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Dangerous Assignment: Arnold Freed Kidnapped (Greece)

Dangerous Assignment · February 4, 1953 · 24 min · 4,105 words

The transcript of “Arnold Freed Kidnapped (Greece)”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast February 4, 1953. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gumshoe plays Dangerous Assignment free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Dangerous assignment. Transcribe starring Brian Donlevier, 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 prove that sometimes the best way to catch a fish is to let him off the hook. Morning, Commissioner. You sent for me, Steve.

Afraid to call the Colfax Stars, due to arrive at the Greek port of Piraeus tomorrow night. I want you to be there to meet her. She have a special passenger aboard? Very special. His name is George Foucault.

He's carrying a file of papers stolen from a U.S. government office in Paris. And we want that file, huh? No, it's worthless. Oh, then it's George Foucault we want? Wrong again. So I follow a guy we don't want carrying a file that's worthless.

Look, Commissioner, what's this all about? A week ago, an American physicist named Arnold Fried disappeared and rude from Paris to Marseille. He'd received an urgent message saying that his son had been injured in the Notto accident in the south of France.

The message turned out to be a hoax. Anyone seem freed since? No trace of him at all. He's a very important man to esteem. Freed was working on a secret project for our government in Paris at the time of his disappearance.

Then, two nights ago, we learned from one of the secretaries employed at Freed's Paris office that she had been offered a sum of money to assist this Vuko in stealing certain papers from Freed's desk.

Looks like the people behind all this aren't content with just grabbing off Freed. They want his personal notes too? Right. So we obliged. We instructed the secretary to go along with their request. uh... phony set of papers was planted in made easy for vuca to grab her and now we think vuca was on his way to the place where free does being held

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