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Dangerous Assignment: To Ask A Guy To Shoot You

Dangerous Assignment · October 15, 1952 · 24 min · 3,886 words

The transcript of “To Ask A Guy To Shoot You”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast October 15, 1952. 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 transcribes starring Ramban Mavir Steve Mitchell. Here 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 is going to show me that sometimes the only way you can come out of one of these deals alive is to ask a guy to shoot you.

Good morning Commissioner. You sent for me? Steve, you're over here of Yin Yi Hop. Sounds like a new jump tune, is it? That name first came to our attention during the caught martial of an American Army officer in the Philippines.

officer in the Philippines shortly after the war, Major Vance Morgan. Oh yeah, he had something to do with the disappearance of medical supplies, arms and ammunition from one of our bases there, didn't he? Evidence brought out at the trial was all against Morgan, yet he insisted he was innocent. He claimed he'd been investigating the matter before his arrest.

The theft was the work of an organization headed by this Yin Yi Hop. I see. Morgan claimed further that he'd actually seen this Mr. Hop, that he wasn't an oriental but an American. You see, the matter wasn't dropped after Major Morgan was discharged from the service.

from the service. You mean this yin yi hop has been found? We think so. We think he's a man named Sutherland who was now living in Rangoon. We're pretty sure he's still active in the business of running guns. Why don't we grab him? We will. As soon as we find someone who can identify him as yin yi hop. And that's someone as ex-major Morgan, huh? Where is he?

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