1 00:00:05,679 --> 00:00:12,519 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from Boyse, Idaho. 2 00:00:12,759 --> 00:00:17,039 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we 3 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,839 are going to bring you this week's episode of Cloak 4 00:00:20,839 --> 00:00:23,280 and Dagger. But first I want to encourage you, if 5 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,600 you're enjoying the podcast, to please follow us using your 6 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,359 favorite podcast software. And today's program is brought you in 7 00:00:32,399 --> 00:00:35,159 part by the financial support of our listeners. You can 8 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,719 support the show on a one time basis at support 9 00:00:38,759 --> 00:00:42,039 dot Great Detectives dot net, or by becoming one of 10 00:00:42,039 --> 00:00:45,479 our ongoing Patreon supporters for his little last two dollars 11 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:50,159 per month at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. But now, 12 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:56,240 from September fifteenth, nineteen fifty, here is today's episode, Seeds 13 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,159 of Doubt. 14 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,799 Speaker 2: To undertake a dangerous mission behind the enemy lines, knowing 15 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:06,319 you may never return alive. 16 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 3: What you have just heard is the question asked during 17 00:01:16,439 --> 00:01:20,319 the war to agents of the OSS. Ordinary citizens who 18 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,560 do this question answered yes. 19 00:01:24,879 --> 00:01:27,599 Speaker 4: This is Cloak and Dagger. 20 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,799 Speaker 3: Black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of 21 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:53,959 the OSS. Tonight's story Seeds of Doubt concerning an OSS 22 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:58,040 agent to track down Nazis in American uniforms is suggested 23 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,719 by actual incidents recorded in the Washington and files of 24 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:04,560 the Office of Strategic Services, a story that can now 25 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:05,159 be told. 26 00:02:12,159 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 4: I'm glad I wasn't there when Celeste got my message. 27 00:02:15,479 --> 00:02:17,039 If I had been, I might have called the whole 28 00:02:17,039 --> 00:02:20,159 deal off found some other way to carry out my mission. 29 00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:27,520 What I did was pretty brute. I know just how 30 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:29,919 it must have been. I gave the note to the 31 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:34,159 baker's delivery boy, Henri. He must have driven the dilapidated 32 00:02:34,159 --> 00:02:37,479 old truck through those majestic iron gates of the Chateau Baton, 33 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,080 twelve miles south of Paris, circled the huge house, and 34 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,879 come to a stop at the servants entrance. And perhaps 35 00:02:44,879 --> 00:02:48,719 it was Miriel herself, a celeste personal maid, who answered 36 00:02:48,759 --> 00:02:49,080 the door. 37 00:02:50,439 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 5: Woo, Mademoiselle Monsieur. 38 00:02:59,439 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 4: And then Mary all began that long climb up the 39 00:03:02,039 --> 00:03:06,360 Celeste roof three flights of marble stairs, and then down 40 00:03:06,439 --> 00:03:09,120 the carpeted corridor to the fourth door. On the right 41 00:03:09,159 --> 00:03:20,280 hand side. Mamselle Celeste was probably reading. She always was 42 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:23,240 in those days. There was a way of passing time 43 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,879 while she waited for some word from my friend Paul 44 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:27,080 Blanchard a. 45 00:03:27,159 --> 00:03:30,599 Speaker 6: Message, ma'mselle, from message from Marie. 46 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 5: I do not know. It was all so mysterious. It 47 00:03:34,199 --> 00:03:37,479 take us truckles at the door, and the boy give 48 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,360 it to me while a mamiselle. 49 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 4: Who I'm not writing it, ma'mselle. 50 00:03:43,719 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 5: It is not not he great? Oh mon dieu. 51 00:03:49,159 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 6: But then then it is his society. Is Paul my 52 00:03:54,039 --> 00:03:57,400 police here in Pery. He is waiting for me in 53 00:03:57,439 --> 00:04:03,960 the cafe, and Momparnasse. I was afraid he was dead. 54 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 4: That's how it must have been. And all the while 55 00:04:16,199 --> 00:04:18,439 I sat in a dingy little room in the back 56 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,360 of the cafe detoie char drinking cognac, feeling like a 57 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:31,879 dog waiting. I waited about an hour, and then Paul, 58 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:38,519 Mademoiselle Breton, Oh you are not born. No, Mademoiselle, I 59 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:46,120 was a friend of Paul. Blanche. Mademoiselle answer me very well, 60 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:57,600 Paul is dead. Like I say, it was beautiful, but 61 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,879 is there any way of saying it that isn't proving. 62 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,519 She tottered toward the table and then slumped into her chair. 63 00:05:05,639 --> 00:05:11,120 Did Her face was deathly white, and yet it was 64 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,000 still the loveliest face I'd ever seen. 65 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,759 Speaker 5: But this note. 66 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 4: This pulls handwriting well a forgery, Mademoiselle. The OSS is 67 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:25,959 well equipped to forge any man's handwriting. 68 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 6: The OSS, Oh, I begin to understand. 69 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 4: You are a Lieutenant Martin Ingalls Morale Office OSS, and 70 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,800 you deliberately too. That's right. I had to see you, 71 00:05:43,879 --> 00:05:46,920 but I couldn't come to the chateau, and I knew 72 00:05:46,959 --> 00:05:48,439 you wouldn't ignore a note like that. 73 00:05:48,879 --> 00:05:54,199 Speaker 5: I see. I relate you for this, lieutenant, as long 74 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:55,000 as that it'll. 75 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,519 Speaker 4: Be rather awkward considering our future relationship. 76 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,519 Speaker 5: We shall have no future relationship, you and. 77 00:06:00,399 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 4: I, I think we will. I've come to Paris to 78 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:10,800 take Paul's place. Yes, as your fiancee at first, that is, 79 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:19,639 and then later as your husband. She sat down again, 80 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,680 slowly and listened in stony silence as I told her 81 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,160 how I'd met her fiance in North Africa. I told 82 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,879 her how you described me, and then how he described 83 00:06:30,879 --> 00:06:35,160 their Swiss frenzied courtship in Geneva, just before Paul joined 84 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:40,759 the Free French forces. Then I told her how he 85 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:48,800 died all loved France, Yes, and he told me once 86 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,879 that you loved her too, And that's why I'm sure 87 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,439 you won't refuse to make your own sacrifice for her, 88 00:06:55,319 --> 00:06:59,040 and that is what mess you allowing me to pose 89 00:06:59,079 --> 00:07:02,680 as Paul, letting everyone think I'm the man you met 90 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:03,360 in Switzerland. 91 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 6: How do you know you could pause as poor that 92 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:08,360 someone who might not recognize you. 93 00:07:08,439 --> 00:07:11,279 Speaker 4: The USS has made sure that it will be perfectly safe. 94 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,040 You see, Paul's father was a government official in Madagascar 95 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:19,279 for twenty years before the war. Paul visited France only 96 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,279 once and that was the age of eight, and from 97 00:07:23,279 --> 00:07:25,399 that age until he met you in Switzerland, he hadn't 98 00:07:25,439 --> 00:07:28,240 set foot in Europe. So you see, no one would 99 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:32,279 know the difference. I would know it, of course, that 100 00:07:32,399 --> 00:07:35,319 would be your sacrifice, and I with. 101 00:07:35,519 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 5: France benefit by my sphering. 102 00:07:41,399 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 4: I couldn't blame her for putting it like that, but 103 00:07:44,439 --> 00:07:48,639 I wasn't exactly flattery. I tried to explain my mission. 104 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,240 D Day was six months behind this, and most of 105 00:07:52,279 --> 00:07:55,439 France had been liberated. But now there was bestone, the 106 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,399 Battle of the Bulls von Runstet's big offensive, and black 107 00:07:59,439 --> 00:08:03,439 warfare is a game to complain. Morale or the lack 108 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:08,639 of it, can help decide. The oss knew that, and 109 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,639 so did the Nazis and that's why they're German agents 110 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:14,519 floating around Paris doing their best to plant seeds of 111 00:08:14,639 --> 00:08:17,319 doubt and to destroy a lied morale. 112 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,279 Speaker 5: Nazis here in Peris. 113 00:08:20,839 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 4: But now is it there, Nutcut, Well, that's my job. 114 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:26,120 It's not going to be easy because most of them 115 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:31,600 are in GI uniform. Yes, why we send agents behind 116 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,919 German lines, they send them behind ours. Black warfare was 117 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,440 Hitler's first great weapon. Why do you think Poland the 118 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,120 low countries? Yes, even France collapsed so fast in nineteen 119 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,440 forty because the Nazis had agents behind the lines. Fifth 120 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,600 Calumness doing the same thing then that they're doing now, 121 00:08:50,879 --> 00:08:54,200 That was in nineteen First, the war isn't over yet, Mademoiselle, 122 00:08:54,799 --> 00:08:58,320 far from it. And the longer these Nazi agents operate 123 00:08:58,399 --> 00:09:02,039 in Paris, the longer the war going to last. Now, 124 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,440 that's why it's important that the OS has smoked them 125 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:05,360 out and fast. 126 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 5: But I do not see why it should be necessary for. 127 00:09:11,039 --> 00:09:15,759 Speaker 4: You to do become your husband, well, because then I'd 128 00:09:15,799 --> 00:09:19,360 be the master of Chateau Breton. And what could be 129 00:09:19,399 --> 00:09:21,759 more natural for a wealthy Frenchman and his wife out 130 00:09:21,799 --> 00:09:24,960 of at a gratitude to the Americans than to throw 131 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,919 open their home the lonely Gis in Paris, parties, mademoiselle, 132 00:09:30,039 --> 00:09:34,919 cocktail parties, dinners, dances, whatever might attract the Gis. 133 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 5: And the German Asians. 134 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 4: Nissa right, it's an affairs like that. They do their work. 135 00:09:40,519 --> 00:09:45,559 They spread rumors and lies, stir up discension, and it 136 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:47,879 wouldn't take me long to spot them. 137 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:52,279 Speaker 6: There's a very clever scheme, Lieutenant. There is only one 138 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,440 thing wrong with it. I do not care to be 139 00:09:55,519 --> 00:09:56,039 your wife. 140 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 4: It would be a strictly I personal arrangement, and just 141 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:04,960 as soon as my job is done. 142 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 5: No, this is added the Christian. 143 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:21,399 Speaker 4: Very well, Namsell. I'm sorry, Paul was wrong, wrong about you. 144 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,200 That was another dirty trick, playing on her memory of Paul, 145 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:30,360 her love for him. But it worked. In a half 146 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:32,879 hour we were engaged. 147 00:10:36,919 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 2: Do you say, lest Penton, take this man to be 148 00:10:39,759 --> 00:10:45,919 your lawful wedded husband. I do, And do you, Paul Blanchard, 149 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,159 take this woman to be one. 150 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 4: Of the Paris blue bloods who crowded into the church 151 00:10:51,399 --> 00:10:56,000 suspected that the headquarters colonel wasn't really a minister, and 152 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,399 I guess I was the only one who wished he were. 153 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,200 After the ceremony, Celestia and I drove out to the 154 00:11:03,279 --> 00:11:12,759 chateau and settled down too. Ye housekeeping, Yes, who is 155 00:11:12,799 --> 00:11:14,360 he your husband? 156 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:19,759 Speaker 5: Well, what is it you want, Lieutenant? 157 00:11:19,879 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 4: Well, I just got back from the USO. I announced 158 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,000 our first open house for Saturday. Looks like we're going 159 00:11:25,039 --> 00:11:25,799 to have quite a mob. 160 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 5: We should be ready for them. 161 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 4: You don't mind my stepping in. We can talk about it. 162 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,399 Speaker 5: But we just did talk about it. 163 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 4: No, yeah, uh, yes, I guess we did. 164 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 5: Then, good night, Lieutenant, And that. 165 00:11:51,519 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 4: Was married life. That the chateau. We're talking. It's a 166 00:11:54,879 --> 00:11:58,840 good thing our series of parties didn't start. Then took 167 00:11:58,879 --> 00:12:05,159 my mind off other things. It looked like every joe 168 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:09,440 in the European theater attended those parties. The champagne flowed, 169 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,919 the cannapase vanished. Each clam bake was a bigger success 170 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,840 than the one before it, except I didn't spot any 171 00:12:15,919 --> 00:12:21,000 Nazi agents. Yes, we're plenty of rumors. Sure, that's one 172 00:12:21,039 --> 00:12:23,440 thing an army always has plenty of. I tell you, 173 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,679 I hear we're getting our brains beat out at best Stone. 174 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,279 This man's boring over yet, pale. The guy was telling 175 00:12:30,279 --> 00:12:31,879 me the other day how the brass and that food 176 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:35,159 things at can't bray like a guy was standing the 177 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:35,559 other day. 178 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 7: If Hitler wants to negotiate, I'll next negotiate and get 179 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:39,440 it over with sous. 180 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 4: We can go home. 181 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:44,799 Speaker 7: I heard Hitler's got a secret weapon, bacteriological stuff. 182 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:46,879 Speaker 4: He's just waiting for the right time to use it. 183 00:12:54,879 --> 00:12:58,279 If I'd arrested every guy I heard repeating a rumor, 184 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,320 I'd have had half the gi and Paris in the clink. 185 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:04,080 The guy I was looking for was a guy who 186 00:13:04,159 --> 00:13:09,080 did all the talking the other day. I knew he 187 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:10,960 was one of the guys lounging in the living room 188 00:13:11,039 --> 00:13:15,320 or sprawled on a patio, or loafing in the gardens. Yes, 189 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,279 but which one. For several days I didn't get anywhere, 190 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:25,480 And then I noticed Corporal Alan Chester. I might never 191 00:13:25,519 --> 00:13:28,440 have paid any attention to him if he hadn't paid 192 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:32,000 so much attention to Celeste. Every time I looked up, 193 00:13:32,039 --> 00:13:36,279 they had their heads together, and Celeste was smiling, And 194 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,159 the time I found them sitting on a bench in 195 00:13:38,159 --> 00:13:46,440 the garden, she was actually laughing. Oh well, if it 196 00:13:46,519 --> 00:13:48,200 was a good story, you're going to have to tell 197 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:49,039 it again, Corporal. 198 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 5: It was a very good story. You have met my husband, 199 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:55,679 haven't you? Alla? This is goodbar and shisted. 200 00:13:56,039 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 4: We've met so many times it's getting embarrassing. I've already 201 00:13:59,559 --> 00:13:59,919 a pilot. 202 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 7: As to your wife, monsieur, for wearing out my welcome, 203 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,320 No apologies necessary. My only excuse is I can't stay away. 204 00:14:07,039 --> 00:14:09,120 Your chateau is the first place I fell at these 205 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:13,879 since I left home. Whereas home cover Lafayette, Indiana, lafa 206 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,559 yet well, an American town with a great French name. 207 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 4: It's right. 208 00:14:18,879 --> 00:14:21,679 Speaker 7: Maybe that's why I feel like I found a second 209 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,399 home right here, twenty kilometers from Paris. 210 00:14:25,919 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 4: There wasn't much to go on, just the word that 211 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,720 didn't ring quite true. I took Celesti aside and asked 212 00:14:32,759 --> 00:14:33,279 her about it. 213 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 5: Alan Schester, do you think he might be? You're out 214 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,600 of who lieuten Maybe? 215 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,919 Speaker 4: But I still want to know why I said kilometers 216 00:14:45,159 --> 00:14:48,360 In Indiana they say miles. 217 00:14:48,399 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 5: I told you he was a Harvard graduate. 218 00:14:50,679 --> 00:14:56,039 Speaker 4: They say miles at Harvard too. Only Europeans say kilometers. 219 00:14:57,279 --> 00:15:00,159 Speaker 6: And because of that you suspect him of being and 220 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:01,080 Nazi Asian. 221 00:15:02,279 --> 00:15:05,159 Speaker 5: How absurd. He is the most shaming of all the 222 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:06,159 men who have come here. 223 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 4: I noticed you thought, so. 224 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:15,159 Speaker 6: Did you, Lieutenant, Then maybe Nattie st Lisa and you 225 00:15:15,279 --> 00:15:20,039 suspect him. 226 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,759 Speaker 4: I admitted she might have something there. I admitted her 227 00:15:23,799 --> 00:15:30,559 to myself that it was not to select. An hour later, 228 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,759 a jeep with four gis and it rolled through the 229 00:15:32,759 --> 00:15:34,879 gates of the chateau, and one of the gis was 230 00:15:34,919 --> 00:15:39,799 Corporal Alan Chester. And thirty seconds later I was behind 231 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,759 the wheel of Celeste little Jaguar following the jeep. Dusting 232 00:15:43,919 --> 00:15:47,200 was falling, and the road to Paris was lined with traffic, 233 00:15:47,639 --> 00:15:49,559 and it wasn't too hard to keep a few cars 234 00:15:49,559 --> 00:15:54,440 behind the jeep, seeing without being seen. In town, the 235 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:56,320 gee pulled up in front of a cafe on the 236 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:00,240 Boulevard San Germain, and Corporal Chester climbed out and wave 237 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:12,559 goodbye to the other three. Luckily it was a gloomy joint. 238 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:20,120 He walked straight across the dance floor. I hug the 239 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:24,919 walls and moved in the same direction. He didn't stop 240 00:16:24,919 --> 00:16:27,559 at the bar, he didn't sit down at the table. 241 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,600 He headed straight for a back door. He opened it 242 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:39,120 and he went out. I gave him ten seconds. Then 243 00:16:39,159 --> 00:16:42,559 I went out the back door too. It was an 244 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,080 alley and as dark as only a Paris alley can 245 00:16:46,159 --> 00:16:49,600 be so dark. I thought there was only one guy 246 00:16:49,679 --> 00:16:50,759 leaning against the building. 247 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 7: Hard Monsieur gives a cigarette. 248 00:16:55,559 --> 00:16:58,519 Speaker 4: I dug into my pocket for a cigarette. That's when 249 00:16:58,519 --> 00:17:00,519 I knew that there were two guys. I whirl around. 250 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,279 The second one was standing behind me, and there was 251 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,279 something in his hand that looked like a black jack. 252 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:09,799 My fist shot out quick and connected, but Number one 253 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,359 was on me then with a hole. It hurt. I 254 00:17:12,519 --> 00:17:16,680 broke away and I'll let him have it, And that's 255 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:18,480 when I found out what it was. The other man 256 00:17:18,559 --> 00:17:21,880 held that looked like a black jack. It was a 257 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:22,400 black jack. 258 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:23,839 Speaker 6: I hit the. 259 00:17:23,799 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 4: Cobblestone the moment I saw Number two standing over me 260 00:17:31,039 --> 00:17:37,720 and heard a girl singing far away, and I didn't 261 00:17:37,799 --> 00:17:48,839 see or hear anything more for a long time. It 262 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,240 was dawn when I climbed up to the third floor 263 00:17:51,279 --> 00:17:56,759 of the chateau. If so Less was sleeping, she woke 264 00:17:56,839 --> 00:17:59,799 up plenty fast, and if she had to get into 265 00:17:59,799 --> 00:18:02,160 that shrie house coach, she wore, she must have done 266 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:10,400 it in record time. Du you look terrible. I didn't 267 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:14,200 tell her that she looked wonderful. I didn't ask her 268 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,160 if I could come in either I had just walked 269 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:20,440 past her and I sat down on the van. I 270 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,240 told her what had happened in the alley off the 271 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:26,480 Boulevard sam Germain. But all the time I talked I 272 00:18:26,599 --> 00:18:31,880 was thinking of something else. That we were alone. She 273 00:18:32,079 --> 00:18:34,279 was very beautiful and. 274 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 6: So now, of course you are quite certain that Kirkbery 275 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:38,599 sches there is a German agent. 276 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 4: Well that's how it adds up, doesn't it. 277 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,519 Speaker 6: Perhaps I am not so good at figures. These ment 278 00:18:44,519 --> 00:18:47,240 me have been thieves. They took your money in his path. 279 00:18:47,559 --> 00:18:50,839 Speaker 4: Well that doesn't prove anything. Well, that could have been 280 00:18:50,839 --> 00:18:51,359 a cover up. 281 00:18:51,519 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 6: But why would Kirberry schester I have wanted you beatn up? 282 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,319 Speaker 4: Why to stopped me from tailing him? Now that cafe 283 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:02,079 may be a regular hang out, and hiss boys may 284 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,599 hang around outside to take care of any shadows who 285 00:19:04,599 --> 00:19:04,960 show up. 286 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,559 Speaker 5: Did you think he did not know you were following 287 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:09,079 him to night? 288 00:19:09,519 --> 00:19:11,599 Speaker 4: Well, as boys may have reported that they slugged the 289 00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:13,920 guy in the alley, but but they can't be sure 290 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:19,000 who I was, even that I was telling him. See 291 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,240 I look that funny. 292 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:28,599 Speaker 5: No, I am just thinking what a fool you are. 293 00:19:29,839 --> 00:19:35,599 Speaker 4: Strange I was thinking the same thing myself. What do 294 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:39,160 you mean a man who has a wife as lovely 295 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:45,000 as you doesn't even kiss her. He is a fool, 296 00:19:45,039 --> 00:19:45,319 is he? 297 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 6: He would be even more of a fool if you tried. 298 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:56,000 Have you forgotten that bargain strictly impersonal relationship? 299 00:19:56,079 --> 00:19:58,319 Speaker 4: You said? I said it when you said you'd be 300 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,640 loyal to Paul Blonchard's. 301 00:20:00,519 --> 00:20:01,839 Speaker 5: And am I not being loyal? 302 00:20:03,039 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 4: I don't know. The way you smiled at Alan Chester 303 00:20:06,279 --> 00:20:07,400 wouldn't suggest you are. 304 00:20:09,079 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 5: You do not like to rear smelled him? 305 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 4: I don't like it at all. 306 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 5: Then naturally you would not wish me to accept this invitation? 307 00:20:19,599 --> 00:20:20,279 Speaker 4: What invitation? 308 00:20:22,079 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 5: That is why I call you a fool? 309 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 6: Looking on you think Ellen hires men to keep anyone 310 00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:29,880 from finding out where he is staying. 311 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,319 Speaker 5: Why then, is he so careless with me? Why does 312 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:35,559 he invite me to his room? 313 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 4: Why that? 314 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 5: Of course? If I went, I could tell you where. 315 00:20:40,519 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 6: He is staying, very apps, I could tell you a 316 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,319 great deal more. If he's a Nazi agent, I would 317 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:52,200 surely find it out. But you do not want me 318 00:20:52,279 --> 00:20:52,640 to go. 319 00:20:54,279 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 4: You're to go, whether I want it or not. 320 00:20:56,519 --> 00:21:01,039 Speaker 5: Oh nob, you are lieutenant. 321 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,160 Speaker 4: So she kept her date with Corporal Allen Chester and 322 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,599 I paced the rooms of the chateau and waited for 323 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:18,119 her and suffering. It was dawn once you got back. Well, 324 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:18,640 let's have a. 325 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:23,559 Speaker 6: Report, the personal one, Lieutenant, or the impersonal one. 326 00:21:24,079 --> 00:21:26,079 Speaker 4: The impersonal one is the only one that concerns me. 327 00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 6: Maybe, Well, I found out nothing, and I am more 328 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,960 certain than of it that there is nothing to find out. 329 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 4: Okay, thank you. Well, maybe you'll try again some other night. 330 00:21:38,759 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 6: The maron it is unarranged, I see, and I will 331 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,519 give you the personal report to lieutenant, even though it 332 00:21:46,559 --> 00:21:47,799 does not concern you. 333 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 5: I had a lovely time. 334 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 4: It was the next night when I began to suspect her. 335 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:05,000 I suppose I started even before she came home. I 336 00:22:05,079 --> 00:22:07,599 tried to look at things straight, and I asked myself 337 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,240 if I were being taken for a ride. She walked 338 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:12,000 in an hour later. 339 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 6: You are wasting precious time, Lieutenant. I still think Ellen 340 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,759 is just what he says. He is an American soldier 341 00:22:20,839 --> 00:22:24,359 on detached service in Ferry. I have seen his arders. 342 00:22:24,559 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 4: Well, orders can be fatal, Sissa Hea. 343 00:22:27,519 --> 00:22:31,519 Speaker 6: Then if you are still suspicious, I will keep another 344 00:22:31,599 --> 00:22:35,720 date with you the marrow night, I. 345 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 4: Decided the better be three of us on that date. 346 00:22:39,039 --> 00:22:41,119 She told me the name of his hotel, an old 347 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,119 and honorable one, and the route of old that you are. 348 00:22:46,759 --> 00:22:49,519 I slipped into its musty larvae. Early the next morning. 349 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,839 An old man with bushy brows and a faintly familiar 350 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,200 face eyed me as I approached the desk. I told 351 00:22:57,279 --> 00:22:59,880 him I was Paul Blanchard, the master Chateaubret. 352 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:06,279 Speaker 8: If you say you are Paul Blanchell monsieur, then you 353 00:23:06,319 --> 00:23:07,440 are Paul Blanchell. 354 00:23:08,319 --> 00:23:10,599 Speaker 4: Any reason to suppose I'm not mean. 355 00:23:10,519 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 8: Al monsieur, none at all, just as there was no 356 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,240 reason doing the reastance to suppose that you are an 357 00:23:17,319 --> 00:23:18,839 OSS agent. 358 00:23:24,839 --> 00:23:28,279 Speaker 4: I remembered him there. He'd been in the Marquee, you know, 359 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,759 I work with on a mission before D Day. It 360 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,000 was Pierre Salon, a patriot. It was a break, and 361 00:23:34,039 --> 00:23:36,640 I knew that I was safe, safe enough to tell 362 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,680 him as much as necessary, it. 363 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 8: Shall be done it and on this coupled Chester is 364 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,839 in room six thirteen, whom six twelve. 365 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 4: Will be vacant all evening. Here's the key to a lieutenant. 366 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:55,880 Speaker 8: The dough between the two rooms will be unlocked. Unfortunately, 367 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,400 there was a paper thin. 368 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 4: Five minutes after Celesti had left that night, I was 369 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,319 on the road to Paris. At the hotel, I went 370 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:11,119 straight The room six twelve let myself in. Was empty, 371 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:18,279 pitch blackening. There was no sound from six thirteen. Celestian. 372 00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:22,039 Corporal Chester had probably gone to a cafe first. It 373 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:27,079 might be a long wait. It was a long wait, 374 00:24:28,039 --> 00:24:31,799 and a hot one. The windows were closed, the room 375 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,200 was stuffy. I stood there in the blackness, and the 376 00:24:35,319 --> 00:24:40,640 sweat poured down my face. In the minutes ticked by. 377 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,119 Then at last the door the six thirteen opened. I 378 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,480 pressed my ear against the wall. Oh, the air was 379 00:24:48,559 --> 00:24:51,119 right about that wall. It was paper thick. I would 380 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,079 never get up here, darling, or I could kiss you. 381 00:24:53,559 --> 00:24:57,200 I've been wanting to kiss you all evening. The sweat 382 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,480 was rolling down my face harder than ever. I'm never 383 00:25:00,559 --> 00:25:02,640 going to be able to leave your celest This is 384 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,000 really our last meek, leaving Paris tomorrow morning. 385 00:25:06,319 --> 00:25:10,880 Speaker 5: It is very hard to please. If I were not 386 00:25:11,079 --> 00:25:14,000 married before, we're not really my husband. 387 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 4: What's the use of saying that he is your husband? 388 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,079 Speaker 5: But what if I tell you is not? What if 389 00:25:18,079 --> 00:25:20,240 I can't fess it is only sham and mockery. 390 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 4: I wasn't sweating anymore now I was so cold. 391 00:25:25,319 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 7: I ship I don't understand, celest. You mean he's only 392 00:25:28,839 --> 00:25:33,160 pretending to be your husband only? But why in order 393 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:33,720 to trap you? 394 00:25:34,559 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 6: He is an officer in the oasis. 395 00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:39,640 Speaker 5: He thinks you are an annunciation. 396 00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:44,599 Speaker 4: The butt of my revolver was cold too. My hands 397 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,759 squeezed tight around it. Is that true, Celeste? He actually 398 00:25:48,799 --> 00:25:49,759 thinks I'm a German? 399 00:25:50,039 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 5: Yes, and I think so too. I know you are, Celeste, 400 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,839 but I don't care. I would not have told you 401 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,839 as I did. I loved you. 402 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 4: How long would you go on loving me? 403 00:26:05,079 --> 00:26:09,279 Speaker 7: I were an enemy of fracts any country, to any woman, 404 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,480 I would love you no matter. 405 00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:11,880 Speaker 5: What you are? 406 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 4: All right? So Lessen You're right. I'm a member of 407 00:26:16,039 --> 00:26:18,799 the intelligence service of the Third Right. I twisted the knob, 408 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,680 jerked open the door, and stepped in the room six thirteen. 409 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,720 Thank you for selling me out, mademoiselle. You weren't a traitor. 410 00:26:25,799 --> 00:26:30,119 I might never have been sure about. Corporal Chestnut with 411 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,240 a lamp on the table, the only light in the room, 412 00:26:32,319 --> 00:26:34,759 and it stood behind him as I spoke. A swift 413 00:26:34,799 --> 00:26:36,759 movement of his arms and a crashing to the floor. 414 00:26:37,319 --> 00:26:40,440 Now there was darkness again, enveloping all three of us. 415 00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:46,519 We all moved, We changed our positions swiftly, silently. None 416 00:26:46,559 --> 00:26:48,720 of us could speak without tipping off where we were. 417 00:26:49,559 --> 00:26:52,200 Neither Chester nor I could fire for fear of missing. 418 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,839 So we circled the room and we waited for our 419 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:01,000 eyes to grow accustomed to the dark. And then he 420 00:27:01,079 --> 00:27:04,119 must have thought he saw me. He missed me. The 421 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,960 bullet struck something near the door, but the flash of 422 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,000 his gun was all I needed. I fired, and then 423 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:21,839 on the third shot. It wasn't until old Pierre Salon 424 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,359 opened the door and light from the hall flooded the 425 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,240 room that I saw what the light Corporal Chesters bulleted, 426 00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:36,680 it hit it mistaken celest for me. She lay dead 427 00:27:37,319 --> 00:27:38,160 where she had dropped. 428 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 8: Ah sid Homage, little all Sidomage in this wall. 429 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:52,599 Speaker 4: Even the innocent was the innocent. He was a trader. 430 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,519 Pierre No No died just as much as that rattle 431 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:56,920 over there. 432 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 8: But if that is so, then I should not have 433 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,640 told her. Lieutenant, I am sorry. I told her what 434 00:28:04,599 --> 00:28:07,880 she passed by the desk. I thought she was working 435 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,079 with you. 436 00:28:08,799 --> 00:28:11,039 Speaker 4: You did, yes, yes, But what did you say to. 437 00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 8: Her, I said, or as well, ma'amiselle, what the lieutenant 438 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,240 has I he is in whom six twelve? 439 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 4: Good Lord? Then she knew all the time. Then the 440 00:28:24,279 --> 00:28:26,559 only possible reason why she would have told him who 441 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,920 I was was was to persuade him to confess who 442 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,920 he was. She would have been crazy to say what 443 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,359 she did otherwise, knowing that I was listening. 444 00:28:35,519 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 8: Then she did not betray. 445 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 4: You, No, Pierre, No, she didn't betray me. 446 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:50,519 Speaker 8: Perhaps it was you she loved, the lieutenant. 447 00:28:50,920 --> 00:29:03,799 Speaker 4: No, Pierre, it was France you loved. The rest was easy. 448 00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:07,079 In Corporal Chester's room, he found a list of names 449 00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:11,240 in code. We broke the code before dawn the next morning. 450 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,400 By that night we had every Nazi agent and GI 451 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,200 uniform corral. 452 00:29:19,119 --> 00:29:22,279 Speaker 3: And once again the report of another OSS agent closes 453 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,920 with the words mission accomplished. Listen again next week to 454 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,920 another true adventure from the files of the OSS on 455 00:29:31,559 --> 00:29:46,960 Cloak and Dagger, heard in Tonight's Clock and Diger Adventurers. 456 00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:52,000 Lieutenant Ingalls was Chuck Webster, Celeste Alice Frost, Corporal Alan Chester, 457 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:57,400 Joseph Julian. Others were Carl Weber, Heavelnjuster, Jerry Jarrett Lois Sren, 458 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,880 Horace Bram and Anna Karen. The script was written by 459 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,640 ken Field and music was under the direction of John Gart, 460 00:30:04,079 --> 00:30:08,279 sound effects by Many Siegel and John Powers, engineering. 461 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:08,559 Speaker 4: By Don Abbott. 462 00:30:09,279 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 9: Tonight's Oss Adventure was based on the book cloakan Dugger 463 00:30:12,279 --> 00:30:16,079 by Cary Ford and Alistair McBain. This program was produced 464 00:30:16,079 --> 00:30:19,440 by Lewis G. Collin and Alfred Hollander under the direction 465 00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:21,079 and supervision of Sherman Marx. 466 00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 4: Three Times Mean Good Times on NBC. 467 00:30:28,599 --> 00:30:33,359 Speaker 1: Welcome Back probably not the OSS's best moment. It's a 468 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,079 case where the lieutenant got his mind off the mission, 469 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,079 got distracted by personal feelings, and as a result, she 470 00:30:41,279 --> 00:30:45,519 lost her life. And I think that she picked up 471 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,160 on the fact that he was distracted, that he was 472 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:53,000 letting personal feelings get in and behaving in a way 473 00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:57,279 that he promised not to, and so she distrusted him, 474 00:30:57,559 --> 00:31:00,920 and he was not doing a whole lot to hide 475 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,559 how he felt, so it was all rather obvious. I 476 00:31:04,599 --> 00:31:07,480 don't think he ever stood a chance with her, particularly 477 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:13,000 after the method of introduction, which even given the explanation 478 00:31:13,359 --> 00:31:17,559 of him not wanting to be seen at her place, 479 00:31:18,559 --> 00:31:21,279 there had to be a better way than that this 480 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,839 is an American occupied seri. As it was, things started 481 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,839 off with a lot of suspicion and distrust, and he 482 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:35,519 only confirmed her reasons to be distrustful. It's a bit 483 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:41,160 ironic that the morale officer whose job was to stop 484 00:31:41,279 --> 00:31:47,119 the spread of false propaganda in order to avoid undermining 485 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:53,839 the American mission believes lies and ultimately undermines the mission. 486 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,559 On a more positive note, you get a really good 487 00:31:57,599 --> 00:32:02,119 performance from Alice Frost. She gave a performance that had 488 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:07,119 a lot of ambiguity and kept the audience guessing along 489 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:12,160 with Lieutenant while her character also had hidden depth and 490 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:17,279 looking back, you can understand her actions when you fully 491 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:22,559 understand what was going on in the story. I also 492 00:32:23,519 --> 00:32:28,319 thought the discussion of the role black warfare and psychological 493 00:32:28,559 --> 00:32:35,920 propaganda by Hitler in preparation for conquest was fascinating, even 494 00:32:36,119 --> 00:32:41,960 more so as the Allied advance was continuing. And this episode, 495 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,759 of course, is a bit of a reversal of the 496 00:32:44,799 --> 00:32:50,240 typical OSS story. 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