April 18, 2024 • 28 mins
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Are you willing to undertake a dangerousmission behind the enemy lines, knowing you
may never return alive. What youhave just heard is the question asked during
the war to agents of the OSS, ordinary citizens who, to this question
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answered yes. This is clock anddagger, black warfare, espionaires international intrigue.
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These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's story, a war of
words, concerns an American agent whopersonally delivered a message to the kernel of
a Japanese camp, and is suggestedby actual incidents recorded in the Washington files
of the Office of Strategic Sir,a story that can now be told.
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Okay, Harry, I spotted it. There's our targets, check Betty,
let them go, ready, bombsaway, there's he goes. I dropped
every one of those bombshells we hadin the plane, and they hit the
target right on the nose. Andthe explosion that followed sounded like this just
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as much noise as paper makes whenit floods to the ground. Those were
our bombshells. Propaganda leaflets, leafletsdesigned by OSS to lower the morale of
the Japanese soldiers in that camp inBurma. Those were our silent weapons.
I'm going to turn back there.Okp Harry, what do you think of
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that phony? That picture of thebombing in Tokyo but just dropped looked authentic
to me. But I like thatlittle pamphlet too, you know, the
one that began the suns of theRising Sun. It is better to surrender
than fight without bullets or die ofstarvation in the jungle. Yeah, that
one was real. Cure, It'ssure, how to give those lousy jets
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something to think of the right.Sorry, Harry, I shouldn't have said
that. That's okay, Pete,forget it. Let's beat our own record.
Get him back this time. HuhYeah, here we go. Sometimes
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the guys forgot that Harry was shortfor how Yoshi Yoshiabura. Although I like
to think of myself as an AmericanJapanese, even Pete Barno thought of me
as a Japanese American. I hadto learn not to be too sensitive.
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I mean, boys, cone in, thank you, Carol, it's down
cigarette, Thank you. You twohave done a good job in the past
few months peppering Burma with that propagandamaterial or here's ane, thank you,
and we already have begun to seethe results or how's that, colonel,
Well, you know how live Japaneseprisoners used to be at a premium rather
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than be captured. They'd commit holeto curry, almost in defiance. Oh
yeah, I hear a lot ofthem are surrendering lately. That's right.
Their morale isn't what it was good, and you too can take part of
the credit for that. But tomorrow, tomorrow, I wanted to go one
step further. Well, listening,sir, take a look at his documents?
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What is it? Chinese or Japanese? Well, Greek? To me,
I can tell you what it is, Pete. It's obviously a forged
order to the commander of the Japanesecamp to withdraw his troops three miles east.
Well, I hope it's not anobvious forgery to him in tender Nabura,
because if he falls for it andmoves his camp, our armies will
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have a clean road right into Bombo. And once we get there, Berman's
practically in our hand. I see. Oh, begging your pardon, Colonel
Berman, What are we supposed todo to walk into that jap camp and
deliver these orders? Oh no,no, your job is much simpler.
All you have to do is flyover the OSS Detachment one hundred and one
at Assam and drop this document.The cutting natives and our agents there will
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do the rest. We've contacted themby radio. They expected check, Colonel,
this will be a snap, nohingto it? This ob a snap?
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Ha? How they toy ha?I heard? I know we'd run
into a chap zero right backing up, buddy, How he died too fast
for you? Hurry? I needa grand more sky, maybe a close
him there till maybe not for long? Hang your boy. Most of the
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way up, the air was thinenough so that I could see the nose
of that zero following us. Andthen it's seven thousand feet. The air
became thick and we lost him.But the plane had taken quite a beating.
How bad is the luck? Getbeat? Oh? We having more
than fifty miles to go, andwe can sit down and catch in territory,
make repairs before heading back to India. Okay, stead of dropping that
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dot well delivered person when we getthere. Huh. If we get there,
why what's that wing? It's comingoff where he hit us? Percy
goes, what are we going now? I'm gonna take a stick forward as
hard as I can put her ina loop. Well that's crazy, not
out of Plass's back. Return ofthe content. Come for your rip hard
before your walk free of the plane. Well that to the river. I'll
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give you a free dry Here wego. We fell free of the plane.
I jerked the rip cord in myhute open. On the way down,
I emplated my may west, andthe little lifeboats swelled up. Well
only I could see Pete drifting slowlyin the Brahma puta river and then I
hit the water. For this isa nice mess to begin. Not even
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sure exactly where there one oh onedetachment's located. It's somewhere to the south,
isn't it. Yeah, Uh,that's that help? Oh who jungle
steaks And I'm gonna think of alot of places I'd rather be for instance,
for instance, anywhere this place isprobably crawling with enemy for poles.
Ooh, that's a pleasant flat.Careful, careful, I'll trip over those
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roots. The jungle was heavy andoppressive. The tall trees spread a canopy
over our heads and shut out whatlittle sun there was. After a few
miles, our shirts were ripped,the shreds on the brambles and blood ran
into our eyes from the leeches onour foreheads and feet stopped short, Eric,
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But the river? What river?What is it? The roma fu
tree where we lay in it?You see it into the right, I
don't get it. We passed ita few miles back. Yeah, we
sure did you see that climper root? They looked from me here and that's
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where you almost tripped, right thereby the swamp. But I p yeah,
huh. We made a nice bigcircle right back where we started.
How about the devil? Did wedo there? Or anything could happened?
And this allows you to I capitol, Oh was just asn't our day?
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And not come in this way quick? The swamp come up? Not a
season. Let's get up, walkto the pass alright, get down,
just keep your nose up to breathe, and I have to get down.
Undred don't breathe alright? That Ithink? Not up. I reached out
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and then tied their shoelaces. Let'sget out of here. That night,
we lay aside by side, deepin the jungle, on top of course,
undergrowth, underneath the trees from whichLeanna's hung down like raided ropes.
We shooted oppositions every few minutes.It's a regiment of ants and bugs crawled
into our clothing and kept us awake, and then towards morning we fell asleep
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exhausted. When we awoke, thesun had found a hole in the branches
and crawled through. The Boy,that the sun's hot? Is it?
What do you mean is it?I'm cold, Peide, I got shakes,
fever. I don't know. Ijust feel sick, sick of my
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stomach. We can't sit here.You think you can travel? Huh oh,
I'm sure. Come on, boy, that sounds blazing, isn't it.
Why but you said we had theshakes. Huh oh, nothing nothing,
Come on, Harry, Come onnow, ip on your feet for
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you'll be all right here, Comeon, boy, that's it what We
started walking again. Her wrists hadopened saws on it from jungle rod.
My head was hot, my handswere cold, and I felt sick,
awful, sick, Harry, howdo you feel? I'll be okay with
that swamp we had in that's thoselousy bugs that got on your skin,
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and I'll be all right, Oh, Harry, Harry, Yeah, Harry,
Harry, Okay, Helen. Ijust take it easy for and that's
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this cold cloth on your forehead'll makeyou feel better. You'll see boy Pete,
Yeah it's Pete? Where am I? Couldn't you say anything more original
than that? For crying out loud? I blacked out there. Don't talk
so much, glad enough when you'reoff your head? Uh? Who's uh?
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Ok? The same girl? Iknow it. You've c l A.
I figured how long it thoes?It been sinsy? You know two
days? Have we got enough rashsand we'll be okay? I don't mine.
I mean I said we'll be okay. Now, don't try to set
up Harry. How far do youthink we are the cutcheons? But I
think I've got the direction pretty wellmapped out now by a day's travel.
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Do something well, I'm not Ifyou sit here with me for a week,
don't talk. Get out of here. I'll tell you what. If
you make it there by yourself,you can come back with some of the
natives and get me. Not onyour life. I'm not leaving here.
But someone's outside. He didn't doit? Start crawl out from out the
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cares. My head was pounding hotterthan before. Maybe maybe it was the
fever. Maybe it was because Ihad to lie the helpless while people went
out a lawn door. Whatever wasoutside? Oh do that suit? Sing?
And friend? Who are you?Maybe? Soothing? Scout and scout?
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So he's mooning from double fee.So your hat book? So you
have book? Yeah, yeah,you've got good eyesight. But you still
haven't told me who you are?Told you any soothing soup, cutchen stuff,
cutching, cutching? Oh why didyou say? So? You're from
a song? You're you're from theoss pttachment. He str hurry, hurry,
did you hear that? Oh?Well, how's that from the mountain
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coming to Mohammad? It's grand,it's just crying. Would like, oh
boy, it would love. Ohlook, I've got a six friends in
here in the there fever. Canyou fix him up? Can we see?
I looked up from a bed ofleaves that Peter may a cutching scargo
lean over me with short and squat, with long, matted hair and teeth
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worn to a black stuff. Ibeat him out. He took a good
look at me and jumped back sohe can fit me jampany. Hold on,
wait a minute, hold on,I said, I listened to le
sol in this this is American.Just like I said, he's Japanese.
It's no use listen to is aJapanese, Yes, yes, that's right,
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But is American too? He's havingAmerican friend. Look at his uniform.
You say friend, I say,Japanese. We fix up from fever.
They bring to cup it. Theydidn't say, which is what.
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I don't know what he mixed upthose which doctor concoctions besides the juice of
mahaman leaves and the roots of theleanna vines or whatever it was. I
was on my feet. Two dayslater we started out for the Attachment one
o one, only this time wehad a guide. And then the next
night, out of nowhere we cameupon it. Well, what do you
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know? Here? It was theUSSC could hideout, carved right into the
jungle of furner Us. So thisis Detachment one oh one. They were
each straw attached, pashas a messhaller one of prepostital mortars, berzuokas kraitson
imioneering, Harry fuck a woman,a woman, a Red Cross nurse,
GI paratroopers and bright colored shirts andunlaced jump boots were stolen about mingling with
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the Native crew. Oh oh right, this city in the wilderness, isn't
it. It's like nothing I've everseen before in probably like nothing you never
see again. Run, But where'dyou come from? Yes, your naven
standing behind gil attack. Would youlike let me show you around? Maybe?
Oh well not now? Thanks theguy who brought us here and disappeared.
We've got to find the head manaround here. We have something for
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him. Ah. But you'll livelonger if you'll live slow and don't drive
yourselves. My mother rest the soultold me that in Dublin many years ago.
Amyrish you know no, no,you don't say who he is?
Yes, you think a good lookat her little camp, as they said,
you'd probably never see anything like itagain if you live to be one
hundred and four, he says.If deliberate can't set it down rated the
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middle live the wilderness. Well,we'll look around later if you don't mind
who's in hill. These leads,the paratroopers who were fast down in the
jungle, they all had the samelook about them when they first came,
as if they stumbled into a betterfire throw. Look, would you mind
very last? Lad? There wasa farmer in Wisconsin, and they went
talking to the nurses from Boston originallythat is, and the child lad is
a Texan, but we wine ittook that to make him say that this
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look fitted to him, then takesthis way. You forced down here too,
Will in the terry sweat didn't Yes, I was what did you do
before the war? I will?I'll tell your legs. I operated a
hot furring from Hoboken to Kanasi.You what, furry right? Driving little
business. It was too and afterthe war I'll probably go back to it.
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This guy's off his rocket all Look, where can we find somebody in
a party. It's even in Masswith everyone else Mass. Of course,
you see that big star hut atthe far end, you'll find him there.
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We went to Mass, and whenwe got there we found our friend
with the bro, the one whotold us I ran a hot furry Hoboken
to Kanasi and officiating at the Everyonce in a while he'd look up at
us, and I could see thesuggestion of a smile around That was a
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soldier standing next to us. Whois that? Well, that's father,
o'tool. He practically organized one onone sure, And I said it just
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to see the look at your faces. Later we'll take a good look.
Boy, mind's red. I'll likefather a tool. Yes, here the
fourth Japanese orders the colonel gave usin India. Of course, the original
plan about dropping them over to youand turning back didn't work out. But
just as long as we got himhere, just as long as we have
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them, we know what to dowith them. No, there's a Japanese
mail courier coming through tomorrow night fromthe groom to the JAB camp at Moklem.
Now I'll have Sooning on one ofthe other scouts in to sip him
and deposit this document in his meilcoroach Oh, I get it. Father.
When he comes to he won't knowwhat hit him, but he'll keep
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going when they forge papers. Hey, so you get a quick brain lead
and there by the bay. Yes, father, you know, since you're
Japanese as well as American, Isuggest you stay close to me for the
next day or so until you leave. You see, then the natives will
get over their suspicions of me.I see your darn with fever a I
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was nurse. Sorry for budging ifyou had this gay father or too,
But so Ling told me one ofthese men had jungle sickness. Wait,
it's quite alright, nurse amy.Lads take a look at her. Isn't
he a fair? Can you knowthat's enough of your planny? Father?
Come with me, please? What'syour name? No Bora, Lieutenant Harry
Nabora. I'm okay now really arethat? Maybe? So? We just
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want you at the hospital for check. Come along, hey, hey,
wait, ye mind if I cometo no, not too well? Doc
who looked me over gave me aclean bill of health. It must have
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been those witch doctor herbs and suolings. Later, Father O'Toole gave us a
bashot to ourselves, and Pete andI fell on those army cons And then
about three o'clock in the morning,Harry, Harry, what's that? I
don't know, let's find out.Yeah, what's everybody warning too? Oh?
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There's that nurse may be seen.Hey, nurse, nurse, don't
mean to be alarmed about. Boy? What happened? One of the cab
coaches our watchdog caught of crawling inthe Moscow. I didn't hear any dogs.
This is a silent watchdog was Actuallyit's a crossbow with one hundred and
fifty pound pool. It set upso any intruder who touches the trip string
is shot for the poisoned arrow.Well, that's quite of watch dog.
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Yes, I've been thinking he's puttingone up in front of my hand.
Oh so Sandy, so solid.But now it's done, Suling, it
can't be helped. It's all right, are they? Your lads, come
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on in. What's Sueling make mistakes? Mistakes? Well, i'll tell you
boys, say it's like this.I sent Sue out last night to intercept
the Japanese courier and deposit this documentand his mail pouch. What went wrong?
Well, it seems that Suling doesn'tknow his own strength to quote a
phrase, and he hit him toohard. They'm very much afraid the courier
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will not be able to deliver themail. After hours of the camp at
Booklem. Well, luck father toldthat document is important. It's got to
get there. Where's the Korea now? In the hospital? Is even the
very best to kid you? I'ma mail sack in my position. Okay,
then another jet courier is going totake his place and deliver the mail.
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Are your nuts, Harry? Whatother jet courrier? Me? What?
Well? I know your nuts,Pete. When I switch uniforms of
that guy. Take a good lookat me. I promise you you'll never
recognize me. The idea has atouch of genius. Led I think it
may work. I hope it maywork. Slipping an extra prayer for me
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father. While I was at it, I went after the lettuce and cards
that were going to the Japanese soldiersand phoning them up. I erased everything
with the signatures and wrote about howbad conditions were back in Tokyo and the
black market was flourishing, how theywere being bombed every night. At dawn,
I had changed into the captured courier'suniform. I had the mail sack
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over my shoulder and soothing at myside to take me most of the way.
Good luck again, me boy,Thank you Fato too. Harry Harriet
is sure that you want to dothis, walking right in the lines.
Then they get wise to you,they get wise to me. She got
a gay? What's that mean?It's good Japanese for so what? M
hm? Who goes there? After? I shoot a career from the river
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with Mayor for your suggs and specialdispatch for your commander. Mayor Cayer,
come forward, let me see yourfaith I do not know you. Where's
other runner papers? Let me seeyour papers? Identification here? Bagot has
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wait the dispatch you say is forme? Here? Con Why are you
so great? Mail was expected yesterday? It was unavailable? Answer my question
directly? Why are you rate?Native Pugin warrior attacked me on the way.
I had to fight him off.Connad again. Those Kutchens silent devils
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in the chundle shadows, impossible toknow when they are about. They jump
off at your devils? Oh yes, well what are you waiting for?
You may leave now? Yes,yes, sir. I was glad to
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be up to that point. Itried to keep from walking too fast to
the gate pass that makes your paththay are here? It was stantar Connada
Girl's headquarters. All right, youcan go where your cap? Do you
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not hear me? Shoot off agun to call your attention? Why you
want me? I do not wantyou. Receive who work a kid from
Colonel Gail. He wants you tocome back. Come here you are Korea.
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I want to make sure you didnot leave here. I star something
wrong, Cononda girl, what you'retalking about? What could be wrong?
Yeah? Important message for your canal? Take it oh, thank you,
thank you Canada, Gail. Ishould be glad to deliver this to my
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cane. This time. Nobody stoppedme. When I left the camp at
mclaugh and started back for Cutching headquarters. I must have been within two miles
of Detachment one O one when Irealized I was being followed. I couldn't
see anyone, to hear anyone,but I knew someone was there in the
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brush or the trees, hidden somewherealong the trail. I started to run
faster, and my lungs started toache with each bread. My strength was
gone, and the hangover with thetheme and ID just got over. If
I had escaped from the Japanese campand falling in the head hunter hands,
I know I didn't have a chance. Why are you? Are you?
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I thought the Governess English? Whatare you? Head hunter? The luck?
The luck may now bless my soul? Lieutenant the border, I'll see
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you're awake. Are you feeling harryfather? Or two? Hey? What
are you doing here? Said lieutenant? Let me change that bandage on your
head? How did you get here? And you mixing things up a bit?
Led? You may have cast Howdid you get back here to the
USS camp too. What well,now, it's very simple. Oh,
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I have an apology to make formy friends. The Kitchens who brought you
here, they'd been out scouting forthe past week and they did not know
you. Also, of course,the Japanese uniform. You were aware and
confused them. But it was apity that they speak only their own language,
so that you couldn't clear up thesituation. They have to teach them
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how to speak English, English theway it should be spoken. Lieutenantshiro Yoshinabura
and Peter Barno were returned to Indiaby plane from the rescue Camparrasan, and
a few weeks later, a specialdispatch informed OSS headquarters that the strategic city
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of Bamo had been taken. Thus, once again, the report of another
agent closed with the words mission accomplished. Listen again next week for another true
adventure from the files of the OSSon Clog and Dagger. Heard in tonight's
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Clockndiger adventure as Pete was Chuck Webster. Harry was played by Ralph Bell,
Father or two by Eric Drustler.Others were John Allison, Raymond Edward Johnson,
Carl Weber, Jerry Jarrett, MauriceToplin and Guy rend. The script
for Cloak and Dagger was written byWinterfred Wolfe and Jack Gordon, and music
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was under the direction of John Garth. Sound effects by West Conant, Manny
Siegel and Norman Gruenfelder. Tonight's TrueOss Adventure was based on the book Cloaken
Dagger by Cory Ford and Alistair McBain. This program was produced by Lewis G.
Cowen and Alfred Hollander under the directionand supervision of Sherman Mark. This
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program was produced by Lewis G.Cowen and Alfred Hollander under the direction and
supervision of Sherman Mark.
Are you willing to undertake a dangerousmission behind the enemy lines, knowing you
may never return alive. What youhave just heard is the question asked during
the war to agents of the OSS, ordinary citizens who, to this question
(00:20):
answered yes. This is clock anddagger, black warfare, espionaires international intrigue.
(00:45):
These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's story, a war of
words, concerns an American agent whopersonally delivered a message to the kernel of
a Japanese camp, and is suggestedby actual incidents recorded in the Washington files
of the Office of Strategic Sir,a story that can now be told.
(01:15):
Okay, Harry, I spotted it. There's our targets, check Betty,
let them go, ready, bombsaway, there's he goes. I dropped
every one of those bombshells we hadin the plane, and they hit the
target right on the nose. Andthe explosion that followed sounded like this just
(01:37):
as much noise as paper makes whenit floods to the ground. Those were
our bombshells. Propaganda leaflets, leafletsdesigned by OSS to lower the morale of
the Japanese soldiers in that camp inBurma. Those were our silent weapons.
I'm going to turn back there.Okp Harry, what do you think of
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that phony? That picture of thebombing in Tokyo but just dropped looked authentic
to me. But I like thatlittle pamphlet too, you know, the
one that began the suns of theRising Sun. It is better to surrender
than fight without bullets or die ofstarvation in the jungle. Yeah, that
one was real. Cure, It'ssure, how to give those lousy jets
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something to think of the right.Sorry, Harry, I shouldn't have said
that. That's okay, Pete,forget it. Let's beat our own record.
Get him back this time. HuhYeah, here we go. Sometimes
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the guys forgot that Harry was shortfor how Yoshi Yoshiabura. Although I like
to think of myself as an AmericanJapanese, even Pete Barno thought of me
as a Japanese American. I hadto learn not to be too sensitive.
(03:16):
I mean, boys, cone in, thank you, Carol, it's down
cigarette, Thank you. You twohave done a good job in the past
few months peppering Burma with that propagandamaterial or here's ane, thank you,
and we already have begun to seethe results or how's that, colonel,
Well, you know how live Japaneseprisoners used to be at a premium rather
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than be captured. They'd commit holeto curry, almost in defiance. Oh
yeah, I hear a lot ofthem are surrendering lately. That's right.
Their morale isn't what it was good, and you too can take part of
the credit for that. But tomorrow, tomorrow, I wanted to go one
step further. Well, listening,sir, take a look at his documents?
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What is it? Chinese or Japanese? Well, Greek? To me,
I can tell you what it is, Pete. It's obviously a forged
order to the commander of the Japanesecamp to withdraw his troops three miles east.
Well, I hope it's not anobvious forgery to him in tender Nabura,
because if he falls for it andmoves his camp, our armies will
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have a clean road right into Bombo. And once we get there, Berman's
practically in our hand. I see. Oh, begging your pardon, Colonel
Berman, What are we supposed todo to walk into that jap camp and
deliver these orders? Oh no,no, your job is much simpler.
All you have to do is flyover the OSS Detachment one hundred and one
at Assam and drop this document.The cutting natives and our agents there will
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do the rest. We've contacted themby radio. They expected check, Colonel,
this will be a snap, nohingto it? This ob a snap?
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Ha? How they toy ha?I heard? I know we'd run
into a chap zero right backing up, buddy, How he died too fast
for you? Hurry? I needa grand more sky, maybe a close
him there till maybe not for long? Hang your boy. Most of the
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way up, the air was thinenough so that I could see the nose
of that zero following us. Andthen it's seven thousand feet. The air
became thick and we lost him.But the plane had taken quite a beating.
How bad is the luck? Getbeat? Oh? We having more
than fifty miles to go, andwe can sit down and catch in territory,
make repairs before heading back to India. Okay, stead of dropping that
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dot well delivered person when we getthere. Huh. If we get there,
why what's that wing? It's comingoff where he hit us? Percy
goes, what are we going now? I'm gonna take a stick forward as
hard as I can put her ina loop. Well that's crazy, not
out of Plass's back. Return ofthe content. Come for your rip hard
before your walk free of the plane. Well that to the river. I'll
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give you a free dry Here wego. We fell free of the plane.
I jerked the rip cord in myhute open. On the way down,
I emplated my may west, andthe little lifeboats swelled up. Well
only I could see Pete drifting slowlyin the Brahma puta river and then I
hit the water. For this isa nice mess to begin. Not even
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sure exactly where there one oh onedetachment's located. It's somewhere to the south,
isn't it. Yeah, Uh,that's that help? Oh who jungle
steaks And I'm gonna think of alot of places I'd rather be for instance,
for instance, anywhere this place isprobably crawling with enemy for poles.
Ooh, that's a pleasant flat.Careful, careful, I'll trip over those
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roots. The jungle was heavy andoppressive. The tall trees spread a canopy
over our heads and shut out whatlittle sun there was. After a few
miles, our shirts were ripped,the shreds on the brambles and blood ran
into our eyes from the leeches onour foreheads and feet stopped short, Eric,
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But the river? What river?What is it? The roma fu
tree where we lay in it?You see it into the right, I
don't get it. We passed ita few miles back. Yeah, we
sure did you see that climper root? They looked from me here and that's
(08:05):
where you almost tripped, right thereby the swamp. But I p yeah,
huh. We made a nice bigcircle right back where we started.
How about the devil? Did wedo there? Or anything could happened?
And this allows you to I capitol, Oh was just asn't our day?
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And not come in this way quick? The swamp come up? Not a
season. Let's get up, walkto the pass alright, get down,
just keep your nose up to breathe, and I have to get down.
Undred don't breathe alright? That Ithink? Not up. I reached out
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and then tied their shoelaces. Let'sget out of here. That night,
we lay aside by side, deepin the jungle, on top of course,
undergrowth, underneath the trees from whichLeanna's hung down like raided ropes.
We shooted oppositions every few minutes.It's a regiment of ants and bugs crawled
into our clothing and kept us awake, and then towards morning we fell asleep
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exhausted. When we awoke, thesun had found a hole in the branches
and crawled through. The Boy,that the sun's hot? Is it?
What do you mean is it?I'm cold, Peide, I got shakes,
fever. I don't know. Ijust feel sick, sick of my
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stomach. We can't sit here.You think you can travel? Huh oh,
I'm sure. Come on, boy, that sounds blazing, isn't it.
Why but you said we had theshakes. Huh oh, nothing nothing,
Come on, Harry, Come onnow, ip on your feet for
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you'll be all right here, Comeon, boy, that's it what We
started walking again. Her wrists hadopened saws on it from jungle rod.
My head was hot, my handswere cold, and I felt sick,
awful, sick, Harry, howdo you feel? I'll be okay with
that swamp we had in that's thoselousy bugs that got on your skin,
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and I'll be all right, Oh, Harry, Harry, Yeah, Harry,
Harry, Okay, Helen. Ijust take it easy for and that's
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this cold cloth on your forehead'll makeyou feel better. You'll see boy Pete,
Yeah it's Pete? Where am I? Couldn't you say anything more original
than that? For crying out loud? I blacked out there. Don't talk
so much, glad enough when you'reoff your head? Uh? Who's uh?
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Ok? The same girl? Iknow it. You've c l A.
I figured how long it thoes?It been sinsy? You know two
days? Have we got enough rashsand we'll be okay? I don't mine.
I mean I said we'll be okay. Now, don't try to set
up Harry. How far do youthink we are the cutcheons? But I
think I've got the direction pretty wellmapped out now by a day's travel.
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Do something well, I'm not Ifyou sit here with me for a week,
don't talk. Get out of here. I'll tell you what. If
you make it there by yourself,you can come back with some of the
natives and get me. Not onyour life. I'm not leaving here.
But someone's outside. He didn't doit? Start crawl out from out the
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cares. My head was pounding hotterthan before. Maybe maybe it was the
fever. Maybe it was because Ihad to lie the helpless while people went
out a lawn door. Whatever wasoutside? Oh do that suit? Sing?
And friend? Who are you?Maybe? Soothing? Scout and scout?
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So he's mooning from double fee.So your hat book? So you
have book? Yeah, yeah,you've got good eyesight. But you still
haven't told me who you are?Told you any soothing soup, cutchen stuff,
cutching, cutching? Oh why didyou say? So? You're from
a song? You're you're from theoss pttachment. He str hurry, hurry,
did you hear that? Oh?Well, how's that from the mountain
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coming to Mohammad? It's grand,it's just crying. Would like, oh
boy, it would love. Ohlook, I've got a six friends in
here in the there fever. Canyou fix him up? Can we see?
I looked up from a bed ofleaves that Peter may a cutching scargo
lean over me with short and squat, with long, matted hair and teeth
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worn to a black stuff. Ibeat him out. He took a good
look at me and jumped back sohe can fit me jampany. Hold on,
wait a minute, hold on,I said, I listened to le
sol in this this is American.Just like I said, he's Japanese.
It's no use listen to is aJapanese, Yes, yes, that's right,
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But is American too? He's havingAmerican friend. Look at his uniform.
You say friend, I say,Japanese. We fix up from fever.
They bring to cup it. Theydidn't say, which is what.
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I don't know what he mixed upthose which doctor concoctions besides the juice of
mahaman leaves and the roots of theleanna vines or whatever it was. I
was on my feet. Two dayslater we started out for the Attachment one
o one, only this time wehad a guide. And then the next
night, out of nowhere we cameupon it. Well, what do you
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know? Here? It was theUSSC could hideout, carved right into the
jungle of furner Us. So thisis Detachment one oh one. They were
each straw attached, pashas a messhaller one of prepostital mortars, berzuokas kraitson
imioneering, Harry fuck a woman,a woman, a Red Cross nurse,
GI paratroopers and bright colored shirts andunlaced jump boots were stolen about mingling with
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the Native crew. Oh oh right, this city in the wilderness, isn't
it. It's like nothing I've everseen before in probably like nothing you never
see again. Run, But where'dyou come from? Yes, your naven
standing behind gil attack. Would youlike let me show you around? Maybe?
Oh well not now? Thanks theguy who brought us here and disappeared.
We've got to find the head manaround here. We have something for
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him. Ah. But you'll livelonger if you'll live slow and don't drive
yourselves. My mother rest the soultold me that in Dublin many years ago.
Amyrish you know no, no,you don't say who he is?
Yes, you think a good lookat her little camp, as they said,
you'd probably never see anything like itagain if you live to be one
hundred and four, he says.If deliberate can't set it down rated the
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middle live the wilderness. Well,we'll look around later if you don't mind
who's in hill. These leads,the paratroopers who were fast down in the
jungle, they all had the samelook about them when they first came,
as if they stumbled into a betterfire throw. Look, would you mind
very last? Lad? There wasa farmer in Wisconsin, and they went
talking to the nurses from Boston originallythat is, and the child lad is
a Texan, but we wine ittook that to make him say that this
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look fitted to him, then takesthis way. You forced down here too,
Will in the terry sweat didn't Yes, I was what did you do
before the war? I will?I'll tell your legs. I operated a
hot furring from Hoboken to Kanasi.You what, furry right? Driving little
business. It was too and afterthe war I'll probably go back to it.
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This guy's off his rocket all Look, where can we find somebody in
a party. It's even in Masswith everyone else Mass. Of course,
you see that big star hut atthe far end, you'll find him there.
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We went to Mass, and whenwe got there we found our friend
with the bro, the one whotold us I ran a hot furry Hoboken
to Kanasi and officiating at the Everyonce in a while he'd look up at
us, and I could see thesuggestion of a smile around That was a
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soldier standing next to us. Whois that? Well, that's father,
o'tool. He practically organized one onone sure, And I said it just
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to see the look at your faces. Later we'll take a good look.
Boy, mind's red. I'll likefather a tool. Yes, here the
fourth Japanese orders the colonel gave usin India. Of course, the original
plan about dropping them over to youand turning back didn't work out. But
just as long as we got himhere, just as long as we have
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them, we know what to dowith them. No, there's a Japanese
mail courier coming through tomorrow night fromthe groom to the JAB camp at Moklem.
Now I'll have Sooning on one ofthe other scouts in to sip him
and deposit this document in his meilcoroach Oh, I get it. Father.
When he comes to he won't knowwhat hit him, but he'll keep
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going when they forge papers. Hey, so you get a quick brain lead
and there by the bay. Yes, father, you know, since you're
Japanese as well as American, Isuggest you stay close to me for the
next day or so until you leave. You see, then the natives will
get over their suspicions of me.I see your darn with fever a I
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was nurse. Sorry for budging ifyou had this gay father or too,
But so Ling told me one ofthese men had jungle sickness. Wait,
it's quite alright, nurse amy.Lads take a look at her. Isn't
he a fair? Can you knowthat's enough of your planny? Father?
Come with me, please? What'syour name? No Bora, Lieutenant Harry
Nabora. I'm okay now really arethat? Maybe? So? We just
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want you at the hospital for check. Come along, hey, hey,
wait, ye mind if I cometo no, not too well? Doc
who looked me over gave me aclean bill of health. It must have
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been those witch doctor herbs and suolings. Later, Father O'Toole gave us a
bashot to ourselves, and Pete andI fell on those army cons And then
about three o'clock in the morning,Harry, Harry, what's that? I
don't know, let's find out.Yeah, what's everybody warning too? Oh?
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There's that nurse may be seen.Hey, nurse, nurse, don't
mean to be alarmed about. Boy? What happened? One of the cab
coaches our watchdog caught of crawling inthe Moscow. I didn't hear any dogs.
This is a silent watchdog was Actuallyit's a crossbow with one hundred and
fifty pound pool. It set upso any intruder who touches the trip string
is shot for the poisoned arrow.Well, that's quite of watch dog.
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Yes, I've been thinking he's puttingone up in front of my hand.
Oh so Sandy, so solid.But now it's done, Suling, it
can't be helped. It's all right, are they? Your lads, come
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on in. What's Sueling make mistakes? Mistakes? Well, i'll tell you
boys, say it's like this.I sent Sue out last night to intercept
the Japanese courier and deposit this documentand his mail pouch. What went wrong?
Well, it seems that Suling doesn'tknow his own strength to quote a
phrase, and he hit him toohard. They'm very much afraid the courier
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will not be able to deliver themail. After hours of the camp at
Booklem. Well, luck father toldthat document is important. It's got to
get there. Where's the Korea now? In the hospital? Is even the
very best to kid you? I'ma mail sack in my position. Okay,
then another jet courier is going totake his place and deliver the mail.
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Are your nuts, Harry? Whatother jet courrier? Me? What?
Well? I know your nuts,Pete. When I switch uniforms of
that guy. Take a good lookat me. I promise you you'll never
recognize me. The idea has atouch of genius. Led I think it
may work. I hope it maywork. Slipping an extra prayer for me
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father. While I was at it, I went after the lettuce and cards
that were going to the Japanese soldiersand phoning them up. I erased everything
with the signatures and wrote about howbad conditions were back in Tokyo and the
black market was flourishing, how theywere being bombed every night. At dawn,
I had changed into the captured courier'suniform. I had the mail sack
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over my shoulder and soothing at myside to take me most of the way.
Good luck again, me boy,Thank you Fato too. Harry Harriet
is sure that you want to dothis, walking right in the lines.
Then they get wise to you,they get wise to me. She got
a gay? What's that mean?It's good Japanese for so what? M
hm? Who goes there? After? I shoot a career from the river
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with Mayor for your suggs and specialdispatch for your commander. Mayor Cayer,
come forward, let me see yourfaith I do not know you. Where's
other runner papers? Let me seeyour papers? Identification here? Bagot has
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wait the dispatch you say is forme? Here? Con Why are you
so great? Mail was expected yesterday? It was unavailable? Answer my question
directly? Why are you rate?Native Pugin warrior attacked me on the way.
I had to fight him off.Connad again. Those Kutchens silent devils
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in the chundle shadows, impossible toknow when they are about. They jump
off at your devils? Oh yes, well what are you waiting for?
You may leave now? Yes,yes, sir. I was glad to
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be up to that point. Itried to keep from walking too fast to
the gate pass that makes your paththay are here? It was stantar Connada
Girl's headquarters. All right, youcan go where your cap? Do you
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not hear me? Shoot off agun to call your attention? Why you
want me? I do not wantyou. Receive who work a kid from
Colonel Gail. He wants you tocome back. Come here you are Korea.
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I want to make sure you didnot leave here. I star something
wrong, Cononda girl, what you'retalking about? What could be wrong?
Yeah? Important message for your canal? Take it oh, thank you,
thank you Canada, Gail. Ishould be glad to deliver this to my
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cane. This time. Nobody stoppedme. When I left the camp at
mclaugh and started back for Cutching headquarters. I must have been within two miles
of Detachment one O one when Irealized I was being followed. I couldn't
see anyone, to hear anyone,but I knew someone was there in the
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brush or the trees, hidden somewherealong the trail. I started to run
faster, and my lungs started toache with each bread. My strength was
gone, and the hangover with thetheme and ID just got over. If
I had escaped from the Japanese campand falling in the head hunter hands,
I know I didn't have a chance. Why are you? Are you?
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I thought the Governess English? Whatare you? Head hunter? The luck?
The luck may now bless my soul? Lieutenant the border, I'll see
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you're awake. Are you feeling harryfather? Or two? Hey? What
are you doing here? Said lieutenant? Let me change that bandage on your
head? How did you get here? And you mixing things up a bit?
Led? You may have cast Howdid you get back here to the
USS camp too. What well,now, it's very simple. Oh,
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I have an apology to make formy friends. The Kitchens who brought you
here, they'd been out scouting forthe past week and they did not know
you. Also, of course,the Japanese uniform. You were aware and
confused them. But it was apity that they speak only their own language,
so that you couldn't clear up thesituation. They have to teach them
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how to speak English, English theway it should be spoken. Lieutenantshiro Yoshinabura
and Peter Barno were returned to Indiaby plane from the rescue Camparrasan, and
a few weeks later, a specialdispatch informed OSS headquarters that the strategic city
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of Bamo had been taken. Thus, once again, the report of another
agent closed with the words mission accomplished. Listen again next week for another true
adventure from the files of the OSSon Clog and Dagger. Heard in tonight's
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Clockndiger adventure as Pete was Chuck Webster. Harry was played by Ralph Bell,
Father or two by Eric Drustler.Others were John Allison, Raymond Edward Johnson,
Carl Weber, Jerry Jarrett, MauriceToplin and Guy rend. The script
for Cloak and Dagger was written byWinterfred Wolfe and Jack Gordon, and music
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was under the direction of John Garth. Sound effects by West Conant, Manny
Siegel and Norman Gruenfelder. Tonight's TrueOss Adventure was based on the book Cloaken
Dagger by Cory Ford and Alistair McBain. This program was produced by Lewis G.
Cowen and Alfred Hollander under the directionand supervision of Sherman Mark. This
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program was produced by Lewis G.Cowen and Alfred Hollander under the direction and
supervision of Sherman Mark.
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