 Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the enemy lines? Knowing you may never return alive What you have just heard is the question asked during the war to agents of the OSS Ordinary citizens who to this question answered? Yes This is cloak and dagger Black warfare Espionage international intrigue. These are the weapons of the OSS Today's story the roof of the world Concerning two American agents who travel into the far-off and mysterious land of Tibet on a secret pilgrimage Is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services a Story that can now be told It came out of sudden out of the darkness the shaggy monster over 15 feet high None of us had a word for a minute. We just stared at the tusks Look at the length of them the tusks of this monster must have been at least 12 feet long And I knew myself that if I hadn't seen it stood right in front of it I wouldn't have believed it actually existed either, but I saw it. There was definite proof. It did live Once okay, okay lights put on the lights, please All right now quiet, please quiet What you have just seen is the last of our afternoon slides here in the Museum of Natural History on prehistoric animals This last mammoth was a species of a true elephant which was found in Tibet during and before the Ice Age Now are there any questions? If you all follow the guide he'll take you into the next room where you can actually see the skeletons of these monsters Which peleontologists have reconstructed from fossils and actual bones discovered in the earth Philip oh Phil oh hello Aston. Are you here for the whole lecture? No just the last part of it, but you were sensation Flattery will get you nowhere. Yeah, what's that? Oh telegram here just came to the office No, it's not for me. It's for us. Oh, who's it from Washington the office of strategic services wants to see us office of strategic Now why in the world do they want us? There's one way to find out Mr. And Mrs. Maldon we know your reputation as geologists and explorers We know you traveled the Far East together several times That's true Carol now at this stage of the war Germany is pushing eastward across Africa to Suez and Japan is thrusting westward across China into India if the axis partners meet their Junction will be central Asia and dominating that meeting point will be Tibet what do you want us to do? We want volunteers to make a pilgrimage to the Dalai Lama high priest of Tibet It'll be a good will mission to get them on our side It involves a great deal of danger. Yes. Yes, we know Esther well as long as you're sure that mammoth elephant disappeared from their centuries ago. I'm willing A few weeks later, we were flown to India where we were given a car Then the tour was started out across the border to a village called Guksong at the foot of the Himalaya Mountains Once there we were to pick up pack animals and a guide and start our journey to the holy city These roads couldn't have been any narrower or any rockier. Well, they weren't designed for modern travel. You can say that again Phil Are you worried about something? I'm worried about a lot of things for instance For instance, this is the worst possible time of the year to be traveling up that mountain It's almost spring up there and the thaw setting in it's going to loosen the snow and ice all along the way Well, we just have to be more careful. That's all Oh Phil look round the bend of the road. That's the village isn't it? That's it. That's it Wait a minute Phil slow down Look, but Lord, I should have said was a village Burn to the ground The old man who sat wailing and moaning cross-legged on the ground Was the only one Left alive in that village Banji tribe come from mountains steel care Set fire to rich How is it they spared you? I am praised sent from Dalai Rama to this village Many years past If they kill Horry man great plague and pastor and swear be upon them Well, tell me where'd you learn to speak English in Horry city was taught Well What do we do now Phil? We can't leave him here alone We'll take him with us and drive until we find another village. I know I take you with it a single will be guide to Horry city here are is lost Go back to Dalai Lama, what about pack animals a village of Chanda nuts far away We'll go there first Chanda was about 10 miles away down the road It was small with only a few huts made of sun-dried bricks Phil was afraid of the spring thaw that was setting in more every day So we made arrangements with the native chief to start almost immediately What do you say? Yes, Keung's wire dunk is as good pack animals as other white man has What's he talking about? What are the white men ask him? Pango Suley brah, Joa Sote, Lhasa Strangers leave here two days ago and way also to Horry city of Lhasa We're batch with crooked cross Natsis, we're in a race Esther. We've got to reach Lhasa before they do That was the first we knew that the Germans were ahead of us going in the same direction on the same mission Philip was right. It was going to be a race for time Yes, sir. Come on. This is no time to pick flowers Look at this dwarf road at Dandrenville and up ahead. It's like a carpet of blue iris There'll be plenty of foliage until we cross the Timberline Then it'll just be cold and traveling on snow is going to be a lot tougher Well, I'm not looking forward to the temperature dropping a hundred degrees in 20 miles. It oh Watch it. Did you hurt yourself? No, I just tripped. I guess they must be getting tired Is the sink too? Yes. Yes. How soon will we be able to camp? Cold Springs less than half mired ahead We'll camp there for night When we reached the Springs I Started dinner out of K rations which kept our packs light and by the time I was through the tent had Mushroomed up and Phil and sing two were inside straightening the pole and fixing the blankets for the night Looked up from the fire to find an unpleasant surprise Six unpleasant surprises carrying rifles and forming a ring of muddy boots all around Who are you men? What do you want? What they come from I don't know they're just here that's all We are sing to these are some of nomad bandit who raised my birch Niga shim off. What do they want? They say they take surprise everything a guns to Leader shoot off gun to show you him mean what he say fill without our supplies and guns We'll have to turn back providing they let us turn back Why am I they hold you a stitch? Send me hurry man back to get ransom. Oh, Phil hold on hold on Don't let them know you're afraid of them We stood there while they gathered our surprise out of the tent And threw them in the heat by the fire Sing to knew he wouldn't do harm because it was a holy man, but Phil and I had no idea what was ahead for us Leave her alone you understand sing to tell them we'll come quietly I said get your filthy hands The machine gun that riddle the bandit leader came from the direction of the brush Then there was silence And we looked up to see our two saviors walking out of the brush in German uniform I'm delighted. We were able to be of assistance Americans. I am commandant court father of the German army This is light on Ernst Kessler, right me. Thank you for saving our lives I'm I'm mr. Malden and this is my husband Philip. Oh and our guide sing to You do not seem too surprised to see us here. We're not just surprised. You're not two days ahead of us the way we thought you were Then you knew about us Wow, they told us in the village. They also told us you were headed for the holy city. They talk too much those native idiots They can't make this mouthhunter. That's their aunt And um you um are you also going there? No Oh, I mean we're we're geologists We're just on an exploring expedition Come come Is it quite nice to lie to your benefactors who have just saved your lives? I don't get that. Why did you Well, we saw the american flag sewn on your clothing That told us immediately who you were where you were going We as you already know, we are also headed for Lhasa to the Dalai Lama But our guide was killed the snow loosened under him as we turned a legend here Film so you were going back for a guide exactly But there is some distance away time is slipping by you have the guide you will lead us Oh, no, we won't and neither will sing too. Will you sing too? We'll do only as friend americans Tell me the flukter hood You get too excited over nothing Now remember Herr morden for morden You have the guide We have your supplies in your weapons Let us pool our resources Go together if you think that at the point of our own guns, you're going to make us lead you to lhasa. You're crazy look You are scientists I appeal to your logical minds Is it not safer that since we are traveling the same direction we travel together Once we reach the Dalai Lama That each of us present the case of his country to him If you'll forgive me for repeating her commandant, we're not going to be pushed along with guns in our backs Nine Who said you would be? Yeah Why phil He's giving us back our pistols. You see we trust changers gentlemen, no Not yet It's all right go ahead open them. Yeah open the gun if you like Go ahead spin the drum See the cartridges in the chamber Yes, yes, I see them Well, you return your guns loaded as they were Now shall we forget the war for a while and travel on together Okay Let's try it Oh We're lagging behind them phil Shouldn't we catch up to we will I want to talk to you I'm cold A temperature went down so fast once we crossed the timber line. I can almost hear it drop Oh What do you think of this situation? With our friends I don't know what to think You trust them. Of course. I don't Whether they gave us back our guns or not They're still going to look for a chance to double cross us before we reach the holy city What are we going to do phil? Just keep an eye out look for a way to double cross them first Fresh friends clear brooky here Good water to sink Come come my friends You hear what he says? That would taste better than the whiskey in your flasky arms. We're coming We caught up with them and as we leaned over to fill our canteens from the small clear brook There was a sudden rumbling The water's turned muddy suddenly. Yeah, it's covered with a dirty form I think too What's he talking about? It is not raining. It is in the high regions. That's what turned the water But so suddenly it happens like that races along under the ground pushing the mud with it It's really beginning to thaw, isn't it? Yes, that's what I was afraid of What is there to be afraid of? Answer me As the snow starts to melt it'll start to fall So just watch your step Elm's isn't not good to have three such good guides We are indeed fortunate boss Come my brook along the way we walk Walk why do you think we have these animals? Keong can be turned loose here We'll get more and more snow It's best to climb by foot. Yes sing too is right Besides the animals won't find any place to graze. It's been getting pretty sparse for miles. Where will they go? They are wild We'll find the one way Heta The packs were heavy and we were too tired the next two days to do much talking We just watched each other The jagged pairs undress were getting more and more slippery And below the cliff we could see a sheer drop of hundreds of feet to the glacier Above us were the snow peaks And somewhere beyond the holy city of Lhasa Towards which small birds of dull brown gray and black seemed to point And then the third night after the strange pact had been made between our two enemy camps It happened Where are you going? Oh to the brook around Bendville I want to get some water you take care of the rest If you pitch the tent hermogen i'll fix the fire There it is i knew i'd sing brook Just a little bigger hole in the ice Let me carry that back for you Lieutenant Kessler, what are you doing here? I can see you don't want to be friendly What a pity I'll be friendly enough to give you some good advice Save that liquor until you really need it and stop guzzling it if you intend to keep up on this hike This is no Boy Scout picnic I'm touched by your concern for me Don't flatter yourself What are you doing back here anyway? You really wish to know I followed you and knew you were coming to the brook So I went round to all the way You what? You don't like me You'd like me very much If you've got to know me No, thanks Now, please get out of my way. Let me go back We may not have another chance to be together alone You're very attractive Even in those heavy clothes I know very attractive besides I'm the only woman for miles now get out of my way I would like to see you Nice shoulders from Get me alone Don't try to pull away from me Stop it you fucking fool You big dumb dragon Nazi pig You watch your tongue Get out of my way Stop yelling I say Stop it Get away leave her alone And if I don't give me back my gun, I'll use it You have your gun You will not dare shoot me go on try to use your gun Ann thought that's enough Do you want him to use his gun on you think Ann's do you want him to use this gun? You will I can tell you will I'll give this lady apologies I order you My apologies from Maldon. You both have my word an incident like this will not occur again Shall we eat and make him for the night now? All the next day Bill and sing too kept me between them as we climbed I wondered how soon we'd see the holy city and when all this would come to a head Look When sing too yelled we turned around and looked in the direction from which we just come A huge ice pillar swayed for a moment and then It landed on the path we had come from less than two hours before And this is what we can expect from now on now that the Thor said in Oh, I'll expect it, but I won't look forward to it Am I mistaken or are the days getting longer sleepy? You know it was nice of them to let you and sing too and me have this cave to ourselves Well considering that it's too small to hold more than three of this it wasn't so magnanimous Still they could have tried to grab it for themselves Farber seems to be trying to make amends for the way his pal liked it the other day I wonder what their game is. Yes. I'd like to know too Sing too. Yes You wish to know how soon we reach holy city He may not talk much, but he's a pretty good mind reader That's it sing too How long expect to see gates in distance perhaps tomorrow tomorrow? Oh, that's wonderful. Is it well, isn't it? It means time has run out as to If they're going to pull anything They're going to pull it now The Germans were camped under a ledge which protected them from the wind about 50 feet from us across a narrow crevasse In spite of all the things that had happened before or might be going to happen ahead It was strange peaceful up there In the west a fan of pink rays from the sun shot up from behind the snow range And overhead a few bright stars twinkled Presently the fan flickered and and disappeared And then in the glow of the full moon I saw what looked like a long procession of ghosts in the distance But were actually cascades of snow Melting and falling hundreds of feet leaping from ledge to ledge In the morning The air was crystal clear And we saw it The holy city Ah Esther, do you see it? I expected only to return again When I die Oh, it's beautiful How long will it take us to reach it? You will not reach it at all my friends. Don't start something. You can't finish her come on. Phil get back Get behind me back in the cave. You should have been more friendly to me from morning That's I would have taken you with us What's the big joke But I saw them I broke open the gun and saw the cartridges then you take one out and examine it Why don't you do it now? Bill Look, I I opened mine it's a It's a blank cartridge now surely from morning You understand why I took care not to let your husband become too excited the night elves here try to be friendly I didn't want to take a chance of you finding out too soon We should give you regards to the Dalai Lama Show this Kill us with your blank guns if you can That's not a bad idea Esther Else look out back in the cave quick Took them at their word and actually killed them with this blank gun The shots vibrated enough to loosen the heavily piled snow Break the crust at the rim of the ledge and start this slide that avalanche Come over the side and buried them somewhere on the cliffs below us under rock ice and snow gone They are gone. Oh the the Thor Worked for us, didn't it? Yes Come on sing to You lead we'll follow We could see the holy city But it was still 25 miles away It was two days travel of an almost vertical descent into the valley And we arrived at dusk at the magnificent red and white palace that overlooked the city It was a week before we saw the Dalai Lama Our entrance into his presence was conducted with the utmost ceremony Tall grim-faced monks lined the hall There's six foot four inch frames made even more massive by layers of stiff gold brocade The walls were carved with strange images and Tibetan inscriptions Then the gaunt was struck again We were ushered into the throne room Esther Look quite Must not talk Come Dalai Lama We'll see you now We walked on thick rugs that were brilliant in color and depicted the waves of the sea clouds and emblems of happiness Then we saw throne of yellow satin at the end of the great room and on it Robed in burgundy and gold satin with a crown on his head and a table of jewels beside him Sat the Dalai Lama A boy of six Long javati scarf over your heads We thank you for your welcome your serenity We bring you gifts from our leader Your gifts with president He is well. Thank you Bring the gifts to me Let me see They gave him the gifts and he looked at each one carefully After a while servants began to pass bowls of rice and glasses of black tea I noticed that a special taster took a sip of the Lama's tea before it touched his sacred lips Yes, your serenity through a pinch of rice over your shoulder It will bring good luck Your serenity We've come to talk about peace and friendliness between our two countries. We've accomplished nothing His serenity has died three nuts in americans longevity scarf. He has blessed them Our countries were Be friends The success of the mission of these two oss geologists Help to lay the foundations of friendship between tibet and the united states And to possible any possibility of tibet's cooperation with our axis enemies Thus once again the report of another agent ends with the words mission accomplished Listen again next week for another true adventure from the files of the oss on cloak and dagger Heard in today's cloak and dagger adventure as ester was louise barkley philip grant richards the monk Raymond edward johnson farber steven schnavel kessler barry croger others were janis gilbert carl Weber ralph bell and jerry jarrett Script was written by winterford wolf and jack gordon. The music was under the direction of john garth Sound effects by chat hill and dick gillespie Today's true oss adventure was based on the book cloak and dagger by cori ford and allister mc bane This program was produced by lois g kown and alfred hollander under the direction and supervision of sherman marx Programs get your programs here Mystery and action tonight on nbc here how you may win a cash prize as an armchair detective on $1,000 reward Listen to the adventures of the suave crime fighter the saint played by screen favorite vincent price And follow another exciting caper with the greatest private eye of the mall hard boiled sam spade Now stay tuned for high adventure and the big guy on nbc