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Go to Patreon dot Great Detectives 14 00:00:58,759 --> 00:00:59,479 dot net. 15 00:00:59,799 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: Now. 16 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,719 Speaker 1: From July second, nineteen fifty here is the as of Buddha. 17 00:01:07,079 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 3: We delay the start of this program to bring you 18 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:14,840 a special bulletin from the NBC newsroom in New York. 19 00:01:14,879 --> 00:01:18,079 Here's the latest on Korea. Seoul has been rated by 20 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:22,159 American and Australian warplanes. They shot down two enemy planes, 21 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,480 one of which was marked with the Russian red Star 22 00:01:25,159 --> 00:01:27,439 A spokesman says that we have made one hundred and 23 00:01:27,439 --> 00:01:30,640 forty two raids against enemy targets in both South and 24 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:34,640 North Korea in the past twenty four hours. American officials 25 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,959 say there is a serious threat from Red ground forces 26 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,519 south of Seoul. Keep tuned to your NBC citation for 27 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:41,879 the later news. 28 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 4: Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the 29 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,439 enemy lines knowing you may never return alive? 30 00:01:57,799 --> 00:01:58,879 Speaker 2: Why do you have just heard? 31 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,439 Speaker 5: Is the question asked during the war to agents of 32 00:02:01,439 --> 00:02:05,879 the OSS ordinary citizens who to this question answered, yes. 33 00:02:07,439 --> 00:02:25,039 Speaker 4: This is cloak and dagger, black. 34 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 5: Warfare, espionage, international intrigue. These are the weapons of the OSS. 35 00:02:30,719 --> 00:02:34,800 Today's adventure the Eyes of Buddha, concerning an American OSS 36 00:02:34,879 --> 00:02:37,960 agent who went deep into enemy territory to enlist the 37 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,080 help of a nation which had declared war on the 38 00:02:40,159 --> 00:02:44,159 United States, is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the 39 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,919 Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story 40 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,479 that can now be told. 41 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,439 Speaker 2: In nineteen forty four, the tiny Kingdom of Siam was 42 00:03:05,479 --> 00:03:08,960 officially at war with the United States. So there I 43 00:03:09,159 --> 00:03:12,159 was in March of that year in an official Siamese 44 00:03:12,199 --> 00:03:15,680 plane on my way to ask Siamese help in rescuing 45 00:03:15,719 --> 00:03:20,919 an American flyer from the Japanese. Sound crazy, You ain't 46 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,719 heard nothing yet. The Siamese character beside me had received 47 00:03:24,719 --> 00:03:27,560 his master's degree at Yale and his PhD at Harvard. 48 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:33,000 Major lau du Priyordi pak I decided to call him, Louis. 49 00:03:33,199 --> 00:03:34,879 Speaker 6: Look down, Lieutenant Bumman, out. 50 00:03:34,759 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 2: Of your window? Yeah, what about it? 51 00:03:36,879 --> 00:03:39,599 Speaker 7: In those green forests, as you may know, still roam 52 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,840 the ancient pickcocks and the sacred elephants of Siam. 53 00:03:42,599 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 2: Louis, I may as well tell you right now there 54 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:46,919 are four things I know definitely about your country. 55 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:48,159 Speaker 6: What are these? My friend? 56 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: The Siamese twins were named bang In Chang, Siamese casts 57 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,800 and blue eyes. Somebody wrote a book called Hannah and 58 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:54,680 the King of Siam. 59 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:56,159 Speaker 6: And what is the fourth? 60 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,159 Speaker 2: Tan yak Dai fuying mai? The one line I know 61 00:04:00,199 --> 00:04:03,439 of your language, which translated means do you want to 62 00:04:03,479 --> 00:04:04,120 meet a girl? 63 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:05,319 Speaker 6: Yes? 64 00:04:05,479 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 7: Well, rest easy. There will be no need for you 65 00:04:08,039 --> 00:04:10,919 to speak more of the language. Must a ghost have 66 00:04:11,039 --> 00:04:14,680 need of words? Once we arrive at Bangkok, you will 67 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,040 be spirited from one place to another, my friend, as a. 68 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 8: Ghost, fasten your seat belt. Kindly fasten your seat belt. 69 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,439 Speaker 6: We are coming into the dam Buang field. 70 00:04:26,759 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 2: So far this has been too easy. Rang going to 71 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,519 a secret airport and Siam or you pick me up 72 00:04:31,519 --> 00:04:34,600 on this plane and here we are in Bangkok. Is 73 00:04:34,639 --> 00:04:36,319 this another hidden field? Louis? 74 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:37,879 Speaker 6: No, not exactly. 75 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 9: What do you mean? 76 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:39,639 Speaker 2: Not exactly? 77 00:04:40,079 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 7: Oh, I should say there are about eight hundred Japs 78 00:04:43,399 --> 00:04:44,759 on hand about the field. 79 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,199 Speaker 6: Huh, fasten your seat belt. 80 00:04:47,279 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 2: Lieutenant Burman, the official Siamese playing with the sacred white 81 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,439 elephant painted on the side, slid right across the field 82 00:05:05,439 --> 00:05:08,839 and taxi passed hundreds of JAB soldiers guarding the runway. 83 00:05:09,319 --> 00:05:11,439 The hangar door at the west side of the field open. 84 00:05:12,639 --> 00:05:15,879 The ground crew rolled the plane in. Then the door 85 00:05:15,959 --> 00:05:18,959 slid closed again, as if we had been swallowed up. 86 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,120 Joe and I climbed out of the plane. Add Lieutenant Buman. 87 00:05:23,319 --> 00:05:23,920 This is long. 88 00:05:24,399 --> 00:05:26,959 Speaker 7: He will drive us to the OSS hideout in Bangkok, 89 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,439 where you will meet the Region of Siam, the leader 90 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:30,240 of the underground. 91 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:30,639 Speaker 2: Here. 92 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:33,199 Speaker 9: I do very well. 93 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,439 Speaker 6: Alm suggests we wait a few minutes before leaving. Oh, 94 00:05:37,959 --> 00:05:38,720 is anything wrong? 95 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 9: Or suggest you wait here? 96 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,639 Speaker 10: I will return tell you when it is safe to 97 00:05:42,759 --> 00:05:47,240 leave the two Japanese officials in car right outside. 98 00:05:51,879 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 2: We waited and were swathering hot in ear and by 99 00:05:56,079 --> 00:05:58,959 the time Lum came back a few minutes later, my 100 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,439 shirt was ready. The ringer oversaws gone. Now is safe. 101 00:06:03,879 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 6: We will leave by side door. Come quickly, cant is outside. 102 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,680 You'll see Lieutenant. Thus far your mission is proceeding successfully. 103 00:06:13,759 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 2: I better not talk too soon a week. We haven't 104 00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:16,839 reached the hideout yet. 105 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 7: Perhaps you are right, Ah, proceed, Lum. 106 00:06:34,759 --> 00:06:37,319 Speaker 2: Plum drove us right through the downtown district of Bangkok 107 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,160 toward the Palace, which is being used as underground headquarters. 108 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,600 As we drove through the streets, I could see jack 109 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,800 pillboxes and the internment camp and everywhere around us walking 110 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:49,759 the streets, guns and their hosters. We're Japanese. Then we 111 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,000 turn it a busy intersection and it happened. 112 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 6: Lom, what is it? What is wrong with that? 113 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 9: Hawn? I do not know, Major, I do not know. 114 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 4: You stuck well, not stopped? 115 00:07:01,879 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 2: Great, everybody's turning around to look at us. 116 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 6: Can't you do anything about that little horn? 117 00:07:07,199 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: A little horn? 118 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 9: Quiet? 119 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:10,959 Speaker 2: Talking to it isn't going to help. Lom stop and 120 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,000 you ain't got the wires, a. 121 00:07:11,959 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 5: Little hornish, do not blow, do not blow. 122 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:18,199 Speaker 6: This is very unfortunate, my friend. 123 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:19,399 Speaker 2: You have a gift for understatement. 124 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 6: Lomlum, we are causing too much attention. Do as the 125 00:07:22,839 --> 00:07:23,759 American says. 126 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 11: A horn, police, I beg of you quiet nice, a. 127 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 4: Little horn, a pretty little horn. 128 00:07:31,519 --> 00:07:31,759 Speaker 2: Lump. 129 00:07:31,879 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 6: Stop the car and pull out the wires. 130 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:39,199 Speaker 11: Oh there's no need, major, It has stopped by a cell. 131 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,439 All I had to do was speak nicely to it. 132 00:07:43,759 --> 00:07:57,319 Speaker 2: Oh, my aching bag. Hey, this is quite a place. 133 00:07:57,519 --> 00:08:00,560 Marble floor is winding staircase, just like the Moway till 134 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:01,560 I tell my wife about this. 135 00:08:01,879 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 7: The palace, set back only a little way from the street, 136 00:08:04,839 --> 00:08:08,680 has been underground headquarters for two years. At all hours 137 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,040 of the day, Japanese soldiers march up and down in 138 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:11,639 front of it. 139 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,519 Speaker 6: Yet none of them know what is going on inside. 140 00:08:14,519 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 2: Well, you can be sure of one thing, louis what 141 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:16,720 is that? 142 00:08:16,839 --> 00:08:17,319 Speaker 6: Lieutenant? 143 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:18,279 Speaker 2: I won't tell. 144 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:23,199 Speaker 7: Them after you, my friend, the servants have prepared dinner 145 00:08:23,199 --> 00:08:23,800 for us. 146 00:08:24,199 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 6: You must be hungry. 147 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 2: We will eat. Only A couple of miles away were 148 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,000 camps where Allied prisoners lived on little more than bread 149 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:38,240 and water. Yet here I was an American right under 150 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,080 the noses of the Nips, consuming a dinner that began 151 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:44,519 and ended with iceed beer and included roast duck and 152 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:49,360 freshwater prawns, salad, curried beef, dried fish, topped off with 153 00:08:49,519 --> 00:08:53,000 large bowls of fresh bananas and pieces of samow, a 154 00:08:53,159 --> 00:09:03,240 Siamese improvement on grapefruits. 155 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:12,279 Speaker 6: Ah, have you had enough to eat, Lieutenant? Would you 156 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:13,159 care for something else? 157 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:13,399 Speaker 1: Oh? 158 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 2: No, no, thanks, Louis, I've had more than enough. Buye coffee? Coffee? 159 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:20,799 Speaker 9: Hey? 160 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:24,559 Speaker 2: That what's his name by? He isn't very talkative? Is 161 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,200 he a good choice? We feel for a seventh in 162 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:33,039 underground headquarters. He hears nothing and repeats less. Baye is 163 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:37,720 a death mute. Tell me, Lieutenant Bumman, what did you 164 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:40,399 do before the war? He oh, I was a stunt pilot. 165 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,120 I barnstormed all over the country and old crates and jennies, 166 00:09:43,159 --> 00:09:45,039 anything that had wings. I got a trunk full of 167 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,600 ten medals for almost getting my neck busted. I'll see now. 168 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:52,600 Like Louie, I admire good pilots. And one of General 169 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,759 Chanel's hot flyers is a prisoner of the jets somewhere 170 00:09:56,759 --> 00:10:00,440 around here. If anybody's going to get him out. I'd 171 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:01,679 like to be the one to try it. 172 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 6: We will see to it that you get your chance. 173 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,159 Speaker 2: Then when is the ragent coming? I'm anxious to meet him. 174 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:14,639 Speaker 7: Oh, he will be here after midnight. After midnight, yes, 175 00:10:14,759 --> 00:10:18,200 you'll see. This is the evening of the Japanese admiral's birthday. 176 00:10:18,919 --> 00:10:21,320 It was necessary for the Regent of Siam to be 177 00:10:21,399 --> 00:10:25,039 there out of friendliness. 178 00:10:25,159 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 9: Of course. 179 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,759 Speaker 2: About twelve thirty he arrived. He was dressed delegantly in 180 00:10:32,799 --> 00:10:37,360 a white silk coat and white pongee trousers. Anna's head 181 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:43,080 was a delicately embroidered turban. This was Juang Pradit Mano 182 00:10:43,159 --> 00:10:47,240 d Arm, Regent of Siam and head of the Siamese underground. 183 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 6: I trust you will forgive me for being delayed. 184 00:10:50,519 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 2: Oh, that's all right. 185 00:10:51,759 --> 00:10:54,679 Speaker 6: The Japanese Admiral would never have forgiven me for leaving 186 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,480 his party. Mijad some more brandy for the lieutenant, of course. 187 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:01,559 How about your mission? 188 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:06,159 Speaker 2: Well, several months ago, one of General Chanel's best pilots 189 00:11:06,159 --> 00:11:09,919 crashed on the Burmaciam frontier. Other members of his flight 190 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,840 reported that they saw the plane go down. You settle 191 00:11:12,879 --> 00:11:17,159 in the spreading banyan tree, but they didn't see it burn. 192 00:11:17,879 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 6: So the presumption is he is still alive somewhere in 193 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:25,759 sayam Hey, that's it. Major in the morning, driving representent 194 00:11:25,919 --> 00:11:29,759 to Colonel Sangue that Camppanjada, Yes, excellently, I think Conel 195 00:11:29,799 --> 00:11:31,919 Sangue will be in a position to get the information 196 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:32,600 you are after. 197 00:11:32,799 --> 00:11:37,159 Speaker 2: That's great, your excellency. This may be a little out 198 00:11:37,159 --> 00:11:40,320 of order, but yes. Don't you ever get the feeling 199 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,519 you're walking around with your head and the noose? 200 00:11:44,279 --> 00:11:48,039 Speaker 6: A very good question. Well put, I imagine I am 201 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,440 a great mystery to the Americans of the OSS No 202 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,360 doubt they feel mystery shrouding our whole people. 203 00:11:54,759 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 2: After all, you are supposedly an ally of the Japs. 204 00:11:58,639 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 6: Supposedly we are an independent nation lifting it. Our people 205 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,759 are proud and freedom loving. Siam sits in the heart 206 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:13,720 of Southeast Asia, an inscrutable Buddha. The Japanese obaran our borders, 207 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:16,360 and from our capital in Bangkok, declared war on the 208 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:21,279 United States. The green flames of the jungle consumed us. 209 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,799 So the Buddha sits arms folded on its bronze breast, 210 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,039 its face expressionless. 211 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 12: But the eyes of the Buddha wink is that it 212 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,440 the eyes wink lift in it. Its ears are tuned 213 00:12:37,519 --> 00:12:41,200 to the enemy, and the jeweled lips whisper. There are 214 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:44,919 fifty thousand Japanese here in Siam, my friend. We will 215 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:50,440 continue to wait, watch and listen until they are driven out. 216 00:12:54,799 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 2: The next morning, Louis and I with Lum driving shut 217 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,840 out for Campunjarra. Ever since my arrive and Bangkok, I 218 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,720 had the feeling I was sitting on a powder keg 219 00:13:02,759 --> 00:13:05,600 that was able to go off any minute. Driving through 220 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,000 the streets and broad daylight didn't make me feel any better, 221 00:13:08,639 --> 00:13:10,840 but I figured the Siamese knew what they were doing. 222 00:13:11,919 --> 00:13:14,480 This time. Nothing went wrong with the horn, but something 223 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,799 else happened that gave me quite a turn. It sounds fantastic, 224 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,600 and it was, but it really happened. A JAP MP 225 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,039 directing traffic held up his hand and the official car 226 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,000 we were riding in stopped. I didn't like stopping. I 227 00:13:27,039 --> 00:13:29,799 felt better while we were on the move. Then all 228 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:34,159 of a sudden, I saw it, JAP soldier looking curiously 229 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:40,240 in the window, staring at my occidental face. We looked 230 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,720 at each other for a few seconds. Neither of us 231 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:52,919 said a word. Then the car moved on. Louis Louie. 232 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,320 That JAP soldier he saw me, I know, even with 233 00:13:55,399 --> 00:13:58,000 the civilian hat and his shirt over my uniform. He 234 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,799 couldn't have mistaken me for a Siamese, no doubt. 235 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 7: But if he saw me, put your mind, and he 236 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,799 is my friend, I'm sure he doesn't believe what he 237 00:14:07,039 --> 00:14:10,440 thought he saw. And if later he convinces himself it 238 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:13,679 was true and goes to his commanding officer, he will 239 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,759 lose face for telling so ludicrous a tale. You mean 240 00:14:16,799 --> 00:14:20,360 they won't believe in Oh, come now, Lieutenant Burman, what 241 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:24,679 would an American be doing in Japanese occupied Siam driving 242 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:26,480 along the streets in full daylight? 243 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 6: Ridiculous? 244 00:14:28,879 --> 00:14:29,799 Speaker 2: Don't you think. 245 00:14:40,919 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 9: You have come to the right face, Lieutenant Berman. 246 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,759 Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad to hear that. Colonel Sangue, I have 247 00:14:45,879 --> 00:14:47,399 heard of the flyer you seek. 248 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 9: I know the prison camp in which he is now being. 249 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,519 Speaker 13: Hey, that's great when we start, and not so fast, 250 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,320 Toe Tenant, we must make plans first. 251 00:14:57,919 --> 00:15:01,799 Speaker 9: This is not a matter to be undertaken right day. Come. 252 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:06,200 We will have dinner first, and then we will discuss 253 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:07,200 if you have them. 254 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 2: Dinner, Colonel's saying one. I've been wined and dined ever 255 00:15:09,639 --> 00:15:11,519 since I got the bank cock, but I haven't done 256 00:15:11,559 --> 00:15:12,039 a thing. 257 00:15:12,919 --> 00:15:18,559 Speaker 14: Ah, my wife, Tara, we will die, then we will talk. 258 00:15:18,679 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 4: Father. 259 00:15:27,519 --> 00:15:31,399 Speaker 15: Does my English surprise you, Lieutenant Burman? I was educated 260 00:15:31,399 --> 00:15:34,159 in America. I am a graduate of Wellesley College. 261 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 13: It was not your English which made the lieutenant observe 262 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,879 you with such interest, My dear, It is your appearance. 263 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 9: Am I not correct? 264 00:15:43,519 --> 00:15:46,919 Speaker 2: You're very correct, Colonel. You have an extremely attractive wife. 265 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:47,679 Speaker 6: Thank you, Bob. 266 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 15: My husband's lavish compliments embarrassed me occasionally. I suppose they 267 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,159 are to be expected after only two months of marriage. 268 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,799 Speaker 2: Two months. Well, congratulations, it is. 269 00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:59,919 Speaker 9: I who am to be congratulated. 270 00:16:00,279 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 6: More coffee, Lieutenant Colonel Sanguan. 271 00:16:02,919 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 9: Colonel Sang, is that man dad o way? 272 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:05,399 Speaker 2: What happened? 273 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 7: He car Japanese Colonel Kishianami with many soldiers bank? 274 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:11,519 Speaker 9: What could he want here? 275 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 6: He requests an audience with. 276 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 14: You, Lietenant. There's no time to lose that screen. Quickly 277 00:16:17,559 --> 00:16:20,159 go behind it and pray to the Great Buddha. He 278 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:21,799 does not stare on and. 279 00:16:21,759 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 15: You major sit here in the lieutenant's place, pretend it 280 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:24,559 where's your place? 281 00:16:24,639 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 6: Quickly quickly. 282 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 2: Nobody had to tell me to be quick. I got 283 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,639 behind the bamboo screen and Louis slid into my chair 284 00:16:38,679 --> 00:16:41,559 at the table, and he stood up immediately with sanguan 285 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:45,200 as Kishinami came in a great ornate sword swinging from 286 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,080 his side. He stood so close to me I could 287 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:49,840 have reached out and touched that sword. 288 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,919 Speaker 15: Would you care for some coffee, Colonel Kishinami? 289 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:53,279 Speaker 2: No? 290 00:16:53,919 --> 00:16:58,879 Speaker 11: Oh, thank you, oconna. Someone I'm here, I'm official business. 291 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,159 Speaker 9: Yes, what can I do to help you? 292 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: Oh? 293 00:17:03,399 --> 00:17:08,839 Speaker 11: We have discovered a clandestine airfield in this territory. Surely 294 00:17:09,559 --> 00:17:12,880 it is not so close to this camp without your knowledge. 295 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 6: Air field? 296 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 14: Oh, certain, certainly it was constructed as a temporary emergency 297 00:17:20,519 --> 00:17:22,039 landing field some years ago. 298 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,799 Speaker 9: It has been infrequently used. 299 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 11: Observation shows it to be in excellent condition and indicates 300 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:33,759 constant activity. 301 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:37,079 Speaker 9: Wow, I cannot believe this. 302 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 6: Let me accompany you and see this airfield. 303 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 9: Havea my dear, you will forgive me. 304 00:17:44,079 --> 00:17:47,279 Speaker 2: Of course, I will be here. It happened so fast 305 00:17:47,279 --> 00:17:49,759 I couldn't believe my eyes. As the Siamese colonel turned 306 00:17:49,759 --> 00:17:52,279 to second bride to his wife, that treacherous jab sword 307 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:56,079 was whipped out and sang Uan was very neatly decapitated. 308 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:01,240 The heading sign must have been the signal for the 309 00:18:01,279 --> 00:18:03,160 JAP soldiers in the room to take out their guns 310 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,720 before they could do anything with them. Tava sprung a 311 00:18:05,839 --> 00:18:08,480 Kishian army and with a meat knife from the table, 312 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,279 stabbed him through the heart. The next sordier tried to 313 00:18:12,279 --> 00:18:15,680 get at her, but Louie got him first. Then that 314 00:18:15,759 --> 00:18:18,160 powdy cake I'd been sitting on really went off. 315 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 7: With their leader killed, they did not have much heart 316 00:18:34,839 --> 00:18:37,440 left for the fight. They are gone now. 317 00:18:37,519 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 2: But Louie, I don't understand it, thought I what brought 318 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,720 on the assassination of the colonel? That phony aeron? He 319 00:18:42,799 --> 00:18:44,319 came on with just an excuse to get in. 320 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 7: It is possible that the order has come for the 321 00:18:46,599 --> 00:18:49,119 total subjugation of our people by the Japanese. 322 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 6: If true, it is open war from now on. 323 00:18:52,759 --> 00:18:54,039 Speaker 2: Will there be another attack tonight? 324 00:18:54,079 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 9: You think? 325 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,799 Speaker 16: If so, we are armed and ready. There is nothing 326 00:18:57,839 --> 00:19:01,319 to do. But wait, what about Tava? Is there anything 327 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,000 I can do for her? No, she is one of 328 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:07,720 my kind. It is best to let me console her. Lieutenant, 329 00:19:08,599 --> 00:19:11,880 thank you on her behalf for your kindness. Married two 330 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,200 munths what a loudly shame. 331 00:19:14,839 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 6: Go to your quarters. 332 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 9: We will wait. 333 00:19:21,799 --> 00:19:24,759 Speaker 2: Nothing further occurred that night, but none of us slept. 334 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:28,480 In the morning, a big black official limousine drove up. 335 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:31,640 It was the Regent of Siam. 336 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 6: I have received an apology from the Japanese government for 337 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:39,880 the incident last night. They are quite a tip at apologizing. 338 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:45,079 Speaker 15: My husband has been killed and you call it an incident, excellency. 339 00:19:44,599 --> 00:19:45,559 Speaker 2: Yeah, how about that. 340 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 6: It is my belief that the order for the subjugation 341 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,960 of Siam had been issued by the Japanese high command 342 00:19:51,599 --> 00:19:55,119 and rescined it because they did not believe the time appropriate. 343 00:19:55,279 --> 00:19:59,200 But what about last night, excellency. Evidently, through some oversight 344 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,079 or the dificulties of communication, girl Kishen Dami had not 345 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,160 been worn that the plan was off. It is my 346 00:20:06,279 --> 00:20:06,839 belief that. 347 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 2: Gold will be quiet now for a wire. 348 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 15: Shall we sit quietly once more and wait for them 349 00:20:12,519 --> 00:20:14,960 to attack us again while our backs are turned. There 350 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:16,440 are many of us in the underground. 351 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 6: Tap is right, Let us attack them. Let me avenge 352 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:19,839 my husdand. 353 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,519 Speaker 2: Listen, listen, Wait a minute, you've played a waiting game 354 00:20:21,599 --> 00:20:23,720 so far. Wait a while longer. I know the fuse 355 00:20:23,799 --> 00:20:27,079 is burning close. But wait, that time is past, Lieutenant, 356 00:20:27,079 --> 00:20:28,960 and the open act on your part will really make 357 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,319 the Japs cracked down. Right now, Siam is the best 358 00:20:31,319 --> 00:20:33,640 listening post the Allies have in the East. Believe me, 359 00:20:33,799 --> 00:20:36,319 Washington knows what it's doing. You're a better help that way. 360 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,599 Speaker 6: The Lieutenant is right. We will continue to be a 361 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:44,079 docile puppet state and sell out the enemy to the Allied. 362 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,440 But your exit say, we will wait. I have myself 363 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:52,839 promised President Roosevelt that we Siamese will continue to be 364 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:59,680 loyal and silent. We will wait until we are told otherwise. 365 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:03,920 Did you get the information you came after? 366 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 2: No way, eh, Colonel san Juan was going to give 367 00:21:08,039 --> 00:21:09,039 it to me before. 368 00:21:09,039 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 15: I know the camp you are looking for, Lieutenant, I 369 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,400 will tell you what you want to know. 370 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 7: The Japanese prison camp at Corrupt is only about five 371 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:33,079 minutes strip now, Lieutenant, the object of your mission ends there. 372 00:21:33,319 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 2: We're taking a long chance, Louis. 373 00:21:35,559 --> 00:21:37,839 Speaker 6: You are the one who is taking the long chance. 374 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,039 Speaker 2: You think it will work, though, don't you. 375 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 7: I can only say I hope when I turn you 376 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,839 over to the Japanese commander as a prisoner, there is 377 00:21:46,839 --> 00:21:49,400 a strong possibility you would be thrown into the same 378 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,480 stockcade as the American flyer for whom you are looking. 379 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 2: And if I'm not just being inside those gates will 380 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,599 give me an opportunity to find out exactly where he 381 00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:58,480 is in that camp. 382 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,039 Speaker 6: You fight him, we will attend to the rest. 383 00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:04,599 Speaker 2: I hope I can count on trust. 384 00:22:04,319 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 7: Us Major priority back from the region I had a 385 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,359 prisoner for not to very well as. 386 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 6: I am indeed and deed to you for bringing this 387 00:22:32,519 --> 00:22:33,160 prisoner to. 388 00:22:33,039 --> 00:22:35,839 Speaker 7: Me, Major, I have brought him not to with the 389 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,839 complements of the region of Siam. Is it not to 390 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,200 be expected since we Siamese are the allies. 391 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 6: And the friends of the Japanese. 392 00:22:43,519 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 9: Of course, of course you. 393 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,759 Speaker 6: Will be cooperative and answer my questions. 394 00:22:47,839 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 2: You understand, I don't know any answers. 395 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 4: How did you get here? 396 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,319 Speaker 2: He just told you my plane crashed near the border? Rush? 397 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,400 Speaker 6: What was your mission? I'm a neighbor, but through Why 398 00:22:58,400 --> 00:22:59,039 are your head up? 399 00:22:59,200 --> 00:22:59,559 Speaker 1: Secret? 400 00:22:59,559 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 4: Apps? 401 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,559 Speaker 6: I am which one? Where is it? Who is your contact? Crazy? 402 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 2: I have any contact? I tell you, I just crashed like. 403 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 6: Some American is going to be stubborn knife PM measure 404 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,319 give him time. He will break down. They all do 405 00:23:13,559 --> 00:23:16,960 Unfortunately they do not. The American flyer we have had 406 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,319 interned here for some months, and so insist that all 407 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,279 our efforts to obtain the truth, is it not possible? 408 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,759 He has told you all he knows. Or come come Meja, your. 409 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 7: Timents are too trusting, Perhaps Caelina too, Perhaps you are 410 00:23:30,279 --> 00:23:31,279 right American. 411 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,519 Speaker 6: I will have you taken to the stockade. 412 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 17: Well, I ask you, good, Look at the other flyer, 413 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:38,440 look well at him. 414 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 6: Know that the worst fed away you. If you do 415 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:48,400 not co operate, as Canelina too, this president in the 416 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,160 stockade on the west side of the camp, I will 417 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:51,839 deal with him later. 418 00:23:59,319 --> 00:24:01,279 Speaker 2: I tried to, by the way I felt about being 419 00:24:01,319 --> 00:24:03,240 thrown together with the very man I had come all 420 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,400 the way to Siam for fine. I walked past Lewis 421 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,799 without looking at him, but out of the corner of 422 00:24:08,839 --> 00:24:11,440 my eye I saw that his face was coolly, impassive. 423 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:13,319 Speaker 5: Give out with your America. 424 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 2: It took me a couple of minutes to get used 425 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,000 to the darkness, and then the darkness took form, and 426 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,839 I saw a figure huddled in a corner, an emaciated, 427 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:30,599 bearded figure wearing an American uniform. Jenna Davis, who's that. 428 00:24:32,039 --> 00:24:36,799 Who are you, friend, American? Are you all right? Can 429 00:24:36,799 --> 00:24:37,200 you hear me? 430 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 6: Can you understand me? 431 00:24:40,039 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 2: I'd come to get you out of here. 432 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 6: Come here closer, let me see you. 433 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 9: You are in America. I don't believe it. 434 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,079 Speaker 2: Ernol in a tool told me to take a good 435 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:56,079 look at you. I am no. I'd like to go 436 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,599 back and take a good swing at him. 437 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 9: You heard that? What are you doing here? Who are you? 438 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,400 Speaker 2: Lieutenant Burman of the oasis. General Chanel asked me to 439 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,039 find you. I'm me. 440 00:25:09,519 --> 00:25:10,279 Speaker 6: Get me out of here. 441 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 2: Listen, listen, don't talk, don't talk, just listen to me. 442 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,039 He listened all right, and even in the semi darkness, 443 00:25:24,079 --> 00:25:25,920 I could see the light come back into his eyes 444 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,920 at the idea of getting out of that place. At 445 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,920 about seven o'clock in the evening, the jet guard outside 446 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,160 the stockade was changed. The New Century brought us in 447 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:36,759 some food. 448 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 9: Yeah it is It is the best I could do. 449 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 6: Lum, is it really you? 450 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 2: Oh? 451 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,519 Speaker 10: This is better, I hoped the Japanese god whose place 452 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,319 I took us whelling to pay attention to a little bribe. 453 00:25:51,319 --> 00:25:54,160 The Japanese soldiers are so underpaid, you know. 454 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:58,079 Speaker 2: Lieutenant Davis, this is Lum, a Siamese, a friend. Can 455 00:25:58,079 --> 00:25:58,920 you get us out of here? 456 00:25:59,079 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 10: We have plan tonight, when the moon is low, I 457 00:26:03,519 --> 00:26:06,400 will turn my back and you too will make a run. 458 00:26:06,279 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 9: For it, plant to escape. 459 00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 2: I'll never make it. 460 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 10: No, of course not. 461 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,599 Speaker 6: You will be shot in the attempt and killed. 462 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:14,519 Speaker 10: Sorry, Lom, I don't think much of that idea. Have 463 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,519 you got the others have no finish. Listen, listen, I 464 00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:20,839 will only pretend to shoot you. You will only pretend 465 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,640 to die. The Japanese soldier who was bright and one 466 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,720 other who has accepted our money, will get you quickly. 467 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,519 Stand over you a Siamese doctor, and the camp will 468 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:32,559 pronounce you dead. 469 00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:34,279 Speaker 9: Leave the rest to us. 470 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,519 Speaker 2: It won't work, It won't, Lieutenant Davis, the Siamese say 471 00:26:37,519 --> 00:26:43,960 it will work. Give him a chance. When the moon 472 00:26:44,079 --> 00:26:46,559 was low and the signal from love, we broke out 473 00:26:46,599 --> 00:26:55,480 and made a run for it. When we heard the shots, 474 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,359 we throw ourselves face down on the ground and held 475 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,359 our breaths stretched out like that, without moving, our eyes closed. 476 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,519 Everything that happened around us after that seemed to be 477 00:27:03,519 --> 00:27:04,400 a crazy dream. 478 00:27:05,079 --> 00:27:05,799 Speaker 4: I should I. 479 00:27:05,839 --> 00:27:07,279 Speaker 17: Will regret them. 480 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:12,799 Speaker 2: I fear Colonel Leno too. They are already sorry, what 481 00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:16,599 did you say? These Americans kindel Leno too, They are 482 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,200 both very dead. 483 00:27:19,079 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 4: That's what shall we do? 484 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 9: What I'm kind of what you orders them? 485 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,039 Speaker 17: If they don't bury them, of course they come to 486 00:27:28,079 --> 00:27:43,799 the cemetery and bury them. 487 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,519 Speaker 7: Now that our plan has worked with Tennant Burman, I 488 00:27:46,559 --> 00:27:48,759 may as well tell you I was never sure it 489 00:27:48,799 --> 00:27:50,960 would turn out his successfully, but. 490 00:27:51,079 --> 00:27:53,319 Speaker 2: Lower you did have the Spain already and warming up 491 00:27:53,319 --> 00:27:54,079 at the cemetery. 492 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:55,880 Speaker 6: We Siamese are eternal. 493 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,279 Speaker 10: Up to me, the braves are dune in Major or 494 00:27:59,279 --> 00:27:59,920 what shall we do? 495 00:28:00,559 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 7: We will say goodbye to our friends the Americans first lump. 496 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 6: Then we will go back and throw the dirt. 497 00:28:05,759 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 7: Over the empty graves in case Colonel Enotu comes to 498 00:28:08,559 --> 00:28:09,680 inspect the plane. 499 00:28:09,799 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 6: To get on the plane again, out of this place, 500 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:13,559 plane down hold. 501 00:28:14,039 --> 00:28:17,039 Speaker 7: I pray Lieutenant Davis, that you will both return to 502 00:28:17,079 --> 00:28:20,880 our land one day in happier time. I assure you 503 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,119 are the greater welcome and far greater hospitality. 504 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,519 Speaker 6: And now goodbye and a pleasant journal. 505 00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:36,759 Speaker 2: Just before we took off, Major loudohll Ya d Park 506 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,200 presented each of us with a green velvet box in 507 00:28:40,279 --> 00:28:43,160 them more coverings of pure gold and pounded ruby dust 508 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,359 with the initials a M for the boy King Ananda 509 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,559 May Doll and a golden crown for the mark of 510 00:28:49,559 --> 00:29:05,839 the dynasty, a royal present from the King of Siam. 511 00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:07,920 As we look down, we could see lum of the 512 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:12,559 two five jap soldiers with Louis directing operations, shoveling the 513 00:29:12,599 --> 00:29:14,839 dirt in over our graves. 514 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 5: Thus, on April eighteenth, nineteen forty four, Lieutenant Davis, the 515 00:29:19,759 --> 00:29:22,599 missing pilot of the Flying Tigers, was rescued from the 516 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:23,799 Japanese prison. 517 00:29:23,519 --> 00:29:25,079 Speaker 2: Camp and rejoined his unit. 518 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 5: And once again the report of another OSS agent closed 519 00:29:29,759 --> 00:29:30,079 with the. 520 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:32,079 Speaker 4: Words mission accomplished. 521 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 5: Listen again next week for another true adventure from the 522 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,720 piles of the OSS on. 523 00:29:38,839 --> 00:29:40,599 Speaker 4: Look and Dagger. 524 00:29:56,839 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 8: Heard in Today's Cloak and Dagger Adventure were Grant Richard's 525 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,400 ever Sloan, Ralph Bell, Barry Kloger, Raymond Edward Johnson, Aileen Heckert, 526 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,279 Carl Weber, Martin Balsom, and Jerry Jarrett. Script was written 527 00:30:08,319 --> 00:30:11,119 by Winifred Wolf and Jack Gordon. Music was under the 528 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,799 direction of John Guards. Today's true OSS adventure was based 529 00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:17,000 on the book Cloak and Dagger by Cary Ford and 530 00:30:17,039 --> 00:30:20,519 Alistair McBain. This has been a loose g con production 531 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,599 in association with Alfred Hollander who was under the direction 532 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:24,880 and supervision. 533 00:30:24,359 --> 00:30:25,039 Speaker 2: Of Sherman Mark. 534 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 8: Next exciting high Adventure, then the Big Guy on NBC. 535 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: Welcome Back, A really good tale, a lot of excitement, 536 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,279 a lot of food. Now, out of curiosity, I want 537 00:30:46,279 --> 00:30:48,480 to ahead him. Picked up my copy of the book 538 00:30:48,519 --> 00:30:51,640 Cloak and Dagger. Now I tend to read through this 539 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,440 book before we finish the series, but I've been engaged 540 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,079 in another project, so I've been going around to reading 541 00:30:58,079 --> 00:31:02,759 the whole book because just haven't had the time. But 542 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,359 I recalled when I was hoilpling through it that I 543 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,279 saw this chapter title, and I decided to read that chapter. 544 00:31:09,359 --> 00:31:14,680 Because each chapter is self contained, this specific adventure didn't 545 00:31:14,799 --> 00:31:17,799 happen exactly as told on the radio, at least not 546 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,160 in that chapter. The chapter in the book, Klokendagger gave 547 00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:27,799 a general overview of OSS activity in Thailand, which is 548 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:33,279 what Siam is now called, and the ways that the 549 00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:38,559 OSS and the Tie Resistance coordinated together. There are some 550 00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:42,240 incidents that are drawn directly from the book. For example, 551 00:31:42,359 --> 00:31:45,680 the incident with the horn is something that came right 552 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:50,599 out of the book. The description of the dinner is lifted. 553 00:31:50,279 --> 00:31:52,119 Speaker 6: Word from word for word. 554 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: And then you also had the story of a crash 555 00:31:56,079 --> 00:32:00,759 pilot whose return was requested by chinault. So the rescue 556 00:32:00,839 --> 00:32:05,759 was actually affected by members of the underground without a 557 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:12,440 US operative involved, who bribe Japanese guards, and in a 558 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:17,920 less interesting turn than in the radio play, they took 559 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,039 him from a wood cutting detail to a secret clearing 560 00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:25,680 where he was flown away. So this story is a 561 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:30,359 bit of a composite of several events that happened in Thailand. 562 00:32:31,039 --> 00:32:33,799 There's an element of fiction about it, but an even 563 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,599 bigger element of truth, as the episode highlights the cooperation 564 00:32:38,799 --> 00:32:42,799 between the OSS and the Underground in Thailand, which definitely 565 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,039 was true, and the vital role that Thailand played in 566 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:51,519 helping win the war and being that key intelligence post 567 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,480 while pretending to be subservient to the Japanese. One thing 568 00:32:55,519 --> 00:32:59,519 I appreciate about this series is that so far they 569 00:32:59,559 --> 00:33:04,000 don't make the American agents look like some superheroes helping 570 00:33:04,039 --> 00:33:10,400 out hapless local populations. This series gives respect to our allies, 571 00:33:10,519 --> 00:33:14,440 whether you were talking with about Malaysian tribes or the 572 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:19,720 French Underground or this sort of tai government that was 573 00:33:19,839 --> 00:33:24,079 pretending submission to the Japanese while doing some of the 574 00:33:24,119 --> 00:33:28,200 most vital intelligence work of the war. You even had 575 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,839 this point where the lieutenants was just expressed his confidence 576 00:33:33,359 --> 00:33:36,680 that these people knew what they were doing and were 577 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,359 going to help them escape, and that they would trust 578 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,680 them with their lives. And it's important to honor that 579 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,119 that they were these great partners with us in this 580 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,440 great battle for liberty. Well, now we turn to listener 581 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:55,079 comments and feedback, and we have a comment from Ron Sir, 582 00:33:55,319 --> 00:33:59,440 who writes, great show. Thanks for the new podcast. It 583 00:33:59,559 --> 00:34:02,079 is great. Well, thanks so much, Ron Sir. And then 584 00:34:02,319 --> 00:34:06,799 just a simple thank you from Zach Well, I appreciate 585 00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:10,679 your support. Glad you're enjoying the new podcast. Now it's 586 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,400 time to thank our Patreon supporters of the day. Now, 587 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:20,440 for those listening on the Great Detective podcast for Great Adventurers, 588 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:30,920 we've essentially created parallel podcast Patreon Tears, so there's adventurer 589 00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:35,800 names where your familiar Great Detective tears. So I want 590 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,400 to go ahead and thank our Patreon supporter of the day, 591 00:34:39,599 --> 00:34:44,719 Bernie Patreon supporter since June of twenty twenty four, currently 592 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,480 supporting the podcast at the secret Agent. 593 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,199 Speaker 6: Level of four dollars or more per month. 594 00:34:49,599 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your support, Bernie. That'll do it 595 00:34:52,039 --> 00:34:57,960 for today. We will be back next Saturday with another 596 00:34:58,199 --> 00:35:03,800 episode of Cloak and Dagger. The Great Adventurers of Old 597 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:09,280 Time Radio will return on Tuesday with an episode of Flash. 598 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,440 Gordon and the Great Detectives will be back tomorrow with 599 00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:18,639 our first listener support appreciation special. 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