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Are you willing to undertake a dangerousmission behind the enemy lines knowing you may
never return alive. What you havejust heard is the question asked during the
war to agents of the OSS ordinarycitizens who, to this question answered yes.

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This is clop and Bagger black Warfarespn r's international intrigue. These are

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the weapons of the OSS. Today'sadventure. The Cutcheon story tells of an
agent American agent dropped behind Japanese linesin Burma, a story suggested by actual
incidents recorded in the Washington files ofthe Office of Strategic Services US story that
can now be told. The skyhangs low over the Grummers in nineteen forty

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four. It was more than justthe smoke and dust page the blankets is
in the dry season, there wasa tension in the air that weighed the
clouds down so that they almost seemedto be tossing against the wings of our
plane. You got to reach yourobjective in a few minutes, Mike Good,
I'll tell you where to hit thecell. You got everything, yep,
radio splies. I'm upset. Whythat's thick jungle down there? Slick

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with Jeff, That's what I mean. I looked down on the towering jungle
cut of mountains of North Gloman.I thought of the small band of Cutching
natives who were waiting to meet.I thought about how pitifully outnumbered they were
behind the enemy lines. Now theyhated the jets. And then all of
a sudden, I didn't have timeto think anymore. Allows these jeff fighter?

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What cloud did? He crawl outof him? So like to run.
We're in for it all right.You're gonna be late for your appointment?
Brother? What I can do witha tail gunner? Now? Hold
out of your stomach? Mic,goanna see if I can loop and get
behind him. Hi's killing a tailYeah, he looked right behind me.

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He hit a entered a class losty, nice work, good time? How
bad are we hit? We allmake it better? Try a belly laugh?
Can we jump? Pull out forthat? Hold on? Watch those
trees. I can't fuller up bike, I can't, I can't. I

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was thrown from the plane and wecrashed. I got off with nothing more
than a leg that was bleeding prettybad. When I crawled back to the
wreck, I found a pilot.He wasn't so lucky. I started to

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run. I didn't know where Iwas going, but I started to run
anyway through the bamboo thickets. Myleg was throbbing with pain, and I
tripped. The pistol dropped out ofmy holster and disappeared into the high grass.
How didn't have time to look forit somewhere to the north with the
cutchings. I had to get to. This was headhunter country in those days,
Japs paid high prices for American scalps. After a while, my bustcat

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I couldn't go in the furty.My imagination put Japs in headhunters behind every
tree. I told myself I hadto stop. I told myself I didn't
have enough wind, attack and havea step, and I changed my mind.
Went behind me. I heard atwig snap. It was someone,
followed it a quiet stealp me someoneand padded cat's feet. I kept them
running into the river. I didn'tbother and looked first for crocodiles. A

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numbness of my bad legs sped allover me. I could hardly swim.
All I wanted to do was getaway from that shadow behind me. When
I reached the opposite shore, Iclimbed und. It was sin and safe,
safe, and I looked back.I saw the tireless shadow emerge from

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the bushes and flipped silently across theriver on a fallen tree truck. My
lungs were ready to burst. Ipulled myself up again and followed with some
rooks and waited, waited for thatshadow to catch up with me. I
just laid in. I'm waiting.Okay, okay, you're with Where don't

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we go from here? We'll saysomething. We'll just stand there. Probably
won't be able to understand you,but say something anyway. I half to
make a warrior. Just still feelstaring at me saying nothing. I haven't
give them anything to do. IfI have a gun back again, and

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all of a sudden I did.He just reached down and handed it to
me. Hey, I I don'tget it. What's that? What's that
card? You hold me? Followedhis guide? He will lead you to
safety. Well, well not,you're tuck. He's sure. And you

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couldn't look more surprised, Captain thanif the tall grass potted and you came
on a field of fall leaf clovers. I feel like white Father, like
you turned over the stone and therewe were. What's about it? I
thought that night of following. Itwas a headhunter. I know they'd turned
any American over the Jats for atwo pounds bag of salt. Hey,

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you're right there on the holy savagesthat they are. We saw your plane
fall and I sent you here afteryou with that message written on the card.
He's the fastest runner in the Cutchinvillage. I'm sorry he puts such
his care into you. Oh,forgive me, captain, say, did
I pull the bandage too tightly?Then? No, no, it's okay.

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I don't want it too much.When I think it would have happened
with the pilot, I was lucky. Yes, it was a pity about
the pilots ying. This is asif you don't mind. Thank you.
There almost done now, then we'llgo out and you will meet the villages.

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The women have prepared a special banquetfor you, and it's very nice
on them. Have you been amissionary here? And bring my long father?
Oh for almost twelve years now,I hardly remember any other life.
These good natives have all become sonsand daughters to me. We've taught each

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other. I speak their language.They all speak English now they do as
well as I. Almost Then Ihave a question, Father, Yeah,
I'll come. Ying over there tookten years off my life, chased me
through the jungle. Why didn't hesay something? Well, Ying didn't speak

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to you, Captain Shay, becausehe wasn't able to what He was a
prisoner of the Japanese some time ago. They cut out his tongue. That
other all of bandage. Pleasing,thank you, Colleen, put more wine

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in the bamboo cup for our guest. I will be happy to here you
are. What did you call her? Father, Colleen? To make it
easier for me, I've renamed manyof the villagers that woman stirring to the
Kettlers, Kathleen and the other besideher bridget I get the general idea.

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And your name is hey, ah, Mike say a good Irish name if
I ever heard one. Well,actually, Father, it's Michael Chicalikov.
Would you mind repeating that Chicagnikov PolishI shortened because everybody has trouble pronouncing it.
Sometimes I have trouble myself spelling them. I see, well, no

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massive, no matter. Tell memore about your missions. When I was
sent by the OSS to established radiocontact father with the Northern Area Combat Command
in Burman, give them any informationand help I can, that is with
your help, of course. Wellyou'll find us of great assistance immediately after
the bank which you can find aplace to shut up your radio. How

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are you enjoying? You mean?My wife never made anything of tasting like
this? Did you like it?Its? Let me see your take some
more? Thanks very ah? Whatis it? We make it special for
you today? Right? These sweetboys for hours? Uh, I guess

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I'd had enough. I don't feelright moving you out of your hots father
gosh, quite all right, orI can easily find another basher. This
is the best spot for your radio. I'll even leave you that the decorations

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on the walls to inspire you.Ginger Rogers, that's your favorite pin up?
Well she's a fair lass, allright? She brightens up the basher
O your permission. Then I'll sticka snaps out of my wife up with
the rest of these pictures. Thatdoesn't you know? When I think of
my wife with phil little guilty?Where is the ah misson? Oh?

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I don't know, thought of hergoing blind, squeezeing news from home in
the vmale, wearing a self sickabout me and all the time I never
felt more free in my life.Hey, I know just what you mean.
I love this life in the jungleas well as the people, my
people here. I don't think Icould ever leave now check bitter By.

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Do you mind if I call yourO'Shea. No, not at all,
thought to them, Not at all. This jungle home was a far cry
from the third four walk up inNew York and the job behind the desk
in the insurance office. The CutchingWarriors aren't imposing figures. The short squat

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with long matted hair and teeth warnedwith a black stuff by beetlenut. They
led a simple village life, eatingrice, trapping wild pigs, the technique
they also used in trapping wild jets. But they were friendly, happy people
in Life for them was pleasant untilone afternoon when a report came in on
a radio North Area Combat comand throughAgent Chakol MCV agent chicon Nikov for the

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OSS to North Area Combat Command.You're coming in clear a waiting message,
come in Obert capture of jungle townof Mitchina and it's all scrip is vital
who aid a light advance in BornemonBattalions of American marauders will attempt capture.
They will rely on your help toget them through the jungle. Ober Agian

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Chiconnikoff. The headquarters have small bandof Cutchings organized. We will do what
we can, awaiting further instructions overOther Native armies under Oss leadership have been
alerted, stand by, stormed by. This is imperative over and out.
It is oh, bother a tool. I didn't see you standing there.

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You heard they heard. Oh,this is a big push all right at
airport at mention I could mean successivefailure of the whole American campaign and Burman
or He'll get our warriors ready.In the meantime, there's nothing we can
do but wait for orders. That'salways the worst part of it. Wait

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quite quite, my children, quitenow. It is as I have told
you. When the order comes fromthe Americans, we will advance upon the
enemy. We leave now, father, catch enemy ourselves. No, no,
no, no, that's not theway we must work from now on.

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The American will be our leader.We will do as he says.
We will follow Captain or Shade Northarea comeback command to Agent Chakoni Covin Burma.

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A battalion of marauders on the wayto Mitchina has been put off from
the main body of the column andlost in the jungle. Radio contact gone
find them on supply reinforcements. FatherAsian chiconak the headquarters. Well to the
best we can over. Not well, we've waited two weeks for an assignment,
but when it came up with abeauty. The problem oshe is locating

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that battalion. Now it occurs tome, yes, yes, Fana,
it occurs to me that if they'resurrounded by the Japanese somewhere in the jungle,
the Japanese themselves would know exactly wherethat spot is. Father, I
don't get you. Well, there'sa Japanese devoac less than six miles from
here. They are are undoubtedly Japanesehigh command who have the information we're after.

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I've got you, a, Fana, one of the scouts come with
me to show me the ways forthe jungle. We'll sneak into that jack
camp and bring one of the officersback with us here. Lord sure sure
to who my neighbors and will liablyget caught. Just a couple of us
can make it all right. Waittill the moon is halfway across the sky.
Then go I'm the Lord, gowith you. When the moon was

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halfway across the sky and the Scoutand I set out back to the jungle,
I'd come from it, only thistime I was a shadow too,
slipping behind the bambooth thickets, cuttingmy ways with a dense jungle foliage.
We didn't talk much, only whatwas necessary. Jap camp, claw,

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good jack camp. There she's sobushouses with must be some kind of a
power going on. And she thewest finger. Ye see it. We

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will spry and sneak in camp fromthere behind you not talky, not tuck,
nursing, many apps, okay forthe bushes, follow me, Watch
for snake boy what at the timeof this wild boars, kromodo rigards,

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Watch what snake stick? Your moveis such? What we do? You
get him with a stick, arock gun best god hear its done?
Best rock no goot stick no good. If I miss you die then non

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boom. We start there like somebodywho frozen, dumb and stiff. My
heart was pounding like a jungle tomtop. If he killed the snake,
the Japs were sure to come running. If he didn't, he raised his
gun slow slow. The snake wasswaying back and forth, set snake much

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dead. He killed him all life. If we didn't have time to escape
back into the foliage. After that, nothing's clear in my mind. Four
Japs all around us, yelling likecrazy, and lots of guns going,
and the Cutch and Scouts fell faton his face. Said, then somebody
buttered me from behind with a pistol, and the moon went out of the

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heavens, and the sky that hangslow over Burma came down and hit me
in the face. Wake up,American, Wake up? Huh? What

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have oh? Oh my head?I am kind of Hiachi of Japanese high
commands. I regret that we wereforced to render use such stormy Welcome,
Colonel Hiati Eh you speak English prettywell. Matterachusetts Institute of Technology class thirty
seven. They were Clinton High School, the Bronx class of thirty three.

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We will get along well. Ithink if we make riddle trade? What
kind of a trade? You're right? For? Little information? I see
the American marauders. I want toknow the numbers, their positions. They're
objective. I don't know. IfI did, I wouldn't tell you.
God so that whit was semple.We have much more in store for you

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if you do not agree to bemore agreeable to our simple request, I
give you twenty four hours to think. You though by American. The hot
they threw me in there was smalland dark. There was a sentry posted

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at the entrance. What I remembermost about those twenty four hours was the
heat, wet, sticky heat thatmade my skin crawl and my lips dry.
It was a cute tricketing in myTEA graduate class of thirty seven.
To let the water drift from apipe right outside the barred window. After

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a while, it begins to getyou when it's Thirstay you get up,
get up, kind of eat itto you now up my can up?
Oh okay, okay, get yourhands off me? What what's that is?
Dumpede dumpede raphan Oh, she wouldwork. That's one Japanese. Tell

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where do you come from? Whatis this? No time for long exclamations,
now, lad, If they outnumbered the sixty to one and we
needed heavy ammunition, with the heaviestwe could fight. Yeah, but how
to tell you whether you didn't comeback? I sent a run out.
We found the body of this guy. Come, we must leave now.
Yeah, but the information I cameto get Oh that we'll take it with
us. Cutching warriors in this villagehave a grudge against your people, Colonel

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Hayachi, Why you cannot fight anyAmericans? You get no information from me?
She was on the other foot.Now, huh oh, it would
seem ying. I'd like you tomeet Ying Colonel Hahi some months ago.
He was a Japanese prisoner. Histongue was cut out. I'm going to

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turn you over to the Ying.No no, he can ask you questions
his own way. Go on,take him no, no, no,
no, get you away from me. I will tell you what you want
to know. I won't tell youwhy we hustle around and lost, but
tell you I'll tell you where theyare. That's more like it. Start
talk. Warriors got ready to attack, and a great holiday spirit took over

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the village. But we must come. We always come with sef when our
warriors go ambush Japanese. But thisis crazy. I can't have a lot
of women and kids and old mentagging along. We go. We go.
Old men cave think luck, muzzleluders. Women We do our jabos.
Now wait a minute. When battlefinish, women cook big party somebody,

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dear monkey meat what and serve atPIPEONHTNA lines nothing doing. I'm gonna
see Father oad Tool about this.You have your powers, I have my
nose. But we can't let thatwhole tribe come along. This isn't kids
playing. They'll come with your lifeand to or not o shay the Irish

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do in the mean? Why lookat my predicaments to son of Satan stolen
me false teeth wasn't way to dowithout your tea, Father Road two,
Please, we have much time.I eatually gave us a map. We
know what the marauders and the gapattackers are, but we won't do the
many colds just sitting me. I'mnot just sitting here, Norty. I'm
trying to find me teeth. Thewhole village went along, whether I like

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it or not, and Father Roadtwo came along too without his teeth.
Cut your warr into the back trailsthe jungle as well as I knew forty
seconds free. He ain't seem tobe the leader, and he let us
to a little known passes along hiddenunderbrush, closer and closer to the spot.
But we know the japside the Americanbattalian cut off helpress, just what

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I wanted him. No one madea sound, and Ying held up his
hand. What is his game?This junction of the two trails. He's
not sure which one you take.That's itching, isn't it won't. We'll
split up and let's go one way. No, no, no, there
aren't to no purpose. The cutcheonshave their own methods. Why is Jing

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pointing at me? He's given youthe honor of contributing the hair from your
head, and the hair from theold head is let me have one?
Ah, thank you, hid yaYing? Why has he throwing it on
the ground. We'll go in thedirection the hair points. It's not very
scientific. And oh, but thetirage works. Ah eight points to the

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right. We'll go to the right, the right, father, Oh told
it did work. Here are thetraps. There were the marauders down here

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those platforms. Hey, there's shirtdown the doors right for as so when
if they held out this long?Our business then is to attack the enemy
from the rear and give them achina a chance to hit back. We
can't attack them. There's so manyof them. We'll have to anbles.
Hey, he's true, I forme I had the teeth, or I
could think that King, some ofyour others come here. Listen. Our

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only chance is to draw them offfrom the left with the clearing man.
We'll get the marauders a chance toget out of them and circument he chase
chaps up here. We set trapswith them. That's the idea, Tanji,
we make panji, panji? What'sthat? Hey? Why the trap?
Check? Watch? Hit about?Which is the cutcheon? Secret weapon?
What are they doing? They're with? Then those tamboo pools to sharp

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points, then the stick them withthe slangs beneath the underbrush. I need
to show you to the trail.When the enemy passes are what is your
fire? And the Japanese a diveto the side right to get it to
cut themselves to ribbons. Very affect, very foot. The natives work,

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the women helping them whittle a bambooto razor points. When everything was ready,
I took a few of them mento the left flank and we fired
and they ran right into what trap? Very affective, not so pretty?
I can those Matt Harry carry allalong the trail? That dollar was to
us. I never thought we'd getout of those foxholes alive, Captain Chiconikoff,

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thanks helping us chase the rest ofthe japs Off. I'm glad we
got to help me. Major.The cuts will lead to the rest of
the White through the jungle, soyou can rejoin the main party of your
column. Can we leave now?Oh? No, majure. The women
would be in charged Ldred and thebattle table. Did you pretend we critised?
Pretty sure of themselves, good wives, they have confidence in their husbands.

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The feast is ready. They'd evendressed for it. Look at that
flowers in their hair and everything alldressed. Uff one of them show for
dressed collies. Come here, yes, father, don't you? Yes?
Father me? What do you gotaround your neck? Well, I've bow
for the victim My part's teeth.Now you point yourself another necklation you give

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them back? No, then Ihave nothing, boy, comean listen to
me. Here he's something prettier.My shop shoot is met shop shooter?
Mm hmm. Every American soldier hasone to give to the previous girl meets.
Would you like it too? Shinydriven pretty tooth? Father tooth,

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you have back your teeth. CaptainShaikarnikov, You're worthy of the name.
Of war shame. The capture ofthe vital airstrip and the ultimate conquest of

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Mitchener was due to the combiner ofthe marauders who attacked it and the Kuchen
warriors who helped them and harass theenemy all along the way. And once
more, the report of an OSSagent closes with the words mission accomplished.
A further adventure in Black Warfare isnext week Cloak and Dagger. Heard in

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Today's Cloak and Dagger Adventure where RaymondEdward, Johnson, Carl Weber, Bill
Quinn, Jeege, Julian Everett,Sloan, Inga Adams, Jackson Beck and
Jerry Jarrett. The script was writtenby Winifred Wolf and Jack Gordon. Music
was under the direction of John Gart. Today's True Oss Adventure was based on

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the Lewis G. Cohen production inassociation with Alfred Hollander and was under the
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