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Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Now from February twenty second,
nineteen forty nine, here is the case of the Mexican Runcho.
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Washington calling David Honey, counter Fine Washington calling David Honey.
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Speaker 4: United States.
Speaker 3: Counterspies especially appointed to investigate and combat the enemies of
our countries.
Speaker 5: Both at home and abroad.
Speaker 2: Tonight, the case of a Mexican rancho, A counter spy
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Speaker 2: A few weeks ago, a swarthy faced, heely eyed Chimmith
was in his laboratory in San Francisco. He was going
through his meal. Suddenly he stopped. There was a picture
post card.
Speaker 3: He read it, Sir Jason has been seriously ill and
I'm going for a vacation.
Speaker 5: Won't you join me? Aunt Mary?
Speaker 2: Slowly, the chemist count of the Commas the periods.
Speaker 5: Even the placing of the writing. Then he picked up
the phone.
Speaker 3: Tell us a Brown, I'm resigning the serious sickness in
our family.
Speaker 2: In a luxurious apartment in Chicago, a small, attractive, fiery
young woman and a negligee was reading a picture post carrier.
Speaker 7: Dear Magna, I'm not expected to live long. Want you
with me? Aunt Mary Well Bruce, Oh, I'm glad I
caught you before you went to the bank eating. The
doctor just told me the result of my examination. He says,
it's definitely a breakdown that I must leave and get
away from everything. So far, yes, I'm talking. Well, as
soon as I know, i'll be I'll let you know.
Speaker 8: But so far I've got to be alone.
Speaker 9: Oh that's this drawing room is real chummy with you
and Magne and I back together again.
Speaker 7: I wish you stop to dress.
Speaker 5: You two acted very promptly on your postal card.
Speaker 3: If they were to stay on this train or we
get to Mexico, miss addressment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's correct, Jensen.
Speaker 9: All right, now we all take a look at this
map of Mexico.
Speaker 5: Very very Paine.
Speaker 7: Now, I think I begin to understand. I found an
article the newspaper is a new uranium deposit in Mexico.
Speaker 9: That's why I love you. Magnet word intuition.
Speaker 7: You're singing, yes, sir.
Speaker 5: Remember I'm here too. Have these fine black lines, they're the.
Speaker 10: Mountains now over here, right in the center of these mountains.
This is a plot, soau the Mexican city of.
Speaker 3: Victoria calculation is too small even to be listed that
tom Victoria may be one of the most important cities
of Mexico.
Speaker 7: Is the uranium deposit owned by the Mexican government or
by whom?
Speaker 10: I'm not sure yet, but I believe the deposit may
be on land owned by several individuals.
Speaker 5: How can we promper, sir? What is it a tele
foreign nation?
Speaker 10: The information concerning the percentage of uranium or the method
of refining the uranium.
Speaker 9: The contract with Mexico to ship part of the.
Speaker 5: Order of other countries?
Speaker 7: Did the handle of sider?
Speaker 5: Could well, Jesson go.
Speaker 9: Up to the club car and order us all chicken
sandwiches and coffee.
Speaker 5: One you rather have a high ball?
Speaker 9: You heard what I said, Jensen?
Speaker 5: All right? Sorry, I have.
Speaker 7: A premonition about Jensen too.
Speaker 9: You're right again.
Speaker 10: Since we've worked together last year's been drinking heavily and.
Speaker 7: One whole drink is apt to talk too much.
Speaker 10: It should be easy to dispose of him in Mexico
by an accident.
Speaker 9: Now you and I you must study.
Speaker 5: This map with Mexico. Keep you live in a little
hotel in the discharge.
Speaker 4: Come in, missus Peters counters five plane one bomb to Mexico.
Speaker 11: Victoria is about forty miles north of the uranium discovery.
Speaker 5: You don't want to say Victoria.
Speaker 9: There's another town forty miles to the south of.
Speaker 5: The uranium field of Meta.
Speaker 11: You wouldn't know how to can get rooms there in
a ramcouse.
Speaker 9: That would be fun for a while.
Speaker 5: We want to keep under cover. That's all.
Speaker 3: Our number of theaters. I'm applying to Mexico at your request.
I brought along this map of Mexico.
Speaker 4: Masaani like to show you the publicity that's gotten of
the papers about a uranium deposit in Mexico.
Speaker 11: It certainly scouted something.
Speaker 5: M What does the reports on the Mexican beliefs say
about it?
Speaker 11: The sport said that person's a questionable character. Were flocking
to Victoria.
Speaker 9: Victoria, that's right here on the map.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Unless I'm is my guest farm agents are swarming there
like flies to my lapsus.
Speaker 9: What are you talking about this for me?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: You, Oh I am.
Speaker 5: I was thinking of a funny story. You've got something
up your sleeve.
Speaker 9: Somehow, beaters, I have a hunt the hunts.
Speaker 3: There are going to be some very interesting development in
those within the next few days.
Speaker 9: There, it's muffin passes keeps Magnet.
Speaker 7: The worry, not you. How are you making personally?
Speaker 5: I'm playing the horse to the top.
Speaker 10: Then we can get a good looking from uranium deposit
down there on the plateau. That's a Jason pass Until
now you're right ahead. Oh that you get ahead, Magnet,
hold on, he's far enough ahead.
Speaker 7: It's past is very now and very steep and very rocky.
Speaker 10: Pecure intuition is uncanny, Magnets. Younton knows nothing of a saddle.
When we get to the top, get off and tell
him you'll title the saddle good instead.
Speaker 5: Loosen it.
Speaker 7: The horse must be headed down this path.
Speaker 5: That's the right moment.
Speaker 10: I will accidentally trick the horse with my magdancs the
hot saddle Already. As soon as I get a good
look at the location down there, I'll know how.
Speaker 7: To operate United States. Perhaps she coul agents down here too.
Speaker 10: Botheribly, they're here already, the Mexican secret.
Speaker 7: Police ho.
Speaker 5: Hey to report the two.
Speaker 9: All right, look down there in the valley. Now those glasses.
Speaker 7: I'm going to get off and pick the girls on
your saddle.
Speaker 5: Jason's loose danger.
Speaker 7: Well, if your saddle put to one side, it will
throw you on your head and under the horse's feet.
Speaker 5: Oh, lons of dirt.
Speaker 10: Look at the size of a smokestack from that shack,
and I can see high fences.
Speaker 5: Im God, it looks to me like money. It's just tuned.
Speaker 10: It's like the start of a tremendous operation, could be
one of the largest uranium operations in the world.
Speaker 7: Let me tear your horse is head around this way
against time.
Speaker 10: Not the only one who had down here to get
information to sell to foreign countries already recognized several other operators.
Speaker 7: Would you take your nice dress and cut off that
step and that's for it?
Speaker 9: Or story?
Speaker 7: Why give my prop insight your horse? This one kiss.
Speaker 10: Stoppage, stoppage.
Speaker 5: He's swaying from side to side.
Speaker 9: There he goes, stay done.
Speaker 5: Longer than that, he would?
Speaker 10: Well, you'll take the pass back on the other side
of the mountain. That's why I told Jason not to
be seen with its breakfast.
Speaker 7: Who owns that land down there? Whether you ran in
the positive, they want to talk you about Magnet.
Speaker 9: Part of the land is owned by an American, Harold P.
Speaker 5: Sturgis.
Speaker 9: Oh, we've expected to arrive in a few days.
Speaker 5: I want you to meet him, make him like you.
Speaker 7: I think that will be possible.
Speaker 10: We've got to use him to get into that carefully
sensed deposit. We've got to get a look at the
plans and reports are there.
Speaker 5: It is possible.
Speaker 9: We've got to get control of his land.
Speaker 11: Dave, I'm mad, boiling.
Speaker 4: I just saw one of the coldest murders, and I
was helpless to do a thing about it.
Speaker 5: I thought you were about a high cliff all day.
I was.
Speaker 9: That's I'm comfortable in the old is.
Speaker 11: When a girl, a beautiful girl, and two men came.
Speaker 9: Riding up her file on the Uranium feel like we
thought we would.
Speaker 11: Yes glasses and everything, but this girl she loosened the saddle.
Speaker 5: Girls.
Speaker 4: One of the men got the horse headed down the
steep trail, and then the other man picked the horse
with his knife the horse ran headline down the trail.
Speaker 9: And the saddles flipped yield him out right. The other
two didn't go down the street.
Speaker 4: If there wasn't any questions after they left, I went down.
Speaker 5: Don't ask me anymore.
Speaker 9: You weren't near enough to hear what was said. Now
I was one hundred oars away.
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to meeting up with that girl. The
man too.
Speaker 3: I think you're going to have that chance by tomorrow
Night's wonderful.
Speaker 5: I'll beat it.
Speaker 3: The Mexican police are cooperating to the limit. We've got
the town of Vittoria covered every inch. All the liquor
glasses from the cafes are taking to the kitchens and
immediately fingerprinted.
Speaker 9: Now this file here full of fuched fingerprints, and.
Speaker 5: Our walking in file show that many of these.
Speaker 9: Are wanted characters. All our pictures, thousands of feet of
film have been taken of all foreigners who come to Victoria.
Speaker 3: I hope when we get through we'll have an international
rugues gallery.
Speaker 5: He said, you thought i'd have a chance to meet
this girl tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: As a results, he theres of a dozen traps were
he sets. One trap I set with a Registrar of.
Speaker 9: Deeds in Victoria, supposedly a young American by the name
of Harold P.
Speaker 5: Sturgis.
Speaker 9: That's what I'm going to pretend.
Speaker 3: I am, yes, I really no such person, but we've
created him. Young Surgis supposedly owns part of the valley
where the uranium strike is.
Speaker 5: Several suspicious persons have already.
Speaker 3: Been to the Registrar of Beach and inquired about that land.
They've been told that Surgis is expected to arrive momentarily
in Victoria to look over his properties.
Speaker 5: Have you made the reservation? Yes for tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Oh, now, let's make Surgis a playboy, not too smart.
I've already gotten you a yellow sports jacket, loud black. Oh, brothers,
I think Peters, You're going to see plenty of actions.
Speaker 5: Back to counter spy in a moment, pets Picola gets
the boxing less.
Speaker 9: That's what lots for Daniel, lot more debt. Why take
less when Petty's.
Speaker 2: Bet more and more among fellows and girls, among mothers
and dads, You hear that same and sensible question. Why
take less when Pepsy's best, no budget, no allowance ever
had a better friend than Tangy sparkling petticola, Because one
big twelve out petty bottle gives you two delicious drinks.
That's twice as much tangy taste, twice as much delicious
pepsi to go.
Speaker 5: Just twice as far.
Speaker 2: That's why more and more family says, why take less
when Testy's best. Yes, family is like yours and mine
family is all over America. They're all saying, why take less?
When Teesty's bet.
Speaker 5: Tetsi cola bottle makes two drinks? Did it? Certainly a
cola for the purchaser who thinks everybody pepsi does. Compare
it with the rest.
Speaker 1: Bloma Ware and Slomas fighters.
Speaker 2: Today tomorrow, always get America's fickets. Call a value take
all mc carton of six big big pepsi bottles, Insist
on pepsi at the store and say pepsi at the fountain,
Stay pepsi at the sand, say pepsi.
Speaker 5: Whenever you reach four refreshments.
Speaker 2: Remember why take less when pepsi'st Now back to counter
Spy the town of Victoria, Mexico and the bar at
the hotel c you Dot where Peters of the counter
Spies is posing as a young playboyty.
Speaker 7: I don't usually come in the bus and speak to
says men, but I am.
Speaker 9: Unless you want me to be somebody else.
Speaker 7: I think they're going to be a very interesting blood.
Speaker 9: Ohcuse, I want you sit down.
Speaker 7: Thank you. My name is Magne Lawsy and.
Speaker 5: You already know mine.
Speaker 7: Yes, Jesus, you see, I'm a busmist, but I've got
to make a little money so i can stay a
few days longer and thin.
Speaker 5: It's my worst that certainly is understandable.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm also a very good secretary. Sure he adn't hyping.
I thought that possibly while you were down here? Is
you need let need a secretary?
Speaker 9: The funny part of it is that I do need one.
I need one badly.
Speaker 7: See you really could use me.
Speaker 9: Well, I'm here on business. Besides, I'm terrible with details.
I've got letters to write, deeds.
Speaker 4: Of land to look over, and papers to examine over
it the mines.
Speaker 7: You haven't magnet price yet?
Speaker 5: What is your part?
Speaker 7: Ten dollars a day for very efficient secretary and one
who can be absolutely trusted? Is that too much?
Speaker 11: Definitely not, for they always are have to be quite irregular.
Speaker 5: Oh then it's a it's a very pleasant deal.
Speaker 7: When do I start?
Speaker 9: I'd like to have you said in about half a minute.
Speaker 7: You're making in front of me, But I'm really seriously
to honestly, what do you really want me to start?
Speaker 11: How about first day in the morning?
Speaker 7: Well, tomorrow Sunday. I want to go to church first,
and then I'll start.
Speaker 4: I can see you're a very sweet person.
Speaker 5: This might now, and I know you'll be very trust
with us.
Speaker 7: Thanks.
Speaker 10: Oh my name?
Speaker 5: What's the letterst with the surgious man? Trusting with everything?
Speaker 7: I've already been into the value of them right where
the mining is going on.
Speaker 9: I know I was watching for the glasses for the legs.
Speaker 5: Can you get a sample of the urennium ore?
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I cann't better. He's going back to the
main office tonight. He's going to look through the company
records to decide whether or not to steal his Name's.
Speaker 9: The chance of a lifetime maker.
Speaker 7: Here with your camera, No, I'll take dozens of pictures
to their files.
Speaker 5: Ride it open so you can really do it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and if that should say see that he meets
with an accident, we've got.
Speaker 9: To know what the files contain.
Speaker 7: I pride myself on being well and mean I do
some meant in a car before we even arrive at
the point. This roads are location so rough. I don't
see how you can see all the holes at night?
Speaker 9: Harold?
Speaker 7: Why should I be.
Speaker 9: Just we're along a long way from time.
Speaker 7: I don't think i'd be nervous to do anythay, Harold,
how much favor to the office?
Speaker 3: That are?
Speaker 11: The office is right next to the mind chair.
Speaker 4: I don't know whether to tell my interest in the
land of or not magnant tonight I want to go
through all the papers in the files.
Speaker 7: Well, you might make money in the end by not sell,
but it's going to be very complicated being all snarled
up in it. And you don't like the tale.
Speaker 9: That's that's what I'm worried about.
Speaker 3: I have enough money, Why make more of It's going
to become too involved?
Speaker 5: What are you doing?
Speaker 7: See it takes time chewing them?
Speaker 9: No thanks, not right now?
Speaker 4: After we look over the reports, and if you tell
me whether you think I could sell.
Speaker 7: Or not, chewing gum relaxes you.
Speaker 9: But I honestly don't want to see it.
Speaker 7: And I've stopped seating stepping, all right.
Speaker 11: You're a persistent woman.
Speaker 5: You always get away with them.
Speaker 7: Uh huh, that's nice, isn't it? Well, doesn't the gum
taste good?
Speaker 5: Sure? Does?
Speaker 9: Only you tickle meself.
Speaker 3: You were more interested in a little sit of chewing
gum than you were whether I could sell out.
Speaker 7: I'm really at hard just a woman here. I have
to have my own way.
Speaker 9: There's seeds to the land. That's complicated, my lin.
Speaker 7: You're not accustom to a business life, herows. This is
where my secretary work comes in handy. Now, those papers on.
Speaker 4: The pole, original deed of ownership, title guarantees were Oh
excuse me, how long have went and working?
Speaker 7: About an hour? I feel granted rest for a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 5: Ohkay, rested? I'm wait.
Speaker 7: I call it sleep sometimes a five minute, not just five?
And right up, put your head down on the desk.
Speaker 5: Well, yes, that's it, Yes, that's the way.
Speaker 7: Harows harrows the cant of the night.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 4: She tried to dope me to night by giving me
chewing gum while I was supposedly asleep of the factory.
She went through the files with a camera which she
fast and good malle Oh brother, will she's poisoned.
Speaker 5: It's time to poor action. Peters.
Speaker 9: Pretend to take her into your confidence and tell her
what your planned.
Speaker 4: When are you coming over to Victoria Chief, the town
of a hotbed of intrigues.
Speaker 3: I think i'll move over to night. If we're going
to start bearing down, there's no telling what will happen.
Speaker 9: Why do you let me such an emergency message?
Speaker 7: Mag American house business. He's decided to share his land
in the ballance. What why is he so foolish with
a tay boy type dress? He would rather have quick money.
Speaker 9: Now we've got to buy that fool's land.
Speaker 7: I didn't sell its one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 9: Then offer to them I'll buy it myself.
Speaker 7: No, I think it becomes suspicious. But two nights to
tonight he's going to hire the entire restaurant at the
hotel for your dad to auction the land off.
Speaker 9: Who knows about his plan.
Speaker 7: Only so far. Tomorrow night you will announce the auction,
and those who wish to attain he must even know.
In the hotel box, ask the boy ticket.
Speaker 10: This will be our opportunity, magure perhaps one hundred two
hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 9: If you'll buy a property, we can resell a million
hiding to Mexico. The Countess five Field of.
Speaker 3: US El Paso, Texas arranged to have two large transport
planes available near the town of Vittoria tomorrow night at
nine pm. Victoria, Tomorrow night, nine pm.
Speaker 5: That is all.
Speaker 9: How are you coming with that list of applications there?
Speaker 5: But here the results is.
Speaker 12: Eighty four persons have written request to me for tickets
to the auction to Modrow night. Other these eighty four,
we have wanted orders on sixty two A.
Speaker 3: Fingerprints on the applications, handwriting, known aliases and so forth
have been checked against our dragonet operation in Victoria. Right,
all right, we will consider these fifty two. See which
ones we issue tickets to. Most of the big ones
I want to arrest, so we'll give them tickets to
attend the auction.
Speaker 5: The small time we won't give tickets to.
Speaker 9: They will return to the States and think we don't
know anything about them.
Speaker 3: Dol Dennis like a nineteen Billies Same No, No, Peter's
no ticket for Dennis Kay Nicholas Vandorf records.
Speaker 5: Oh, Peter, this.
Speaker 9: Vand off We've been looking for for years. Transportation Sabbatur.
Speaker 3: Yes, Peter's a ticket to the auction for vandal and especially.
Speaker 11: Engraved ticket to my sweet secretary and dressler he Reo bot.
Speaker 7: Sydney had a clever idea no lending his recund you off.
Speaker 12: I didn't realize how many people would show up, Lendon.
And if it's saw so many international characters before you,
they probably.
Speaker 7: Believe they're going to get a bargain when you put
the ranch.
Speaker 4: Up for auction.
Speaker 7: Why do you think you're.
Speaker 5: Hell?
Speaker 7: Who is that big man walking on in the middle
of before.
Speaker 12: I believe that's mister Hunting over the United States contage
fins h.
Speaker 7: I think I please forget me.
Speaker 5: For a Texan.
Speaker 3: Please you're attetion, Please, everybody in this restaurant asked for
a ticket to attend this auction now. In order to
conduct the proceedings with the utmost efficiency, all doors are
lots an armed god are stationed outside the doors.
Speaker 5: Gentlemen and a few lady friends. I'd like to introduce.
Speaker 3: Myself David Harding of the United States Counterspy. We have
been working here in Mexico with the content of the
Mexican Police.
Speaker 5: You see, uranium.
Speaker 3: Deposits are very vital today, and it occurred to me
that if a Mexican deposit were located Espionage agents of
many countries. Spionage agents both big and small would come
fucking to see what they could learn, apply or sell. Therefore,
we took some worthless rant land out here, fifty miles
from any large city, fut a fence around it, a
couple of old buildings, and a smoke sack. Then we
gave out information that uranium might have been cut.
Speaker 5: We didn't add that it might have been. But what.
Speaker 3: I'd like to ask my assistant mister.
Speaker 5: Peters to stand up.
Speaker 9: You you that's right, miss Nugnant, and you stand up too.
Speaker 3: I'd like to remind you all were not in another pooling.
Speaker 5: Stand up. And now mister Dressler stand up. We have
a record on.
Speaker 3: Every person in this cafe, and I am placing you
all under the rest by the United States government foreste lives.
But you, Magna Lawton and you carle Him Dressler, I'm
placing YouTube under arrest for a murder.
Speaker 5: Now was the murder of pool Harding, the.
Speaker 3: Murderer of lives.
Speaker 5: Chanceler. He fell from his past.
Speaker 10: It was an accident, and tell him Peters, I.
Speaker 12: Was hiding about one hundred yards distance.
Speaker 3: I saw you Dressler and Magnet set the whole.
Speaker 4: Murder and outset the fighters in your boat to the
electric curb me.
Speaker 6: The Windowreatler said, the rest of you, there's the window
Dressler's flight to jump through.
Speaker 5: There's the door, planes.
Speaker 3: Waiting outside to take you back to the United States.
Anyone else with the fire the window, No, and start
walking for the door.
Speaker 5: When you're plans stopping. Be generous, but the thirsty too.
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Get a kitten of six and serve twelve delicious craps. Yes,
Pepsy is America's biggest colar value. You get twice the
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Speaker 7: Welcome Back Well.
Speaker 1: I thought a really entertaining episode and after the stuff
we've been dealing with FHA. It was not to get
into something that really felt like a big counter spy operation.
I mean, we had counterspy countering spies. That's been a while,
and so I like that, and the plot is really
entertaining and the reveal is satisfying of the elaborate plan
that Harding put together. Now, obviously, in terms of real
life implications, this would be difficult to pull off, as
even though you've got the Mexican government cooperating, your having
US agents arrest people in Mexico and counterintelligence age, it
seem to be a little bit more subtle and play
a different sort of game. But you know, I will
gladly just been my disbelief on this because it was fun.
I do kind of question Peters not figuring out what
was going on because I was and Harding was dropping hits.
And I also thought killing Jensen seemed like a dumb decision,
at least doing it on the mission. I get that
they were worried that he might start talking, but if
he thought that was a big enough worry, it would
have been better to have some fake mission that they
were going on somewhere else where you could just focus
on getting the murder done because they were aware that
this location would be crawling with different agents, so there
was a strong chance someone might see them, so that
decision seemed a bit off, But other than that, I
thought the episode worked rather well.
Speaker 5: Now let's talk a little bit about.
Speaker 1: The sponsorship situation, and this is an interesting era for
the program, as it was airing twice a week, which
was indicative of its popularity. It was certainly not unprecedented,
but definitely noteworthy. I think this is a really good
show for that sort of thing, because in terms of
ongoing cast, you just have Don McLoughlin and Mandel Kramer,
and generally about half the script is carried by the
bad guys. The show wasn't one of those that had
only one rider. So if the ratings and the interest
and the sponsors are all there, then yeah, why not. Pepsi,
of course, is one of those iconic companies still around
this day. Of course, on Great Detectives we get to
hear some of their late fifties ads on Johnny Dollar.
But these late forties ones are interesting, in particular the
whole issue about two glasses for the price of one,
and that's an interesting promotion. Of course, as someone who
grew up during the eighties, twelve ounce cans were the norm,
with even bigger bottles sixteen or twenty usually, But back
in the late nineteen forties, Coca Cola standard bottle was
six point five ounces, So Pepsi's twelve ounce was a deal,
and it set them up really as the sort of
value brand and like, hey, you know, you can have
a couple people over, you can share a Pepsi. Now,
of course it's hard to find a soda drinker who
would not be able to finish a twelve ounce glass
of their favorite beverage, but again, this was a big
deal back in nineteen forty nine. Now it's time to
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