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Speaker 1: From July second, nineteen fifty here is the as of Buddha.
Speaker 3: We delay the start of this program to bring you
a special bulletin from the NBC newsroom in New York.
Here's the latest on Korea. Seoul has been rated by
American and Australian warplanes. They shot down two enemy planes,
one of which was marked with the Russian red Star
A spokesman says that we have made one hundred and
forty two raids against enemy targets in both South and
North Korea in the past twenty four hours. American officials
say there is a serious threat from Red ground forces
south of Seoul. Keep tuned to your NBC citation for
the later news.
Speaker 4: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the
enemy lines knowing you may never return alive?
Speaker 2: Why do you have just heard?
Speaker 5: Is the question asked during the war to agents of
the OSS ordinary citizens who to this question answered, yes.
Speaker 4: This is cloak and dagger, black.
Speaker 5: Warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of the OSS.
Today's adventure the Eyes of Buddha, concerning an American OSS
agent who went deep into enemy territory to enlist the
help of a nation which had declared war on the
United States, is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the
Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story
that can now be told.
Speaker 2: In nineteen forty four, the tiny Kingdom of Siam was
officially at war with the United States. So there I
was in March of that year in an official Siamese
plane on my way to ask Siamese help in rescuing
an American flyer from the Japanese. Sound crazy, You ain't
heard nothing yet. The Siamese character beside me had received
his master's degree at Yale and his PhD at Harvard.
Major lau du Priyordi pak I decided to call him, Louis.
Speaker 6: Look down, Lieutenant Bumman, out.
Speaker 2: Of your window? Yeah, what about it?
Speaker 7: In those green forests, as you may know, still roam
the ancient pickcocks and the sacred elephants of Siam.
Speaker 2: Louis, I may as well tell you right now there
are four things I know definitely about your country.
Speaker 6: What are these? My friend?
Speaker 2: The Siamese twins were named bang In Chang, Siamese casts
and blue eyes. Somebody wrote a book called Hannah and
the King of Siam.
Speaker 6: And what is the fourth?
Speaker 2: Tan yak Dai fuying mai? The one line I know
of your language, which translated means do you want to
meet a girl?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 7: Well, rest easy. There will be no need for you
to speak more of the language. Must a ghost have
need of words? Once we arrive at Bangkok, you will
be spirited from one place to another, my friend, as a.
Speaker 8: Ghost, fasten your seat belt. Kindly fasten your seat belt.
Speaker 6: We are coming into the dam Buang field.
Speaker 2: So far this has been too easy. Rang going to
a secret airport and Siam or you pick me up
on this plane and here we are in Bangkok. Is
this another hidden field? Louis?
Speaker 6: No, not exactly.
Speaker 9: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: Not exactly?
Speaker 7: Oh, I should say there are about eight hundred Japs
on hand about the field.
Speaker 6: Huh, fasten your seat belt.
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Burman, the official Siamese playing with the sacred white
elephant painted on the side, slid right across the field
and taxi passed hundreds of JAB soldiers guarding the runway.
The hangar door at the west side of the field open.
The ground crew rolled the plane in. Then the door
slid closed again, as if we had been swallowed up.
Joe and I climbed out of the plane. Add Lieutenant Buman.
This is long.
Speaker 7: He will drive us to the OSS hideout in Bangkok,
where you will meet the Region of Siam, the leader
of the underground.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 9: I do very well.
Speaker 6: Alm suggests we wait a few minutes before leaving. Oh,
is anything wrong?
Speaker 9: Or suggest you wait here?
Speaker 10: I will return tell you when it is safe to
leave the two Japanese officials in car right outside.
Speaker 2: We waited and were swathering hot in ear and by
the time Lum came back a few minutes later, my
shirt was ready. The ringer oversaws gone. Now is safe.
Speaker 6: We will leave by side door. Come quickly, cant is outside.
You'll see Lieutenant. Thus far your mission is proceeding successfully.
Speaker 2: I better not talk too soon a week. We haven't
reached the hideout yet.
Speaker 7: Perhaps you are right, Ah, proceed, Lum.
Speaker 2: Plum drove us right through the downtown district of Bangkok
toward the Palace, which is being used as underground headquarters.
As we drove through the streets, I could see jack
pillboxes and the internment camp and everywhere around us walking
the streets, guns and their hosters. We're Japanese. Then we
turn it a busy intersection and it happened.
Speaker 6: Lom, what is it? What is wrong with that?
Speaker 9: Hawn? I do not know, Major, I do not know.
Speaker 4: You stuck well, not stopped?
Speaker 2: Great, everybody's turning around to look at us.
Speaker 6: Can't you do anything about that little horn?
Speaker 2: A little horn?
Speaker 9: Quiet?
Speaker 2: Talking to it isn't going to help. Lom stop and
you ain't got the wires, a.
Speaker 5: Little hornish, do not blow, do not blow.
Speaker 6: This is very unfortunate, my friend.
Speaker 2: You have a gift for understatement.
Speaker 6: Lomlum, we are causing too much attention. Do as the
American says.
Speaker 11: A horn, police, I beg of you quiet nice, a.
Speaker 4: Little horn, a pretty little horn.
Speaker 2: Lump.
Speaker 6: Stop the car and pull out the wires.
Speaker 11: Oh there's no need, major, It has stopped by a cell.
All I had to do was speak nicely to it.
Speaker 2: Oh, my aching bag. Hey, this is quite a place.
Marble floor is winding staircase, just like the Moway till
I tell my wife about this.
Speaker 7: The palace, set back only a little way from the street,
has been underground headquarters for two years. At all hours
of the day, Japanese soldiers march up and down in
front of it.
Speaker 6: Yet none of them know what is going on inside.
Speaker 2: Well, you can be sure of one thing, louis what
is that?
Speaker 6: Lieutenant?
Speaker 2: I won't tell.
Speaker 7: Them after you, my friend, the servants have prepared dinner
for us.
Speaker 6: You must be hungry.
Speaker 2: We will eat. Only A couple of miles away were
camps where Allied prisoners lived on little more than bread
and water. Yet here I was an American right under
the noses of the Nips, consuming a dinner that began
and ended with iceed beer and included roast duck and
freshwater prawns, salad, curried beef, dried fish, topped off with
large bowls of fresh bananas and pieces of samow, a
Siamese improvement on grapefruits.
Speaker 6: Ah, have you had enough to eat, Lieutenant? Would you
care for something else?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, no, thanks, Louis, I've had more than enough. Buye coffee? Coffee?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 2: That what's his name by? He isn't very talkative? Is
he a good choice? We feel for a seventh in
underground headquarters. He hears nothing and repeats less. Baye is
a death mute. Tell me, Lieutenant Bumman, what did you
do before the war? He oh, I was a stunt pilot.
I barnstormed all over the country and old crates and jennies,
anything that had wings. I got a trunk full of
ten medals for almost getting my neck busted. I'll see now.
Like Louie, I admire good pilots. And one of General
Chanel's hot flyers is a prisoner of the jets somewhere
around here. If anybody's going to get him out. I'd
like to be the one to try it.
Speaker 6: We will see to it that you get your chance.
Speaker 2: Then when is the ragent coming? I'm anxious to meet him.
Speaker 7: Oh, he will be here after midnight. After midnight, yes,
you'll see. This is the evening of the Japanese admiral's birthday.
It was necessary for the Regent of Siam to be
there out of friendliness.
Speaker 9: Of course.
Speaker 2: About twelve thirty he arrived. He was dressed delegantly in
a white silk coat and white pongee trousers. Anna's head
was a delicately embroidered turban. This was Juang Pradit Mano
d Arm, Regent of Siam and head of the Siamese underground.
Speaker 6: I trust you will forgive me for being delayed.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's all right.
Speaker 6: The Japanese Admiral would never have forgiven me for leaving
his party. Mijad some more brandy for the lieutenant, of course.
How about your mission?
Speaker 2: Well, several months ago, one of General Chanel's best pilots
crashed on the Burmaciam frontier. Other members of his flight
reported that they saw the plane go down. You settle
in the spreading banyan tree, but they didn't see it burn.
Speaker 6: So the presumption is he is still alive somewhere in
sayam Hey, that's it. Major in the morning, driving representent
to Colonel Sangue that Camppanjada, Yes, excellently, I think Conel
Sangue will be in a position to get the information
you are after.
Speaker 2: That's great, your excellency. This may be a little out
of order, but yes. Don't you ever get the feeling
you're walking around with your head and the noose?
Speaker 6: A very good question. Well put, I imagine I am
a great mystery to the Americans of the OSS No
doubt they feel mystery shrouding our whole people.
Speaker 2: After all, you are supposedly an ally of the Japs.
Speaker 6: Supposedly we are an independent nation lifting it. Our people
are proud and freedom loving. Siam sits in the heart
of Southeast Asia, an inscrutable Buddha. The Japanese obaran our borders,
and from our capital in Bangkok, declared war on the
United States. The green flames of the jungle consumed us.
So the Buddha sits arms folded on its bronze breast,
its face expressionless.
Speaker 12: But the eyes of the Buddha wink is that it
the eyes wink lift in it. Its ears are tuned
to the enemy, and the jeweled lips whisper. There are
fifty thousand Japanese here in Siam, my friend. We will
continue to wait, watch and listen until they are driven out.
Speaker 2: The next morning, Louis and I with Lum driving shut
out for Campunjarra. Ever since my arrive and Bangkok, I
had the feeling I was sitting on a powder keg
that was able to go off any minute. Driving through
the streets and broad daylight didn't make me feel any better,
but I figured the Siamese knew what they were doing.
This time. Nothing went wrong with the horn, but something
else happened that gave me quite a turn. It sounds fantastic,
and it was, but it really happened. A JAP MP
directing traffic held up his hand and the official car
we were riding in stopped. I didn't like stopping. I
felt better while we were on the move. Then all
of a sudden, I saw it, JAP soldier looking curiously
in the window, staring at my occidental face. We looked
at each other for a few seconds. Neither of us
said a word. Then the car moved on. Louis Louie.
That JAP soldier he saw me, I know, even with
the civilian hat and his shirt over my uniform. He
couldn't have mistaken me for a Siamese, no doubt.
Speaker 7: But if he saw me, put your mind, and he
is my friend, I'm sure he doesn't believe what he
thought he saw. And if later he convinces himself it
was true and goes to his commanding officer, he will
lose face for telling so ludicrous a tale. You mean
they won't believe in Oh, come now, Lieutenant Burman, what
would an American be doing in Japanese occupied Siam driving
along the streets in full daylight?
Speaker 6: Ridiculous?
Speaker 2: Don't you think.
Speaker 9: You have come to the right face, Lieutenant Berman.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad to hear that. Colonel Sangue, I have
heard of the flyer you seek.
Speaker 9: I know the prison camp in which he is now being.
Speaker 13: Hey, that's great when we start, and not so fast,
Toe Tenant, we must make plans first.
Speaker 9: This is not a matter to be undertaken right day. Come.
We will have dinner first, and then we will discuss
if you have them.
Speaker 2: Dinner, Colonel's saying one. I've been wined and dined ever
since I got the bank cock, but I haven't done
a thing.
Speaker 14: Ah, my wife, Tara, we will die, then we will talk.
Speaker 4: Father.
Speaker 15: Does my English surprise you, Lieutenant Burman? I was educated
in America. I am a graduate of Wellesley College.
Speaker 13: It was not your English which made the lieutenant observe
you with such interest, My dear, It is your appearance.
Speaker 9: Am I not correct?
Speaker 2: You're very correct, Colonel. You have an extremely attractive wife.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Bob.
Speaker 15: My husband's lavish compliments embarrassed me occasionally. I suppose they
are to be expected after only two months of marriage.
Speaker 2: Two months. Well, congratulations, it is.
Speaker 9: I who am to be congratulated.
Speaker 6: More coffee, Lieutenant Colonel Sanguan.
Speaker 9: Colonel Sang, is that man dad o way?
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 7: He car Japanese Colonel Kishianami with many soldiers bank?
Speaker 9: What could he want here?
Speaker 6: He requests an audience with.
Speaker 14: You, Lietenant. There's no time to lose that screen. Quickly
go behind it and pray to the Great Buddha. He
does not stare on and.
Speaker 15: You major sit here in the lieutenant's place, pretend it
where's your place?
Speaker 6: Quickly quickly.
Speaker 2: Nobody had to tell me to be quick. I got
behind the bamboo screen and Louis slid into my chair
at the table, and he stood up immediately with sanguan
as Kishinami came in a great ornate sword swinging from
his side. He stood so close to me I could
have reached out and touched that sword.
Speaker 15: Would you care for some coffee, Colonel Kishinami?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 11: Oh, thank you, oconna. Someone I'm here, I'm official business.
Speaker 9: Yes, what can I do to help you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 11: We have discovered a clandestine airfield in this territory. Surely
it is not so close to this camp without your knowledge.
Speaker 6: Air field?
Speaker 14: Oh, certain, certainly it was constructed as a temporary emergency
landing field some years ago.
Speaker 9: It has been infrequently used.
Speaker 11: Observation shows it to be in excellent condition and indicates
constant activity.
Speaker 9: Wow, I cannot believe this.
Speaker 6: Let me accompany you and see this airfield.
Speaker 9: Havea my dear, you will forgive me.
Speaker 2: Of course, I will be here. It happened so fast
I couldn't believe my eyes. As the Siamese colonel turned
to second bride to his wife, that treacherous jab sword
was whipped out and sang Uan was very neatly decapitated.
The heading sign must have been the signal for the
JAP soldiers in the room to take out their guns
before they could do anything with them. Tava sprung a
Kishian army and with a meat knife from the table,
stabbed him through the heart. The next sordier tried to
get at her, but Louie got him first. Then that
powdy cake I'd been sitting on really went off.
Speaker 7: With their leader killed, they did not have much heart
left for the fight. They are gone now.
Speaker 2: But Louie, I don't understand it, thought I what brought
on the assassination of the colonel? That phony aeron? He
came on with just an excuse to get in.
Speaker 7: It is possible that the order has come for the
total subjugation of our people by the Japanese.
Speaker 6: If true, it is open war from now on.
Speaker 2: Will there be another attack tonight?
Speaker 9: You think?
Speaker 16: If so, we are armed and ready. There is nothing
to do. But wait, what about Tava? Is there anything
I can do for her? No, she is one of
my kind. It is best to let me console her. Lieutenant,
thank you on her behalf for your kindness. Married two
munths what a loudly shame.
Speaker 6: Go to your quarters.
Speaker 9: We will wait.
Speaker 2: Nothing further occurred that night, but none of us slept.
In the morning, a big black official limousine drove up.
It was the Regent of Siam.
Speaker 6: I have received an apology from the Japanese government for
the incident last night. They are quite a tip at apologizing.
Speaker 15: My husband has been killed and you call it an incident, excellency.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about that.
Speaker 6: It is my belief that the order for the subjugation
of Siam had been issued by the Japanese high command
and rescined it because they did not believe the time appropriate.
But what about last night, excellency. Evidently, through some oversight
or the dificulties of communication, girl Kishen Dami had not
been worn that the plan was off. It is my
belief that.
Speaker 2: Gold will be quiet now for a wire.
Speaker 15: Shall we sit quietly once more and wait for them
to attack us again while our backs are turned. There
are many of us in the underground.
Speaker 6: Tap is right, Let us attack them. Let me avenge
my husdand.
Speaker 2: Listen, listen, Wait a minute, you've played a waiting game
so far. Wait a while longer. I know the fuse
is burning close. But wait, that time is past, Lieutenant,
and the open act on your part will really make
the Japs cracked down. Right now, Siam is the best
listening post the Allies have in the East. Believe me,
Washington knows what it's doing. You're a better help that way.
Speaker 6: The Lieutenant is right. We will continue to be a
docile puppet state and sell out the enemy to the Allied.
But your exit say, we will wait. I have myself
promised President Roosevelt that we Siamese will continue to be
loyal and silent. We will wait until we are told otherwise.
Did you get the information you came after?
Speaker 2: No way, eh, Colonel san Juan was going to give
it to me before.
Speaker 15: I know the camp you are looking for, Lieutenant, I
will tell you what you want to know.
Speaker 7: The Japanese prison camp at Corrupt is only about five
minutes strip now, Lieutenant, the object of your mission ends there.
Speaker 2: We're taking a long chance, Louis.
Speaker 6: You are the one who is taking the long chance.
Speaker 2: You think it will work, though, don't you.
Speaker 7: I can only say I hope when I turn you
over to the Japanese commander as a prisoner, there is
a strong possibility you would be thrown into the same
stockcade as the American flyer for whom you are looking.
Speaker 2: And if I'm not just being inside those gates will
give me an opportunity to find out exactly where he
is in that camp.
Speaker 6: You fight him, we will attend to the rest.
Speaker 2: I hope I can count on trust.
Speaker 7: Us Major priority back from the region I had a
prisoner for not to very well as.
Speaker 6: I am indeed and deed to you for bringing this
prisoner to.
Speaker 7: Me, Major, I have brought him not to with the
complements of the region of Siam. Is it not to
be expected since we Siamese are the allies.
Speaker 6: And the friends of the Japanese.
Speaker 9: Of course, of course you.
Speaker 6: Will be cooperative and answer my questions.
Speaker 2: You understand, I don't know any answers.
Speaker 4: How did you get here?
Speaker 2: He just told you my plane crashed near the border? Rush?
Speaker 6: What was your mission? I'm a neighbor, but through Why
are your head up?
Speaker 1: Secret?
Speaker 4: Apps?
Speaker 6: I am which one? Where is it? Who is your contact? Crazy?
Speaker 2: I have any contact? I tell you, I just crashed like.
Speaker 6: Some American is going to be stubborn knife PM measure
give him time. He will break down. They all do
Unfortunately they do not. The American flyer we have had
interned here for some months, and so insist that all
our efforts to obtain the truth, is it not possible?
He has told you all he knows. Or come come Meja, your.
Speaker 7: Timents are too trusting, Perhaps Caelina too, Perhaps you are
right American.
Speaker 6: I will have you taken to the stockade.
Speaker 17: Well, I ask you, good, Look at the other flyer,
look well at him.
Speaker 6: Know that the worst fed away you. If you do
not co operate, as Canelina too, this president in the
stockade on the west side of the camp, I will
deal with him later.
Speaker 2: I tried to, by the way I felt about being
thrown together with the very man I had come all
the way to Siam for fine. I walked past Lewis
without looking at him, but out of the corner of
my eye I saw that his face was coolly, impassive.
Speaker 5: Give out with your America.
Speaker 2: It took me a couple of minutes to get used
to the darkness, and then the darkness took form, and
I saw a figure huddled in a corner, an emaciated,
bearded figure wearing an American uniform. Jenna Davis, who's that.
Who are you, friend, American? Are you all right? Can
you hear me?
Speaker 6: Can you understand me?
Speaker 2: I'd come to get you out of here.
Speaker 6: Come here closer, let me see you.
Speaker 9: You are in America. I don't believe it.
Speaker 2: Ernol in a tool told me to take a good
look at you. I am no. I'd like to go
back and take a good swing at him.
Speaker 9: You heard that? What are you doing here? Who are you?
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Burman of the oasis. General Chanel asked me to
find you. I'm me.
Speaker 6: Get me out of here.
Speaker 2: Listen, listen, don't talk, don't talk, just listen to me.
He listened all right, and even in the semi darkness,
I could see the light come back into his eyes
at the idea of getting out of that place. At
about seven o'clock in the evening, the jet guard outside
the stockade was changed. The New Century brought us in
some food.
Speaker 9: Yeah it is It is the best I could do.
Speaker 6: Lum, is it really you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 10: This is better, I hoped the Japanese god whose place
I took us whelling to pay attention to a little bribe.
The Japanese soldiers are so underpaid, you know.
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Davis, this is Lum, a Siamese, a friend. Can
you get us out of here?
Speaker 10: We have plan tonight, when the moon is low, I
will turn my back and you too will make a run.
Speaker 9: For it, plant to escape.
Speaker 2: I'll never make it.
Speaker 10: No, of course not.
Speaker 6: You will be shot in the attempt and killed.
Speaker 10: Sorry, Lom, I don't think much of that idea. Have
you got the others have no finish. Listen, listen, I
will only pretend to shoot you. You will only pretend
to die. The Japanese soldier who was bright and one
other who has accepted our money, will get you quickly.
Stand over you a Siamese doctor, and the camp will
pronounce you dead.
Speaker 9: Leave the rest to us.
Speaker 2: It won't work, It won't, Lieutenant Davis, the Siamese say
it will work. Give him a chance. When the moon
was low and the signal from love, we broke out
and made a run for it. When we heard the shots,
we throw ourselves face down on the ground and held
our breaths stretched out like that, without moving, our eyes closed.
Everything that happened around us after that seemed to be
a crazy dream.
Speaker 4: I should I.
Speaker 17: Will regret them.
Speaker 2: I fear Colonel Leno too. They are already sorry, what
did you say? These Americans kindel Leno too, They are
both very dead.
Speaker 4: That's what shall we do?
Speaker 9: What I'm kind of what you orders them?
Speaker 17: If they don't bury them, of course they come to
the cemetery and bury them.
Speaker 7: Now that our plan has worked with Tennant Burman, I
may as well tell you I was never sure it
would turn out his successfully, but.
Speaker 2: Lower you did have the Spain already and warming up
at the cemetery.
Speaker 6: We Siamese are eternal.
Speaker 10: Up to me, the braves are dune in Major or
what shall we do?
Speaker 7: We will say goodbye to our friends the Americans first lump.
Speaker 6: Then we will go back and throw the dirt.
Speaker 7: Over the empty graves in case Colonel Enotu comes to
inspect the plane.
Speaker 6: To get on the plane again, out of this place,
plane down hold.
Speaker 7: I pray Lieutenant Davis, that you will both return to
our land one day in happier time. I assure you
are the greater welcome and far greater hospitality.
Speaker 6: And now goodbye and a pleasant journal.
Speaker 2: Just before we took off, Major loudohll Ya d Park
presented each of us with a green velvet box in
them more coverings of pure gold and pounded ruby dust
with the initials a M for the boy King Ananda
May Doll and a golden crown for the mark of
the dynasty, a royal present from the King of Siam.
As we look down, we could see lum of the
two five jap soldiers with Louis directing operations, shoveling the
dirt in over our graves.
Speaker 5: Thus, on April eighteenth, nineteen forty four, Lieutenant Davis, the
missing pilot of the Flying Tigers, was rescued from the
Japanese prison.
Speaker 2: Camp and rejoined his unit.
Speaker 5: And once again the report of another OSS agent closed
with the.
Speaker 4: Words mission accomplished.
Speaker 5: Listen again next week for another true adventure from the
piles of the OSS on.
Speaker 4: Look and Dagger.
Speaker 8: Heard in Today's Cloak and Dagger Adventure were Grant Richard's
ever Sloan, Ralph Bell, Barry Kloger, Raymond Edward Johnson, Aileen Heckert,
Carl Weber, Martin Balsom, and Jerry Jarrett. Script was written
by Winifred Wolf and Jack Gordon. Music was under the
direction of John Guards. Today's true OSS adventure was based
on the book Cloak and Dagger by Cary Ford and
Alistair McBain. This has been a loose g con production
in association with Alfred Hollander who was under the direction
and supervision.
Speaker 2: Of Sherman Mark.
Speaker 8: Next exciting high Adventure, then the Big Guy on NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back, A really good tale, a lot of excitement,
a lot of food. Now, out of curiosity, I want
to ahead him. Picked up my copy of the book
Cloak and Dagger. Now I tend to read through this
book before we finish the series, but I've been engaged
in another project, so I've been going around to reading
the whole book because just haven't had the time. But
I recalled when I was hoilpling through it that I
saw this chapter title, and I decided to read that chapter.
Because each chapter is self contained, this specific adventure didn't
happen exactly as told on the radio, at least not
in that chapter. The chapter in the book, Klokendagger gave
a general overview of OSS activity in Thailand, which is
what Siam is now called, and the ways that the
OSS and the Tie Resistance coordinated together. There are some
incidents that are drawn directly from the book. For example,
the incident with the horn is something that came right
out of the book. The description of the dinner is lifted.
Speaker 6: Word from word for word.
Speaker 1: And then you also had the story of a crash
pilot whose return was requested by chinault. So the rescue
was actually affected by members of the underground without a
US operative involved, who bribe Japanese guards, and in a
less interesting turn than in the radio play, they took
him from a wood cutting detail to a secret clearing
where he was flown away. So this story is a
bit of a composite of several events that happened in Thailand.
There's an element of fiction about it, but an even
bigger element of truth, as the episode highlights the cooperation
between the OSS and the Underground in Thailand, which definitely
was true, and the vital role that Thailand played in
helping win the war and being that key intelligence post
while pretending to be subservient to the Japanese. One thing
I appreciate about this series is that so far they
don't make the American agents look like some superheroes helping
out hapless local populations. This series gives respect to our allies,
whether you were talking with about Malaysian tribes or the
French Underground or this sort of tai government that was
pretending submission to the Japanese while doing some of the
most vital intelligence work of the war. You even had
this point where the lieutenants was just expressed his confidence
that these people knew what they were doing and were
going to help them escape, and that they would trust
them with their lives. And it's important to honor that
that they were these great partners with us in this
great battle for liberty. Well, now we turn to listener
comments and feedback, and we have a comment from Ron Sir,
who writes, great show. Thanks for the new podcast. It
is great. Well, thanks so much, Ron Sir. And then
just a simple thank you from Zach Well, I appreciate
your support. Glad you're enjoying the new podcast. Now it's
time to thank our Patreon supporters of the day. Now,
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Bernie Patreon supporter since June of twenty twenty four, currently
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