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Speaker 1: there was a lost episode. In addition, one episode was
Speaker 1: preempted by speech by President Truman. So today's episode originally
Speaker 1: aired May twenty eighth, nineteen fifty and the title is
Speaker 1: the Trojan Horse.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the
Speaker 2: enemy lines knowing you may never return alive.
Speaker 3: What you have just heard is the question asked during
Speaker 3: the war to agents of the OSS ordinary citizens, who
Speaker 3: to this question answered yes, this is cloak and dagger,
Speaker 3: black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of
Speaker 3: the OSS. Today's story the Trojan Horse is suggested by
Speaker 3: actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office
Speaker 3: of Strategic Services, a story that can now be told.
Speaker 4: August nineteen forty two report to OSS headquarters in Casablanca
Speaker 4: from agent Henri Fontaine in France. Contact with girl Gabrielle
Speaker 4: Monet was made in the Bluebeard Cafe in Paris. I
Speaker 4: went there alone on the evening of the fifteenth, since
Speaker 4: I am not with a waiter, asking her to come
Speaker 4: to my table when she'd finished her song. Then I
Speaker 4: sat and waited. German officers were spread about the room.
Speaker 4: As they were read about all of occupied fans. I
Speaker 4: wondered what they would say if they knew why I
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 6: tell me this.
Speaker 8: What makes you think I will believe you? What makes
Speaker 8: you think I won't turn you over to the Germans
Speaker 8: if I do?
Speaker 4: I'm said, I am not such a brave man. Neither
Speaker 4: am I a fool. We have kept you under observation
Speaker 4: for months. We know you better than you know yourself.
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 10: 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.
Speaker 4: Arrangements have been made to transport the girl, Gabrielle Monney,
Speaker 4: to the south of France and then to Casablanca, waiting
Speaker 4: for the instructions over.
Speaker 3: The horses will bloom early this year, I think we
Speaker 3: but not too early.
Speaker 5: I hope.
Speaker 9: Would I have been waiting for you. It is dark,
Speaker 9: I can't see you.
Speaker 4: Where is the girl with you? She is here, Gabby
Speaker 4: 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,
Speaker 10: and a slight bit of help along the way from
Speaker 10: 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,
Speaker 4: I know you're tired. Cheer up, Gabby. You'll have a
Speaker 4: nice long trip by water to rest up, and then
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 10: It was probably nothing like the old days.
Speaker 4: I dove up front alone. While she was fitting the
Speaker 4: trunk of the car behind gasoline drums. There were gunnysecs
Speaker 4: in American rug thrown over her, across everything a heavy
Speaker 4: can discover, lash down with just enough air left for
Speaker 4: her to breathe. We drove that way over rough roads
Speaker 4: for several hours. When it got dark, I pulled over
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 8: Why did we stop.
Speaker 10: To give you a chance to stretch your legs and
Speaker 10: 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
Speaker 4: make up for the inconvenience.
Speaker 8: I am christomers Sidl.
Speaker 4: I remember what another poet once said, a German by
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 4: I enjoy being a spy where I am. No matter
Speaker 4: how you will do, you still have told me nothing.
Speaker 4: Why did they send for me? You remember a German
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 4: What did you meet later? We have a long journey ahead.
Speaker 4: If we pass the border post, I will tell you.
Speaker 4: If we do not, the words and minutes would only
Speaker 4: 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?
Speaker 10: 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
Speaker 4: sniffing and winding at the trunk of the car where
Speaker 4: Gabrielle was hidden. Austin's officer had not noticed him, and
Speaker 4: I knew I had to find somewhere to keep him
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: rear of the car, picked up the dog by the
Speaker 4: scuff of the neck, and started to pat.
Speaker 2: Your best part seems to be in the Hodor. But
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 2: you put him down.
Speaker 5: I knew if I.
Speaker 4: Put shove down, he go back to sniffing around that trunk.
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: 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,
Speaker 10: what is in your trunk? I said, what is in
Speaker 10: your trunk?
Speaker 4: Let me put the dog in the car and then
Speaker 4: I will show you the tongue. I will show you.
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 5: in Washington from Agent Steve Lightel and Cassa Blacker Fontaine
Speaker 5: and the girl girl arrived. I knew as soon as
Speaker 5: she walked in that Paul Vogel could not have forgotten her.
Speaker 5: I only hoped her memories of him weren't too strong.
Speaker 5: As you know, miss Money, this is an international zone.
Speaker 5: We are in effect neutrals in Casablanca. We pass each
Speaker 5: other in the streets. Germans, Americans, vishy and free French.
Speaker 5: You can imagine what a hotbed of international intrigue we
Speaker 5: have here.
Speaker 11: I know nothing of that kind of intrigue. Then perhaps
Speaker 11: we can broaden you call it, Henri. Now listen to me, Yebbi.
Speaker 11: The head of the German Armistice Commission in Casablanca is
Speaker 11: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 5: close watching you these past months, and we're sure that
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 5: in North Africa is the planned American invasion. The close
Speaker 5: secret is where and when? Now that's what Paul Vogel
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 5: him once more. Give him all the information he wants.
Speaker 5: You'll get a direct from us. Look, just assured it'll
Speaker 5: be the wrong information. You understand now, I'm beginning to good.
Speaker 5: We have a job for you at the Three Lanterns
Speaker 5: Cafe now starting tomorrow. Agent Henri Fontaine and I were
Speaker 5: at the Three Lanterns Cafe the next night when Gabrielle
Speaker 5: opened there. Cafe was packed, but even the crowd around
Speaker 5: the bar, officers with ribbon chests, waterfront riff rap and
Speaker 5: black marketeers, all of them were quiet. When she sang.
Speaker 5: She was wearing a red dress and the spotlight her
Speaker 5: face looked smaller and whiter, her hair looked blacker. There
Speaker 5: was a man in the room who could take his
Speaker 5: eyes off her. I wondered how soon it would be
Speaker 5: before Paul Bogel came.
Speaker 4: In and saw her too, and guard act that could
Speaker 4: make you forget the wall.
Speaker 5: I steve, I've got a wife like a Syracuse in
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 5: invasion may en Johanna.
Speaker 4: A lot depends on how hard Vogel falls for that
Speaker 4: little maid up there on the bandstand. She did boggles.
Speaker 5: Just come in, That's all I wanted to say. Come on,
Speaker 5: let's get out of you. Excuse that this table is free. Waiter,
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 12: of your best wine.
Speaker 7: And I had no idea it was you, Paul. When
Speaker 7: the waiter came to me. I'd like you to walk
Speaker 7: back into my life so quietly after making so violent
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 9: 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
Speaker 7: at anyone. Besides, I was a fool to have been
Speaker 7: jealous of that silly blong with the bad legs. I've
Speaker 7: even forgotten her name, Susan. Oh, I see you have
Speaker 7: not forgotten.
Speaker 9: Oh that's a wine, Gabby. How good it is to
Speaker 9: 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
Speaker 9: the marketplace? Scar perhaps a gold scarf to put around
Speaker 9: 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
Speaker 9: 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,
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 12: you for telling me. I can promise you more than
Speaker 12: 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
Speaker 5: girl Gabrielle Money has been in the paid employee of
Speaker 5: the German government here for several weeks according to our plan,
Speaker 5: and we'll transmit to them the dacuard cover project.
Speaker 7: In September nineteen forty two, report to OSS headquarters from
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: 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,
Speaker 8: Oh Mama, you will have to go soon. It is late.
Speaker 9: Forget the time. I would think it would come to
Speaker 9: this again.
Speaker 5: After that in Paris.
Speaker 7: I remember that day we showed poor judgment to argue
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 13: a paper for you, and my purse dates when high
Speaker 13: 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
Speaker 12: 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.
Speaker 12: 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
Speaker 9: 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
Speaker 12: 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?
Speaker 8: I think? Would I lie to you?
Speaker 14: Coming?
Speaker 12: Comy, oh, comey, If you ever lie to me, I
Speaker 12: would rather see you dead at my feet than standing
Speaker 12: 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
Speaker 9: 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
Speaker 12: Dhaka very likely, very likely.
Speaker 9: Dacca is strategically important.
Speaker 7: It will be more important if the German fleet is
Speaker 7: there to stop the invasion.
Speaker 5: That Bungled attempted at landing on that the Gold's leadership failed,
Speaker 5: So the Americans probably figure we would not dream that
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 4: a Grade near Algaire.
Speaker 5: You know what that means, Final preparations for the Iran invasion.
Speaker 5: Nothing must go wrong now nothing.
Speaker 7: November four, nineteen forty two, something very wrong happened. Paul
Speaker 7: came to my room just before I was ready to
Speaker 7: go downstairs to the cafe.
Speaker 12: Paul, Gubby god friend like tell has been playing you
Speaker 12: 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
Speaker 12: 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
Speaker 9: 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.
Speaker 7: 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?
Speaker 8: Not Germany? But you think look at me, Look at you,
Speaker 8: 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.
Speaker 12: I must get back to headquarters and let them.
Speaker 5: Know by radio. I should have done that right away
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 8: in his hands.
Speaker 7: I remember thinking how very blonde was his hair, how
Speaker 7: loude his It was not difficult for me to drop
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 6: so often lately, Paul. In one of these days it
Speaker 6: 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
Speaker 7: the table. The tablet had begun to work as I
Speaker 7: knew it would. I got the automatic pistol that had
Speaker 7: 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.
Speaker 5: I've had word at Eisenhower and Clark Range your brother
Speaker 5: on November the eighth. I'll let you both know as
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 7: 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.
Speaker 8: I killed him.
Speaker 4: Listen to me, and I told you something once that
Speaker 4: the poet gotta said. He also said this, give up
Speaker 4: 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,
Speaker 5: that's that. The code name Roberts arrived, The impatience begun
Speaker 5: your hair. Did you hear Gaddy? Did you yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And once again the report of an OSS
Speaker 3: agent is closed with the words mission accomplished. A further
Speaker 3: adventure in Black Warfare is next week. Clog and Dagger.
Speaker 16: Heard in today's story were Jane White, Barry Krueger, Leon Janney,
Speaker 16: Joseph Julian, Carl Weber, Raymond Edward Johnson, Guy Soirel, and
Speaker 16: Bernie Goon. Script was by Winifred Woolf Music under the
Speaker 16: direction of John Gart. Today's true OSS adventure was based
Speaker 16: on the book Klockendagger by Carry Ford and Alistair McBain.
Speaker 16: This has been a Lewis g. Conn production under the
Speaker 16: supervision and direction of Sherman Marx. Stay tuned for the
Speaker 16: second Big Mystery High Adventure on NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. This story really does a great job showing
Speaker 1: a lot of aspects of intelligence work and many of
Speaker 1: the pit polls that offereders have to deal with. Certainly,
Speaker 1: the danger was a big aspect. I found myself wondering
Speaker 1: at different points. First of all, like what the American
Speaker 1: agent wondered? Could she be trusted to work for the Allies?
Speaker 1: Then I found myself feeling the danger of the situation
Speaker 1: she was in, particularly at that point where he threatened
Speaker 1: her life. And then we finally get to the way
Speaker 1: it plays out and the decisions she had to make,
Speaker 1: to feel the internal turmoil of all she had to do,
Speaker 1: and I love the way that they structured the drama
Speaker 1: on this. Now, of course, if she hadn't, the consequences
Speaker 1: to the war effort as well as the effort to
Speaker 1: free France would have been disastrous. But this episode shows
Speaker 1: how this world of black ops is not only dangerous
Speaker 1: but messy on so many levels. Now, on another note,
Speaker 1: I did want to mention that I ordered the book
Speaker 1: Cloak and Dagger. It was a bit of a challenge
Speaker 1: to find a copy that was anywhere near reasonable. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of books where you can find decent,
Speaker 1: in good condition copies for you know, five or ten dollars,
Speaker 1: not this one, but I got this particular copy used
Speaker 1: off Amazon pretty good condition, missing the dust jacket, but
Speaker 1: otherwise looks really good. I will say that a general
Speaker 1: perusal show doesn't show the plot of all of the
Speaker 1: episodes taken from here. And they did mention here that
Speaker 1: these stories were based on files from the OSS in Washington.
Speaker 1: That doesn't necessarily mean everything was covered in this book.
Speaker 1: And this book is actually relatively short. It's two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixteen pages long print that is pretty easy to read.
Speaker 1: So I don't even know if you could have enough
Speaker 1: stories for a radio series based on the incidents in
Speaker 1: that book. I did see one chapter that actually had
Speaker 1: the same title as an episode, so that might have
Speaker 1: come out of the book. I'm going to read through it,
Speaker 1: oh not with the expectation that I'm going to find
Speaker 1: every single plot that was used on the radio series
Speaker 1: in the pages of the book. Well, now it's time
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