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Dangerous Assignment: The Smuggling Racket

Dangerous Assignment · November 5, 1952 · 23 min · 3,808 words

The transcript of “The Smuggling Racket”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast November 5, 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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I'm a dangerous assignment. Transcribe, starring Brian Don LaVier, Steve Mitchell. My assignment, I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing of trouble. But when I walk into the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to show that sometimes the only way you can win is to let the whole deal go up and smoke.

Steve, do you know anything about Highligh and Ballgame Latin style, isn't it? Best to get caught with a ball. It'll kill you. Well, it'll kill you. Well, here's hoping you don't get caught, because you're going to attend the highlight games at one of the arenas in Havana the night.

And you're going to bet on the team of Danny Allen Scoble. Are they good? Have Nafane is not there. We're only interested in the man who is going to take her bet. Oh, what's this all about, Commissioner?

Well, sometime now, we've been trying to crack down on a smuggling ring operating out of Havana, running a regular shuttle between Farad and Cuba. What are they running? You name it. Everything in the book, including illegal entry now and then.

We finally got a lead on the organization, Steve, from someone working on the inside. the boy I'm the contact, the one who's going to take my bed right. You'll be at the front on Palace, window three, you place your bed, and when you open your wallet, let him have a glance at your credentials. He'll take it from there, get whatever information you can

from him, track down that organization and smash it. Well that's it Steve. You've got your assignment? Good luck. The National Broadcasting Company is presenting Dangerous Assignments starring Brian Don LaVeal, the role of Steve Mitchell, colorful two-fisted government agent. At all those places of the world where danger and intrigue walk hand in hand, there you will find Steve Mitchell on another dangerous assignment.

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They serve to combine America's economic strength with its military strength, and it's this combined strength that protects your town, your home, your right to work and prosper in peace. And remember, if you don't save regularly, you generally don't save at all.

So join the payroll savings plan where you work or sign up for the bond of month plan where you bank. Make today your D-Day, buy a defense bonds. Always remember, defense is your job to. Next week Turkey, I nominate myself for a slab in the morgue, and that will be Steve Mitchell's Dangerous Assignment next week. Included in tonight's cast were Harry Bartow,

Tony Barrett, Nestor Piva, Verbellis, and Kay Stewart. This is John Storm speaking. Dangerous This is Simon starring Brian Donmaby in the role of Steve Mitchell, with her Butterfield as the Commissioner, is written by Bob Rife and Adrian John Doe and is produced and directed by Bill Parn.

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