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dot Great Detectives dot net. Now from August eighteenth, nineteen
forty nine, here is explosion in the desert.
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Speaker 5: Parting Counterspy Calling Washington.
Speaker 6: United States.
Speaker 7: Especially, appointed to investigate and come back the enemies of our.
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Speaker 3: And now to counter spy out in the desert mountains
of Mexico, they heat his long since destroyed all lives
except high in the air the omorate circling of great
bloodthirsty birds and pray, and I'm a hard sun cracked.
A small group of men with one woman moving slowly
to the base of a cliff.
Speaker 8: Very well, wi up here, Genora, Senora, listen to me, Senora,
new men.
Speaker 6: You will listen to you have all worked for me
for some years. I pay you well.
Speaker 4: No one in Mexico can deny that. But you know too,
I will not allow anyone to betray me and live.
This woman, this miserable wrection or.
Speaker 9: Husband, one of my most successful operators in narcotics, try
to sell me out. Her husband he is already there,
and I'll this woman shall die here never.
Speaker 6: Death will be a lesson to all of you. Never
to talk, Senora.
Speaker 10: Yes, above you in the sky, you see the birds,
the birds of death.
Speaker 6: The rest of you understands I see you do now, Senora.
Speaker 11: Now, gentlemen, we shall leave.
Speaker 3: Some weeks later, at midnight, in a cafe in the
Mexican city of Cordebai, a trim alert eyed girls that
drinking alone. As a young roughly dressed Mexican entered at
the front door and approached her. He glanced down into
her open purse and drew confidence from the twenty five
caliber revolver in nestling there, old.
Speaker 2: Keep it clean.
Speaker 12: In Mexico, Whapa means terrippy city, what pretty nifty?
Speaker 6: I know American flag too. No, No, for the new
teach is not in the mood. You have a little temple,
but I sit down in healthy moves.
Speaker 7: You know it's as beautiful as the dons of my
native village.
Speaker 3: Take an easy busy away yourself out all more so,
those are lizards.
Speaker 2: Good to see you again, Patty.
Speaker 13: You have news and he's taken a ranch house twenty
miles outside the city.
Speaker 2: You'll call me Ala Tanas and the boss.
Speaker 6: Jones. I'm ready to work with you.
Speaker 2: And then we're after Manuel Rodrige.
Speaker 6: The Manuel Rodrici has for the way. The yes, I
guess that.
Speaker 2: Now, Pappy, tell me what you know about Rodrigi.
Speaker 12: He is one of the richest, most fantastic, most powerful
man in Mexico and one of the cruelists. An international
book of secret information on his enormous range not far
from here.
Speaker 6: It is big yester.
Speaker 12: When American dancing shows come here, you invite everybody, make
you guess for a week, people from all over the world.
Speaker 6: And when a medic on his ranch are said to
be large puppy field for opium, a.
Speaker 11: Big dope smuggler, that's star boys, most of his enemies disappear,
he said, these takes me into the desert and murders them.
Speaker 6: Others remained silent of the fear.
Speaker 2: You will be a great thrill to at smart and tape.
Speaker 6: You'll have a plan.
Speaker 13: First, you are to get an ordinary peonce job on
the Rodriga's branch.
Speaker 6: That ought to be easier at this time of the year.
Speaker 14: Yes, in my hand under the table, in small packages.
Speaker 13: Taking I sell them. The drug in the blue paper
will cause large blosses on your skin your meal. Now
they're harmless. The drug and pink taper will make the
pieces with your eyes dilated. Uh, and the one in
white paper you'll run a quick high fever without any damage.
And then in two weeks history.
Speaker 14: Jon Denial, we'll visit Manuel.
Speaker 13: Rodriguez and his rants. We will explain that we are
agents of the United States government. Countess fine, why not,
and that we have come to arrest you.
Speaker 6: Oh very good, now another drinking.
Speaker 7: Yes, well, now, what did you say your business was,
mister John No, I didn't say, but I will mister Rodrigus,
Miss Thomas and I are agents of the United States.
Speaker 6: Government, count on Mexican soil. We've just went into place
nine miles from your ranch. Here you'll go mis place.
All is right, and the reason.
Speaker 7: Mexico to recover a quantity of a new uranium compound
was over a million dollars was stolen from one of
our atomic plants. And you think I have it, mister Jones,
We think it's here on your rent. I do not
enjoy jokes of this kind.
Speaker 13: We'd already recovered the stuff and hit the criminals back
to the stakes for punishment.
Speaker 7: And before a week it leaves to the uranium compound
was stolen again.
Speaker 6: And again I asked, do you think I have it?
Speaker 2: Well, you know how to handle it. Oh, let me
finish at seventh.
Speaker 7: Once in a while, mister Rodriguezuz MSS Thomas says, you
would know how to handle uranium. But the thief we're
afraid is not incredible. See he was swept up along
with the money. What new papers out of a safe
in my room? How did you learn that, mister j
One of our pins confessed that two weeks ago he
and another man I got drunken ransacked in my room.
Speaker 14: The paon was a guilty conference to Jones used a whip.
Speaker 13: That's how we found out about Peppy ramierris p Ah.
Then he is working here, follow me to exactly for question.
Speaker 6: I'm got tell you. Whileever, he is very ill. My
ranch doctor is back.
Speaker 2: Have you seen himself?
Speaker 6: Is his skin badly blunt? Pupil from the eyes on
it him?
Speaker 2: You running a high fever?
Speaker 6: Oh? Did you know it's symptoms? Those are the early
symptoms of uranium poisonen quince is, peppiness, Jones, rubs, doll plead, mister.
Speaker 5: John, do you mean that this miserable paon is hiding
a million dollars worth of a new uranium?
Speaker 2: Come out?
Speaker 6: Or else? Would he get uranium plans?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 6: Peer and my very noble and track it down this way.
Speaker 2: That the people want?
Speaker 6: The two better talk to. I'll make you sick of
where to drive you one more chance, maybe.
Speaker 7: We'll meet it out of your good while I think
he's cracking down.
Speaker 6: He did not know then that better pull him out
of there. About the mattress, But are you glad for
a love? That's special love? The only safe way to
have this stuff?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 6: The mattress, that's.
Speaker 2: Try the board?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Is there anything here?
Speaker 14: We are?
Speaker 15: See that little bottle worth a million dollars maybe more
if some government abroad, Yes, I can imagine.
Speaker 6: Now May I offer you both some refreshments back.
Speaker 2: Of the house. No, thank you, We've got work to
do with our own safe.
Speaker 16: I may call it do the next few days. Isness
that purely social if you don't mind Ms. Thomers, not
at all right, m d.
Speaker 2: He fell for two thousand and ten a perfect trick.
They saw that little violet hung hung out like a
hound dog.
Speaker 6: A million bucks, he thought, right under his nose, and
he hadn't known it.
Speaker 2: Jones behind it on the road car following.
Speaker 6: Then the one is rod Riggers.
Speaker 2: Following to see where we go with a bottle.
Speaker 6: Maybe find out if we really are counted five or not?
Speaker 2: You think he was putting on an at that he's
clever enough.
Speaker 6: To oh swear he thought that he was really sick.
Lucky those drugs you gave petty full of the doctor.
Speaker 2: I thing to do now, but get back to the
guns placing to see what's happened.
Speaker 7: With guns handy and back to the wall I caught
to following. Maybe Rodriguez will pay that social call of
his right away. He felt for you, odd he noticed
you and I don't get along. I'm betting he makes
a try for this little while. He won't stop at anything,
and he things can get away with it.
Speaker 6: He may start several times.
Speaker 2: If you neither go away or come in. I don't
like to suspense.
Speaker 6: He may shoot. Stay away from the windows.
Speaker 2: Can't we pull something on them?
Speaker 6: You might? Yeah, let's try what Yeah, no suitcase is
not packing as if we're leaving. Maybe that'll have the
limited actions.
Speaker 2: I'm trying my bags in the closet, Hella.
Speaker 6: I think if we drive the rest of the night,
we can make our pasta by daylight.
Speaker 16: We can.
Speaker 2: Set to the bos and we get there. He's a
beef peace. You know, it's the dawn game. We got
that call to leave so soon. I like to surprise.
Speaker 6: M Now we find out the worst.
Speaker 5: I'll go, Oh, hello, mister Redriguez, come in for go?
Do you forgive this an effected visit sooner than I
plan without arming you?
Speaker 2: Look, he hasn't haven't I changed in the last two hours.
Speaker 6: Packing?
Speaker 5: Mister Jones, I understood you were saying some days more. Well,
we got a hurry call.
Speaker 6: Always gives me no time to cultivate the acquaintance of missus.
Speaker 2: I'll come back someday. Mister.
Speaker 11: Perhaps you are not even leaving, either of you one.
You are not United States counters fires. You yourselves are
the thieves. Of that urania material.
Speaker 6: Mister, you're all wrong. Further, you yourselves intensive selling.
Speaker 2: We don't know anybody with a million dollars. Never let
me talk, miss.
Speaker 6: Suppose you did know someone with a million dollars. We're
American agents, Rodriguez. You are not. You're a pair of crooks.
Now suppose that vile contains the uranium compound and you
knew someone with a million and a hump.
Speaker 16: Dollars.
Speaker 6: Wow, that strength up, fella. Go ahead, Arigus. Can you
prove it as the rear uranium compound. Let's say we couldn't.
Speaker 11: Then in three days I can raise a million and
a half cash American dollars.
Speaker 6: And then you'll resell the material abroad for ten million.
That would be my risk.
Speaker 7: Take the deal, chanty, Okay, Redrigus, we'll prove it's the
uranium compound. Six drops plus certain other ingredients can be
set off by a capitat fuse.
Speaker 6: Uranium is not.
Speaker 7: Set off that way. I told you this is a
new secret development. It can be used dozens of ways.
It will show me. Now if I let you know
where the stuff is in our lives when they were
the nickel cautious, aren't you very well, where and when
we'll they give up tomorrow afternoon at two thirty and
lead you to some deserted spot in these mountains around
here wood until tomorrow.
Speaker 6: It's oh, you won't see me there.
Speaker 14: I'm going over to Gulf City and wait for a
phone call from Jilnsey and.
Speaker 6: You it shall come from me, missus.
Speaker 17: Chalmers, one had better come from Jilnsey too, Mister Rodriges, Well,
I tell the Mexican police that you left him in
the mountains with those man eating goods you've got around here.
Speaker 6: You are both very clever. Good night.
Speaker 3: Back to Counterspy and just a moment, but first test.
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Speaker 3: It is hot blazing noon in the desert mountains of Mexico, Nriguez.
Speaker 6: We're forty miles from any other human beings. Here's where
I've set up the experiment. It'll be fairly said, how you.
Speaker 7: Dropped the uranium compound plus the other ingredients in the fuse.
Have you ready, mister Johnes, look at the birds of
prey such in above.
Speaker 6: In the atis g. I guess we look like a
meal to them, and we call them birds of death.
They're cruel, powerful, bloodthirsty.
Speaker 11: If you try to cheat me, mister Jones, I will
break both your legs with bullets and.
Speaker 6: Leave you here alive. For those.
Speaker 18: Cute ideas. You have something light the fuse? Now run,
we have eight seconds.
Speaker 6: Wait, mister Dawns, thyself help here helping you. I apologize
them of patience. I will have the money for you
in forty eight hours. Where your ranch.
Speaker 7: House fine, and I'll be ready to show you where
the material is. Until then, there's the Jones. I'm driving away, Come.
Speaker 19: On out, I thought to he saw that wire unto
the battery as he luckily for us and agree making
him blind.
Speaker 2: What if he followed us out here last night when
we set up this take your rain and.
Speaker 6: Explosion When he fell down, he was really scared. He
never suspected to take.
Speaker 13: But off of this please sence worth of harmless powder,
posing the grain.
Speaker 2: It's charges of ordinary t n T.
Speaker 6: Stop worrying law. We've got rad Rigguez hooked. Come on,
let's get to our ranch.
Speaker 2: Fans twice may be great, jells you, but I don't.
Speaker 6: Like cooked another day to wait.
Speaker 2: Well, that's all you want Mexican beans, Mexican beans.
Speaker 6: I'd rather have Mexican bean.
Speaker 2: That's all we got.
Speaker 6: Put out the line out the back window. That's how
somebody coming as ahead of time.
Speaker 7: Get me on the doorway to the dining room. I'll
stay here. You couple me with your gun, mister Joe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm David Harding, and I to say counters five.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I come in. Can't stop you can I?
Speaker 3: Hello?
Speaker 6: Yes, okay, I like to come on him.
Speaker 2: A glad Hello.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to put you to through this rigamarole David
Rodriguez around fifty versus the best motto.
Speaker 6: I here, I'm mister Jones. Can we use the short
wave radio?
Speaker 14: All right?
Speaker 3: Them?
Speaker 2: Harding hid in the color.
Speaker 5: I want the Mexican Secret Police from court of a.
What's the frequency? Tennelly teams herding to f X channel eighteen.
Come in channel eighteen. Hello, Ladriguez has fallen by cock
and bull.
Speaker 6: Story. But that's stole an uranium. All we need is
one break so.
Speaker 18: We can get other people to talk to us about Rodriguez.
Speaker 6: You better stand by and take thy need help now,
Washington hunting the channel one, Come in channel one. Channel
go ahead Edward from.
Speaker 5: Now on Pieter's channel open twenty four hours a day.
I may want instantaneous check on fingerprints. I'm with Peters
in La in Mexico and their ranch house. I blew
in this morning when things got hot. We're getting the
best line yet on our old friend Rodriguez, the espionized brooker.
He's got a baited hook out for him. But with
that man, I'm not going to wait for him to bike.
I'm going to time up down his stroke.
Speaker 6: Kenyan, tell so lady's night.
Speaker 2: How do you think you talk?
Speaker 6: What happened? I had a fight with John, You know,
my god?
Speaker 14: I want him with a paper. Did I tell him
please help me?
Speaker 6: Of the cordailer? Where did you leave him?
Speaker 7: Back?
Speaker 3: And all?
Speaker 2: He's gonna bloody?
Speaker 14: He said, because I.
Speaker 1: Don't know what I'm going to do.
Speaker 6: My dear Ella, I look after you, look.
Speaker 2: At police and may discover the.
Speaker 18: Murder and look for me.
Speaker 6: It need be. I can hide you forever of Firse,
don't by. I don't want to go back to you.
Speaker 7: My dear.
Speaker 11: I was planning to buy that ring and confound Nah
can't you and I get it?
Speaker 20: For nothing comes dark in there?
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 2: I cut the light and telephone right when I left
the candle. Yes, yes, there's one beside. You're on a piano.
Speaker 7: Ah.
Speaker 6: Yes, our friends mister will live, don't you lie? But
not very much alive now the Uranium Company. I know
where I couldn't get it.
Speaker 2: It's the moment.
Speaker 6: Hidden behind a picture on the wall. What an obvious place.
Speaker 2: It would say. You're the only one that even knew
we had nothing. I have it here. That's how you
handle it.
Speaker 6: Now to arrange matters for you, you.
Speaker 11: Will leave all your clothes here except what you actually need.
From the shallow grave of a woman I had to
dispose of not far from here, I won't do.
Speaker 19: It.
Speaker 21: Was enough mind being impersonated by the bones of a
dead woman.
Speaker 10: I don't see it, and we will Manster split up
the booking the middle, for instance, what are you doing
planning your desk?
Speaker 6: Miss come?
Speaker 21: I got it gone Madrid it your parents in this
house burnt out by an accidental fire, always you had
on my vans until we go to Europe.
Speaker 6: Secretly, that's out the finnicopment for John.
Speaker 21: Kill him before you set the fire, of course without
a bookings.
Speaker 5: For the United States, Mexican national pendulous one card, violating
of the International Agreement covering the Safety of Atomic Material
and Information.
Speaker 6: I was not and this alone, this woman.
Speaker 2: This man John right away, juntie, okay.
Speaker 6: Fine, only tired and lying on the floor.
Speaker 5: Meet mister Jones. Oh let's call him Harry Peters, my assistant.
Speaker 6: But you'll have no evidence. No one will have to
speak again. You're a murderer.
Speaker 5: You kept people silent by peer. The guvernment and narcotics
runners who worked for you were afraid to talk. Now
that you're on to a rusbe will be free to
tell everything they know.
Speaker 10: By the way, mister hard and here's the uranium that
talk he earned that la let him keeep it.
Speaker 5: It's only a few cents full of harmless powder. I'm sorry,
but illegal possession of uranium is the one charge.
Speaker 6: We can't hang on you.
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same station to Counterspy was next Tuesday for the exciting
counter spy case of a bouncing bank robber.
Speaker 5: The quick shooting intruder who power plants through a place
glass window, the ferry boat that swistled a sling message
about the passenger who had jumped overboard, and the roller
coaster in reverse that carry the killer who was beyond
the electric care next to these counterpy gmes, so'll be
sure to listen.
Speaker 3: Case of a bouncing bank robber on Counterspy. The night's
Counterspy program, originated in New York, was directed by William M.
Sweet and featured Don McLaughlin and Mandelle Kramer with music
by Testy Crawford. Counterspy is a Phillip States Lord production
for Pets Coola. Enjoy Some Pepsy, Ice, Cold Tonight.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. I love the counter Spy gives us these
good sting stories where they are laying traps for criminals.
And it's also nice to get a story that is
much more Peter's driven and Peters centered, because that does
feel more like how a real life agency like Counterspo
should work. You know, you didn't have j Edgar Hoover,
you know, running all of the FBI's cases during this time,
which is kind of the equivalent of what we have
in so many episodes of Counterspy. And even then, David
Harding still is probably taking a bit of a bigger
role than Hoover or even some higher ranking like special
agents in charge Wood. But Harding remains such a solid
planner that you can understand why he essentially had counterstoff
by agents pretend to be criminals pretending to be Counterspy agents.
Kramer definitely is able to carry the material, and you
do see the makings of how he became such an
important leading man in the closing days of the Golden
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