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Rescue From Czech Uranium Mine

The Man Called X · May 13, 1952 · 24 min · 3,216 words

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Listen to Herbert Marshall as the Man Called X. Wherever there is mystery, adventure, intrigue, in all the strange and dangerous places of the world, there you will find the Man Called X. The time is shortly after midnight.

Somewhere in the US zone of Germany, an army transport plane is taken off from a secret airbase, and with throttles wide open as roaring through the moonless night, roaring toward the east, toward Jekyll Slavakia, and the Iron Curtain.

And you can't do it. You're signing your own death warrant. Maybe. What else can you call parachuting into Czechoslovakia? Trying to work your way into the Yakimov-Curenia mines. Hello, Keith. Johann Verner is an old friend. The report from Prague says he's been sentenced to slavery in those mines.

I ain't gonna try and get him out. I know how you feel about Verner, but can you two valuable men to throw your life away like this? No man's life is as valuable as freedom.

The Johann van is one of the leaders of the Czech underground. One of the men who's trying to keep freedom alive. Sure he is, but that's it. Pilot's warning signal? Yep. Yes, we're over the forest outside of Kálsbad.

Freaking stater. Sorry. Team Chief. Cilla. Good luck, Ken. We, that's the latest glorious pronouncement from Moscow. Sanios.

We, that's O'Neill. Sanios. of the cow's mouth, I don't know. Yeah, I'm in here. It's right, hon. Thanks. Yeah. Don't assume that... It's this kind you gave me, man, here. It has the face of John Mastery, can't it?

That's right. What's he's going to have all been recalled? So you're forgotten by our government since Mastery was... since our former president died? Yes, and I understand there's still a demand for them for... private saturation.

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