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Are you willing to undertake a dangerousmission behind the enemy lines, knowing you
may never return alive. What youhave just heard is the question asked during
the war to agents of the OSSordinary citizens who, to this question answered

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yes. This is cloak and dagger, black warfare, espionage, international intrigue.

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These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's adventure operations Sellout is the
story of an American OSS agent whowent into German occupied France to locate Nazi
submarine bases, and, suggested byactual incidents recorded in the Washington files of
the Office of Strategic Services, astory that can now be told. I

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knew something was up when Colonel Palmermet Tom Barnes and Lee at the dock
that night. He hadn't come downfrom London just to wish his bone voyage.
There wasn't time for such formalities inthe usays. Even when a couple
of ITS agents were embarking for thecoast of Nazi occupied France, none of
the chief pull was stopped. TheColonel stepped into the faint glow of the

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blackout line. Captain Baker answer,this is the radio operator, Captain,
that's right too, I'm Barnes BlansCorporal barn Sussex. Gods, you men
are all set. Yes, weshove off in twenty minutes. Help put
you ashore below Santas just before dawn. After you've been landed, you'll move
inland exactly six kilometers. You'll bemet there by Aim the marquis. Understand.

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Yes, I I'm in. Igot a lecture then, and I
we didn't need it. Men,mission was important. German submarines have been
hitting our convoys in the Atlantic,hitting them hard. Shipping losses had to
be cut and the best way tocut them was to blast the Nazi sub

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pens along the French coast. Understand, it was my job to locate the
biggest pens. It was Tom's jobto radio the information back to England.
So the Allied air forces with noway to lay their eggs. No,
we didn't need any lecture, andhow important it was. You're not listening.
Oh, I'm sorry, kindel II heard it all in London two

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days ago, Sair. I UHwas wondering why you came down here to
say it again. And they've hadanother reason for coming down. That's what
we figureds Uh. There's being achange and plans. It's like when Yeah,
originally you two were the one totake this mission alone. I've decided
now to send a third man withyou. Oh you, sir. I'd

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rather say nothing about it till yousee him. He'll be something of a
surprise to you, perhaps surpriser,yes, though not too unpleasant one.
I hope your reaction to him maywell determine the success of your mission.
I afraid I don't understand, Colonel. You will in a minute. He's
already on the boat. Hold on, Tom and I followed the Colonel out

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on the dock. The British Navytorpedo boat that was going to take us
across the channel lay in the water, a black shadow of the Black Knight.
We climbed the board and stowed ourgear on dick record the Ford cabin.
Thom and I exchanged looks. Neitherof us like this slight change and
plans. Your new man is inhere, Captain, Oh, let's have

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a look at him, Colonel.For a moment, the bright lights of
the cabin spilling out on the deckblinded me. Then I saw him.
First. I thought it was agag until the guy turned, until he
made a stiff pole from the waistuntil he said good evening, gentlemen.
I'm liking Carl Mura of the GermanHeights Fair and I knew it wasn't a

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gag he belonged in that uniform hewas wearing. It was all his,
every Nazi stitch of it, rightup to the death's head in signey on
his left shoulder, Hemna. Thisis Captain Link Dagger and this is a
couple of bonds of the brides ARMIon the tached service for the OSS.
It is a pleasure to meet you, gentlemen. Is it hell? Palmer?

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Hey, Bonds and I speak toyou alone. Hi, I will
go out on Dick. Well,although we have to say it, sir,
you must know how we feel aboutthis, I'll sayd Link. So
I don't like the idea of takinga Jerry with us in the Nazi territory.
Well do we have to do it? You volunteered for this mission,

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Bonds, You don't have to doanything. He's a dagger and I can
do the job. So without aJerry, even do it faster with him,
Corporal, and we've got to starthitting those sub dances as quickly as
possible. Meller will be valuable toyou in obtaining information from his former fellow
officers. Must have a lot offaith in this Nazisir, He's not a
Nazi, He's a German. Isthere a difference, Yes, even when

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he was an officer one of Hitler'spet divisions colonels. Through no choice of
his own, Daggett Meller was capturedby the British North Africa two years ago.
He's been working as an interpreter forthe OSS for eighteen months. He's
been thoroughly screened. We have faithin his story that he's always been opposed
to Hitler. Well, he couldhave been lying to you, sir,
just waiting for a chance like this, a chance to get back to German

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territary. He could have been,but we don't think he was. But
if he were, Sir, Barsand I are a couple of dead ducks.
He'll sell us out a minute weget across the channel. That's quite
true, Daggett. And that's thechance you'll both have to take. I
know we could have baked out,but we didn't. You never do.

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So we headed across the channel,one Englishman, one American and one German.
I don't know what the German wasthinking. He didn't say much,
but the Englishman and the American werethinking he was gonna be a one way
trip. Just before dawn, thetorpedo bowl put us ashore below Santa's air.

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He stood listening to your motors dieaway, and then I turned and
walked up to Lieutenant Calm Muler.I lifted his lugo out of its holster,
and he didn't say a word.I broke the gun open, with
twelve rounds and the clip and oneshell in the chamber. I dropped the
clip in my pocket and handed thegun back to him, the shells still

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in it. Donker hell cotuicated,you'll learn left you one shell. How
anything goes wrong, you may needit. That is, if you're on
a level. I will use you, thought myself, rather than fall into
the hands of the Nazis. Yeah, I know you will if you're on
the level. If you're not,though, you'll think twice about using it
on us. To see you hecouldn't get both of us with one shell.

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Understand, Yeah, I understand,How can you do? It was
just a phony gesture. Of course, he knew as well as I did
that it didn't mean a thing.The country was occupied by a half million
of his countrymen. You can wipeus out like stepping up a bug if

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he wanted it to. Dawn wasbreaking and he left the beach. He
started inland to keep ironic. Whowould leap martand and my key agent,
who was to set us up witha base of operations. You must have
made quite a picture, two mendressed as French peasants trudging along behind a
Nazi officer to the fields. Andmoved along hedge rows as much as we

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could, and we came to ahighway. German army Laurie rumbled by while
we squatted behind the hedge row andheld our bread. Oh that's all cleonomic.
Yeah, yeah, we'll cross oneat a time. You first knew,

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uh, yeah, I gotta bedad. He got over the hedge
row and out onto the highway,was half way across Tom and I straightened
up to follow him, and wesaw it. We got down again.
A German reconnaissance car swinging around thebend in the road, stopped a few

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feet from Muller. He looked atthe Nazis, They looked at him.
We looked at both of'em throughthe hedge row and waited. I did
I hit that. It was inthe lift of his voice, was in
a smile on his face. Therewas no mistaking it. Calm Mueller was

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back with his buddies. Calm Mullerwas home. I think let's get away
from her, make a run forit along the hedge row a what he
tips off those crowds. We won'tget ten feet. Yes, I guess
you're right. Well, if wego, I'm taking Jerry with us.

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I'd had the same idea. Ihad already sneaked my revolver out of my
coat. I drew a bead onthat stiff rushing back and we did some
are waiting, crouching and waiting untilI did I hit lam. All right

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here, capane, it is safefor you to come out. Now.
We went out, but not beforeit exchanged another whisper, not before Barnes
said what we were both thinking.Maybe the colonel was rightling, maybe the
jetty's on the square, or maybehe's just smarter than we thought. What

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do you mean smart enough to useus for bait? That was it?
Bait? Why get rid of usso fast? We weren't that important?
He could get rid of us wheneverwe wanted to. He'd only wanted to
after we'd served his purpose, afterwe'd jeopardized the French my quy by exposing

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them to him. Yes, afterwe'd sent a lot of Yankee and British
fliers to their death. Join you'lllearn continued on to a rendezvous point.
There's nothing I could do about it. You'll have been assigned as a number
of the mission, so fi Idid life one. No knock off a
fellow agent unless you're sure al rightly? Or just six kilometers east of the

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beach now, yeah, yeah,this Patrick Woods must be the place.
What do we do now here,Capitaine? Nothing? Just wait, wait
for what? Monsieur stepped out frombehind a bush, silently as a shadow.
But shadows don't carry Tommy guns.You were expecting someone, Monsieur?

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Yeah, man named Philippe mar Tam. I am Philippe. Not well,
then you know who we are,I'm afraid not, Monsieur. If there
were two of you, I wouldknow, but not three. There was
a last minute change of plans,very great change, since it made room
for a Nazi officer. Look,not all men who wear Nazi uniforms are

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Nazi officer crumitieur. But old frenchmenknow are Nazi when they see one ino
out of uniform. Why is thisman here? And Tommy Gum was shoving
in the Mulla's chest. I hadto talk fast, explain who the German
was. I said, the OSStrusted him, the OSS mate pussed him.

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Monsieur, but I passed no German. That makes no difference. I
owe. This is that Mulis.Remember this mission. Let's get going,
you hear me, mar Tan verywell, monsieur, follow me. Where
are you taking us to my farm? You will set up your radio in
my bomb. Is it safe?Safe? Why don't you ask your friend

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her Miller. Two hours later,Tom had his transmitter set up in a
loft to Filipe Martin's farm, afew miles outside Santa's air With your permission,
here, Capite, and I willleave now here. You know what
you're gonna do, Muller, yeahyeah. With these forged order Colonel Palmer

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gave me, I will be ableto secure all the necessary information about submarine
finds in the sun as their areaif you want to, I hope her
Capitaine, I will be able toprove to you that I do want to.
We hope so too, Mula.All right, get going, I
expect you to contact us daily.We don't hear from you, think sums

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of the dwarf. Who could thatbe? Philip Pidi? It is all
right, monsieur, it is mysister Marie. She is also a loyal
member of Mackie. Marie Martin wasn'tjust a loyal my key member. She
was a beautiful one too. Iwouldn't have had a look at her than
all it not only have had alook at them that Tom Barnes as a

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brother, introduced her. This ismy sister Marie, monsieur Marie, Captain
Daggett's corporal barns AND's and hair.Later night had Jan here telling Mueller is
a prisoner of war mademoiselle working forthe USS. He is a nats An
X Nazi mademoiselle. The only xNazis are dead ones. Philip, throw

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this big out of the mademoiselle.Your brother and I have had all this
out, Philippers agreed to right agree. This is as much my commas it
is his. I will not havea NATS on it, all right,
all right, In as much asMule is just leaving for Santa's Air on
a mission. You are sending himon a mission. You must be out
of your mind, Capitain. Ithink your brother and I have had all

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this out. Philippers agreed to theright. Agree this is as much my
commas it is his. I willnot have a nats on it, all
right, all right. Inasmuch asMule is just leaving for Santa's Air on
a mission, you are sending himon a mission. You must be out
of your mind, Capitain. Ithink she has a point. Link.

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You remember that little discussion we hadback on the highway about beats. Yeah,
I remember a time, and I'mpretty sure now that we were right.
We have no more proof now thanwe did then. I would rather
he would stay here, Capitain,than see him go on himission. Well,
here, Capitaine, get going,you'll learn link, shall Meastan you

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will hear from me here, Capitaine? Will you will hear from me?
Prou the Gestapo. I wasn't sureshe was wrong, and Tom Barnes was
sure she was right. But thenTom's judgment wasn't to be trusted, not

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where Marie mar Towne was concerned.Well Son way. Then I took a
walk, Marie. Now, motherBrook you you take a lot of walks
with Red Aunty. Why not?There's nothing to do but cool our heels

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until we hear from Muller. Andquite frankly, old man, I can't
think of anybody I'd rather cool myheels with. And then we heard from
Mueller. He heard quite a lotfrom him, and not through the Gestapo
either. You must copy these mapsimmediately, he capitan. I must get

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them back to the Nazi headquarters beforemorning. You will find on them the
location of the Nazi subpins from SanJase Air to Dunker. I copy the
maps in the sight of the codesymbols, train my report over the time
the transmit to England. But Tomwas stubborn power You know those maps weren't
fating. I don't. Maybe Muellerwas using us just the way we thought

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he were. Maybe he is saidthat's tough because because of my artist,
and I'm gonna we'll pay them.Send it. Tom, see what happens.
Well, we saw what happened thatnight. Off in the distance,
the clouds and searchlight stabbed the skywhere black pups and smoke everywhere, and

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clouds were throwing up a credent flagthat no air force and the whole world
could penetrate. Next day, Mulercame back to the barn. By then
Tom had received the box score fromEngland twenty plaines. You'll hear that,
Mual, we lost twenty plains lastnight. I do not understand here,

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corporate. Oh no, no,you don't understand it at all, do
you. They knew we were coming, they were waiting for us, But
you don't understand it. You areimplying, of course, that I betrayed
you. But I give you myword. He's the word of a Nazi.
Are you perhaps convinced now? Itold you we should have missed the
turning? Easy, Tom, It'stoo late, of course to save those

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twenty planes. It is not toolate to stop otherwise, because of course
he's righting already, Colonel Palmer,this minute here copy tinge. Well,
Mueller, I am, I haveanother map. If you leave to look
at it, all right, let'ssee it, I am I would prefer

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to show it to you alone alone. Why you pig of a German?
Come? Are you suggesting there's anyoneto help but yourself? Will can't be
trusted. Look Mula. You're inno position to make such a request.
You have something to show me,you can show to me here, very
well, here, capitaine. Hehad something to show me, all right.

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At the tailed shot of the biggestsub pens along the whole coast,
I knew it was worth any riskto try to smash those pens. But
Tom Barnes didn't know it. Heneeded a lot of convincing. He insisted
that shot was bait, just bait. It turned out he was right.
Next week was a nightmare. Eightmilans notas ten, six at Chairbog,

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nine, at Lahav. Everywhere wespoke, the Cross were waiting operations.
So how Tom and I called it? We had a name for Lighten At
Muler two. Time wasn't around thetnight I reached a decision. I wasn't
looking for him down by the brook. Of course, it was a bright

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moon. I saw two figures.I approached, and then the two figures
became one. For a moment,I I love your bream. Oh we'll
sit. You must not say itin fans today. There's no place for
the word love. Maybe not mytime, but when the waters over,

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h I'm going to ask you themedian, Tom link, what are you
doing here? Get back to thebarn. Wants you radio Palmer to call
off the raids. At last,you have come the offenses, Capita,
What about we'll forget me. Look, it's almost a week since we've heard
from him. We don't even knowwhere he is, but we can guess,
no, Capita, he is inBerlin, probably receiving a needle from

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his fear. Tom and I hadto work fast. Once a dawn on
the Germans that there'd be no morerage. They'd be after us. We
radioed the Colonel canceling the raids,telling him we thought our mission was over.
Six hours later came the answer thecolonel thought otherwise, Good lord,

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we can't be serious. Think hey, serious? All right? He still
wants to smash those subpins at Santa'sAir. Since they couldn't do it from
the air, they're going to doit from the ground with a commando raid.
Yeah, command al ray, ahit and run attack where co ordination
and split second timing were everything.Tom and I were to be the inside

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man. Big job. Yeah,but this time we didn't have two strikes
against this now, because this wasone clam bake that Carl Mueller wouldn't know
anything about. What do we do? First link, contact the local leader
of the my key, Let himknow what's happening, and he'll get us
a safer place to roost. Buthow do we contact him? Oh,
FILIPO know him? Uh, Philip'sand Von about Marie? She might know

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too, right, go get him? He went to find Marie. I
packed up the radio and the otherequipment. I heard the door open.
I thought he'd brought her back.I was wrong. Good evening here,
Capyka, Mueller. I didn't expectyou to show your face around here again.

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I heard and send us here thatthe aids have been canceled. It's
afraid you and Corporal Bards might beon your way back to England. We're
packing now. Well I am notto go back with you. Then there's
only one place you're going, Mueller, So put your gun away here,
Capitaine, she's not made to killme. Since you are leaving me here,

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I shall make use of the oneshell you so kindly left in my
EVOLV. Yeah, yeah, I'msure you will. You couldn't bear to
be left behind with your nazy pals, could you my guns? I didn't
know where they were from. Ididn't wait to find out. I hit
the floor, dragging the candle offthe table with me. Bye went black.

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Lay there for a second, andthen from outside I heard that time
from lightning. I think I gotit. Thomas fired the shots. When
I left the candle again, Isaw it was wrong. The doorway where
Mueller had been standing was empty.Yula was gone. I was sure I
hit him. All right, nevermind, we got something more important to
think about. The Mula. Youtold Marine told me you wish to see

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the local marquis leader. That's right. Can you take us to him?
May we? Capita? I willarrange for you to meet Monsieur Thienne.
She said it would take until thenext evening to arrange it. Tom and
I cleared out of the farm andhould up in the patch of woods where
we first next to leave. Ofcourse, she'd had it start raining.

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Just before dark, Marie showed upin the woods. It is, capito,
Monsieur tn will be waiting for youat eight o'clock. They're roun behind
the village. Catin God work,Marie, you're going there with us,
Andre Donny, I must return toMonsieuritienne, but I will be waiting for
you at the catin. She wasstanding in the doorway when we got there

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at eight. She let us aroundthe bank into a small, dirty,
gimly lit room. Was one monsieur. He rose from his chair and stood
behind the table, and sure Timwas a small dark man. His eyes
were shifty and calculating, kind ofeyes you often find in the head that
has a price on it. Myapologies, monsieur, for not seeing you

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sooner. I was at my headquartersin the heels at to walk down.
The roads were wet in muddy.No apologies necessary, monsieur. Nothing.
Mademoiselle Martin informs me you wish theassistance of the Matthieu. I need plenty
of assistance. British commandos are planningraid on the port of Santa's er a
commander Ero Sanase. Those eyes ofhis grew wider, he grew bright.

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He stepped from behind the table.But he shouldn't have, because that was
when I saw his boots. Theywere clean and polished. There wasn't a
speck of mud on him, andyet he'd walked through the mud from his
headquarters in the hills. He saidis uh is something the metter kevitin.
He knew something was a matter,all right. He knew what it was

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too. He saw my eyes onhis boots and he understood his hand.
When I his copd it never cameout, because that was all I needed.
Link, for the love of heaven, one shot did it. He
grabbed his stomach and he slumped atthe wall. Good lord, link costs
the idea. Yeah, that's onecollaborator, less clever. Sure, that's
all he was. Tom Nancy's plantedhim here to find out about our new

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mission. But they didn't know wehad a new mission. You said you
would have polled we were packing upto go back to England. That's right,
he did well. Then, whocould have started to tell him?
I didn't have to. He sawit for himself, Marie. A look
on her face confirmed it. Alook on his face. It's the kind

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of thing you don't like to remember. That was all she needed. She
pulled it for the door and threwit open. I took one wild shot
at her, and I missed.Before I could fire against she was gone.
He knows about thereat link. Wegot a stopper Before she gets to
the German. There's no telling whichway she went. Tom'll split up.
You go that way and Outline randown the dark alley behind the cafe.

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The end of it. He foundher lying face down in the mud.
She's deadling, yeah, but whoshut her? I did here, corporate
Eula. I'm so sorry her,Barns. I know how you felt about

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her, but she was our enemy. She had to die here. But
but how did you know? Mueller? I finally found a Frenchman who trusted
me here, Capitaine. His nameis Monsieur itin the name. That was
his name. You see, hethought that I was a Nazi tool,

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he confided to me. I said, Mula, yeah, her corp okay,
I ought to tell you what Imean is I don't know how to
say it. I'm sorry I didn'ttrust. Do not say it, please,
I understand. How can you damas Muller. I have used that

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one shure you left in my revolver, but I wonder if you would omit
me to have one more. NoI won't, uh no, not one
more, Carl, I'm giving youback the whole clip. That same night,

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we contacted the real leader of themy Key. Two weeks later,
the commando struck in his air andwiped out that sub pen and they went
back to England. Tom Barnes andI went with him, and so did
our friend Carl Mueller. And onceagain the report of another OH says the
closes with the words mission accomplished.Visit again next week for another true adventure

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from the files of the OSS onCloak and Dagger. Heard in Today's Cork
and Dagger adventurer as Captain Daggett wasCarl Eastman, Tom Barnes, I and

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Martin, Carl Mueller, Louis vanRuten, Maried Louise Ellison, h n
Raymond, Edward Johnson, Martin Annoumasand the Nazi Carl Webber. The script
was written by ken Field and musicwas under the direction of John Guard.
Sound effects by Manny Siegal and JohnPowell, engineering Don Evan. Today's OSS
Adventure was based on the book Clarkand Dagger by Corey Ford and Alista McBain.

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