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Recommendation from Rommel

Cloak and Dagger · August 6, 1950 · 29 min · 4,189 words

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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 through this question answered, yes.

This is... ...Cloke and Dagger. Black warfare, espionage, international intrigue, these are the weapons of the OSS. Today's story, recommendation from Rommel about an American OSS agent in Italy who almost outsmarted himself, is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services.

A story that can now be told. Back here! You can't leave me here! I demand to see someone in the 30! Let me out of here! Brother, that was some spot to be in. Joe Tenato and a jail cell of Milan, Italy. It was crazy. Well, after a while I got 30 yelling. So I sat down on a narrow prison cart and thought back to the way it hit the

gun. On a train from Veracie to Milan. The French underground had smuggled me from Lyon across Switzerland and I made my way over the border. And there on I was on my own, posing as an Italian chocolate salesman. So I sat back in my compartment, lit a European cigarette, and blew smoke rings over my head to the rack, where my shortwave radio was hidden in one

of the suitcases. One of the sudden the train gave a lurch. One of my suitcases took a flying dive to the floor. It was a suitcase with a pen-knife scar across the other handle, the one with the radio. I was glad I was gone and I couldn't wait to find out if that radio

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