The Unknown Mission

Until now, this story has been top secret. Top secret, starring gorgeous Ilona Massey in transcribed dramas of intrigue and espionage. Stories of the Baroness Karen Gazer, who fought for liberty and justice and freedom as bravely as any soldier anywhere.

Tonight, as assignment eight, the story of the unknown mission. A story until now, top secret. Assignment 8 to place in Rome, the eternal city. Part of the story will remain forever burned, shrouded in misty, concealed in fear, lost in the past.

My instructions came by coded short-wave from London. Instructions to be obeyed instantly, without hesitation, without question. Baroness Caron Gazer, club of your Rome, top secret party A number 478489, By code. Veronet Miele de la Septe du de Valencore arrives Rome Wednesday stop.

Urgent and vital you take action seven at once. Action seven was a code phrase meaning murder. I was fortunate in having as an assistant a young man named Victor. He had been born in Rome, educated in America, and just recently signed by US intelligence to Italy.

We discussed the assignment in my dressing room at the club, Ultea. Emil Valencour is suspected of being a Nazi agent working through Vichy, France. With action seven. There's nothing to go on, nothing. Spies aren't supposed to ask questions, can't they?

To kill someone I've never met without knowing why or anything. Intelligence in London knows what it's doing. I'm not questioning that, I'm only asking why. If the infantry asked why, we'd lose the war. What do you know about this, man?

In 1938 I visited him for a week at his house in Cannes. It's an old French title and he's very rich. He has an estate in Rome on the Via Patríci. How old is he?