Frank Bakers Story

You're about to hear a new NBC presentation. Cloak and Dagger. Program number one in 90 minutes of continuous mystery and suspense on NBC. Following Cloak and Dagger, stay tuned for high adventure. Then listen to the big guy, NBC's new unique mystery series.

But first, Cloak and Dagger. Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission for the United States? Knowing in advance, you may never return alive? What you have just heard is a question asked during the War of Agents of the OSS, ordinary citizens who to this question answered, yes.

We have the honor at this time to present a former OSS officer, co-author of the book Cloak and Dagger upon which this series is based, Colonel Cory Ford. Thank you. OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, was America's top secret intelligence agency during the war.

It was this country's first all-out effort in black warfare, dropping undercover operators behind enemy lines, organizing local partisans to blow bridges and dynamite tunnels, outwitting the best spy systems of Europe and Asia. The success of OSS is known.

But the story behind that success, the story of the everyday average Americans of every race and creed and color who risked their lives knowing all too well that if they were caught they would face torture and probably death, is what Alistair McBain and I have tried to tell in cloak and dagger. We feel there's a story in which every American can take deep

pride. The National Broadcasting Company takes you behind the scenes of a war that nobody knew. This is... Cloke and Dagger. My name is Friedrich Schmidt. I'm a German soldier. I have a medical discharge from the Army. I was in a 268th Infantry Division. My family was killed in an air raid near Berlin.