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065- Confidential Agent

Escape · April 2, 1949 · 29 min · 4,692 words

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Tired of the everyday routine? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you escape! Escape! Transcribe to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

You are trapped in a dark empty house, a girl lying dead at your feet and surrounding you, closing in on you, are a band of killers, deadly enemies of your country and yourself. And they are intent on murdering you.

Today, with Barry Kroger starred as David, we escape to England and the story of a man whose life depended upon the outcome of his mission. As Graham Green told it in his fascinating story, confidential agent.

It was getting dark as the ship threaded its way through the tugs into Dover Harbor. The thick fog gave way reluctantly to the ship. It swirled over the deck. There was a cold bite to it, chilling me inside and out.

Yet in a way this cold English fog was more comforting than the atmosphere I had left, or in my country there was war. After the Austria had fallen before the goose-stepping armies of a mad man, a vow my country was fighting with its back to the wall.

In order to continue the fight we needed industrial diamonds to shape the tools of war. That's why I was now landing in England. There were others in my country, a group headed by a man known only as the Baron, who wanted to turn our country over to the invader, who would do anything to stop us from getting

the diamonds we needed. So you see, my mission was a secret one. not even our own embassy knew of it. So far the trip had been uneventful, except for meeting the girl. Her name was Rose Cullen.

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