The Secret Box

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 Entry. These are the weapons of the OSS. In today's adventure, the secret box, concerning an American agent who was sent into a Japanese-infested jungle to take back a prisoner, the role of John Markle, the OSS agent, is played by comedy star Jerry Lester.

The story is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington Files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story that can now be told. I always carried this little box around with me. I never knew when am I coming handy.

It was about as big as a small lunch box and... well, to begin at the beginning, I happened to be in the radio room at OSS headquarters in Bommel that night when the message came through.

So that's how Harry Stevens and I happened to be in an 1818 flying over Agent Terry's position, about 86 miles behind enemy lines in Burma.

And like I say, I had this little box in my knapsack. Oh, in case I forgot to mention it, my name is Johnny Marco. Snappy songs and what he's saying is just mention my name in Sheboygan.

Oh, they love me in Sheboygan. Yeah, yeah, I know Marco. Hey Harry, did I ever tell you about my last date in Frisco before I went overseas? I can hardly wait. Her name was Rose.

She had a name like a flower that I faced like a weed. I called her Cream-a-weed because she was so mushy. Marco, I have but one thing to say to you. Well, talk to me.