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I saw you through the window of the coffee shop. Here, Lana,
May I join you at your table if you'd like? So?
Have you been listening to your radio lately? I have
no radio.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
If you get one, then I advise you not to
listen to Reichstatsune every day. Oh why, because the Gestapo
will arrest anyone caught listening to the man who calls
himself the Voice of Freedom.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
What does he talk about? This Voice of freedom? It's nonsense,
of course, a light propagand than nonsense. You sure you
have never heard him? I told you here, Growba, I
have no old radio. Of course I forgot. Why is
it he long? I have the feeling I've seen you
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somewhere before.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
It was ridiculous to suppose that he had ever seen
me before. But he told me one thing. The people
were listening, and the Gestapo was looking for me.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I'll help you.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Mark with that cough of yours. Perhaps i'd better broadcast tonight.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
No, no, no, I'll be all right.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, people of Fribourg, this is your Voice of Freedom.
I want to tell you, my friends, how step by
step Hitler has developed his program. Step by step he
has carried it out successfully. First he took our men
and destroyed them. And now Hitler is destroying our cities
and our factories. Allied bomb will destroy all Germany. Our
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men are already dead in one hundred battlefields. This is
the purest greatest achievement for Germany. He is accomplishing it
all in less than twelve short years. Twelve short years
of hitler Rites's success.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
The adjemming the radio mark you'd better sign of.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
This is the voice of Freedom saying good night. I
will not say Hyle Hitler. I say instead, God be
with you.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
I'm afraid they may be closing in here, Sille.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
It's the first time the Chaanda broadcast. We'll have to
move fast, dismantle radio and.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Get out of here.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
The Vegan is right outside Horry.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Less than five minutes later we'd left the basement of
the schoolhouse near the cathedral. It's quiet in the streets,
too quiet, as if the city were holding its breath.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Something that happen.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Good night until Friday. You know the place.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Let me take the radio tonight.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Walk back to your room with it under your arm.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
What foolish you always take the risk of being caught
with I have the milk wagon.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
To hide it and the barn to bury it. We'd
better not stand it any longer. Good night again, and
take care of that car.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I started to walk quickly in the opposite direction. The
German triangulation had found the general location of the radio.
The neighborhood would be swarming with Gestapo any minute. The
headlights of the official car came out of nowhere around
the corner and blinded me. Here you are.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Started to run.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
I talt into a doorway, up the stairs to the roof,
across the roof, down some stairs, again back into the street.
Somehow I'd shaken them. I was three of them, so
I had to find somewhere to go, somewhere to hide.
The movie house where I worked was close by. I
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went in through the side door, y punched down in
a seat, anonymous in the darkness. I was one of
hundreds of people watching the trap. And then something happened
in the film, and the soundtrack went.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
So that's another time.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
You people. Listen to me. There will be Noma Field tonight.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
Nothing you me.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Take your navigation of a free man, and.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
This one by right, that god thing from man I
seem coming into the theater through the side dock a
man who is planted for quistening by the Gestapo. You
will file out the exit one by one and row
by row with no talking.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
We mean to the right men to the left, there.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Will be noma.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Maybe my forge that done vacation would pass suspecsion easily,
but the men would chasing me had a general idea
of my height and weight.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I couldn't take the chance.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
I put my hand in my pocket and pulled out
a round disc about the size of a lemon. The
noise maker oss called the heady Lamara. I yanked out
the cat and through it I started a riot, all right.
The soldiers couldn't hold them back. They practically walked over them,
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and they rushed to get off. And I walked out too,
swept along, and the tied up panic.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Couldn't talk. You are a group just on your way
to work. I see, I will walk with you padway. Well,
if you'd like tonight, when you get home from your work,
listen to your aid.
Speaker 9 (21:58):
I told you I have no ready. I do keep
forgetting you are welcome to listen to mine. Then there
has to be an important announcement at seven o'clock. Announced
it about what I learned about it this morning at
the administration building where I work. Yes, there has to
be a hanging in the square at noon tomorrow and
a lined spy who was.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Caught with the radio. What did you say, spy? She
was picked up last night driving a milk Can you
imagine the job? Look? Are you?
Speaker 9 (22:27):
I haven't been well call I haven't caught the man,
the one who calls himself the voice of freedom, but
I have no doubt they will.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
So they're offering a large reward.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Are they.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Very bad? Helena? Tonight when you return from work and
remind me to give you some of my cough medicine.
It's very Oh, I turn off here. People say I
didn't stop buying for the cost medicine.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Work. I locked myself in my room and stayed up
all night looking out of the window about the ice
blue stars that hung over Germany. H and I tried
to think of something to do to help Lucille. Before
noon the next day, I went to the square, but
I still didn't have the answer.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
Isn't it frightening, Haraiah. The way an execution is draw
the people like it flies to honey? Is it destination?
Do you think of seeing someone else suffer?
Speaker 4 (23:29):
You tell me a group you should know? You're here?
So I am back then? So I do woo woman?
Have you anything to say before you die? People frightened?
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Remember what you heard on your radios? Remember what the
Voice of Freedom told you? The group, the group. You'll
need a claim you the fly world, I relied, Higa.
I think.
Speaker 9 (24:04):
With you.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
It happened quickly. It was all over here and I
hadn't done a thing to stop it. Yes, who is it? Only? I? Yeah? Groover?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Go away?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Will you please.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Go away?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I don't want to talk to.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Anyone, said my friend about the hanging this afternoon. No, no,
I I.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Just don't feel well. Don't torment yourself this way. There
was nothing you could do to prevent it. She did
not expect it.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
What are you talking about? Trust me?
Speaker 9 (24:54):
You have no one else to trust. The Guesta is
going to check and cross check every man's papers, every man, Fryborg.
Are you sure you can stand a thorough investigation?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Are you're crazy? Are you accusing me? Are the Voice
of Freedom I suspected it for a long time. I
was never sure. I was afraid to step forward soon now, no, no,
listen to me. I know you don't like me.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
I have not liked myself for years. I'm afraid of
my own schedule, afraid to think, afraid, afraid, but no
longer a global look.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I am a discharged soldier from the wellmark.
Speaker 9 (25:36):
I have made your face look familiar. It was not
your face, but it was something about you, your voice.
I thought I recognized it, and then I started to think.
I think I would have been afraid to think for years.
You came to Fryborg, but at the same time the
broadcast began. You you were too ignorant of what was
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going on. And then yesterday, as he had I was
almost sure.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Then no to be. I watched your face when she
was hanged, and then you have no one else. He
was right.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I had no one else, and I had to get
out of Fribork. Gruber offered to drive me across the
bridge that night. From there it would be only a
few miles to the border of France. With his official
pass from Gustappo headquarters, Gruber would be able to get
past the guard. I got into the trunk of the car.
It was opened just enough to let me breathe. I
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still didn't know whether to trust him. There was a
pretty big price on my head. The car slowed down
when he reached the bridge.
Speaker 12 (26:51):
Let me see your identification there you are.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
What is your business outside of fiboo? Official business for
the administration.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
This looks all right. I have orders to search all cars.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
Well, you can see that it's nothing in mine. Please,
will you hurry? I'm this is official business for.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
The one moment, one moment.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Not so first. What's in your trunk?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
The drunk?
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Well, go see for yourself. I have an American spy there.
I'm smuggling him across the board.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Don't be impudent, you understand. I'm sorry. I was just
having my little.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Joke, and I don't like jokes. You work as a
clerk for the administration, or your head swells you think
you're himler?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
All right, pass, I'm sorry, All right, Pass quickly, quickly
get out here.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I want to apologize for the things I thought when
you told the guard what she did.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
It was the only thing I could think of. It
the moment that would prevent him from searching the trunk well, goodbye,
yes and thank you, thank you.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
No, wait, don't feel the woman died for nothing. She
did not you, and she have given us the courage
to look at ourselves in the mirror. We will continue
to talk in whispers yeah, but after you have gone,
there will be many of us who will no longer
(28:36):
thinking whispers yes, well, good bye, good bye.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Major Mark Langer made his way back to Allied lines.
When Fribourg was taken over some months later. It offered
little resistance thanks to the strong underground that had been
encouraged by the Black Radio US. Once again, the report
of another OSS agent closes with the words mission accomplished.
Listen again next week for another true adventure from the
(29:11):
files of the OSS on.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 12 (29:25):
Heard in today's Cloak and Dagger Adventure as Mark was
Larry Haynes, Lucille Lily Darvas and Gruber Barry Kroger. Others
were Raymond Edward Johnson, Arnold Moss, Stevan Schnabel, Bob will
and Jerry Jarrow. Script was written by Winifred Wolf and
Jack Gordon. Music was under the direction of John Guard,
sound effects by Chehill Dick Gillespie, and Ark Cooper. Today's
(29:48):
oss Adventure was based on the book Cloak and Dagger
by Cory Ford and Alistair McMain. This program was produced
by Lewis G. Cowan and Alfred Hollander under the direction
and supervision of Sherman Marx. Three Times Mean Good Times
on NBC. There's mystery and music Tonight on NBC. The
mystery is Sam Spade's latest case, in which the romantic
private Eye solves the caper of too many clients. The
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music is the NBC Symphony Summer Concert with Antal Dorati
as guest conductor, and the American Album of Familiar Music,
one of radio's best loved musical programs, which returns to
the air tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Three Times Mean Good Times on NBC.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Welcome Back.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The first three fourths of this episode is a really
great World War two espionage story, and then the final
minutes really take it to another level in terms of drama.
The death of Lucille was so powerful, courageous defiance in
the face of death. I will not say, hal Hitler,
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I say God be with you. And Gruber goes on
this whole journey as a person in some very subtle
ways that mark missus or missus interprets until the end
and really brings home what their effort has meant and accomplished.
It's a story about what courage means and how it
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affects and inspires others, and how sometimes you don't think
you're getting through to people, but you don't know what's
going on on the inside. And this is such a
very different performance for Barry Kroger in this series, who
more often than not it plays Nazi officers and heavies.
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This is just a beautifully nuanced performance and gives us
an idea of his reign. And Gruber has this line
when he is talking to Mark at the end that
we may talk in whispers, but we will no longer
think in whispers. And this is such a powerful point
(32:06):
that's worth really highlighting. That the fascist regimes during World
War Two and later the communist regimes in the Cold
War thrived on keeping people in fear, and that's certainly
true of many regimes today. And it wasn't just fear
of speaking up, but being so afraid that you shut
(32:29):
off your brain to what's going on. And it's just
such great insight. Now, in terms of lighter notes, I
did shuckle at Gruber's bluff to get past the guard
by telling the truth. I mean, it was hilarious, but
it was also really tense and going further towards the
other part of the story. When Mark was jumping out
(32:51):
of the plane, I couldn't help but think about another
Larry Haynes's appearance in this series and jumping out of
the and how that went, and thought, yeah, he definitely
did have reason to be nervous. Listener comments and feedback
and we start out over on Spotify where mechanics sixty
(33:11):
six comments.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Regarding roof of the World.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
How was it possible that Louise Barkley could pronounce Himalayan
as Himilian. Didn't they have rehearsals, I'd assume, so I
would just assume it was a technical goof on someone's part.
It's even possible that someone gave her the idea it
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was Himilian, or it could be a mistake she made
while recording and they just decided it was not worth
the effort to change it, or somebody missed it. Emmett
Wrights regarding the episode on Facebook, Dang, I like the show.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Too few of them were made.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Every episode has me guessing like today, I thought maybe
the Nazi was going to flip to the Americans. The
writing is uniformly good. It was also a lot of
fun to hear Ralph Bell in there. I think he
was one of the Tibetans. I believe so as well.
And this has been just a really great series that
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didn't receive the attention it deserved at the time and
has been a bit more obscure, and so we're really
glad to be able to highlight this. And then a
comment from Sasoff regarding the episode, a recommendation from Romel
It wasn't just Ralph Bell who played against his usual
(34:37):
type in this episode. This is the first time that
I've heard Jan Minor play a role that her to
speak in a foreign accent. And then have a comment
from in DC eight nine three four very enjoyable, entertaining, exciting,
but not to nail biting just right.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Well, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Now it is time to thank our Patreon supporter of
the day. Now I want to thank Bruce, Patreon supporter
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Detectives dot net. But from Boise, Idaho, this is your host,
Adam Graham signing off.
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