1 00:00:28,559 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,039 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:40,079 --> 00:00:44,799 going to bring you the only episode of Operation Danger. 4 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,799 But before we get started, I do want to encourage 5 00:00:47,799 --> 00:00:50,520 you to check out our other podcast. In particular, I'm 6 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,679 highlighting Public Domain Video Theater, which, while it's on a 7 00:00:54,759 --> 00:01:00,640 hiatus from pouting out new episodes, offers years of classic 8 00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:05,680 TV and films for your viewing pleasure. It's the video 9 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:12,200 companion to this podcast, and we have episodes of shows 10 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:18,879 like US Marshal, Dangerous Assignment, Racket Squad, The Bulldog, Drumming Movies, 11 00:01:19,359 --> 00:01:22,319 and so much more. You can find it at Videotheater 12 00:01:22,439 --> 00:01:25,760 dot Great Detectives dot net and on our YouTube channel. 13 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,599 It is a featured playlist, so do check that out. 14 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,359 But now it's time to talk about Operation Danger. Just 15 00:01:35,439 --> 00:01:41,159 an audition recording that nearly made the schedule and then 16 00:01:41,799 --> 00:01:45,959 did maybe, but we'll talk more about that after the program. 17 00:01:46,359 --> 00:01:49,560 The audition date for the program is June twenty fifth 18 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:53,519 and nineteen fifty Let's take a lesson to Operation Danger. 19 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 2: If you are interested in the danger and fear of 20 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,640 and fitted against unknown Force. If you would like to 21 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,560 go behind the scenes in the secret fight for peace 22 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:26,319 and freedom, stay tuned for Operation Danger. Operation Danger another 23 00:02:26,439 --> 00:02:29,240 story of the chilling battles of the Cold War, both 24 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,159 in the hidden reachers of the European underground, where every 25 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,400 move beings danger and possible death. Stories of the fight 26 00:02:36,479 --> 00:02:40,400 for peace waged by Captain Ethan Allen Rodgers Counterintelligence Car 27 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,039 Army of the United States, with Howard Culver starred as 28 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,120 Captain Rogers. 29 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,159 Speaker 3: This is Operation Danger. 30 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,599 Speaker 2: A special assignment to Intelligence Car can be a rough 31 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,520 deal in this brave new post war world. I've been 32 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,360 shot at beaten up night and come within an inch 33 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,599 of just disappearing. But this time it was even worse. 34 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,080 I was yanked up from a pleasant leave in Paris, 35 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,000 rushed by plane to Berlin, and after a five minute 36 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,080 breathing from Colonel Berry on a tip off involving diamonds 37 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,000 and Nazis, I was left standing at midnight and a 38 00:03:22,039 --> 00:03:25,080 pitch black swamp twelve miles from the city, waiting to 39 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,960 rendezvous a man I'd never seen. 40 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:40,879 Speaker 4: Thirty minutes. Fuck for a cigarette. 41 00:03:36,759 --> 00:03:41,919 Speaker 3: M I hold a. 42 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:52,319 Speaker 2: Lot, I hold a key, con see, I hold a needle. 43 00:03:53,400 --> 00:04:01,680 There is no thread, good lieutenant the British Intelligence Captain 44 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:03,479 Rodgers US counterintelligence cars. 45 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:04,479 Speaker 3: When do you stick the content? 46 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,159 Speaker 2: He's doing any minute along the road here the signals 47 00:04:07,159 --> 00:04:09,639 of flashlight one flick from him too, from me? You 48 00:04:09,639 --> 00:04:12,479 know anything about him? The guy's name is Sulka. He's 49 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,680 a pole but he speaks English. Spent the war in 50 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,639 a not the slave camp. Supposedly has a story to tell. 51 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:19,879 I hope he knows something about the Domonds. He does, 52 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,279 he's one up on me all. I was told they're 53 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,600 being peddled around the continent to finance and the Nazi 54 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,360 underground and occupied Germany. Take it from there, and I 55 00:04:27,439 --> 00:04:30,639 wish I could. We've worked on it two months now nothing. 56 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:32,959 They make one large sale in some city and then 57 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,959 they disappear. We don't know where the diamonds come from, 58 00:04:34,959 --> 00:04:37,319 where the money goes, or who's behind it. Apparently basically 59 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,199 somebody on the road. Yes, you're right, he's coming this way, 60 00:04:41,759 --> 00:04:43,000 step flash the light. 61 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:44,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, must be Soka. 62 00:04:45,519 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 4: I'll answer him that you can covered. 63 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:56,759 Speaker 3: You never know, right Rogers, Yes, over here off the 64 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:03,240 road you're a SOCCA, That is right. This is Lieutenant Harper, 65 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:04,079 British Intelligence. 66 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 5: None Captain, I think we should speak quickly. I read 67 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,519 steps on the road. I may have been followed. 68 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 2: Into your party, SOCCA. What's the story it concerns diamonds, 69 00:05:14,639 --> 00:05:15,879 Captain Rogers. 70 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 5: When the Germans helped me prisoner, I worked on the 71 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:20,639 building of a laboratory at Kyle Howson Kyl. 72 00:05:21,639 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 3: Captain go on, So if. 73 00:05:23,439 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 5: We're using the laboratory for experiments to convert cheap commercial 74 00:05:27,399 --> 00:05:31,120 grape diamonds into blue white gemstones. 75 00:05:30,759 --> 00:05:33,199 Speaker 3: So that's how they get their supply if the experiment 76 00:05:33,319 --> 00:05:35,680 was successful. But I do not know. I was only 77 00:05:35,759 --> 00:05:37,879 there six months. You know who was in charge of 78 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:38,720 the project. 79 00:05:38,439 --> 00:05:41,319 Speaker 5: Yes, Captain, Doctor Karl never asked you. 80 00:05:41,439 --> 00:05:44,959 Speaker 3: Thank you, Carl never. I'll check with a MG. My 81 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,120 name is familiar. It's more than familiar to me. 82 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 5: He sparked me one day in the laboratory, and I 83 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,240 fell against the sermons. 84 00:05:51,879 --> 00:05:55,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, I flashlight, look at my hands. Wait, somebody's there 85 00:05:55,439 --> 00:05:58,680 on the road that night, running on the road. I 86 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,360 hear them. Maybe I can it's dark. Tell you you'd 87 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,040 like to have a tie going off the waste the time? 88 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,240 They know the road and we don't. Let's go back 89 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:06,600 to Berlin. 90 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,439 Speaker 2: I've got to report to Colonel Berry for coming to 91 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:15,519 com Okay, save your breath with Ennant. He's dead dead 92 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:20,040 that one shot. Yeah, did you see his hands? 93 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,879 Speaker 3: Yes? I told him. 94 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:37,759 Speaker 2: Well let's go. Well, at least this tears up one thing, Captain, 95 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,319 the source of the diamond. We've been looking for some 96 00:06:40,319 --> 00:06:43,079 connection with the mines in South Africa. We were way 97 00:06:43,079 --> 00:06:45,800 off faith. Yes, Colonel Berry seems fairly certain that they've 98 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:47,720 stumbled onto some process for making them out. 99 00:06:47,639 --> 00:06:48,519 Speaker 3: Of commercial stones. 100 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 2: And in that regard, this Karl never sounds like a 101 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,399 pretty good lead. So did Solka. Sorry about that, Colonel I. 102 00:06:55,399 --> 00:06:56,959 I don't know how else you could have played it. 103 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:01,120 It showed one thing. They've got a type system of vestianis. Hey, yes, 104 00:07:01,199 --> 00:07:02,759 the Nazis who slipped to the net at the end 105 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,639 of the war. This diamond scheme is part of a 106 00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:09,920 the tempter finance, the new not the organization. Yeah, well, 107 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:12,120 I may as well go to work. Lieutenant Harper's waiting 108 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,600 at the hotel. We're going to check with AMG headquarters 109 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,160 on Newbert. They'll undoubtedly have adociates he would picked up 110 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:20,879 from six months ago, and there's no court record. He's 111 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,920 evidently still in custody. I assume I'm assigned on this 112 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,279 until we crack it right. You'll work in civilian clothes. 113 00:07:27,639 --> 00:07:31,680 No written orders. In fact, these are your only orders. 114 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,920 Find the source of those diamonds and wipe it out. 115 00:07:35,199 --> 00:07:37,519 Find the men who are trying to revive the Nazi 116 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:42,759 party and get them. Get them, just that, get them 117 00:07:43,079 --> 00:08:00,000 any way you can at ay, Sergeant, this is Lieutenant Harper. 118 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 3: Morning Pard. We'd like to see the doctor, Carl Never Newers. 119 00:08:04,959 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 6: Oh, oh yeah, I have a seat, Cavin. 120 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 3: I'll get it from the storage file. Sorry, I thought 121 00:08:13,079 --> 00:08:14,439 active files never left this room. 122 00:08:14,839 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 6: They don't, sir, but that one hasn't been access for 123 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,759 three months, not since Newest was relieved relief. 124 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 3: There's been no cought action on his case. 125 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,399 Speaker 6: I don't know cap'n was a special order Major Kirk 126 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,600 stigandt see well. 127 00:08:27,399 --> 00:08:30,399 Speaker 2: Lieutenant, I guess we better see Major Kirk. Sergeant, I 128 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:32,519 still want that ta get out and bring it into 129 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:33,320 Kirk's office. 130 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 3: You have any idea what's behind this? 131 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:43,039 Speaker 2: But I'm sure gonna find out here we are, Oh, Cat, 132 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:46,559 I help you. Yes, we'd like to see Major Kirk. 133 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,000 This is Lieutenant Harper, Brittish. 134 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:54,279 Speaker 3: Intelligence I'll tell the major you're here. What sort of 135 00:08:54,279 --> 00:08:57,000 a cap is this? Major Kirk? All right, I guess 136 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:02,960 that's a desk man. Oh yeah, we haven't, oh Major. Thanks. 137 00:09:03,519 --> 00:09:05,440 Oh by the way, the file clerk is bringing you 138 00:09:05,919 --> 00:09:12,240 on doctor Never. Will you send him in? Doctor? Yeah? Yes, 139 00:09:12,879 --> 00:09:20,080 all right off, thanks Bonnie, Major, Captain Rogers, Lieutenant Hawker. Uh, 140 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,759 they sent down. I'm highly honored. Is this official business? Yeah? 141 00:09:23,879 --> 00:09:27,919 Speaker 2: Fred So checking on doctor Carl Never, a Nazi scientist 142 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:29,440 who was held in Lango in prison. 143 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,919 Speaker 3: Nee, word, I don't believe I recall the name. 144 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 2: It was released three months ago without a court hearing me. Word, 145 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,519 I'll come in, sergeant here, thanks? 146 00:09:41,799 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 3: Well you wait, please, no, I'm sorry, I don't recall 147 00:09:46,279 --> 00:09:51,120 the case at all. See. Well, here's the order for release. 148 00:09:52,039 --> 00:09:57,360 Got your name signed on it? What he let me 149 00:09:57,399 --> 00:10:01,279 see that? It is your signature, isn't it? Huh? Yes? 150 00:10:01,919 --> 00:10:03,600 But oh I didn't sign this. 151 00:10:03,919 --> 00:10:09,080 Speaker 2: Others or not? Isn't a natural signature? Gives me another stamp, Maximiny. 152 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,240 There's no rule against that. Everybody uses them, I know. 153 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:15,200 Mind if I see the stamp. 154 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 7: Well, Margaret, that is my secretary. Miss Styles has that. Well, 155 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,600 it's all right, she's completely trustworthy. We're we're going to 156 00:10:24,639 --> 00:10:25,120 be married. 157 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 3: Really. 158 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,919 Speaker 2: I wonder that's connected with the ring you're wearing, Father 159 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:30,840 Lave Garmond. 160 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,919 Speaker 7: Well, yeah, it's a it's it's a gift from Margaret, 161 00:10:35,919 --> 00:10:36,600 miss Styles. 162 00:10:36,639 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 3: I mean, look, what is this all about? Sergeant? Would 163 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,039 you ask the Styles to step in for a moment. 164 00:10:42,279 --> 00:10:44,480 I'm sorry, sir, but she was leaving just that. Come 165 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:45,639 in that she was ill? 166 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,279 Speaker 2: Ill, all right, sergeant, get her address, Call a military 167 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:51,480 police and have them sent out a powel squad, ask 168 00:10:51,519 --> 00:10:53,720 for an APB and pick up and give them a description. 169 00:10:53,879 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 3: She may have a forged passport. Move yes. 170 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,759 Speaker 2: The three of us waited in Kirk's office thirty minutes past, 171 00:11:06,039 --> 00:11:09,759 no results. The MP shook down her apartment, found nothing left, 172 00:11:09,759 --> 00:11:13,279 a steakhout, no report from the air terminal. I sent 173 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,159 for the security file on Margaret's Styles. It contained one 174 00:11:16,159 --> 00:11:18,600 out of date report made in nineteen forty and not 175 00:11:18,759 --> 00:11:23,039 touched since I took one look and turned sick. Margaret 176 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:27,960 Styles born to Luth, Minnesota, nineteen nineteen. Mother's birthplace frank 177 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,879 for Germany. Mother's relatives living in Germany. One brother, Rudolf Steiner, 178 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,519 Rudolph's time. Yeah, one of the top boys in the 179 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,559 Olgestapov Major. Why wasn't this file turned over to G 180 00:11:38,639 --> 00:11:39,279 two for a check? 181 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:43,159 Speaker 7: Well, I don't know. I didn't think for one minute it. Well, 182 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,240 when you see Margaret and I were going to be married, 183 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:51,799 I oh love huh, yes, that's great stuff. Sometimes, Captain, 184 00:11:51,879 --> 00:11:54,120 I swear to you, I didn't know any of this. 185 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:59,120 I'll hold myself under arrests A good idea to relate 186 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,200 to be a bunch help though Colonel Berry was right 187 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:02,840 on one count. 188 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 2: They do have a tight FB and R system starting 189 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:09,600 an a MG headquarters. I'll get it, Captain Rogers, I 190 00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:11,559 see this Restar. 191 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 3: Banks Temple Hot Security Division. We have a report now 192 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:20,080 on Margaret start. Yes, Rita the plane from Lisbon, Portugal. 193 00:12:19,639 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 2: Nearly half an hour ago under her own name, Yes, 194 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:24,320 sir alone? 195 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:26,159 Speaker 3: All right, thanks? 196 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,879 Speaker 2: Well, she was lucky, made good connections straight from here 197 00:12:30,919 --> 00:12:32,759 to the airport and have the plane to Lisbon. Y. 198 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,639 It's interesting why Lisbon in particular, La, Let's have an 199 00:12:36,639 --> 00:12:40,879 operation based somewhere and in a newtol unoccupied country. Maybe 200 00:12:40,919 --> 00:12:43,399 New Earth is there or Steiner would like to go 201 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,000 and find out. Why not she's the only lead we have. 202 00:12:46,159 --> 00:12:48,159 And of course you might not be running to anything. 203 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,960 He might just be running away. Headquarters could be right 204 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,960 here in Berlin, could be Maybe we can find out 205 00:12:54,440 --> 00:13:02,879 in Lisbon. The Senate Harper and I caught the night 206 00:13:02,919 --> 00:13:05,879 plane to Lisbon, a city as beautiful as a woman. 207 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,799 Speaker 3: And as deadly as a carl snake, a clearing house 208 00:13:08,799 --> 00:13:10,799 for espionage in two World Wars. 209 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,519 Speaker 2: Before we left Berlin, I sent a code twenty wire 210 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:14,879 to the only contact I had in the. 211 00:13:14,879 --> 00:13:17,519 Speaker 3: Portuguese capitol, a Spaniard named Australia. 212 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 2: I gave him the rough details and set up a 213 00:13:19,879 --> 00:13:22,600 rendezvous for noon the next day at a sidewalk cafe 214 00:13:22,639 --> 00:13:26,240 on the Paraco do Camercio, the big central Square. At 215 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,840 ten minutes past noon, he still hadn't shown. Your man 216 00:13:30,919 --> 00:13:34,039 is late, Captain. He'll be here. I've worked with him before, 217 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,279 and as he's done into the tuble, you never know. 218 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,080 Isn't this rather a public place for a rendezvous? 219 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 3: It won't be a verbal contact. 220 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,399 Speaker 2: Oh, Australia was sort of at the next table for a 221 00:13:42,399 --> 00:13:45,639 while and drop his hat accidentally. I'll take it out, 222 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,440 brush it and give it back to it. If he 223 00:13:47,519 --> 00:13:49,559 has any information, it'll be on a paper in the 224 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,759 hat band. Well, that's simple enough. I'll have to remember 225 00:13:51,799 --> 00:13:52,879 it in case if he comes. 226 00:13:53,159 --> 00:13:58,159 Speaker 3: No, no, don't stare. It's the short guy crossing the streets. Yeah, 227 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,200 I say, there's something wrong. He's got in a on. 228 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,039 It's that truck. It's trying to run him down. 229 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 2: The truck hit him, flung his body in a sickening 230 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,879 smikee into the curb and veered off down the side street. 231 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:16,840 As Harper and I ran toward him, I saw one 232 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,120 car leave the stall traffic, slide to the curb and 233 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:20,759 steal four men onto the sidewalk. 234 00:14:20,919 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 3: They bunched together and ran tortoise. Harper saw him too. 235 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 2: For those chaps in the black fields get in on this, 236 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:26,320 I know. 237 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 3: Watch him. We've got to get that hat. There it 238 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:29,840 did by the curb. You will off it to block 239 00:14:29,879 --> 00:14:32,120 them up. Watch yourself. That's a fat wider, captain. You 240 00:14:32,159 --> 00:14:32,559 get that hat. 241 00:14:32,559 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 2: I met with the hotel. I grabbed up the hat 242 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,120 and broke for the steps of the post office thirty 243 00:14:42,159 --> 00:14:44,840 yards away. One of the Nazi gerrillas got passed Harper 244 00:14:44,879 --> 00:14:47,200 and reached for me. I slugged him and kept on 245 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,039 one glance back, and I saw Harper run into the 246 00:14:49,039 --> 00:14:50,879 cafe with three of them on his tail. But in 247 00:14:50,919 --> 00:14:53,120 this game, you'd learned never to go back and help anybody. 248 00:14:53,279 --> 00:14:55,559 You play the main chance. I fumbled the paper out 249 00:14:55,559 --> 00:14:57,559 of that vand and tossed the hat aside, raced through 250 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,360 the post office, out of side door and into a 251 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,799 narrow alley, eating the almopatree. It was an hour later 252 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:10,399 before I circled back to the hotel. There was no 253 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,799 sign of Lieutenant Harper, and three hours later there was 254 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,360 still no sign. Darkness fell and I finally sent out. 255 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 3: For the early evening papers. 256 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,679 Speaker 2: They mentioned three accidents that day that interested me greatly. 257 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,360 At ten minutes past seven, there was a funneling at 258 00:15:26,399 --> 00:15:32,000 my door and I opened it. Captain Rogers all right. 259 00:15:32,519 --> 00:15:34,720 It was Harper, or what was left of him. He'd 260 00:15:34,759 --> 00:15:42,440 been beaten half to death. Here, Harper, let me help you, 261 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:47,399 oh easy, here over here, come on the edge of 262 00:15:47,399 --> 00:15:47,639 the bed. 263 00:15:49,159 --> 00:15:52,279 Speaker 3: There you go. They were. 264 00:15:53,399 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 2: Well rather hawah, you you know, rough deal. How'd you 265 00:16:00,879 --> 00:16:05,039 get away from them? Please came they ran, Please took me. 266 00:16:06,279 --> 00:16:10,600 I've been in jail Portuguese just as so Boing, one 267 00:16:10,639 --> 00:16:14,039 of the men with Steina. It's a description. Yep is 268 00:16:14,039 --> 00:16:16,960 called in my name, and it figures I'd say we're 269 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,159 close to the jackpot. The information in the halp three 270 00:16:20,159 --> 00:16:24,840 words the droning exporting company mean anything yet it's a 271 00:16:24,879 --> 00:16:27,440 warehouse near the waterfront. I'm going to have a look 272 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,480 at it as soon as I find you a doctor. 273 00:16:29,799 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 3: I never mind the doctor, you just help me into 274 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,840 the show. I'm going with you. Lane. 275 00:16:36,519 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 2: You've got guts, nothing of the kind that made me angry. 276 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:42,799 Speaker 3: That's all. Yeah, me too. 277 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, according to the papers, we lost 278 00:16:46,879 --> 00:16:48,240 a couple more of our leads. 279 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:48,879 Speaker 3: What do you mean? 280 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 2: Margaret Styles and Karl Neiras bodies found this afternoon in 281 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,480 a wrecked car below the Avenida de la le Bravade. 282 00:16:56,679 --> 00:17:00,519 Like the accident, let's say, I haven't yeah, and like 283 00:17:00,639 --> 00:17:02,159 Sulka's burned hands. 284 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,759 Speaker 3: Well now, let's have a try at that shower. That's 285 00:17:05,799 --> 00:17:12,559 your eye, captain. These chaps play awfully round. 286 00:17:18,559 --> 00:17:21,279 Speaker 2: But the drumming warehouse on the waterfront was dark and silent, 287 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,559 with no sign of life. Wad Jimmy to the rear window, 288 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,200 crawled in and slipped along a runway between high stacks 289 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:32,240 of packing cases that bart was easy, too easy. 290 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,799 Speaker 3: Asome. Let's see the lack of it. He's coming in 291 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:39,680 his wheel all right. 292 00:17:39,839 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 2: Good, let him get past without taking. 293 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 3: Good show? Who yaggs are visitor? You know? Yeah? Yeah? 294 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,960 He draking case. Hey you sleep well boy? 295 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:07,599 Speaker 2: You know, lieutenant, I don't think this warehouses headquarters. There's 296 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:10,359 no place here to do any elaborate processing. Let's take 297 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:13,720 a look at the office. Yeah, there's anything important here. 298 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:16,519 I can't understand them having only one watch. Mad ties 299 00:18:16,559 --> 00:18:19,160 into the way they killed Australia in broad daylight in 300 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,319 a public square. We're here in full strength shot them yeah, 301 00:18:22,319 --> 00:18:24,839 I think around nineteen forty in the office. 302 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 3: Let's make it fast, Harper, we need you on borrowed time. Yeah, happen. 303 00:18:28,599 --> 00:18:29,799 Can we have the light over here in a moment? 304 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:36,759 Huh h? Suitcases beffel bangs, Kansas sacks papers. 305 00:18:36,559 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 2: Because if someone plans to travel all these papers orders 306 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:46,720 for spies delivered a dot six for motorshiped Fjord never 307 00:18:46,759 --> 00:18:50,400 heard of it, register in Norwegian type diesel flater owner 308 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:53,880 Padroni Exporting Company and most of the orders are for 309 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,000 fresh vegetables that's usually taking aboard the day of sailing. 310 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,759 Speaker 3: I have a look at these fresh vegetables. Cappens huh 311 00:19:01,319 --> 00:19:06,160 commercial diamond six camera bags for trail seemed to be warmer. Yeah, 312 00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:10,000 we're in like Flynn got that bite someone of to 313 00:19:10,039 --> 00:19:10,440 make door. 314 00:19:10,559 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 2: Let's get out of his office here, don't ride These 315 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:19,839 cases must. 316 00:19:19,599 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 3: Be eight or ten of them. 317 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, ratter incorporated. And I'm time of the question. But 318 00:19:23,839 --> 00:19:26,279 why did they kill me with a margaret style metal 319 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:32,240 members They slipped up but never did tolerant mistakes. Anybody's stop. 320 00:19:38,319 --> 00:19:39,640 Speaker 3: Er your. 321 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,759 Speaker 5: Ah, John Anglish laugh. 322 00:19:50,279 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 2: That's trusting. So yeah, that's good thing. That watchman really 323 00:19:53,599 --> 00:19:56,079 is a leap. That's much like they're ready to move. 324 00:19:56,519 --> 00:20:03,599 Come on, let's get out of here. We crouched on 325 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,680 the dark water front across from the warehouse and waited. 326 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,079 Speaker 3: Ten minutes later the gang came out carrying the. 327 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,839 Speaker 2: Bags we've seen in the office, but instead of getting 328 00:20:10,839 --> 00:20:13,039 into the cars parked on the ramp, they walked out 329 00:20:13,079 --> 00:20:15,640 onto the dock, climbed into a speedboat and headed for 330 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:16,359 the open sea. 331 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,519 Speaker 3: That's it, of course, Why didn't I think of it before? 332 00:20:22,839 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 2: One headquarters must be the flighter itself the fjord, not 333 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:29,200 in the harbord, flying offshore out there they processed the 334 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,599 diamonds on board and use the ship to deliver them 335 00:20:32,079 --> 00:20:35,119 and probably make sure contacts with speedboats to avoid customs 336 00:20:35,319 --> 00:20:38,519 and say in International Warriors, well international waters is an 337 00:20:38,559 --> 00:20:42,480 impressive phrase, Captain Rogers. But under the circumstances the Puttish 338 00:20:42,559 --> 00:20:46,839 Navy might be persuaded. No, no, it wouldn't work. The 339 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,440 ship is headquarters. They'll have lists of contacts on board, 340 00:20:49,519 --> 00:20:51,880 members of the network. That's what we've got to get. 341 00:20:52,319 --> 00:20:54,279 They destroy it at the first sign of trouble. For 342 00:20:54,319 --> 00:20:56,039 who do you think is in trine? Sign up for 343 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:58,599 be you need to be running things in the warehouse, 344 00:21:00,279 --> 00:21:02,519 though I don't know, nor do I see that we 345 00:21:02,599 --> 00:21:05,079 have much chance of finding art un if you ord 346 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,880 will probably head north there running for a contact somewhere, 347 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,440 and that might be the spot to make our plane. 348 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,640 Book Harper, you call your HQ in London and haven't 349 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,440 keep track of a ship using unmarked plane. I'll have 350 00:21:16,519 --> 00:21:18,400 THEAC send a plane down to stand by here at 351 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,000 Lisbon wady to jump at any minute. 352 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 3: And then and then we wait and wait. 353 00:21:28,039 --> 00:21:31,799 Speaker 2: We did pacing the floor of our hotel room one day, 354 00:21:32,519 --> 00:21:35,319 two three four. 355 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 3: The afternoon of the. 356 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 2: Fourth day when the call came from British intelligence speaking 357 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:44,079 the Break of the. 358 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 3: Art is lying eight miles off Shive, apparently waiting for 359 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:50,759 contact Chebourg. Huh. Thanks all right, Harper, let's go. 360 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 6: As you undoubtedly realize, Miss you, you of the French 361 00:22:04,799 --> 00:22:08,559 intelligence selvies are also vitally concerned in miss Metal. 362 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 3: Yes, Captain Chicon, we understand. Now what have you been 363 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:12,599 able to find out? 364 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 6: Well, it appears that the contact will be made by 365 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,640 two men, both Jewelers here and shareboat Huelers, and both 366 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,559 suspect it does not see collaboration during the war, and 367 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,440 they plan to use that speedboat there at the end 368 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:24,799 of the dark. 369 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 3: They've shuted it from nine o'clock to night after dark. 370 00:22:28,079 --> 00:22:32,759 Speaker 8: Huh, I guess oh, those workmen you see there on 371 00:22:32,839 --> 00:22:35,480 the dock, all my men, Captain orders where it's just 372 00:22:35,559 --> 00:22:39,559 so well, our plan is pretty flexible, Captain Chicone, But 373 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:41,759 that's kind of Harper, and I would like to get 374 00:22:41,759 --> 00:22:42,480 aboard that ship. 375 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,079 Speaker 3: Really go on board would be very easy. 376 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 2: But yeah, but you know those contacts, the two jewelers, 377 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,319 they must have credentials, a set of signals. You mean, 378 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,319 we might take their places make your contact. It's risky. 379 00:22:56,599 --> 00:22:58,519 You want to live forever theres. 380 00:22:59,039 --> 00:23:01,559 Speaker 8: If it is only a meta of obtaining self an information, 381 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,319 I'm very good at interrogating. 382 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:14,839 Speaker 2: Collaboration is just leave the matter to me. By a 383 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:16,759 border to nine, Opera and I were waiting in the 384 00:23:16,839 --> 00:23:19,400 shadows while Icon and his men lay hidden. 385 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:22,799 Speaker 3: Along the dock. At five minutes to nine, three men 386 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:23,440 came from. 387 00:23:23,279 --> 00:23:26,759 Speaker 2: The lambside and started out the dock. They passed under 388 00:23:26,799 --> 00:23:31,960 the first, life under the second, and didn't show up 389 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:32,839 at the third. 390 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 3: For a while. 391 00:23:35,319 --> 00:23:37,839 Speaker 2: Strings sounds came from a small shack at the edge 392 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,880 of the key. Then Captain Chicone stepped out of the darkness. Ah, 393 00:23:42,079 --> 00:23:43,200 that bullsh up. 394 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 3: What they used to be messire, ye're as a credentials 395 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,440 and signals. I will uperate the speedbot myself and put 396 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,720 you above the ship. After that, it is up to you. 397 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,000 He is right ahead, man. Yeah, in the deck dark 398 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,000 that's a break where you need a break. The two 399 00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:09,680 French cutters are standing back to John Rogers in the 400 00:24:09,839 --> 00:24:10,279 air Force. 401 00:24:10,319 --> 00:24:13,599 Speaker 8: That shell book is a left good, Ah said, yeah, 402 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,119 the lending letter is down. 403 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:21,559 Speaker 3: They're expecting you. Yeah, I'll hold her alongside jump Roger 404 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:27,799 of it. Good luck Yet the blitz. 405 00:24:28,279 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, Donna, the term diagon dunker, that's the DNA house riser. 406 00:24:41,039 --> 00:24:43,759 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, bo. I handed in the credentials and he 407 00:24:43,839 --> 00:24:44,799 turned the flashlight on him. 408 00:24:44,839 --> 00:24:47,319 Speaker 2: How we stood there on the deck waiting here and 409 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,079 there were other men, silent shadows in the darkness. The 410 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,640 light touched the leader's face briefly and I recognized him 411 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,880 Auto Tune right hand man, the fun Poppin and the 412 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:57,799 power behind. 413 00:24:57,599 --> 00:24:59,799 Speaker 3: Hitler, the most wanted man in Europe. 414 00:25:00,319 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 2: Rudolf Steiner was small, five beside June, and Colonel Berry had. 415 00:25:04,599 --> 00:25:06,799 Speaker 3: Given me one order once or nothing to see I 416 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:12,599 see get him anyway you can. It's I mean, that's five. 417 00:25:12,839 --> 00:25:13,440 But okay. 418 00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 2: We did as he ordered, went down the companion way 419 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,200 and along the passage to cabin two. He followed behind us. 420 00:25:19,759 --> 00:25:21,720 I opened the cabin door, and as Harper stepped in, 421 00:25:21,839 --> 00:25:23,960 I glanced back to see Kune go into cabin one. 422 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 3: I pulled our doors shut. Did you recognize him? Yeah, Otto, Kune, 423 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,920 we've got a big fish. Oh the fish has us. 424 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,799 Maybe at least it wasn't Steiner. Who knows this? What's 425 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,759 holding up? Captain? I've always looked a. 426 00:25:37,759 --> 00:25:41,599 Speaker 2: Good clean life. I'm sure things on. Did you notice 427 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,759 the machine gun emplacements on back? Oh that I did, well. 428 00:25:44,839 --> 00:25:47,079 I look June Win it at the next cabin. It's 429 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,640 Cavin one, so it's probably his office. No one else 430 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,720 came down with him, so it's headquarters. Oh boy, I'm sorry, 431 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,559 I'm not Let's go crack it plan. His doors unlocked. 432 00:25:57,559 --> 00:26:00,400 I'll go in and reason with him. You keep me 433 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:01,119 covered outside. 434 00:26:01,279 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 3: That's who it was. Never like this. The passage is clear. 435 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,839 Speaker 2: We stepped out and moved quickly to cabin one. Harper 436 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,519 drew his gun and stood to one side. I tried 437 00:26:15,559 --> 00:26:19,119 the door, which was unlocked. I waited, Harper, and pulled 438 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,839 it open. All right, tune hold it. Yes, I don't 439 00:26:22,839 --> 00:26:24,680 know if you speak English, but you'll understand the gun. 440 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 3: Get your hands up. But you are who are you? 441 00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:32,720 Captain Rodgers? US Counterintelligence? Ah, you fool? Get the chump. Skip. 442 00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:34,319 But I haven't got the time. What do you want? 443 00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:37,559 Just one thing? And I'm betting it's in that desk. 444 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,680 You can give it to me or I can kill 445 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,119 you and look for it. What is it? Your organization 446 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,039 list members, some contacts. You are a fool. Come on 447 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,200 call it. I'm in a hurry. I have no objiction 448 00:26:49,279 --> 00:26:51,880 at all to give you the list? Captain Rodgers, what 449 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,920 would you do with it? There's no way for you 450 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,759 to leave the shift, and there are two hundreds of 451 00:26:55,799 --> 00:27:05,119 russ aboard. You are thanks, beat the McCoy, I can 452 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,759 turn around. What do you mean? 453 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:15,519 Speaker 2: I mean that bull spot makes a nice targets? Okay, 454 00:27:15,559 --> 00:27:17,839 out here, rua any luck? I got the list and 455 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,160 it's dynamite. Here, let me lock this door. June's asleep. 456 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,799 Don't want him disturbed. Okay, let's go right over. But 457 00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:30,759 where forward hold? If I know this type of ship 458 00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:33,079 and the way these guys operate, they'll have their ammunition 459 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,839 and gasoline to the speedboats stored beneath the forward hatch. 460 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 3: Oh yes, pretty's the access and this hatch isn't locked. Good, 461 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:46,559 Come on right ahead of us, captain. I think I'm 462 00:27:46,559 --> 00:27:48,759 beginning to see what you've got in mind? What else? 463 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,759 Speaker 2: As far as I can see, how best chance to 464 00:27:50,759 --> 00:27:54,680 get away with the list is to sink the ship? Well, 465 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,640 nobody home. Our luck's still good. Yeah, the flashed the 466 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,119 light over here? A rack of suddenly she guns and 467 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,279 ammunition cases behind them, For there must be one hundred 468 00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:05,720 guns of petrol stack there. Yeah, that's what we want. 469 00:28:06,839 --> 00:28:08,559 Here's one with a bun wrench. Hold the light a 470 00:28:08,599 --> 00:28:12,119 second harder, Yeah, I'll prop it up. I better get 471 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:19,319 that loading imported in front of scape. Right, that's the 472 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,359 amiation gas or right, captain a loading? 473 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 3: Important? Clear? Good, let's dump this drum over. Now? What's 474 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,200 the stuff running in the enbow? And the other drops. 475 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 2: Pass on atch and hit the water? Who I'm standing 476 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,319 by out there somewhere. 477 00:28:34,759 --> 00:28:38,759 Speaker 3: And somebody up there they try if they can, like boom, 478 00:28:40,079 --> 00:28:43,680 we kenn Are you hit? Yep, se gun. I can't 479 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:44,880 stay and it's too dog up. 480 00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:49,279 Speaker 2: There, got you take up list and get out. 481 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lead you. Will you get doing? I'll 482 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:59,480 hold him up. I'll hold him up. Oh no, that 483 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:06,079 blist you want to ruin everything? Okay, I'm all right, 484 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:21,519 hold on lighting. I stuck out ship find me. 485 00:29:21,599 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 2: A sudden blade shot up from the forward hatch and 486 00:29:23,559 --> 00:29:26,200 flared over the water. Two hundred yards from the freighter. 487 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:28,960 Checombe speedboats stood out sharply in the glare. 488 00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:32,559 Speaker 3: He saw me and moved in. I stumbled over the gunnel. 489 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,799 Speaker 2: I looked back and saw a great pillar of flame 490 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,319 towering into the sky above the motorship shored. 491 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's along lighting. 492 00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 2: Ah well, Camptam. Here's the report from Rotterdam. Picked up 493 00:29:53,079 --> 00:29:56,160 all six of the contacts there. That's great, Colonel, it's 494 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,680 been a clean sweet so far. That list is really 495 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,839 a straight good fine. You know you're overwhelming me with 496 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,799 this enthusiasm. Rodgers, you did a good job. What's the beef? 497 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:07,319 Speaker 3: I don't know. 498 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:13,799 Speaker 2: Conners, I guess it's the tenant Harper. Nice guy did 499 00:30:13,839 --> 00:30:17,440 a good job too. Got to you, huh? I guess 500 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,000 well it was the same with him as for the 501 00:30:20,079 --> 00:30:22,759 rest of us. You ought to figure your odds before 502 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,599 you pick counterintelligence. Yeah, I know, I get over it. 503 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,480 Guess mother never meant for me to be a soldier. 504 00:30:31,119 --> 00:30:34,160 What were you planning, Captains before you joined the service? 505 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 3: Certified public accounting, take a business ad court in college? 506 00:30:39,599 --> 00:30:40,079 How about that? 507 00:30:40,759 --> 00:30:44,359 Speaker 2: Well, there's some good desk jobs and the Pentagon. I 508 00:30:45,039 --> 00:31:05,079 could arrange a transfer, Connel, Are you kidding? Operation Danger, 509 00:31:05,319 --> 00:31:08,759 produced and directed by William M. Robeson, stars Howard Culver 510 00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:10,559 as Captain Ethan Allen Rodgers of the. 511 00:31:10,559 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 3: Conper Intelligence Corps. 512 00:31:12,359 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 2: Also heard in the cast were John Banks, Ben Wright, 513 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,359 Paul Freese, Ted von elf Fritz Feld and Rick Vallens. 514 00:31:18,759 --> 00:31:21,759 The original musical score was composed and conducted by Van 515 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:34,200 clee Be with us again next week, when Captain Ethan 516 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,680 Allen Rodgers goes into the battle for peace in a 517 00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:40,839 suburb of Belgrade against an organized gang of renegade. Thetois 518 00:31:41,359 --> 00:31:46,240 a battle with death as the trophy. Another Operation Danger 519 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,640 is a CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System. 520 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,839 Speaker 1: Welcome back. This was actually a really good spy mystery 521 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,920 adventure series. In some ways it seems like a more 522 00:32:10,039 --> 00:32:14,440 grounded version of Dangerous Assignment. With the use of time 523 00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:18,720 stamps in the narrative, it practically felt like a dangerous 524 00:32:18,759 --> 00:32:23,960 assignment and dragnet mashup. Now, well, it's not a perfect script. 525 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,799 I thought it was really good, and certainly this seemed 526 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:32,279 like a series that, particularly for a pilot, really was 527 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,799 in good shape and could easily tweet. And actually the 528 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,319 series was greenlit and scheduled to air, so much so 529 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:47,480 that there are actual newspaper listings from June of nineteen 530 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:52,759 fifty four Operation Danger, But again last minute, they decided 531 00:32:52,799 --> 00:32:56,920 to go with the lineup, with the press release citing 532 00:32:57,359 --> 00:33:01,400 Bill Johnstone and Joseph Kerns as the stars based on 533 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:06,400 the pilot police lineup, although Kerns would not actually appear 534 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,279 on the radio series, so it seemed like a somewhat 535 00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:14,119 hasty move. Then there was a newspaper article from February 536 00:33:14,319 --> 00:33:18,960 nineteen fifty one that announced that Operation Danger was again 537 00:33:19,519 --> 00:33:24,920 slated for the summer schedule in the summer of nineteen 538 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,440 fifty one, and newspaper logs indicate that it did indeed 539 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,720 appear and began airing as a summer replacement in June 540 00:33:33,759 --> 00:33:37,799 and actually stayed in the schedule into the fall. We 541 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:42,359 don't know whether Howard Culver was attached to the project. 542 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,799 None of the newspaper articles I located on Operation Danger 543 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,839 when it actually aired stated who was in the cast. 544 00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:56,759 Shortly after Operation Danger premiered, the series Defense Attorney premiered 545 00:33:56,839 --> 00:34:03,319 over ABC, where Culver had supporting role as jud Barnes, 546 00:34:03,519 --> 00:34:10,760 the boyfriend of Attorney Marcia Ellis Bryant. However, it was 547 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,400 not unheard of for an actor to have two active 548 00:34:15,559 --> 00:34:20,679 roles on network radio at the same time. Culvert is 549 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,239 best known in his radio career for starring in The 550 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,519 Western Straight Arrow, and he was also the last actor 551 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,559 to play Ellery Queen. Beyond that, He was one of 552 00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:39,199 those really strong, dedicated character actors who was the backbone 553 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,159 of the Golden Ager Radio and I think he did 554 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:47,280 well in this and made a believable and professional intelligence agent. 555 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,280 It's a good story. The nice thing about it as 556 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,679 an audition recording is that it could easily be remade 557 00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:00,639 if you ever listened to Dangerous Assignment or man Hold X. 558 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,639 Some of the places that they go troubleshooting are based 559 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,559 on news of the day. In the case of Man 560 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,960 Called X in particular, there were some that were like 561 00:35:12,599 --> 00:35:17,000 really hot headline locations that Ken Thurston went to. And 562 00:35:17,119 --> 00:35:19,840 if you use a story like that for your audition 563 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,280 and you didn't actually end up going to air for 564 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,320 several months, you would have to change your story overall. 565 00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:32,960 But this could easily be reused without rewriting anything other 566 00:35:33,119 --> 00:35:36,280 than little tweaks. The plot's good, and a year or 567 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,199 two later it would be just as good. So a 568 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,960 really good series. I don't like it quite as much 569 00:35:43,039 --> 00:35:46,119 as the Lineup, so I can't say that I'm disappointed 570 00:35:46,199 --> 00:35:49,599 they chose to make the Lineup instead, but I thought 571 00:35:49,679 --> 00:35:53,079 it was a promising beginning and I would be curious 572 00:35:53,199 --> 00:35:57,480 if episodes of the nineteen fifty one series ever did emerge. 573 00:35:57,679 --> 00:36:00,360 All right, Well, now it is time to think our 574 00:36:00,559 --> 00:36:03,880 Patreon supporter of the day, and I wanted to go 575 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,920 ahead and thank Andrew, Patreon supporter since April twenty twenty one, 576 00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:11,519 currently supporting the podcast at the Master Detective level of 577 00:36:11,599 --> 00:36:14,559 fifteen dollars or more per month. Thank you so much 578 00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:17,360 for your support, Andrew. And that will do it for today. 579 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,760 If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your 580 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,199 favorite podcast software and be sure to rate and review 581 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,840 the podcast wherever you download it from. We'll be back 582 00:36:28,079 --> 00:36:32,599 next Tuesday with an episode of Martin Kin. But join 583 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,559 us back here tomorrow for Broadways my beat where. 584 00:36:37,079 --> 00:36:39,159 Speaker 9: I didn't wait for three o'clock. I left for the 585 00:36:39,199 --> 00:36:43,679 East River docks right away. Maybe I was going to 586 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,960 be a little early, but I was being a little eager. 587 00:36:47,519 --> 00:36:50,159 Here thirty eight occupy at about fifty front feet of 588 00:36:50,199 --> 00:36:53,039 the darkness and lent its own quality of shadows to it. 589 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,559 Speaker 3: Todd the river. A couple of tugs huddled together to 590 00:36:56,679 --> 00:36:57,679 my right and left. 591 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:03,679 Speaker 9: Equipment checks been looking toward the stern because that's where 592 00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:04,400 it came from. 593 00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:07,039 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, 594 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:11,920 send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, 595 00:37:12,519 --> 00:37:16,039 Follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 596 00:37:16,079 --> 00:37:22,199 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives From Boise, Idaho. 597 00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:25,199 This is your host, Adam Graham, signing off.