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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 Bok and Daggers, BlackWarfare, f Norge International Intrigue.

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These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's story the people in the Forest
is suggested by actual incidents recorded inthe Washington files of the Office of Strategic
Services, a story that can nowbe told. The plane began to slow

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down, and then it circled slowly. Someone pulled the cover off the jump
home and I got my first viewof France occupied France, August nineteen forty
four accation on the ground. Tothe right, I could see fires like
safety matches lift the moonlight, andI wondered how big they really were,
those fires that were out there.The guy that's in the dispatcher told me

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I was to jump second run inready number one. Ready, And then
it happened the first bad break ofthat mission. Only didn't happen to me.
It happened to Chris Fowler seeing Francegot hella, okay, fill up
number one. Good look oh.I just stood there looking down watching them

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go, and then my heart startedto found all over me. My breath
caught my nearly choked on it.Chris fell and fell and fell. The
shoot didn't work too, came outof the bag and streamed unopened behind them.
Paratroopers called that a Roman candle.Oh great, want to turn back?

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Shorbella huh no, no, I'lljump in. Okay man, ready
number two number now ready ready.The wind came up and hit me in
a rush. I sunk myself falling. I think I died a few times
until I heard the crack of theshoes. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiless,

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the most beautiful sight in the wholeworld. That big white umbrella over me.
The little safety matches on the groundgot bigger and bigger. I realized
they were torture. And then Isaw a figure of a man waving it.
He started to get tiger too,and then the torches were pa.
I was about to get my firstintroduction for the French underground. Are you

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all right? Yeah? Yeah,I'm all right fine. I saw what
happened to your friend. It wastoo dead. Yeah, you had courage
to jump at the day. Maybeif i'd stop to think about it,
I never would have. Maybe Iwas afraid i'd never jump again if I
didn't day. Well, anyway,here I am. My name is Captain
Robert skirk Paler. Captain Robert SkirtPale, I'm married. Welcome, Welcome

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to France. I'm excited to makeyour acquaintance. Captain. The little guy
throw his arms around and kissed me. When I was twelve, I'd said
next to me to see my fathersad night, be cousin emparady, And
here was this little frenchman with theberet and baggy pants and farmer's shoes with
his arms around. Hey, I'mjust so happy to see your belt.

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Well, I'm the Fox. TheGermans themselves gave me that name. Look
at his head. Would you believethere is a price on it? Or
are you the leader? Yes,of one of our little bands. The
British radio alerted us about you coming. Well, let's got reason for my
coming, Captain Fox. You maycall me simply Fox. Okay, Fox.
Now let's pick up supplies before brustingto right. As for your mission,

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Captain, there will be time enoughto talk about it when we get
deeper into the forest to our highway, but very far from here, unfortunately
does a little walk. We wereforced to move our headwaters last night after
another German raid. O, whatdo you means another? Our positions have
been ready three times the past man, almost as if the bush were given
a map of where we were inthe forest. Sounds to me like somebody's

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dirty work. I have thought ofthat, Satin. But if there is
a traitor in our group, Ishall find him. We know how to
deal with such. Well, that'sit true, you meah, Oh,
that's nice, every very very nice. This current rifle, beautiful doll.

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There are shoes on those packages too, and food and grenades. Oh,
what a beautiful rifle. I wasto tell you to expect a heavy,
suply drop in a few weeks.What a beautiful rifle. We still are
using few pieces from the frank Oppressionwar, but this is a beauty.
I'll get up you, thanks,Captain script Color. I'll be back in
a few minutes. I'll the back. The fox disappeared into the woods.

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The whole thing seemed like a crazynightmare, the whole forest surrounded by Germans,
and yet here I was passing onthe time of day, just like
nothing at all with a Frenchman whohad a price on his head, and
somewhere out there where he drifted,Chris was a dead heap under a lot
of parachute silk, and I waitedfor trouble. I didn't know whether to

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go after the parks and take Chadsomething ambush, to stay where I was.
Someone was coming. I tuck behinda tree. The only thing I
could figure was the Germans that've seenthe plane seeing me land. I took
aim carefully, slowly, and Ireally where a kind of loot? What

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happened? What were those shots?I just wanted to get the feel of
your gun, so I simply triedit in a couple of Germans over the
age of the deals excites very wellat this little dinner parties, you're on

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your capitals count. I regret thatwe have nothing better than wild rabbage store
ms A swell quite a welcome.Headquarters didn't tell me to expect anything like
this. That more wine for thecup. Yeah, I will say your
glass, Oh thank you? Ohno, and Risty say thank you big
way. Hey. You know I'mlike you sing Oh no, no,

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not at all. I love anelect Yeah, hey, come help me.
I need you now, Mary Scolin, Oh, she's a very pretty
girl that lose lose that. I'mvery young, yeah, only seventeen already

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she has seen so much hiding likevision to Paris, eating back into the
German hill village, into the villagewe need here. Many of our group
work in the village right under thenoses of den and the Germans do not
know that they are members of theMcKee. Oh, but they know you're
here. Oh, they know,they know that we're here, but they
do not. They are climb nearthe parish, excepting big raiding fives.

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They know very well that to onedead of ours, there will be twelve
dead of theirs. Well, captain, now about your mission, it's purpose,
tell me more for you. WhileI was sent here to find out
the German defense plans for the portof Santa's area in the entire coastal area
around Ah, I know those plansare in German headquarters in the village,
and you request our health. I'vegot to have those plans and in a

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matter of days I've got to deliveron personally the eighth cour hit. Now,
wuld your mind these jets, Carpella. The facts will help you now
the first thing I will do isfor your incompet don't you, Captain Scutella,
I'll marry you. She's the mothercat of this little kitten who kissed
you before. Oh, happy tomeet you, and we are all enchanted

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to meet you Americans in your honors. We have a special surprise. Listen,
I don't you and this what me? Well, my your pace,

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captain, let's the stut on aright home about rite home about? Yeah?
Yeah, nice calls. The emailwith friends now you'd never know about
the walk going on? Us us? Where did you look out? Kept
the ball? I see see whatelse? That divisilead up? Do you
have a pot around? Captain startcolor? I regret very much to have

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interrupted. You're welcome party. EnglishMan Brenner read a box, Rennee the
new machine our American friend brought withhim. Now what is it called,
captains cap colors? Oh? Yes, this now tickets ticket with them the
pageous position you understand rebound Now,let's not my friend, my friend.
Now is the best time for himand some of the others to learn how

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to use it for crying out loud. If I thought it seemed like a
nightmare before it was nothing for whathappened now, it so mixed up in
my mind I can't remember it clearly. It wasn't anything like the patrols I've
been trained for in the army.A captain's comma, how you please?

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Sorry? Ah, these Germans arebecoming very annoying. Uh what would you
mind pointing out the other way?For its excuse me? These a beauty,
just a little beauty from out ofnowhere. A German soldier fell forward

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on his face, and then thefox and I moved on. I remember
thinking of Christ. This is likekids playing cops and French boys still in
their teens ran by with a crossof lorrains on on their coats. I
saw Marie take came behind a tree, and all the time the fox kept
smiling, never stopped smiling. Areyou you of this, captain Stella,

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give me that gunner, I willlet you bury you. So why they're
about fifty yards ahead, There isa juicy rabbit in German uniform. Oh
please get me. Capital of foxwas right, the rifle dead side well,
And then all of a suddenly wereless Frenchmen around and more Germans all

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around. And in case like this, my friend, the best course is
to run. Well, let usrun this farst. It's like a chicksaw

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puzzle to me. You know itback that is necessity. Of course.
I regret exceedingly that I must askyou to join me here in this swamp.
We will stay here till it issafe to leave the boss under water,
leave only your knows about it tobreathe joy if their gold? How

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can one fight what one cannot see? What can happen this time? Half
months? They are scattered and disorganized. This is the end of our bubble
with them real life retreated, butthose agony return. Well, we will
find out from our informent later.I'll put a job you have done this
time? Yeah, you'll I stay? Hear us? God, No,

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with the cook necessary, it's nota hear Come better with me. Yeah.
If they've posted a guy here,it would have been the most including
in Jack's capella. Are you verywell? What do you think they'll be

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king close for you at our hidehouse? Come? It is time for
us to go there. This hasbeen a very annoying givement. Foxy fox.
Did you hear what they said aboutan informant? I heard? I
heard Captain Scarteller Marie is employed acharwoman in German headwaters in the village.

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She is the compact of whom Ispoke. What can I do to help
you? Just tell me there areplans for the defense of some nazard.
What do you think the chances areto the meeting? The files of the
office where you won't marry? Verygood, I would say, Marie,
Marie, tell me what are mychances of getting into those files? Ah?
So very good to me. Thedoor of the helpman's office is left

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open for me, so I maywash the floor. I see it will
be easy to enter. It's forthe file. I have a key,
a key which I will give itto you. Well, which is better
than I hope for? Where canwe go tomorrow? Tomorrow? Why not?
Now? The Germans are still outsearching the forest and the coast will
be cleared. Let us leave now? Who well outside for you? Captain

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Scarper for crying out loud lessen.An hour later we were in the village.

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It's five o'clock in the morning.Now there's no one around the village,
slept stains. Tell us listen tome. There is a German headquarters
across the street. I will leaveyou and go inside to get my mup
and bucket. You will watch throughthe window. Right when I distract the
guard, go quickly to the sidedoor. It is open. There the

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halfmann's office, the third door fromthe end. Third you have the key
to the to the fire. Theyeses I haven't. I now remember the
signal I gave you in case ofdanger. I watched it go into the
build, and then I took upmy position at the open window. There
was a guard at the front desk, no one else around. I pressed

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myself into the shadows, and aftera while Marie came to the front desk
and began to mop the floor.And the sooner, the sooner I am.
I knew that soon she'd do somethingto distract too much. Must be

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pleasant. Side door was open,and she said what they were three heard
awfully. I made it the GermanCaptain's office, and in the corner were

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the files. The key in myhand was hot and sticky. Hit it
stick to keep it. I knewit would, but somehow it would slit
in and turned. I took abreath of relief. I didn't have much
time. I knew we didn't havemuch time. I had to find those
plans. But where the papers?Where were they? And I heard Marie's

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signal and I froze. What abreak, But I couldn't stop searching now
everybody, Almost as if God hadput it into my hand at the right
moment, I found the photostatic copiesof the defense plans. No, she

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could only hold them off until Icould out as a place. See now
I see I went Back's going ashort drop to the ground, and so
lone excite me. I had afailing Marie to take care of herself.
When I started back to the forest. The plants in my pocket. I'll

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see here's jestins Cartella. I'm theman. You come out of the forest
three miles north at this point,right? Is that a clear road?
Faust, You will have no difficulty, Captain. There has never been any
reason for the Bosh to post guardthat this answer. Now pay attention to
I have a talk to you,both of you. Marie, What are

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you doing back at the farmhouse?Why are you not in the village?
Lurie? Was there trouble after Ileft with that window? Do they know
about the papers? They know youcould do that? Told told by a
dirty little spy from our own rankfirst, Na Squi, this is my
business, captain speak. I overheardthe spy one of us. I blush
with shame to think of it.The spy was telling the bush catten about

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the papers and the Americans mission.Fortunately for you, Captain Scarpella, the
spy was not able to warn himearly enough, and the road is blocked.
However, you are trapped here,Americans. You may have the plans,
but there is no way for youto leave and deliver them. The
road Norse is swarming with the reddance of jam and try to his name,

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give me his name, Marie.I will do better. I will
give you the traitor renee. Bringher in here the horn, listen to

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herself, my own brown, frommy own flesh, ry daughter. That's
for what's going to be done toyou, but what you have done?
Fix My daughter did not waited forlast time. I was going hey,
Germ and captain and thinking for herhead, and left her back to here.

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Fu. What you want to knowthat knows that look at me?
Was it you who gave away ourpositions each time? Yes? Yes,
I thought it has been so hard. I have known water so long now,

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all my life A seed I haveknown two words like her on my
own. I'm glad your your fatheris dead, so he doesn't see they
promised me so much. I didnot think it's so bad. I only
gave him small dis of information,information except for his last about the American

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you call giving the way ou smallloose, feel so much smarter, And
it always gave us a chance tokill so many of them. Your excuses
disgust me. Say the word fox. Let me hold her to the red.
No, no, no no,And I am your mother no longer
do let's call me that fox.This Maybe you're affair, but I've got

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a stake in it now. Whetheryou wish to say, captain, there's
only one way out of this forest, it's blood right now thanks to her.
Let's forget that. All that mattersto me is that I get through
these plans. I'll love set that. Do you want a chance to prove
yourself? Oh? Really, Iwould do anything. You're not listening to
her? She has quiet go ourGerman headquarters. Before Marie distracted the guard

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because she knew him. Now whoknows the Germans at the exit of the
forest, to distract them, Ido, I will let me please,
They trust me. I will giveyou a chance to slippy. It is
too great to risk, my friend. I have choice. I can't stay
trapped here. The plans are notgood in my pocket very well. On
one condition, I will go alone, and if she does not do what

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she says, that facts will shoother through the heart. You have my
permission. There are many clouds outtonight to hide the moon. Better you

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is. There are your friends andthe foot of the hills. Go to
them. We will hide here amongthese piles of firewood. Ree. I
will go, and remember, Losette, this gun is aimed at you.
Go. We hid behind towering cordsof tree trunks and branches piled in the

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woodlock for the village's firewood. Wewatched a few minutes later. We saw
them, the soldiers and the girl, silhouetted against the moon. We couldn't
hear what they were saying, butevery once in a while we heard them
laugh, and they swarmed about,curl like bees about the flower. Its

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comely way. We will sneak pastthem and needs to brush white flowers.
She's doing a good job, tryingto recieve herself. Fly on this head.
Decide what to do with the house. Advantages to get. I looked

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back over my shoulder and saw azete crumple into a sleep on the road.
I knew she was dead. Wouldn'ta grief for her? My friend?
It is best this way. Itis easier than a living with herself.
How do we get out of this? We're surrounded sand surrender? What

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means that way? You know youwould not? We have your call up?
Come out, We'll help. Cameand Goo hold out. I'm trying
to bring us out if we cannotbe shut down by the machine gun America.
I have an idea. Yeah,stand here. When you hear a
loud crash and I call out,you run through the fire. It is

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not dead yet, my friend.He ran, like the fox of his
nickname, to the tallest pile offirewood in the dark Knight. I saw
him struggle with a log at thebase of the pile, and then a
huge tower of wood came coupling downthere. I plunged through the fire and
found the package. Then a fewminutes later, the slide Fox miraculously joined

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me. You can make it fromhere along to the American Lion scipts got
what about you? Fox? Don'tworry about it, Fox, I'll get
back all right. Perhaps we shallmeet again one day, Captain who knows
well? Ah, then goodbye.I never looked thanks, and I never

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saw him again. But when Ithink of him now, I think of
him not with the beret, butwith a Manhattan feather refused a little like
Robin Hood. Captain Carpeller delivered theplans personally to the Assistant G two at

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eight Core Headquarters, and he wasrecommended for the Distinguished Service Cross for the
American lives he had saved at thePort of Santas Air. Thus the exploits
of another OSS agent closes with thewords mission accomplished. A further adventure in

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Black Warfare is next week Cloak andDagger. Heard in Today's Cloak and Digger

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adventure were Joseph Buloff, Lily Darvass, Larry Haynes, Nancy Franklin, Barry
Kroger, Raymond Edward Johnson, CarlWeber, Boris Aplin, and Jerry Jarrett.
Script for Cloakndigger was written by winterfredWolf and the music was under the

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direction of John Garth. Today's trueOSS adventure was based on the book Clokendagger
by Cory Ford and Alistair McBain.This has been a Lewis g CONN production
in association with Alfred Hollanders. Itwas under the direction and supervision of Sherman
Marx, Robert Warren speaking day.Tuned now for the up to the minute

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