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Dangerous Assignment: Butterfly Chasers
Dangerous Assignment · October 22, 1952 · 24 min · 3,551 words
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Dangerous assignment. Transcribe starring Brian Bangladesh, 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, though. Trouble. But when I walk into the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to wind up with my getting shot at.
Thank you, Commissioner. You sent for me? Steve, I want you to drop in on a group of butterfly chases. I think the word is left for dopterists, but I wouldn't bet on it. on it. Go to the head of the class. At the moment, there's somewhere in the jungles of Brazil, south of the Amazon. Now, when I say I want you to drop in on
them, you mean just that, huh? I parachute. Okay, Commissioner, what's it all about? Recently, Steve, there was a meeting in Rio between US representatives and diplomats from several Latin American countries. Important decisions will reach commitments made and agreement signed. A copy of that agreement was dispatched to United States by courier, but had never arrived in Washington. The plane in which the courier
was riding crashed in the remote area of the Brazilian coast. All hands lost? Yes. Our investigators checked the region. The can learn little from either the natives or the group of butterfly people who happen to be in the area at the time. So we assumed that the courier and the document has been lost. We were wrong, Steve. We just learned from contacts in Brazil that
the document has been put up for sale at the city of Balaam. Why? And here's a joker, Steve. delivery guaranteed as of the first of next month what does that suggest to you all the document is on its way there and wait a minute the butterfly chasing right their schedule to arrive in the land just about that time my hunch is that
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