Direct Line to Bombers

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 intrigue. These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's adventure, direct line to bombers, the story of an American OSS agent who, during the height of the war, directed from the streets of Berlin, an American attack, is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services, a

story that can now be told. After you get back from a mission, you sit around and there's nothing to do but sit around. So that's what I did. I sat in a room in Milton Hall in England where OSS agents are trained.

I thought about the restaurant on Sixth Avenue. I wanted to open after the war. I was never so bored in my life. Yeah. Hey, uh, Nicky, the Colonel wants to see you. Very important. Okay, pal. Tell my pal the Colonel I'll be there and win the war for him.

That, that, that, that, that, that, that, that. That was how it all began in November 1944. After that I didn't have time to be bored. I know you've just come back from a mission in France lieutenant, so it's strictly up to you if you want to go out again immediately.

Oh, now listen, pal, I mean, yeah, Colonel. If I have to sit around here and do nothing, I'll blow my tongue. You speak German, don't you? Well enough to know that Hitler speaks a lousy German, full of grammatical errors. If I see him, I'll tell him.