April 8, 2024 • 29 mins
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Are you willing to undertake a dangerousmission behind the enemy lines knowing you may
never return alive to what you havejust heard? Is the question asked during
the war to agents of the OSS. Ordinary citizens due to this question answered
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yes. This is Cloak and Dagger, Black Warfare, SPNRDS International Intrigue.
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These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's adventure direct Line to Bombers.
The story of an American OSS agentwho, during the height of the war,
directed from the streets of Berlin anAmerican attack is suggested by actual incidents
recorded in the Washington files of theOffice of Strategic Services, a story that
can now be told. After youget back from a mission, you sit
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around and there's nothing to do butsit around. So that's what I did.
Set in a room in Milton Halland England, where OSS agents had
trained, I thought about the restauranton Sixth Avenue I wanted to open after
the war. I was never subored in my life. Yeah, Hey,
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yeah, Nikki, the colonel wantsto see it. Very important.
Okay, Pal, tell my palthe colonel. I'll be there and win
the war for him. That episodeall began November nineteen forty four after that,
I didn't have time to be bored. I know you've just come back
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from a mission in France, Lieutenant, so it's strictly after you if you
want to go out again immediately.Oh now, listen, I mean,
Colonel, If I have to sitaround here and do nothing, I'll blow
my tongue. You speak German?Don't you well enough to know that Hitler
speaks a lousy German. It's fullof grammatical errors. If I see him,
I'll tell him man, he maybe closer to him than you think,
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Barbara, Yes, send in ProfessorWarburg. And that's how I met
the professor, This little guy witha beard. He weighed about as much
as ten cents worth of liver.He reminded me of my chemistry teacher back
in Lincoln Junior High School, ProfessorTower, Lieutenant or less Nicholas. Just
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what you call me? Is itthe greatest? Though? Lieutenant? I
am an escaped political prisoner of theNazis, and I am here in England
illegally. And you just walked intoheadquarters and told that to the colonel.
Do you know you can be inturned? I know that very well,
But I can no longer sit byand be idle while I have a plan
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that I know can help the alliesof what Professor Warber suggests, Lieutenant is
that he be parachuted into Germany withanother agent, make his way to Berlin.
I assure you I can move aboutBerlin blindfolded. I know it well.
Berlin. This could be interesting.What then, then, we say,
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radio transmitter. We could pinpoint militarytargets to American claims overhead. We
could direct bombs from the streets ofBerlin itself. Wait a minute, walk
around with a walkie, talking inthe middle of a raid, carrying on
conversation with bombers. When do weleave? I am ready any time today,
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tomorrow, yesterday. Professor may havebeen ready yesterday, but the oss
wasn't. The person who were briefedfor weeks how to get food coupons in
Berlin, how to buy a railroadticket, how to post a letter,
how to greet a German officer inthe street, Little things, an American
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cigarette, an English match, alaundrymark to give us away. And there
were big things too. We weregrowed for hours on cover stories. Forgeries
became documents, fiction became facts,passed the stamps signature, everything authentic,
everything else ots, including my mannersand habits. So I was ready to
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pass as a citizen of Berlin.And then a plane took us high over
German soil and we jumped. Theymade it nikki. So if you kill
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me, mister Berlin, we canwalk it. Make it before daylight.
We should find the farmer who ownsthis field and say donkash for providing us.
It's so ideal a landing thing.Yeah, we'll send them a letter
sometime. Right now, let's getout of here where you are. I
hardly keep your hands to the airunless you want it. I blow your
heads up. Let my dog tearyou to bit when a good dog keeping
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so still? Unless your farmer professorused to want to say, do this
still top you? You have madea mistake. My friend, my companion
and I got lost trying to findthe road. We came by accident on
your field. That's right, weboth of us only recently, just yards
from the army. If you wouldcare to see our papers right here in
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his napsot, I can't. Ifyou want to kill your hearts up,
I would let your dog go foryour trope. I do not care to
see your papers. I show youhow you I'm an American. Praise.
Oh oh, now to the barn. R will see to that. You
stay there, won't you roll?The German's Bama left us in the barn,
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and he didn't have to lock thedoor. That big black dob woman
with the impatient fans watched us asif he wanted us to make a move
so we could jump. Oh.If we get out of this, my
friend as he'll never hit the headdog over, professor, don't move,
don't turn your head, just listento me. Yeah, I'm not listening.
There's some harnessed straps hanging on ahook right over my head. I
noticed them when I came in.If I can pull him down fast enough,
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I throw them over the dog whenhe leaps. Try to on tanky,
but i'll see horse blankets near you. When I pull down the straps,
throw the bar, get over him. It's gotta be fast, out
of work. I'm ready. I'mthree. Then one nice boy, nice
nice big ugly mud. Two.Three. The harness caught on the nails.
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I tried to put it down onthe dog, and then the nail
came off too. The scraps fellacross the dog's snout. Professor flung the
blankets over the dog's head. Ihave him, Nikky, but I can't
hold him. The shove him theways I'd shovel myself off. Honey,
Honey, I can't hold him now. I hid him my gain, and
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suddenly the only sound in the barnwas the dog front of the show.
The dog didn't move make a sound. He never would again. He said,
better get out now, guy,let's go. Ah. The smell
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of a bakery is always good.How fortunate it is. I have only
this morning made seth for cooking Joseph, just to be always likely. How
good to see you again, Anna. I told my friend Nikki that you
would take us in help button notdearly, Nikki. I will do anything
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I care. We may stay herethen, Anna, if all goes well,
we believe right after the rain tomorrownight, Yeah, twenty four hours
all we need. Of course youmissed it. I still live about the
bakery. There is an extra room. My grandson Emil will not be all
from the use camp for a week? Yok? What could I do,
Nikky? What could anyone do inthese days? In the limba ride with
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the winning until there is a chanceto fight against it. Helping you and
your mission will give me my chance. Little Emil years ago seemed like only
yesterday. I used to sit withhim on my lap here on this bakery
and twirl my gold watch on thechain for him. Now, remember Anna,
how he laughed? Yeah, Iremember. He has forgotten you by
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now, and you would not knowhim. He's thirteen years old. Thirteen
years old, already they have poisonedhis mind. I cannot get to him.
I do not dare. He's alittle parrot speaking only what is taught
him. Nikki, some more coffee, No, thank you, proud like
a cool or astrud especialty of myshop upstrud No. Six years ago,
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at this very table, I hadEmela on my lap when the guest Rappo
walked in and arrested me. Theydid not like, but I taught him
their school. What's their? Soone's coming? I don't know who it
can be. Customers never come bythis lake. I'm not a surprise.
I'm homer any what this man emi? Your manners? These our friend just
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the passing, the mean They justthink the night this is her? Noither
can her use it? Oh?Yes, of course, Hitler, I
did not expect him until next week. Came here. How did you have
here so early? I want agreat honor, which I want to tell
you about. I did not knowI'd have to share to a stranger.
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Shame amy. These men are weresoldiers of the fatherland. Yeah, yes,
Emil, we were both with theelite god of one of Ramo's Panza
divisions. Yes, that is beforewe received by our medical discharge. Sit
down, my bush, I willbring you something to eat. Yes,
don't you want to hear about theanna I received? Look on matter on
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my sleeve that swastik read for theyouth movement and a swastika because I learned
my lessons faster than the others.The commanded jupid the whole youth movement awarded
me my swastika, and he toldme I could take my vacation a week
early. Are you proud of me? Grandmother? Yeah, my boy,
Yeah, let me get you somethingto eat. And I'm too tired going
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up to bed. Grandmother said,you're staying here? Will I see you
in the morning, gentlemen, Well, I'm not sure. Oh, they
will be here now that you arehoming me. I'll just sleep on the
couch and give them my room.Oh, it is all right, it
is set good. Perhaps then,hey, yours, if you will hear
me about Rahma a great leader?Yes, yes, perhaps we will see
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you in the morning. Emen,why do you stare at me? Do
I stare? Boy? I thoughtso? Have I met you before her
yours? No? I am surenot, you say, ever since I
came in grandmother, Have I methim here? No? No, Emil,
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Hey you that was here before youwere born, even you have never
seen him. It has been years, fifteen, maybe before you were born,
I suppose, so. Good night, professor. He wouldn't remember what
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he Oh how could he, Nikki, He was a baby that last day
I saw him, barely five yearsold, and the professor was thirty pounds
heavy, A clean and clean shade. Yeah, yeah, Anna is right,
NICKI do not worry he could notremember. Do not worry. But
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I couldn't help worry. I layawake half the night thinking about that kid
in the room next door, thethirteen year old puppet with a new red
swastika. Feeling. I had afunny kind of feeling at the pit of
my stomach that made me wish they'dkept him in that youth camp until after
we were gone. When I gotup, the sun had been up for
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hours, and so I had theprofessor. I went downstairs to the bakery.
There was a smell of fresh breadbaking, and I knew for our
light nose in the kitchen. Butthe Professor was sitting at the table,
swinging his watch on the gold chainand talking to that German quiz kid.
But why do you want to know? Oh, I haven't just seen that.
I want to see how well youhave earned that swastika. I stood
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on the stairs and listen. He'sthe greatest man who ever was or will
be. When I joined a feworganization, the man in Chad said,
join the organization, but this forwardforward the banalito to eternity. You have
loved your lessons yours. Are yousure I have never seen you before?
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Of course not, my boy,I seemed to leave there. Hey,
Yoseph, ah, good morven head, nois day. Since we're just passing
through Berlin, don't you think weought to see a few of the sites
before we leave. Yeah, yeah, you're right. We will leave now.
Perhaps later, Emil, we willtalk more. Was scheduled for that
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night the professor and I had alot of work to do. We made
arrangements to meet about four thirty thatafternoon at the Tavern Ndlan Passa. We
went separate ways. I did alot of walking, and I made a
lot of notes in my head.The kleen Bird power plant was still functioning.
The Court's junction of the city railroadhad been repaired. There was an
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ammunition dump on the north side thatobamas couldn't see from the air. It's
a nice day out of Germans werewalking the streets, and I made a
lot of notes in my head.You vished all now many nine and later.
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I am waiting for a friend.Professor was fifteen minutes late, and
I started getting nervous. Maybe somebodyhad recognized him. I sat there and
sweated it out fifteen minutes, twentyminutes, half hour, and then he
finally came. But he wasn't alone. Hell noida. This is half Manila,
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the net only this afternoon, andI invited him to come and have
dinner with love. It was notquite bad way. It was I who
insisted up, I'm coming alone.I uh give this the town you were
with wonderful romans, Panta divisions.I understand. Yes, we were on
recently discharged from the myself. Iam just back. You will have much
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to talk about. There's the stupidwaiter, never around when you need them.
He need the heir presents. Notsoon enough. I will go to
see him myself. Where did youpick him up? He found me,
my friend. There is a reservoirnear the rail line. I was looking
around. I think he was alittle suspicious at first, but then I
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told him I was the drummel.He became more friendly. I am beginning
to believe I was in Africa myselfjust the same. I wish you could
have shaken him. What did youfind out? It was a profitable afternoon,
and you a profitable afternoon. Goover, it comes text across.
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It seems strange to me that here, Joseph, here should show so much
interest in the rest of you.I was nearly taking a stroll and getting
reacquainted with Berlin, and then Iwatched you. I saw you walk down
thoughts the real line that was whenI popped you and began to talk.
We are both glad you did yeahhelp give us this opportunity to get acquainted.
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I hope we should see more ofyou. We're in the capitol.
Perhaps no very sac a great dealer. Man, think I should call the
waiter and order some brendy O yoursnot yet to miish your mens annoyed the
leading it's very good. A dietat the hospital was not so very no
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doubt, no doubt anything. Iknow what. I wouldn't go down.
I knew that German officer was watchingwatching me strange, and and I didn't
know why. I knew that somethingwas wrong, and I didn't know what
you professor to. Her name isGertruforla, and I tell you about and
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she has friends. Oh it's avery pretty friend. You would like to
meet them? Perhaps, yes,you would like to very much. She
help me how you would have enjoyedthem? We might have had great fun
together, all of us. Unfortunatelyyou may be otherwise engaged with take a
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stuff of what did you say?Hair? Helpman? And I have been
watching you all through dinner. Iannoyed it. You're an American, Do
not move my dog. I havemy hand on my dun But surely you
nor with Europeans. It's the wayyou do to change the fowk from the
left hand to the right after thenight is youth. But so it escaped
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me. I just knew something botheredme. Then I realized, thought it
one there. It was the littlething that could put a rope around americally
pull the fork five. In mynervousness, I'd forgotten a little thing like
that European manner of evil. Sharpknife I had been eating with. It
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was still in my hands, almostdecipit war by himself. It disappeared under
the table. I'm halfway into theGerman off good. I was stupid to
get myself into that germ in thefirst place. We're not out of this
yet. Waiter now my hair checkplease. My friend has had a little
too much to drink. Who willtake him home? Yeah? Yeah,
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right of eight. Between the twoof us, we managed to get him
out of there. His head wasrocking back and forth like a drunk.
The knife was still in him,so the blood didn't flow very much.
To get this tape around him,right, there is no one around.
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Can the key You can dump himbehind his ship. All right, We're
beginning to leave a trail a milelong. It's a long power. It's
nice meeting you. Come on,professor, let's go. When we got
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back to the baker. There wasmore trouble waiting for us. Trouble sixty
one inches high, weighing about onehundred and ten pounds, wearing a new
red swastika in his arms. They'rein the kitchen. Something is wrong.
I'm like the sound of that comeon the morning when you were I watched
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on the chem I thought I rememberedto say, you have let seen her
used it before. I have whenI was very little. They kicks off.
They arrested a man with a goldwatch on a k I tell you
he's the same, Amy, donot even look a lie. This broadcast
radio. I found it in yourbedroom on the head box. It's called
a walkie talky. Amil'll give itback to me. Nick you to come
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back. You see you see whowe waste the time. I should have
gone to the authorities right away.They have freshed your grandmother. He knows
Anna. I'm afraid to. I'vebeen holding him here hoping you would return.
What did you say? You know? Grandmother? Didn't you they didn't
take your adults right. You're afright to told him ye hate ya you
try let me kill you. Lookhim there until after we have gone right,
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get your hat. You're gonna haveto come with us and we leave
here tonight. Anna, you cannotstay now. Pleasures right fro like that?
Get upstairs? Will turn you over. The Nazis so fast. You
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want know what happened to you?Amy turn me in? Using would he?
I'm afraid he would. Anna.It's his best that you come with
us. They're going to try toget through the lines into France. What's
there? There are underground workers whowill help us. Yeah, Nikki,
is it all right if I bringthis tray of food up to him?
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He has not eaten. He's stillsuch a little boy. Yeah, sure,
sure you'll or take it up,but don't untie his hands. Remember,
yes, I will remember. I'mthe raid of the start. Soon
let's go over this map. Makesure we have everything right. Yeah,
Now the rail line is here sectortwo gret B three. If Obama's knocked
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that out, Berlin's transportation is completelycrippled. And here when the map power
plant is in sixty six rid gfile. He's got what he turns.
He got the loose you know whathimself from the window with the bed.
She's what are we to do?He'll bring the Gestapo back with him.
We don't know how long he's beengone, Professor the window, quickly the
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door. There is a car comingladen Ellie, look look, no time
they'll have this place around. Andhow do you get to the roof the
roof up those stairs became wootoo tothe other roofs. Do they perhaps the
ski better be no? Perhaps aboutgiving up to the attic stairs and on
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to the roof. You could seethe Germans from there. Four of the
Red Shirts stilled out of an armoredcar. Two of them broke in through
the front door. Two of themstarted around to the rear, and then
we heard aimy w Niki Nikki,she's dead. It won't do her any
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good if we stay here. Comeon across the parapet hey act some music
in my ears. If they cankeep them from get more help right now,
you come and get us. Well, one of them did try to
come and get us, and hegot it first right between the eyes.
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He swayed for a few seconds backand forth, and then he fell off
the rope by the street the frontof the Nikki and our only two left.
Two would happen to have heard he? Would you? Fourth Nazi had
come up the other way through somebodyelse's Atticunds was behind Now the Rochester left
Professor rock if Professor, what isit my leg I can't move it.
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I can't go any further, Nikki. What happened after which was a nightmare.
It was at the earth cracked,wide spread, hot and burning,
and the noise of the planes andthe back in the German guns and the
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bombing made my stomach church. Wecrouched behind the parapet and I held them
off while the Professor directed the barattention, attention, bombers. The Kling
and Bag power plant is still functioningand supplies electric power to hide Leader Street
bomb Sector six, grade G five. The Oskritch junction of the city railroad
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has been repaired. Knock it out, and old traffic in Blain will be
stopped. Sector two, grade Dthree. But I go now, Nikki,
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while there is a chance I canhold them off long enough for you
to get away. I can't leaveyou. No, no, they won't
take me. Don't worry. Lookout, Cherry, you will make a
chunk. Listen, listen to me, Nikki. Go across the next two
roof shops and then down through thehighlight. There is a tailor shop.
I have a profecto out of theback door there. It leads to an
Anne once over the fence on thecover of the rage. Who can make
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it? How Look, I won'tgo without you, all right, I
can't change your mind. Attention,attention, bomber. What are you doing?
Attention bomber? Impetitive Wait two minutesand bomb cross wrote at tecta seven
grade these three, Professor, whatare you doing? You're crazy? That's
here, this stuff that go on? Run run, Nicky, I cover
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you. I ran. He stumbledand fell and got up and ran again.
When I got down the alley throughthe tailor shop at chuck down running.
Then the bomb fell and the concussionrocked theick around, and I went
to flat up my FI. WhenI look back, I knew that our
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Bomas had made another red hid.Professor not only held a the Germans while
I got away, but he keptthem there until it was too late for
any of them. Little German bakeryesspecialized and A pushed the roidel folded up
as made the magsticks. Somewhere inthe wreckage. The Professor, with his
gold watch on the chain, buriedunder it. Now the head the planes
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headed back. There's nothing left tome there. I headed back too.
Lieutenant gus Lesnikus made his way toFrance and after months from there to England.
But his erection of the bombing raidfrom the target itself kept some of
Berlin's major industries crippled and its transportationsystem paralyzed. And once again the report
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of an OSS agent closes with theword mession accomplished. Listen next week when
we again breath them crop and heard. In Today's Cloken Dagger Adventure, Wherever
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at Sloan, Bill Zuckert, LilyDarvass, Barry Koger, Michael Artists,
Raymond Edward Johnson, Carl Weber,Jerry Jarrett, Bobby Weil and Brad Barker.
Script was written by Winterfred Wolf andJack Gordon. Music was under the
direction of John Guards. Today's trueRSS adventure was based on the book Cloak
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Are you willing to undertake a dangerousmission behind the enemy lines knowing you may
never return alive to what you havejust heard? Is the question asked during
the war to agents of the OSS. Ordinary citizens due to this question answered
(00:24):
yes. This is Cloak and Dagger, Black Warfare, SPNRDS International Intrigue.
(00:48):
These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's adventure direct Line to Bombers.
The story of an American OSS agentwho, during the height of the war,
directed from the streets of Berlin anAmerican attack is suggested by actual incidents
recorded in the Washington files of theOffice of Strategic Services, a story that
can now be told. After youget back from a mission, you sit
(01:23):
around and there's nothing to do butsit around. So that's what I did.
Set in a room in Milton Halland England, where OSS agents had
trained, I thought about the restauranton Sixth Avenue I wanted to open after
the war. I was never subored in my life. Yeah, Hey,
(01:45):
yeah, Nikki, the colonel wantsto see it. Very important.
Okay, Pal, tell my palthe colonel. I'll be there and win
the war for him. That episodeall began November nineteen forty four after that,
I didn't have time to be bored. I know you've just come back
(02:15):
from a mission in France, Lieutenant, so it's strictly after you if you
want to go out again immediately.Oh now, listen, I mean,
Colonel, If I have to sitaround here and do nothing, I'll blow
my tongue. You speak German?Don't you well enough to know that Hitler
speaks a lousy German. It's fullof grammatical errors. If I see him,
I'll tell him man, he maybe closer to him than you think,
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Barbara, Yes, send in ProfessorWarburg. And that's how I met
the professor, This little guy witha beard. He weighed about as much
as ten cents worth of liver.He reminded me of my chemistry teacher back
in Lincoln Junior High School, ProfessorTower, Lieutenant or less Nicholas. Just
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what you call me? Is itthe greatest? Though? Lieutenant? I
am an escaped political prisoner of theNazis, and I am here in England
illegally. And you just walked intoheadquarters and told that to the colonel.
Do you know you can be inturned? I know that very well,
But I can no longer sit byand be idle while I have a plan
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that I know can help the alliesof what Professor Warber suggests, Lieutenant is
that he be parachuted into Germany withanother agent, make his way to Berlin.
I assure you I can move aboutBerlin blindfolded. I know it well.
Berlin. This could be interesting.What then, then, we say,
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radio transmitter. We could pinpoint militarytargets to American claims overhead. We
could direct bombs from the streets ofBerlin itself. Wait a minute, walk
around with a walkie, talking inthe middle of a raid, carrying on
conversation with bombers. When do weleave? I am ready any time today,
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tomorrow, yesterday. Professor may havebeen ready yesterday, but the oss
wasn't. The person who were briefedfor weeks how to get food coupons in
Berlin, how to buy a railroadticket, how to post a letter,
how to greet a German officer inthe street, Little things, an American
(04:27):
cigarette, an English match, alaundrymark to give us away. And there
were big things too. We weregrowed for hours on cover stories. Forgeries
became documents, fiction became facts,passed the stamps signature, everything authentic,
everything else ots, including my mannersand habits. So I was ready to
(04:48):
pass as a citizen of Berlin.And then a plane took us high over
German soil and we jumped. Theymade it nikki. So if you kill
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me, mister Berlin, we canwalk it. Make it before daylight.
We should find the farmer who ownsthis field and say donkash for providing us.
It's so ideal a landing thing.Yeah, we'll send them a letter
sometime. Right now, let's getout of here where you are. I
hardly keep your hands to the airunless you want it. I blow your
heads up. Let my dog tearyou to bit when a good dog keeping
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so still? Unless your farmer professorused to want to say, do this
still top you? You have madea mistake. My friend, my companion
and I got lost trying to findthe road. We came by accident on
your field. That's right, weboth of us only recently, just yards
from the army. If you wouldcare to see our papers right here in
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his napsot, I can't. Ifyou want to kill your hearts up,
I would let your dog go foryour trope. I do not care to
see your papers. I show youhow you I'm an American. Praise.
Oh oh, now to the barn. R will see to that. You
stay there, won't you roll?The German's Bama left us in the barn,
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and he didn't have to lock thedoor. That big black dob woman
with the impatient fans watched us asif he wanted us to make a move
so we could jump. Oh.If we get out of this, my
friend as he'll never hit the headdog over, professor, don't move,
don't turn your head, just listento me. Yeah, I'm not listening.
There's some harnessed straps hanging on ahook right over my head. I
noticed them when I came in.If I can pull him down fast enough,
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I throw them over the dog whenhe leaps. Try to on tanky,
but i'll see horse blankets near you. When I pull down the straps,
throw the bar, get over him. It's gotta be fast, out
of work. I'm ready. I'mthree. Then one nice boy, nice
nice big ugly mud. Two.Three. The harness caught on the nails.
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I tried to put it down onthe dog, and then the nail
came off too. The scraps fellacross the dog's snout. Professor flung the
blankets over the dog's head. Ihave him, Nikky, but I can't
hold him. The shove him theways I'd shovel myself off. Honey,
Honey, I can't hold him now. I hid him my gain, and
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suddenly the only sound in the barnwas the dog front of the show.
The dog didn't move make a sound. He never would again. He said,
better get out now, guy,let's go. Ah. The smell
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of a bakery is always good.How fortunate it is. I have only
this morning made seth for cooking Joseph, just to be always likely. How
good to see you again, Anna. I told my friend Nikki that you
would take us in help button notdearly, Nikki. I will do anything
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I care. We may stay herethen, Anna, if all goes well,
we believe right after the rain tomorrownight, Yeah, twenty four hours
all we need. Of course youmissed it. I still live about the
bakery. There is an extra room. My grandson Emil will not be all
from the use camp for a week? Yok? What could I do,
Nikky? What could anyone do inthese days? In the limba ride with
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the winning until there is a chanceto fight against it. Helping you and
your mission will give me my chance. Little Emil years ago seemed like only
yesterday. I used to sit withhim on my lap here on this bakery
and twirl my gold watch on thechain for him. Now, remember Anna,
how he laughed? Yeah, Iremember. He has forgotten you by
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now, and you would not knowhim. He's thirteen years old. Thirteen
years old, already they have poisonedhis mind. I cannot get to him.
I do not dare. He's alittle parrot speaking only what is taught
him. Nikki, some more coffee, No, thank you, proud like
a cool or astrud especialty of myshop upstrud No. Six years ago,
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at this very table, I hadEmela on my lap when the guest Rappo
walked in and arrested me. Theydid not like, but I taught him
their school. What's their? Soone's coming? I don't know who it
can be. Customers never come bythis lake. I'm not a surprise.
I'm homer any what this man emi? Your manners? These our friend just
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the passing, the mean They justthink the night this is her? Noither
can her use it? Oh?Yes, of course, Hitler, I
did not expect him until next week. Came here. How did you have
here so early? I want agreat honor, which I want to tell
you about. I did not knowI'd have to share to a stranger.
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Shame amy. These men are weresoldiers of the fatherland. Yeah, yes,
Emil, we were both with theelite god of one of Ramo's Panza
divisions. Yes, that is beforewe received by our medical discharge. Sit
down, my bush, I willbring you something to eat. Yes,
don't you want to hear about theanna I received? Look on matter on
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my sleeve that swastik read for theyouth movement and a swastika because I learned
my lessons faster than the others.The commanded jupid the whole youth movement awarded
me my swastika, and he toldme I could take my vacation a week
early. Are you proud of me? Grandmother? Yeah, my boy,
Yeah, let me get you somethingto eat. And I'm too tired going
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up to bed. Grandmother said,you're staying here? Will I see you
in the morning, gentlemen, Well, I'm not sure. Oh, they
will be here now that you arehoming me. I'll just sleep on the
couch and give them my room.Oh, it is all right, it
is set good. Perhaps then,hey, yours, if you will hear
me about Rahma a great leader?Yes, yes, perhaps we will see
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you in the morning. Emen,why do you stare at me? Do
I stare? Boy? I thoughtso? Have I met you before her
yours? No? I am surenot, you say, ever since I
came in grandmother, Have I methim here? No? No, Emil,
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Hey you that was here before youwere born, even you have never
seen him. It has been years, fifteen, maybe before you were born,
I suppose, so. Good night, professor. He wouldn't remember what
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he Oh how could he, Nikki, He was a baby that last day
I saw him, barely five yearsold, and the professor was thirty pounds
heavy, A clean and clean shade. Yeah, yeah, Anna is right,
NICKI do not worry he could notremember. Do not worry. But
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I couldn't help worry. I layawake half the night thinking about that kid
in the room next door, thethirteen year old puppet with a new red
swastika. Feeling. I had afunny kind of feeling at the pit of
my stomach that made me wish they'dkept him in that youth camp until after
we were gone. When I gotup, the sun had been up for
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hours, and so I had theprofessor. I went downstairs to the bakery.
There was a smell of fresh breadbaking, and I knew for our
light nose in the kitchen. Butthe Professor was sitting at the table,
swinging his watch on the gold chainand talking to that German quiz kid.
But why do you want to know? Oh, I haven't just seen that.
I want to see how well youhave earned that swastika. I stood
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on the stairs and listen. He'sthe greatest man who ever was or will
be. When I joined a feworganization, the man in Chad said,
join the organization, but this forwardforward the banalito to eternity. You have
loved your lessons yours. Are yousure I have never seen you before?
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Of course not, my boy,I seemed to leave there. Hey,
Yoseph, ah, good morven head, nois day. Since we're just passing
through Berlin, don't you think weought to see a few of the sites
before we leave. Yeah, yeah, you're right. We will leave now.
Perhaps later, Emil, we willtalk more. Was scheduled for that
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night the professor and I had alot of work to do. We made
arrangements to meet about four thirty thatafternoon at the Tavern Ndlan Passa. We
went separate ways. I did alot of walking, and I made a
lot of notes in my head.The kleen Bird power plant was still functioning.
The Court's junction of the city railroadhad been repaired. There was an
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ammunition dump on the north side thatobamas couldn't see from the air. It's
a nice day out of Germans werewalking the streets, and I made a
lot of notes in my head.You vished all now many nine and later.
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I am waiting for a friend.Professor was fifteen minutes late, and
I started getting nervous. Maybe somebodyhad recognized him. I sat there and
sweated it out fifteen minutes, twentyminutes, half hour, and then he
finally came. But he wasn't alone. Hell noida. This is half Manila,
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the net only this afternoon, andI invited him to come and have
dinner with love. It was notquite bad way. It was I who
insisted up, I'm coming alone.I uh give this the town you were
with wonderful romans, Panta divisions.I understand. Yes, we were on
recently discharged from the myself. Iam just back. You will have much
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to talk about. There's the stupidwaiter, never around when you need them.
He need the heir presents. Notsoon enough. I will go to
see him myself. Where did youpick him up? He found me,
my friend. There is a reservoirnear the rail line. I was looking
around. I think he was alittle suspicious at first, but then I
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told him I was the drummel.He became more friendly. I am beginning
to believe I was in Africa myselfjust the same. I wish you could
have shaken him. What did youfind out? It was a profitable afternoon,
and you a profitable afternoon. Goover, it comes text across.
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It seems strange to me that here, Joseph, here should show so much
interest in the rest of you.I was nearly taking a stroll and getting
reacquainted with Berlin, and then Iwatched you. I saw you walk down
thoughts the real line that was whenI popped you and began to talk.
We are both glad you did yeahhelp give us this opportunity to get acquainted.
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I hope we should see more ofyou. We're in the capitol.
Perhaps no very sac a great dealer. Man, think I should call the
waiter and order some brendy O yoursnot yet to miish your mens annoyed the
leading it's very good. A dietat the hospital was not so very no
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doubt, no doubt anything. Iknow what. I wouldn't go down.
I knew that German officer was watchingwatching me strange, and and I didn't
know why. I knew that somethingwas wrong, and I didn't know what
you professor to. Her name isGertruforla, and I tell you about and
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she has friends. Oh it's avery pretty friend. You would like to
meet them? Perhaps, yes,you would like to very much. She
help me how you would have enjoyedthem? We might have had great fun
together, all of us. Unfortunatelyyou may be otherwise engaged with take a
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stuff of what did you say?Hair? Helpman? And I have been
watching you all through dinner. Iannoyed it. You're an American, Do
not move my dog. I havemy hand on my dun But surely you
nor with Europeans. It's the wayyou do to change the fowk from the
left hand to the right after thenight is youth. But so it escaped
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me. I just knew something botheredme. Then I realized, thought it
one there. It was the littlething that could put a rope around americally
pull the fork five. In mynervousness, I'd forgotten a little thing like
that European manner of evil. Sharpknife I had been eating with. It
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was still in my hands, almostdecipit war by himself. It disappeared under
the table. I'm halfway into theGerman off good. I was stupid to
get myself into that germ in thefirst place. We're not out of this
yet. Waiter now my hair checkplease. My friend has had a little
too much to drink. Who willtake him home? Yeah? Yeah,
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right of eight. Between the twoof us, we managed to get him
out of there. His head wasrocking back and forth like a drunk.
The knife was still in him,so the blood didn't flow very much.
To get this tape around him,right, there is no one around.
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Can the key You can dump himbehind his ship. All right, We're
beginning to leave a trail a milelong. It's a long power. It's
nice meeting you. Come on,professor, let's go. When we got
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back to the baker. There wasmore trouble waiting for us. Trouble sixty
one inches high, weighing about onehundred and ten pounds, wearing a new
red swastika in his arms. They'rein the kitchen. Something is wrong.
I'm like the sound of that comeon the morning when you were I watched
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on the chem I thought I rememberedto say, you have let seen her
used it before. I have whenI was very little. They kicks off.
They arrested a man with a goldwatch on a k I tell you
he's the same, Amy, donot even look a lie. This broadcast
radio. I found it in yourbedroom on the head box. It's called
a walkie talky. Amil'll give itback to me. Nick you to come
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back. You see you see whowe waste the time. I should have
gone to the authorities right away.They have freshed your grandmother. He knows
Anna. I'm afraid to. I'vebeen holding him here hoping you would return.
What did you say? You know? Grandmother? Didn't you they didn't
take your adults right. You're afright to told him ye hate ya you
try let me kill you. Lookhim there until after we have gone right,
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get your hat. You're gonna haveto come with us and we leave
here tonight. Anna, you cannotstay now. Pleasures right fro like that?
Get upstairs? Will turn you over. The Nazis so fast. You
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want know what happened to you?Amy turn me in? Using would he?
I'm afraid he would. Anna.It's his best that you come with
us. They're going to try toget through the lines into France. What's
there? There are underground workers whowill help us. Yeah, Nikki,
is it all right if I bringthis tray of food up to him?
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He has not eaten. He's stillsuch a little boy. Yeah, sure,
sure you'll or take it up,but don't untie his hands. Remember,
yes, I will remember. I'mthe raid of the start. Soon
let's go over this map. Makesure we have everything right. Yeah,
Now the rail line is here sectortwo gret B three. If Obama's knocked
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that out, Berlin's transportation is completelycrippled. And here when the map power
plant is in sixty six rid gfile. He's got what he turns.
He got the loose you know whathimself from the window with the bed.
She's what are we to do?He'll bring the Gestapo back with him.
We don't know how long he's beengone, Professor the window, quickly the
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door. There is a car comingladen Ellie, look look, no time
they'll have this place around. Andhow do you get to the roof the
roof up those stairs became wootoo tothe other roofs. Do they perhaps the
ski better be no? Perhaps aboutgiving up to the attic stairs and on
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to the roof. You could seethe Germans from there. Four of the
Red Shirts stilled out of an armoredcar. Two of them broke in through
the front door. Two of themstarted around to the rear, and then
we heard aimy w Niki Nikki,she's dead. It won't do her any
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good if we stay here. Comeon across the parapet hey act some music
in my ears. If they cankeep them from get more help right now,
you come and get us. Well, one of them did try to
come and get us, and hegot it first right between the eyes.
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He swayed for a few seconds backand forth, and then he fell off
the rope by the street the frontof the Nikki and our only two left.
Two would happen to have heard he? Would you? Fourth Nazi had
come up the other way through somebodyelse's Atticunds was behind Now the Rochester left
Professor rock if Professor, what isit my leg I can't move it.
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I can't go any further, Nikki. What happened after which was a nightmare.
It was at the earth cracked,wide spread, hot and burning,
and the noise of the planes andthe back in the German guns and the
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bombing made my stomach church. Wecrouched behind the parapet and I held them
off while the Professor directed the barattention, attention, bombers. The Kling
and Bag power plant is still functioningand supplies electric power to hide Leader Street
bomb Sector six, grade G five. The Oskritch junction of the city railroad
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has been repaired. Knock it out, and old traffic in Blain will be
stopped. Sector two, grade Dthree. But I go now, Nikki,
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while there is a chance I canhold them off long enough for you
to get away. I can't leaveyou. No, no, they won't
take me. Don't worry. Lookout, Cherry, you will make a
chunk. Listen, listen to me, Nikki. Go across the next two
roof shops and then down through thehighlight. There is a tailor shop.
I have a profecto out of theback door there. It leads to an
Anne once over the fence on thecover of the rage. Who can make
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it? How Look, I won'tgo without you, all right, I
can't change your mind. Attention,attention, bomber. What are you doing?
Attention bomber? Impetitive Wait two minutesand bomb cross wrote at tecta seven
grade these three, Professor, whatare you doing? You're crazy? That's
here, this stuff that go on? Run run, Nicky, I cover
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you. I ran. He stumbledand fell and got up and ran again.
When I got down the alley throughthe tailor shop at chuck down running.
Then the bomb fell and the concussionrocked theick around, and I went
to flat up my FI. WhenI look back, I knew that our
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Bomas had made another red hid.Professor not only held a the Germans while
I got away, but he keptthem there until it was too late for
any of them. Little German bakeryesspecialized and A pushed the roidel folded up
as made the magsticks. Somewhere inthe wreckage. The Professor, with his
gold watch on the chain, buriedunder it. Now the head the planes
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headed back. There's nothing left tome there. I headed back too.
Lieutenant gus Lesnikus made his way toFrance and after months from there to England.
But his erection of the bombing raidfrom the target itself kept some of
Berlin's major industries crippled and its transportationsystem paralyzed. And once again the report
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of an OSS agent closes with theword mession accomplished. Listen next week when
we again breath them crop and heard. In Today's Cloken Dagger Adventure, Wherever
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at Sloan, Bill Zuckert, LilyDarvass, Barry Koger, Michael Artists,
Raymond Edward Johnson, Carl Weber,Jerry Jarrett, Bobby Weil and Brad Barker.
Script was written by Winterfred Wolf andJack Gordon. Music was under the
direction of John Guards. Today's trueRSS adventure was based on the book Cloak
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and Dagger by Corey Ford and AlistairMcBain. This has been a Lost g
Cowan production in association with Alfred Hollanderand was under the direction and supervision of
Sherman Mark. NBC offers three ofradio's top mystery adventure shows, The Big
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