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Dangerous Assignment · June 24, 1953 · 23 min · 4,082 words
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of the major assignment. Transcribed, starring Brian Don LaViere, Steve Betchell. 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 me doing my best to pull a building down on my head. Morning, Commissioner. You sent for me, Steve.
There's to be a meeting tomorrow night somewhere in the city of Damascus between representatives of a country behind the Iron Curtain and members of a desert tribe from the Near East. The subject of that meeting is to exchange prisoners.
Prisoners? Go on, Commissioner. Two weeks ago, the tribe captured a foreign agent who'd been giving them no end of trouble. In retaliation, let me guess. They are and curtain boys grabbed off someone from the desert tribe.
Right. One of their chiefs. So the deal's been made, huh? This agent for the chief, even swapped. How do we figure in this, Commissioner? We want to get our hands on that foreign agent, Steve.
He's an American traitor named Stoller. Stoller? Well, how well. Our old friend James C. Stoller? One of their top propagandists. a vicious clever writer and a killer we specifically one of the murder of an american army officer during the war have we contacted the tribe about it no i'm certainly to know what it was if we
asked them but they've already made the deal and that they backed out now at a place the life of the chief in jeopardy we can't ask them to do that our best bet that then is to wait until the exchange of prisoners has been affected and then move in grab stowling right get over to Damascus even check with our contact there a man
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