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The Black Radio

Cloak and Dagger · August 27, 1950 · 29 min · 4,078 words

The transcript of “The Black Radio”, an episode of Cloak and Dagger first broadcast August 27, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gumshoe plays Cloak and Dagger free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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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! Black warfare, espionage, international intrigue... These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's story of a black radio concerns an OSS agent who broadcast a light propaganda from behind the enemy lines and is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a story that can now be told.

It was one of those quiet days. The sun was splashing into the windows and I was marking time until lunch in the cafeteria and a day by day I had with the red-headed secretary. There were just the two of us in the big gadget room of the OSS in Washington, just me and Hank

Martin. Then all of a sudden Hank grabbed my arm. Mark, get down, Eric! Okay, okay, what's the big idea? Oh boy, I wish I had a camera just then. How did it look scared? Alright, what was that thing you just threw in a waist mask?

Just a little noise maker. Great, if you get in a tight spot and want to start a ride. Alright, look, let's start from the beginning. How does it work? Well, like you see, it's not very big, just about the size of a lemon.

Easy to slip into your pocket. All you do is pull out the cap and throw it, and one that explodes, pow! We call it the heady Lamar. Midge of Longham, I have a job for you.

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