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Speaker 1: from September twenty second, nineteen fifty, here is Operation Sellout.
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 to
Speaker 3: 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 adventure, Operation Sellout, is the story of
Speaker 3: an American agent who went into German occupied France to
Speaker 3: locate Nazi submarine bases, and is suggested by actual incidents
Speaker 3: recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services,
Speaker 3: a story that can now be told.
Speaker 4: I knew something was up when Colonel Palmer met Tom
Speaker 4: Barnes and me at the dock that night. He hadn't
Speaker 4: come down from London just to wish his bon voyage.
Speaker 4: There wasn't time for such formalities in the OSS, even
Speaker 4: when a couple of its agents were embarking for the
Speaker 4: coast of Nazi occupied France. None at the Chief pulled
Speaker 4: to a stopped. The Colonel stepped into the faint glow
Speaker 4: of the blackout life Captain Dagger.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, this is the radio operator. Captain. That's right,
Speaker 2: So I'm Bond Blans Corporal Bond Sussex. Gods, you men
Speaker 2: are all set, Yes, sir. We shove off in twenty
Speaker 2: minutes and he'll put you ashore below Santas just before dawn.
Speaker 2: After you've been landed, you'll move inland exactly six kilometers.
Speaker 2: You'll be met there by an agent of the Marquis.
Speaker 2: Understand I men.
Speaker 4: We got a lecture then, and we didn't need it.
Speaker 4: We knew our mission was important. German submarines and hitting
Speaker 4: our convoys and the Atlantic hitting them hard. Shipping losses
Speaker 4: had to be cut and the best way to cut
Speaker 4: them was to blast the Nazi subpens along the French coast. Understand,
Speaker 4: it was my job to locate the biggest pens. It
Speaker 4: was Tom's job to radio the information back to England,
Speaker 4: so the Allied air forces with no where to lay
Speaker 4: their eggs. No, we didn't need any lecture and how
Speaker 4: important it was.
Speaker 2: You're not listening.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry, colonel. I heard it all in London
Speaker 4: two days ago, Sir. I was wondering why you came
Speaker 4: down here to say it again.
Speaker 2: And they've had another reason for coming down. That's what
Speaker 2: we figure, Sir. There's been a change and plans slight one. Yes,
Speaker 2: Originally you two were the one to take this mission alone.
Speaker 2: I've decided now to send a third man with you.
Speaker 4: Who is it, sir?
Speaker 2: I'd rather say nothing about it till you see him.
Speaker 2: He'll be something of a surprise to you, perhaps surpriser, yes,
Speaker 2: though not too unpleasant one. I hope your reaction to
Speaker 2: him may well determine the success of your mission.
Speaker 4: I afraid I don't understand, Colonel.
Speaker 2: You will admit it. He's already on the boat.
Speaker 4: Hold on, Tom and I followed the Colonel an on Doc.
Speaker 4: The British Navy torpedo boat that was going to take
Speaker 4: us across the channel lay in the water, black shadow
Speaker 4: on the Black Knight. We climbed the board, stowed our
Speaker 4: gear on Dick, who called the Ford Cavin. Tom and
Speaker 4: I exchanged looks. Neither of us like this a slight
Speaker 4: change and plans.
Speaker 2: Your new man is in here, Captain.
Speaker 4: Let's have a look at him, Colonel. For a moment,
Speaker 4: the bright lights of the cabin spilling out on the
Speaker 4: deck blinded me. Then I saw him. First I thought
Speaker 4: it was a gag until the guy turned, until he
Speaker 4: made a stiff bow from the waist, until he said,
Speaker 4: good evening, gentlemen. I'm looking Carl Mulla of the German
Speaker 4: ice Fair, and I knew it wasn't a gag. He
Speaker 4: belonged in that uniform he was wearing. It was all
Speaker 4: his every Nazi stitch of it, right up to the
Speaker 4: Death's head in signy on his left shoulder.
Speaker 2: EMLA, this is Captain LINCD. Dagger and this is a
Speaker 2: couple of Bonds of the British Army and detached service
Speaker 2: with the OSS.
Speaker 4: It is a pleasure to meet you, gentlemen, is it? Oh?
Speaker 4: Palmer May Bonds and I speak to you alone?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: I will go out on deck.
Speaker 2: Wellan.
Speaker 4: Although we have to say it, Sir, you must know
Speaker 4: how we feel about this.
Speaker 5: I'll say a link So.
Speaker 2: I don't like the idea of taking a jerry with
Speaker 2: us in the Nazi territory.
Speaker 5: Do we have to do it?
Speaker 2: Colonel, you volunteered for this mission, Bonds. You don't have
Speaker 2: to do anything. Here's a degger and I can do
Speaker 2: the job. So without a Jerry, even do it faster
Speaker 2: with him, Corporal, and we've got to start hitting those
Speaker 2: subvents as quickly as possible. Meller will be valuable to
Speaker 2: you in obtaining information from his former fellow officers.
Speaker 5: Must have a lot of faith in this Nazisir.
Speaker 2: He's not a Nazi, He's a German.
Speaker 5: Is there a difference?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Even when he was an officer in one of Hitler's
Speaker 4: Pet Division's colonels.
Speaker 2: Through no choice of his own, Daggat, Meller was captured
Speaker 2: by the British North Africa two years ago. He's been
Speaker 2: working as an interpreter for the OSS for eighteen months.
Speaker 2: He's been thoroughly screened. We have faith in his story
Speaker 2: that he's always been opposed to Hitler.
Speaker 4: Wellly, he could have been lying to you, sir, just
Speaker 4: waiting for a chance like this, a chance to get
Speaker 4: back to German territory.
Speaker 2: It could have been. We don't think it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But if he were, Sir, Bonds and I are
Speaker 4: a couple of dead ducks. He'll sell us out the
Speaker 4: minute we get across the channel.
Speaker 2: That's quite true, Daggett. And that's the chance you'll both
Speaker 2: have to take.
Speaker 4: We could have backed out, but we didn't. You never do.
Speaker 4: So we headed across the channel, one Englishman, one American,
Speaker 4: and one German. I don't know what the German was thinking.
Speaker 4: He didn't say much, but the Englishman and the American
Speaker 4: were thinking it was going to be a one way trip.
Speaker 4: Just before dawn, the torpedo boat put us ashore below
Speaker 4: Santa's Air He stood listening to a motors die away,
Speaker 4: and I turned and walked up to Lieutenant Calm Mueler.
Speaker 4: I lifted his lugo out of its holster, and he
Speaker 4: didn't say a word. I broke the gun open. Were
Speaker 4: twelve rounds in the cliff in one shell in the chamber.
Speaker 4: I dropped the clip in my pocket and handed the
Speaker 4: gun back to him, the shell still in it. Down here,
Speaker 4: cap Bedine, you'll learn I left you one shell. If
Speaker 4: anything goes wrong, you may need it. That is, if
Speaker 4: you're on a level, I.
Speaker 6: Will usually thought myself, rather than fall into the hands
Speaker 6: of the Nazis.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know you will if you're on the level.
Speaker 4: If you're not, though, you'll think twice about using it
Speaker 4: on us. See you, you couldn't get both of us
Speaker 4: with one shell, understand Yeah, I understand. Here, cap be Diane.
Speaker 4: It was just a phony gesture. Of course. He knew
Speaker 4: as well as I did that it didn't mean a thing.
Speaker 4: The country was occupied by a half million of his countrymen.
Speaker 4: He could wipe us out like stepping an up bug
Speaker 4: if he wanted it too. Dawn was breaking and he
Speaker 4: left the beach. He started inland to keep Irondezvou with
Speaker 4: Philippe monte Hand and my key agent, who was to
Speaker 4: set us up with a base of operations. We must
Speaker 4: have made quite a picture. Two men dressed as French peasants,
Speaker 4: trudging along behind a Nazi officer. He kept to the
Speaker 4: fields and moved along hedge rows as much as we could.
Speaker 4: And then we came to a highway. German army Laurie
Speaker 4: rumbled by while we squatted behind the hedge row and
Speaker 4: held our breath.
Speaker 5: That's all cleonomic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we'll cross one at a time. You first knew, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: could be dead. He got over the hedge row and
Speaker 4: out onto the highway. It was halfway across. Tom and
Speaker 4: I straighten up to follow him, and we saw it.
Speaker 4: We dropped down again. A German reconnaissance car swinging around
Speaker 4: the bend in the road, stopped a few feet from Muler.
Speaker 4: He looked at the Nazis, He looked at him.
Speaker 2: We looked at.
Speaker 4: Both of them through the hedge row and waited.
Speaker 5: Ida I hit that.
Speaker 4: It was in the lift of his voice. It was
Speaker 4: in a smile on his face. There was no mistaking it.
Speaker 4: Hal Mueller was back with his buddies. Hal Muler was home.
Speaker 5: I think let's get away from her, make a run
Speaker 5: for a long hedgerow.
Speaker 4: For what he tips off those crowds. We won't get
Speaker 4: ten feet.
Speaker 5: Yes, I guess you're right.
Speaker 2: Well, if we go, I'm taking Jerry with us.
Speaker 4: I'd had the same idea. I had already sneaked my
Speaker 4: revolver out of my coat. We drew a bead on
Speaker 4: that stiff Prussian back, and we did some all waiting,
Speaker 4: crouching and waiting until I hit now, all right here, capitan,
Speaker 4: it is safe for you to come out.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: We went out, but not before it exchanged another whisper,
Speaker 4: not before Barnes said what we were both thinking.
Speaker 2: Maybe the Colonel was right ling, maybe the jetty is
Speaker 2: on the square, or maybe he's just smarter than we thought.
Speaker 5: What do you mean, smart enough to use us for bait?
Speaker 5: That was it?
Speaker 4: Bait? Why get rid of us so fast? We weren't
Speaker 4: that important. He could get rid of us whenever he
Speaker 4: wanted to, and he'd only wanted to after we'd served
Speaker 4: his purpose, after we'd jeopardized the French my quy by
Speaker 4: exposing them to him. Yes, after we'd sent a lot
Speaker 4: of Yankee and British flyers to their death join Mueller
Speaker 4: and continued on to our rendezvous point. There's nothing I
Speaker 4: could do about it. You'll have been as signed as
Speaker 4: a member of the mission. So if I'd acted like one.
Speaker 4: You don't knock off a fellow agent unless you're sure.
Speaker 5: All right, link, We'll just six kilometers east of the beach.
Speaker 4: Now, yeah, yeah, this patch of woods must be the place.
Speaker 4: What do we do now here, Capitaine? Nothing?
Speaker 5: Just wait, wait for what? Monsieur stepped out from.
Speaker 4: Behind a bush as silently as a shadow. But shadows
Speaker 4: don't carry Tommy guns.
Speaker 5: You were expecting someone, Monsieur.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man named Philippe Martan.
Speaker 2: I am Philippe.
Speaker 4: Then you know who we are now.
Speaker 5: I'm afraid not, monsieur. If there were two of you,
Speaker 5: I would.
Speaker 2: Know, but not three.
Speaker 4: There was a last minute change of plans.
Speaker 5: A very great change, since it made room for a
Speaker 5: Nazi officer.
Speaker 4: Look, not all men who wear Nazi uniforms a Nazi officer, true, Monsieur.
Speaker 5: But old frenchmen know are Nazi when they see one
Speaker 5: ino out of uniform. Why is this man here?
Speaker 4: Tommy gun was shoving in a Mula's chest. I had
Speaker 4: to talk fast. I explained who the German was. I said,
Speaker 4: the OSS trusted.
Speaker 5: Him, the OSS made passed him, Monsieur, but I passed
Speaker 5: no German.
Speaker 4: That makes no difference. I orders are that mule is
Speaker 4: a remember this mission. Let's get going. You hear me
Speaker 4: my time?
Speaker 5: Very well, monsieur, follow me. Where are you taking us
Speaker 5: to my farm? You will set up your radio in
Speaker 5: my barn?
Speaker 4: Is it safe?
Speaker 2: Safe?
Speaker 5: Why don't you ask your friend Herr Muller.
Speaker 4: Two hours later, Time had his transmitter set up in
Speaker 4: a loft to Philippe Martin's farm a few miles outside
Speaker 4: Santa's Air. With your permission in here, Capitaine, I will
Speaker 4: leave now. Yeah, you know what you're to do, Mula, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: With these forged orders Colonel Palmer gave me, I will
Speaker 4: be able to secure all the necessary information about submarine
Speaker 4: pins in the Santas Air area if you want to,
Speaker 4: I hope her, Capitaine, I will be able to prove
Speaker 4: to you that I do want to.
Speaker 5: We hope so too, Mulla.
Speaker 4: All right, get going. Expect you to contact us daily.
Speaker 5: You don't hear from you somes at the door.
Speaker 4: How could that be, Philip pit It's.
Speaker 5: All right, monsieur. He's my sister Mary. She's also a
Speaker 5: loyal member of McKee.
Speaker 4: Marie Martin wasn't just a loyal my key member. She
Speaker 4: was a beautiful one too. I wouldn't have had a
Speaker 4: look at herd and lord and only have had a
Speaker 4: look at that Tom Barnes, as a brother, introduced her.
Speaker 5: This is my sister, Marie, monsieur Marie, Captain Daggett, go
Speaker 5: for Barnes and and hell late a germ here teller.
Speaker 4: Mueller is a prisoner of war, mademoiselle working for the USS.
Speaker 4: He is a Nazi, an X Nazi, Mademoiselle.
Speaker 7: The only X Nazis are dead ones.
Speaker 4: Philip, throw this pig out of here, mademoiselle. Brother and
Speaker 4: I have had all this out. Philipps agreed to you
Speaker 4: no right to agree. This is as much my power
Speaker 4: met it is his. I will not have a Nazi
Speaker 4: on it, all right, all right. In as much as
Speaker 4: Muella is just leaving for Santa's Air on a mission, you.
Speaker 8: Are sending him on a mission. You must be out
Speaker 8: of your mind, Gabita, I.
Speaker 4: Brother and I have had all this out. Philipp's agreed
Speaker 4: to you no right to agree.
Speaker 7: This is as much my farm as it is his.
Speaker 7: I will not have Enotsy on it.
Speaker 4: All right, all right. In as much as Mule is
Speaker 4: just leaving for Santa's Air on a mission, you are.
Speaker 8: Sending him on a mission. You must be out of
Speaker 8: your mind, Cabite.
Speaker 2: I think she has a point link. You remember that
Speaker 2: little discussion we had back on the highway about bait. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I remember, Tan, And I'm pretty sure now that we
Speaker 2: were right. We have no more proof now than we
Speaker 2: did then.
Speaker 8: I would rather he would stay here, Capitel, than see
Speaker 8: him go on a mission.
Speaker 4: Well, here, Capitaine, get going, you'll learn.
Speaker 5: Sastan.
Speaker 4: You will hear from me here Capitaine.
Speaker 7: We you will hear from him through the Gestapo.
Speaker 4: I wasn't sure she was wrong, and Tom Barnes was
Speaker 4: sure she was right. But then Tom's judgment wasn't to
Speaker 4: be trusted, not where Marie my town was concerned. Well, Tom,
Speaker 4: where you've been? Oh?
Speaker 2: I took a walk with Marie down Mother Brook.
Speaker 4: You take a lot of walks with Marie, don't you.
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 2: There's nothing to do but cool our heels until we
Speaker 2: hear from Mulla, And quite frankly, old man, I can't
Speaker 2: think of anybody I'd rather cool my heels with.
Speaker 4: And then we heard from Mueller. We heard quite a
Speaker 4: lot from him, and not through the Gestapo either. You
Speaker 4: must copy these maps immediately, her capitan. I must get
Speaker 4: them back to the Nazi headquarters before morning. You will
Speaker 4: find on them the location of the Nazi subpins from
Speaker 4: San Jasea to Dunkirk. I copied the maps and deciphered
Speaker 4: the code symbols. Turned my report over to Tom to
Speaker 4: transmit to England. But Tom was stubborn. How do you
Speaker 4: know those maps weren't fatling? I don't.
Speaker 5: Maybe Mula's using us just the way we thought here.
Speaker 2: Maybe he is.
Speaker 5: And why on else?
Speaker 4: Said that's tough, because those are my orders and I'm going.
Speaker 5: To obey them.
Speaker 4: Send it Tom, we'll see what happens. Well, we saw
Speaker 4: what happened that night off in the distance of thousand
Speaker 4: searchlights stamped the sky, when black puffs and smoke everywhere,
Speaker 4: the truants were throwing up a curtain of flect that
Speaker 4: no air force and the whole world could penetrate. Next day,
Speaker 4: Mueller came back to the barn. By then Tom had
Speaker 4: received the box score from England.
Speaker 9: Twenty planes. You hear that, Murea, we lost twenty planes
Speaker 9: last night.
Speaker 4: I do not understand here, Corporate.
Speaker 9: Oh no, oh, you don't understand it at all, do you?
Speaker 9: They knew we were coming. They were waiting for us.
Speaker 9: But you don't understand it.
Speaker 4: You are implying, of course, that I betrayed you. But
Speaker 4: I give you my word.
Speaker 7: He is the word. I'm a Nazi. Are you perhaps
Speaker 7: convinced now?
Speaker 5: I told you we should have listened to hurling easy?
Speaker 8: It is too late, of course to save those twenty planes.
Speaker 8: It is not too late to stop other.
Speaker 2: Raids, because of course he's righting Al Radio Colonel Palmer,
Speaker 2: this minute.
Speaker 4: Capitane, Well Muller, I am, I have another map.
Speaker 5: If you wish to look at.
Speaker 4: It, all right, let's see it. I am. I would
Speaker 4: prefer the show it to you alone.
Speaker 7: Alone? Why you pick up a German?
Speaker 2: Come?
Speaker 5: Are you suggesting there's anyone help but yourself? Will come?
Speaker 4: Trusted Lord Mula, You're in no position to make such
Speaker 4: a request. You have something to show me you can
Speaker 4: show to me here, very well, here, Capitane. He had
Speaker 4: something to show me, all right, A detailed shot of
Speaker 4: the biggest sub pens along the whole coast. I knew
Speaker 4: it was worth any risk to try to smash those pens,
Speaker 4: but Tom Barnes didn't know it. He needed a lot
Speaker 4: of convincing. He insisted that shot was bait, just bait.
Speaker 4: It turned out he was right. Next week was a nightmare.
Speaker 4: Eight Plansas, ten, six at Cherbourg, nine, at Lahare. Everywhere
Speaker 4: we struck the crowds while waiting operations sell out. Tom
Speaker 4: and I called it. We had a name for Lighten.
Speaker 4: At Muler two, Tom wasn't around at night. I reached
Speaker 4: a decision. I went looking for him down by the brook.
Speaker 4: Of course it was a bright moon. I saw two
Speaker 4: figures as I approached. Then two figures became one for
Speaker 4: a moment.
Speaker 5: I love you, Marie.
Speaker 8: Oh shit, you must not say it in once today
Speaker 8: there's no place for the word love.
Speaker 2: Maybe not madame, But when the water is over, I'm
Speaker 2: going to ask you to marry Tom Link.
Speaker 5: What are you doing here?
Speaker 4: Get back to the barn. Want you radio Palma to
Speaker 4: call off the raids.
Speaker 7: At last you have come to your stensis capita.
Speaker 4: What about Mueler? I think we'll forget Mueller. It's almost
Speaker 4: a week since we heard from him. You don't even
Speaker 4: know where he is.
Speaker 8: But we can guess no capital. He is in Berlin,
Speaker 8: probably receiving a medal from his.
Speaker 4: Spir Tom and I had to work fast. Once it done.
Speaker 4: On the Germans that there'd be no more rage. They'd
Speaker 4: be after us. Radioed the Colonel canceling the raids, telling
Speaker 4: him we thought our mission was over. Six hours later
Speaker 4: came the answer. The colonel thought otherwise, Good lord, we
Speaker 4: can't be serious. Link, Hey, serious? All right? He still
Speaker 4: wants to smash those subpins at Sander's Air. Since they
Speaker 4: couldn't do it from the air, they're going to do
Speaker 4: it from the ground with a commando raid. Yeah, commando raid,
Speaker 4: a hit and run attack where coordination and split second
Speaker 4: timing were everything. Tom and I were to be the
Speaker 4: inside man.
Speaker 5: Big job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but this time we didn't have two strikes against us. No,
Speaker 4: because this was one clam bake that Carl Mueller wouldn't
Speaker 4: know anything about. What do we do? First, Link contact
Speaker 4: the local leader of the my key, Well, let him
Speaker 4: know what's happening and he'll give us a safer place
Speaker 4: to roost.
Speaker 5: But how do we contact him? Philip w know him,
Speaker 5: Philip's and Van. How about Marie?
Speaker 4: She might know too, Right, go get her? He went
Speaker 4: to find Maria. I packed up the radio and the
Speaker 4: other equipment. I heard the door open me. I thought
Speaker 4: he brought it back. I was wrong. Good evening, hair
Speaker 4: capy Taine Muller. I didn't expect you to show your
Speaker 4: face around here again. I heard in Santa say that
Speaker 4: their aids have been canceled.
Speaker 6: So if you and corporate bonds might be on your
Speaker 6: way back to England, we're packing now.
Speaker 4: Oh I am not to go back with you. Then
Speaker 4: there's only one place you are going, Muler.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 4: Put your gun away, hair Capitaine. You do not need
Speaker 4: to kill me, since you are leaving me here. I
Speaker 4: shall make use of the one shell you so kindly
Speaker 4: left in my evolv. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you will.
Speaker 4: You couldn't bear to be left behind with your Nazi pals.
Speaker 4: Could you learned from Michael house shuts? I didn't know
Speaker 4: where they were from. I didn't wait to find out.
Speaker 4: I hit the floor, dragging the candle off the table
Speaker 4: with me. The barn went black. I lay there for
Speaker 4: a second, and then from outside I.
Speaker 5: Heard this has him lightly. I think I got him.
Speaker 4: Tom had fired the shots. When I lit the candle again,
Speaker 4: I saw it was wrong. The doorway where Mueller had
Speaker 4: been standing was empty. Mula was gone. I was sure
Speaker 4: I hit all right? Never mind, we got something more
Speaker 4: important to think about the Mueller, he told Marie.
Speaker 7: We capita, he told me, you wish to see the
Speaker 7: local marquis leader.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 4: Can you take us to him?
Speaker 7: May we, Capita? I will arrange for you to meet
Speaker 7: Monsieur n.
Speaker 4: She said it would take until the next evening to
Speaker 4: arrange it. Tom and I cleared out of the farm
Speaker 4: and hold up in the patch of woods where we
Speaker 4: first met Philippe. Of course you had a start raining
Speaker 4: just before dog Marie showed up in the woods.
Speaker 7: It is done, Capita.
Speaker 8: Monsieur t N will be waiting for you at eight
Speaker 8: o'clock the room behind the village cafe.
Speaker 2: Good work, Marie, you're going there with us Andre Dommy,
Speaker 2: no moche.
Speaker 8: I must return to Monsieur Tienne. But I will be
Speaker 8: waiting for you at the tackle.
Speaker 4: She was standing in the doorway when we got there
Speaker 4: at eight. She led us around the bank into a small, dirty,
Speaker 4: dimly lit room.
Speaker 2: What's why, monsieur.
Speaker 4: He rose from his chair and stood behind the table.
Speaker 4: Monsieur Etim was a small dark man. His eyes were
Speaker 4: shifty and calculating, kind of eyes you often find in
Speaker 4: the head that has a price on it.
Speaker 5: My apology is, monsieur for not seeing you sooner. I
Speaker 5: was at my headquarters in the hills.
Speaker 2: I had to walk down the roads were within muddy.
Speaker 4: No apologies necessary, monsieur.
Speaker 2: Mademoiselle Martin informs me, you wish the assistance of the magis.
Speaker 4: We need plenty of assistance. British commandos are planning raid
Speaker 4: on the port of Santa's are a commander san Nase.
Speaker 4: Eyes of his grew wider, they grew bright. He stepped
Speaker 4: from behind the table. But he shouldn't have, because that
Speaker 4: was when I saw his boots. They were clean and polished.
Speaker 4: There wasn't a speck of mud on him, and yet
Speaker 4: he'd walked through the mud from his headquarters in the hills.
Speaker 2: He said, is something that met there?
Speaker 4: He knew something was a matter, all right. He knew
Speaker 4: what it was too. He saw my eyes on his boots,
Speaker 4: and he understood. His hand went under his coat, but
Speaker 4: it never came out, because that was all I needed,
Speaker 4: for the love of Heaven, one shot did it. He
Speaker 4: grabbed his stomach and he slumped to the floor.
Speaker 5: Lord link costs the idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's one collaborator, less sure, That's all he was.
Speaker 4: Tom Natcy's planted him here to find out about our
Speaker 4: new mission.
Speaker 5: Yes, but they didn't know we had a new mission
Speaker 5: you sent me. Would have thought we were packing up
Speaker 5: to go back to England.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 5: He did well? Then, who could.
Speaker 4: Have started to tell him? He saw it for himself, Marie.
Speaker 4: A look on her face confirmed it. A look on
Speaker 4: his face. It's the kind of thing you don't like
Speaker 4: to remember. That was all she needed. She bowlted for
Speaker 4: the door and threw it open. I took one while
Speaker 4: shot at her, and I missed. Before I got fired again,
Speaker 4: she was gone. She knows about the raid Link. We've
Speaker 4: got to stop her before she gets to the German.
Speaker 4: There's no telling which way she went on. We'll split up.
Speaker 4: You go that way and out.
Speaker 5: The clink. Who's Marie?
Speaker 4: Come on? Ran down the dark alley behind the cafe
Speaker 4: the end of it. We found her lying face down
Speaker 4: in the mud.
Speaker 5: She's deadlink.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but.
Speaker 5: Who shut her? I did here, Corporal Mueler.
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry her, Barns. I know how you felt
Speaker 4: about but she was our enemy. She had to die.
Speaker 4: But how did you know? Mueller?
Speaker 6: I finally found a Frenchman who trusted me her Capitaine.
Speaker 4: His name is Monsieur Etienne. You mean that was his name?
Speaker 4: You see?
Speaker 6: He thought that I was a Nazi too, he confided
Speaker 6: in me. I said, Mueller, Yeah, her copper. Okay, I
Speaker 6: ought to tell you. What I mean is I don't
Speaker 6: know how to say it. I'm sorry I didn't trust.
Speaker 4: Do not say it, please, I I understand.
Speaker 5: Her.
Speaker 4: Capitaine.
Speaker 6: Yes, Mulla, I have used that one shell you left
Speaker 6: in my revolver, but I wonder if you would permit
Speaker 6: me to have one more.
Speaker 4: On No, not one more, Carl, I'm giving you back
Speaker 4: the whole clip. That same night we contacted the real
Speaker 4: leader of the my key. Two weeks later, the commando
Speaker 4: struck in his air. They wiped out that subpen and
Speaker 4: they went back to England. Tom Barnes and I went
Speaker 4: with him, and so did our friend Carl Mueller.
Speaker 3: And once again the report of another OSS agent closes
Speaker 3: with the.
Speaker 2: Words mission accomplished.
Speaker 3: Listen again next week for another true adventure from the
Speaker 3: files of the OSS on.
Speaker 2: Clok and Dagger.
Speaker 10: Heard in today as Clark and Dagger Adventurer as Captain
Speaker 10: Daggett was Carl Eastman, Tom Barnes, I and Marker, Carl Mueller,
Speaker 10: Louis van Ruten, Reed Louise Edison, a Jen Raymond Edward Johnson,
Speaker 10: Anomas and the.
Speaker 5: Nazi Carl Webber.
Speaker 10: The script was written by Kenfield and music was under
Speaker 10: the direction of John Guard, sound effects by Many Siagul
Speaker 10: and John Cowards Engineering Donovan. Today's OSS Adventure was based
Speaker 10: on the book Clock and Dagger by Corey Fort and
Speaker 10: Alistair McBain. This program is produced by Lewis G. Collen
Speaker 10: and Alfred Hollanda under the direction and supervision of Sherman Marx.
Speaker 5: Three Gimes Mean Good Times on NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. This was an interesting episode. I'll think that
Speaker 1: our hero suspicion of Mueller is definitely understandable now, certainly
Speaker 1: his superiors had trusted Mueller enough for this assignment. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, you can recall the episode a few
Speaker 1: weeks back where the OSS agent in the Netherlands convinced
Speaker 1: the Nazis he'd gone over to their side. I talked
Speaker 1: about the danger when you're in war and emotions are
Speaker 1: high and you've got propaganda going that you can believe
Speaker 1: your own propaganda and the idea of an enemy switching
Speaker 1: over to your side can be quite comforting, and so
Speaker 1: you might have had this same thing happening here, only
Speaker 1: with the Allies, and of course there's a huge emotional bias. Now,
Speaker 1: the captain explained that not everyone who wore a German
Speaker 1: uniform was a AKA, a Nazi party member or committed
Speaker 1: to Nazi ideology, but it wasn't something he said with
Speaker 1: a whole lot of conviction, and American propaganda at the
Speaker 1: time rarely, if ever acknowledged this fact. In fact, I
Speaker 1: think even to this day, there's a very widespread idea
Speaker 1: that everyone who served in the German military was a
Speaker 1: committed follower of Hitler and of the Nazi ideology. I
Speaker 1: even had to correct a computer program that stated that
Speaker 1: Rommel was a naz Now, obviously there were a lot
Speaker 1: of committed Nazis in the German military and various branches
Speaker 1: of it, but there were also many con scripts and
Speaker 1: the number of conscripts in the German army increased as
Speaker 1: the war went on, and not all of those people
Speaker 1: were there because they loved Hitler and supported Nazi ideology.
Speaker 1: Some had been, or their families had been, members of
Speaker 1: opposition political parties before Hitler abolished them. Before the November nine,
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three elections. Now that nuance might be realistic,
Speaker 1: but it's not particularly helpful in war time. It makes
Speaker 1: it easier to kill the enemy if you imagine all
Speaker 1: combatants monolithically as enthusiastic supporters of the furor.
Speaker 5: And for practical purposes.
Speaker 1: If a German soldier's pointing a gun at you, it
Speaker 1: really doesn't matter if they backed the Social Democratic Party
Speaker 1: in the March nineteen thirty three elections. But the existence
Speaker 1: of someone like Mueller is no ideological loyalty to Hitler
Speaker 1: and forced into the military for some reason and willing
Speaker 1: to help out the Allies is certainly something that you
Speaker 1: can believe happened. All right, Listener comments and feedback and
Speaker 1: just a brief comment over on Spotify from doctor who
Speaker 1: done it definitely becoming one of my favorites. Well, I'm
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