Fraudulent Passports

Secret Agent K7 returns... Number one adventurer K7, former United States Secret Agent, who operated in 22 countries, on land on sea and the mirror,

brings you a story of today. We take you to K7's headquarters. This is Secret Agent K7 speaking. Send in Special Agent B9 for assignment. Head one, K7. Special Agent B9 reporting for duty. Agent B9, I've called you to take over one of the most unusual cases I have ever encountered. Several agents of a nation unfriendly

to the one employing both of us in this matter have been seized while traveling under this country's passports. The passports are not counterfeits. Records here prove them to be genuine, although issued fraudulently. I don't need to tell you that they're used by enemy agents even though they are fraudulent as a serious bearing on foreign relations. Somewhere

Here in this city there is a clever master spy. He has friends who are consular representatives, perhaps others, track him down. Here are the records. The case is yours. That night, Agent B-9 and his assistant Rita Drake studied the evidence already collected.

Among it were four passports taken from spies arrested in recent months. These B-9 studied with special care. That seems hopeless, Rita. I can't seem to find anything that will give us our first lead. These passports are all alike. They were even issued but the same quirk.

Perhaps if we questioned him. No, no, no, no, that wouldn't do. Could easily claim that he issued hundreds each month. B9, here's something I noticed. Yes. It probably isn't very important, but I was looking at the pictures on the passports with magnifying glass yes you see for yourself there's a little bump on the edge of each