Speaker 1: Unsolved mysteries. Out of deference to people who may still
Speaker 1: be living. Character names in some of these unsolved mysteries
Speaker 1: have been changed. No piece of fiction is more intriguing
Speaker 1: than a story dealing with the activities of a brilliant spy.
Speaker 1: But truth is more daring, more astounding, much more intriguing.
Speaker 1: In tonight's true unsolved mystery dealing with the disappearance of
Speaker 1: Captain Gerald Neville, holder of the Military Cross, and Britain's
Speaker 1: master spy.
Speaker 2: Chid Anything So Something Do.
Speaker 1: The scene is one of London's most fashionable hotels. Tourists, visitors,
Speaker 1: some arriving, some leaving, pass in a constant stream through
Speaker 1: the open door. Outside, the traffic roars by in a
Speaker 1: never ending stream. The world and his wife are about
Speaker 1: their business with never a thought that war looms perilously close.
Speaker 1: But on the second floor of the hotel, Britain's master
Speaker 1: spy glances rapidly up and down the passageway.
Speaker 2: The coast as clear as he thinks, and.
Speaker 1: He steps quickly forward to room number twenty three, raises
Speaker 1: his hands and gives a secret signal. He opens the
Speaker 1: door swiftly and steps inside.
Speaker 3: Oh on time.
Speaker 4: Captain Neville yes, you are, mister Churchill Secretary.
Speaker 3: Yes, can you leave for Paris immediately if need be? Yes,
Speaker 3: But I have a lunch in appointment with my wife,
Speaker 3: so he can go to Paris with you. So much
Speaker 3: the better it will delay any suspicion.
Speaker 4: Watch the assignment Russia. Yes, I can tell you that much.
Speaker 4: But you'll get your final instructions from Drebcoff in Paris.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of things I would rather do
Speaker 3: than go to Russia.
Speaker 4: I hope that this is different. What do you mean different, Well,
Speaker 4: this time you're going to Russia at a request and
Speaker 4: with the assistance.
Speaker 3: Of the Russian government. That sounds better. You've never met Dredcock,
Speaker 3: have you?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I never have.
Speaker 4: Well, he'll hand you your final instructions in Paris. He's
Speaker 4: conferring right now with the Foreign Secretary. This time, instead
Speaker 4: of hiding in the sewers by day and crawling the
Speaker 4: blood soaked streets as though Jessa, by night, you're going
Speaker 4: to be the honored guest of the country, the.
Speaker 1: Honored guest of the country. At gerald Neville heeded the
Speaker 1: small voice of intuition. Things might have been different, but
Speaker 1: the next night found Britain's master spy and his wife
Speaker 1: seated in their hotel.
Speaker 2: Room in Paris, speaking to Drebcough.
Speaker 1: You'll remember once, when you are hunted day and night,
Speaker 1: no place for safe, and escape seemed impossible. Alexander, the
Speaker 1: Alexander who used to the work in mold saloon, came
Speaker 1: to you and smuggled you aboard a motor boat and
Speaker 1: so to safety. Yes, how think you that Alexander could
Speaker 1: find escape for Britain's master spy, who could not find
Speaker 1: it for himself.
Speaker 3: Well, I certainly thank you. That was the closest I
Speaker 3: ever came to being caught.
Speaker 2: Yes, their that man watching.
Speaker 5: Look there he is that door.
Speaker 1: He is probably one of my men. I have had
Speaker 1: your guard it ever since you left London.
Speaker 3: You have two of them watching.
Speaker 1: No, quickly, let me see just at the corner there.
Speaker 3: He's been there since dusk s eyes on our trail.
Speaker 3: I will signal my men pull down the blind quick.
Speaker 2: Now put out your light. Put up the blind again.
Speaker 1: Now I signal with my flesh light.
Speaker 3: Watch closely.
Speaker 6: I don't see anything.
Speaker 5: Oh now I do, quick flash of light.
Speaker 1: Look you see two gentlemen come down the street, arm
Speaker 1: in arm and the batter the doorway is moving to
Speaker 1: meet them.
Speaker 5: The other man going to run away, but.
Speaker 2: He will not run fast.
Speaker 3: He killed him.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, that is what happens to spies when they
Speaker 1: are caught.
Speaker 5: It's cold blood yourself, my dear.
Speaker 2: No, murder is not the word. Execution. That is the word.
Speaker 2: It's horrible. It is necessary.
Speaker 5: But the police, the police will trace me.
Speaker 6: The police.
Speaker 1: What will the police find a dead man without identification?
Speaker 1: It will be but one more chapter added to the
Speaker 1: mysteries of Paris. Here, but come, we have more pleasant
Speaker 1: than never. Why it is that we of Russia desire
Speaker 1: you to go there? Yes, naturally, it is a bit puzzling.
Speaker 1: I cannot go into details, but it seems that some
Speaker 1: of our comrades have not been faithful to the people.
Speaker 1: We have not been able to find out who they are,
Speaker 1: and you wish me to go to Russia to track
Speaker 1: them down. That is only a small part of what
Speaker 1: you are to do. We are prepared to pay you
Speaker 1: a large sum of money for your assistance.
Speaker 2: Instead of, as before.
Speaker 1: Being hunted like an animal, you will live in well
Speaker 1: appointed porters.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, pardon me, hello, oh London calling, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: put them on a wire. Hello, Yes, this is Captain Neville. Oh, yes, sir, yes, sir, yes,
Speaker 3: I can, sir.
Speaker 2: Of course, it.
Speaker 3: Makes all the difference in the world. Very clever, I'd
Speaker 3: say that certainly.
Speaker 2: That good night.
Speaker 1: It is very late and I have much work to do.
Speaker 1: What do you say to our proposal?
Speaker 3: I accept what were.
Speaker 1: Said in that mysterious phone call. We shall never know,
Speaker 1: but obviously Captain Neville believed that the British government had
Speaker 1: worked for him in Russia and that the government had
Speaker 1: encouraged him to accept Grebcov's proposition. Never left Paris with Grebcov,
Speaker 1: and after a few weeks of waiting in Vain for
Speaker 1: a letter, Missus Neville visits a high British official.
Speaker 6: What did you think that we should know anything of
Speaker 6: Captain Neville? Well, I know, he went, yes, Missus Nevis.
Speaker 5: You know I can't say that he was a secret agent.
Speaker 6: His mission is confidential. But he receive a telephone clone
Speaker 6: in this department telephone the.
Speaker 3: Night we were in Paris.
Speaker 6: I was there when he answered the film.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Missus devil, no such telephone call as recorded
Speaker 1: from London to Paris by this department.
Speaker 5: Please, my husband, you don't expect me to sit hardly bye,
Speaker 5: and not make any effort.
Speaker 6: To find him.
Speaker 1: Missus Neville, we don't expect you to sit idly by you.
Speaker 5: You won't help me.
Speaker 6: Officially we can do nothing, but don't.
Speaker 2: Officially.
Speaker 6: I will do everything I can to find your husband.
Speaker 1: But all the searching, letter writing, inquiring availed nothing. Gerald
Speaker 1: Neville had disappeared. No one could be found who had
Speaker 1: seen him get off the train, no one who had
Speaker 1: seen him at her Russia, no one who had seen
Speaker 1: him at all. Gerald Neville had disappeared. He was as
Speaker 1: if he had never been. In just a moment, you
Speaker 1: will hear a solution to the mystery of gerald Neville. Well,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, inasmuch as any solution must have necessary
Speaker 1: based opposition, liberties of time, place, and character have been
Speaker 1: taken in the solution for which you have been waiting.
Speaker 1: The scene is the Mommart district of Paris.
Speaker 2: Far back from.
Speaker 1: Busy streets, lost in the squalor and gloom of Paris,
Speaker 1: stands an old house, its shuttered windows like cyclist's eyes,
Speaker 1: belying the activity.
Speaker 2: In one of its sordid rooms.
Speaker 1: Four men and a woman stand bending over a table,
Speaker 1: examining papers and photographs in the light of a guttering candle,
Speaker 1: stuck in the neck of an empty bottle. Here are
Speaker 1: four pictures of the real Drebkoff. Look at them and
Speaker 1: tell me, will I not tess for Drebkoff? Use only
Speaker 1: you know him best of all? Tell me you will pass.
Speaker 5: Even to the voice. And remember Neverll has never met Drabkoff.
Speaker 5: But the story I have told you about Alexander helping
Speaker 5: Never to escape in the motor boat, we'll convince him
Speaker 5: that you are the real Drabkoff.
Speaker 1: And now here are three pictures of instant Churchill's secretary.
Speaker 1: Look at them carefully and tell me, will Korniloff pass
Speaker 1: for him?
Speaker 5: I would say they are the same man. I watched
Speaker 5: Churchill secretary for weeks. I have taught Korniloff all his
Speaker 5: little mannerisms. He cannot fail.
Speaker 6: I will not fail.
Speaker 5: Comrade Never is to have lunch with his wife.
Speaker 3: I found that out by.
Speaker 5: Listening to the telephone. And not for nothing have I
Speaker 5: been washing dishes and playing the housemaid in his home.
Speaker 5: But enough you go Corneilock to the hotels at five
Speaker 5: minutes of twelve. Never will come to you at twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1: Now one more thing, the telephone call to perish. It
Speaker 1: must be at the exact moment. We will compare our watches,
Speaker 1: and at four minutes after ten you will call Neverll.
Speaker 2: I shall be talking with him, and.
Speaker 1: You must imply in your talk that the British government
Speaker 1: wishes never to accept my proposal. You pretend that you
Speaker 1: are Vinston Churchill, but you must not speak that name.
Speaker 2: I understand.
Speaker 1: Then our plans are ready. You Sonia, send word to
Speaker 1: the comrades at Petrograd that at last we are to
Speaker 1: be avenged on Britain's mustas spy. The scene changes to
Speaker 1: the Russian border. Rebcov's plans have succeeded, and one night,
Speaker 1: a black inky night finds the false Repcov leading Neville
Speaker 1: to his doom. The two men, lying clams on the
Speaker 1: ground recover their breath after the sharp dash across the
Speaker 1: open stripper frontier, ol Sprepcov wispirsed to Neville.
Speaker 7: Remember what I told you. The whole frontier is charged
Speaker 7: with electricity. There is only one place we can get through.
Speaker 3: I don't see the necessity for all this secrecy.
Speaker 7: Or entrance into Russia must be known only to a few.
Speaker 7: If the man be wished to trap or to learn
Speaker 7: that you are in Russia. All our precautions.
Speaker 2: Would be in vain.
Speaker 3: Oh, I suppose so, but still I don't like it.
Speaker 3: You are not afraid. I am not afraid. There's no
Speaker 3: sense in being fool hardy. It is almost time. Our
Speaker 3: friends will be waiting.
Speaker 6: I know the ways.
Speaker 1: Why will first when I reached the opening where it
Speaker 1: is safe to pass through the wire, I will flash
Speaker 1: my flashlight three times. Goodbye.
Speaker 3: I will give him about two minutes. Oh do I
Speaker 3: see a night?
Speaker 6: No way.
Speaker 3: I guess I was mistaken. I chowed. My nerves are bad.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 3: There goes the flashlight.
Speaker 1: So comes to an end the life of one of
Speaker 1: the greatest spies of all times. That Captain Neville was trapped,
Speaker 1: as borne out by the facsimile of a letter which
Speaker 1: we quote. The date is the twenty second of December
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty seven. It is addressed to missus Neville. Dear
Speaker 1: may your letter of the thirteenth of December, and to
Speaker 1: say that it appears to have been written under a
Speaker 1: complete misapprehension.
Speaker 2: Your husband did.
Speaker 1: Not go into Russia at the request of any British official,
Speaker 1: but he went there on his own private affairs. Mister
Speaker 1: Churchill much regrets that he is unable to help you
Speaker 1: in regard to this matter, because, according to the latest
Speaker 1: reports which have been made public, mister Neville met his
Speaker 1: death in Moscow to his arrest there. The letter is
Speaker 1: signed by mister Winston, Churchill's secretary. The letter demonstrates clearly
Speaker 1: that mister Churchill knows nothing of the plot because the
Speaker 1: report of Nevill's death to which he refers was a
Speaker 1: fictitious report placed in the London newspapers by missus Neville
Speaker 1: herself in order to tempt the check guy into a denial,
Speaker 1: and the statement as to what had actually happened to
Speaker 1: Britain's master
Speaker 4: Spy, well, please turn the cassette over at this point
Speaker 4: to begin side two.