Operation Sellout

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. Back warfare, espionage, international intrigue, these other weapons of the OSS. Today's adventure...

Operation Sellout is the story of an American OSS agent who went into German occupied France to locate Nazi submarine bases and is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services.

A story that can now be told. I knew something was up when Colonel Palmer met Tom Barnes and me at the dock that night. He hadn't come down from London just to wish us bon voyage.

It wasn't time for such formalities in the OSS. Even when a couple of its agents were embarking for the coast of Nazi-occupied France. The men of the Jeep puller was stopped, the colonel stepped into the faint glow of the black-eyed light.

Captain Dagger? Yes, sir. This is the radio operator, Captain? That's right, soon. I'm Barnes, uh, Lance Corporal Barnes, Sussex Guards. You men are all set? Yes, sir. We shove off in 20 minutes. That'll put you ashore below Santa's there, just before dawn.

After you've been landed, you'll move inland exactly six kilometers. You'll be met there by an agent of the Marquis. You understand? Yes, sir. Now, men. We've got a lecture then, Tom and I. We didn't need it. We knew our mission was important.

German submarines and hitting our convoys in the Atlantic, hitting them hard. Shipping losses had to be cut. And the best way to cut them was to blast the Nazi subpens along the French coast. Do you understand?