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Speaker 1: But now, from July ninth, nineteen fifty, here is the trap.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the
Speaker 2: enemy lines knowing you may never return alive.
Speaker 3: What you have just heard is the question asked during
Speaker 3: the war to agents of the OSS. Ordinary citizens who
Speaker 3: do this question answered yes.
Speaker 2: This is Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 3: Black warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of
Speaker 3: the OSS. Today's story The trap about an OSS agent
Speaker 3: who prevented an American advance onto German soil from turning
Speaker 3: into a massacre is suggested by actual incidents recorded in
Speaker 3: the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a
Speaker 3: story that can now be told.
Speaker 4: Did you ever notice the name Erwin signed in a
Speaker 4: fancy flourish on the covers of those kid comic books
Speaker 4: you know all about moonmen chasing the earthmen into the stratosphere.
Speaker 4: Well that's me Irwin Hazen. I'm a little guy about
Speaker 4: five foot four. Before the war, I loved flashy ties
Speaker 4: and babies, girl babies, about twenty one. So what was
Speaker 4: Erwin doing being an OSS spy and a German held
Speaker 4: town in France after D Day? Listen, my children, and
Speaker 4: you shall hear Sergeant Irwin Haysen reporting, sir, here are
Speaker 4: those overlay maps you requested, Colonel.
Speaker 2: Good Good, fast works hunt.
Speaker 4: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: I'll look them over now. In the meantime, I want
Speaker 2: you to do something for me. Yes, sir, I've just
Speaker 2: had word that one of our agents, Lieutenant Miller, who
Speaker 2: was sent ahead and the Royere for Advanced Reconnaissance, has returned.
Speaker 4: Lieutenant Miller, Yes, sir, I know him.
Speaker 2: He's in that tavern about a mile from the headquarters,
Speaker 2: getting very drunk. I can't understand. It doesn't sound like Miller. No, sir,
Speaker 2: you should have reported immediately. I want you to go
Speaker 2: down and bring him back to headquarters. Yes, colonel, right away, sir. Oh, hayzen,
Speaker 2: I saw that cartoon you submitted to Yank. Oh they're
Speaker 2: good good. Not very flattering of me, though.
Speaker 4: No, sir, I'll love I'll get Lieutenant Miller for you. Colonel, sir.
Speaker 4: Not all of the twelve thousand people working with the
Speaker 4: OSS parachuted blind into enemy territory. Some of them stayed
Speaker 4: in Washington making up secret codes. Some of them, like me,
Speaker 4: sat behind a desk in France and drew maps. But
Speaker 4: I was through sitting behind a desk. The minute I
Speaker 4: walked into that tavern, Lieutenant Miller was slumped over the bar,
Speaker 4: swaying back and forth, and he looked very drunk. Hey, lieutenant,
Speaker 4: what's with you? Colonel wants you to report the headquarters
Speaker 4: right away.
Speaker 5: Oh that's you Erman.
Speaker 4: Oh you get your ear chewed off of this? What's
Speaker 4: the idea? Couldn't this wait till later?
Speaker 3: I couldn't wait he didn't make it otherwise, I get
Speaker 3: to the colonel, say.
Speaker 4: Bartender, how many has he had?
Speaker 2: Only two?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tell colonel couldn't make it otherwise. Then you came,
Speaker 3: I can't make it now? Maybe what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Tell Colonel bir heavily fortified. One We thought I saw
Speaker 3: myself eighty pieces of one hundred and five millimeters artillery
Speaker 3: behind the lines.
Speaker 2: Germans are digging in.
Speaker 4: Well, come on back and telling me yourself. Hey, couldn't
Speaker 4: you have celebrated later?
Speaker 2: Made it this far?
Speaker 3: Needed a drink the regular all the way. Tell colonel
Speaker 3: we're heavenly fortified, heavily.
Speaker 4: Miller, the lieutenant he is puss out. The lieutenant he
Speaker 4: is dead. You see, Miller had been slumped over the bar.
Speaker 4: Colonels I couldn't see those bullet wounds in his chest
Speaker 4: until he fell over.
Speaker 2: Germs must have caught on to him and given him
Speaker 2: a chase. So wonder he got as far as he did. Sergeant,
Speaker 2: you're sure about everything you told you, yes, sir, But
Speaker 2: we were positive the Germans didn't have that much artillery
Speaker 2: on the Seventh Army Front. If this is true, and
Speaker 2: we had walked in not knowing him over the head
Speaker 2: ah Man would have been massive. Thank you, Sergeant. You
Speaker 2: may go now, Colonel.
Speaker 4: If you're going to send another agent into that territory
Speaker 4: to get a more complete picture of what's going on,
Speaker 4: I'd like to volunteer.
Speaker 2: And a mission like this cause for an agent who's
Speaker 2: had experience along here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know, but you see, Lieutenant Miller was
Speaker 4: a friend of mine. Besides, I'm sick of spending the
Speaker 4: war behind a drawing Boardgeant. Look, I can do it, Colonel.
Speaker 4: I can speak French fluently, and I'll do more than
Speaker 4: just look around and come back. I'll come back with
Speaker 4: sketches and maps and diagrams everything you want to know. Look, Colonel,
Speaker 4: the next time I send a cartoon to Yank, I'll
Speaker 4: I'll make a very flattering one of you. Please, Colonel,
Speaker 4: what do you say? The OSS placed me in the
Speaker 4: custody of a French priest who had sneaked through the
Speaker 4: lines from Briere to tell the Americans about underground activity there.
Speaker 4: A few days later, the priest and I were on
Speaker 4: the road thirty miles away from the American held town,
Speaker 4: walking smack into enemy territory. The priest was in full
Speaker 4: clerical garb me. I was dressed like a French peasant, and.
Speaker 6: The German stupish me. Son it me do the talking.
Speaker 4: Well, I hope we get away with it.
Speaker 6: You're not ary out of necessity. I have become a
Speaker 6: debt at making up very convincing lie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but do you think that Germans don't believe this
Speaker 4: phonny story?
Speaker 6: What the reason will they have to disbelieve it? Besides
Speaker 6: I am well known and respected in town. These Germans
Speaker 6: have in of trouble now without staring at the antagonism
Speaker 6: of the people by disciplining me for so small it is.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: All I can say is I hope it works.
Speaker 6: We have a chance to find out. Now there's the
Speaker 6: town ah, and there is a welcoming committee. Let me
Speaker 6: do the talking. Say while bonjour, I am father.
Speaker 7: Robert, priest of the church in this town. And this man, friend,
Speaker 7: if you're from this town, what are you doing behind
Speaker 7: the border? Do you have permission? Let mess your papers?
Speaker 2: Passes?
Speaker 6: Most Unfortunately I did not wait to request a pass
Speaker 6: our silence. He's a harpy harm with me to the
Speaker 6: command on some of his week.
Speaker 4: Pleasure come my friend mine as well. There's no way
Speaker 4: back now, Father.
Speaker 8: You have been given too much freedom in this town.
Speaker 8: Father a there, this insolence is air.
Speaker 6: It's too much with monsieur le commando, this poor lad.
Speaker 9: You'll be as your name again, Francois, Francois V. Call
Speaker 9: me by my title, Francois Here Commandan.
Speaker 5: I'm going with your story, father abre.
Speaker 6: It is a sad, sad story of a dying woman
Speaker 6: and her last wish to see her neview this lad,
Speaker 6: last remaining member of her family, Her husband and two
Speaker 6: sons were killed in the early days of the war.
Speaker 6: You see, I have the holy oils with me to
Speaker 6: give this poor woman the last sacrament.
Speaker 5: And why did you not ask permission to get this bar?
Speaker 6: I was afraid, Monsieur le Commandore, that by the time
Speaker 6: the permission was granted, it might be too late, the
Speaker 6: woman might die, So I slipped out.
Speaker 5: When did you last see your aunt John?
Speaker 4: Why? Over three years ago, her Commandan.
Speaker 5: And this is most irregular.
Speaker 6: I'm surely the request of a dying woman.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll let you go this time. Father over there.
Speaker 9: There's enough unresting this time without starting a tempest in
Speaker 9: a teapot. One more question, Yes, monsieur, if you managed
Speaker 9: to slip so of the lines going out, why is
Speaker 9: it you did not attempt to sneak back into town
Speaker 9: instead of walking boldly after the bar the line.
Speaker 6: Sneak back into town, Why, Monsieur Commando, that would be
Speaker 6: against regulations.
Speaker 10: But I do not understand the father, Abella, how is
Speaker 10: it that you did not try to sneak back in
Speaker 10: the air?
Speaker 6: Her American friend Irwin a battle rose, he can tell
Speaker 6: you that.
Speaker 4: Well, you see, Madame Jellette, this way, if the Germans
Speaker 4: know I'm in town and supposedly staying with an ant,
Speaker 4: I can move freely about without being suspected.
Speaker 11: Oh, I see.
Speaker 6: I see the time is late. I must go now,
Speaker 6: Oh Joe, if monsieurle Commandant should inquire, I did administer
Speaker 6: the last rights to you at the sight of your
Speaker 6: dear nephew, brought life flowing back into your veins.
Speaker 11: Of course, we do not have something to eat before
Speaker 11: you go. I have not much to a.
Speaker 6: Much work to do. By the way, at last meeting
Speaker 6: of the underground went very well, What do you think?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 11: Very well?
Speaker 4: Indeed, well, I can't thank you enough, father for everything
Speaker 4: you've done.
Speaker 6: Oh my PEPs, we should meet again. Who knows if not,
Speaker 6: can't be with you on your mission. Thank you, father,
Speaker 6: and my son. Be very careful, Monsieur le Commando is
Speaker 6: not very bright, but unfortunately he is not a complete idiot.
Speaker 4: Why that was the last I saw, Father, Robert. It
Speaker 4: happened like that all during the war. A member of
Speaker 4: the underground would come along, get us over a rough spot,
Speaker 4: and then disappear. But without all the help from all
Speaker 4: the little people along the way, none of the work
Speaker 4: of the OSS could have been done. They helped, they
Speaker 4: wished us luck.
Speaker 6: They left.
Speaker 4: After a few days of staying with Madame Jeanette, I
Speaker 4: almost felt that she was a relative. The old girl
Speaker 4: practically adopted me Erwin h One King.
Speaker 11: What fore, Robert tool they coming down? He does not alive?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 6: What was that?
Speaker 11: I did lose my husband and two sons in the early.
Speaker 6: Days of the war.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 10: It has been good these last days, cooking for you,
Speaker 10: making up another bed as if I had my family again.
Speaker 11: Are you being very careful?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: I mind my own business. Look around the town. All
Speaker 4: I can tell Arah, just a handful occupying it. Just
Speaker 4: the way headquarters, though it looks like a pushover.
Speaker 10: Perhaps it is perhaps the agent was here before he
Speaker 10: was mistaken.
Speaker 4: Miller, the Nazis didn't pump air into him for nothing.
Speaker 4: He saw something, Madame Miche d here.
Speaker 11: Let me feel your play the game.
Speaker 4: Look what's the best way to get through the forest
Speaker 4: to the river north of Brier. I'm going to take
Speaker 4: a look around there.
Speaker 10: Perhaps there may be something there. The guard is always posted.
Speaker 10: I thought it was just to keep the townspeople from leaving.
Speaker 10: But perhaps perhaps there's something else.
Speaker 4: Is there a way past the guard?
Speaker 12: Ah, I have lived here all my life. I know away.
Speaker 12: I will show you, even take you partway myself.
Speaker 4: The woods began aout one hundred yards back of Madame
Speaker 4: Jeanette's little house, and earlier the next morning we started
Speaker 4: through them. I followed her through the thick brambles, through
Speaker 4: the narrow paths she knew so well, through the brush
Speaker 4: and the high grass that moved gently in the wind.
Speaker 4: Madame Jeanette's skirt caught on the brambles, and she stopped
Speaker 4: just long enough to rip off that part of her
Speaker 4: hem and leave it behind, swaying in the wind. Then
Speaker 4: she moved on me right behind her. Maybe this would
Speaker 4: turn into a wild goose chase. But I had a
Speaker 4: hunch i'd find what I came for. Then we came
Speaker 4: to a slight clearing. I will go.
Speaker 11: Back now erin we term later the we we came.
Speaker 4: You remember, yes, yes, I remember.
Speaker 11: Go now along the outskirts of this little wood. You'll
Speaker 11: see a hill. From there you will have a good
Speaker 11: view of the river and anything.
Speaker 4: That might be there. All right, I see you later, careful,
Speaker 4: careful now. A minute afterwards, who was swallowed up in
Speaker 4: the woods. A little while after that, I was on
Speaker 4: top of that hill, flat on my stomach, under a
Speaker 4: clump of bushes, looking down through strong binoculars. My hunter
Speaker 4: was right. It was all there, and I began to
Speaker 4: sketch it quickly but accurately. From somewhere the Nazis had
Speaker 4: gotten reinforcements, and their high command had decided to make
Speaker 4: a stand, dig in and hold there at the river.
Speaker 4: There were heavy artillery positions all set up machine gun
Speaker 4: and anti tank emplacements. There was barbed wire, lots of it.
Speaker 4: There were anti tank obstacles and one hundred and five
Speaker 4: millimeters artillery. Miller had seen all of it. There a
Speaker 4: nice big booby trap all set for our men to
Speaker 4: walk into. When they tried to advance north across the river.
Speaker 4: I couldn't hear them, but I could see them, swarms
Speaker 4: of German soldiers working hard, working fast, digging in, getting ready.
Speaker 4: I took down everything I saw, and I had it complete,
Speaker 4: except for the west bank of the river, near the bridge.
Speaker 4: There were too many trees blocking my issue. I had
Speaker 4: to get closer. By the time I got to the
Speaker 4: bottom of the hill and crawled along through the brush
Speaker 4: to the west bank. I didn't just see the Germans,
Speaker 4: I could hear them as well.
Speaker 13: Slip and lutman. See that more guards are posted at
Speaker 13: the edge of the town. The commandant wants no one
Speaker 13: snooping around here.
Speaker 2: No one got to get through.
Speaker 4: There were too many of them all around. I knew
Speaker 4: it would be crazy to try to get any further
Speaker 4: without a plan. I had to have time to think
Speaker 4: about a way. I waited until they left. Then I
Speaker 4: slipped back the way. I came up the hill and
Speaker 4: through the woods to Madame Jeanette's. I went around the back,
Speaker 4: so I didn't see the commandant until I walked in.
Speaker 4: You are back, yes, I uh, Monsieur hair Commandant. I
Speaker 4: have been waiting for well, is there something wrong?
Speaker 11: No, no, oh, of course not once.
Speaker 9: Well, I am here to talk with them as well
Speaker 9: as you, m I believe Father Robert told me that
Speaker 9: it's your name that is correct. It was through the
Speaker 9: kindness and understanding of the German high command here that
Speaker 9: you were allowed to see your sick aunt. You understand
Speaker 9: that you're not. Oh, yes, I appreciate that it was irregular,
Speaker 9: but we'll let you in. However, I am here to
Speaker 9: tell you that you had better have no illusions about
Speaker 9: leaving Brienn now going back to the American lines, to
Speaker 9: your village there.
Speaker 4: No, no, I have no wish to leave. Why you've
Speaker 4: anticipated me, her, Commandant, I was going to request permission
Speaker 4: to stay here with my aunt from now on. I
Speaker 4: was in the square today looking for work.
Speaker 9: And they are good, as long as you understand, madam,
Speaker 9: if you will allow me to say.
Speaker 5: So, you look very well.
Speaker 4: Indeed, oh, she was very ill when I came.
Speaker 5: Father Robert gave her last right media tirstpression. I'm not
Speaker 5: talking to you.
Speaker 10: My nephew is correct, But there are you here, Commandant.
Speaker 10: I was very ill, but I'm very well now.
Speaker 9: Well, that's all I wanted, how are going out? But
Speaker 9: remember you are not to live for yea.
Speaker 4: What the commandwan didn't know was that I had no
Speaker 4: intention of leaving until I made the sketches of the
Speaker 4: west bank of the river. Late that night, Madame Jeannette
Speaker 4: helped you bury the plans and diagrams I had already grown.
Speaker 11: You are right, I really do very busier by andy.
Speaker 11: Rather than leave them inside, did you say.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's deep enough. Now I put this rock on
Speaker 4: top of them. There. That's done. Now you will go
Speaker 4: back tomorrow. No, I've got to get a good look
Speaker 4: at the west bank of the river.
Speaker 11: It is wise you did not try to we's further.
Speaker 4: Ahead the day.
Speaker 11: It would have been too dangerous. I know another.
Speaker 12: Way through the forest, or tell me it is a
Speaker 12: roundabout we but it will bring you closer into the.
Speaker 11: West, or close enough at least so that you will
Speaker 11: have a better view than before.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 10: But if there are so many troops, as you said,
Speaker 10: do not get too close.
Speaker 11: When you have finished, come back to the woods the
Speaker 11: same way. I will be waiting.
Speaker 4: I did exactly, she said, took the long way round
Speaker 4: the cross little streams, watched for landmarks, dropped from high
Speaker 4: rocks and landed on rough little paths that were hidden
Speaker 4: by the brush. I did everything she said except one thing.
Speaker 4: I got too close.
Speaker 6: Er relining those minds too far far?
Speaker 13: What you're doing when these the fencers will be ready
Speaker 13: for anything right now?
Speaker 4: I decided I better get up there. And as I started,
Speaker 4: a twig under me. Snap.
Speaker 5: What was that?
Speaker 14: Did you hear something in the brush? M hmm, probably
Speaker 14: some small animal in the forest. Oh see that happened.
Speaker 14: M there's nothing here helping make sure?
Speaker 13: Remember the fragment of a woman's dress we found in
Speaker 13: the woods this morning.
Speaker 4: I was crouched down behind a rock and the German
Speaker 4: lieutenant came so close I could have reached out and
Speaker 4: touched his mud kit boot. He stopped for a minute,
Speaker 4: and then he walked right past me.
Speaker 2: There was nothing there. It can't be too careful. I'm
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 5: There's something I want to tell you.
Speaker 4: I had everything indicated on my sketches, Minefield's tank positions.
Speaker 4: I knew everything about the west bank of the river.
Speaker 4: I wanted to know when the coast seemed clear. I
Speaker 4: started back, but I didn't get very far. Here's your answer.
Speaker 4: In the air, I took a couple of steps and
Speaker 4: then slammed myself into a shallow ditch. I remember German
Speaker 4: bird guns and rifles cracking around me. A bullet went
Speaker 4: through the hill of my hood and sent a shock
Speaker 4: up my leg that made me wonder if it had
Speaker 4: been blown off. And it was quiet, and I waited
Speaker 4: for them to come and get me. It was all over.
Speaker 4: Perhaps that will convince you we mean what we say.
Speaker 4: He Look, I tell you my name is Francois Chauva.
Speaker 4: You know my aunt, She's What you're doing is a river.
Speaker 4: I'm new in bri I don't know the forest of
Speaker 4: the woods. I was lost.
Speaker 5: Perhaps another taste of your fist.
Speaker 9: Great, get them up, put them back on that chair.
Speaker 5: Now listen to me.
Speaker 9: Joever, whatever your name is, we found this sketch of
Speaker 9: the bridge at the west bank of the river in
Speaker 9: your pocket.
Speaker 4: Look, I don't know, I don't know anything.
Speaker 5: That part of the sketch is quite complete, every detail.
Speaker 5: The rest is diagrammed in lightly. There are the rest
Speaker 5: of these plans, I don't know. Have you hidden them?
Speaker 1: Where?
Speaker 5: Have you given them to somebody?
Speaker 4: Whom?
Speaker 6: There are the rest of them?
Speaker 5: Kind of antvalt eh, but not right. Twisting his arm again.
Speaker 6: Oh ah hah, yes, fainted.
Speaker 5: Have him thrown in Assel. I will question him more tomorrow.
Speaker 4: That was the German way of questioning, beating you up,
Speaker 4: twisting your arm. I was sure they had a lot
Speaker 4: more ways of questioning, but I didn't intend to stay
Speaker 4: and find out what they were. I had to figure
Speaker 4: out a way to escape. And then I noticed it.
Speaker 4: The glass of the window in front of the bars
Speaker 4: had been shattered. I broke off a piece, and then
Speaker 4: I cut myself severely about the face. I guess it
Speaker 4: doesn't sound pretty, and it didn't look very pretty, but
Speaker 4: that was the effect I wanted. I heard the guard
Speaker 4: coming back quickly. I threw myself on the floor in
Speaker 4: front of the door, so that when the heavy door
Speaker 4: was opened, it would crash into my head.
Speaker 2: You come and don wants to see you.
Speaker 4: No, what's the stars her?
Speaker 2: If I must get her?
Speaker 4: My hair was matted with blood, and my cut up
Speaker 4: face looked pretty horrible. Not that the God was worried
Speaker 4: about the state of my health. He was afraid of
Speaker 4: what the commandant would do to him if I wasn't
Speaker 4: able to be questioned. He left the cell door open
Speaker 4: and ran and so did I in the other direction.
Speaker 4: I ran up the stairs to the second floor of
Speaker 4: the small town jail. The Germans had taken over down below.
Speaker 4: I could hear voices, wh I didn't wait to hear anymore.
Speaker 4: I slid down the sloping roof and landed right next
Speaker 4: to a German soldier. It was a good thing. It
Speaker 4: was my left arm they had twisted. I was better
Speaker 4: with my right anyway. I took his gun an ammunition
Speaker 4: belt and shot the front tires of the German cars.
Speaker 4: Then I borrowed a parked motorcycle. Just as the Germans
Speaker 4: were spilling out the front door. I drove off, headed
Speaker 4: back to where I'd buried the papers. But the papers
Speaker 4: were gone. Everything I had worked on so painstakingly, the maps,
Speaker 4: the diagrams, the sketches, the plans, they were gone. Madame Jeanette,
Speaker 4: Maybe she had them, Madam Jeannette. Madame Jeannette opened up.
Speaker 11: Yes, what do you want?
Speaker 4: What Madame Jeannette? Where is she? I've got to see her?
Speaker 4: Who cannot, but I've got to It's important. Look, who
Speaker 4: are you? Where's Madame Jeanette?
Speaker 11: She died?
Speaker 4: What did you say?
Speaker 14: She died?
Speaker 11: Yesterday?
Speaker 4: Died but I do the Germans.
Speaker 11: If there after you go, I want to travel.
Speaker 4: Go. That motorcycle ride through enemy held territory with that
Speaker 4: car full of Nazis firing at me was wilder than
Speaker 4: the stories in the comic books I used to draw.
Speaker 4: For there was a phosphorus grenade on the ammunition belt
Speaker 4: I had taken from the soldier outside the prison. I
Speaker 4: took the pin with my teeth and tossed it back
Speaker 4: over my shoulder. Through the side MIRRECTULD see the German
Speaker 4: car slowing down. It stopped right over the grenade, and
Speaker 4: a minute later there was a car full of very
Speaker 4: dead Nazis. Well that's all that happened, Granel. The sketches
Speaker 4: are gone, but I think I can remember most of them.
Speaker 4: The ones I drew last the west bank of the
Speaker 4: river I know completely. For the rest, I'll do the
Speaker 4: best I can.
Speaker 2: Did your sketches look anything like this? Sudan?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 4: But those are the sketches I don't understand.
Speaker 2: Where did you standing? The woman?
Speaker 4: Woman? What?
Speaker 2: Woman?
Speaker 4: I don't get this, that's why. Man, Hello, madam Jeanette,
Speaker 4: I heard you were dead?
Speaker 11: Your face? What happened to your face?
Speaker 4: Never mind? Just tell me?
Speaker 10: Oh, when I learned you were arrested, I dug up
Speaker 10: the plan and with other ground help I got them
Speaker 10: through the.
Speaker 11: Lines to deliver them for you. Just what that woman,
Speaker 11: she had her orders? She was doing as I told her.
Speaker 4: Colonel you know that tavern about a half mile from headquarters? Yes,
Speaker 4: I well, do you mind very much if I go
Speaker 4: there and get very drunk.
Speaker 3: The maps, diagrams and information which Sergeant Urban Hazen provided
Speaker 3: allowed the American Army to prepare a counter offensive. Three
Speaker 3: days later they were on German soil, and the report
Speaker 3: of another OSS agent closes with the.
Speaker 2: Words mission accomplished.
Speaker 3: Listen again next week to another adventure based on actual
Speaker 3: incidents from the files of the OSS on.
Speaker 2: Cloak and Dagger.
Speaker 15: Heard in today's Cloaken Dagger Adventure as Irwin was Everett Sloane,
Speaker 15: the priest Barry Kroger, the Commandant Stefan Schnabel, Madame Jeannette
Speaker 15: Virginia Payne, the Colonel Raymond Edward Johnson. Others were Carl Weber,
Speaker 15: Jerry Jarrett, Ralph Bell, and Lattistovitzky. The script was written
Speaker 15: by Winterfred Wolf and Jack Gordon, and the music was
Speaker 15: under the direction of John Gart Today's true OSS adventure
Speaker 15: was based on the book Cloaken Dagger by Corey Ford
Speaker 15: and Allister McMain.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Really a great episode that delivered some very
Speaker 1: tense moments that really exemplifies what makes this such a
Speaker 1: great adventure series. This does make me a little curious
Speaker 1: what comic book artists secretly served in the OSS. Several
Speaker 1: comic book artists were drafted in the war, but we
Speaker 1: shouldn't speculate too much that it some comic book artists
Speaker 1: that were well known. There was a whole boom of
Speaker 1: comic book artists before and during World War two and
Speaker 1: then a bit of a bus period. All right, well,
Speaker 1: listener comments and feedback now and a listener emails regarding
Speaker 1: the episode direct line to bombers, and the listener writes in,
Speaker 1: I know it was part of the plot. I know
Speaker 1: it was part of the story, but I could not
Speaker 1: listen to this episode after they murdered the dog. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know in the story they didn't have much of
Speaker 1: a choice, but I'm a firm believer and you can
Speaker 1: tell a decent story without hurting animals. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for the email. I'd be lying if I said
Speaker 1: I was a fan of that decision. I do understand it.
Speaker 1: Cloakindagger is one of the most gritty old time radio
Speaker 1: programs you'll find, and it's unsparing in its portrayal of
Speaker 1: how the war went and what was done in the
Speaker 1: course of fighting. This is one case where I kind
Speaker 1: of wish that they had been a bit more restrained,
Speaker 1: but I do understand why they showed it, and in
Speaker 1: many ways it can be helpful to us to understand
Speaker 1: what war demands of those who are conducting it, and
Speaker 1: while it shouldn't necessarily turn us into pacifest, it should
Speaker 1: make us properly cautious about the price that is so
Speaker 1: often paid in war and help us not to be
Speaker 1: cavalier about entering that state. But I'd definitely hear your concern.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the email. Now, I do want to
Speaker 1: talk about some of what you're going to hear on
Speaker 1: Saturdays on The Great Adventurers. We are going to be
Speaker 1: in Cloagndagger if my calculations are correct, right up until
Speaker 1: the podcast takes its Christmas break. Then we will have
Speaker 1: some OSS related specials, including at least one of the encores,
Speaker 1: and then we will be getting in to Counterspy, which
Speaker 1: should be the series that we are focused on for
Speaker 1: I think close to two years. There are also a
Speaker 1: couple of additional adventure series that I have designated as
Speaker 1: things that we will do eventually. These include The Whisperer
Speaker 1: and The Adventures of Clyde Beatty. Again, these will be
Speaker 1: some years down the line, but I'm continuing to research
Speaker 1: these series and pick out programs that I think folks
Speaker 1: are going to enjoy. All right, Well, now it's time
Speaker 1: to think our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
Speaker 1: want to thank Rob, Patreon supporter since May twenty four,
Speaker 1: currently supporting the podcast. At the rookie level of two
Speaker 1: dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Rob,
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