 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 a war of words Concerns an American agent who personally delivered a message to the colonel of a Japanese camp and is suggested by actual incidents Recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services a story that can now be told Okay, Harry. I spotted it. There's our target check ready to let him go ready Bombs away there she goes I Dropped every one of those bombshells we had in the plane and they hit the target right on the nose And the explosion that followed sounded like this Just as much noise as paper makes when it flutters to the ground Those were our bombshells propaganda leaflets Leaflets designed by OSS to lower the morale of the Japanese soldiers in that camp in Burma Those were our silent weapons. I'm gonna turn back now. Okay, Pete. Oh, Harry What do you think of that phonied up picture the bombing at Tokyo we just dropped looked authentic to me Well, I like that little pamphlet too, you know the one that began the Suns of the rising Sun It is better to surrender than fight without bullets or die of starvation in the jungle Yeah, that was real cured Sure, I'd give those lousy jab something to think about. I'm sorry, Harry. I Shouldn't have said that That's okay, Pete Forget it Let's beat our own record get him back this time. Huh? Yeah Here we go Sometimes the guys forgot that Harry was short for Haruyoshi Haruyoshi Nabura Although I like to think of myself as an American Japanese Even peepano thought of me as a Japanese American. I Had to learn not to be too sensitive Come in boys, come on in. Oh, thank you colonel down Cigarette thank you You two have done a good job in the past few months peppering Burma with that propaganda material. Oh, here's a lighter Thank you, and we already have begun to see the results. Well, how's that colonel? Well, you know how live Japanese prisoners used to be at a premium Rather than be captured. They'd commit how to carry almost in defiance. Oh, yeah I hear a lot of them are surrendering lately. That's right. They're morale isn't what it was good And you too can take part of the credit for that, but Tomorrow tomorrow, I want you to go one step further Well listening sir Take a look at this document What is it Chinese or Japanese? Or Greek to me. I can tell you what it is Pete It's obviously a forged order to the commander of the Japanese camp to withdraw his troops Three miles east. Well, I hope it's not an obvious forgery to him Lieutenant Nabura because if he falls for it and moves his camp our armies will have a clean road right into Obama and once we get there Burma is practically in our hands. Oh, I see Oh begging your pardon Colonel, but What are we supposed to do to walk into that Jap camp and deliver these orders? Oh, no Oh, no, your job is much simpler. All you have to do is fly over the OSS detachment 101 at Osam and drop this document They're catching natives and our agents there will do the rest. We've contacted them by radio. They expect it check Colonel Yeah, this will be a snap nothing to it This will be a snap nothing to it, huh, how do I know we'd run into a Jap zero? Right back at your buddy Now he died too fast for you Harry. I'm gonna grab more sky. Maybe I can lose them up there Maybe not for long hang on boy Most of the way up the air was thin enough so that I could see the nose of that zero following us And then at 7,000 feet the air became thick and we lost them But the plane had taken quite a beating How bad is it look you Pete? Well, we haven't more than 50 miles to go Then we can sit down and cut some territory make repairs before heading back to India. Okay Instead of dropping that document will deliver it in person while we get there, huh? If we get there what what's that wing? It's coming off where he hit us There she goes. What do we do now? I'm gonna kick the stick forward as hard as I can put her in a loop Oh, that's crazy. Now that'll toss us backwards out of the cockpit Don't pull your ripcord before you fall free of the plane Land in the river I'll give you free dry. Here we go. We fell free of the plane. I jerked the ripcord in my chute open On the way down I inflated my maywest and the little lifeboat swelled up Below me. I could see Pete drifting slowly in the Brahmaputra River And then I hit the water Yeah, this is a nice mess to begin Not even sure exactly where that 101 detachments located. It's somewhere to the south, isn't it? Yeah That's a help Whoo Jungle stinks doesn't I can think of a lot of places I'd rather be For instance for instance anywhere this place is probably crawling with enemy patrols. Oh, that's a pleasant thought Careful careful. Don't trip over those roots The jungle was heavy and oppressive It's all trees spread a canopy over our heads and shut out what little sun there was After a few miles our shirts will rip the shreds on the brambles and Blood ran into our eyes from the leeches on our foreheads Then Pete stopped showing Harry look River what river? What is it the Brahmaputra where we land it? You see it into the right. I don't get it. We passed it a few miles back. Yeah We sure did you see that clump of root They look familiar That's where you almost tripped right there by the swamp, but Hey, yeah, we made a nice big circle Right back where we started. How the devil did we do that? Well anything could happen in this lousy hurry Jack patrol this just isn't our day. They're coming this way quick the swamp They'll never see us. Let's get a little walk till it pass. All right All right, that's it. I'll get down Just keep your nose up to breathe. You have to get down under and don't breathe. All right Resta and then tied their shoelaces. Let's get out of here That night we lay side-by-side deep in the jungle on top of course undergrowth Underneath the trees from which Leana's hung down like braided ropes We shifted oppositions every few minutes as a regiment of ants and bugs crawled into our clothing and kept us awake And then towards morning we fell asleep exhausted When we awoke the Sun had found a hole in the branches and crawled through Boy that Sun's hot is it What do you mean is it? I'm cold Pete. I got the shakes Fever, I don't know. I just feel sick sick of my stomach We can't sit here You think you can travel? Oh Sure, come on boy that Sun's blazing, isn't it? Well, I thought you said you had the shakes. Uh-huh. Oh nothing Come on Harry. Come on up on your feet boy. You'll be all right. Yeah. Come on boy. That's it What oh yeah, we started walking again Our wrists had opened sores on the jungle ride My head was hot my hands were cold And I felt sick Awful sick Harry. How do you feel? I'll be okay. Uh with that swamp we hit in Just those lousy bugs that got on your skin. I'll be all right Harry Harry Okay, fella now just take it easy there. That's it. There's cold cloth in your forehead. It'll make you feel better. You'll see boy Pete yeah That's Pete Where I'm going Couldn't you say anything more original than that for crying out loud My blood got the night now don't talk so much You blabbed enough when you were off your head uh Who's uh Okay, Sam Girl, I knew it. UCLA. I figured How long ago's it been since you're nine two days? Have we got enough rations? We'll be okay Don't lie to me. I said we'll be okay now. Don't try to set up Harry Well, how far do you think we are from the kitchens? Well, I think I've got the direction pretty well mapped out now About a day's travel do south Well, not if you sit here with me for a week Now don't talk so much. Go on Pete. Get out of here. I'll tell you what if you make it there by yourself You can come back with some of the natives and get me not on your life. I'm not leaving here, but shh That's uh Pete door's gone and called out about the kids my head was pounding harder than before Maybe Maybe it was the fever Maybe it was because I had to lie there helpless while Pete went out alone do Whatever was outside Friend and friend who are you? Maybe suing scout and scout saw you this morning from top of three. So your head broke so uniform Yeah, yeah, you've got good eyesight, but you still haven't told me who you are I told you and suing scout Cuts and scout cuts and cut chin. Oh, why didn't you say so? You're from a psalm. You're you're from the os s detachment. He's right. Hurry Hurry did you hear that? Oh, well, how's this for the mountain coming in the hammered? It's gray. It's just gray Would like oh boy would love. Oh, look, I've got a sick friend in here in the cave that Fever, can you fix him up and we'll see I looked up from the bed of leaves that Pete had made The cutchin scout who leaned over me was short and squat with long matted hair and teeth worn to a black stuff by beetle nut He took a good look at me and jumped back as if he'd been bitten Now listen suing suing this this is american Just like I said, it's japanese. It's now you listen su is a japanese. Yes. Yes. That's right, but Is american too? You savvy american friend Look at his uniform You say friend I say japanese We'll fix up from fever Then bring to camp Let them say which is what? I don't know what he mixed up in those which doctor concoctions besides the use of Mahogany leaves in the roots of the liana vines Or whatever it was I was on my feet two days later and we started out for detachment 101 Only this time we had a guide And then the next night out of nowhere We came upon it Well, what do you know? Here it was the osse secret hideout Carved right into the jungle of berber. So this is detachment 101. There were neat straw-thatched boshars A mess hall a well-equipped hospital mortars bazookas crates of ammunition Harry Harry look a woman a woman a red cross nurse GI paratroopers and bright colored shirts and unlaced jump boots were strolling about mingling with the native troops Wow This is just like a city in the wilderness, isn't it? It's like nothing I've ever seen before In probably late nothing you'll ever see again. Huh? Well, where'd you come from? Yes, your name has been standing behind you. I'll attain Would you like to have me show you around baby? Oh, well not now. Thanks the guide who brought us here disappeared We've got to find the head man around here. We have something for him But you'll live longer if you live slow and don't drive yourselves Remember the rest of soul told me that in Dublin many years ago Am I rich you know? No No, you don't say oh, yes Yes You take a good look at our little camp As I said, you'll probably never see anything like it again if you live to be 104 It's as if the leprechaun set it down right in the middle of the wilderness. Well, we'll look around later If you don't mind who's in charge you take all these lads the paratroopers who are farce down in the jungle They all had the same look about them when they first came as if they stumbled into a better farleaf clothes Look mac would you mind very much that lad there was a farmer in wisconsin? And they went talking to the nurses from baston originally that is and the tall lad is a texan And it took a lot to make him say that this looked better to him than texas Were you uh forced down here too? Well, uh in a manner of speaking. Yes, I was what did you do before the war? I Will I'll tell you lads I operated a hut furring from hoboken to canarsie You're what furry a right thrive a little business It was too and after the war I'll probably go back to it This guy's off his rocker. Oh look, where can we find somebody in authority at evening mass with everyone else mass? Of course, you see that big store hut at the far end You'll find him there We went to mass Now when we got there we found our friend with the bro The one who told us who ran a hut furring from hoboken to canarsie officiating at the service Every once in a while he'd look up at us and I could see the suggestion of a smile around his lips There was a soldier standing next to us. Hey, hey, who is that that? Why that's father otul he practically organized the 101 Sure, and I said it just to see the look on your faces later on We'll take a good look boy minds read Oh, but father otul yes Here the four Japanese orders that colonel gave us in India Of course the original plan about dropping them over to you and turning back didn't work out But just as long as we got them here just as long as we have them. We know what to do with them No, there's a Japanese mail courier coming through tomorrow night from digroom to the jab camp at mochlam Now I'll have suing one of the other scouts intercept him and deposit this document in his mail poach Oh, I get it father When he comes to he won't know what hit him, but he'll keep going With the forged papers. Hey, I'll show you get a quick brain lad And uh by the by oh, yes, father You know since you're Japanese as well as american I'd suggest you stay close to me for the next day or so until you leave You see then the natives will get over their suspicions of it. I see I was nice, I'm sorry for barging into your hut this way father otul But suing told me one of these men had jungle sickness. Well, that's quite all right nurse Amy lads Take a look at her Isn't she a fair carly though? That's enough of your blarney father Come with me, please. What's your name? Nabora lieutenant harry nabora. I'm okay now really. I that may be so We just want you at the hospital for a checkup come along. Hey, hey wait you uh jave Mind if I come too No, not at all The doc who looked me over gave me a clean bill of health It must have been those witch doctor herbs of suing's Later father otul gave us a buy shot to ourselves and pete and I fell on those army camps And then about three o'clock in the morning Harry harry, what's that? I I don't know. Let's find out. Yeah Hey, where's where's everybody running to? Oh, there's that nurse. Maybe she knows. Hey nurse nurse There's nothing to be alarmed about boys. What happened? Well of the cab approaches our watchdog caught a crawling enemy scout. Well, I didn't hear any dog This is a silent watchdog. What actually it's a crossbow with a hundred and fifty pound pool It's set up. So any intruder who touches the trip string is shot for the poisoned arrow. Well, well that uh That's quite a watchdog. Yes. I've been thinking of putting one up in front of my tent Oh, so sally so sally father otul Did not mean now it's done suing it can't be helped. It's all right. Hello father. Oh, there you are lads come on in Oh, what's up father suing big big mistake big big mistake. What kind of a mistake? Well, I'll tell you boys It's like this I sent su out last night to uh intercept the japanese courier and deposit this document in his mail poach What went wrong? Well, it seems that suing doesn't know his own strength to quote a phrase and he hit him too hard Ain't very much afraid the courier will not be able to deliver the mail after all to the camp at muclum Well, look father otul that document is important It's got to get there Where's the uh courier now in the hospital receiving the very best of care. Are you sure? Yeah I'm a male sack in my position Okay Then another jab courier is going to take his place and deliver the mail. You're nuts airy. What other jab courier? Me why? No, I know you're nuts. Pete when I switch uniforms of that guy take a good look at me I promise you you'll never recognize me The idea has a touch of genius lad. I think it may work. I hope it may work Slipping an extra prayer for me father While I was at it I went after the letters and cards that were going to the japanese soldiers and phoning them out I raced everything but the signatures and wrote about how bad conditions were back in tokyo And the black market was flourishing how they were being barmed every night Had dawn I had changed into the captured courier's uniform I had the mail sack over my shoulder and soothing at my side to take me most of the way Good luck again me boy. Thank you father otul. Well harry harry. You're sure that you want to do this Walking right in the lions den they get wise to you if they get wise to me She got a good night. What's that mean? It's good japanese for so what? Who goes there? Answer or I shoot or courier from the brigham with mail for your soldiers and special dispatch for your commander Mail courier come across Let me see your face I do not know you Where's the runner a papers. Let me see papers identification Yeah Very good Where's the dispatch you say is for me here kona nagayo. Why are you so late? Mail was expected yesterday. I it was unavoidable answer my question directly Why are you late? Uh native kajin warrior attacked me on the way. I had to fight him off kona nagayo Those kachans siren devils in the jungle shadows Impossible to know when they are about they jump out at you devils. Oh, yes kona nagayo Well What you waiting for you may leave now. Yes Yes, uh, I leave I leave I was glad to leave and it been easy up to that point I try to keep from walking too fast to the gate Pass Let me see pass to leave. Oh here. It was standard kona nagayo's headquarters All right, you kind of go You're deaf Did you not hear me shoot off a gun to call your attention? Why you want me I do not want you Receive the word at gate from kona nagayo. He wanted you to come back Come there you are courier. I want to make sure you did not leave here I just uh Something wrong kona nagayo. What you talking about what could be wrong Yeah Important message for your canal Take it. Oh, thank you Oh, thank you kona nagayo. I should be glad to deliver this to My canal this time. Nobody stopped me when I left the camp at mcloan and started back for kuching headquarters I must have been within two miles of detachment 101 when I realized I was being followed I Couldn't see anyone to hear anyone, but I knew someone was there In the brush or the trees hidden somewhere along the trail I started to run faster My lungs started to ache with each breath and my strength was gone a hangover from the fever I just gotten over If I had escaped from the japanese camp and fallen into head hunter hands, I know I didn't have a chance Oh I talked japanese English What are you head hunter? Good luck? Good luck And now bless my soul lieutenant the border. I see you're awake. How you feeling harry father or two P What are you doing here sit up lieutenant? Let me change that bandage on your head. Now, wait a minute How did you get here and you mix and things up a bit lead You mean of course, how did you get back here to the oss camp? To the what I will notice very simple Oh, I have an apology to make for my friends the kuchin's who brought you here They'd been out scouting for the past week and they did not know you Also, of course the japanese uniform you aware and confuse them But I was a pity that they speak only their own language So that you couldn't clear up the situation They left to teach them how to speak english English the way it should be spoken Lieutenant's haruyoshi nabura and peter barno were returned to india by plane from the rescue camp at asan And a few weeks later a special dispatch informed oss headquarters that the strategic city of barno had been taken Thus once again the report of another agent closed 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 tonight's cloak and dagger adventure as pete was chuck webster Harry was played by ralf bell father otul by eric dressler Others were john allison layman edward johnson Carl webber jerry jaret vorice tarplin and guy rep The script for cloak and dagger was written by winterfoot wolf and jack gordon And the music was under the direction of john guard Sound effects by west conant manny seagull and norman groenfelder Tonight's true oss adventure was based on the book cloak and dagger by corrie ford and allister mcbane This program was produced by lewis g conan and alfred hollander under the direction and supervision of sherman marx