The Eyes of Buddha

We delay the start of this program to bring you a special bulletin. From the NBC Newsroom in New York, here's the latest on Korea. Seoul has been raided by American and Australian warplanes. They shot down two enemy planes, one of which was marked with a Russian red star.

A spokesman says that we have made 142 raids against enemy targets in both South and North Korea in the past 24 hours. officials say there is a serious threat from Red Grand Forces south of Seoul. Keep tuned your NBC situation for the later news.

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 through this question answered, yes.

This is... Cloak... And Dagger. Back warfare. Espionage, International Intrigue. These are the weapons of the OSS. Today's adventure, the Eyes of Buddha, concerning an American OSS agent who went deep into enemy territory to enlist the help of a nation which had declared war on the United States, is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington Files of the Office of Strategic Services.

A story that can now be told. In 1944, the tiny kingdom of Siam was officially at war with the United States. So there I was in March of that year in an official Siamese plane on my way to ask Siamese help in rescuing an American flyer from the Japanese.

Sound crazy? You ain't heard nothing yet. The Siamese character beside me had received his master's degree at Yale and his PhD at Harvard. Major Lao Daul, Priya Deepank. I decided to call him Louis. Look down, Lieutenant Berman, out of your window.