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The Roof of the World

Cloak and Dagger · August 13, 1950 · 29 min · 3,989 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 do this question answered? Yes.

This is... Cloak and Dagger. Act warfare. Espionage International Intrigue. These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's story, The Roof of the World, concerning two American agents who travel into the far off and mysterious land of Tibet on a secret pilgrimage, is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services.

A story that can now be told. It came out of sudden, out of the darkness, the shaggy monster over 15 feet high. None of us had a word for a minute, we just stared into the tusks.

Look at the length of them. The tusks of this monster must have been at least 12 feet long, and I knew myself that if I hadn't seen it, stood right in front of it, I wouldn't have believed it actually existed either.

But I saw it. There was definite proof. It did live once. Okay, okay lights. Put on the lights please. All right now, quiet please. Quiet. What you have just seen is the last of our afternoon slides here in the Museum of Natural history on prehistoric animals. This last mammoth was a species of a true elephant, which

was found in Tibet during and before the Ice Age. Now, are there any questions? Yeah, how do you get out of here? Well, if you all follow the guide, he'll take you into the next room where you can actually see the skeletons of these monsters, which paleontologists have reconstructed from fossils and actual bones discovered in the Earth.

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