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dot Great Detectives dot net. Now, as I mentioned last week,
there was a lost episode. In addition, one episode was
preempted by speech by President Truman. So today's episode originally
aired May twenty eighth, nineteen fifty and the title is
the Trojan Horse.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the
enemy lines knowing you may never return alive.
Speaker 3: What you have just heard is the question asked during
the war to agents of the OSS ordinary citizens, who
to this question answered yes, this is cloak and dagger,
black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of
the OSS. Today's story the Trojan Horse is suggested by
actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office
of Strategic Services, a story that can now be told.
Speaker 4: August nineteen forty two report to OSS headquarters in Casablanca
from agent Henri Fontaine in France. Contact with girl Gabrielle
Monet was made in the Bluebeard Cafe in Paris. I
went there alone on the evening of the fifteenth, since
I am not with a waiter, asking her to come
to my table when she'd finished her song. Then I
sat and waited. German officers were spread about the room.
As they were read about all of occupied fans. I
wondered what they would say if they knew why I
had come.
Speaker 5: Here on her?
Speaker 4: Why I know her?
Speaker 6: You sent me the snorter?
Speaker 4: Women said, will you join me?
Speaker 6: Why not I drink with anyone these days?
Speaker 4: What will you hear?
Speaker 5: What have you?
Speaker 6: Let me tell it from your glass?
Speaker 4: This is very bad wine.
Speaker 6: You are right, huh.
Speaker 7: The only time a girl make a good wine nowadays
is when she drinks with a bush.
Speaker 6: Never mind, I'm not thirsty.
Speaker 4: I enjoyed your son.
Speaker 6: Is that what you wanted to tell me?
Speaker 4: I think you are wasting your time here.
Speaker 6: Perie is wasting our time on Parie.
Speaker 4: These days, I can offer you a better position in Casablanca.
Speaker 6: What did you say?
Speaker 8: Who are you?
Speaker 4: My name is are Fontaine. I too have a good
position with the American or s s in North Africa.
Speaker 8: What are you saying?
Speaker 4: Before the Germans came to France, I was a poor poet.
Speaker 9: They did me a service.
Speaker 4: Now I'm a rich spy.
Speaker 6: You sit here in a room full of Germans and
tell me this.
Speaker 8: What makes you think I will believe you? What makes
you think I won't turn you over to the Germans
if I do?
Speaker 4: I'm said, I am not such a brave man. Neither
am I a fool. We have kept you under observation
for months. We know you better than you know yourself.
Is there anything you'd like to know about your saying?
Speaker 8: What do you want of me?
Speaker 4: On our side?
Speaker 10: We have only the very best forgerers, counterfeiters, cut throats
and spines.
Speaker 4: Will you join us?
Speaker 8: Just tell me what you want me to do.
Speaker 4: Agent Andre Fontaine in France, to agent Steve Lettel in Casablanca.
Arrangements have been made to transport the girl, Gabrielle Monney,
to the south of France and then to Casablanca, waiting
for the instructions over.
Speaker 3: The horses will bloom early this year, I think we
but not too early.
Speaker 5: I hope.
Speaker 9: Would I have been waiting for you. It is dark,
I can't see you.
Speaker 4: Where is the girl with you? She is here, Gabby
says something so often, will know you are here.
Speaker 8: I am tired.
Speaker 4: Do you have difficulty reaching my safe in Paris?
Speaker 9: And too much?
Speaker 10: With swarms of displaced persons all over France to mingle with,
and a slight bit of help along the way from
the underground, it was not too bad.
Speaker 9: Good good, Now follow me.
Speaker 4: I will take you to the fishing school. But I know,
I know you're tired. Cheer up, Gabby. You'll have a
nice long trip by water to rest up, and then
another nice long trip by otto to Casablanca.
Speaker 11: Oh.
Speaker 7: I like automobiles in the old days.
Speaker 8: I like nothing better than a pleasant ride.
Speaker 10: But Gabby didn't like the automobile trip to Casa blank
It was probably nothing like the old days.
Speaker 4: I dove up front alone. While she was fitting the
trunk of the car behind gasoline drums. There were gunnysecs
in American rug thrown over her, across everything a heavy
can discover, lash down with just enough air left for
her to breathe. We drove that way over rough roads
for several hours. When it got dark, I pulled over
to a side lane and let her hand.
Speaker 5: Gibbie, come out, come out.
Speaker 7: Oh oh, my back, it is broken.
Speaker 4: I will gladly massage it for you.
Speaker 8: You are too kind, not at all, no, thank you, pity.
Why did we stop.
Speaker 10: To give you a chance to stretch your legs and
a cigarette?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 6: Oh I would die for one. Give, give, give you.
Speaker 4: I won't lit here a.
Speaker 8: Meel mercy.
Speaker 4: You see. I tried to be gentle. I tried to
make up for the inconvenience.
Speaker 8: I am christomers Sidl.
Speaker 4: I remember what another poet once said, a German by
the way, but nothing Nazi. His name was good.
Speaker 8: What did he say?
Speaker 4: He said, be gentle with women. Remember they were made
from a broken rib.
Speaker 8: I am not amused.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: You are always smiling. Do you enjoy the war?
Speaker 5: I am a poet.
Speaker 4: There is poetic excitement in being behind the lines, working underground.
I enjoy being a spy where I am. No matter
how you will do, you still have told me nothing.
Why did they send for me? You remember a German
named Paul?
Speaker 8: What do you know of him?
Speaker 5: Tell me not now?
Speaker 4: The time is late, but I must know where you're seeing.
What did you meet later? We have a long journey ahead.
If we pass the border post, I will tell you.
If we do not, the words and minutes would only
be wasted.
Speaker 2: Her to that.
Speaker 5: M I thought I would never reach the border.
Speaker 10: It's been a long tape. Where are you headed Casablanca?
Do anything to declare no nothing? Let me see your passport.
Speaker 5: Here you are.
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, it's got a small black dog
sniffing and winding at the trunk of the car where
Gabrielle was hidden. Austin's officer had not noticed him, and
I knew I had to find somewhere to keep him
from noticing.
Speaker 10: Ah one becomes Steve after so long a ride.
Speaker 4: While he looked over my passport, I went to the
rear of the car, picked up the dog by the
scuff of the neck, and started to pat.
Speaker 2: Your best part seems to be in the Hodor. But
what's the matter with his jef?
Speaker 5: Nothing? Perhaps he does not like to be picked up.
Speaker 2: If he did, he wouldn't try to bite you. That
you put him down.
Speaker 5: I knew if I.
Speaker 4: Put shove down, he go back to sniffing around that trunk.
I felt like strangling that cute little black poppy.
Speaker 2: Hell let him down.
Speaker 4: I have taken a fancy to him. How do you
feel about selling him to me? Eh?
Speaker 2: Huh, you you are cious monsieur.
Speaker 5: We I like him? Come, come how much?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Take him? There? Two more like him around somewhere.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 10: He will liven up the journey. Wait before you go, Yes,
what is in your trunk? I said, what is in
your trunk?
Speaker 4: Let me put the dog in the car and then
I will show you the tongue. I will show you.
You see gasoline drums?
Speaker 2: Yes, I see very well, Louise the trunk.
Speaker 4: I may go, of course, Thank you again for jure.
Speaker 5: August twenty seventh, nineteen forty two, Report to OSS headquarters
in Washington from Agent Steve Lightel and Cassa Blacker Fontaine
and the girl girl arrived. I knew as soon as
she walked in that Paul Vogel could not have forgotten her.
I only hoped her memories of him weren't too strong.
As you know, miss Money, this is an international zone.
We are in effect neutrals in Casablanca. We pass each
other in the streets. Germans, Americans, vishy and free French.
You can imagine what a hotbed of international intrigue we
have here.
Speaker 11: I know nothing of that kind of intrigue. Then perhaps
we can broaden you call it, Henri. Now listen to me, Yebbi.
The head of the German Armistice Commission in Casablanca is
a man named Paul Vogel.
Speaker 5: Does that name mean anything to you?
Speaker 7: We knew each other once before the war. Knew each
other he was an attached to the German consulate in Parais.
Speaker 5: You almost married him once. Isn't that so?
Speaker 8: That is my business?
Speaker 5: I'm afraid we've made it our business, Gebby. We've kept
close watching you these past months, and we're sure that
you're Nozzi or Vicy sympathized.
Speaker 7: I hate them all for what they are doing to Poel.
Speaker 5: What are your feelings toward him?
Speaker 6: I haven't seen him in years.
Speaker 5: It's not answering my question.
Speaker 6: If he is a Nazi.
Speaker 8: I have no feelings.
Speaker 5: Taught him all right then. Now the open secret here
in North Africa is the planned American invasion. The close
secret is where and when? Now that's what Paul Vogel
wants to find out for German headquarters.
Speaker 11: I still don't understand what I ought to tell him, Sherry.
Speaker 5: Andre, He's right. You're to take up this friendship with
him once more. Give him all the information he wants.
You'll get a direct from us. Look, just assured it'll
be the wrong information. You understand now, I'm beginning to good.
We have a job for you at the Three Lanterns
Cafe now starting tomorrow. Agent Henri Fontaine and I were
at the Three Lanterns Cafe the next night when Gabrielle
opened there. Cafe was packed, but even the crowd around
the bar, officers with ribbon chests, waterfront riff rap and
black marketeers, all of them were quiet. When she sang.
She was wearing a red dress and the spotlight her
face looked smaller and whiter, her hair looked blacker. There
was a man in the room who could take his
eyes off her. I wondered how soon it would be
before Paul Bogel came.
Speaker 4: In and saw her too, and guard act that could
make you forget the wall.
Speaker 5: I steve, I've got a wife like a Syracuse in
case she wear a red leg.
Speaker 9: That my wife can be trusted.
Speaker 5: And this girl, she and Bogo were pretty close in
the old days.
Speaker 4: I know my own she can be trusted.
Speaker 5: I hope you're right. The success of the whole American
invasion may en Johanna.
Speaker 4: A lot depends on how hard Vogel falls for that
little maid up there on the bandstand. She did boggles.
Speaker 5: Just come in, That's all I wanted to say. Come on,
let's get out of you. Excuse that this table is free. Waiter,
it will do.
Speaker 2: We are Google.
Speaker 5: You wish to see the way list?
Speaker 9: Oh that girl? How long has she been here?
Speaker 5: The singer?
Speaker 2: You mean she started only tonight?
Speaker 9: Tell her to come to this table when she's finished.
Speaker 5: You understand, I understand. No, you don't.
Speaker 9: You only think you do.
Speaker 12: Go tell her what I said, and bring a bottle
of your best wine.
Speaker 7: And I had no idea it was you, Paul. When
the waiter came to me. I'd like you to walk
back into my life so quietly after making so violent
an exit.
Speaker 12: Ah, the world is small after all, Gammy, I'm.
Speaker 7: Amazed to find you in Casablanca.
Speaker 9: I can say the same of you. What are you
doing here?
Speaker 6: I arrived here a few days ago, but.
Speaker 7: I've been in North Africa for months? Tower tunis singing?
Speaker 5: How were you able to leave France after the occupation?
Speaker 7: You should know how well I always got along with Germans.
Speaker 9: You don't seem angry with me any longer.
Speaker 5: Leave him after.
Speaker 9: That last time six years ago.
Speaker 7: Life is too shocked to be angry for too long
at anyone. Besides, I was a fool to have been
jealous of that silly blong with the bad legs. I've
even forgotten her name, Susan. Oh, I see you have
not forgotten.
Speaker 9: Oh that's a wine, Gabby. How good it is to
be with you again?
Speaker 7: How good it is to be with you by.
Speaker 4: You call me? Nah?
Speaker 9: We will drink too?
Speaker 5: What is to be? Leave?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 5: You could have no better guide through Casablanca than I, Gubby?
Speaker 2: Come?
Speaker 9: What else would you like me to buy you from
the marketplace? Scar perhaps a gold scarf to put around
your hair?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Have you taken many goals to the marketplace?
Speaker 9: Will you be forever jealous of me? Leably, what is
it the French in you?
Speaker 8: It is a woman in me.
Speaker 7: I imagine you are in great demand by the women here,
the chief of the German Armists Discommission.
Speaker 5: How did you know that I know more.
Speaker 6: Than you think?
Speaker 7: What did interest you to know the name of one
of the most important American agents in North Africa?
Speaker 6: Who Steve Lightel?
Speaker 9: What do you know of him?
Speaker 7: I know him and he knows the details of the
planned American invasion.
Speaker 9: COmON, I will buy you a gold scarf.
Speaker 6: Have you nothing to say what I just told you?
Speaker 12: I knew that already, I too have agents. However, thank
you for telling me. I can promise you more than
a gold scarf if you find out no information for me.
Speaker 9: That's just possible.
Speaker 8: It might be very possible.
Speaker 5: Agent like tell in Casablanca, the OSS in Washington, the
girl Gabrielle Money has been in the paid employee of
the German government here for several weeks according to our plan,
and we'll transmit to them the dacuard cover project.
Speaker 7: In September nineteen forty two, report to OSS headquarters from
Agent Money.
Speaker 8: I had a feeling that things were going too smoothly.
Speaker 7: I seemed to be holding my breath, waiting for something
to go wrong, and on the night of the twenty ninth.
Speaker 2: It did.
Speaker 7: Paul Vogel was in my room above the cafe.
Speaker 8: We were listening to my record of our favorite song,
Oh Mama, you will have to go soon. It is late.
Speaker 9: Forget the time. I would think it would come to
this again.
Speaker 5: After that in Paris.
Speaker 7: I remember that day we showed poor judgment to argue
out of doors.
Speaker 8: It was raining. I got a terrible cold in the nose.
Speaker 9: Let me kiss that poor nose.
Speaker 13: You really must, But before you do, I I have
a paper for you, and my purse dates when high
officials will be in Casablanca.
Speaker 8: I get you.
Speaker 9: Want to talk to you.
Speaker 8: You're hurting my arm.
Speaker 9: Lita is paying you well for this information.
Speaker 12: Some of it is useful information, but none of it
is as important as I would like.
Speaker 8: I will try to do better.
Speaker 12: You had better do better. You know what what happened, Gabby.
If I found out you were crossing me.
Speaker 8: I would not cross you.
Speaker 12: Do my twist your arms like this such a small arm?
Speaker 9: Then what I could do if I really tried to
hurt you?
Speaker 6: Hurt me now because you don't trust me.
Speaker 8: What do you want?
Speaker 12: You claim to know this American like you claim you
get your information from him?
Speaker 5: Is that all he gives you?
Speaker 2: What love?
Speaker 5: Does he give you? That too?
Speaker 6: Hall the shoe is on the other foot.
Speaker 8: Not is you who are jealous? How foolish of you?
I think? Would I lie to you?
Speaker 14: Coming?
Speaker 12: Comy, oh, comey, If you ever lie to me, I
would rather see you dead at my feet than standing
looking at me.
Speaker 5: And lying. You'll hear what I.
Speaker 8: Say, Yes, yes, I hear, I hear.
Speaker 5: No, No more whine.
Speaker 9: I must keep my head clear to think of what
you have just told me.
Speaker 7: Now, are you satisfied that I'm earning my money back?
Speaker 12: So the Americans will land in a few weeks at
Dhaka very likely, very likely.
Speaker 9: Dacca is strategically important.
Speaker 7: It will be more important if the German fleet is
there to stop the invasion.
Speaker 5: That Bungled attempted at landing on that the Gold's leadership failed,
So the Americans probably figure we would not dream that
they would try it again in the same place.
Speaker 6: One American, Steve Lightell, does not dream.
Speaker 5: You know all this?
Speaker 8: Are you going to tell German headquarters?
Speaker 9: But of course this is something they will want to know.
Speaker 7: He believes it's digging every word of it. The German
fleet is being saent to stop the invasion at Daka.
Speaker 5: Good Gebbie, good work.
Speaker 4: Read the report just in from Gibraltar.
Speaker 13: What is it?
Speaker 5: And then I'll let me tell you Joff.
Speaker 4: General Clark will rendezvous on October twenty first at Point
a Grade near Algaire.
Speaker 5: You know what that means, Final preparations for the Iran invasion.
Nothing must go wrong now nothing.
Speaker 7: November four, nineteen forty two, something very wrong happened. Paul
came to my room just before I was ready to
go downstairs to the cafe.
Speaker 12: Paul, Gubby god friend like tell has been playing you
for a fool.
Speaker 5: Do you hear what I say?
Speaker 10: I don't understandation is not the car I just learned myself.
Speaker 9: It's to be or ran orran.
Speaker 12: The German fleet, on my suggestion, is waiting in the
car for not Paul, and will continue to wait all it.
Speaker 5: Can't you do what this will mean to me?
Speaker 9: Do you realize what a high command will do to
me for this?
Speaker 6: Please?
Speaker 8: Paul ru mhm.
Speaker 7: Perhaps perhaps your latest information was wrong about our No.
Speaker 14: No, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 9: It all tis they the Americans wanted me to believed.
Speaker 5: Gabby.
Speaker 9: What did you do with this?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 7: What are you saying? I'm getting tired of your suspicions.
One day you trust me, next day you don't.
Speaker 5: You're French? What kind of French?
Speaker 8: Instead of questions, ask yourself this would I be trying you, Paul?
Not Germany? But you think look at me, Look at you,
old Gabby announswer.
Speaker 14: Hi, I no, of course, not not you.
Speaker 9: You wouldn't there.
Speaker 12: There may still be time to stop the Americans at Iran.
I must get back to headquarters and let them.
Speaker 5: Know by radio. I should have done that right away
instead of coming here.
Speaker 9: Have a drink first, no, no later.
Speaker 7: It will not be easy for you to tell the
high command there is a drink will fortify you?
Speaker 12: Mm hmmm, yes, perhaps perhaps you're right one drink.
Speaker 8: Paul sat on the edge of the couch, his head
in his hands.
Speaker 7: I remember thinking how very blonde was his hair, how
loude his It was not difficult for me to drop
half the eld tablet from my purse into his glasses.
Speaker 8: I palled the little old rips.
Speaker 15: Here you are, poor Paul, poorful booty, you look so tired.
Speaker 8: Change where are you going?
Speaker 6: You put on the record you like? We played it
so often lately, Paul. In one of these days it
will just rise up in protest.
Speaker 8: You're tired, Ma, No, no, why should I be.
Speaker 14: Here?
Speaker 8: My record through?
Speaker 5: Then you will go no.
Speaker 9: No, Now.
Speaker 14: That's so.
Speaker 9: You love me very much.
Speaker 7: His head had fallen on his arms and rested on
the table. The tablet had begun to work as I
knew it would. I got the automatic pistol that had
been given to me by the Americans and.
Speaker 8: Shot him twice through his very blonde head.
Speaker 15: Report Gabriel Money, I've a.
Speaker 5: Lot to come many minutes now, news of the in patient.
I've had word at Eisenhower and Clark Range your brother
on November the eighth. I'll let you both know as
soon as something comes through on the radio.
Speaker 4: How you are right, Debbie.
Speaker 6: Me, don't concern yourself.
Speaker 5: You did what you had to do with took courage.
Speaker 14: Well.
Speaker 7: If I had thought about it longer, perhaps I would
not have had the courage.
Speaker 8: You cannot know.
Speaker 4: I think I do.
Speaker 8: He meant a great deal to me a long time ago.
I killed him.
Speaker 4: Listen to me, and I told you something once that
the poet gotta said. He also said this, give up
what perished long ago, and let us love what's living.
Speaker 5: Do you hear Gebbie?
Speaker 4: Do you hear.
Speaker 2: Equity?
Speaker 5: Equita? Yankee? Thanky bit wait, echo? Oh that helly oh,
that's that. The code name Roberts arrived, The impatience begun
your hair. Did you hear Gaddy? Did you yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And once again the report of an OSS
agent is closed with the words mission accomplished. A further
adventure in Black Warfare is next week. Clog and Dagger.
Speaker 16: Heard in today's story were Jane White, Barry Krueger, Leon Janney,
Joseph Julian, Carl Weber, Raymond Edward Johnson, Guy Soirel, and
Bernie Goon. Script was by Winifred Woolf Music under the
direction of John Gart. Today's true OSS adventure was based
on the book Klockendagger by Carry Ford and Alistair McBain.
This has been a Lewis g. Conn production under the
supervision and direction of Sherman Marx. Stay tuned for the
second Big Mystery High Adventure on NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. This story really does a great job showing
a lot of aspects of intelligence work and many of
the pit polls that offereders have to deal with. Certainly,
the danger was a big aspect. I found myself wondering
at different points. First of all, like what the American
agent wondered? Could she be trusted to work for the Allies?
Then I found myself feeling the danger of the situation
she was in, particularly at that point where he threatened
her life. And then we finally get to the way
it plays out and the decisions she had to make,
to feel the internal turmoil of all she had to do,
and I love the way that they structured the drama
on this. Now, of course, if she hadn't, the consequences
to the war effort as well as the effort to
free France would have been disastrous. But this episode shows
how this world of black ops is not only dangerous
but messy on so many levels. Now, on another note,
I did want to mention that I ordered the book
Cloak and Dagger. It was a bit of a challenge
to find a copy that was anywhere near reasonable. There
are a lot of books where you can find decent,
in good condition copies for you know, five or ten dollars,
not this one, but I got this particular copy used
off Amazon pretty good condition, missing the dust jacket, but
otherwise looks really good. I will say that a general
perusal show doesn't show the plot of all of the
episodes taken from here. And they did mention here that
these stories were based on files from the OSS in Washington.
That doesn't necessarily mean everything was covered in this book.
And this book is actually relatively short. It's two hundred
and sixteen pages long print that is pretty easy to read.
So I don't even know if you could have enough
stories for a radio series based on the incidents in
that book. I did see one chapter that actually had
the same title as an episode, so that might have
come out of the book. I'm going to read through it,
oh not with the expectation that I'm going to find
every single plot that was used on the radio series
in the pages of the book. Well, now it's time
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