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 OSS, ordinary citizens who, to this question
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answered yes. This is cloak anddagger, black warfare, espionage, international
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intrigue. These are the weapons ofthe OSS. Today's story, a war
of words, concerns an American agentwho personally delivered a message to the klonel
of a Japanese camp, and issuggested by actually incidents recorded in the Washington
files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story that can now be told.
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Okay, Harry, I spotted it. There's our target. Check,
ready to let them go. Ready, bombs away therese, he goes.
I dropped every one of those bombshellswe had in the plane, and they
hit the target right on the nose. And the explosion that followed sounded like
this just as much noise as papermakes when it floods to the ground.
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Those were our bombshells. Propaganda leaflets, leaflets designed by OSS to lower the
morale of the Japanese soldiers in thatcamp in Burma. Those were our silent
weapons. I'm going to turn backnow, Okay, Pete, Harry,
what do you think of that phonedup picture of the bombing at Tokyo we
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just dropped? Looked authentic to me. And I liked that little pamphlet too,
you know, the one that beganSuns of the Rising Sun. It
is better to surrender than fight withoutbullets or die of starvation in the jungle.
Yeah, that one was real,cured. It's sure. How to
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give those lousy Japs something to thinkabout, right, Sorry, Harry,
I shouldn't have said that. That'sokay, Pete, forget it. Let's
beat our own record, get himback this time. Huh Yeah, here
we go. Sometimes the guys forgotthat Harry was short for your sheet R.
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Yoshinabura. And though I like tothink of myself as an American Japanese,
even Pete Barno thought of me asa Japanese American. I had to
learn not to be too sensitive.Mean boys, not in Thank you,
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colonel, it's down cigarette. Thankyou. You two have done a good
job in the past few months pepperingBurma with that propaganda material. No,
here's a light, thank you,And we already have begun to see the
results. Or how's that, colonel? Well, you know how live Japanese
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prisoners used to be at a premium. Rather than be captured, they'd commit
hallakiri, almost in defiance. Ohyeah, I hear a lot of them
are surrendering lately. That's right.Their morale isn't what it was good,
and you too can take part ofthe credit for that. But tomorrow,
tomorrow, I want you to goone step further. Well, listening,
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sir, h take a look athis documents? What is it Chinese or
Japanese? Well, Greek? Tome, I can tell you what it
is. Paid. It's obviously aforged order to the commander of the Japanese
camp to withdraw his troops three mileseast. Well, I hope it's not
an obvious forager read to him tenderNabura, because if he falls for it
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and moves his camp, our armieswill have a clean road right into Bambo,
and once we get there, berman'spractically in our hands, I see.
Or begging your pardon, colonel,what are we supposed to do to
walk into that jap camp and deliverthese orders? Oh no, no,
your job is much simpler. Allyou have to do is fly over the
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OSS Detachment one hundred and one atAssamon, drop this document. Cutting natives
and our agents there will do therest. We've contacted them by radio.
They expected Jack, Colonel, thiswill be a snap, nothing to it.
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This will be a snap. Ha, nothing to it? Ha heard?
I know we'd run into a chapzero right back at jump, buddy.
Now he died too fast for yourHarry. I'm gonna grab more sky.
Maybe you can lose him up there. It's on a tail, maybe
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not for long. Hang on,boy. Most of the way up the
air was tin enough so that Icould see the nose of that zero following
us. And then it's seven thousandfeet. The air became thick and we
lost them, but the plane hadtaken quite a beating. How bad it
is a lot of your paint.Oh, we're having more than fifty miles
to go. Then we can sitdown and cutch in territory, make repairs
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before heading back to India. Okay, instead of dropping that document well delivered?
Person, won't we get there?Huh? If we get there,
what what's that wing? It's comingoff where he hit us? Person goes,
what do we do? Now?I'm gonna kick a stick forward as
hard as I can put her ina loop. Well, that's crazy.
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Now out of tosses backwards, outof the clock pit. Don't pull your
rip cord before your fall free ofthe plane. We'll land in the river.
I'll give you a freak dry.Here we go. We fell free
of the plane. I jerked therip cord in my shoote open. On
the way down, I inflated mymay west and the little lifeboats swelled up
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below me. I can see Petedrifting slowly in the Brahma put river,
and then I hit the water.Boy, this is a nice mester beg.
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And not even sure exactly where there'sone oh one detachment's located. It's
somewhere to the south, isn't it. Yeah, that's a help. Oh,
jungle steaks. I'm gonna think ofa lot of places i'd rather be,
for instance, for instance, anywherethis place is probably crawling with enemy
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patrols. Oh that's a pleasant,but careful, careful all trip over those
roots. The jungle was heavy andoppressive. The tall trees spread a canopy
over our heads and shut out whatlittle sun there was. After a few
miles, our shirts were ripped theshreds on the brambles, and blood ran
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into our eyes from the leeches onour foreheads, and then feet stopped short.
Harry, But the river? Whatriver? What is it? From
a putre where we land it?You see it? Say to the right,
I don't get it. We passedit a few miles back. Yeah,
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we sure did You see that clumpof roots they look familiar. That's
where you almost tripped, right thereby the swamp. But hae, yeah,
we made a nice big circle rightback where we started. How the
devil did we do there? Anythingcould happened in this lousy Harry, japatroll.
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This just isn't our day coming thisway quick the swamp? No,
never see this. Let's get inthe water to it pass, all right.
Let's say for me, not getdown there. Just keep your nose
up to breathe. We have toget down under it. Don't breathe?
All right? That had I think, and U uh like toud reached that
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and then tied their shoelaces. Let'sget out of here. That night we
lay side by side, deep inthe jungle, on top, of course,
undergrowth, underneath the trees from whichLeanna's hung down like braided ropes.
We shooted oppositions every few minutes.It's a regiment of ants and bugs crawled
into our clothing and kept us awake, and then towards morning we fell asleep,
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exhausted. When we awoke, thesun had found a hole in the
branches and crawled through. Boy,that sun's hot, is it? What
do you mean? Is it?I'm cold, Pete, I got the
shakes. I don't know. Ijust feel sick, sick of my stomach.
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We can't sit here. You thinkyou can travel? Huh oh?
Sure, come on, boy,that sounds blazing, isn't it. Well
thought you said you had the shakes. Huh oh, nothing nothing, Come
on, Harry, Come on now, up on your feet. Boy,
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you'll be all right. Come on, boy, that's it what We started
walking again. Our wrists had opensores on the from jungle rod. My
head was hot, my hands werecold, and I felt sick, awful,
sick. Harry, how do youfeel? I'll be okay with that
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swamp we hit in. That's thoselousy bugs that got on your skin,
and I'll be all right. Ah, Harry, Harry, Harry, I
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okay, fella, I just takeit easy. Yeah, that's it.
This cold cloth on your forehead,it'll make you feel better. You'll see
boy Pete, Yeah, that's pete. Why a man couldn't you say anything
more original than that? For cryingout loud my black dot? Or I
don't talk so much? Glad enoughwhen you were off your head? Uh?
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Who's uh focusing a girl? Iknow it? U c l A.
I figured how long agoes it beensince? Or you know two days?
Have we got enough rash and it? We'll be okay. I don't
lie to me. I said we'llbe okay. Now, don't try to
sit up Harry, Or how fardo you think we are the cutcheons?
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Well, I think I've got thedirection pretty well mapped out now by the
day's travel. Do south? Whynot? If you sit here with me
for a week, now, don'ttalk, get out of here. I'll
tell you what. If you makeit there by yourself, you can come
back with some of the natives andget me. Not on your life.
I'm not leaving it, but quiet, someone's outside the doors garden and call
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out from out of the cares.My head was pounding hotter than before.
Maybe maybe it was the fever maybeit was because I had to lie to
help us while Pete went out alaw do whatever was outside? Shoot free
and friend? Who are you?Maybe soony scout and scout so this morning
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from top of tee show your headbrook so uniform. Yeah yeah, you've
got good eyesight, but you stillhave a told me who you are?
Told you and scout the kutchen scoutcuts and cutching. But why didn't you
say so? You're from a psalm, You're from the OSS detachment. He's
right, Hurry, Harry, didyou hear that? Ol? How's this
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for the mountain coming to Mahammond?It's great, It's just great. Would
like, oh boy, would love? Oh look, I've got a sick
friend in here in the cave there, fever can you fix him up?
And we see? I looked upfrom the bed of leaves that Pete had
made. The cutching scout Olean overme was short and squat, with long
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matted hair and teeth worn to ablack stuff by beatle nut. He took
a good look at me and jumpedback as if he'd been bitten. Jumpany
company's no hold on a wait aminute, hold on, I said,
I listened sling, so ling thisthis is America. Just like I said,
it's Japanese. It's no use listenedsue as a Japanese. Yes,
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yes, that's right. But isAmerican? Two? He s having American
friend. Look at his uniform.You say free, I say Japanese.
We fix up from fever. Theydidn't bring to camp. They didn't say,
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which is what. I don't knowwhat he mixed it up in those
which doctor concoctions, besides the juiceof mahoganyles and the roots of the leanna
vines or whatever it was. Iwas on my feet two days later and
we started out for Detachment one ohone, only this time we had a
guide. And then the next night, out of nowhere we came upon it.
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Well, what do you know here? It was the USS secret hide
down, carved right into the jungleof Burma. So this is Detachment one
oh one. They were each strawattached pashas a mess hall, a well,
a hospital, mortars bezuokas creates anyour naering harry a woman, a
woman, a Red Cross nurse.GEI paratroopers and bright colored shirts and unlaced
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jump boots were strolling about, minglingwith a native troop. Wow. Oh,
is it just like a city inthe wilderness, isn't it. It's
like nothing I've ever seen before,and probably late nothing you'll never see again.
Huh. But where'd you come from? Yeah? Sure, And they've
been standing behind gall the tame.Would you like to let me show your
own baby? Oh well not now, thanks. The guide who brought us
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here disappeared. We've got to findthe headman around here. We have something
for him. Ah. But you'lllive longer if you live slow and don't
drive yourselves. Remember the is thesoul told me that in Dublin many years
ago. He mayrish you know no, no, you don't say who?
Yes, yes, you take agood look at our little camps, they
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said, you'll probably never see anythinglike it again if you live to be
one hundred and four. It's asif the lipri kan said, downright in
the middle of the wilderness, we'lllook around later if you don't mind who's
in there. You take all theseleads, the paratroopers who were fast down
in the jungle, they all hadthe same look about them when they first
came, as if they stumbled intoa better fire leaf PLO, would you
mind very lad there was a farmerin Wisconsin and they went talking to the
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nurses from Boston originally that is andthe tire lads at Texas, but we
win. It took that to makehim say that this looked better to him
than Texas. Well, you areforced down here too. Well in the
manner of speaking, yes, Iwas. What did you do before the
war? I will I'll tell you, lads, I operated a hut furring
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from Hoboken to Canarsie. You wantfurry right driving little business. It was
too and after the war I'll probablygo back to it. This guy's off
his rocket all luck Where can wefind somebody in authority that evening Mass with
everyone else Mass? Of course,you see that big straw hut at the
far end, you'll find it there. We went to Mass and when we
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got there we found our friend witha bro the one who told us he
ran a hot furring Hoboken to Kanasiofficiating at the Every once in a while
he'd look up at us and Icould see the suggestion of a smile around
his lips. There was a soldierstadding next to us, who is that,
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Well, that's father o'ool. Youpractically organized the one on one.
Yeah, sure, and I saidit just to see the look at your
faces. Later on, we'll takea good look. Boy, mind's read
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I would father or two? Yes, here the fourth Japanese orders the colonel
gave us in India. Of course, the original plan about dropping them over
to you and turning back didn't workout. But just as long as we
got him here, just as longas we have them, we know what
to do with them. Now there'sa Japanese mail courier coming through tomorrow night
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from the groom to the jack campat Mooklem. Now I'll have sue Linga
one of the other scouts intercept himand deposit this document in his mail.
Coach, Oh, I get it. Father. When he comes to he
won't know what hit him, buthe'll keep going with the forged papers.
Hey, sure, you get aquick brain lead and there by the bay.
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Yes, father, you know,since you're Japanese as well as American,
I suggest you stay close to mefor the next day or so until
you leave. You see, thenthe Natives will get over the suspicions of
it. I see your mom wasdone with fever. Ah, I was
N'm sorry for budging into your hurtthis way father a tool. But Sueling
told me one of these men hadjungle sickness. Wait, it's great,
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alright, Nurse Amy legs. Takea look at her. Isn't she a
fair cal You know that's enough ofyour blindy father. Come with me,
please? What's your name? Noborer? Lieutenant Harry Nabora. I'm okay?
Now, really are you? Thatmay be? So? We just
want you at the hospital for acheckout. Come along? Hey, hey,
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wait, you jave? Do youmind if I come to No,
not at all. Oh the docwho looked me over gave me a clean
bill of health. It must havebeen those witch doctor herbs or sue Ling's
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later father O'Toole gave us a bashhood to ourselves and pete knife fell on
those armies. And then about threeo'clock in the morning, Harry, Harry,
what's up? I don't know.Let's find out. Yeah, he's
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everybody running to Oh there's that nurse. Maybe seen, hey, nurse,
nurse, nothing to be alarmed about. Boy, what happened? One of
the cab approaches Our watchdog called aprobably any misco. I didn't hear any
dog. This is a silent watchdog. What Actually, it's a crossbow with
one hundred and fifty pound pool.It set up so any intruder who touches
the trip string is shot for thepoisoned arrow. Well that that's quite a
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watch dog. Yes, I've beenthinking of putting one up in front of
my tent, or so Sally.So Sally did not mean now it's done,
Sholing. It can't be helped.It's right, hore they your lads,
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come on in. What's up forthe Suling? Make Maig mistake big
mistakes? Well, I'll tell youboys, say it's like this. I
sent Sue out last night to interceptthe Japanese courier and deposit this document and
his mail poach. What went wrong? Well, it seems that Suling doesn't
know his own strengths to quote aphrase, and he hit him too hard.
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I'm very much afraid the courier willnot be able to deliver the mail
after all to the camp at Mucklem. Well, look, farther told that
document is important. It's got toget there. Where's the corea now in
the hospital? Is even the verybest kid, I assure you, I'm
a mail sack in my position okay, Then another jab courier is going to
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take his place and deliver the mail. You're nuts, Harry, What other
jet courier? Me? What?Now? I know your nuts? Eight.
When I sweitch uniforms of that guy, take a good look at me.
I promise you you'll never recognize me. The idea has a touch of
genius that I think it may work. I hope it may work. Slipping
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an extra prayer for me father.While I was at it, I went
after the letters and cards that weregoing to the Japanese soldiers and phoning them
up. I erased everything but thesignatures and wrote about how bad conditions were
back in Tokyo and the black marketwas flourishing, how they were being bombed
every night. At dawn, Ihad changed into the captured courier's uniform.
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I had the mail sack over myshoulder and soooling at my side to take
me most of the way. Goodluck again, me boy, Thank you
father too, Harry, Harry,you sure that you want to do this?
Walking right in the lions. Thenthey get wise to you, They
get wise to me. Hikatakanai,what's that mean? It's good Japanese for
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so what ha ha, Because therean I sued a career from the program
with mayor for your soldiers and aspecial dispatch for your commander. Mayor Chier,
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come across. Let me see yourface. I do not know you.
Where's other runner papers? Let mesee your papers? Identification? Yeah,
very good? Where is dispatch?You say it's for me here?
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Why are you so late? Mailwas expected yesterday? It was unavoidable.
Answer my question directly? Why areyou rate? Native? Cutchin warrior attacked
me the way I had to fighthim off? Cannada again? Yeah,
those kitchens, sid and devils inthe jungle shadows impossible to know when they
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are about they jump out at youdevils. Oh yes, Connana girl,
Well what are you waiting for?You may leave now? Yes, yes,
sir, I leave. I wasglad to leave. It's been easy
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up to that point. I triedto keep from walking too fast to the
gate past. Let me see yourpast thread. I hear it was stand
at Connada girl's headquarters. Right,he's gonna go where where you're deaf?
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Did you not hear me shoot offa gun to call your attention? Or
why you want me? I donot want you receive the word at kid
from Colonel Gail. He want youto come back. Come there you are
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Korea. I want to make sureyou did not leave. Here is the
something wrong, Conona girl? Whatyou're talking about? What could be wrong?
Yeah? Important message for your cannel. Take it? Oh, thank
you, thank you, Conda Gail. I should be grad to deliver this
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tool my cannel. This time nobodystopped me. When I left the camp
at mcclahm and started back for Cutchingheadquarters. I must have been within two
miles of the one when I realizedI was being followed. I couldn't see
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anyone, to hear anyone, butI knew someone was there in the brush
or the trees, hidden somewhere alongthe trail. I started to run past
her. My lungs started to inchwith each fread, and my strength was
gone and a hangover from the femerI had just gotten over. If I
had escaped from the Japanese camp andfallen in the head hunter hands, I
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know I didn't have a chance,do you, I thot Dabonese English,
what are you? Head hunter?You luck the luck m h now bless
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messieur? You see you a weekare you feeling harry father or two,
Hey, what are you doing here? Set? Lieutenant? Let me change
that bandage on your head? Howdid you get here? Had you mixing
things up? A bit? Led? You mean? Of course? How
did you get back here to theUSS camp? To the What I will
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now tis very simple. Oh,I have an apology to make for my
friends. The Cutchins who brought youhere. They'd been out scouting for the
past week and they did not knowyou. Also, of course, the
Japanese uniform, you are aware andconfused them. But it was a pity
that they speak only their own language, so that you couldn't clear up the
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situation. May live to teach themhow to speak English, English the way
it should be spoken. Lieutenants Harro, Yoshinabora and Peter Bono were returned to
India by plane rescue Campata sam And. A few weeks later, a special
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dispatch informed OSS headquarters that the strategiccity of Bombo had been taken. Thus,
once again, the report of anotheragent closed with the words mission accomplished.
Listen again next week for another trueadventure from the files of the OSS
on Clock and Dagger. Heard inTonight's Clock and Diger Adventure as Pete was
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Chuck Webster. Harry was played byRalph Bell, Father or two by Eric
Drestler. Others were John Allison,Lama, Edward Johnson, Carl Weber,
Jerry Jarrett, Orry's Tarp and GuyRepp. The script for Cloak and Dagger
was written by Winterfred Wolf and JackGordon, and the music was under the
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direction of John Gart. Sound effectsby West Connant Manny Siegel and Norman Gruenfelder
to Night's True Oss Adventure was basedon the book Cloak and Dagger by Cory
Ford and Alistair mc bain. Thisprogram was produced by Lewis G. Cowen
and Alfred Hollander under the direction andsupervision of Sherman Marx.
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 OSS, ordinary citizens who, to this question
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answered yes. This is cloak anddagger, black warfare, espionage, international
(00:47):
intrigue. These are the weapons ofthe OSS. Today's story, a war
of words, concerns an American agentwho personally delivered a message to the klonel
of a Japanese camp, and issuggested by actually incidents recorded in the Washington
files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story that can now be told.
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Okay, Harry, I spotted it. There's our target. Check,
ready to let them go. Ready, bombs away therese, he goes.
I dropped every one of those bombshellswe had in the plane, and they
hit the target right on the nose. And the explosion that followed sounded like
this just as much noise as papermakes when it floods to the ground.
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Those were our bombshells. Propaganda leaflets, leaflets designed by OSS to lower the
morale of the Japanese soldiers in thatcamp in Burma. Those were our silent
weapons. I'm going to turn backnow, Okay, Pete, Harry,
what do you think of that phonedup picture of the bombing at Tokyo we
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just dropped? Looked authentic to me. And I liked that little pamphlet too,
you know, the one that beganSuns of the Rising Sun. It
is better to surrender than fight withoutbullets or die of starvation in the jungle.
Yeah, that one was real,cured. It's sure. How to
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give those lousy Japs something to thinkabout, right, Sorry, Harry,
I shouldn't have said that. That'sokay, Pete, forget it. Let's
beat our own record, get himback this time. Huh Yeah, here
we go. Sometimes the guys forgotthat Harry was short for your sheet R.
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Yoshinabura. And though I like tothink of myself as an American Japanese,
even Pete Barno thought of me asa Japanese American. I had to
learn not to be too sensitive.Mean boys, not in Thank you,
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colonel, it's down cigarette. Thankyou. You two have done a good
job in the past few months pepperingBurma with that propaganda material. No,
here's a light, thank you,And we already have begun to see the
results. Or how's that, colonel? Well, you know how live Japanese
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prisoners used to be at a premium. Rather than be captured, they'd commit
hallakiri, almost in defiance. Ohyeah, I hear a lot of them
are surrendering lately. That's right.Their morale isn't what it was good,
and you too can take part ofthe credit for that. But tomorrow,
tomorrow, I want you to goone step further. Well, listening,
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sir, h take a look athis documents? What is it Chinese or
Japanese? Well, Greek? Tome, I can tell you what it
is. Paid. It's obviously aforged order to the commander of the Japanese
camp to withdraw his troops three mileseast. Well, I hope it's not
an obvious forager read to him tenderNabura, because if he falls for it
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and moves his camp, our armieswill have a clean road right into Bambo,
and once we get there, berman'spractically in our hands, I see.
Or begging your pardon, colonel,what are we supposed to do to
walk into that jap camp and deliverthese orders? Oh no, no,
your job is much simpler. Allyou have to do is fly over the
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OSS Detachment one hundred and one atAssamon, drop this document. Cutting natives
and our agents there will do therest. We've contacted them by radio.
They expected Jack, Colonel, thiswill be a snap, nothing to it.
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This will be a snap. Ha, nothing to it? Ha heard?
I know we'd run into a chapzero right back at jump, buddy.
Now he died too fast for yourHarry. I'm gonna grab more sky.
Maybe you can lose him up there. It's on a tail, maybe
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not for long. Hang on,boy. Most of the way up the
air was tin enough so that Icould see the nose of that zero following
us. And then it's seven thousandfeet. The air became thick and we
lost them, but the plane hadtaken quite a beating. How bad it
is a lot of your paint.Oh, we're having more than fifty miles
to go. Then we can sitdown and cutch in territory, make repairs
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before heading back to India. Okay, instead of dropping that document well delivered?
Person, won't we get there?Huh? If we get there,
what what's that wing? It's comingoff where he hit us? Person goes,
what do we do? Now?I'm gonna kick a stick forward as
hard as I can put her ina loop. Well, that's crazy.
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Now out of tosses backwards, outof the clock pit. Don't pull your
rip cord before your fall free ofthe plane. We'll land in the river.
I'll give you a freak dry.Here we go. We fell free
of the plane. I jerked therip cord in my shoote open. On
the way down, I inflated mymay west and the little lifeboats swelled up
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below me. I can see Petedrifting slowly in the Brahma put river,
and then I hit the water.Boy, this is a nice mester beg.
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And not even sure exactly where there'sone oh one detachment's located. It's
somewhere to the south, isn't it. Yeah, that's a help. Oh,
jungle steaks. I'm gonna think ofa lot of places i'd rather be,
for instance, for instance, anywherethis place is probably crawling with enemy
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patrols. Oh that's a pleasant,but careful, careful all trip over those
roots. The jungle was heavy andoppressive. The tall trees spread a canopy
over our heads and shut out whatlittle sun there was. After a few
miles, our shirts were ripped theshreds on the brambles, and blood ran
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into our eyes from the leeches onour foreheads, and then feet stopped short.
Harry, But the river? Whatriver? What is it? From
a putre where we land it?You see it? Say to the right,
I don't get it. We passedit a few miles back. Yeah,
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we sure did You see that clumpof roots they look familiar. That's
where you almost tripped, right thereby the swamp. But hae, yeah,
we made a nice big circle rightback where we started. How the
devil did we do there? Anythingcould happened in this lousy Harry, japatroll.
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This just isn't our day coming thisway quick the swamp? No,
never see this. Let's get inthe water to it pass, all right.
Let's say for me, not getdown there. Just keep your nose
up to breathe. We have toget down under it. Don't breathe?
All right? That had I think, and U uh like toud reached that
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and then tied their shoelaces. Let'sget out of here. That night we
lay side by side, deep inthe jungle, on top, of course,
undergrowth, underneath the trees from whichLeanna's hung down like braided ropes.
We shooted oppositions every few minutes.It's a regiment of ants and bugs crawled
into our clothing and kept us awake, and then towards morning we fell asleep,
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exhausted. When we awoke, thesun had found a hole in the
branches and crawled through. Boy,that sun's hot, is it? What
do you mean? Is it?I'm cold, Pete, I got the
shakes. I don't know. Ijust feel sick, sick of my stomach.
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We can't sit here. You thinkyou can travel? Huh oh?
Sure, come on, boy,that sounds blazing, isn't it. Well
thought you said you had the shakes. Huh oh, nothing nothing, Come
on, Harry, Come on now, up on your feet. Boy,
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you'll be all right. Come on, boy, that's it what We started
walking again. Our wrists had opensores on the from jungle rod. My
head was hot, my hands werecold, and I felt sick, awful,
sick. Harry, how do youfeel? I'll be okay with that
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swamp we hit in. That's thoselousy bugs that got on your skin,
and I'll be all right. Ah, Harry, Harry, Harry, I
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okay, fella, I just takeit easy. Yeah, that's it.
This cold cloth on your forehead,it'll make you feel better. You'll see
boy Pete, Yeah, that's pete. Why a man couldn't you say anything
more original than that? For cryingout loud my black dot? Or I
don't talk so much? Glad enoughwhen you were off your head? Uh?
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Who's uh focusing a girl? Iknow it? U c l A.
I figured how long agoes it beensince? Or you know two days?
Have we got enough rash and it? We'll be okay. I don't
lie to me. I said we'llbe okay. Now, don't try to
sit up Harry, Or how fardo you think we are the cutcheons?
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Well, I think I've got thedirection pretty well mapped out now by the
day's travel. Do south? Whynot? If you sit here with me
for a week, now, don'ttalk, get out of here. I'll
tell you what. If you makeit there by yourself, you can come
back with some of the natives andget me. Not on your life.
I'm not leaving it, but quiet, someone's outside the doors garden and call
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out from out of the cares.My head was pounding hotter than before.
Maybe maybe it was the fever maybeit was because I had to lie to
help us while Pete went out alaw do whatever was outside? Shoot free
and friend? Who are you?Maybe soony scout and scout so this morning
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from top of tee show your headbrook so uniform. Yeah yeah, you've
got good eyesight, but you stillhave a told me who you are?
Told you and scout the kutchen scoutcuts and cutching. But why didn't you
say so? You're from a psalm, You're from the OSS detachment. He's
right, Hurry, Harry, didyou hear that? Ol? How's this
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for the mountain coming to Mahammond?It's great, It's just great. Would
like, oh boy, would love? Oh look, I've got a sick
friend in here in the cave there, fever can you fix him up?
And we see? I looked upfrom the bed of leaves that Pete had
made. The cutching scout Olean overme was short and squat, with long
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matted hair and teeth worn to ablack stuff by beatle nut. He took
a good look at me and jumpedback as if he'd been bitten. Jumpany
company's no hold on a wait aminute, hold on, I said,
I listened sling, so ling thisthis is America. Just like I said,
it's Japanese. It's no use listenedsue as a Japanese. Yes,
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yes, that's right. But isAmerican? Two? He s having American
friend. Look at his uniform.You say free, I say Japanese.
We fix up from fever. Theydidn't bring to camp. They didn't say,
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which is what. I don't knowwhat he mixed it up in those
which doctor concoctions, besides the juiceof mahoganyles and the roots of the leanna
vines or whatever it was. Iwas on my feet two days later and
we started out for Detachment one ohone, only this time we had a
guide. And then the next night, out of nowhere we came upon it.
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Well, what do you know here? It was the USS secret hide
down, carved right into the jungleof Burma. So this is Detachment one
oh one. They were each strawattached pashas a mess hall, a well,
a hospital, mortars bezuokas creates anyour naering harry a woman, a
woman, a Red Cross nurse.GEI paratroopers and bright colored shirts and unlaced
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jump boots were strolling about, minglingwith a native troop. Wow. Oh,
is it just like a city inthe wilderness, isn't it. It's
like nothing I've ever seen before,and probably late nothing you'll never see again.
Huh. But where'd you come from? Yeah? Sure, And they've
been standing behind gall the tame.Would you like to let me show your
own baby? Oh well not now, thanks. The guide who brought us
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here disappeared. We've got to findthe headman around here. We have something
for him. Ah. But you'lllive longer if you live slow and don't
drive yourselves. Remember the is thesoul told me that in Dublin many years
ago. He mayrish you know no, no, you don't say who?
Yes, yes, you take agood look at our little camps, they
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said, you'll probably never see anythinglike it again if you live to be
one hundred and four. It's asif the lipri kan said, downright in
the middle of the wilderness, we'lllook around later if you don't mind who's
in there. You take all theseleads, the paratroopers who were fast down
in the jungle, they all hadthe same look about them when they first
came, as if they stumbled intoa better fire leaf PLO, would you
mind very lad there was a farmerin Wisconsin and they went talking to the
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nurses from Boston originally that is andthe tire lads at Texas, but we
win. It took that to makehim say that this looked better to him
than Texas. Well, you areforced down here too. Well in the
manner of speaking, yes, Iwas. What did you do before the
war? I will I'll tell you, lads, I operated a hut furring
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from Hoboken to Canarsie. You wantfurry right driving little business. It was
too and after the war I'll probablygo back to it. This guy's off
his rocket all luck Where can wefind somebody in authority that evening Mass with
everyone else Mass? Of course,you see that big straw hut at the
far end, you'll find it there. We went to Mass and when we
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got there we found our friend witha bro the one who told us he
ran a hot furring Hoboken to Kanasiofficiating at the Every once in a while
he'd look up at us and Icould see the suggestion of a smile around
his lips. There was a soldierstadding next to us, who is that,
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Well, that's father o'ool. Youpractically organized the one on one.
Yeah, sure, and I saidit just to see the look at your
faces. Later on, we'll takea good look. Boy, mind's read
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I would father or two? Yes, here the fourth Japanese orders the colonel
gave us in India. Of course, the original plan about dropping them over
to you and turning back didn't workout. But just as long as we
got him here, just as longas we have them, we know what
to do with them. Now there'sa Japanese mail courier coming through tomorrow night
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from the groom to the jack campat Mooklem. Now I'll have sue Linga
one of the other scouts intercept himand deposit this document in his mail.
Coach, Oh, I get it. Father. When he comes to he
won't know what hit him, buthe'll keep going with the forged papers.
Hey, sure, you get aquick brain lead and there by the bay.
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Yes, father, you know,since you're Japanese as well as American,
I suggest you stay close to mefor the next day or so until
you leave. You see, thenthe Natives will get over the suspicions of
it. I see your mom wasdone with fever. Ah, I was
N'm sorry for budging into your hurtthis way father a tool. But Sueling
told me one of these men hadjungle sickness. Wait, it's great,
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alright, Nurse Amy legs. Takea look at her. Isn't she a
fair cal You know that's enough ofyour blindy father. Come with me,
please? What's your name? Noborer? Lieutenant Harry Nabora. I'm okay?
Now, really are you? Thatmay be? So? We just
want you at the hospital for acheckout. Come along? Hey, hey,
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wait, you jave? Do youmind if I come to No,
not at all. Oh the docwho looked me over gave me a clean
bill of health. It must havebeen those witch doctor herbs or sue Ling's
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later father O'Toole gave us a bashhood to ourselves and pete knife fell on
those armies. And then about threeo'clock in the morning, Harry, Harry,
what's up? I don't know.Let's find out. Yeah, he's
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everybody running to Oh there's that nurse. Maybe seen, hey, nurse,
nurse, nothing to be alarmed about. Boy, what happened? One of
the cab approaches Our watchdog called aprobably any misco. I didn't hear any
dog. This is a silent watchdog. What Actually, it's a crossbow with
one hundred and fifty pound pool.It set up so any intruder who touches
the trip string is shot for thepoisoned arrow. Well that that's quite a
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watch dog. Yes, I've beenthinking of putting one up in front of
my tent, or so Sally.So Sally did not mean now it's done,
Sholing. It can't be helped.It's right, hore they your lads,
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come on in. What's up forthe Suling? Make Maig mistake big
mistakes? Well, I'll tell youboys, say it's like this. I
sent Sue out last night to interceptthe Japanese courier and deposit this document and
his mail poach. What went wrong? Well, it seems that Suling doesn't
know his own strengths to quote aphrase, and he hit him too hard.
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I'm very much afraid the courier willnot be able to deliver the mail
after all to the camp at Mucklem. Well, look, farther told that
document is important. It's got toget there. Where's the corea now in
the hospital? Is even the verybest kid, I assure you, I'm
a mail sack in my position okay, Then another jab courier is going to
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take his place and deliver the mail. You're nuts, Harry, What other
jet courier? Me? What?Now? I know your nuts? Eight.
When I sweitch uniforms of that guy, take a good look at me.
I promise you you'll never recognize me. The idea has a touch of
genius that I think it may work. I hope it may work. Slipping
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an extra prayer for me father.While I was at it, I went
after the letters and cards that weregoing to the Japanese soldiers and phoning them
up. I erased everything but thesignatures and wrote about how bad conditions were
back in Tokyo and the black marketwas flourishing, how they were being bombed
every night. At dawn, Ihad changed into the captured courier's uniform.
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I had the mail sack over myshoulder and soooling at my side to take
me most of the way. Goodluck again, me boy, Thank you
father too, Harry, Harry,you sure that you want to do this?
Walking right in the lions. Thenthey get wise to you, They
get wise to me. Hikatakanai,what's that mean? It's good Japanese for
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so what ha ha, Because therean I sued a career from the program
with mayor for your soldiers and aspecial dispatch for your commander. Mayor Chier,
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come across. Let me see yourface. I do not know you.
Where's other runner papers? Let mesee your papers? Identification? Yeah,
very good? Where is dispatch?You say it's for me here?
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Why are you so late? Mailwas expected yesterday? It was unavoidable.
Answer my question directly? Why areyou rate? Native? Cutchin warrior attacked
me the way I had to fighthim off? Cannada again? Yeah,
those kitchens, sid and devils inthe jungle shadows impossible to know when they
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are about they jump out at youdevils. Oh yes, Connana girl,
Well what are you waiting for?You may leave now? Yes, yes,
sir, I leave. I wasglad to leave. It's been easy
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up to that point. I triedto keep from walking too fast to the
gate past. Let me see yourpast thread. I hear it was stand
at Connada girl's headquarters. Right,he's gonna go where where you're deaf?
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Did you not hear me shoot offa gun to call your attention? Or
why you want me? I donot want you receive the word at kid
from Colonel Gail. He want youto come back. Come there you are
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Korea. I want to make sureyou did not leave. Here is the
something wrong, Conona girl? Whatyou're talking about? What could be wrong?
Yeah? Important message for your cannel. Take it? Oh, thank
you, thank you, Conda Gail. I should be grad to deliver this
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tool my cannel. This time nobodystopped me. When I left the camp
at mcclahm and started back for Cutchingheadquarters. I must have been within two
miles of the one when I realizedI was being followed. I couldn't see
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anyone, to hear anyone, butI knew someone was there in the brush
or the trees, hidden somewhere alongthe trail. I started to run past
her. My lungs started to inchwith each fread, and my strength was
gone and a hangover from the femerI had just gotten over. If I
had escaped from the Japanese camp andfallen in the head hunter hands, I
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know I didn't have a chance,do you, I thot Dabonese English,
what are you? Head hunter?You luck the luck m h now bless
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messieur? You see you a weekare you feeling harry father or two,
Hey, what are you doing here? Set? Lieutenant? Let me change
that bandage on your head? Howdid you get here? Had you mixing
things up? A bit? Led? You mean? Of course? How
did you get back here to theUSS camp? To the What I will
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now tis very simple. Oh,I have an apology to make for my
friends. The Cutchins who brought youhere. They'd been out scouting for the
past week and they did not knowyou. Also, of course, the
Japanese uniform, you are aware andconfused them. But it was a pity
that they speak only their own language, so that you couldn't clear up the
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situation. May live to teach themhow to speak English, English the way
it should be spoken. Lieutenants Harro, Yoshinabora and Peter Bono were returned to
India by plane rescue Campata sam And. A few weeks later, a special
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dispatch informed OSS headquarters that the strategiccity of Bombo had been taken. Thus,
once again, the report of anotheragent closed with the words mission accomplished.
Listen again next week for another trueadventure from the files of the OSS
on Clock and Dagger. Heard inTonight's Clock and Diger Adventure as Pete was
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Chuck Webster. Harry was played byRalph Bell, Father or two by Eric
Drestler. Others were John Allison,Lama, Edward Johnson, Carl Weber,
Jerry Jarrett, Orry's Tarp and GuyRepp. The script for Cloak and Dagger
was written by Winterfred Wolf and JackGordon, and the music was under the
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direction of John Gart. Sound effectsby West Connant Manny Siegel and Norman Gruenfelder
to Night's True Oss Adventure was basedon the book Cloak and Dagger by Cory
Ford and Alistair mc bain. Thisprogram was produced by Lewis G. Cowen
and Alfred Hollander under the direction andsupervision of Sherman Marx.
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