1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio from 2 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,880 Voyse Atahol. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,160 we are going to get into this week's episode of 4 00:00:19,399 --> 00:00:24,079 Cloak and Dagger, but first I do want to encourage you, 5 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,079 if you are enjoying the podcast, to please follow us 6 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:31,679 using your favorite podcast software. And our program is brought 7 00:00:31,719 --> 00:00:34,000 you in part by the financial support of our listeners. 8 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:36,679 You can't support the show on anyone on basis. 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Today's adventure, 19 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,359 the last Mission, the story of an American OSS agent 20 00:01:55,439 --> 00:01:59,439 in Canton, China, is suggested by actual incidents recorded in 21 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,079 the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a 22 00:02:03,159 --> 00:02:04,959 story that can now be told. 23 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 4: He must have had another name, but I never knew 24 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,280 what it was. Everybody on the waterfront called him Charlie. 25 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,479 He was old and he limped, and he should have 26 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:22,000 drunk less and shaved more. We'd see him on the 27 00:02:22,039 --> 00:02:25,439 walls in the afternoons, in his dirty dungarees and thorn sweater, 28 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:30,479 begging cigarettes from sailors. Then evenings he would hobble into 29 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,719 leechen Stoven, where I worked to beg for something else. 30 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 2: Hey, turn you, Hey, Hey, ain't you gonna buy Charlie 31 00:02:38,439 --> 00:02:39,199 one little drink? 32 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,319 Speaker 5: He No, I'm not Charlie. No drinks on the house Tonight. 33 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 2: Robert, Tonight, tonight, Geranti, be drinks in the house. Are 34 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,879 you forgetting? It was just five years ago? Tonight? Canton 35 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:55,479 Parallel Japanese. Hey, we gotta celebrate, don't we? What do 36 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:57,560 you matter? I say something wrong? 37 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 5: I don't like your sense of humor. 38 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 2: I don't see what you got again, the Japs, Jenny, 39 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,599 with all m nationalities mixed up in you, you probably 40 00:03:08,599 --> 00:03:10,360 got some Jap blood yourself. 41 00:03:10,439 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 5: No, I haven't. 42 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 4: Every other kind maybe Spanish and Russian, even Irish. But 43 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:15,879 there's not a drop of job blood in the pony. 44 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 2: Guess right, I don't get stealing up. I still say 45 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:23,879 there's no reason for you to hate him. Why do 46 00:03:24,039 --> 00:03:26,159 you care who's running canton? 47 00:03:31,159 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 4: I told him then. I don't know why I did. 48 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,680 I never told anyone else how they had murdered my 49 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,960 family nineteen six years before, my father, my mother, my 50 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,479 two sisters. The Japs had killed them all, And if 51 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,159 we hadn't got out of the city ahead of them, 52 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,639 they'd have killed my brother, Florian and myself. 53 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:55,159 Speaker 2: So he wasn't always a waitress and a waterfront dive 54 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:55,919 haunt on you. 55 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,599 Speaker 5: No, and my brother didn't always prowl the streets looking 56 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:02,000 for trouble. I got the job to thank for that. No, 57 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:03,000 maybe you can understand. 58 00:04:06,039 --> 00:04:06,759 Speaker 2: We got visitors. 59 00:04:09,039 --> 00:04:09,879 Speaker 5: What do they want now? 60 00:04:12,439 --> 00:04:14,439 Speaker 2: Checking identification papers again? 61 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 6: Uee, press arise always arise in the presence of the 62 00:04:25,079 --> 00:04:31,560 suggest Remember that he had to no your papers press here. 63 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:40,680 Danya Bonnie born in Madrid. You are Spanish by you 64 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:42,439 have Russian first name. 65 00:04:42,399 --> 00:04:44,639 Speaker 5: And an Irish middle name. What does that make me? 66 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 6: Perhaps makes you anyway Arian captain? Yes, it would be 67 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,120 very Darrell in Canton. If we put all the beautiful 68 00:04:55,319 --> 00:04:58,560 girls in jail, that is true. 69 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:04,319 Speaker 2: You peppers. You know that, Miss Bunny. I know your 70 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,759 peppers press who me. I ain't got no papers. Cavin 71 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,360 what you're done with them? Don't know. I guess you 72 00:05:11,439 --> 00:05:14,360 must have lost him. What is nationality? I don't know 73 00:05:14,519 --> 00:05:17,720 that need and nobody never told me. Seems like I've 74 00:05:17,759 --> 00:05:20,279 been around Canton since it was knee high on you 75 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:27,319 American perhaps American. That's good. I came away around I 76 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:29,680 know not wait a minute, hour wa the horse is 77 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,319 well here. I ain't gonna do you guys no good 78 00:05:32,439 --> 00:05:35,199 locked up on the brig. But I could help you 79 00:05:35,319 --> 00:05:37,920 plenty if I was free to and moves you around. 80 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,240 The dogs you're coming out? 81 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:42,519 Speaker 7: What your man? 82 00:05:42,639 --> 00:05:42,959 Speaker 2: Or man? 83 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 8: How could that hep us. 84 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,439 Speaker 2: I get around? Cap'n Oh, Charlie talks to everybody, and 85 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,360 everybody talks to me, and they ain't too careful what 86 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,639 they say neither. If anybody was planning any monkey business, 87 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:02,040 sabotagement or anything like that, oh, Charlie would be just 88 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:03,680 about the first to know about it. 89 00:06:04,759 --> 00:06:08,399 Speaker 5: And you would report it to us. 90 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 9: Why not? 91 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 2: You're the guys you're running the show. So you're the 92 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:18,800 guys I take orders from you, know what I mean? 93 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 4: They saw what he meant, and when they left, he 94 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,600 was still sitting with me, grinning as if you were 95 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,040 proud of what he had done. I got up without 96 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,160 a word and went to the bar and bought a drink. 97 00:06:34,199 --> 00:06:35,879 I brought it back and held it out. 98 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,199 Speaker 2: Hey, did you buy that for me, Toney? 99 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,439 Speaker 5: Yes, I bought it for you. 100 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:45,079 Speaker 2: Well, now that's mighty nice. Have you let me have it? 101 00:06:45,319 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 5: I'll let you have it there. 102 00:06:49,519 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 2: What's the ideas thrown good whiskey in my face? What's 103 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:53,439 the idea that I. 104 00:06:53,759 --> 00:06:56,639 Speaker 4: Couldn't find words to tell you what I think of you, Charlie, 105 00:06:57,399 --> 00:06:58,199 But I wanted you. 106 00:06:58,279 --> 00:06:58,519 Speaker 9: To know. 107 00:07:06,399 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 4: I was sorry afterwards. After all, Charlie was old and 108 00:07:11,279 --> 00:07:15,480 hungry and half cracked. I should have saved it for 109 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:21,079 somebody else, someone closer and dearer to me. I should 110 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,639 have saved it from my brother. Florian was waiting. 111 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 5: For me when I got home. 112 00:07:25,879 --> 00:07:28,639 Speaker 9: I thought, you never get it here, Tanya, hurry up 113 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:30,360 and change your clothes. We're going to a party. 114 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 2: Party. 115 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 5: What party, Florian? 116 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 9: Well, it's sort of an anniversary banquet, you know, five 117 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,720 years in Canton. There's gonna be a lot of important people. 118 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,720 There are Chinese Japanese, both big celebration, and we're going 119 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:49,240 to celebrate with them. We weren't invited, of course, but 120 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,720 I know a fellow at the door. He's gonna let 121 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,319 us in. We rubbed shoulders with some of the most 122 00:07:54,399 --> 00:07:57,120 important people in Canton, maybe. 123 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,519 Speaker 5: Even with the men who murdered your mother and father. 124 00:08:01,519 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 9: Oh no, don't be like that, Tanya. That was a 125 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,519 long time ago. These aren't the same fellows who took 126 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:08,879 nineteen the Japanese. 127 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, you are not going to the party, Florian, we 128 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:13,560 got nothing to celebrate. 129 00:08:13,959 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 9: No, maybe you are not gone, But I am why 130 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,920 because I know what side my bread is putting on us. 131 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,360 Why the jump side, as long as the top dog. Yes, 132 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:26,600 and it looked like they're going to be top dog 133 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:27,399 for a long time. 134 00:08:28,439 --> 00:08:29,319 Speaker 2: I see. 135 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,519 Speaker 5: You're retraited to our family, Florine. 136 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,159 Speaker 9: We haven't got family, Tanya. We haven't got anything, and 137 00:08:37,279 --> 00:08:39,559 we never will have unless one of us starts playing 138 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:44,639 on the winning team. See you later. 139 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 4: I didn't sleep well that night, and lay there in 140 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:55,000 the dark, feeling as if I were alone. You know, 141 00:08:55,039 --> 00:08:58,919 a world of enemies that same feeling haunted me all 142 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:03,399 the next day at Leech and Charlie didn't come to 143 00:09:03,519 --> 00:09:06,039 the town, not even I didn't see him till I 144 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,440 was through working, until I stepped out into the dark street. 145 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:18,039 Then a shadowy figure came staggering up to me. You're drunk, 146 00:09:18,159 --> 00:09:19,120 charlieber go home. 147 00:09:19,279 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 2: That's just when I was thinking, Orry, I can't see 148 00:09:24,039 --> 00:09:30,000 him together. The street keeps going around and circles. How 149 00:09:30,039 --> 00:09:32,679 about you kind of steal chowry on. 150 00:09:32,919 --> 00:09:35,399 Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I want to get home myself. It's late. 151 00:09:35,879 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 2: Come on, tell her this worrier purple child. 152 00:09:42,159 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 5: He grabbed my arm and hung on to girl. 153 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,159 Speaker 4: It's seemed easier to do what he asked me to 154 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,480 argue about very good girl. I had never seen his home, 155 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,919 but he remembered the address, and I let him toward 156 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,559 it through the deserted streets. 157 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 2: Sir, here we are. 158 00:09:58,639 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 4: It was the kind of place expect Charlie to live, in, 159 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,080 a filthy, two story dump in the worst part of Canton. 160 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,759 He was still holding my arm as I took his 161 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,600 key and unlocked his door for him. Good night, Charlie, 162 00:10:15,919 --> 00:10:17,240 go to bed and sleep it off. 163 00:10:20,039 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 2: No, good night, Jenny. We can have a red. 164 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 5: I don't want it drunk. 165 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 2: Come on anyway, come on, do you here? 166 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:33,759 Speaker 5: But he didn't let go. 167 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 4: His fingers were like a vice around my waist. He 168 00:10:37,159 --> 00:10:39,679 jerked me across the treasure. He shoved me into the 169 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,120 pitch black room and slammed the door. 170 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 5: Where you, filthy old bomb let me out of here. 171 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:49,519 Speaker 9: Sorry. 172 00:10:49,519 --> 00:10:51,639 Speaker 2: I had the man handle you like that. It was 173 00:10:51,639 --> 00:10:53,159 the only safe way of getting you in here. 174 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 4: I thought someone else had said it. I thought there 175 00:10:58,039 --> 00:11:01,000 must be three of us in the room. Then the 176 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,399 light flashed down and they were just two, just Charlie 177 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:05,720 and me. 178 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:11,399 Speaker 8: Surprised, Dania, I'm sorry, but I have to play it safe. 179 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,639 You see, Tania, I am an American, an agent of 180 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:16,240 the OSS. 181 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 4: I didn't speak and stared at him, tried to understand, 182 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:32,559 tried to connect him with the shuffling little wolf rad 183 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,120 i'd always known as Charlie. 184 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 8: I realized, of course, Tanya, that this is something of 185 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,159 an act of faith, exposing my identity to you like this. 186 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,240 No one else in Canton knows who I am. I'd 187 00:11:44,279 --> 00:11:46,320 fort a long time before I decided to let you 188 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:49,000 in on it. When you told me about your family, 189 00:11:49,039 --> 00:11:51,399 I had a hunch I could trust you, and then 190 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,200 when you threw that drink in my face, I was 191 00:11:54,279 --> 00:11:54,720 sure of it. 192 00:11:54,879 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 9: But I mean not right. 193 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 8: I'm still Charlie. 194 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,879 Speaker 5: But why have you done this? Why should you trust 195 00:12:03,039 --> 00:12:03,919 me with your life? 196 00:12:04,039 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 8: For a very good reason, because I need your help 197 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,440 my head. You see, I've operated alone here for a 198 00:12:10,519 --> 00:12:14,159 long time. It has been too tough. But now no 199 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,279 Jab intelligence is tightening up a lot of things. I 200 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,639 can't do alone anymore. That's why I need you. 201 00:12:22,039 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 5: But I have no experience. I don't know anything about. 202 00:12:25,279 --> 00:12:28,879 Speaker 8: Courage, and you hate the Japanese. That's worth a lot 203 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:29,879 more of an experience. 204 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 5: What do you want me to do, Charlie? 205 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 8: Come on upstairs? 206 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 4: He led me up a long, narrow, muckety staircase. He 207 00:12:52,639 --> 00:12:55,279 opened the door to a tiny guard like a room 208 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:56,240 just beneath the roof. 209 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:01,919 Speaker 5: It was hot and stuffy. The light they switched don 210 00:13:02,039 --> 00:13:04,080 was so dimmed that at first I couldn't see. 211 00:13:04,919 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 2: Do you know what this is? 212 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 5: Tanya radio transmitter? 213 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 8: That's right. You send messages to whom American submarines operating 214 00:13:13,039 --> 00:13:16,120 off the Chinese coast, And what I send is all 215 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,559 the information I can get about JAP shipping entering and 216 00:13:18,639 --> 00:13:24,080 leaving the port of Canton. I see, Danya, you wait 217 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:25,759 on sailors at leech hands all day. 218 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 5: You drink with I've never drunk with a Japanese sailor. 219 00:13:28,799 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 8: But you could. Sailors talk a lot when they're drunk, 220 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,240 and if they don't talk enough, I could provide you 221 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:40,879 with knockout drops. They'd sleep peacefully while you examined their papers. 222 00:13:41,519 --> 00:13:45,960 He I see it scares you a little and little, yes, 223 00:13:46,279 --> 00:13:50,440 you see what a lever on the wall? Homos touched 224 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:51,320 it better enough. 225 00:13:51,399 --> 00:13:52,559 Speaker 5: Oh what is it, Charlie. 226 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 8: It's a little precaution I've taken. I wouldn't want this 227 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,759 transmitter to fall into Japanese hands. They could do a 228 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,159 great deal of damage with her. But the lever in 229 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,399 the wall that can do a great deal of damage too. 230 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,039 It sets off an explosive that it blows building sky high. 231 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 4: I wasn't sorry to leave that room. We went downstairs. 232 00:14:19,519 --> 00:14:22,480 A few minutes later. He stood in front of me 233 00:14:23,679 --> 00:14:24,200 watching me. 234 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,519 Speaker 8: Tania, let me explain something. We're all volunteers in the OSS, 235 00:14:29,879 --> 00:14:33,279 and the people who help us are volunteers too. You 236 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,000 don't have to do this unless you want to. 237 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 5: I understand Charlie. 238 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,919 Speaker 8: If you refuse, I won't worry about what you know. 239 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:42,919 I'll still trust you. 240 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,919 Speaker 5: I don't intend to refuse. 241 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,159 Speaker 8: It doesn't scare you too much. 242 00:14:49,399 --> 00:14:51,879 Speaker 5: When I think of my father and mother and sister, 243 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:53,919 it doesn't scare me at all. 244 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 8: It's a deal. 245 00:14:57,159 --> 00:15:00,679 Speaker 5: It's a deal, I am. 246 00:15:01,159 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 2: I don't have any liquor. 247 00:15:03,279 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 8: We might have a smoke on the tone American cigarettes. 248 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 5: I haven't had one for years. 249 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:19,159 Speaker 8: Thanks to a free world, Tanya, to a free world. 250 00:15:27,919 --> 00:15:32,279 Speaker 5: That night, I slept work now I had friends and allies. 251 00:15:33,519 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 4: That is, I slept well until sometime shortly before dawn, 252 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:42,399 and then the sound of my bedroom door opening awoke me. 253 00:15:43,559 --> 00:15:46,559 I wasn't frightened. I knew who it was and what 254 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:52,240 he wanted had happened so many times before. I waited 255 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,559 until he reached my dresser, until he bent over my purse. 256 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,559 Don't take any of my money, Florian, Oh, oh you well, 257 00:16:01,519 --> 00:16:04,039 I was just yes, I know, but I really can't 258 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:05,039 spare any of this week. 259 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 5: I need a little I got. 260 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 9: You don't need it any more than I do. I'm broke, Tanya. 261 00:16:09,879 --> 00:16:11,639 Know where am I supposed to get money to live on? 262 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 5: Not out of my purse, please close it, Florian? 263 00:16:14,799 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 9: All right, all right? Where is it? Hey? What's this? 264 00:16:22,279 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 10: What? 265 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:24,399 Speaker 9: Where you get these? 266 00:16:24,879 --> 00:16:24,919 Speaker 4: What? 267 00:16:25,279 --> 00:16:25,759 Speaker 5: Florian? 268 00:16:26,519 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 9: These American cigarettes? 269 00:16:30,159 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 4: I got them at the tavern who from from a 270 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:38,519 job soldier? A job so yeah, he had taken them 271 00:16:38,519 --> 00:16:40,039 off an American prisoner war and. 272 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 9: A job gave them to you? 273 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 2: Yes? 274 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 5: Why not? 275 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 9: Are you accepted them? 276 00:16:43,279 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 5: Naturally? I accepted them? 277 00:16:44,559 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 9: Where So now my noble sister is accepting gifts from 278 00:16:49,399 --> 00:16:53,000 the enemy. Either you had a great change of heart 279 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:53,960 on you or else? 280 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:55,639 Speaker 2: Else? 281 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:55,759 Speaker 4: What? 282 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 9: Or else. 283 00:16:59,639 --> 00:16:59,679 Speaker 8: You? 284 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 4: And beginning the very next night, I flirted with every 285 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,839 job sailor who came into lead chains. I kept my 286 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,759 mouth closed and my ears open. I used every trick 287 00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:23,799 I knew to persuade them to talk, and when it 288 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:28,359 became necessary, I used something else, a little white pills 289 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:29,599 that Charlie had given me. 290 00:17:34,039 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 8: Nama to drink. 291 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,759 Speaker 5: But the evening is young Dad, Come on, come on, 292 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:46,079 let's drink it close to the Emperor. Stand up. Of course, 293 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:52,720 you can't get you. Come on, that's it, nah, to 294 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:56,319 this son of Heaven, his Imperial majesty. 295 00:17:57,759 --> 00:17:58,079 Speaker 9: Drink. 296 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 4: Oh it was so easy, Charlie, he was out cold. 297 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,079 I just reached into his pocket and they were his papers. 298 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:16,319 Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry, not a soul. 299 00:18:16,759 --> 00:18:17,799 Speaker 8: He put the papers back, of. 300 00:18:17,839 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 5: Course, after I'd copied them. Here's the information. 301 00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 4: Am I doing, Charlie? I knew I was doing well, 302 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,799 and as time went on, I did even better. We 303 00:18:35,839 --> 00:18:39,799 would hear reports on Charlie's radio a Jap ships, torpedo 304 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:42,759 and song in Chinese waters, and Charlie would say, that. 305 00:18:42,839 --> 00:18:46,279 Speaker 8: Was the baby you told me about last week. Chuck 306 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:49,119 up another one for Tanya, the scourge of the Jab 307 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:50,039 merchant marine. 308 00:18:56,599 --> 00:19:00,599 Speaker 4: I was proud, and I was happy, and I believe 309 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,359 my father and mother and sisters knew and that they 310 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,079 were proud too. And then came the night I went 311 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,440 straight from lee Chen's tavern to Charlie's house to tell 312 00:19:10,519 --> 00:19:11,160 him what I'd heard. 313 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,839 Speaker 2: Takoa Maroo. Huh. That's one of the nips biggest ships 314 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:15,960 I know, Charlie. 315 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,599 Speaker 5: And she's carrying industrial machinery to Yokohama, one of those 316 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,279 factories they've stripped in fu Chau. 317 00:19:21,559 --> 00:19:23,079 Speaker 2: Sure about the sailing time, quite sure? 318 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 5: Tomorrow night at ten o'clock. 319 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 8: God enough, I'll tip off the sub dride away and 320 00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:29,119 they'll be laying for if she isn't traveling in convoy. 321 00:19:29,279 --> 00:19:31,079 Speaker 9: She isn't check and they'll get her. 322 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 2: Like a sitting duck. 323 00:19:34,039 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 8: It's late, Tanya, better get going. 324 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 5: I'll see you tomorrow, Charlie. 325 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,079 Speaker 8: During the day, I'm going down to Tonhose Junk on 326 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,000 the river. I'll be back here by evening. 327 00:19:42,799 --> 00:19:43,519 Speaker 5: Good night, Charlie. 328 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:54,839 Speaker 8: Let me see if the coast is clear. Okay, go ahead, 329 00:19:56,079 --> 00:19:56,519 good night. 330 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:00,440 Speaker 9: Late. 331 00:20:01,279 --> 00:20:03,279 Speaker 5: The streets were dark and deserted. 332 00:20:04,519 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 4: I would have taken a rickshaw home, but it was 333 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,960 too late for that, so I walked, or rather I 334 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,400 tried to walk, but it was hard to keep myself 335 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,319 from running. I told myself I was a fool to 336 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,440 be afraid. The streets were safer than in broad daylight. 337 00:20:21,759 --> 00:20:23,400 There was no one on them. There was no one 338 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:28,359 who could possibly I stopped. I thought I heard footsteps, 339 00:20:29,319 --> 00:20:30,599 someone walking behind me. 340 00:20:31,559 --> 00:20:32,079 Speaker 5: I turned. 341 00:20:34,039 --> 00:20:37,599 Speaker 4: There was no one there, at least I couldn't see anyone. 342 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,000 I started walking faster, and I grabbed the revolver that 343 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,240 Charlie had given me, and then I heard. 344 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 5: The sound again. This time I stopped. The world around. 345 00:20:49,599 --> 00:20:52,759 Speaker 4: There was a street lamp behind me, and I saw 346 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,680 a shadow on the wall of the building. 347 00:20:55,599 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 5: The shadow of a man. 348 00:20:58,960 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 8: Was there. 349 00:21:00,839 --> 00:21:02,160 Speaker 5: Come up and show me who you are. 350 00:21:03,839 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 9: If you don't not shoot, Take it easy time, Florian. 351 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,559 You wouldn't want to shoot your own brother with you? 352 00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 5: Florian? What are you doing here? Where will you follow me? 353 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:15,599 Speaker 2: Oh? 354 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 9: Just curious, that's all. I've been wondering for quite a 355 00:21:20,039 --> 00:21:21,079 while what you were up to? 356 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 5: Quite a while. 357 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 9: I've seen you go to that place several times. I 358 00:21:27,039 --> 00:21:29,079 even took the trouble to find out who lives there. 359 00:21:29,839 --> 00:21:31,920 It's an old Furday called Charlie. 360 00:21:33,079 --> 00:21:36,039 Speaker 5: That's right, Charlie does live there. He's sick. 361 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:41,319 Speaker 9: Oh, he's sick. Is just just an error of mercy? 362 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:46,279 Speaker 5: Huh, exactly, an errand of mercy? You what as if 363 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:47,240 you didn't believe me? 364 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:52,039 Speaker 9: Of course i'd believe you. I certainly don't think you're 365 00:21:52,079 --> 00:21:55,160 in love with you, oh boy? And what other reason 366 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:56,759 would you have to visit him? 367 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,400 Speaker 5: We walked the rest of the way home together. 368 00:22:03,599 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 4: I was sure he didn't believe me, But I couldn't 369 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,640 go back to Charlie to warn him, not without getting 370 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:14,200 florry and more suspicious in the morning, I thought, But 371 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:18,079 then I remembered that Charlie would be on Tonghaw's junk 372 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:22,759 on the river in the morning. Leechen's Stabborn opened at 373 00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:26,279 noon the next day. The minute I walked in, I 374 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:30,599 knew something was wrong. There were too many Japanese soldiers, 375 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:35,319 far too many. They sat at the bar drinking, They 376 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,279 played cards at the tables. They lounged against the walls, 377 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,759 puffing their cigarettes and eyeing me as I crossed the 378 00:22:42,839 --> 00:22:44,119 room and whispered to lee. 379 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 5: Chen, why are there so many of them? 380 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 8: Lie Chen, Maybe your plather can't tell you. 381 00:22:49,279 --> 00:22:52,039 Speaker 5: Tanna, my brother he and back home. 382 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 8: He said, you come back see him. 383 00:22:55,279 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 5: I knew then that I was sick with anger and shame. 384 00:23:04,319 --> 00:23:07,279 Speaker 4: But I was sicker still when I saw him sitting 385 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,599 alone in that back room, when I saw this smirking 386 00:23:10,839 --> 00:23:11,920 triumph on his face. 387 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:19,519 Speaker 9: Good morning, Tanya, that's your sick friend this morning. Don't 388 00:23:19,599 --> 00:23:22,720 stand and stay. I haven't done anything so terrible. After all, 389 00:23:22,839 --> 00:23:24,079 one spy more or less. 390 00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 5: How much did they pay you, Florian? 391 00:23:28,319 --> 00:23:31,160 Speaker 9: Quite a bit, it seems if known for a long 392 00:23:31,279 --> 00:23:34,640 time there was one operating in Canton. They haven't been 393 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:35,920 able to get their hands. 394 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,559 Speaker 5: On him until you betrayed him. 395 00:23:37,839 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 9: Yes, yes, they still haven't found him. There are some 396 00:23:42,079 --> 00:23:45,440 soldiers waiting for him over at this place where you 397 00:23:45,599 --> 00:23:48,359 went last night. I mean, and there's a crowd of 398 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,279 them here. They about me pick him up pretty soon. 399 00:23:51,559 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 5: Didn't you get a bonus for betraying me too? 400 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,559 Speaker 9: Or I might have, but I wouldn't sell out my 401 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:57,279 own sister. 402 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 2: I kept you under clear. 403 00:23:59,599 --> 00:24:01,279 Speaker 9: I told you helped me spottle. 404 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,279 Speaker 5: Thank you, Florian. 405 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 8: I'm not at all Danya. 406 00:24:05,559 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 9: By the way, I can pay you back some of 407 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,759 the money I lifted from your purse. After all, if 408 00:24:10,799 --> 00:24:13,519 it weren't for you, I wouldn't be sitting ready now 409 00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:17,599 with a couple of hundred yen even the score. Huh, 410 00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:19,200 Why you say? 411 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 4: There was so much I could have said, but I 412 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,319 didn't waste the time. Only one thing mattered now Charlie 413 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,039 was still free. I swore, by the memory of my 414 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,599 mother and father that I would keep him free. It 415 00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:36,839 was a half hour before I managed to slip away 416 00:24:36,839 --> 00:24:41,400 from me chins unnoticed. Charlie had introduced me to Tongue Hall, 417 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,720 and I had been aboard his junk the week before, 418 00:24:44,039 --> 00:24:46,480 so the gorillas on guard around the board recognized me. 419 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:52,839 Speaker 5: That led me to a cabin. It's Doanya, Charlie. 420 00:24:53,559 --> 00:24:56,079 Speaker 8: Anya, I thought you were tongue Ho. He just wanted 421 00:24:56,079 --> 00:24:57,640 to show the me, the courier from Hong Kong, some 422 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:58,799 sort of important not. 423 00:24:58,839 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 4: As important as the news I I have for you. 424 00:25:07,039 --> 00:25:09,599 I poured it all out and he listened thoughtfully. 425 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 2: I found the transmitter, of course, but that's not good 426 00:25:12,759 --> 00:25:13,000 to them. 427 00:25:13,079 --> 00:25:14,839 Speaker 5: Couldn't they use it to send false messages? 428 00:25:15,039 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 9: Without the code book? 429 00:25:15,759 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 8: The subs would know the messages were funny, they'd figure 430 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:18,359 out what had happened. 431 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:19,400 Speaker 5: But where is the codebook? 432 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:20,839 Speaker 2: Right here? 433 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 5: Charlie, Then there's no reason why you can't escape. 434 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 8: Oh no, that I can see my usefulness and Canton 435 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,400 is over. Yeah, they'll pull out both of us. You'll 436 00:25:30,519 --> 00:25:32,599 take me with you, sure, Tomhoe will take us up 437 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,519 rivert here he is now. I hope that courier's report 438 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,680 was better than the news Tanya brought me Tongho. 439 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 9: It was about captive American flyers, Charlie. 440 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 8: What about them? 441 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,559 Speaker 7: We'll tell them have been brought into contound. They're being 442 00:25:46,599 --> 00:25:50,200 sent to prison camps in Japan. They sell tonight aboard 443 00:25:50,279 --> 00:25:51,920 the Coca Maru. 444 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 8: Takota Marule, Charlie. 445 00:25:54,759 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 5: That's the ship I told you about last night. 446 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 7: It's the ship already of the subs a torpedo, well, 447 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,559 torpedo our own men, then, Charlie, I. 448 00:26:02,559 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 2: Will if I don't count amand the order. 449 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 8: Gotta let them know the flyers are aboard. 450 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 2: You gotta let the chip go through. 451 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 4: You cannot tell them, Charlie, you cannot get to the transmitter. 452 00:26:11,039 --> 00:26:12,680 I have to Japanese soldiers. 453 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:13,279 Speaker 5: They're waiting for you. 454 00:26:13,559 --> 00:26:15,079 Speaker 2: I get past them somehow shortly. 455 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 5: No, don't go back there. They'll kill you if you. 456 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,559 Speaker 8: Do, and they'll kill those flyers if I don't. There 457 00:26:19,599 --> 00:26:23,319 are fifty of them, there's only one of me. 458 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,079 Speaker 4: I said I would go back to it. I said 459 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,079 he would need help getting past the jumps. I said 460 00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:35,680 I wouldn't leave Canton without him. And in the end, 461 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,079 because I let them no choice, he allowed me to 462 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,119 stay at his side. He told me his plans before 463 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:41,839 we left the boat. 464 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 8: Be waiting for me in the room downstairs. But we 465 00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:46,720 won't go that way. There's a trap door and the 466 00:26:46,759 --> 00:26:48,880 ceiling of the radio room. If we can get into 467 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,599 the building next door and out under the roof, we'll 468 00:26:50,599 --> 00:26:53,079 be able to jump over under my building. We may 469 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:54,880 get in and send the message without even letting them 470 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:55,440 Nowhere there. 471 00:26:58,519 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 4: A half hour later we were creeping up the stairs 472 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,920 of the building next door. A few minutes later we 473 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,039 stood huddled on the edge of the adjoining roof. 474 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 8: All right, that's jump. Try to land us quietly as 475 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,720 she can, and. 476 00:27:15,799 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 4: Then flatten our stomachs. We crawled toward the trap door 477 00:27:20,039 --> 00:27:23,079 and tried open it to rusty hinges, and lowered ourselves 478 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:29,960 into the radio room. Charlie sat down at the transmitter, 479 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,440 his cold book in his hand. I went to the door, 480 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:33,839 my revolver and mine. 481 00:27:35,599 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 5: Have you made contact with them, Charlie? 482 00:27:38,519 --> 00:27:39,519 Speaker 2: They answered downstairs. 483 00:27:39,559 --> 00:27:40,759 Speaker 5: No, not yet, Charlie. 484 00:27:40,839 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 11: Hurry, yes, but if you, Charlie, yes, listen, someone coming upstairs, 485 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,599 two of them, at least maybe three. 486 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 8: Okay, get going down. No click, I through the trap 487 00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:56,400 door and over the roof, does a order. I'll be 488 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,880 right behind you. I made contact. Now all I have 489 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,519 to do is finish the message. Now get out of here. 490 00:28:09,319 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 5: It was a lie. 491 00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 4: It was the only liar that Charlie ever told me. 492 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,039 And I crossed the roof and looked behind me, and 493 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,559 he wasn't there. I went down the stairs next door 494 00:28:17,599 --> 00:28:20,200 and out onto the street, and he still wasn't there. 495 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,640 I moved quickly through the crowd, still looking back, still waiting, 496 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:24,559 and still hoping. 497 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:39,079 Speaker 5: And then he had pulled the lever that destroyed the transmitter. 498 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 4: Later, a long time later, I learned that the Kotamaro 499 00:28:50,119 --> 00:28:54,799 had passed safely through the submarines with fifty American flyers aboard. 500 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,880 Charlie had sent his message in time. He had performed 501 00:29:00,119 --> 00:29:06,200 this last service for the OSS, The last but one, 502 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,000 I mean. 503 00:29:08,559 --> 00:29:10,079 Speaker 8: The very last, had been. 504 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,519 Speaker 5: To die for it. 505 00:29:22,039 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 3: And once again the report of another OSS agent closes 506 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:31,799 with the words mission accomplished. Listen again next week for 507 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,160 another true adventure from the files of the OSS on. 508 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,799 Speaker 2: Cloak and Dagger. 509 00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:52,359 Speaker 10: Heard in Today's Cloak and Dagger Adventure as Charlie was 510 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:57,240 Ian Martin, Tanya ran A, Raven Florian, Arnoldmarsh. Others were 511 00:29:57,319 --> 00:30:00,559 Ralph Bell, Raymond Dwood, Johnson, Carl Weber and Guy Repp. 512 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,680 Script was written by Kenfield and music was under the 513 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,720 direction of John Guard. Sound effects by Max Russell and 514 00:30:06,759 --> 00:30:11,319 Frank Lucker. Engineering Don Evan. Today's OSS Adventure was based 515 00:30:11,359 --> 00:30:13,519 on the book Plunk and Dagger by Corey Ford and 516 00:30:13,519 --> 00:30:16,839 Alistair McBain. This program is produced by Lewis g. Cohen 517 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,480 and Alfred Hollande under the direction and supervision of Sherman Marx. 518 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 2: Three Times Mean Good Times on NBC. 519 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: Welcome Back. This is a very different episode in the 520 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,880 way that it's open. You know, usually you have the 521 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,200 OSS as in Getting the Mission. Here, you're just kind 522 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,400 of waiting for the OSS angle to come in. This 523 00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:45,759 time we get a story that is told from the 524 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:50,039 perspective of a local working for the OSS. It's a 525 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:55,519 very earthy story for the era. It also touches on 526 00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:01,839 the brutality of the Japanese government, which is part of 527 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,880 the reason why so many people were willing to allig 528 00:31:06,079 --> 00:31:10,839 themselves against the Japanese government. I just have to say 529 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:16,119 that Brenda Rayburn is just great in this. She's a 530 00:31:16,279 --> 00:31:21,319 fantastic performer and also a really good narrator and brings 531 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,480 the story to life and helps us to really connect 532 00:31:25,559 --> 00:31:31,599 with this character and her motivations and really flushed out 533 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:39,279 this character. And she is so unique for a viewpoint character. 534 00:31:39,799 --> 00:31:45,079 I don't believe I have ever heard a character like 535 00:31:45,279 --> 00:31:49,920 her as this again, this sort of viewpoint character. Ian 536 00:31:50,039 --> 00:31:54,240 Martin of course, was also great, and I was a 537 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,880 bit stunned when I heard the real voice after having 538 00:31:58,039 --> 00:32:04,799 heard the undercover Charlie voice, because I expected the real 539 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,440 voice to at least be in the same range, but 540 00:32:07,599 --> 00:32:10,240 it wasn't. I would never have guessed it was the 541 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:15,119 same actor doing both voices. And it illustrates the difficulty 542 00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:19,160 that we have coming up with cast list if they're 543 00:32:19,359 --> 00:32:25,400 not included in the broadcast or newspaper log or in 544 00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:30,839 a script, because you have performers like Martin. If he 545 00:32:31,119 --> 00:32:35,519 was doing doubles as two different characters and it was 546 00:32:35,799 --> 00:32:40,000 on one of those anthology programs that didn't feature credits, 547 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,519 I never would have guessed that it was the same guy. 548 00:32:43,119 --> 00:32:46,079 Now it's important to note that Ian Martin would be 549 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:51,279 a really important figure in the revival of the Golden 550 00:32:51,319 --> 00:32:56,119 Age of radio. He would appear in two hundred and 551 00:32:56,599 --> 00:33:01,599 forty three episodes of the CBS Radio Street Theater. He'd 552 00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:08,240 also write around one hundred scraps and scraps for Adventure Theater. 553 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,640 Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we 554 00:33:12,839 --> 00:33:17,680 returned to a subject that first came up as a 555 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,920 result of someone listening to the episode The Roof of 556 00:33:22,039 --> 00:33:27,960 the World and commenting that one of the characters pronounced 557 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:35,960 the word Himalayas as Himalia, and I kind of responded 558 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:41,759 trying to think about why that error or blooper mutt 559 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:46,559 have happened, either you know, todd production times or what 560 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:53,440 have you. But another listener responded with a perspective. Cuthbert writes, 561 00:33:54,200 --> 00:34:01,960 actually her pronunciation was correct. We Westerners have anglicized it. Well, 562 00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:05,599 thank you so much for Kuthport sharing that on YouTube. 563 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,519 And there's some truth to the fact that we've anglicized it, 564 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:15,119 Like if I were to say the Himalayas, that would 565 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:19,880 not be a pronunciation that a native speaker would use 566 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:22,880 with the ass at the end. But how do you 567 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:31,199 actually pronounce it? Well, it's quite complicated. Sir Jeffrey Corbett, 568 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:38,320 back in nineteen twenty nine, writing in the newsletter for 569 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:44,679 the Himalayan Club, shared that he had been a member 570 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:50,119 of the Indian legislature, which included people from all over India, 571 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:55,400 and they actually stopped work for a morning to discuss 572 00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:01,199 how the word should be pronounced. And they were given 573 00:35:01,519 --> 00:35:07,519 two answers from northern India, depending on whether you spoke 574 00:35:07,679 --> 00:35:13,039 Hindi or whether you spoke Urdu. And then there was 575 00:35:13,159 --> 00:35:16,920 a different answer from those who were from Bengal and 576 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:23,519 still another pronunciation from those who were from southern India. 577 00:35:24,199 --> 00:35:28,599 So it's tough to say that she was pronouncing it 578 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,920 correctly when there was a big debate over what was 579 00:35:33,199 --> 00:35:38,519 correct and it depends on where you came from. I 580 00:35:38,679 --> 00:35:44,039 will say that I don't know if we should assume 581 00:35:44,679 --> 00:35:47,760 that it was a mistake on the part of the 582 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:53,079 actress or production team. It could be that it was 583 00:35:53,199 --> 00:35:56,519 intended to be read exactly how it was read, and 584 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,440 was meant to send a signal about the type of 585 00:36:00,639 --> 00:36:08,320 person that she was as a professional with local sensitivities 586 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,880 and inability to reach out and work with a variety 587 00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:17,360 of people, which would be extremely helpful on this mission. 588 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,280 Now that said, I don't know how much that pronunciation 589 00:36:23,119 --> 00:36:27,719 would have helped. While the Tibetans do have a word 590 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:32,440 for the Himalayas in their language, the origin of the 591 00:36:32,599 --> 00:36:39,199 name is Sanskrit. But regardless, I think that at this 592 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,199 point I give benefit of the doubt that there is 593 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:49,239 a reason for the pronunciation rather than a bungling by 594 00:36:49,519 --> 00:36:56,119 Luis Barklay of the line or Sherman Marx as a director, 595 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,800 because Barklay gave a really good performance and I don't 596 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,760 think Sherman Marx has really missed a whole lot in 597 00:37:06,159 --> 00:37:09,599 all the time we've been listening to the series, all right. Well, 598 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:13,079 a programming note and that is that we actually only 599 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:17,559 have three more weeks of Cloak Anddegger to go, and 600 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,840 after that we will be going into our holiday break 601 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,480 and I'll have more to talk about what you'll hear. 602 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,880 Speaker 2: In those intervening weeks. 603 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,239 Speaker 1: And after that we will have a couple of anthology 604 00:37:31,679 --> 00:37:37,119 episodes that tie into the Oss theme before getting to 605 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,599 our next series, which will be Counterspot. Well, now it 606 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,960 is time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, 607 00:37:44,119 --> 00:37:47,559 and I want to thank Douglas, Patreon supporter since January, 608 00:37:47,679 --> 00:37:50,760 currently supporting the podcast at the secret Agent level of 609 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,480 four dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for 610 00:37:53,559 --> 00:37:56,239 your support, Douglas, And that will do it for today. 611 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,760 If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using favorite 612 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,079 podcast software and be sure to rate and review the 613 00:38:04,159 --> 00:38:08,599 podcast wherever you download it from. 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