 The national broadcasting company presents counter spy Washington calling David Harding counter spy Washington calling David Harding counter spy Harding counters by calling Washington United States counter spies Especially a pointer to investigate and combat the enemies of our country both at home and abroad These counters by reports to the American people are brought to you each Friday night tonight the case of the insidious impersonation Agent Ferguson counters by Liaison Bureau Washington to David Harding communication section Pacific Coast field headquarters urgent Ferguson to Harding Harding Pacific Coast field headquarters reference confidential file R33 exer Confidential file R33 ex go ahead Ferguson Special request has just come through from the State Department that you personally meet the liner SS Trigania, which arrives in New York tomorrow What time is the Trigania do it's scheduled to dock at pier 33 at 10 a.m All right Ferguson have a cutter standing by for my use and notify the party's concern that I'll board the Trigania at Ambrose light Yes, sir. We'll do Peters notify spaulding that I'm putting him in charge of our present operation here on the West Coast till you and I get back Now after you talk to spaulding call the airport in order the jet to be ready for a takeoff within an hour We're making an emergency flight to New York Peters. I'll give you the details on the way Well, Mr. Harding. How about those details now? Peters were flying to New York in reference to confidential file R33 ex File R33. Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot you weren't in Washington last week when I discussed the matter with mr Johnson of the State Department. No, just what is our 33 ex chief? That's the code number for a special mission to Washington by mr Ramon Sierra Ramon Sierra the Philippine statesmen. Yes, mr. Sierra and his aide Colonel Manowell Kinto are scheduled to arrive in New York tomorrow morning aboard the liner Trigania I don't get it Dave. Why New York? Well, mr. Sierra is ostensibly taking a long ocean voyage for his health ostensibly a cover-up for his business here. Exactly Very careful plans were made not to arouse the suspicions of Huck espionage agents in the Philippines The secret conference in Washington will deal with a defense plan for the islands in case of a surprise attack like the Korean affair Certainly big stuff Dave There's no telling what espionage agents would do to get information and what will be said at that conference Or no telling what they were due to stop it That's why we're on our way to New York Peters to make sure that mr. Sierra's mission is accomplished safely and Successfully Senor Sierra Senior I have been looking all over the ship for you senior Sierra Oh, we have just received a radiogram from mr. David Harding of the United States counterspice is meeting us aboard tomorrow morning to escort you to Washington Ah David Harding, I will be delighted to see him again. You don't understand senior Sierra There must be a special reason for mr. Harding himself to come the counterspice must have some special information Regarding personal danger to you. Oh, no. No coronel. Do not let your imagination run away with you I'm sure mr. Harding comes only because of protocol just this same senior. I will not rest easy until tomorrow I Suggest we return to our cabin and remain there until mr. Harding comes aboard what I am expected in a few minutes at mr Douglas's cabin We are to continue our jazz scheme, please senior do as I ask we can afford to trust no one Colonel kindle you are actually worried about mr. Douglas After all what do we know of him? We know that mr. Robert Douglas is a retired American businessman returning home after a visit to doctors in Vienna Espionage agents make use of many disguises Mr. Douglas and espionage agent Now coronel you're carrying things much too far mr. Douglas is a paralytic confined to a wheelchair for over five years Well, he's so helpless as nurse miss Marshall even as to make the moves on the chessboard form just the same senior Sierra We must take every precaution the future security of our nation is dependent upon your mission I must insist that you return with me to our cabin I am sorry coronel, but I have promised my company to a sick man The least I can do my last night aboard is keep such a promise Oh, good evening, mr. Sierra, won't you come in? Thank you miss Marshall I've already set up the chessboard and mr. Douglas is rare and to go. I most certainly am mr. Sierra I brought my aid coronel came to a long. I believe you gentlemen know each other. Yes, we do Of course that to have you here come on. Thank you to be truthful. Mr. Douglas the coronel insisted upon coming insisted The coronel has a notion that you may be a spy a spy Really as a matter of fact mr. Douglas. I can safely say now that you are a spy You are no more a wheelchair invalid than I am. Is that not true? All right colonel kinto Coronel He's gotten out of the wheelchair and miss Marshall is not a nurse. Are you miss Marshall? No, I'm not a nurse But I do know how to administer a hypodermic when its use is called for Colonel kinto you were correct about them all alone I should have listened to you. Oh, no, I am glad you did not What do you mean? I wanted you to come here. That was the plan plan. I know your nature very well by this time I knew you would insist upon coming if I just went so far, but I I don't understand You have the hypodermic ready miss Marshall ready colonel now in a moment Now do you understand sierra? you You have been working with them. We all work in the same course you And I trusted you as my purpose to gain your complete trust To make sure that you did not get to that washington conference tomorrow Your plan will not work kinto Mr. Harding will discover what happened when he investigates my death, but you are not going to die at least not yet And you attend that conference tomorrow, but in name only is that not right douglas. See cornell kinto I will attend He he has my voice and that is not all If you look at douglas more closely, you will notice that he has your bill too and your features Perhaps that is why you were attracted to me sierra. The impersonation will be flawless Douglas has been trained well for his assignment. He has memorized all important facts in your career And miss marshal has heard you this too I'll use this hypodermic mr. Sierra to keep you quiet and unobtrusive So I'll have no difficulty in getting you as the paralytic mr. Douglas Office boat tomorrow morning in new york and from the boat you will be taken away by a special ambulance All right, miss marshal Now mr. Sierra Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you I promise to take very good care of you, mr. Sierra. What is it? Yes Miss marshal will take very good care of you Until she is instructed to do otherwise. I don't know what feeling is there senior sierra This is unbelievable Fantastic course sierra Fantastic unbelievable That is what we rely on for our success. No one would believe that such a daring venture is this would be attempted No one not even david harding Really david harding united states counterspired Oh, I am coronel manuel quinto aid to senior sierra colonel. Come in, please senior hardy. Thank you I am delighted to see you again, senior. Thank you, mr. Sierra and welcome back to the united states It is good to be here against senior and to renew all friendships Especially with you. Well, I've been looking forward to this meeting too, sir Let's see when last we met. Ah, yes It was in december 1943 the conference at your office in washington in regard to establishing intelligence contact with our partisan forces Is that not correct? Oh, yes. Yes, that's correct. Mr. Sierra. There was such a conference in my office. Yes Senior sierra has a remarkable memory for dates places and persons senior hardy, especially such a person as you Well, I am sincerely impressed, sir. Tell me. Did you have a good voice? Very restful. Thank you And very uneventful. We are happy to report. Well gentlemen I can see no reason why the remainder of your trip should be any more troublesome Not as long as we are in your hands, senior harding Just a minute miss marshal. Why, what is it perso? I saw you starting down this gang flank with that wheelchair Well, I I'm taking mr. Douglas to the ambulance waiting on the dock. Is there something wrong? Why no miss just thought I I'd give you some help Oh Well, no, no, thank you perso. I'm quite able to handle it myself very well Oh I say yes Mr. Douglas, he's looking rather strange this morning strange Yes, as if there's something to matter with him He's not moving. Oh Oh, that's nothing at all. He's just asleep. I gave him a sedative. Oh, I see You see he's had a very trying day. Well miss marshal He's certainly a lucky man having someone as attentive as you are to take care of him But that's my job. That's what I get paid for. No miss marshal I've noticed you many times during this trip It's obvious to me that you're not just interested in the money that goes with your job Oh Driver Hi miss marshal. There's a dope dirt road just ahead on the left. Will you drive the ambulance in there and park right? How's your patient back there still asleep? Uh-huh, and he'll be that way for hours How far you want to go miss marshal? Oh just a little farther. I've got a car parked in the woods on the side of the road All right, stop here Okay, miss marshal. I'll take him out get him in the car for you Well, that won't be necessary driver. I can handle it myself. It's kind of heavy, you know I can manage and I can manage this gun too You are listening to the case of the insidious impersonation on counter spy Sunday afternoon chimes mean mystery and action on nbc Mike wearing better known as the falcon lends his debonair touch to the solution of another mystery Followed by that polite diplomatic and very deadly detective the saint After the saint hear the big guy and then your sunday afternoon of mystery concludes with that new private eye charlie Wilde who goes into action with a swash of the bucko and a few nonchalant homicides now Back to counter spy Mr. Johnson's office is right down this corridor. Mr. Sierra And senor harding the coronal came to an eye of very grateful to you and senor pieces for escorting his aid to Washington for the conference. It was anonymous to seara Here we are Well, good afternoon, mr. Harding afternoon miss lane is is mr. Ramon seara and his aid colonel keto And mr. Johnson is expecting the gentleman in his office and let me thank you again, sir The pleasure was mine. I hope to see you once more before I leave Washington. I'm sure we'll see each other again This way gentlemen, please. Adios, senor hard. Goodbye colonel. Kino Well, they've our jobs finished. No peter Our real job has just begun. What do you mean? Hold on a moment? I talked to mr. Johnson on this phone Mr. Johnson, this is harding now. Listen closely. Don't give away that you're talking to me and don't act surprised by what i'm going to tell you The man who has just brought into your office is not ramon seara What the man in your office is an imposter undoubtedly an espionage agent Now you'll have to handle this very delicately play along as much as you can but give out no valuable information You understand me as possible. Thank you, mr. Johnson. I or one of my agents will be in touch with you after today's conference National airport tomson make it fast Dave, I don't get all this. I didn't have a chance to explain before peter now. Hold on just another moment while I use the radio Harding car s1 calling headquarters Agent ferguson go ahead. Mr. Harding. I just left the state department building ferguson I want a squad of men sent over immediately to mr. Johnson's office in the pacific affairs division Yes, sir Now my orders are to have ramon seara and colonel kinto kept under constant surveillance now one more thing Yes chief contact the airport. Tell him. I want the jet ready for an immediate flight back to new york We'll do mr. Harding. Dave. When did you find out he wasn't the real ramon seara? When I first spoke to him in his cabin on the tragania He made a point of reminding me that we had met at a conference in my office back in 1943 Well, there was such a conference then but I wasn't there. I'd been rushed to the naval hospital at Bethesda for an appendectomy He was trying all out to sell himself to you. Yes Lucky for us. He oversold himself. Dave. This is one of the most daring schemes on record. Yes, peter And now we've got about the most ticklish counter spy job on record plenty of international ramifications It could blow up right in our face. We're gonna have to work in complete secrecy Decide on any special modus operandi. No, nothing special. We're flying right back to new york We're going to dig until we find out what happened to the real ramon seara Good evening, mr. Sierra Did you have a pleasant sleep? Miss Marsha, that's right. Miss Marsha What are you doing in my cabin? We're not in your cabin We're alone. Mr. Sierra in a cottage on the south shore of long island We left the ship over 10 hours ago. We came here by special ambulance then It was no dream No dream mr. Sierra Any more than this gun is a dream Now, I know you'll be sensible and won't force me to shoot it prematurely Colonel kinder He he has gone to washington. Yes Colonel kinder and you mr. Sierra are now in washington Thanks to none other than david harding the chief of the united states counter spies himself This insane scheme will never succeed. It can't fail You mr. Sierra have already completed the first part of those very important talks with the state department official mr. johnson And by this time tomorrow evening our work here will be finished And no one will be the wiser Until of course it is much too late Peter's in patrol car at pier 33 To harding new york field office urgent Peter's to harding Harding go ahead Peter. Hello, Dave I just went over the passenger list of the tregania with the ship's purser I've got something that might be a break in the case suggest you come down and talk to the purser yourself All right, peter's. I'm on my way there Well, Colonel kinder I would say we are well on our way to success Yes, and doglass you can stop with the impersonation as long as we are alone in the hotel room, eh All right kinder But I've come to really enjoy the part Especially deceiving harding. You've done very well. Thanks A drink doglass delighted Uh scotch is it not? Ah with soda The light on the solar Here you are. Thanks Too bad miss marshal can't be here to enjoy this. I am sure miss marshal is getting Equal enjoyment out of her part of the job. Yes. I suppose uh She's a rather peculiar woman I don't think I could ever kill anyone in cold blood She always seemed to get a thrill out of it But everyone who was old days there In our cause doglass It is everyone to his own usefulness. Oh, yeah Yes, I forgot Well, how about a toast a kingdom To tomorrow and the final session of the conference and to tomorrow In the phone call I shall make to miss marshal That's the story mr. Harding you see sir I offered to help miss marshal take the wheelchair down the gangplank But she wouldn't allow me and this happened first after the other passengers debauched. Oh, yes, sir Quite a time after uh, would you please tell mr. Harding the condition of miss marshal's patient? All right, mr. Petis Well, mr. Douglas looked rather Well strange to me He was slumped over in the wheelchair Motionless miss marshal told the person that she'd given mr. Douglas a sedative to you see Did you see mr. Douglas face only part of it sir See his coat collar was up and his hat was pulled down Oh Well, did you notice where they went when they got down onto the pier? Luckily he did mr. Harding there was an ambulance waiting for them and they drove off immediately Oh, I've already radioed our agents in this area to investigate all ambulance services. Yeah, good Now one more thing person first or during the time he was aboard ship did mr. Douglas Um have any close acquaintances. Well, so now that you ask I I do recall him being friendly with another passenger Uh, uh, mr. Raymond sierra Sierra Yes, mr. Darling very friendly I hope I've been some help. You certainly have. Thank you very much. Let's go, peters New york field office hardy speaking. Peter's finished our check on robert douglas and just as you figured the name is a phony No such person living at the address given in the ship's record Brayden was in touch with the passport division of the state department Both douglas and miss marshal's passports are not recorded. Is that it? That's a chief No doubt now that douglas change places with mr. Sierra and none at all Well, we've got douglas under surveillance But now the trick is to find miss marshal and her new patient. Yeah, but where to start looking Well, get those reports from those ambulance services. We're investigating This mr. Sierra is the amount of money the united states will furnish to your government for the purchase of uh Defense equipment. Uh, senor johnson the filipino republic is everlastingly grateful for this great kindness Yes Yes, you you must be tired mr. Sierra. We've We've been had this conference stable for over seven hours. Oh, no, no, no senor. I I am fine Well, we could finish the remainder of our business tomorrow morning Uh, senor johnson, I am anxious to finish tonight so I can return quickly to my people with the good news I am sure you understand Yes, mr. Sierra. I'm sure I understand fully Well, then we'll go right on We should be through by eight o'clock if you have to make any plans eight o'clock I will call my eight coronal kintu at our hotel so he can make the necessary arrangements Harrison just phoned in Dave he located the ambulance good not so good Why what's wrong? The ambulance was not driven to the place noted on the services record Well, what about the driver of the ambulance? Didn't Harrison check with him? Harrison couldn't check with him, Dave The driver was found this morning out in some woods on long island dead shot through the head Hello, it's marshal coronel kinto. Oh, I've been waiting to hear from you Sierra has almost finished with his work here in washington You will take a plane and meet us in san francisco tomorrow evening. Then everything is all set Everything what about my patient? It is now 25 minutes of it Sierra will be through with the conference at exactly it And unless you hear from me to the contrary at exactly eight o'clock you will put your patient out of his misery Communication section washington to harding new york field office Blue alert on sierra case stand by blue alert vital information coming through Stand by Harding control car s1 to all motor patrols in new york area Disregard all previous orders and converge immediately on house at five six elm drive glenmore long island repeat five six elm drive glenmore long island One minute of eight mr. Sierra you have exactly one more minute to live Well, what's the matter with you aren't you afraid You just sit there smiling I smile miss marshal because in the end i know i will win And you and the others will lose We can't lose now. There's nothing to stop it. There is always something someone to stop people like you A man who is about to be shot to death. You seem very brave death does not frighten me I'm an old man. I have lived a full life. Oh No regrets. Hey only one and that I will not be present when you and the others are brought to trial Your time is up mr. Sierra Now we two say goodbye Hello, put that gun down miss marshal what pull it down Who is this you're too late now miss marshal too late to kill mr. Sierra What kind of a trick is this who's talking you have exactly three seconds to put that gun on the table Who are you why are you calling me Your time is up miss marshal Oh, no, you can't trick me. I'll do what I have to then you'll be killed yourself by mr. Harding Harding he's standing right behind you in the doorway. You can't fool me. No one is in this cottage No one knows i'm here. Harding could never find me. That's where you're wrong miss marshal. What look out peter The next shot is for keeps now you're going to do as you're told That voice on the phone that was one of my agents talking to you by radio phone from one of the patrol cars Outside this house. We were playing for a few extra seconds to save mr. Sierra I told her senior harding that she and the others would lose How did you ever find us here? What happened to kento and douglas? We had a tap on kento's hotel phone while he was talking to you earlier My agents were busy checking the address that went with this phone number for keno and douglas They're waiting for you in washington or we're arranging a very special kind of conference for all of you All right, peter. You can take her out. I'll be along in a minute with mr. Sierra. Come on. Let's go senior harding It is good to see you again. You too mr. Sierra. You've no idea how good Tune in every friday same time same station to counter spy Listen next friday for the exciting case of the carbon console When a broken pencil was fitted together 3 000 miles from counter spy headquarters the matching pieces blew wide open one of the most sinister international intrigues on record The full case history will be revealed next friday in case of the carbon console on counter spy Tonight's counter spy program originated in new york was directed by marx b lobe dramatized by edward j adamson And featured don mcglucklin and mandel kramer Counter spy is produced by phillips h lord Three chimes mean good times on nbc The chimes are really excited about a big show. In fact, it is the big show coming soon on nbc It'll be an hour and a half every sunday night with talula bank head as fem c And featuring such stars as jimmy doranthi fred allen and groucho marx sunday november 5th