December 13, 2025 • 33 mins
Today's Adventure: An ex-pat gambler in Switzerland gets a top secret film both sides want and tries to sell to the highest bidder.
Original Radio Broadcast: October 22, 1950
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Starring: Les Tremayne; Bill Quinn; Jan Miner; Grant Richards; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Charles Irving; Stefan Snobble; Boris Aplon; Paul Arnold; Jerry Jarrett
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Original Radio Broadcast: October 22, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Tremayne; Bill Quinn; Jan Miner; Grant Richards; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Charles Irving; Stefan Snobble; Boris Aplon; Paul Arnold; Jerry Jarrett
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
going to bring you the final episode of Cloak and Dagger.
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(00:29):
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Detectives dot net. But now, from October twenty second, nineteen fifty,
(00:54):
here is the episode Windfall.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind enemy lines, knowing
that you may never return alive. What you have just
heard is the question asked during the War of agents
of the OSS. Ordinary citizens to this question answered yes.
(01:23):
This is Cloak and Dagger, black warfare, espionage, international intrigue.
(01:47):
These are the weapons of the OSS. In today's adventure, Windfall,
the part of McAllister is played by Lestra may Jan
Minor plays Jen and Mike Slade is played by Bill Quinn.
The story is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the
Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story
that can now be told. We had three new guests
(02:18):
at the lodge at Noirmont that day, and the first
one blew in just after lunch, and I recognize him
right away, at least I thought I did. I didn't
know who he was, you understand, but I thought I
knew what he was. A fellow American, for one thing,
and probably a member of the diplomatic mission at Baron.
I wish now that that was all he had been.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You have a reservation for me the name Monsieur Heywood,
Frederick Heywood.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
At one moment, Monsieur, I.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Made a mental note of that name as I shuffled
my cards and dealt myself another hand of solitaire. I
was sitting in the lobby close to the desk, and
not by accident, either, I made my business to catch
the names of new arrivals.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
If you know a.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Man's name, he's usually more willing to sit down at
the car table with you. And if the guests at
Noirmont didn't play cards with me, how could I eat well?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Clerk, do you have the reservation or not. Yes, hit
is monsieur.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
It was fund in yesterday from ber Your room is
being prepared.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Nowson, let me know what it's ready. I'll be in
the bar. I went to work.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Then I followed him into the bar. I was sure
by then that i'd size him upright. A secretary or
a file clerk could come to the lodge to ski
and relax. He was right for picking, I figured. I
found him at a table by the window, looking out
over the mountains of snow and ice and down into
the green Valley where Switzerland became France. Not see occupied France.
(03:41):
Welcome to normal, mister Heywood. Eh, who are you name?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Slade?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Mike Slade? I heard you ask for your reservation. I
couldn't help overhearing your name. You're an American, that's right.
You mind if I said, now, thanks up here to
do a little skiing. I suppose perhaps planning to stay long?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That depends. Oh what a number of things, none of
which are your business.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Relax, mister Heywood. You don't have to be afraid to
talk to me. I'm not on the enemy's side. In fact,
I'm not on anybody's side. I'm just a plain ordinary
private citizen.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Oh and what are you doing in Switzerland, he.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Asked, So I told him the whole sad story. How
I shipped out of San Francisco when I was fifteen,
how I jumped ship in Shanghai, How I'd spent the
next twenty five years gambling my way around the world
till I hit it big, knocking over a roulette wheel
in Paris for a million francs.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So you're up here blowing your million francs.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I slid, No, not exactly, didn't last long enough to blow.
A week after I won it, the Germans marched into Paris,
and my money wasn't worth a thin diet. I got
away and landed up here at Walmart. And I'm waiting
ever since, waiting for what why, for someone to win
this war?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Of course, someone anyone, you mean.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh, I'm not too particular, mister hay Wooden, Like I say,
I don't play sides. I'm what they call a neutral,
I guess, a neutral American. Well, it's been a long
time since I was in America. I just want them
to get the war over with somehow, so Jen and
I can get out of here. Jen my girl wins
to hey, which she's one of the skiing instructors here
(05:25):
at the lodge, and when I go, she's promised to
go with me.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I see, I'll go see if I rule ready? Oh
wait a minute, how about another drink?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, look, if you're not doing anything tonight and you're
like a little game of stud as got away as
any to pass the evening up here. Maybe, But I'm
rather particular about the kind of men I gamble with, Slade,
especially the kind of Americans. Oh well, I figured some
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guys couldn't help being patriots. Me I had other things
to worry about, not enough money in my gene to
pay for my room at the end of the week,
and no stud game in sight.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Hello, Mike, Jen, how are your babies?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Mike came into the bar a few minutes ago, but
you were talking to somebody here who was.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
A guy named Heywood, an American just checked in from.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Bern from Bay with Mike. He couldn't have what do
you mean you left that heavy snow last night? He
couldn't have come by automobile. And you know perfectly well
the train from Beern doesn't arrive for another three hours.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Hey, I forgot about that, And how the devil did
he get here?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
There's only one way. You must have.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Walk walked all away from Bern.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
He walked from down there in the valley, he came
across the French border.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Maybe you're forgetting there's a war on There aren't any
Americans touring France these days.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
No, but there are some fighting for France, fighting with
the French Marquis.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I don't know what cha an intelligence agents.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Mike, Hey, wait a minute, Maybe you've got something there
that would explain why Heywood brush me off that way.
He must be one of those OSS guys we heard about.
It was the only answer. I didn't think much of it.
I figured an OSS agent just out of occupied France
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wouldn't have enough money to finance a game of stud
So I went looking for someone who would.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
There's two ones, clerk, one for Dot, one for myself.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Crowds were crowds, and you didn't have to be a
patriot like Hey would not to like them. But I
figured that these two guys at the desk were a
couple of jokers on a holiday.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
They'd be well.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Healedous, ridiculous, welcome to no gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
The clerk, what about those ones? I don't believe I
quite caught your names. Gentlemen, if you'll please my friend
dear trying to get accommodation, I am sorry.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
All I can give you and here you and here Vierstadt.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Is a double room. There are no single ones, No, sir.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
The American who arrived today took the last one.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh an America and the life.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm an American too, slaves. My name Mike Slade. But
it does not you who just cave.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
No, no, I've been around for nearly three years.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
The new guest is mister Heywood, mister Haywood, eh and
his room eighteen, Room eighteen.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm in twenty seven myself.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Gentlemen, if you'd be interested in a friendly game of
stud poker the saving I'm afraid we are going to
be busy this evening.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Yeah, we are going to be a valley busy.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So that took care of my last chance to put
some meat on my thin bank roll. Jen and I
had dinner at the lodge that night. Then I walked
her back to a cottage above the hotel. The moon
was bright, dry, snow squeaked under our feet. It was
the same as any other night at Guamon, seemed the
same anyway, Even the things we talked about were the same.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
We must be patient, Mike. We will leave Maamo.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Someday, but when and how We'll never get out until
I lay my hands on some dough, big dough, I mean,
not the kind I can win from a bunch of
yoguls who don't know two pair from a straight.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Your government would send your home, maybe.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Mike, Yeah, sure, sure, and shut me in the army.
Only they don't have any use for a guy in
my age, and that makes him mutual. Besides, they wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Let you go with me, but I would wait.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
And when the war is.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
No dice, kid, when I go, you go. So the
answer is still money. It sounds like somebody's been hurt.
Come on, Honey, done down this way, Mike.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
There's something lying this moose.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, yeah, that must be him.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Mike, Mike, it's the American, mister Heywood.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It was Hayward, all right, but it didn't look much
like him anymore. His nose was broken and the rest
of his face was pushed out of shape. Lord knows
what else they've done to him.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Mm hmm mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You all right, take take an easy fellaw. We'll get
the doctor at the large nose.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Shure, slave, shure. You want to stand him jam.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
It sounds as if you're saying shore sure, he left
shure the heel of his left shore back.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Alice, What what was that? McAllister Joe, he's dead.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I'll get doctor gon to Mike.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Never mind doctor Gant the jam. He's dead.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
No, how could it have happened? Do you think you
very found a rock up there?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
No, baby, he didn't fall of any rock. He fell
under the hands of a couple of Germans.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It was all clear by that Heywood had.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Been an OSS agent, and the only winter sports the
crowds had come to Noirmar for was torturing and beating him.
It was tough, plenty tough. But then I still had
problems too. I unlaced Heywood's left boot and slipped it
off his foot.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
What are you doing, Mike?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Finding out what hitlers happened as boys were after.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Look, the heel slips right off the shoe.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, there's something incited.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Wait a minute, it's a little ceylander.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It looks like a bullet.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That's no bullet, baby, it's a cylinder of microfilm microfi chers.
I don't know whatever it is, it's important, whatever's importance
is valuable.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
What you think, uh me, I'm thinking about you and me, sweetheart.
Never mind.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Now, look, you take this film and get back to
your cottage and hide it. As far as anybody's concerned.
You weren't with me when I found Heyward's body.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
You will get gone, baby, But what are you going
to do?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Not a thing, Just sit around and cool my heels
and wait for a guy named McAllister. Of course I
had to report Heywood's death. I reported it to doctor Gunther,
(12:18):
the house physician at the lodge. Oh, this is terrible,
such a tragic excident. I didn't say it was an accident, doctor,
but it was, of course. No wait a minute, he said, so.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I am the doctor.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Yeah, but you can't here. Heywoods slipped in terre for
the lock. We will all do our best to see
that there's no another such tragedy. Really not sleep. It
gives the lotch a bad reputation.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So gun Through had already been briefed by his fellow crowds,
and Heywood's death was an accident. Well, I was all
right with me. It didn't hurt my angle a bit.
The next morning, Guntha got all the guests together in
the lobby and broke the sad new.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
My friends, that you can all want to pay your
last respects the victim of this unfortunate accident. Services for
her Heywood will be heard in the chapel. At three
o'clock this afternoon turned away and I fell little sick.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Sometimes these Nazis made it hard for a guy to
stay strictly neutral, I was thinking. Then a hand clapped
me on the shoulder.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Good morning, al Slid, Hello, Kitle, this is well, it said,
this news about your fellow countryman.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah, you're all broken up about it, aren't you.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Doctor guns informs me it was you who found the body.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
In You and doctor Gunha keep each other pretty well informed.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I was wondering how Slid.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Yeah, I was wondering if, by any chance, you also
found something else?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Whe are you when you keep right on wondering her title?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
At most that day, playing solitaire at my favorite table
near the desk, I wasn't listening for the names of
poker prospects anymore. I was listening for another name, McAllister,
but I didn't hear it. At three o'clock I went
down to the chapel, I figured ioto pay my last
respects to Heywood too. Was the least I could do,
considering how much I was going to own. So cheap
(14:24):
the accidental death of a passing stranger may seem like
a trivial thing.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Believe me, my friend, it.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Was almost over when a big blonde guy sat down
next to the You're Mike Slayton.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yes, that's right. You found Heyward's body last night. What
was left of him with us? He was still alive, wasn't.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
He his spirit?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Slightly?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Lightly?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Did he say anything? Not much mentioned the name McAllister.
Maybe I'm McAllister.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh he has gone okay and we are left here alone.
He gave you something for me? Yeah? Good? When can
I get it? When can you pay for it? Pay
for it? That's what I said. I went twenty five
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franks dollars full filthy double.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I'll watch it. Is that a way to act at
your buddy's funeral?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And now, dear friends, let it's all bow our heads
in prayer.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
The minister's sermon wasn't the only one I've heard that day.
On the way back to the lodge, McAllister preached one too,
And you call your flag. MacAllister, You've got my proposition,
take it or leave it.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
You know what's on that microfilm. You realize, what, what
do you think I could get that kind of money.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You might try the embassy at Vain and if they
won't buy it, then maybe Berlin will Berlin, you would
actually shall let film to the Nazis sell out your
own country. I haven't had a country for a long time.
You were born on Amerture, but I've lived in Switzerland
for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Some of its neutrality is rubbed off on me.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I stayed away from Jen all that day because I
didn't want to attract any attention to her. But as
soon as it was dark, I started out for her cottage.
I didn't get very far.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Good evening house led.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
If Yes, stud and Ivish to talk.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
The you guys picked funny places for conversation. On the contrary,
this fits our needs admirably. Three of us are low and.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
We had another conversation last night in a similar pace.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It would regret to have this one end in the
same way that Indeed, Okay, what do you after the
micro film? Of course, just give it to us. I
don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
And I suppose we will have to stop the field.
There's arms ver ver stut pinned my arms behind me?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Kinda let me have it square in the face with
a fist is hard. There's a sledgehammer. Where's the microfilm? Straight?
You'll never get it this way? Say not?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You didn't get it away from Hey with this way,
did you? Why don't you meet heads? Get smart? Kill
me and you'll never lay hands on that film. And
if we don't carry you and you might have a chance.
How much would the chance cost a slid? I'm catching
on how much? Well I would have let you have
a cheap before you started to push me around. The
price is gone up. I want fifty fifty thousand marks dollars.
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Think it over, boys. They must have seen some logic
in it, because they stopped slugging me and went away
to talk it over. I didn't go to Jen's cottage
after all. I didn't want them following me, So I
went back up to my room. And when I got there,
my door unlocked. The room was a shambles. Somebody had
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gone through it like a cyclone. U oss, boys, now,
how to take a room apart, don't you McAllister? When
we have to Did you have to do this?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I came up to do it, but those get Stoppa
agents save me the trouble. It was already done. I
was afraid they might have found what they were looking for.
How do you know they didn't? By the condition of
your face. They've been working you over, haven't we?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
What have it? They wouldn't have bothered if they'd found
the film. You're quite a brain, aren't you. Mccallis.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You're not slaved. If you were, you wouldn't be playing
this game. You're gonna wind up just where Heywood is.
I'll take my chances. You don't know what the doe
means to me. You'd understand you don't know what these
films mean to the Allies, Or maybe you'd understand. Those
are pictures of German maps, Slaid maps, showing the location
of every Nazib two rocket launching site on the French coast.
They could mean the saving of thousands of lives. They
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could even mean winning the war or losing it. Does
that make any impression on you? My price is still
the same, all right, Jen, Let me tell you what Heywood.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Went through to get those films. You'll be wasting your time.
My price is still the same.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Okay, you're the guy who has to look in the
mirror at yourself in your shave. I'll be around if you. Oh,
I forgot about this. What this picture was on the floor.
I accidentally stepped on it and broke the frame.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
How me have that? I noticed the inscription to Mike
with all my love Jen. Okay, okay, let's have it.
She's the skiing instructor, isn't she beautiful? Girl? Be a
shame if anything happened to that face? Is that a threat?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Mccallosy No, oh, the osays doesn't go in for torturing women.
Maybe we're too sentimental. Why would anybody want to touch
her because she's helping you play your little angle? What
makes you think?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
So? Just a guess. And if I can guess, it's
so can Kitle and Erstadt. And they're not a bit sentimental.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It took me a while to fall asleep after that,
but I managed it finally. Couldn't have been much later
when the phone beside my bed woke me up. Yeah, Mike, Jen, Baby,
what's the matter.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I've got to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Mike, come to the cottage right away. I was scared
then all the way over, Machallous's words kept ringing in
my ears, and I was scared to.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Look at her face.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But there was nothing the matter with it. When I
got there, the only mark center with the marks of
worry and a guilty conscience.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I couldn't sleep, Mike. I had to call you. I've
been thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
All night, about my new business enterprise.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I suppose you mean, yes, trying to make money out
of those microfilms.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
It's wrong, Darling. We can't go through with it.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Too bad, says McAllister. Was here, Yes, yes, he was
waving a flag all over the place.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
What he said, madsense, He told me what was on
the film. He made me say how Hayward had suffered.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
To get it. I'm surprised you didn't turn it over
THEE I wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Do that, you know it. But I want you to
turn it over to him.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I will for twenty five grand, Mike, for nothing.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Because they belonged to him rightfully, and because they'll help
the Allies win the world.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
No dice, baby, Mike, do you want those vile metal
s Natzi's too win?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
All I want is my twenty five Jeeves, and then
you and I can get out of here.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Not you and I.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Mike what.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
I won't go with you under those conditions.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
You don't mean that I do. I do.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
I love you, Mike, but I couldn't go on loving
you if you did a thing like this. I come
to hate you.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Jen.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I'm sorry, Darling, It's true.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Well, Mike, I've waited twenty five years for break like this.
I'm not going to let it run down the drain,
not even for you. If you don't want to go okay,
I'll be traveling along.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
I don't think you'll be traveling anywhere just yet a slide.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It was titled and just behind it was Verstadt, and
both of them carried Lucas. Before I could move, Verstat
had used his the butter had clipped me on the head.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I know.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I remember hearing Jen scream and feeling myself crumbling toward
the floor. When I came to, I couldn't move my
arms on my legs. It took me a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
To figure out why I was tied with a chair.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Slowly the room came back and focused, and I saw
the two Guestapo agents.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Then I saw Jen. What they've been doing get your
hands off of your filthy rights. Don't touch her.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Again, being I need to touch a her sleeve if
you will corporate with us better than cheers been doing.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Where is the microfilm hair sleeves? You still think you're
gonna find out for free?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Huh yeah, me think so? Where is the microfilm hairsleeve? Along?
You tell us where it is? All right, all right,
stop it. I'll tell you to stop it.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
We have stopped her slid my Please tell us, okay
a microfilm is?
Speaker 10 (23:29):
It?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Came from outside through the window that revolve a shot
fierce that let out a groan and dropped the floor.
Titdle dropped the floor too, but he hadn't been hit.
He flicked the light switches, he went down.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
The room went black.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
The advantage was all his now he was in the
pitch black room. Whoever was outside was moving around on
the bright moonlight, made even brighter by the snow. I
saw a title's gun spit the gun outside, answered. I
was still tied hand and foot to the chair. There
wasn't anything I could do, or was there. I remember
that the light switch was just over my head. I
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worked until I got my chair turned around, so I
was facing the wall. I started butting up with at
the switch.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
With my head.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Three times I missed it. Fourth time it clicked. The
room was flooded with light. Kidle was outlined at the
window like a sitting duck. It wasn't any great surprise
when a tall blonde guy walked in a minute later.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
He started one timing. Looks as if you had to
choose signs after all, Slaine, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
It looks as if maybe I did ms. You are right, Jen,
I'll be fine, sure, baby, Yes, Mike, thank you, mister McAllister.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I should have said that to McAllister. Thanks.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
That's okay, Mike, And I don't you see now, don't
you understand.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I don't know what you're talking about?
Speaker 6 (24:55):
You do? You must the difference between here and those
horrible roots. It's the whole point, Mike. That's why you
can't hold onto that microfilm.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, the microfilm. I've been thinking about that.
You've decided to give it to me. No, I haven't, McCallister.
I'm a gambler, and gamblers don't give things away. All
they do give is a sporting chance. What do you mean,
I'll cut cards with you for the microfilm double enough.
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If I get the high card, you will give me
the film, right, and if I get high card, you
pay me fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
It's the deal.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Slate Okay, yeah, shovel McCallister, you cut first, one card doesn't.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well? Six not so good, fellow, go on, slate, cut
well four, I win. There, you win, get them the film?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Jen, all right, Mike, Now, both sides in this war
have cost me money.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
There it is mister Mcanithton, and good luck to you.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
With his luck, he'll win the worst single handed.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
These microfilms will help. Good Bye, Jen, he's see yeah, he's.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Seeing mcal's.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Mike, why did you do it?
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Do what?
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Here's your card? The one new cut. He wasn't a fool,
it was a thing.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I know you had him beaten. He would have paid
the fiftieth thousand.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That's right, Mark, Why did you do it? I don't know, baby.
I guess some guys just can't helping suckers.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
I guess some guys just can't helping patriots.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
So we were stuck in Switzerland for a couple of
more years, Jane and I.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
There were times when I could have kicked myself for
being a sentimental chump lots of times until a day
came after the war when I ran into McAllister again.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I felt better about it then. I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What the Alliant Air Forces did to those Nazi rocket
launching sites along the French coast couldn't have been done
without the microfilm Slave, so you can take some credit
for it. You were the toughest lie the US has
ever had, brother, but you did the job. And once
again the report of another OSS agent closes with.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
The words mission accomplished.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Today's story was based on actual incidents recorded in the
Washington files of the USS.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And was brought to you on Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
Heard in Today's Cloak and Dagger Adventures, McAllister was Less Tremaine,
Mike Slaide, Bill Quinn, Jan Jan Minor. Others were Grant Richards,
Raymond Edward Johnson, Carl Weber, Charles Irving, Steffan Schnabel, Boris Applin,
Paul Arnold, and Jerry Jarrett. The script was written by
Field and the music was under the direction of John Guard.
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Sound effects by Jerry McGee, engineering by Joe Silva. Today's
OSS Adventure was based on the book Clokndagger by Corey
Fard and Alistair McBain. This program was produced by Lewis G.
Collen and Alfred Hollander and under the direction and supervision
of Sherman Marx.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Welcome Back. In some ways, this episode clse to mind
the film Cossablanca, with an expat trying to maintain neutrality
in a neutral place. Although Mike lacks the heroic backstory
of Rick Wayne, I think Mike is wrong to make
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his decision by two things. First of all, in the
Nazis really didn't do much to make friends in the
course of this operation, as was could be said of
most of the war, and through their brutality, particularly towards Jen,
pushed him towards his own country. But I think more
importantly was the service and the approach of OSS men,
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in particular McAllister. And this is another key similarity with
Casablanca of the cynic being inspired by the courage of
a dedicated patriot, with McAllister instead of Victor Loslow and
his action obviously more direct and seventy five years later,
I think that inspiration still continues through the stories we've
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heard on Cloak and Dagger. The type of people we've
heard about in this series are not the superspies of
James Bond or I Spy, or the men from Uncle
who would become such icons of popular culture. These were
not professional spies, but citizens who took on a dangerous task,
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all responding yes to the offer that we heard at
the start of each episode, and at least some of
the people profiled paid with their lives. Some made colossal mistakes,
others were either the victim or the beneficiary of luck.
All took graversk to save the world from a darkness
that threatened it and paid a cost to save it.
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Logan Dagger honors these brave men and women and holds
up wonderfully as an exciting adventure series, great drama, and
also a magnificent tribute to the sacrifices of the men
and women of the OSS. I hope you've enjoyed this series.
I've heard a lot of great feedback from so many
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of you who have enjoyed this series and really been
surprised by it. It's a great gem that a lot
of people haven't listened to, and for our first adult series,
it really sets a high bar and it's been such
a delight to bring it to you. And now it's
time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and
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I want to thank Ian, Patreon supporter since September twenty twenty,
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Speaker 3 (32:19):
Ian.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
And in terms of our series, next Saturday we begin
our holiday break and we'll have an encore presentation for
one of our other podcasts that still fits very well
into the Great Adventurers theme and also fits within the
sort of crime adventure that people would expect for being
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here is the episode Windfall.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind enemy lines, knowing
that you may never return alive. What you have just
heard is the question asked during the War of agents
of the OSS. Ordinary citizens to this question answered yes.
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This is Cloak and Dagger, black warfare, espionage, international intrigue.
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These are the weapons of the OSS. In today's adventure, Windfall,
the part of McAllister is played by Lestra may Jan
Minor plays Jen and Mike Slade is played by Bill Quinn.
The story is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the
Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story
that can now be told. We had three new guests
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at the lodge at Noirmont that day, and the first
one blew in just after lunch, and I recognize him
right away, at least I thought I did. I didn't
know who he was, you understand, but I thought I
knew what he was. A fellow American, for one thing,
and probably a member of the diplomatic mission at Baron.
I wish now that that was all he had been.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
You have a reservation for me the name Monsieur Heywood,
Frederick Heywood.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
At one moment, Monsieur, I.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Made a mental note of that name as I shuffled
my cards and dealt myself another hand of solitaire. I
was sitting in the lobby close to the desk, and
not by accident, either, I made my business to catch
the names of new arrivals.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
If you know a.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Man's name, he's usually more willing to sit down at
the car table with you. And if the guests at
Noirmont didn't play cards with me, how could I eat well?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Clerk, do you have the reservation or not. Yes, hit
is monsieur.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
It was fund in yesterday from ber Your room is
being prepared.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Nowson, let me know what it's ready. I'll be in
the bar. I went to work.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Then I followed him into the bar. I was sure
by then that i'd size him upright. A secretary or
a file clerk could come to the lodge to ski
and relax. He was right for picking, I figured. I
found him at a table by the window, looking out
over the mountains of snow and ice and down into
the green Valley where Switzerland became France. Not see occupied France.
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Welcome to normal, mister Heywood. Eh, who are you name?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Slade?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Mike Slade? I heard you ask for your reservation. I
couldn't help overhearing your name. You're an American, that's right.
You mind if I said, now, thanks up here to
do a little skiing. I suppose perhaps planning to stay long?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
That depends. Oh what a number of things, none of
which are your business.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Relax, mister Heywood. You don't have to be afraid to
talk to me. I'm not on the enemy's side. In fact,
I'm not on anybody's side. I'm just a plain ordinary
private citizen.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Oh and what are you doing in Switzerland, he.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Asked, So I told him the whole sad story. How
I shipped out of San Francisco when I was fifteen,
how I jumped ship in Shanghai, How I'd spent the
next twenty five years gambling my way around the world
till I hit it big, knocking over a roulette wheel
in Paris for a million francs.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So you're up here blowing your million francs.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I slid, No, not exactly, didn't last long enough to blow.
A week after I won it, the Germans marched into Paris,
and my money wasn't worth a thin diet. I got
away and landed up here at Walmart. And I'm waiting
ever since, waiting for what why, for someone to win
this war?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Of course, someone anyone, you mean.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Oh, I'm not too particular, mister hay Wooden, Like I say,
I don't play sides. I'm what they call a neutral,
I guess, a neutral American. Well, it's been a long
time since I was in America. I just want them
to get the war over with somehow, so Jen and
I can get out of here. Jen my girl wins
to hey, which she's one of the skiing instructors here
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at the lodge, and when I go, she's promised to
go with me.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I see, I'll go see if I rule ready? Oh
wait a minute, how about another drink?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, look, if you're not doing anything tonight and you're
like a little game of stud as got away as
any to pass the evening up here. Maybe, But I'm
rather particular about the kind of men I gamble with, Slade,
especially the kind of Americans. Oh well, I figured some
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guys couldn't help being patriots. Me I had other things
to worry about, not enough money in my gene to
pay for my room at the end of the week,
and no stud game in sight.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Hello, Mike, Jen, how are your babies?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Mike came into the bar a few minutes ago, but
you were talking to somebody here who was.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
A guy named Heywood, an American just checked in from.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Bern from Bay with Mike. He couldn't have what do
you mean you left that heavy snow last night? He
couldn't have come by automobile. And you know perfectly well
the train from Beern doesn't arrive for another three hours.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Hey, I forgot about that, And how the devil did
he get here?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
There's only one way. You must have.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Walk walked all away from Bern.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
He walked from down there in the valley, he came
across the French border.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Maybe you're forgetting there's a war on There aren't any
Americans touring France these days.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
No, but there are some fighting for France, fighting with
the French Marquis.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I don't know what cha an intelligence agents.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Mike, Hey, wait a minute, Maybe you've got something there
that would explain why Heywood brush me off that way.
He must be one of those OSS guys we heard about.
It was the only answer. I didn't think much of it.
I figured an OSS agent just out of occupied France
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wouldn't have enough money to finance a game of stud
So I went looking for someone who would.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
There's two ones, clerk, one for Dot, one for myself.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Crowds were crowds, and you didn't have to be a
patriot like Hey would not to like them. But I
figured that these two guys at the desk were a
couple of jokers on a holiday.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
They'd be well.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Healedous, ridiculous, welcome to no gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
The clerk, what about those ones? I don't believe I
quite caught your names. Gentlemen, if you'll please my friend
dear trying to get accommodation, I am sorry.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
All I can give you and here you and here Vierstadt.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Is a double room. There are no single ones, No, sir.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
The American who arrived today took the last one.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh an America and the life.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm an American too, slaves. My name Mike Slade. But
it does not you who just cave.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
No, no, I've been around for nearly three years.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
The new guest is mister Heywood, mister Haywood, eh and
his room eighteen, Room eighteen.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm in twenty seven myself.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Gentlemen, if you'd be interested in a friendly game of
stud poker the saving I'm afraid we are going to
be busy this evening.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Yeah, we are going to be a valley busy.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
So that took care of my last chance to put
some meat on my thin bank roll. Jen and I
had dinner at the lodge that night. Then I walked
her back to a cottage above the hotel. The moon
was bright, dry, snow squeaked under our feet. It was
the same as any other night at Guamon, seemed the
same anyway, Even the things we talked about were the same.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
We must be patient, Mike. We will leave Maamo.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Someday, but when and how We'll never get out until
I lay my hands on some dough, big dough, I mean,
not the kind I can win from a bunch of
yoguls who don't know two pair from a straight.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Your government would send your home, maybe.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Mike, Yeah, sure, sure, and shut me in the army.
Only they don't have any use for a guy in
my age, and that makes him mutual. Besides, they wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Let you go with me, but I would wait.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
And when the war is.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
No dice, kid, when I go, you go. So the
answer is still money. It sounds like somebody's been hurt.
Come on, Honey, done down this way, Mike.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
There's something lying this moose.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, yeah, that must be him.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Mike, Mike, it's the American, mister Heywood.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It was Hayward, all right, but it didn't look much
like him anymore. His nose was broken and the rest
of his face was pushed out of shape. Lord knows
what else they've done to him.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Mm hmm mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You all right, take take an easy fellaw. We'll get
the doctor at the large nose.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Shure, slave, shure. You want to stand him jam.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
It sounds as if you're saying shore sure, he left
shure the heel of his left shore back.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Alice, What what was that? McAllister Joe, he's dead.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I'll get doctor gon to Mike.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Never mind doctor Gant the jam. He's dead.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
No, how could it have happened? Do you think you
very found a rock up there?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
No, baby, he didn't fall of any rock. He fell
under the hands of a couple of Germans.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It was all clear by that Heywood had.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Been an OSS agent, and the only winter sports the
crowds had come to Noirmar for was torturing and beating him.
It was tough, plenty tough. But then I still had
problems too. I unlaced Heywood's left boot and slipped it
off his foot.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
What are you doing, Mike?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Finding out what hitlers happened as boys were after.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Look, the heel slips right off the shoe.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, there's something incited.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Wait a minute, it's a little ceylander.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It looks like a bullet.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
That's no bullet, baby, it's a cylinder of microfilm microfi chers.
I don't know whatever it is, it's important, whatever's importance
is valuable.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
What you think, uh me, I'm thinking about you and me, sweetheart.
Never mind.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Now, look, you take this film and get back to
your cottage and hide it. As far as anybody's concerned.
You weren't with me when I found Heyward's body.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
You will get gone, baby, But what are you going
to do?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Not a thing, Just sit around and cool my heels
and wait for a guy named McAllister. Of course I
had to report Heywood's death. I reported it to doctor Gunther,
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the house physician at the lodge. Oh, this is terrible,
such a tragic excident. I didn't say it was an accident, doctor,
but it was, of course. No wait a minute, he said, so.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I am the doctor.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Yeah, but you can't here. Heywoods slipped in terre for
the lock. We will all do our best to see
that there's no another such tragedy. Really not sleep. It
gives the lotch a bad reputation.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So gun Through had already been briefed by his fellow crowds,
and Heywood's death was an accident. Well, I was all
right with me. It didn't hurt my angle a bit.
The next morning, Guntha got all the guests together in
the lobby and broke the sad new.
Speaker 9 (13:00):
My friends, that you can all want to pay your
last respects the victim of this unfortunate accident. Services for
her Heywood will be heard in the chapel. At three
o'clock this afternoon turned away and I fell little sick.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Sometimes these Nazis made it hard for a guy to
stay strictly neutral, I was thinking. Then a hand clapped
me on the shoulder.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Good morning, al Slid, Hello, Kitle, this is well, it said,
this news about your fellow countryman.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah, you're all broken up about it, aren't you.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Doctor guns informs me it was you who found the body.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
In You and doctor Gunha keep each other pretty well informed.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I was wondering how Slid.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Yeah, I was wondering if, by any chance, you also
found something else?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Whe are you when you keep right on wondering her title?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
At most that day, playing solitaire at my favorite table
near the desk, I wasn't listening for the names of
poker prospects anymore. I was listening for another name, McAllister,
but I didn't hear it. At three o'clock I went
down to the chapel, I figured ioto pay my last
respects to Heywood too. Was the least I could do,
considering how much I was going to own. So cheap
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the accidental death of a passing stranger may seem like
a trivial thing.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Believe me, my friend, it.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Was almost over when a big blonde guy sat down
next to the You're Mike Slayton.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yes, that's right. You found Heyward's body last night. What
was left of him with us? He was still alive, wasn't.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
He his spirit?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Slightly?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Lightly?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Did he say anything? Not much mentioned the name McAllister.
Maybe I'm McAllister.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Oh he has gone okay and we are left here alone.
He gave you something for me? Yeah? Good? When can
I get it? When can you pay for it? Pay
for it? That's what I said. I went twenty five
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franks dollars full filthy double.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I'll watch it. Is that a way to act at
your buddy's funeral?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And now, dear friends, let it's all bow our heads
in prayer.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
The minister's sermon wasn't the only one I've heard that day.
On the way back to the lodge, McAllister preached one too,
And you call your flag. MacAllister, You've got my proposition,
take it or leave it.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
You know what's on that microfilm. You realize, what, what
do you think I could get that kind of money.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You might try the embassy at Vain and if they
won't buy it, then maybe Berlin will Berlin, you would
actually shall let film to the Nazis sell out your
own country. I haven't had a country for a long time.
You were born on Amerture, but I've lived in Switzerland
for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Some of its neutrality is rubbed off on me.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I stayed away from Jen all that day because I
didn't want to attract any attention to her. But as
soon as it was dark, I started out for her cottage.
I didn't get very far.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Good evening house led.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
If Yes, stud and Ivish to talk.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
The you guys picked funny places for conversation. On the contrary,
this fits our needs admirably. Three of us are low and.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
We had another conversation last night in a similar pace.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It would regret to have this one end in the
same way that Indeed, Okay, what do you after the
micro film? Of course, just give it to us. I
don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
And I suppose we will have to stop the field.
There's arms ver ver stut pinned my arms behind me?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Kinda let me have it square in the face with
a fist is hard. There's a sledgehammer. Where's the microfilm? Straight?
You'll never get it this way? Say not?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You didn't get it away from Hey with this way,
did you? Why don't you meet heads? Get smart? Kill
me and you'll never lay hands on that film. And
if we don't carry you and you might have a chance.
How much would the chance cost a slid? I'm catching
on how much? Well I would have let you have
a cheap before you started to push me around. The
price is gone up. I want fifty fifty thousand marks dollars.
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Think it over, boys. They must have seen some logic
in it, because they stopped slugging me and went away
to talk it over. I didn't go to Jen's cottage
after all. I didn't want them following me, So I
went back up to my room. And when I got there,
my door unlocked. The room was a shambles. Somebody had
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gone through it like a cyclone. U oss, boys, now,
how to take a room apart, don't you McAllister? When
we have to Did you have to do this?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I came up to do it, but those get Stoppa
agents save me the trouble. It was already done. I
was afraid they might have found what they were looking for.
How do you know they didn't? By the condition of
your face. They've been working you over, haven't we?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
What have it? They wouldn't have bothered if they'd found
the film. You're quite a brain, aren't you. Mccallis.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You're not slaved. If you were, you wouldn't be playing
this game. You're gonna wind up just where Heywood is.
I'll take my chances. You don't know what the doe
means to me. You'd understand you don't know what these
films mean to the Allies, Or maybe you'd understand. Those
are pictures of German maps, Slaid maps, showing the location
of every Nazib two rocket launching site on the French coast.
They could mean the saving of thousands of lives. They
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could even mean winning the war or losing it. Does
that make any impression on you? My price is still
the same, all right, Jen, Let me tell you what Heywood.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Went through to get those films. You'll be wasting your time.
My price is still the same.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Okay, you're the guy who has to look in the
mirror at yourself in your shave. I'll be around if you. Oh,
I forgot about this. What this picture was on the floor.
I accidentally stepped on it and broke the frame.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
How me have that? I noticed the inscription to Mike
with all my love Jen. Okay, okay, let's have it.
She's the skiing instructor, isn't she beautiful? Girl? Be a
shame if anything happened to that face? Is that a threat?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Mccallosy No, oh, the osays doesn't go in for torturing women.
Maybe we're too sentimental. Why would anybody want to touch
her because she's helping you play your little angle? What
makes you think?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
So? Just a guess. And if I can guess, it's
so can Kitle and Erstadt. And they're not a bit sentimental.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It took me a while to fall asleep after that,
but I managed it finally. Couldn't have been much later
when the phone beside my bed woke me up. Yeah, Mike, Jen, Baby,
what's the matter.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I've got to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Mike, come to the cottage right away. I was scared
then all the way over, Machallous's words kept ringing in
my ears, and I was scared to.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Look at her face.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But there was nothing the matter with it. When I
got there, the only mark center with the marks of
worry and a guilty conscience.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I couldn't sleep, Mike. I had to call you. I've
been thinking about it.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
All night, about my new business enterprise.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I suppose you mean, yes, trying to make money out
of those microfilms.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
It's wrong, Darling. We can't go through with it.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Too bad, says McAllister. Was here, Yes, yes, he was
waving a flag all over the place.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
What he said, madsense, He told me what was on
the film. He made me say how Hayward had suffered.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
To get it. I'm surprised you didn't turn it over
THEE I wouldn't.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Do that, you know it. But I want you to
turn it over to him.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I will for twenty five grand, Mike, for nothing.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Because they belonged to him rightfully, and because they'll help
the Allies win the world.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
No dice, baby, Mike, do you want those vile metal
s Natzi's too win?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
All I want is my twenty five Jeeves, and then
you and I can get out of here.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Not you and I.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Mike what.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
I won't go with you under those conditions.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
You don't mean that I do. I do.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
I love you, Mike, but I couldn't go on loving
you if you did a thing like this. I come
to hate you.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Jen.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I'm sorry, Darling, It's true.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Well, Mike, I've waited twenty five years for break like this.
I'm not going to let it run down the drain,
not even for you. If you don't want to go okay,
I'll be traveling along.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
I don't think you'll be traveling anywhere just yet a slide.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It was titled and just behind it was Verstadt, and
both of them carried Lucas. Before I could move, Verstat
had used his the butter had clipped me on the head.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I know.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I remember hearing Jen scream and feeling myself crumbling toward
the floor. When I came to, I couldn't move my
arms on my legs. It took me a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
To figure out why I was tied with a chair.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Slowly the room came back and focused, and I saw
the two Guestapo agents.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Then I saw Jen. What they've been doing get your
hands off of your filthy rights. Don't touch her.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
Again, being I need to touch a her sleeve if
you will corporate with us better than cheers been doing.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Where is the microfilm hair sleeves? You still think you're
gonna find out for free?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Huh yeah, me think so? Where is the microfilm hairsleeve? Along?
You tell us where it is? All right, all right,
stop it. I'll tell you to stop it.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
We have stopped her slid my Please tell us, okay
a microfilm is?
Speaker 10 (23:29):
It?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Came from outside through the window that revolve a shot
fierce that let out a groan and dropped the floor.
Titdle dropped the floor too, but he hadn't been hit.
He flicked the light switches, he went down.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
The room went black.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
The advantage was all his now he was in the
pitch black room. Whoever was outside was moving around on
the bright moonlight, made even brighter by the snow. I
saw a title's gun spit the gun outside, answered. I
was still tied hand and foot to the chair. There
wasn't anything I could do, or was there. I remember
that the light switch was just over my head. I
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worked until I got my chair turned around, so I
was facing the wall. I started butting up with at
the switch.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
With my head.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Three times I missed it. Fourth time it clicked. The
room was flooded with light. Kidle was outlined at the
window like a sitting duck. It wasn't any great surprise
when a tall blonde guy walked in a minute later.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
He started one timing. Looks as if you had to
choose signs after all, Slaine, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (24:32):
It looks as if maybe I did ms. You are right, Jen,
I'll be fine, sure, baby, Yes, Mike, thank you, mister McAllister.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
I should have said that to McAllister. Thanks.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
That's okay, Mike, And I don't you see now, don't
you understand.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I don't know what you're talking about?
Speaker 6 (24:55):
You do? You must the difference between here and those
horrible roots. It's the whole point, Mike. That's why you
can't hold onto that microfilm.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, the microfilm. I've been thinking about that.
You've decided to give it to me. No, I haven't, McCallister.
I'm a gambler, and gamblers don't give things away. All
they do give is a sporting chance. What do you mean,
I'll cut cards with you for the microfilm double enough.
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If I get the high card, you will give me
the film, right, and if I get high card, you
pay me fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
It's the deal.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Slate Okay, yeah, shovel McCallister, you cut first, one card doesn't.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well? Six not so good, fellow, go on, slate, cut
well four, I win. There, you win, get them the film?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Jen, all right, Mike, Now, both sides in this war
have cost me money.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
There it is mister Mcanithton, and good luck to you.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
With his luck, he'll win the worst single handed.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
These microfilms will help. Good Bye, Jen, he's see yeah, he's.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Seeing mcal's.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Mike, why did you do it?
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Do what?
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Here's your card? The one new cut. He wasn't a fool,
it was a thing.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I know you had him beaten. He would have paid
the fiftieth thousand.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
That's right, Mark, Why did you do it? I don't know, baby.
I guess some guys just can't helping suckers.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
I guess some guys just can't helping patriots.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
So we were stuck in Switzerland for a couple of
more years, Jane and I.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
There were times when I could have kicked myself for
being a sentimental chump lots of times until a day
came after the war when I ran into McAllister again.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I felt better about it then. I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What the Alliant Air Forces did to those Nazi rocket
launching sites along the French coast couldn't have been done
without the microfilm Slave, so you can take some credit
for it. You were the toughest lie the US has
ever had, brother, but you did the job. And once
again the report of another OSS agent closes with.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
The words mission accomplished.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Today's story was based on actual incidents recorded in the
Washington files of the USS.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And was brought to you on Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
Heard in Today's Cloak and Dagger Adventures, McAllister was Less Tremaine,
Mike Slaide, Bill Quinn, Jan Jan Minor. Others were Grant Richards,
Raymond Edward Johnson, Carl Weber, Charles Irving, Steffan Schnabel, Boris Applin,
Paul Arnold, and Jerry Jarrett. The script was written by
Field and the music was under the direction of John Guard.
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Sound effects by Jerry McGee, engineering by Joe Silva. Today's
OSS Adventure was based on the book Clokndagger by Corey
Fard and Alistair McBain. This program was produced by Lewis G.
Collen and Alfred Hollander and under the direction and supervision
of Sherman Marx.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Welcome Back. In some ways, this episode clse to mind
the film Cossablanca, with an expat trying to maintain neutrality
in a neutral place. Although Mike lacks the heroic backstory
of Rick Wayne, I think Mike is wrong to make
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his decision by two things. First of all, in the
Nazis really didn't do much to make friends in the
course of this operation, as was could be said of
most of the war, and through their brutality, particularly towards Jen,
pushed him towards his own country. But I think more
importantly was the service and the approach of OSS men,
(30:15):
in particular McAllister. And this is another key similarity with
Casablanca of the cynic being inspired by the courage of
a dedicated patriot, with McAllister instead of Victor Loslow and
his action obviously more direct and seventy five years later,
I think that inspiration still continues through the stories we've
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heard on Cloak and Dagger. The type of people we've
heard about in this series are not the superspies of
James Bond or I Spy, or the men from Uncle
who would become such icons of popular culture. These were
not professional spies, but citizens who took on a dangerous task,
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all responding yes to the offer that we heard at
the start of each episode, and at least some of
the people profiled paid with their lives. Some made colossal mistakes,
others were either the victim or the beneficiary of luck.
All took graversk to save the world from a darkness
that threatened it and paid a cost to save it.
(31:24):
Logan Dagger honors these brave men and women and holds
up wonderfully as an exciting adventure series, great drama, and
also a magnificent tribute to the sacrifices of the men
and women of the OSS. I hope you've enjoyed this series.
I've heard a lot of great feedback from so many
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of you who have enjoyed this series and really been
surprised by it. It's a great gem that a lot
of people haven't listened to, and for our first adult series,
it really sets a high bar and it's been such
a delight to bring it to you. And now it's
time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and
(32:08):
I want to thank Ian, Patreon supporter since September twenty twenty,
currently supporting the podcast at the secret Agent level of
four dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for
your support.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Ian.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
And in terms of our series, next Saturday we begin
our holiday break and we'll have an encore presentation for
one of our other podcasts that still fits very well
into the Great Adventurers theme and also fits within the
sort of crime adventure that people would expect for being
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cross posted on Great Detectives. However, the Great Adventurers podcast
will be back on Tuesday for one last episode, this
one of Adventure Ahead and the Great Detectives podcast. We
have our Sunday encore coming up tomorrow and then on
Monday our regular lineup with Danger with Granger. In the meantime,
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do send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net,
follow us on Twitter, Radio Detectives, and check us out
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off
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