Dangerous Assignment: Prevent Disclosure of Compromised Codes (London)

Dangerous assignments, starring Brian Darnlevy as Steve Mitchell. Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing though, trouble.

But when I walk into the commission in this office, I don't realize that this assignment is going to have me playing a friendly little game of who's who. The only trouble with it is that the guy who loses gets killed.

Morning, Commissioner. Good said you had an assignment for me. I do. Steve, suppose you had a secret code. secret code. And you suddenly found out it wasn't so secret. Suppose you found out that a hostile country had succeeded in deciphering it. What would you do? Well, I quit using that particular code.

Would you? Wait a minute. No, I don't. If I knew that they'd broken the code, but they didn't know I knew, I think I'd keep on using it. Why? Well, that way I could send a lot of phony information that would probably tie their strategy. And that's absolutely right, Stephen. That's just what's been going on for the last six months.

Yes, six months ago we found out from a very secret source that a certain country had broken one of our diplomatic codes, one we've been using with the French government. And we've been using that same code since sending false information?

Yes, we've managed to mislead that particular country on several vital issues during that period. Well, it sounds like a pretty neat little racket. It is indeed, and we'd like to keep it going as long as possible.

But obviously the success of it depends on their not knowing that we know they've broken our code. And that's why the whole thing is hanging in the balance right now. you mean they found out yet well unless we can prevent it they're going to find out very soon how do you mean somewhere along the line