Dangerous Assignment: Capture James C. Stoller (Damascus)

Dangerous assignment. Transcribed, starring Brian Don LaViere, 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, they'll trouble.

But when I walk into the commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to wind up with me doing my best to pull a building down on my head. Morning, Commissioner. You sent from me?

Steve, there's to be a meeting tomorrow night, somewhere in the city of Damascus, between representatives of a country behind the Iron Curtain and members of a desert tribe from the Near East. the Near East. The object of that meeting is to exchange prisoners.

Exchanged prisoners? Go on, Commissioner. Two weeks ago, the tribe captured a foreign agent who'd been giving them no end of trouble. In retaliation, let me guess. They are in curtain boys grabbed off someone from the desert tribe. Right. One of their chiefs. So the deal has been made, huh? This agent for the chief. Even swap. How do we figure in this, Commissioner?

We want to get our hands on that foreign agent, Steve. He's an American traitor named Stoller. Stoller? Well, how well. Our old friend James C. Stoller? of their top propagandists, a vicious clever writer and a killer. We specifically won it for the murder of an American army officer during the war.

Have we contacted the tribe about it? No, I'm certain they turn them over to us if we ask them, but they've already made the deal and that they backed out now and had placed the life of their chief in jeopardy.

We can't ask them to do that. Our best bet then is to wait until the exchange of prisoners has been affected and then move in and grab Stoller. Right. Get over to Damascus, Steve, and check with our contact there, a man named Barried.