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Dangerous Assignment: A Box of Busted Bells
Dangerous Assignment · January 27, 1951 · 29 min · 5,078 words
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Dangerous assignments, starring Brian Donlevy 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. Oh, trouble. But when I walk into the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to involve my trying to prevent a revolution with just one weapon, a box of busted bells.
Morning Commissioner, Ruth said you had an assignment for me. I do, Steve. Take a look at this map of the Middle East. Uh-oh, I might have known. No, no, no. I read the newspapers, too. So they're having a little trouble in one of the countries over there.
Right away I get elected, I suppose. You do, and it's more than a little trouble. How much you know about it? Only that it's some kind of a scandal involving one of the bright young boys in their government.
An ex-lawyer named Khatuf? Khatuf is the leader of the majority party there. As such, he is, in effect, the strongest voice in the government. Wait a minute. Seems to me I remember. He was accused of treason.
Yes, by a minor official named Matala. Shortly after Matala made his accusation, he disappeared. blood stains were found in his house the theory is that cut to kill them before he could finish proof of cut to stretchy so it sounds like a tooth and hot water but said that to do with us commissioner plenty is see steve cut to its government
already consent to sign an agreement for meeting united nations to establish an air base in that country i see well imagine how vital such a base could be but it could choose party force on power as a result of this scandal the control of the government is liable to fall into the hands of a highly
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