November 15, 2023 • 29 mins
Cloak and Dagger is an NBC radio series, a foreign intrigue adventure adapted from the book Cloak and Dagger by Corey Ford and Alistair McBain. Ford also was host of the series. Cloak and Dagger was broadcast from May 7 to October 22, 1950, as part of "a mystery block with several other shows of far inferior quality". The program was sustaining for all 22 episodes
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Are you willing to undertake a dangerousmission behind the enemy lines, knowing you
may never return alive. What youhave just heard is the question asked during
the war to agents of the OSSordinary citizens who, to this question answered
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yes, this is cloak and dagger, black warfare, espionage, international intrigue.
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These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's adventure, Operation Sellout is
the story of an American OSS agentwho went into Terman occupied forts to locate
Nazi submarine bases, and is suggestedby actual incidents recorded in the Washington files
of the Office of Strategic Services,a story that can now be told.
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I knew something was up when ColonelPalmer met Tom Barnes and me at the
dock that night. He hadn't comedown from London just to wish his bon
voyage. There wasn't time for suchformalities in the OSS, even when a
couple of its agents were embarking forthe coast of Nazi occupied France. Then
at the chief pulled to a stopped. The Colonel stepped into the faint glow
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of the black outline capadger, Yes, sir, this is the radio operator
Captain's right, I'm bond Blans CorporalBonn, Sussex. Gods, you men
are all set, Yes, sir, we shove off in twenty minutes and
he'll put you ashore below Santas justbefore dawn. After you've been landed,
you'll move inland exactly six kilometers.You'll be met there by an agent of
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the Marquis. I understand now,I'm in. We got a lecture then,
we didn't need it. We knewour mission was important, German submarines
and hitting our convoys in the Atlantic, hitting them hard. Shipping losses had
to be cut, and the bestway to cut them was to blast the
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Nazi subpens along the French coast.I understand. It was my job to
locate the biggest pens. It wasTom's job to radio the information back to
England so the Allied Air forces wouldknow where to lay their eggs. No,
we didn't need any lecture and howimportant it was. You're not listening.
Oh, I'm sorry, colonel.I heard it all in London two
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days ago, sir. I uhwas wondering why you came down here to
say it again. And they've hadanother reason for coming down. That's what
we figures. There's being a changein plans, slight one. Yes.
Originally you two were the one totake this mission alone. I've decided now
to send a third man with you. Who is he, Sir? I'd
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rather say nothing about it till yousee him. You'll be something of a
surprise to you. Perhaps surpriser,yes, though not too unpleasant one.
I hope your reaction to him maywell determine the success of your mission.
I afraid I don't understand, Colonel. You will in nomit it. He's
already on the boat. Hold on, Tom and I followed the Colonel out
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on the dock. British Navy torpedoboat that was going to take us across
the channel lay in the water,black shadow on a black knight. We
climbed the board, stowed our gearon Dick Love toward the Ford cabin.
Tom and I exchanged looks. Neitherof us like this. Slight change and
plans here, Captain, Let's havea look at him, Colonel. For
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a moment, the bright lights ofthe cabin spilling out on the deck blinded
me. Then I saw him.First, I thought it was a gag
until a guy turned, until hemade a stiff bow from the waist until
he said, good evening, gentlemen. I'm looking Carl Mulla of the German
hece fair and I knew it wasn'ta gag. He belonged in that uniform
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he was wearing. It was allhis, every nazy stitch of it,
right up to the death's head insigny on his left shoulder. E MANA.
This is Captain Linc Dagger and thisis corpor of Bonds of the British
Army and detached service with the USS. It is a pleasure to meet you,
gentlemen. Is it held? PalmerMay Bonds and I speak to you
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alone? All right? I willgo out on deck well. Although we
have to say it, sir,you must know how we feel about this,
I'll say it link, Sir.I don't like the idea of taking
a jerry with us in the Naziterritory. Do we have to do it?
Colonel, you volunteered for this mission. Bonds, you don't have to
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do anything. Here's a dagger andI can do the job, sir without
a jerry, even do it fasterwith him, Corporal, and we've got
to start hitting those sub vents asquickly as possible. Miller will be valuable
to you in obtaining information from hisformer fellow officers. Must have a lot
of faith in this Nazi, Sir. He's not a Nazi, he's a
German. Is there a differencer?Yes, Even when he was an officer
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in one of Hitler's pet Division's colonels, threw no choice of his own.
Daggat Meller was captured by the Britishand North Africa two years ago. He's
been working as an interpreter for theOSS for eighteen months. He's been thoroughly
screened. We have faith in hisstory that he's always been opposed to Hitler.
Wellly, he could have been lyingto you, sir, just waiting
for a chance like this, achance to get back to German territory.
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It could have been, but wedon't think he was now. But if
he were, Sir, Barts andIra cup At dead ducks, he'll sell
us out the minute we get acrossthe channel. That's quite true, Daggett.
And that's the chance you'll both haveto take. We could have backed
out, but we didn't. Younever do so we headed across the channel,
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one Englishman, one American and oneGerman. I don't know what the
German was thinking. He didn't saymuch, but the Englishman and the American
were thinking. He was going tobe a one way trip. Just before
dawn, the torpedo bowl put usashore below Santa's Air. He stood listening
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to a motors die away, andI turned and walked up to Lieutenant Calm
Mueller. I lifted his lugo outof its holster, and he didn't say
a word. I broke the gunopen. Were twelve rounds on the clip
and one shell in the chamber.The clip in my pocket and handed the
gun back to him, the shellsstill in it. Donka here, Capydine,
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you'll learn I left you one shell. If anything goes wrong, you
may need it. That is,if you're on a level, I will,
usually thought myself, rather than fallinto the hands of the Nazis.
Yeah, I know you will ifyou're on the level. If you're not,
though, you'll think twice about usingit on us. See you,
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you couldn't get both of us withone shell. Understand Yeah, I understand
here, Capdene. It was justa phony gesture. Of course. He
knew as well as I did thatit didn't mean a thing. The country
was occupied by a half million ofhis countrymen. He could wipe us out
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like stepping an up bug if hewarned it to. Dawn was breaking and
he left the beach. He startedinland to keep rondezvous with Philippe Martand and
my key agent, who was toset us up with a base. Operations
must have made quite a picture,two men dressed as French peasants strudging along
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behind a Nazi officer. He keptto the fields and moved along hedge rows
as much as we could, andthen we came to a highway. German
army Laurie rumbled by while we squattedbehind the hedge row and held our breath.
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That's all cleononic. Yeah, yeah, we'll cross one at a time.
You first knew, yeah, yeah, could be dead. He got
over the hedge row and out ontothe highway, was halfway across Tom and
I straighten up to follow him,and we saw it. We dropped down
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again. A German reconnaissance car swingingaround the bend in the road, stopped
feet from Muler. He looked atthe Nazis, he looked at him.
We looked at both of them throughthe hedge row and waited. I had
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hit la. It was in thelift of his voice, was in a
smile on his face. There wasno mistaking it. Calm Mueler was back
with his buddies. Calm Muler washome. I think let's get away from
her, make a run for italong the hedge row. For what he
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tips off those crowds. We won'tget ten feet. Yes, I guess
you're right. Well, if wego, I'm taking Jerry with us.
I'd had the same idea. Ihad already sneaked my revolver out of my
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coat. We drew a bead onthat stiff Prussian back and we did some
are waiting, crouching and waiting untilI hit now, all right here,
capitaine, it is safe for youto come out. Now. We went
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out, but not before it exchangedanother whisper, not before Barnes said what
we were both thinking. Maybe thecolonel was rightling, maybe the jetty is
on the square, or maybe he'sjust smarter than we thought. What do
you mean smart enough to use usfor bait? That was it? Bait?
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Why get rid of us so fast? We weren't that important. He
could get rid of us whenever hewanted to, and he'd only wanted to.
After we'd served his purpose, afterwe'd jeopardized the French my key by
exposing them to him. Yes,after we'd sent a lot of Yankee and
British flyers to their death, joinMueller and continued on to our rendezvous point.
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There's nothing I could do about it. You'll have been as signed as
a member of the mission. Soif I'd acted like one. You don't
knock off a fellow agent unless you'resure. All right? Link just six
kilometers east of the beach, now, yeah, yeah, this patch of
woods must be the place. Whatdo we do now here, Capitaine?
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Nothing? Just wait, wait forwhat monsieur? He stepped out from behind
a bush as silently as a shadow. But shadows don't carry Tommy guns.
You were expecting someone, monsieur?Yeah, man named Philippe. My time,
I am Philippe. Well then youknow who we are now, I'm
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afraid not, monsieur. You'd therewere two of you, I would know,
but not three. There was alast minute change of playing. It's
a very great change since it maderoom for a Nazi officer. Look,
not all men who wear Nazi uniformsa Nazi officer. True monsieur, But
old frenchmen know are Nazi when theysee one ino out of uniform. Why
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is this man here? Tommy gunwas shoving in a Mula's chest. I
had to talk fast. I explainedwho the German was. I said the
OSS trusted him, the OSS madetrussed him. Monsieur, but I trust
no German. That makes no difference. My orders are that Mule is a
member this mission. Let's get going. You hear me my time? Very
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well, monsieur, follow me.Where are you taking us to my farm?
You will set up your radio inmy barn? Is it safe?
Safe? Why don't you ask yourfriend her Miller. Two hours later,
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Tom had his transmitter set up ina loft of Phelipe Martin's farm, a
few miles outside Santa's are with yourpermission in here, Capitaine, I will
leave now. Yeah, you knowwhat you're to do, Mueller. Yeah?
Yeah. With these forged orders ColonelPalmer gave me, I will be
able to secure all the necessary informationabout submarine pins in the San Jose Air
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area if you want to, Ihope her, Capitaine, I will be
able to prove to you that Ido want to. We hope so too.
Mueller. All right, get going. We expect you to contact us
daily. We don't hear from you. Big combs at the door. How
could that be, Philip pillit pit. It's all right, monsieur. He's
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my sister, Marie. She isalso a loyal member of McKie. Marie
Martin wasn't just a loyal my keymember. She was a beautiful one too.
I wouldn't have had a look ather to though, and only have
had a look at them that TomBarnes as a brother, introduced her.
This is my sister Marie, messieurMarrie, Captain Daggett's corporal Barnes and and
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hall Light a germ here teller.Mueller is a prisoner of war mademoiselle working
for the USS. He is anats An X Nazi mademoiselle. The only
X Nazis are dead ones. PhilippThrow this pig out of here, mademoiselle.
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Your brother and I have had allthis out, Philipps agreed to you.
No right to agree. This isas much my parmat it is his.
I will not have a Nazi onit, all right, all right,
inasmuch as Mule is just leaving forSanta's Air on a mission. You
are sending him on a mission.You must be out of your mind.
Caby, I think your brother andI have had all this out. Philipps
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agreed to you, no right toagree. This is as much my pharm
as it is his. I willnot have a nutsy on it. All
right, all right. In asmuch as Mule is just leaving for Santa's
Air on a mission, you aresending him on a mission. You must
be out of your mind, capite. I think she has a point.
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Link. You remember that little discussionwe had back on the highway about bait.
Yeah, I remember a time,and I'm pretty sure now that we
were right. We have no moreproof now than we did then. I
would rather he would stay here,Capitain than see him go on a mission.
Well, here, Capitaine, getgoing, you'll learn Blastan. You
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will hear from me here Capitaine.We you will hear from him through the
Gestapo. I wasn't sure she waswrong, and Tom Barnes was sure she
was right. But then times judgmentwasn't to be trusted. Not where Marie
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my town was concerned. Well,time, where you've been? Why I
took a walk with Marie down MotherBrook. You you take a lot of
walks with Marie, don't you.Why not? There's nothing to do but
cool our heels until we hear fromMuller. And quite frankly, old man,
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I can't think of anybody I'd rathercool my heels with. And then
we heard from Mueller. We heardquite a lot from him, and not
through the Gestapo either. You mustcopy these maps immediately, her Capitan.
I must get them back to theNazi headquarters before morning. You will find
on them the location of the Nazisub pins from San Jasea to Dunkirk.
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I copied the maps and deciphered thecode symbols, turned my report over to
Tom to transmit to England. ButTom was stubborn. How do you know
those maps weren't fatally? I don't. Maybe Muller was using us just the
way we thought he were. Maybehe is. And why else said that's
tough, because those are my ordersand I'm going to obey them. I
send it Tom, we'll see whathappens. Well, we saw what happened
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that night. Off in the distance, A thousand searchlights stabbed the sky with
black plumps and smoke everywhere. Thetruants were throwing up a curtain of flack
that no air force and the wholeworld could penetrate. Next day, Mueller
came back to the barn. Bythen Tom had received the box score from
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England twenty planes. You'll hear that, Murea, we lost twenty planes last
night. I do not understand here, corporate. Oh no, no,
you don't understand it at all,do you. They knew we were coming,
they were waiting for us, Butyou don't understand it. You are
implying, of course, that Ibetrayed you. But I give you my
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word. He is the word ofa Nazi. Are you perhaps convinced now?
I told you we should have listenedto hurling easy. It is too
late, of course to save thosetwenty planes. It is not too late
to stop other raids, because ofcourse he's righting a radio Colonel Palmer this
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minute, capitane. Well, Mueller, I am, I have another map
if you wish to look at it, all right, let's see it.
I am. I would prefer toshow it to you alone alone. Why
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you pick up a German? Come? Are you suggesting there's anyone here but
yourself? Will can't be trusted.Look, Mula, you're in opposition to
make such request. You have somethingto show me, you can show to
me here very well, here,capitan. He had something to show me,
all right. At the tailed shotof the biggest sub pens along the
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whole coast. I knew it wasworth any risk to try to smash those
pens. But Tom Barnes didn't knowit. He needed a lot of convincing.
He insisted that shot was bait,just bait. It turned out he
was right. Next week was anightmare. Eight planes nas ten, six
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at Cherbourg, nine at Lahare.Everywhere we struck the crowds while waiting operations
sell out. Tom and I calledit. We had a name for Lighten.
At Mule or two. Tom wasn'taround at night. I reached a
decision. I went looking for himdown by the brook. Of course,
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it was a bright moon. Isaw two figures as I approached. Then
two figures became one for a moment. I love you, Marie. Oh
moshit down. You must not sayit in once today there is no place
for the word love. Maybe notmad. But when the water is over,
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I'm going to ask you to marryme. Tom, Link, what
are you doing here? Back tothe barn, wants your radio Palma to
call off the rage. At last, you have come to your senses,
capita. What about Mueller? Ithink you'll forget Muller. It's almost a
week since we heard from him.We don't even know where he is,
but we can guess no capital.He is in Berlin, probably receiving a
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medal from his Spua. Tom andI had to work fast once it dawn
on the Germans that there'd be nomore rage, they'd be after us.
We radio the Colonel canceling a rage, telling him we thought on mission was
over. Six hours later came theanswer the colonel thought otherwise, Good lord,
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we can't be serious. Link,Hey serious? All right? He
still wants to smash those subpins atSander's Air. Since they couldn't do it
from the air, they're going todo it from the ground with a commando
raid. Yeah, commando raid,a hit and run attack where coordination and
split second timing were everything. Tomand I were to be the inside man.
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Big job. Yeah, but thistime we didn't have two strikes against
us. No, because this wasone clam bake that Carl Mueller wouldn't know
anything about. What do we do? First link, contact the local leader
of the My key will let himknow what's happening and he'll give us a
safer place to roost. But howdo we contact him? PHILIPO know him?
Philip's and Van. Wait a minute, how about Marie? She might
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know too, Right, go gether. He went to find Marie.
I packed up the radio and theother equipment. I heard the door open.
I thought he brought it back.I was wrong. Good evening,
hair capy Taine Muller. I didn'texpect you to show your face around here
again. I heard in Santa Sathat their aids have been canceled. I
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was afraid you and corporate bonds mightbe on your way back to England.
We're packing now. Oh I amnot to go back with you. Then
there's only one place you're going,Muller, so put your gun away,
hair Capitaine. You do not needto kill me. Since you are leaving
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me here. I shall make useof the one shell you so kindly left
in my EVOLV. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you will. You couldn't
bear to be left behind with yournazy pals. Could you learned from my
gun house shuts. I didn't knowwhere they were from. I didn't wait
to find out. I hit thefloor, dragging the candle off the table
with him. The barn went blackand lay there for a second, and
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from outside I heard, let's havehim lightly. I think I got him.
Tom had fired the shots. WhenI loot the candle again, I
saw it was wrong. The doorwaywhere Mueller had been standing was empty,
Mula was gone. I was sureI hit all right. Never mind,
we got something more important to thinkabout. The Mueller you told Marie,
We capita. He told me youwish to see the local marquis leader.
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That's right. Can you take usto him? May we? Capita?
I will arrange for you to meetMonsieur N. She said it would take
until the next evening to arrange it. Tom and I cleared out of the
farm and hold up in the patchof woods where we first met Philippe.
Of course, she had to startraining just before dog Marie showed up in
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the woods. It is done,Capita. Monsieur t N will be waiting
for you at eight o'clock. They'reroun behind the village cafe. Good work,
Marie, you're going there with usAndre Darmy No more, I must
return to Monsieur Tienne, but Iwill be waiting for you at the tack.
She was standing in the doorway whenwe got there at eight. She
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led us around the bank into asmall, dirty, dimly lit room.
Was ony Monsieur. He rose fromhis chair and stood behind the table.
Monsieur Etin was a small dark man. His eyes were shifty and calculating,
kind of eyes you often find inthe head that has a price on it.
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My apologies, Monsieur, for notseeing you sooner. I was at
my headquarters in the heels I hadto walk down. The roads were within
muddy. No apologies necessary, Monsieur. See Mademoiselle Martin informs me. You
wish the assistance of the magis.We need plenty of assistants. British commandos
are planning arraid on the port ofSanta's air a commander Sanase. Those eyes
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of his grew wider, they grewright. He stepped from behind the table.
But he shouldn't have, because thatwas when I saw his boots.
They were clean and polished. Therewasn't a speck of mud on him,
and yet he'd walked through the mudfrom his headquarters in the hills. He
said, is uh something that metthere? He knew something was a matter,
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all right. He knew what itwas too. He saw my eyes
on his boots and he understood.His hand went under his coat, but
it never came out, because thatwas all I needed, for the love
of Heaven. One shot at it. He grabbed at his stomach and he
slumped to the floor. Good Lord, didn't cost the idea. Yeah,
that's one collaborator, less sure,that's all he was. Tom Natcy's planted
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him here to find out about ournew mission. Yes, but they didn't
know we had a new mission.You sent me and have thought we were
packing up to go back to England. That's right, he did well then,
who could have I started to tellhim, I didn't have to.
He saw it for himself, Marie. A look on her face confirmed it.
A look on his face it's thekind of thing you don't like to
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remember. That was all she needed. She bowlted for the door and threw
it open. I took one whileshot at her, and I missed.
Before I got fire again, shewas gone. She knows about the raid
link. We've got to stop herbefore she gets to the German. There's
no telling which way she went on. We'll split up. You go that
way and out the ceiling. Who'sMarie? Come on? Ran down the
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dark alley behind the cafe. Theend of it, we found her lying
face down in the mud. She'sdeadlink. Yeah, but who shut her?
I did? Here, Corporal Mueler. I'm so sorry her buns.
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I know how you failed about butshe was our enemy. She had to
die. Yeah, but how didyou know? Mueller? I finally found
a Frenchman who trusted me here,Capitaine. His name is Monsieur Etienne.
You mean that was his name?You see? He thought that I was
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a Nazi tool. He confided inme, I said, Mueller. Yeah,
her copper, Okay, I Iought to tell you. What I
mean is I don't know how tosay it. I'm sorry I didn't trust.
Do not say it, please.I I understand her, Capitaine,
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as Mulla, I have used thatone shall you left in my revolver when
I wonder if you would permit meto have one more? No, I
won't. Uh no, not onemore, Carl, I'm giving you back
the whole clip. That same night, we contacted the real leader of the
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my key. Two weeks later,the commando struck in his air. They
wiped out that subpen and they wentback to England. Tom Barnes and I
went with him, and so didour friend Carl Mueller. And once again
the report of another OSS agent closeswith the words mission accomplished. Listen again
next week for another true adventure fromthe files of the OSS on Cloak and
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Dagger. Heard in Today's Clark andDagger adventurer as Captain Deckett was Carl Eastman,
Tom Barnes I and Marker Carl Mueller. Louis van Rutin married Louise Ericson
it En Raymond with Johnson Martin,Arnold Moss and the Nazi Carl Weber.
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The script was written by Canfield andmusic was under the direction of John Guard.
Sound effects by Manny Siegel and JohnPowers engineering Don Evan. Today's OSS
Adventure was based on the book Cloakand Dagger by Cory Ford and Alistair McBaine.
This program is produced by Lewis G. Cowen and Alfred Hollander under the
direction and supervision of Shaman Marx.Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC
Are you willing to undertake a dangerousmission behind the enemy lines, knowing you
may never return alive. What youhave just heard is the question asked during
the war to agents of the OSSordinary citizens who, to this question answered
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yes, this is cloak and dagger, black warfare, espionage, international intrigue.
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These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's adventure, Operation Sellout is
the story of an American OSS agentwho went into Terman occupied forts to locate
Nazi submarine bases, and is suggestedby actual incidents recorded in the Washington files
of the Office of Strategic Services,a story that can now be told.
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I knew something was up when ColonelPalmer met Tom Barnes and me at the
dock that night. He hadn't comedown from London just to wish his bon
voyage. There wasn't time for suchformalities in the OSS, even when a
couple of its agents were embarking forthe coast of Nazi occupied France. Then
at the chief pulled to a stopped. The Colonel stepped into the faint glow
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of the black outline capadger, Yes, sir, this is the radio operator
Captain's right, I'm bond Blans CorporalBonn, Sussex. Gods, you men
are all set, Yes, sir, we shove off in twenty minutes and
he'll put you ashore below Santas justbefore dawn. After you've been landed,
you'll move inland exactly six kilometers.You'll be met there by an agent of
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the Marquis. I understand now,I'm in. We got a lecture then,
we didn't need it. We knewour mission was important, German submarines
and hitting our convoys in the Atlantic, hitting them hard. Shipping losses had
to be cut, and the bestway to cut them was to blast the
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Nazi subpens along the French coast.I understand. It was my job to
locate the biggest pens. It wasTom's job to radio the information back to
England so the Allied Air forces wouldknow where to lay their eggs. No,
we didn't need any lecture and howimportant it was. You're not listening.
Oh, I'm sorry, colonel.I heard it all in London two
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days ago, sir. I uhwas wondering why you came down here to
say it again. And they've hadanother reason for coming down. That's what
we figures. There's being a changein plans, slight one. Yes.
Originally you two were the one totake this mission alone. I've decided now
to send a third man with you. Who is he, Sir? I'd
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rather say nothing about it till yousee him. You'll be something of a
surprise to you. Perhaps surpriser,yes, though not too unpleasant one.
I hope your reaction to him maywell determine the success of your mission.
I afraid I don't understand, Colonel. You will in nomit it. He's
already on the boat. Hold on, Tom and I followed the Colonel out
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on the dock. British Navy torpedoboat that was going to take us across
the channel lay in the water,black shadow on a black knight. We
climbed the board, stowed our gearon Dick Love toward the Ford cabin.
Tom and I exchanged looks. Neitherof us like this. Slight change and
plans here, Captain, Let's havea look at him, Colonel. For
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a moment, the bright lights ofthe cabin spilling out on the deck blinded
me. Then I saw him.First, I thought it was a gag
until a guy turned, until hemade a stiff bow from the waist until
he said, good evening, gentlemen. I'm looking Carl Mulla of the German
hece fair and I knew it wasn'ta gag. He belonged in that uniform
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he was wearing. It was allhis, every nazy stitch of it,
right up to the death's head insigny on his left shoulder. E MANA.
This is Captain Linc Dagger and thisis corpor of Bonds of the British
Army and detached service with the USS. It is a pleasure to meet you,
gentlemen. Is it held? PalmerMay Bonds and I speak to you
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alone? All right? I willgo out on deck well. Although we
have to say it, sir,you must know how we feel about this,
I'll say it link, Sir.I don't like the idea of taking
a jerry with us in the Naziterritory. Do we have to do it?
Colonel, you volunteered for this mission. Bonds, you don't have to
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do anything. Here's a dagger andI can do the job, sir without
a jerry, even do it fasterwith him, Corporal, and we've got
to start hitting those sub vents asquickly as possible. Miller will be valuable
to you in obtaining information from hisformer fellow officers. Must have a lot
of faith in this Nazi, Sir. He's not a Nazi, he's a
German. Is there a differencer?Yes, Even when he was an officer
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in one of Hitler's pet Division's colonels, threw no choice of his own.
Daggat Meller was captured by the Britishand North Africa two years ago. He's
been working as an interpreter for theOSS for eighteen months. He's been thoroughly
screened. We have faith in hisstory that he's always been opposed to Hitler.
Wellly, he could have been lyingto you, sir, just waiting
for a chance like this, achance to get back to German territory.
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It could have been, but wedon't think he was now. But if
he were, Sir, Barts andIra cup At dead ducks, he'll sell
us out the minute we get acrossthe channel. That's quite true, Daggett.
And that's the chance you'll both haveto take. We could have backed
out, but we didn't. Younever do so we headed across the channel,
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one Englishman, one American and oneGerman. I don't know what the
German was thinking. He didn't saymuch, but the Englishman and the American
were thinking. He was going tobe a one way trip. Just before
dawn, the torpedo bowl put usashore below Santa's Air. He stood listening
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to a motors die away, andI turned and walked up to Lieutenant Calm
Mueller. I lifted his lugo outof its holster, and he didn't say
a word. I broke the gunopen. Were twelve rounds on the clip
and one shell in the chamber.The clip in my pocket and handed the
gun back to him, the shellsstill in it. Donka here, Capydine,
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you'll learn I left you one shell. If anything goes wrong, you
may need it. That is,if you're on a level, I will,
usually thought myself, rather than fallinto the hands of the Nazis.
Yeah, I know you will ifyou're on the level. If you're not,
though, you'll think twice about usingit on us. See you,
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you couldn't get both of us withone shell. Understand Yeah, I understand
here, Capdene. It was justa phony gesture. Of course. He
knew as well as I did thatit didn't mean a thing. The country
was occupied by a half million ofhis countrymen. He could wipe us out
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like stepping an up bug if hewarned it to. Dawn was breaking and
he left the beach. He startedinland to keep rondezvous with Philippe Martand and
my key agent, who was toset us up with a base. Operations
must have made quite a picture,two men dressed as French peasants strudging along
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behind a Nazi officer. He keptto the fields and moved along hedge rows
as much as we could, andthen we came to a highway. German
army Laurie rumbled by while we squattedbehind the hedge row and held our breath.
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That's all cleononic. Yeah, yeah, we'll cross one at a time.
You first knew, yeah, yeah, could be dead. He got
over the hedge row and out ontothe highway, was halfway across Tom and
I straighten up to follow him,and we saw it. We dropped down
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again. A German reconnaissance car swingingaround the bend in the road, stopped
feet from Muler. He looked atthe Nazis, he looked at him.
We looked at both of them throughthe hedge row and waited. I had
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hit la. It was in thelift of his voice, was in a
smile on his face. There wasno mistaking it. Calm Mueler was back
with his buddies. Calm Muler washome. I think let's get away from
her, make a run for italong the hedge row. For what he
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tips off those crowds. We won'tget ten feet. Yes, I guess
you're right. Well, if wego, I'm taking Jerry with us.
I'd had the same idea. Ihad already sneaked my revolver out of my
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coat. We drew a bead onthat stiff Prussian back and we did some
are waiting, crouching and waiting untilI hit now, all right here,
capitaine, it is safe for youto come out. Now. We went
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out, but not before it exchangedanother whisper, not before Barnes said what
we were both thinking. Maybe thecolonel was rightling, maybe the jetty is
on the square, or maybe he'sjust smarter than we thought. What do
you mean smart enough to use usfor bait? That was it? Bait?
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Why get rid of us so fast? We weren't that important. He
could get rid of us whenever hewanted to, and he'd only wanted to.
After we'd served his purpose, afterwe'd jeopardized the French my key by
exposing them to him. Yes,after we'd sent a lot of Yankee and
British flyers to their death, joinMueller and continued on to our rendezvous point.
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There's nothing I could do about it. You'll have been as signed as
a member of the mission. Soif I'd acted like one. You don't
knock off a fellow agent unless you'resure. All right? Link just six
kilometers east of the beach, now, yeah, yeah, this patch of
woods must be the place. Whatdo we do now here, Capitaine?
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Nothing? Just wait, wait forwhat monsieur? He stepped out from behind
a bush as silently as a shadow. But shadows don't carry Tommy guns.
You were expecting someone, monsieur?Yeah, man named Philippe. My time,
I am Philippe. Well then youknow who we are now, I'm
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afraid not, monsieur. You'd therewere two of you, I would know,
but not three. There was alast minute change of playing. It's
a very great change since it maderoom for a Nazi officer. Look,
not all men who wear Nazi uniformsa Nazi officer. True monsieur, But
old frenchmen know are Nazi when theysee one ino out of uniform. Why
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is this man here? Tommy gunwas shoving in a Mula's chest. I
had to talk fast. I explainedwho the German was. I said the
OSS trusted him, the OSS madetrussed him. Monsieur, but I trust
no German. That makes no difference. My orders are that Mule is a
member this mission. Let's get going. You hear me my time? Very
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well, monsieur, follow me.Where are you taking us to my farm?
You will set up your radio inmy barn? Is it safe?
Safe? Why don't you ask yourfriend her Miller. Two hours later,
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Tom had his transmitter set up ina loft of Phelipe Martin's farm, a
few miles outside Santa's are with yourpermission in here, Capitaine, I will
leave now. Yeah, you knowwhat you're to do, Mueller. Yeah?
Yeah. With these forged orders ColonelPalmer gave me, I will be
able to secure all the necessary informationabout submarine pins in the San Jose Air
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area if you want to, Ihope her, Capitaine, I will be
able to prove to you that Ido want to. We hope so too.
Mueller. All right, get going. We expect you to contact us
daily. We don't hear from you. Big combs at the door. How
could that be, Philip pillit pit. It's all right, monsieur. He's
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my sister, Marie. She isalso a loyal member of McKie. Marie
Martin wasn't just a loyal my keymember. She was a beautiful one too.
I wouldn't have had a look ather to though, and only have
had a look at them that TomBarnes as a brother, introduced her.
This is my sister Marie, messieurMarrie, Captain Daggett's corporal Barnes and and
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hall Light a germ here teller.Mueller is a prisoner of war mademoiselle working
for the USS. He is anats An X Nazi mademoiselle. The only
X Nazis are dead ones. PhilippThrow this pig out of here, mademoiselle.
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Your brother and I have had allthis out, Philipps agreed to you.
No right to agree. This isas much my parmat it is his.
I will not have a Nazi onit, all right, all right,
inasmuch as Mule is just leaving forSanta's Air on a mission. You
are sending him on a mission.You must be out of your mind.
Caby, I think your brother andI have had all this out. Philipps
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agreed to you, no right toagree. This is as much my pharm
as it is his. I willnot have a nutsy on it. All
right, all right. In asmuch as Mule is just leaving for Santa's
Air on a mission, you aresending him on a mission. You must
be out of your mind, capite. I think she has a point.
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Link. You remember that little discussionwe had back on the highway about bait.
Yeah, I remember a time,and I'm pretty sure now that we
were right. We have no moreproof now than we did then. I
would rather he would stay here,Capitain than see him go on a mission.
Well, here, Capitaine, getgoing, you'll learn Blastan. You
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will hear from me here Capitaine.We you will hear from him through the
Gestapo. I wasn't sure she waswrong, and Tom Barnes was sure she
was right. But then times judgmentwasn't to be trusted. Not where Marie
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my town was concerned. Well,time, where you've been? Why I
took a walk with Marie down MotherBrook. You you take a lot of
walks with Marie, don't you.Why not? There's nothing to do but
cool our heels until we hear fromMuller. And quite frankly, old man,
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I can't think of anybody I'd rathercool my heels with. And then
we heard from Mueller. We heardquite a lot from him, and not
through the Gestapo either. You mustcopy these maps immediately, her Capitan.
I must get them back to theNazi headquarters before morning. You will find
on them the location of the Nazisub pins from San Jasea to Dunkirk.
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I copied the maps and deciphered thecode symbols, turned my report over to
Tom to transmit to England. ButTom was stubborn. How do you know
those maps weren't fatally? I don't. Maybe Muller was using us just the
way we thought he were. Maybehe is. And why else said that's
tough, because those are my ordersand I'm going to obey them. I
send it Tom, we'll see whathappens. Well, we saw what happened
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that night. Off in the distance, A thousand searchlights stabbed the sky with
black plumps and smoke everywhere. Thetruants were throwing up a curtain of flack
that no air force and the wholeworld could penetrate. Next day, Mueller
came back to the barn. Bythen Tom had received the box score from
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England twenty planes. You'll hear that, Murea, we lost twenty planes last
night. I do not understand here, corporate. Oh no, no,
you don't understand it at all,do you. They knew we were coming,
they were waiting for us, Butyou don't understand it. You are
implying, of course, that Ibetrayed you. But I give you my
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word. He is the word ofa Nazi. Are you perhaps convinced now?
I told you we should have listenedto hurling easy. It is too
late, of course to save thosetwenty planes. It is not too late
to stop other raids, because ofcourse he's righting a radio Colonel Palmer this
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minute, capitane. Well, Mueller, I am, I have another map
if you wish to look at it, all right, let's see it.
I am. I would prefer toshow it to you alone alone. Why
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you pick up a German? Come? Are you suggesting there's anyone here but
yourself? Will can't be trusted.Look, Mula, you're in opposition to
make such request. You have somethingto show me, you can show to
me here very well, here,capitan. He had something to show me,
all right. At the tailed shotof the biggest sub pens along the
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whole coast. I knew it wasworth any risk to try to smash those
pens. But Tom Barnes didn't knowit. He needed a lot of convincing.
He insisted that shot was bait,just bait. It turned out he
was right. Next week was anightmare. Eight planes nas ten, six
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at Cherbourg, nine at Lahare.Everywhere we struck the crowds while waiting operations
sell out. Tom and I calledit. We had a name for Lighten.
At Mule or two. Tom wasn'taround at night. I reached a
decision. I went looking for himdown by the brook. Of course,
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it was a bright moon. Isaw two figures as I approached. Then
two figures became one for a moment. I love you, Marie. Oh
moshit down. You must not sayit in once today there is no place
for the word love. Maybe notmad. But when the water is over,
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I'm going to ask you to marryme. Tom, Link, what
are you doing here? Back tothe barn, wants your radio Palma to
call off the rage. At last, you have come to your senses,
capita. What about Mueller? Ithink you'll forget Muller. It's almost a
week since we heard from him.We don't even know where he is,
but we can guess no capital.He is in Berlin, probably receiving a
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medal from his Spua. Tom andI had to work fast once it dawn
on the Germans that there'd be nomore rage, they'd be after us.
We radio the Colonel canceling a rage, telling him we thought on mission was
over. Six hours later came theanswer the colonel thought otherwise, Good lord,
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we can't be serious. Link,Hey serious? All right? He
still wants to smash those subpins atSander's Air. Since they couldn't do it
from the air, they're going todo it from the ground with a commando
raid. Yeah, commando raid,a hit and run attack where coordination and
split second timing were everything. Tomand I were to be the inside man.
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Big job. Yeah, but thistime we didn't have two strikes against
us. No, because this wasone clam bake that Carl Mueller wouldn't know
anything about. What do we do? First link, contact the local leader
of the My key will let himknow what's happening and he'll give us a
safer place to roost. But howdo we contact him? PHILIPO know him?
Philip's and Van. Wait a minute, how about Marie? She might
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know too, Right, go gether. He went to find Marie.
I packed up the radio and theother equipment. I heard the door open.
I thought he brought it back.I was wrong. Good evening,
hair capy Taine Muller. I didn'texpect you to show your face around here
again. I heard in Santa Sathat their aids have been canceled. I
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was afraid you and corporate bonds mightbe on your way back to England.
We're packing now. Oh I amnot to go back with you. Then
there's only one place you're going,Muller, so put your gun away,
hair Capitaine. You do not needto kill me. Since you are leaving
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me here. I shall make useof the one shell you so kindly left
in my EVOLV. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you will. You couldn't
bear to be left behind with yournazy pals. Could you learned from my
gun house shuts. I didn't knowwhere they were from. I didn't wait
to find out. I hit thefloor, dragging the candle off the table
with him. The barn went blackand lay there for a second, and
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from outside I heard, let's havehim lightly. I think I got him.
Tom had fired the shots. WhenI loot the candle again, I
saw it was wrong. The doorwaywhere Mueller had been standing was empty,
Mula was gone. I was sureI hit all right. Never mind,
we got something more important to thinkabout. The Mueller you told Marie,
We capita. He told me youwish to see the local marquis leader.
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That's right. Can you take usto him? May we? Capita?
I will arrange for you to meetMonsieur N. She said it would take
until the next evening to arrange it. Tom and I cleared out of the
farm and hold up in the patchof woods where we first met Philippe.
Of course, she had to startraining just before dog Marie showed up in
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the woods. It is done,Capita. Monsieur t N will be waiting
for you at eight o'clock. They'reroun behind the village cafe. Good work,
Marie, you're going there with usAndre Darmy No more, I must
return to Monsieur Tienne, but Iwill be waiting for you at the tack.
She was standing in the doorway whenwe got there at eight. She
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led us around the bank into asmall, dirty, dimly lit room.
Was ony Monsieur. He rose fromhis chair and stood behind the table.
Monsieur Etin was a small dark man. His eyes were shifty and calculating,
kind of eyes you often find inthe head that has a price on it.
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My apologies, Monsieur, for notseeing you sooner. I was at
my headquarters in the heels I hadto walk down. The roads were within
muddy. No apologies necessary, Monsieur. See Mademoiselle Martin informs me. You
wish the assistance of the magis.We need plenty of assistants. British commandos
are planning arraid on the port ofSanta's air a commander Sanase. Those eyes
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of his grew wider, they grewright. He stepped from behind the table.
But he shouldn't have, because thatwas when I saw his boots.
They were clean and polished. Therewasn't a speck of mud on him,
and yet he'd walked through the mudfrom his headquarters in the hills. He
said, is uh something that metthere? He knew something was a matter,
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all right. He knew what itwas too. He saw my eyes
on his boots and he understood.His hand went under his coat, but
it never came out, because thatwas all I needed, for the love
of Heaven. One shot at it. He grabbed at his stomach and he
slumped to the floor. Good Lord, didn't cost the idea. Yeah,
that's one collaborator, less sure,that's all he was. Tom Natcy's planted
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him here to find out about ournew mission. Yes, but they didn't
know we had a new mission.You sent me and have thought we were
packing up to go back to England. That's right, he did well then,
who could have I started to tellhim, I didn't have to.
He saw it for himself, Marie. A look on her face confirmed it.
A look on his face it's thekind of thing you don't like to
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remember. That was all she needed. She bowlted for the door and threw
it open. I took one whileshot at her, and I missed.
Before I got fire again, shewas gone. She knows about the raid
link. We've got to stop herbefore she gets to the German. There's
no telling which way she went on. We'll split up. You go that
way and out the ceiling. Who'sMarie? Come on? Ran down the
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dark alley behind the cafe. Theend of it, we found her lying
face down in the mud. She'sdeadlink. Yeah, but who shut her?
I did? Here, Corporal Mueler. I'm so sorry her buns.
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I know how you failed about butshe was our enemy. She had to
die. Yeah, but how didyou know? Mueller? I finally found
a Frenchman who trusted me here,Capitaine. His name is Monsieur Etienne.
You mean that was his name?You see? He thought that I was
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a Nazi tool. He confided inme, I said, Mueller. Yeah,
her copper, Okay, I Iought to tell you. What I
mean is I don't know how tosay it. I'm sorry I didn't trust.
Do not say it, please.I I understand her, Capitaine,
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as Mulla, I have used thatone shall you left in my revolver when
I wonder if you would permit meto have one more? No, I
won't. Uh no, not onemore, Carl, I'm giving you back
the whole clip. That same night, we contacted the real leader of the
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my key. Two weeks later,the commando struck in his air. They
wiped out that subpen and they wentback to England. Tom Barnes and I
went with him, and so didour friend Carl Mueller. And once again
the report of another OSS agent closeswith the words mission accomplished. Listen again
next week for another true adventure fromthe files of the OSS on Cloak and
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Dagger. Heard in Today's Clark andDagger adventurer as Captain Deckett was Carl Eastman,
Tom Barnes I and Marker Carl Mueller. Louis van Rutin married Louise Ericson
it En Raymond with Johnson Martin,Arnold Moss and the Nazi Carl Weber.
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The script was written by Canfield andmusic was under the direction of John Guard.
Sound effects by Manny Siegel and JohnPowers engineering Don Evan. Today's OSS
Adventure was based on the book Cloakand Dagger by Cory Ford and Alistair McBaine.
This program is produced by Lewis G. Cowen and Alfred Hollander under the
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