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Dangerous Assignment: Butterfly Chasers (Brazil)
Dangerous Assignment · October 22, 1952 · 23 min · 3,627 words
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Dangerous assignment. Transcribe starring Brian Van LaVier, 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 Commissioner's office I don't realize that this assignment's going to wind up with my getting shot at.
Morning Commissioner, you sent for me? Steve, I want you to drop in on a group of butterfly chases. I think the word has left the doctorist, but I wouldn't bet on it. Go to the head of the class.
At the moment, they're somewhere in the jungles of Brazil, south of the Amazon. Now, when I say I want you to drop in on them, you mean just that, huh? I parachute? Okay, Commissioner, what's it all about?
Recently, Steve, there was a meeting in Rio between US representatives and diplomats from several Latin American countries. Important decisions will reach commitments made and agreements signed. A copy of that agreement was dispatched to the United States by courier, but had never arrived in Washington.
The plane in which the courier was riding crashed in the remote area of the Brazilian coast— All hands lost. Yes. Our investigators check the region. The can learn little from either the natives or the group of butterfly people who happen to be in the area at the time.
So we assume that the courier and the document has been lost. We were wrong, Steve. We've just learned from contacts in Brazil that the document has been put up for sale at the city of Balaam.
Why? And here's the joker, Steve. Deliver guaranteed as of the first of next month. What does that suggest to you? Well, the document is on its way there. Hey, wait a minute. The butterfly chasing.
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