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confidential to major general carl busher atomic energy commission from professor leiland r young regarding thermal nuclear h 23 at 6 30 am may the 15th h 23 was successfully detonated without the use of u 235 enclosed herewith technical data compiled after explosion complete destruction up to 10 miles the most powerful weapon yet discovered complete destruction up to 10 miles and set off without the use of the abomb thermal nuclear h 23 is top secret this is the story not certainly of the development of h 23 but of the fact that it still remains top secret very third 1951 confidential to headquarters military intelligence washington dc from american embassy switzerland this morning a man was shot as he entered the building before he lost consciousness he identified himself as doctor rudolf helman he was taken to the hospital where his condition has been reported critical nurse yes i am colonel michikov i wish to see mr farland word the american council oh just one moment doctor yes this is i am colonel michikov i wish to see mr farland word well he's you have a man here who has identified himself as dr rudolf helman yes we have his real name is borosheen is an escaped convict and i have orders from my government to take him into custody dr helman no he's not the doctor his name is borosheen he has an escape and whoever he is he's dying the doctor i am here representing my country i have authority colonel michikov you have no authority in this hospital if you wish to see the patient i would suggest you obtain permission from the chief of staff i see now if you will excuse me doctor yes i presume mr farnsworth obtained permission he did good day colonel nurse yes doctor i discovered the plan a week ago mr farnsworth yes colonel michikov oh no he's here i just spoke to him in the hall i sent him to the staff chief for permission did he know i was here yes doctor clenon is dead new headquarters military intelligence washington dc from henry w farnsworth american embassy switzerland dr rudolf helman died here at 5 50 p m this day obtained statement of great importance if deceased is really elman soviet government claims he is alexander borosheen escaped convict and citizen of ussr please advise yes dr singer yes certainly got these rundowns on the pile wonderful wonderful i got to go up the security i'll go with you as soon as i'm finished still going to play poker tonight wouldn't miss it i'll give you a buzz when i'm through all right dr singer this is mr white side and general busher i know the general how are you sir just fine dr mr white side how do you do how do you do dr sit down george thank you mr white side is from the FBI oh did you know a dr elman rudolf elman yes very well i studied under him in germany here's a picture is this the man you knew yes much thinner but this is dr elman and we taught at the same university he's dead when did he die good war this man died four days ago and this is not dr elman he was killed by the nazis trying to escape from germany this man was shot in front of the american embassy in switzerland we've known for some time that dr elman was a prisoner in cyberia working on thermonuclear weapons how are your experiments coming doctor i'm afraid that's confidential general even to you elman knew just about how far you'd progress that's impossible this uh it's a portion of his testimony recorded just before he died it was sent to us by farnsworth of the american embassy in switzerland sure this man was elman elman was a brilliant physicist was he not dr extremely brilliant if information concerning your work here was smuggled out he would be capable of understanding it elman not only be capable but extremely useful general are you suggesting that someone on my staff i suggest you read elman's statement concerning your work here on thermonuclear weapons greek professor young i've read it george but this shows knowledge of our progress as late as a month ago is it accurate extremely lacking in a few details elman was dying extremely accurate what does this mean sir it means that someone working on h 23 is acting as a spy but who myself professor young and four others are the only ones who could possibly have access to this kind of information elman knew that you were close to what he calls in his statement the most powerful weapon of our times his exact quote the one weapon that might mean the difference between peace or total destruction he escaped to let us know that someone is passing on this information do you know who it is no professor young said the same thing you did it has to be one of six men professor young yourself dr dr michael dr evans and your assistants mr brahm well or mr callings can't believe it these men are all trusted so was claus fuchs completely trusted seems impossible we have to find him if you don't know who he is don't you think it's a little dangerous to confide in me after all i might be the one you might be but that's all been discussed if we're going to find this man someone one of the five men working on your experiment has to help we can't send in an outsider our man would get suspicious professor young had to be notified he's in charge of this plant but we still need one of the men actually working on the project professor young's only been supervised we picked you why past record my colleagues have records equally as trustworthy we know all the records doctor and i know these men i work with mr white side then perhaps you'll be able to find out which one is a trader well i don't know i repeat what if i'm the trader then i i don't think you'd be foolish enough to continue sending information and if the information doesn't continue to leave the country we've accomplished two things we've kept the project a secret and we found out that our man is on to us yes yes i suppose that's right if they steal age 23 from us well how's there anything else i think we've covered everything come on george i'll buy us a drink uh nothing else for me at the moment is the general no nice to see you again dr singer thank you general oh i imagine i'll see you again mr white side i imagine so doctor yes of course what do you think white side about singer yeah i'm interested in him general it might help if we get to know a bit more about him he's the man i don't know that's what we've got to find out auto light is bringing you the case for dr singer tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense say harlow what are you gonna do on your vacation why have as an advocate of the auto light stay full battery the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use i'm going to advise all car owners to adopt that adept adaptable and amazing actuator of abundant and dependable starts always in their pitch in a harlow you said it hap and it's all because the auto light stay full offers greater convenience and longer life greater convenience sure hap because the auto light stay 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planned advise charlie hi charlie hi benny sit down have a beer thanks i've been waiting long about five minutes how's my g okay i have the flu one of the kids got it now don't you know i gotta get it sooner or later i had it it's miserable how's business we got us three tons of whitefish yesterday and with the prices oh yeah boys many beer just beer two beers right fishmen running just great day before yesterday we rolled in with over four tons how's your business fine we had two men on all of them apartments bug 24 hours takeout what about singer so far nothing works right with them maybe i don't know checking i've done so far they look pretty clean sure boy we want smart if it is singer smart as they come i give you important holding two beers 50 cents well cheers yeah and good luck i hope your next catch is the biggest yet confidential to major general carl busher atomic energy commission russian from professor liland our young regarding thermonuclear h 23 dr singer has informed me that h 23 experiments are proceeding on schedule with luck completion should be possible within the month singer has nothing else to report in regard to our previous discussion heavens and just a minute here is a chart on the fishing yield certainly checks 21 trillion calories oh we're close now eliminate the carbon how's bomb well doing now he's tired you look tired singer a little something wrong no no no no i uh i want to see how brahm well is doing don't forget polka tonight no i won't brahm well yeah oh hello singer i'm still too low how low three million six hundred thousand i've got to go back i have eight two four as high as 19 million what was the reaction time well it's pretty close to one hundred thousands very close i think we should talk it over evans just finished his fishing yield 21 trillion yes i'm holding things up you've got the hardest job mitch and collings are down at the reactor pile let's get them and talk yeah honey yeah charlie i got something i'd like you to hear all right i'll see you at the office in an hour look out singer you know i don't think he has him i don't know he's had him all night excuse me call you know it's all right what you boys have to do is put up some money to find out all right i'll just call oh brother i admire you because my friends haven't won a hand in the last two hours i'll just let you be the hero let's see him full house aces and trade what i'd tell you i knew he had it pray that you're a pot well he opens pray evans you are without a doubt the luck is played poker for another hour and went home nothing unusual a cigarette yeah thanks still no lead boy i tell you if it is singer he's real careful yeah something new got worked on the other side of the counterintelligence our boys say the russians haven't had any message in the progress of the bomb for a couple of weeks now they're worried they're worried if we only had one lead we will the minute they finish their experiment someone's going to have to make his contact then if it's singer or any of those men we'll get him i'm even having their mothers-in-law watched 92 238 plus neutron 92,239 plus gamma radiation 92,239 decays to 93 neptunium 239 plus beta electron 23 minutes check 93 neptunium 239 decays to 94,139 heavens come here michel colleagues what is it i've got it i i think i've got it carbon is completely isolated yeah well look look for yourself hmm oh yes yes let me see yes here callings well this is it congratulations brahman well gentlemen h 23 is no longer theory we can now begin to assemble the first one confidential two major general carl busher atomic energy commission washington from special agent white side federal bureau of investigation regarding conclusion of h 23 experiments counterintelligence has informed us that the russians are in possession of the news of the same they have not yet obtained details how could it get out how i don't know general charlie here's had him watched every second i i don't know i know what they did better than they do every one of them they're clean let's stop kidding ourselves somebody's not clean experiment was licked four days ago professor young says they're working now to assemble the bomb then what do we do send the details by courier to the russians we might as well we still have some time what about singer i don't know and charlie yeah got those reports yeah well let's go through again general these are a survey of the movements of every man on that experiment we'll pick up with the report starting four days ago go ahead charl okay professor young march 15th 8 30 am escorted to lab no context 12 noon and company was singer brownwell and evans went to lunch no context wait a minute what about the waiter he's clear we've already checked that all right go on 1 p.m return to lab no context 5 30 p.m escorted home no context 8 p.m dr and mrs singer arrived stayed until 11 p.m returned home retired dr evans march 15th 8 30 am escorted to lab no context 12 noon and company was singer brownwell and young went to lunch no context same waiter general 1 p.m returned to lab no context 5 30 p.m escorted home no context 7 30 p.m called dr singer asked him if he could play poker that night dr singer doctor's office for checkup sinus trouble 5 30 p.m escorted home no context remained in house rest of nights okay now this is the 16th start with mr collings 8 30 escorted to lab no context 12 noon lunch with agent detritun 12 30 half hour appointments with dentist is scheduled cavity 115 escorted back to lab no context wait a minute yeah look it might be nothing but it's worth a try i want every man on that experiment examined but for a complete medical general the works professor young young singer evans collings all of them and today no explanations confidential from special agent white side to major general carl busher examinations completed and proceeding as planned we should know in a day or two anything yet nothing he's alone in his office when did you plant the mic early this morning superintendent let me in it's in the cabinet and they put the phones on yeah suppose he doesn't show up and we'll try the others hold it mr collings is here doctor oh lucky you caught me mr collings i was going out for lunch i'm certainly gonna get around to bothering you a little shouldn't have been neglected let's just get up in the chair i'll have a look at all right i've been giving me a little trouble the last week and we should have seen to it your last visit hey brah i'm bad enough certainly have to fill it this time i'll just get some over came oh how's work tires oh just open your mouth as far as you can you know we open that's it there that'll be all nice you might as well get your lunch thank you doctor you should have really taken care of this long before now i couldn't help it i haven't had a moment to myself nearly three months thought i could let it go into work later and i'm yet i'm getting them what do you have for me brah most formula can you get detailed sketches on the weapon when it's finished no it's been too dangerous i can't take a chance i want the plan no this is all it's too dangerous all right give me what you have uh three thousand dollars of course that's it that's the man we want come on charlie is that the only door out of the office either of those doors the only way take some aspirin get the dentist right mr carlings oh yes white sign federal bureau of investigation you're under arrest i believe it neither can i professor young carlings for three thousand dollars you had to work quickly i guess after that medical i hired him trained him he was a student of mine ten years ago how did it work mr white sign it was a chance professor young carlings had paid three or four visits to that dentist complaining of several cavities just as dr singer complained of sinusitis and dr evans of recurrent insomnia however when we had all of you men examined by medical men attached to this experiment we discovered mr carlings teeth to be in perfect condition work done on a healthy mouth that hadn't been for elman gave his life to tell us how much russia knew of our thermonuclear research you thought it was me didn't you yes dr singer for a while i can't blame you i really can't i was wrong i'm sorry oh that's all right do you know in a way i'm i'm glad it was carlings oh i don't know it's cleaner somehow it it keeps the trust and the faith alive in all of us and that's the biggest thing we have you know trust in each other and faith may i go now yes dr i have work to do suspense harlow wilkark speaking next week will mark national holidays for two great countries on july 1st canada commemorates the 84th anniversary of its founding as a nation and on july 4th the united states celebrates the 175th anniversary of the declaration of independence may we all recognize the importance of these two great days in our lives and make continuation of our freedoms a must for ourselves our children and the generations to follow suspense is produced and directed by elliott louis with music composed by lucian morroweck and conducted tonight by wilbur hatch the case for dr singer was written for suspense by blake edwards in tonight's story joseph kerns was heard as dr singer larry thore's white side herb butterfield as general busher and clayton post as charlie featured in the cast were ken christy ted von elts Howard mcnear paul frieze larry dobkin edgar barrier john stevensson and truda marson tonight's suspense program is the last for this season suspense on television will continue throughout the summer and we'll be back on the cbs radio network the last week in august until then this is harlow wilkark's four auto light wishing you a pleasant summer this is cbs the columbia broadcasting system