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Dangerous Assignment: Assignment The Balkans

Dangerous Assignment · April 28, 1951 · 28 min · 4,892 words

The transcript of “Assignment The Balkans”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast April 28, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Search inside this transcript.

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Dangerous assignment, starring Brian Dunlady as Steve Mitchell. Ah, 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 gonna wind up with my getting shot at, just for trying to turn off a radio program.

Morning Commissioner, real estate you had an assignment for me. I do Steve, I ever thought of getting into radio. For me? I should say not. Why? You holding auditions or something? something I want you to get into the business just long enough to get somebody else out of it oh I'm not sure now you look Steve at this map of the Balkan area

this country here that's about the only friendly country left in that area the right things are going it may not be friendly for much longer Steve there's an outlaw broadcasting station somewhere in that country the man who's doing the broadcasting is filling the air with a choice assortment of lies and propaganda what about about our country and theirs the result has been to put a strain on our

relations with them and the set up internal tensions over there which are in effect carrying the country apart. Is there by any chance an election coming up over there soon? Yes. Steve we know who's behind this broadcast all right but what we've got to do is to stop him.

Well it seems to me that this is a matter for the Balkan country to handle what's it got to do with us. We think the broadcasting is being done by an American. What? Government over there is that star cooperation.

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