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Speaker 1: From August sixth, nineteen fifty here is recommendation from Rummel.
Speaker 2: You willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the enemy lines,
Speaker 2: knowing you may never return alive.
Speaker 3: What you have just heard is the question asked during
Speaker 3: the war to agents of the OSS. Ordinary citizens to
Speaker 3: this question answered yes, This is Clock and Dagger. Black warfare, espionage,
Speaker 3: international intrigue. These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's
Speaker 3: story recommendation from Rummel about an American OSS agent in
Speaker 3: Italy who almost outsmarted himself, is suggested by actual incidents
Speaker 3: recorded in the Washington fire of the Office of Strategic Services,
Speaker 3: a story that can now be told.
Speaker 4: Hey, come back here. You can't leave me here. I
Speaker 4: demand to see someone in the thirty Let me out
Speaker 4: of here.
Speaker 3: Brother. That was some spot to be in me. Joe
Speaker 3: Donado in a jail seller, Milan, Italy. It was crazy. Well,
Speaker 3: after a while, I got tired of yelling. So I
Speaker 3: sat down on a narrow prison cot and thought back
Speaker 3: to the way it had begun. On a train from
Speaker 3: Verasi to Milan. The French Underground had smuggled me from
Speaker 3: Leon across Switzerland, and I made my way over the border.
Speaker 3: There on, I was on my own, posing as an
Speaker 3: Italian chalk salesman. So I sat back in my compartment,
Speaker 3: lit a European cigarette and blue smoke rings over my
Speaker 3: head to the rack where my shortwave radio was hidden
Speaker 3: in one of the suitcases. All of a sudden, the
Speaker 3: train gave a lunch. One of my suitcases took a
Speaker 3: flying dive to the floor. There was a suitcase with
Speaker 3: a pen knife scar across the leather handle, the one
Speaker 3: with the radio. I was glad I was long in
Speaker 3: that compartment. I couldn't wait to find out if that
Speaker 3: radio was all right. You see, the case was lined
Speaker 3: with a false backy of boxes of chocolates to hide
Speaker 3: the radio. I unfastened the backing and there was the radio.
Speaker 3: It was okay, nothing was broken. And then before I
Speaker 3: could refasten the backing, I heard voices outside the compartment door.
Speaker 3: I didn't have time to refasten the backing. I had
Speaker 3: just enough time to slam the case shut again, slide
Speaker 3: it back up in the rack, and get back in
Speaker 3: my seat. Major, What is this? I was under the
Speaker 3: impression of this compartment was reserved from me alone. There
Speaker 3: must be some mistake, Field Marshal. There was a mistake,
Speaker 3: all right, my mistake in tacking the one compartment on
Speaker 3: the train that have been chosen for Field Marshal Ramo,
Speaker 3: what is the meaning of this? I do not know,
Speaker 3: and you are a measure. There has been a mistake.
Speaker 5: I have a mistake.
Speaker 3: Do not tell me of mistakes. This is your stupidity.
Speaker 3: You had your orders. No, no, I instructed the train. God,
Speaker 3: I will not have this disturbance, you understand, Yes, excellency,
Speaker 3: I am sorry if I have been the cause of
Speaker 3: this I assure you it was quite unintentional. I will
Speaker 3: take my suitcases and may immediately. I'll see if it
Speaker 3: is best you live. I will find you another comput
Speaker 3: Oh wait, it is unnecessary, conductor, gentlemen's already here. There's
Speaker 3: room for both of us, we Germans and Italians must share,
Speaker 3: Is it not so? I perhaps say you would prefer
Speaker 3: your privacy. There's nothing for me to move on. I
Speaker 3: will not hear of it. See where you are?
Speaker 5: Actually I would welcome company. I did test train rides.
Speaker 5: Better arrange the table for me in the dining consci agency.
Speaker 3: You're a stupid Next attention to such a fuss over nothing?
Speaker 3: Tell me your name? Oh my name is Donato. You
Speaker 3: said donat to your excellency. Where you're headed for? S Donato? Oh,
Speaker 3: I am getting off at Milano. See well, we should
Speaker 3: have time to get acquainted. It is time to get
Speaker 3: a quite ed. Great what are we going to talk about?
Speaker 3: Maybe I could get the conversation started by saying Hairfield
Speaker 3: Marshall Ramo, it might interest you to know that I
Speaker 3: am an OSS spy. I am an Italia radio back
Speaker 3: information on your northern supply concentrations. You say you are
Speaker 3: a chocolate salesman. See, my office is in Verona. Here
Speaker 3: is my card, but I'm not in the market for chocolate.
Speaker 3: You may put the car back. Oh it here you
Speaker 3: drop this. Your medical classification in the Fascisty army, you gratchy.
Speaker 3: That was a great disappointment to me, your excellency, But
Speaker 3: you see, an old back injury kept me out of
Speaker 3: the army.
Speaker 5: You must not blame yourself or something you cannot help.
Speaker 3: Still, it is a great disappointment. Yes, I understand, your excellency.
Speaker 5: Yes, Major your table in the dining room, you say, aha,
Speaker 5: look it.
Speaker 3: I will return soon, or we will continue our conversation.
Speaker 3: We had taught ten minutes and I aged ten years.
Speaker 3: I wondered if I should change compartments before he came back. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: that might seem suspicious. I looked out of the window.
Speaker 3: The green rolling hills of citrus and otive trees didn't
Speaker 3: tell me anything. I just crossed my fingers and hoped
Speaker 3: we were coming in them a lot soon. You do
Speaker 3: not see what do you want with me? I do
Speaker 3: not want anything with you. Field Marshall wants to see you,
Speaker 3: and you'd better be quick about it. Oh see, no, no,
Speaker 3: leave your suitcases. Just come with me quickly. You wanted
Speaker 3: to see me, your excellency.
Speaker 5: Yes, sit down there opposite me. Oh gratch, gratch, I
Speaker 5: thought about you after I left the compartment, Senor the
Speaker 5: lot or see see.
Speaker 3: Would you care to join me for coffee? Senor? It
Speaker 3: would be my pleasure.
Speaker 5: Coffee with Piel Marshal Ramel. When I tell the game
Speaker 5: back home about this, I thought.
Speaker 3: There was a am across the aisle, a dab a
Speaker 3: little guy with a waxed mustache. I and Ramel nodded
Speaker 3: to each other, and then a dab a little old
Speaker 3: guy kept watching me, watching me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I never can get used to this Italian coffee
Speaker 5: with all its chickory.
Speaker 3: Don't suppose I ever will. I would naturally have a
Speaker 3: fondness for it. I have had it all my life.
Speaker 5: Well, was your home originally uh in Urbino, the birthplace
Speaker 5: of Raffia.
Speaker 3: My family is still living there. Would you like to
Speaker 3: see some snapshots, your excellency, Yes, very much, and they
Speaker 3: are right here in my wallet. I hear you see
Speaker 3: that little farm in the valley. It is here, you
Speaker 3: see this is a huge sorry as the pretty child wish. Oh,
Speaker 3: my sister franchise, gay, she looks very much like you. Yea,
Speaker 3: it was interesting, Rama thought. The kid in the picture
Speaker 3: of these snapshots had been made by OSS photographers, and
Speaker 3: an early picture of me had been super imposed over
Speaker 3: the very attractive family group. You know, I've taken quite
Speaker 3: a fancy to you. Oh tell me, Uh these chocolates yourself?
Speaker 3: Are they any good? Oh? See that very good? Not? No?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, well surely well one two of them
Speaker 6: would not be mister. Is it all right with you
Speaker 6: if I sent my adjutant to get one of the suitcases? Yes,
Speaker 6: we Germans and Italians must share.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's perfectly all right. Only I will get
Speaker 3: them myself.
Speaker 5: No, I wanted the don't need major go to the compartment,
Speaker 5: bring one of the No, no, it is foolish to
Speaker 5: send him.
Speaker 3: I can easily go myself. No, no, how insist.
Speaker 5: We would have so little time for talking before the
Speaker 5: train stops at Milando.
Speaker 3: I had no choice. I had to sit there and
Speaker 3: sweat it out, just pray that the adjutant brought back
Speaker 3: the right case. I felt as if there were a
Speaker 3: band of steel around my head that kept getting tighter
Speaker 3: and tighter. What is it, my friend? Are you not
Speaker 3: feeling well? Oh, it is very hot in here, is
Speaker 3: it not?
Speaker 5: Yes, it is unfortunately. Yes, Perhaps I should quot the
Speaker 5: conductor and have it. Oh yeah, the Major returns with
Speaker 5: your samper case. The first thing I looked at when
Speaker 5: the Major put the case in my lap was the handle.
Speaker 5: There was a long scar in the letter. It was
Speaker 5: the one with the radio. You know I've always had
Speaker 5: a fondness for chocolates. Well, come open it. Well the
Speaker 5: catch it. It seems to be stuck.
Speaker 3: Surely you can fix it. Oh see, see, of course
Speaker 3: that is a I will try. Dear to me, what
Speaker 3: what I have? An excellently depend Now, perhaps I can
Speaker 3: adjust the lot? No, no, no, no, no, I I
Speaker 3: will get it in the moment, I'm sure I Oh, Milano,
Speaker 3: that is my stop, Your excellency so soon? What a pity? Well,
Speaker 3: if if you wish, I will stay until the next station.
Speaker 3: All this for you take a buzz ball O. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: I would not think of it. It is too kind
Speaker 3: of you to suggest it.
Speaker 5: We must say. I'll be the same Lefield Marshall Rommel.
Speaker 5: It has been a great honor. I hurried back to
Speaker 5: the compartment to get my coat, and hat, and then
Speaker 5: on an impulse, I grabbed the other case of the
Speaker 5: wreck and as the train stopped, I turned and ran
Speaker 5: back toward the dining room.
Speaker 3: Then you, then you, I know, I know I'm getting
Speaker 3: off in a minute.
Speaker 7: No momento, Yeah Hill Marshall, senor do not do I
Speaker 7: did not expect to see you, fair, your excellency, if
Speaker 7: you will permit me a hideous this case of chocolate,
Speaker 7: oh for your you see, luck works now.
Speaker 3: Than gluts it multi grots you. If I passed through Milano,
Speaker 3: I would look you up. I don't know where I'd
Speaker 3: be staying, Sir. It is not difficult for the police
Speaker 3: to find the man.
Speaker 5: I'll be the same, And with this pleasant thought, I
Speaker 5: left him glad.
Speaker 3: To get off that train. You don't need oss training
Speaker 3: to tell you when someone's following you. It's an instinctive
Speaker 3: feeling you get. I started to walk a little faster,
Speaker 3: and the footsteps behind me quickly too. I passed a
Speaker 3: small coffee shop, and through the reflection in the window,
Speaker 3: I could see coming after me the man in the
Speaker 3: dining car who had never taking his eyes off me,
Speaker 3: the dapple little guy with a mustache. He and Ramel
Speaker 3: had nodded to each other. Was it a signal? Did
Speaker 3: Ramel just trying to string me along? He broke into
Speaker 3: Iran Signor. I didn't tend to stop until I got
Speaker 3: Then maybe I could use some.
Speaker 2: Of the crowd. I said, wait, wait to stop him
Speaker 2: with somebody?
Speaker 3: God, what are you doing? Open that gate? I am sorry, Senor,
Speaker 3: this gate is closed, and now use the south day
Speaker 3: But I am sorry, this gate is closed, Senor. I've
Speaker 3: had such trouble catching Hapo with you. Who are you?
Speaker 3: Allow me?
Speaker 2: Allow me to introduce myself. I am at the Count
Speaker 2: Pietro imperially.
Speaker 3: What do you want with me?
Speaker 2: Well, I noticed you were having coffee on the train
Speaker 2: with Phield Marshall or Rammel himself. I'm a great admirer
Speaker 2: of the Marshall, and I have a nodding acquaintance with him.
Speaker 3: Or say, what has that to do with me?
Speaker 2: Well, I have to know, Signor that Roma does not
Speaker 2: make friends easily. And so when I saw you two together,
Speaker 2: I I mean, ko, would you do me the extreme
Speaker 2: honor of joining me at my palace for dinner this evening?
Speaker 2: It would be a great pleasure to entertain a good
Speaker 2: friend of Romans.
Speaker 3: As the long black limousine drove up to the palace.
Speaker 3: I felt like a visitor of the Middle Ages. The
Speaker 3: gray stone steps were hallowed age this way signor. The
Speaker 3: lower windows were blazing with life and till told you
Speaker 3: set in brackets like the doors. Quiet, quiet, quiet. The
Speaker 3: flaws are made of color a marble. On the walls
Speaker 3: hung ancient tapestries with scenes in the Old Testament. I
Speaker 3: walked through past a line of servants. My mouth was
Speaker 3: open at all this grandeur, and I walked right into
Speaker 3: a sud of Mama, excuse me, goma, mico, mio, dinner
Speaker 3: is waiting. Ah, that was a delicious dinner. Gratchy cant
Speaker 3: imperially molt. I'm delighted you enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: Now we will sit here in the library and talk
Speaker 2: of ramel siicatto.
Speaker 3: Gratch You no tell me what was he like? What
Speaker 3: did he say?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: We merely exchanged pleasantries, Great leader, great chief. Once when
Speaker 3: he was in mid and he kept looking. He was lively.
Speaker 3: He was I want to set up my basket games. However,
Speaker 3: while this was being introduced to Alan and a while away,
Speaker 3: what was that little brandy? Oh, no, no brand, what
Speaker 3: is it? Bobo?
Speaker 8: What's the matter, Good evening, Count Pale, They told me
Speaker 8: you were here.
Speaker 3: You see Bobo, it is only Antonio.
Speaker 2: Gum my, dear, I would I would like you to
Speaker 2: meet a friend, see Senior Giuseppe Donato, great friend of Rammers.
Speaker 8: I am impressed. The pleasure is mine.
Speaker 3: Gave Bill a quest. My secretary is very pretty.
Speaker 8: Your lordship, there is a call on your private phone
Speaker 8: in a small library.
Speaker 2: Oh see, I will return. It will give you two
Speaker 2: a chance to get acquired.
Speaker 3: Riet Bobo, eh multe bella signorina. You are very pretty.
Speaker 3: Counting pettyally was right?
Speaker 8: Did you find yourself faced into that compliments in your
Speaker 8: own No?
Speaker 3: No, no, not at all. We Italians are proud of
Speaker 3: our beautiful women, and it is impossible not to notice
Speaker 3: how well you represent them.
Speaker 8: Where do you live in Milano?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm here on business.
Speaker 8: Where are you staying?
Speaker 3: Oh? I only arrived today. I've made no plans yet.
Speaker 8: You are the count secretary, his personal secretary. Since the
Speaker 8: Countess passed on, I attend to all arrangements for his
Speaker 8: banquets and receptions, as well as his personal correspondence. Oh oh,
Speaker 8: I see he is on grand signor. I am very
Speaker 8: fond of him. I remember how disappointed he was when
Speaker 8: Field Marshall Romel failed to attend a reception he planned
Speaker 8: for him.
Speaker 3: Why I know he told me that he is.
Speaker 8: A great admirer of Ramel. So am I tell me
Speaker 8: about him?
Speaker 3: Signor?
Speaker 8: Does he intend to come to Milano soon? Perhaps we
Speaker 8: can plan something else in his honor.
Speaker 3: I don't know his intentions.
Speaker 8: Perhaps he is returning to Africa immediately.
Speaker 3: I don't know that either. Here, well, I.
Speaker 2: See you two have become acquainted, eh Martabne your lordship.
Speaker 8: Since the Signor is staying in Milano, shall I give
Speaker 8: him the name of a good hotel.
Speaker 2: Hotel with forty rooms here, most of them empathy, I
Speaker 2: should say not. You will stay here at me comello
Speaker 2: as long as you want.
Speaker 3: GRATCHI molta gentile. I'm very grateful. They gave me a
Speaker 3: sweet to myself, with a tremendous canopy dead and a
Speaker 3: sculptured rug on the floor. Through the casement window I
Speaker 3: could see the Piazza Sundial, the narrow streets of Milan,
Speaker 3: and off in the distance the Church of Santa Maria
Speaker 3: del Grazia. Who was going to look for an American
Speaker 3: spy and I set up like that. Who was my order?
Speaker 3: Every night? I patted the radio on the suitcase and
Speaker 3: hoped i'd have a message to send back soon. A
Speaker 3: few days later, counting Piiali asked me to walk to
Speaker 3: his office with him.
Speaker 2: Ah, this Italian summer makes me feel ten years younger.
Speaker 2: You know, if I were twenty years younger, I would
Speaker 2: be more tended to that dock E had secretary of mine.
Speaker 3: I don't blame you. She seems to have taken an
Speaker 3: interest in you. Oh that's all she is.
Speaker 2: See, she's a keep on to ask questions about you.
Speaker 3: See you still have not told me why you want
Speaker 3: to see me at your office.
Speaker 2: I refuse to speak business at the home, never do.
Speaker 3: And your business I don't know that either. You will
Speaker 3: soon enough come.
Speaker 2: My office is in the municipal building across the square.
Speaker 3: I followed him across the square, over the fen and cobblestones.
Speaker 3: Everywhere around me were black shirted for shisty. I wondered
Speaker 3: if my good luck so far had made me too
Speaker 3: sure of myself. I followed him up the stairs the
Speaker 3: municipal building, down the narrow corridor, and we started the
Speaker 3: door third from the end, and then I know what
Speaker 3: his business was. Superintendent of police, brego, I beg of you,
Speaker 3: please go in, count Imperiality. I don't understand. Now you
Speaker 3: know my business.
Speaker 2: I am superintendent of police, often an unpleasant occupation. Come in,
Speaker 2: I said, come in.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: I wanted to see you here because it's necessary for
Speaker 2: us to have a little talk about you and the police.
Speaker 3: What have I to do with the police. How would
Speaker 3: you like to work for me? Come? Come, come, don't
Speaker 3: look so startled work for you as a member of
Speaker 3: the police.
Speaker 2: But of course, perhaps this communication from a Rama will
Speaker 2: explain gratch. As you can see, it's a request from
Speaker 2: him for me to locate you in Milano and offer
Speaker 2: you this position. He's obviously very fond of you, great
Speaker 2: Chief Rommel, and he knows how badly you feel about
Speaker 2: your medical classification in the army.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to say, just to say you accept. Ordinarily,
Speaker 2: of course I would have to make extensive research into
Speaker 2: your background before offering you this position. But the personal
Speaker 2: recommendation from Ramel hardly makes that necessary. But what do
Speaker 2: you say, amico mio? What do you think I said?
Speaker 3: I said yes in a hurry, and when I left
Speaker 3: the office later, I had a badge in everything. Ever
Speaker 3: since I bought the train of Verace, I had one
Speaker 3: bad scare after another, but so far nothing had happened.
Speaker 3: I was beginning to feel I had a charmed life
Speaker 3: until I got back to my suite at the palace. Antonia, Ah,
Speaker 3: what are you doing with that suitcase?
Speaker 8: These are excellent chocolates? Will you have one?
Speaker 3: What right have you in here?
Speaker 8: I was curious about you. I found out I had
Speaker 8: reason to be curious. I'd like you to meet two friends,
Speaker 8: Jacamo and Mario.
Speaker 3: For the first time I saw them, two men standing
Speaker 3: half hidden the shadows of the big room. And now
Speaker 3: the chair before Antonya was my suitcase. She turned it
Speaker 3: around so I could see the inside. The backing was off,
Speaker 3: the radio was gone. Who are these men? What is this?
Speaker 3: Do not be afraid. I don't know what's right. When
Speaker 3: she said we were thrain but.
Speaker 8: This was a foolhardy place to leave your radio, Americano,
Speaker 8: I found a better hiding place in the wall, safe
Speaker 8: of an unused room in the palace. It is all right,
Speaker 8: sing your donato. We are partisans, members of the underground.
Speaker 3: You you just stand there and tell me this. Why not?
Speaker 3: The American radio has given us proof who you are,
Speaker 3: no doctor, you want a proof of who we are? Escort,
Speaker 3: I'm listening. We will tell you all that you came
Speaker 3: here to find out. All you have to do is
Speaker 3: to ask and we will answer. We will answer even
Speaker 3: before you ask.
Speaker 8: The Nazis are using northern Italy as a supply base
Speaker 8: for the Africa Core. In fact, Ramo is expecting air
Speaker 8: reinforcements to leave here at the end of the week.
Speaker 3: How many plans? Seventy five bombers? Where are they in
Speaker 3: a field that caravet You're ten miles west? You wanted
Speaker 3: my police there was an altitude bomb there? Did you
Speaker 3: find it?
Speaker 8: Is this what you mean?
Speaker 3: Yes? Is there anyone in the underground who can duplicate it?
Speaker 3: The professor of chemistry in the University of Milando is
Speaker 3: a train. What you see, if you remove the pin
Speaker 3: from these bombs and plant them in an airplane, they'll
Speaker 3: explode automatically when the ship gains altitude. We will let
Speaker 3: you know when you can see the fireworks. Oh oh,
Speaker 3: and another bit of information. See it might interest you
Speaker 3: to know that you have been talking to a member
Speaker 3: of the FASCISTI secret police.
Speaker 2: Anthonia, you look more lovely than ever this evening, my lord,
Speaker 2: and you and Miko, where are you going before it drive?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 2: How wonderful it must be to be young again, especially
Speaker 2: in the summer.
Speaker 3: Well, go and enjoy yourselves. Oh we will, We are
Speaker 3: sure we will.
Speaker 8: It is fortunate the Count and not invite himself a.
Speaker 3: Long You're sure we can see everything from this hilltop,
Speaker 3: very sure.
Speaker 8: When the planes take off from Carabicho after midnight, we
Speaker 8: will see them.
Speaker 3: It's cool up here on this hill.
Speaker 8: Not cool enough to offer you an excuse to put
Speaker 8: your arm around me.
Speaker 3: Oh you remember what the Count said. We are young.
Speaker 3: It is summer in your business, business, Scott, listen the plans.
Speaker 3: They are taking off any minute now, any minute. What
Speaker 3: if something happened.
Speaker 8: But if they weren't able to plant those bombs?
Speaker 1: What if?
Speaker 3: What if?
Speaker 9: He Although this seems a poor way to repay Ramel
Speaker 9: for his hospitality, Rammel didn't get his seventy five of
Speaker 9: Obamas no sky protection, and that played a part when
Speaker 9: he was thrown back from l A La Main a
Speaker 9: short month later.
Speaker 3: The OSAs continue to get total information or then Italy
Speaker 3: supply concentrations, troop movements, and underground activities. Each time police
Speaker 3: triangulation detected my radio antenna, I, as a member of
Speaker 3: the secret Police, would lead a raid. Having first as
Speaker 3: a member of the underground moved into another spot. And
Speaker 3: then one day the Americans took over Milan. I walked
Speaker 3: into G two headquarters to give them a personal work.
Speaker 3: What do you mean just walking into my office like this? Sergeant?
Speaker 3: Who is this? I'm sorry, Major, I couldn't stop them.
Speaker 3: Where the black shirt he's wearing? Whoever he is, I
Speaker 3: don't like him. Now. Wait, man, wait a minute. You
Speaker 3: boys got me wrong. When I came to tell your name, Donado, Lieutenant,
Speaker 3: just me, Joe Donato. Look, you don't understand I'm a
Speaker 3: member of the OSS. Yeah, sure, he's a member. Look, Mac,
Speaker 3: that's enough, Sergeant Donato. According to our list, you're a
Speaker 3: high ranking member of the Fascisti Police. Thanks for giving
Speaker 3: yourself up. I'm not giving myself up. That's what you think, Mac,
Speaker 3: I tell you I'm a member of the US. They
Speaker 3: have your full record. Donato in his own report Theisty
Speaker 3: headquarters count Imperial I thought very highly. I don't care
Speaker 3: what he thought. The files we found a personal recommendation
Speaker 3: from Ramel about you, a personal recommendation from raml and
Speaker 3: you expect us to believe you're a member of the OSS.
Speaker 10: But you you hate came always Sergeant bro I'm in jail.
Speaker 10: You can't do this way, all right? To my congressman, Hey,
Speaker 10: come back, I demand to see someone the thirty.
Speaker 4: Let me out of here.
Speaker 3: I stand on my constitutional rights. Let me out of here.
Speaker 3: A week later, OSS in London sent verification on Lieutenant
Speaker 3: Joseph Donato, and an embarrassed g two Headquarters released him
Speaker 3: from jail. Thus, once again, the report of another agent
Speaker 3: closed with the words mission accomplished. Listen again next week
Speaker 3: for another true adventure from the files of Oss on
Speaker 3: Folk and Dagger.
Speaker 11: Heard in today's Cloakndagger adventurer as Joe As, Ralph Bell, Rammel,
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Speaker 1: A few weeks back, someone said you couldn't really do
Speaker 1: a lot of episode of this series. Well, the writers
Speaker 1: proved them wrong because this was great. Our hero was like,
Speaker 1: I thought I'd lived a charmed life, and then it
Speaker 1: turned out it was the Partisans who found his radio,
Speaker 1: and so it was like, yeah, you really didn't have
Speaker 1: a charmed life. But then the final twist did show
Speaker 1: him finally get into trouble, and that made me laugh.
Speaker 1: He needed some misadventure to balance that out and definitely
Speaker 1: got it. And this was all because of a friendly
Speaker 1: encounter with Ramo and him taking the time to get
Speaker 1: him the chocolates. It's such a great story and somewhat
Speaker 1: of an uncharacteristic role for Bell, and particularly here where
Speaker 1: he gets to play the protagonists where we tend to
Speaker 1: hear him a lot in character roles. So good stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: listener comments and feedback now, and we have a comment
Speaker 1: on Spotify regarding the secret Box from Mechanics sixty six.
Speaker 1: Why did he keep saving Sabby? Did he think they
Speaker 1: spoke spanished? These guys surely were not Seal Team candidates.
Speaker 1: I would guess that what they were saying or trying
Speaker 1: to say is do you save save? Which could be
Speaker 1: a term used in certain West Indian islands, which means
Speaker 1: do you understand what was said? That was the way
Speaker 1: I took that particular phrase. Now, I will admit that
Speaker 1: some of the OSS agents are not up to the
Speaker 1: standards of our modern intelligence operatives and what we expect
Speaker 1: from them based on popular culture and also what we
Speaker 1: have read in books that are about their true operations.
Speaker 1: But that's one of the appeals of the OSS while
Speaker 1: these people did have specialized training, they came from civilian backgrounds,
Speaker 1: and there's a bit of an everyman nature about the
Speaker 1: way that the organization worked during the war and the
Speaker 1: way individual operatives handled themselves in this situation where you
Speaker 1: did not have things as well established as they are today.
Speaker 1: And then we have a comment on YouTube from Sasoff
Speaker 1: on the episode The Trap, Raymond Edward Johnson, Ralph Bell,
Speaker 1: and Everett Sloan all in one episode together, three of
Speaker 1: the greatest old time radio talents, all in one place. Well,
Speaker 1: thanks so much, say Sov. And I emphasized that over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks you had some more prominent
Speaker 1: stars on the program, but that is not to in
Speaker 1: any way disrespect the great cast of actors who they
Speaker 1: had coming back to the series week after week. Because
Speaker 1: these performers were the backbone of the New York radio industry.
Speaker 1: They were in so many programs and were so versatile
Speaker 1: and talented, and in some ways, I do think they
Speaker 1: may be more appreciated by the old time radio fandom
Speaker 1: that we have today than they were in the modern audiences,
Speaker 1: because we're able to consume so much more of it
Speaker 1: and in such a volume and be able to spot, hey,
Speaker 1: Ralph Bell is doing so much work and really and
Speaker 1: can play all these great characters. And those who did
Speaker 1: survive into the seventies and eighties at least got to
Speaker 1: hear a lot of that and realize how much their
Speaker 1: work was remembered and appreciated, and certainly Ralph Bell was
Speaker 1: on that list, particularly as he got to work a
Speaker 1: lot in the CBS Radio Mystery Theater as well. All right, well,
Speaker 1: now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
Speaker 1: and I want to go ahead and think Denise, Patreon
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