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Dangerous Assignment: South America - A Countrys Democracy Threatened
Dangerous Assignment · July 3, 1951 · 29 min · 5,325 words
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Dangerous assignment, starring Brian Don LaViere, Steve Mitchell. 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 make a flower hater out of me.
A sunflower almost has me pushing up daisies. Good morning, Commissioner. Bruce said you had an assignment for me. for me. I do, Steve. You're playing Lisa's South America in one hour. South America, pretty hot down there this time of year, isn't it? Not as hot as it'll be after you get down there. Now send me off to
get shot at on a note of gayity, I always say. Okay, what's the deal? Here's the deal. Steve, this country right here on the map. Yeah. Yeah, I might have known. What do you mean? I read the newspapers, too, you know? Then you know the background of the deal. Pretty much that particular country's on
the fence politically. There's an election coming up next week. The party in power is democratic and friendly to us. The minority party is fascist and not friendly to us. Right. Last night, Borago, head of the minority party, was murdered. What? What's worse? The man they suspect of murdering Borago is an American named Hartley. Oh, fine. Has he been arrested?
No. He's in hiding somewhere in that country. It's a mess, Steve. Hartley did, Calbarego. The resulting tension in anti-U.S. propaganda will be enough to switch the election over into the hands of a hostile minority. Yeah. Hey, look, you say if Hartley killed Borago, I kind of get the idea that you think the whole deal might be a frame do you I don't think anything
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