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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, here is swastika on the windmill.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the
Speaker 2: enemy linees 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 entrigue. These are the weapons of
Speaker 3: the OSS. In today's adventure, the Swastika on the Windmill.
Speaker 3: The role of Paul halfand an OSS agent in Holland,
Speaker 3: is played by Lestremaine The story is suggested by actual
Speaker 3: incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of
Speaker 3: Strategic Services, a story that can now be told.
Speaker 4: My mouth was as dry as ashes. The palms of
Speaker 4: my hands were ringing wet. My revolver was drawn and
Speaker 4: I moved slowly, slowly along the dark hall. Everything I
Speaker 4: had been taught led up to this moment.
Speaker 5: Boards under my feet heated.
Speaker 4: For a terrifying moment, I almost lost my balance and
Speaker 4: fell backwards. Something was ahead of me in a room
Speaker 4: along that dark passage. I sensed it more than anything else.
Speaker 4: Then I heard it on my half man. I stopped
Speaker 4: breathing until I had passed that room, and the voices
Speaker 4: of the hidden Germans almost slid past them.
Speaker 5: To the end of the corridor.
Speaker 4: There was a Nazi stormtrooper in uniform right in front
Speaker 4: of me, blocking the exit.
Speaker 6: Well, fire, fire, fire again, it'd work, Paul.
Speaker 5: Well, that's it. You passed the test. Now the colonel
Speaker 5: wants to see you.
Speaker 4: What I had just come through was a cleverly designed
Speaker 4: scarehouse that rivaled any Coney Island chamber of horrors for
Speaker 4: one a minute thrills. This was part of the training
Speaker 4: of an OSS agent and it took place less than
Speaker 4: an hour's ride from Washington, d C. We turned how
Speaker 4: far at the present time we have no information and
Speaker 4: no way of getting information on the disposition and plans
Speaker 4: of German troops and Netherlands. We think they're up to something.
Speaker 2: Well, no what. Now you'll be flown to England and
Speaker 2: from there a submarine will take you to the coast
Speaker 2: of Holland.
Speaker 4: The coast of Holland to me, Holland was that little
Speaker 4: country where my uncle Brohm lived, where I visited when
Speaker 4: I was twelve, where the windmills were now under the
Speaker 4: shadow of the swastika. I guess we can surface about here.
Speaker 4: There's mac on Holland. I want to take a look
Speaker 4: with tenthalphon thanks command. Spilling through the periscope of the
Speaker 4: submarine Tuna and I could see a windmill on the
Speaker 4: flat lowland of the Netherlands. I couldn't see the swastika,
Speaker 4: but I knew it was there. The pressure gage showed
Speaker 4: twenty feet of salt water above us.
Speaker 5: Take her up her out o an hatch.
Speaker 4: We climbed the ladder through the hatch, where an inflated
Speaker 4: rubber boat was waiting to take me to shore. I'm
Speaker 4: only a couple of yards from shore. I can get
Speaker 4: out here. Hand me that rucksack. Please here you are, sir?
Speaker 4: Have you fought to go from here? It's only about
Speaker 4: five miles from Macum to Bolsward, where my uncle lives.
Speaker 4: I can make it before the sun comes up. Goodbye
Speaker 4: and thanks, good luck, good Luck's.
Speaker 7: So when you rang the bell at Sanna Paul, I
Speaker 7: jumped for my bed the devil, I said, it's the
Speaker 7: guest tap. They finally put two and two together and
Speaker 7: connected me with the underground.
Speaker 8: Hush, brahm, hush, God gave your tongue. Must you use
Speaker 8: it so loosely?
Speaker 4: I'm afraid my new aunt Hilda doesn't trust me completely.
Speaker 9: I trust no one.
Speaker 5: Oh, this is poor.
Speaker 7: How often have I spoken to you of the times
Speaker 7: he came here when he was how old?
Speaker 5: Poor? Twelve?
Speaker 7: Uncle Brown, Yes, twelve and so proper, So collect a
Speaker 7: miniature model of propriety. Well, from the looks of it,
Speaker 7: you've grown, but you haven't changed much. Still proper is
Speaker 7: the devil.
Speaker 4: The result of my strict Quaker upbringing.
Speaker 10: Uncle Brohn.
Speaker 4: Remember we were both taught number two drink or smoke
Speaker 4: or lie or or swear, Uncle Brom.
Speaker 9: Yes, how long will you stay in Holland?
Speaker 4: Only long enough to contact the leader of the underground
Speaker 4: and get the information I'm after?
Speaker 9: I see? Tell me, why should we believe that you
Speaker 9: are an allied spy? Answer me?
Speaker 4: Sure you don't expect me to carry proof about me
Speaker 4: that I'm a spy in case the Germans find me?
Speaker 9: Then how do we know?
Speaker 5: That's enough? At the devil, I say, and here know
Speaker 5: more of this dog?
Speaker 8: All right, Brown, it will be as you say, and
Speaker 8: on your conscience.
Speaker 5: Your your wife doesn't trust me.
Speaker 7: You were surprised to know it, doubt to find you
Speaker 7: Aunt Katrina dead and I remarried.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes I was, Uncle Brom. I was lonesome.
Speaker 7: It's not good for the men to live by himself.
Speaker 7: And she is a good woman, but she doesn't trust me.
Speaker 7: She has her reasons. There was some men in these
Speaker 7: parts not long ago. He passed himself officer British agent,
Speaker 7: gained the confidence of some of the Undergrund. Then he
Speaker 7: turned them over to the Gestapo. I see he as
Speaker 7: family was among those executed.
Speaker 4: You understand now, uncle problem. You haven't seen me or
Speaker 4: heard from me since I was a boy. You don't
Speaker 4: know where I've been during those years in between. You
Speaker 4: don't know what my loyalties are. Do you trust me?
Speaker 7: Tomorrow? I may take steps to put you in contact
Speaker 7: with Hans spoke in Luardin, the leader of the Dutch underground.
Speaker 4: When I awoke a few hours later, it was about
Speaker 4: ten o'clock. Through the window of a spare room that
Speaker 4: Aunt held her ma up for me, I could see
Speaker 4: the neat little milk carts joling over the Christine and
Speaker 4: the cobblestones, and I could see the endless stream of bicycles,
Speaker 4: and here and there a German soldier in uniform, like
Speaker 4: a blot on the landscape.
Speaker 7: I'm afraid the breakfast is not assumptuous.
Speaker 5: It as what's in the old days.
Speaker 9: Poor do not apologize for what we cannot change.
Speaker 4: Aunt Hilda is right. It was very good. The Rogua
Speaker 4: Brood was just as I remembered it. And these current bunds,
Speaker 4: these Creanton brutes, are wonderful.
Speaker 9: I will leave you. I have a house to clean.
Speaker 5: You're still suspicious of me?
Speaker 9: Have I any reason not to be it enough?
Speaker 7: Paul is my sister's son. I will stake my own
Speaker 7: life's blood that he is to be trusted. Let us
Speaker 7: hope you do not have to, Aunt Hilda. Look this pistol,
Speaker 7: I'm giving it to you. It's the only one I have, the.
Speaker 9: Only one you have, and you give it to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I put myself at your mercy. If at any time
Speaker 4: you have proof even the slightest that I'm not what
Speaker 4: I claim to be, take my own gun and turn.
Speaker 11: It on me.
Speaker 8: I will take your gun and take you at your word.
Speaker 5: That should convince her. Paul, you are what you say,
Speaker 5: I hope.
Speaker 4: So now, what about this hunts Buck? How can I
Speaker 4: get in touch with him?
Speaker 7: I will arrange for a meeting between you halfway at
Speaker 7: the Handling in five days from now, to give him
Speaker 7: time to collect the information.
Speaker 5: You are after.
Speaker 4: The days until Thursday when I was supposed to meet
Speaker 4: haunts Buck past slowly, but they weren't wasted. I set
Speaker 4: up a short wave radio and a wine cellar read
Speaker 4: in the living room. I had long talks with Uncle Brahm,
Speaker 4: and I went out of my way to win over
Speaker 4: Aunt Hilda. Are you sure there's nothing I can do
Speaker 4: to help you with dinner?
Speaker 2: Aunt Hilda?
Speaker 9: Nothing? Thank you?
Speaker 5: Oh, it's.
Speaker 4: It's still raining one need not be.
Speaker 9: Too clever to see that.
Speaker 8: In Holland it seems always to be raining now, rain,
Speaker 8: mud and despair.
Speaker 4: I remember when I came here years ago, it was winter.
Speaker 4: I was in time for the skaters.
Speaker 9: Races, Yeah, skaters races.
Speaker 5: And the booths.
Speaker 4: Remember the little booths that sold chocolate and milk cooked
Speaker 4: with aniseed, and the little cakes, all the varieties of gingerbread.
Speaker 5: How I love them.
Speaker 9: Hand me the spoon.
Speaker 5: Here here you are.
Speaker 9: Thank you. Tell me about America. What is it like?
Speaker 4: It's too large to describe in a sentence, or too
Speaker 4: When the war is over, you must come visitors.
Speaker 9: When the war is over.
Speaker 4: Well, little can't last forever, and America is helping. And
Speaker 4: remember our leader, President Roosevelt, is himself of Dutch ancestry.
Speaker 8: Tomorrow, tomorrow, perhaps I will make you a gingerbread cake.
Speaker 4: Yes, I wonder over slowly. And on Thursday, when I
Speaker 4: left for Harlingen, she said good bye to me.
Speaker 5: At the door with uncle Brom.
Speaker 7: You know where to meet him, Paul, you have everything clear?
Speaker 5: Yeah, everything, uncle Brahm.
Speaker 4: I'm to meet him beside the monument of the Stone
Speaker 4: Man on the North Sea Dikes. I'll be nodding and
Speaker 4: unknotting a piece of string so he'll know me. Good good.
Speaker 4: We will see you later to night.
Speaker 5: Then, yeah, pull.
Speaker 9: Here. This is for you in case you should have
Speaker 9: need of it.
Speaker 5: My pistol take it back.
Speaker 10: Thank you, Thank you, Aunt Hulda Kurtain Morgan, Gourden Morgan.
Speaker 10: This habit you have of nothing and non nothing string?
Speaker 10: Is it not a waste of time?
Speaker 4: Nothing is a waste if it serves a purpose? Here buck, yeah, right.
Speaker 5: An elephant. We may this blend the information the habit?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Where where in my head? You will have to memorize
Speaker 11: it as I give it to you. I could not
Speaker 11: take a chance of writing anything down. I'll remember then,
Speaker 11: remember it and use it well. There are forty thousand
Speaker 11: Nazi troops in Holland and Belgium. These troops will be
Speaker 11: on the move within two weeks. Where they're going northern Italy.
Speaker 11: They will be used to cut off the American advance there.
Speaker 4: The colonel did suspect the worst. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: I'll radio this out tonight.
Speaker 11: It is appropriate, is it not for us to meet
Speaker 11: under the statue of the Stoneman.
Speaker 5: See the inscription terminus.
Speaker 11: It means thus far and no farther a threat to
Speaker 11: the sea that is held back by the.
Speaker 4: Dykes thus far, and no farther a threat also to
Speaker 4: the Nazis.
Speaker 11: Yeah you understand me, Well remember me to your uncle
Speaker 11: and goodbye for now.
Speaker 7: Her book is in constant danger of discovery by the Gestapo, Paul.
Speaker 7: It's why he could not take a chance and write
Speaker 7: that information down for you. It wasn't necessary of a brom.
Speaker 7: He passed it from his head to mine.
Speaker 9: When will you radio it to London?
Speaker 5: After midnight? I think I can start now. What's that?
Speaker 10: Ah?
Speaker 7: Stopping in front of the house? Men getting out so late?
Speaker 9: Who are there? You know them?
Speaker 2: No? I don't.
Speaker 9: I'm afraid. I'm afraid.
Speaker 8: It was like this once before, when I came to
Speaker 8: get my family, Paul. We were turned in in by
Speaker 8: someone who pretended to be a friend.
Speaker 5: Do you believe?
Speaker 9: I don't know. I don't know what to believe.
Speaker 12: I'll answer it, Helderman. Yeah, we have business with you.
Speaker 12: I mean, this is my wife and my nephew. Call
Speaker 12: healthphond you nephew.
Speaker 5: Max. Take a good look at him, would you say?
Speaker 5: Looks as if he's to be trusted. I never truch
Speaker 5: the man who looks so innocent.
Speaker 9: What are you talking about? Who are you?
Speaker 5: Do not be so suspicious. We are from hans Bock.
Speaker 5: We're members of the underground, and that ground.
Speaker 7: I was not conscious there was an underground in the Netherlands.
Speaker 13: What do you want with us? You're being very careful.
Speaker 13: I can see that, Alderman, and that's good. Perhaps this
Speaker 13: will prove who we are. Would you not say? That
Speaker 13: is hairbox own signature?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that is He's all right, I know it well convinced.
Speaker 5: Now read it aloud, Oka bron Let me read it.
Speaker 7: Poor every reason to distrust man you sent me today?
Speaker 7: Show proof who he is, or turn him over to
Speaker 7: these men for underground execution.
Speaker 5: But this is ridiculous. I do not understand. Or hair
Speaker 5: Box seemed to trust me well enough this afternoon.
Speaker 7: And have here was a German spy, a traitor, a
Speaker 7: mid he is I do not believe that, not Paul.
Speaker 5: He is not the spy, not for the Germans.
Speaker 7: You want proof, I will give you proof.
Speaker 14: See here in the vine set of it. This is
Speaker 14: his short wave radio. He was going to send the
Speaker 14: message tonight. He is a friend. Here is an ally.
Speaker 14: He's a member of the American oass. Don't you believe me?
Speaker 15: M mm hmmm, that is the matter. We relieve you
Speaker 15: well enough. Thank you for giving us proof of what
Speaker 15: we suspected.
Speaker 5: What's this?
Speaker 2: Shall I shut my bad Take a good look.
Speaker 5: Sculling cossbones.
Speaker 13: We've been trailing her bok, but we had no definite
Speaker 13: proof that he was connected with the underground. We only suspected.
Speaker 13: And today we saw him meet your nephew here on
Speaker 13: the North Sea dykes.
Speaker 5: Where did you fit?
Speaker 14: Until thinking?
Speaker 13: But if we arrested them then and there we might
Speaker 13: get nothing from them. So we waited. We arrested her book,
Speaker 13: and we found a paper with his signature on it.
Speaker 9: That note you showed us what was forged.
Speaker 5: Quite right, note was forged.
Speaker 4: No longer I have made my way to the kitchen door.
Speaker 13: You have killed him right again? And then around yours
Speaker 13: to your husband for supplying, and upstairs, let's get.
Speaker 5: Happy here, all right? Right? What I haven't no worse
Speaker 5: than you?
Speaker 4: In a flood of memory, it came back chamber of horrors,
Speaker 4: and hours drive from Washington, my mouth was dry as ashes,
Speaker 4: and the palms of my hands were ringing wet. Along
Speaker 4: the dark hole, I revolver drawn everything I had been
Speaker 4: taught led up to this, this momentary.
Speaker 6: Have you covered from both sides? Drop your gun? Will fire, fire,
Speaker 6: fire again into the darkness. This time, there was no
Speaker 6: instructor to say good work, Paul. There was just a
Speaker 6: gun in my back and the leader of the Gestapo
Speaker 6: to say.
Speaker 16: You are on the race, Lieutenant Hall, how long do
Speaker 16: you think you can hold out?
Speaker 13: We have ways of making you talk. No, no, must
Speaker 13: reconvince you more. Sergeants come, yeah, well, perhaps really have better?
Speaker 13: Lucky we question your aunt so I don't get killed
Speaker 13: and bring her here.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, don't do that letter alone.
Speaker 13: Simply because you requested, Sergeant, do as I say.
Speaker 5: You'll see how long she holds out. She is absolute.
Speaker 13: We'll have a shot and you will be a witness.
Speaker 13: This amusing.
Speaker 4: I know when I'm beaten. Don't bother the old lady.
Speaker 4: You're the old man either.
Speaker 5: What are you saying?
Speaker 17: Well?
Speaker 5: I thought I could hold out. I can see now
Speaker 5: there's no point in holding out. You won. What more
Speaker 5: is there to say?
Speaker 4: If you're just starling for time, not stalling hair, Commander,
Speaker 4: I'll prove it. I'll confess everything, tell you everything you
Speaker 4: want to know. Wow, you are becoming smart, and so
Speaker 4: I told them everything they wanted to know. General Donovan
Speaker 4: HiT's the OSS in Washington. The OSS is part of
Speaker 4: the American State Department. The Minister of Finance in Britain
Speaker 4: is also head of the British Secret Intelligence.
Speaker 13: Go ahead, Lieutenant Harfund, we're listening, Corpora, take this down.
Speaker 4: I gave them a mixture of fact and fantasy that
Speaker 4: would have done the German propaganda ministry pride. The true
Speaker 4: facts I told them Mine knew they already knew the rest.
Speaker 4: They seem to accept the face value, and so I
Speaker 4: kept my story with a real whapper. You taking all
Speaker 4: this down, Corporal, We'll take this down with a red pencil.
Speaker 4: An invasion of North Holland is part of the Allied plan.
Speaker 4: What the invasion will be made in the eastern area
Speaker 4: of Friesland on the Dutch North Sea coast.
Speaker 13: You are lying to us, We'll see if you know
Speaker 13: you're beaten, perhaps have been on the wrong side. Lieutenant
Speaker 13: hart Fund, you've that up radio. I think you ought
Speaker 13: to use it tonight.
Speaker 4: Time is now twenty three hundred, twenty three hundred. Paul
Speaker 4: Hall Fan calling headquarters. Can you hear me over?
Speaker 2: OSS?
Speaker 11: Headquarters to Paul Halfon, you're coming in clear.
Speaker 17: I've been waiting for your message, Paul, good to hear
Speaker 17: your voice.
Speaker 4: Why don't you say there's a gun in your back?
Speaker 4: I could see it's going to take a lot to
Speaker 4: convince you. Paul hall Fon the headquarters, listen, listen carefully.
Speaker 4: It's stinking weather for a drop, but I've got to
Speaker 4: have supplies. It's darned important.
Speaker 5: Over headquarters to.
Speaker 4: Halfan, would you mind repeating that so we're sure?
Speaker 1: Repeat?
Speaker 7: Please?
Speaker 12: Over?
Speaker 4: What the bevil's the matter? You said you were getting
Speaker 4: don good reception. I said, the weather's lousy, but it's
Speaker 4: darned important that I get a supply drop at designated
Speaker 4: point tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: Can't make it any darn clearer than that. Over, Okay, okay, Paul,
Speaker 5: we get it.
Speaker 2: It's done.
Speaker 17: Clear, Now you'll get your supply drop.
Speaker 8: Good night, over and out.
Speaker 4: You heard it yourself, The drop will be made. Are
Speaker 4: you beginning to be convinced of my sincerity?
Speaker 5: Were you nervous? Lieutenant? Why do you say that?
Speaker 13: I never heard you use such language before.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: I expect to get over my nervousness after I've broadcast
Speaker 4: many of these radio messages for you, Commander Brandt. After
Speaker 4: that they drove me back to the jail. Commander Brandt
Speaker 4: of the Gestapo had never heard me use such language before,
Speaker 4: and neither had oss headquarters in the Army. They used
Speaker 4: to make fun of me because of my proper speech.
Speaker 4: I gambled on the chance that the radio operator who
Speaker 4: knew me would detect something odd about my speech. When
Speaker 4: he answered back the same way, I knew he understood
Speaker 4: I was a prisoner of the Germans and that the
Speaker 4: supply drop would probably save my neck. I didn't sleep
Speaker 4: that night, and I didn't really take a deep breath
Speaker 4: until eleven o'clock the next morning.
Speaker 13: Good Morgan, looking, would you care perhaps for the piece
Speaker 13: of chocolate an American cigarette?
Speaker 4: I knew the drop had been successful. They sent us
Speaker 4: home Uncle Brahm, ant Hilda and me, but we brought
Speaker 4: a border with us, in the person of Commander Brandt.
Speaker 4: Mouse was different now. Aunt Hilda prepared meals silently. Uncle
Speaker 4: Bram smoked his pipe and looked at me wondering. And
Speaker 4: twice a week they sat in the living room and
Speaker 4: watched and listened as Commander brand and iact. It always has.
Speaker 2: Headquarters Ohs as headquarters to Paul Alvin.
Speaker 5: This is important.
Speaker 10: Four and twenty blackbirds are coming through the rye storm
Speaker 10: clouds overhead.
Speaker 5: Take in your washing.
Speaker 2: Good night, horn out.
Speaker 5: What did that mean?
Speaker 4: Fifteen thousand more Allied troops are added to preparations for
Speaker 4: the invasion of Holland, and we will.
Speaker 13: Rush twenty thousand more German troops to the Dutch North
Speaker 13: Sea coast.
Speaker 5: Already we have forty thousand troops waiting there.
Speaker 13: We were going to send them to elsewhere, but they
Speaker 13: would undoubtedly be a more use here.
Speaker 5: Undoubtedly. Yeah. Up to bed now, dog shit.
Speaker 13: The dinner was very good, Brokerman, I.
Speaker 9: Cannot help being a good cook.
Speaker 18: Yes, it's thoughtful of him to leave us alone so much.
Speaker 9: Is it? I do not care much for your company.
Speaker 5: Maybe he's got his reasons.
Speaker 4: I wanted to tell them my reasons, but I didn't dare. Instead,
Speaker 4: I stood at the piano and played the scale with
Speaker 4: one finger. Even Uncle Bram was getting to the point
Speaker 4: where he couldn't look me straight in the eye. But
Speaker 4: as Uncle Bram became more suspicious, Commander Brandt became less suspicious.
Speaker 9: I think I will go up to bed too.
Speaker 4: Something was wrong with the piano. The sea was sharp,
Speaker 4: as if something were pressing on it, making it sharp.
Speaker 4: I walked around at the back of the Baby Grand
Speaker 4: and I saw it. It was a small round disc
Speaker 4: the size of an overcoat button. I knew it was
Speaker 4: attached to a dictophone in Branch's room. That was why
Speaker 4: he left us alone so much. I'd give him something
Speaker 4: to listen to.
Speaker 7: For I know there must be some explanations for these
Speaker 7: things you're doing now.
Speaker 4: Look, you haven't had it so good for years. Eggs
Speaker 4: on the table? When did you have eggs on the table?
Speaker 4: Last privileges? Nobody else has extra ration books. You might
Speaker 4: as well face it. This is a new order, Germany's order,
Speaker 4: and if you're smart like I am, you'll fall in
Speaker 4: with them.
Speaker 5: Paul, Is this you?
Speaker 8: I told you he was a traitor, a spy. I
Speaker 8: warned you.
Speaker 4: You wanted to see me here, Commander Yeah, or thank
Speaker 4: you for coming to my office so promptly at my
Speaker 4: corn I follow orders.
Speaker 13: So I'm beginning to see I sit down to them.
Speaker 13: I want you to hear something.
Speaker 9: I think I'll go up to be I.
Speaker 4: Don't understand a dictophone, but I still don't.
Speaker 7: I know there must be so much explanation.
Speaker 5: You haven't had it for good for years.
Speaker 4: That's me exactly what's the idea of doing on the
Speaker 4: table last privileges?
Speaker 5: Nobody else has explorations. You might as well face it.
Speaker 5: This is a Germany have convinced me complete. You're smart
Speaker 5: like I am. You're all in with them. I have
Speaker 5: a proposition for you.
Speaker 13: Yes, I want you to go to England for us
Speaker 13: actors are double agent.
Speaker 5: You can be more valuable to us there.
Speaker 4: Leave Holland. But don't I have great help to you here.
Speaker 13: I know the risk it involves, but Germany would pay
Speaker 13: you well after the war.
Speaker 5: Over.
Speaker 4: I thought it over and let him convince me, and
Speaker 4: a few days later a German stormtrooper gave me a
Speaker 4: personal escort to the border, and I made my way
Speaker 4: back from the enemy lines. After I left, my aunt
Speaker 4: and uncle escaped and were hidden by the underground, and
Speaker 4: it wasn't until the war was over that I was
Speaker 4: able to see.
Speaker 5: Them and explain.
Speaker 3: Lieutenant Paul Halfan returned to OSS headquarters, and thousands of
Speaker 3: Nazi troops waited on the shore of the North Sea
Speaker 3: for an invasion that never came. Thus, once again, the
Speaker 3: report of another OSS agent closed with the words mission accomplished.
Speaker 3: Listen again next week for another true adventure from the
Speaker 3: files of the OSS on Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 17: Heard in Today's Cloak and Dagger Adventurers, Paul Alphond was less,
Speaker 17: Tremaine Brahm was played by Stefan Schnabel, Hilda by Virginia Payne,
Speaker 17: Bant by Barry Kroger, the Colonel by Raymond Edward Johnson.
Speaker 5: Others were Carl.
Speaker 17: Weber, Jerry Jarrett, Arnold Robertson and Bob Wilde. The script
Speaker 17: was written by Winterfred Wolfman Jack Gordon. The music was
Speaker 17: under the direction of Murray Ross. Today's True Assess Adventure
Speaker 17: was based on the book cloakan Dagger by Corey Ford
Speaker 17: and Alistair McBain. This program was produced by Lewis G.
Speaker 17: Cowen and Alfred Hollander and was under the direction of
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Speaker 1: seems like they were trying to boost the star power
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Speaker 1: were hearing those sort of New York character actors who
Speaker 1: were primarily just the workaday actors. Even though Larry Hayes
Speaker 1: had a few detective series to his name over the years,
Speaker 1: he was much more of a character actor here. Of course,
Speaker 1: Les Tremayne, who had starred in The Thin Man and
Speaker 1: had spent two season since prior to this in the
Speaker 1: Adventures of the Falcon and came to prominence as the
Speaker 1: lead in the First Night Or Program as well as
Speaker 1: having his own variety program with Jackie Gleason. And unless
Speaker 1: Tremaine turns in the very good performance that you can
Speaker 1: always expect of him, now, this story and it's ending
Speaker 1: is really something that you can only accept from a
Speaker 1: sort of based on a true story series, because your
Speaker 1: big dramatic movie does not end with the bad guys
Speaker 1: foolishly believing your hero has gone over to the other side.
Speaker 1: But that could totally happen in war. What this episode
Speaker 1: illustrates is one of the great dangers of being part
Speaker 1: of one of these fanatical states. You cannot afford to
Speaker 1: believe your own propaganda if you are in a position
Speaker 1: of real life responsibility. But really, what the lieutenant was doing,
Speaker 1: it meant the ideals of the German propaganda. That's what
Speaker 1: made it so easy to buy, despite the fact it
Speaker 1: not make him much sense. I mean, if they tortured
Speaker 1: him more, they might have believed that they broke him,
Speaker 1: but in this case they just became victims of their
Speaker 1: own propaganda. Listener comments and feedback now, and we start
Speaker 1: on Facebook, where emn't wrights Regarding the episode the Trap,
Speaker 1: that's the first Kloackendagger episode that didn't have me on
Speaker 1: the edge of my chair. There seemed to be an
Speaker 1: effort to lighten this one, and the subject didn't lend
Speaker 1: itself to lightning up. But it had enough surprises, so
Speaker 1: on balance, I still think it's a terrific choice for
Speaker 1: the Great Adventurers. Well, thank so much, Hamant. I do
Speaker 1: think that there was a method in the Golden Age
Speaker 1: of eight where they tended to try to balance the
Speaker 1: heavier episodes with lighter episodes. But you're right, it's not
Speaker 1: quite in keeping with the spirit of Kloagndagger to have
Speaker 1: like lighthearted moments from the OSS. I do think last
Speaker 1: week's episode was probably a bit more successful at that.
Speaker 1: Over on Spotify, n Wing roates Irwin Haysen was the
Speaker 1: creator of the Golden Age Green lantern in Dondee, not
Speaker 1: that it was him or they used his name. Not
Speaker 1: sure if it was him, or they used his name
Speaker 1: because he was well known in the army. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't believe it's him, because the story of Hayston's service
Speaker 1: in the military was that he was stationed at Fort
Speaker 1: Dix and manage the Fort Dix Post News paper, and
Speaker 1: in the course of doing that he wound up in
Speaker 1: the hospital through overwork. But he said that was the
Speaker 1: proudest time in his career, So it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: him being in the OSS would be possible. But his
Speaker 1: comic strip work might have inspired some of the choices
Speaker 1: and mechanics sixty six simply wrote good one. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, appreciate the comments. And now it's time
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