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Mr. Moto: The Victim (EP0994) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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dot Com or the iTunes store. All right, well, we're getting into
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an episode of Mister Motor to day. I kind of feel like just needs
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a kind of a word of a parental guidance on it. It's dealing with
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real sorts of actions that did that things very similar to them happened during this
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period of history. Like I said, some of it is a little disturbing,
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So I know that some parents listen with kids, So parental guians definitely
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encouraged. With that said, Let's get into today's episode of Mister Moto.
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The victim is mister Moto. Mister I A Moto. NBC presents the world's
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greatest international secret agent. Mister I A Moto, the popular Japanese character created
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by Puetzer Prize winner John P. Mark One, ruthlessly fighting the enemies of
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freedom. Mister Moto's only weapons are his mind, his courage, and his
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fabulous knowledge of international persons, places, and things. The night's story concerns
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the victim and stars mister Motov Mister I A Moto. I watched Doctor Strattingford
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was fascinated in originals sorrow. He was maliciously and cold bloodedly driving a human
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mind towards the abyss of complete schizophrenia. He turned from the controls of the
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machine and bent over the trembling ub conscious button of Alec Geson on the upper
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table. His cold, pale eyes glinted malignantly as he examined his prisoner,
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all this while the machine hummed. Even is stubborn and if fine is one,
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yes, start the drive you mean saying his usefulness is nothing? Alec
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listened? Where are you and straw? A prison in the Soviet zone in
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Germany? And someday I'll get you switch it on est Oh, my name
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is Alec Listened, and I have never been tortured or mistreated. Now say
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it. My name is Aleck glistened, and I have never been tortured or
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mistreated. As Simon g. Thirty one began exactly one full year ago.
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It required the greatest preparation and delicacy. Much of the story must remain shrouded
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in secrecy. Many of our counterintelligence operators in the Soviet Zone of Germany had
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a hand it to tell too much could expose their covers and endanger their lives.
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It began a year ago when Janet Gleeson received the now famous Gleeson letter.
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I remember very well the night she brought it to me in my New
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York apartment. Mister Moto, it's absolutely incredible that Alec could write a letter
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like this. But missus Gleesonik is his handwrite. It's his handwriting. But
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he couldn't have written it voluntarily. You think he was forced to write it.
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Either that or he's gone out of his mind. You are suggesting that.
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Yes, I believe he's a prisoner somewhere in Soviet Germany. I think
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they're doing things to him, dreadful, horrible things. They've done it before,
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Vogler, Vincent, he and now gross and may I read the letter
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again? Certainly? Thank you. I know something's wrong. I know,
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yet Janet, at last, I have come to realize the truth. The
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walls street warmongers have split career in two. Can you imagine Alec writing the
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noticing imperialists are preparing for an atomic attack on Europe driven in craze. I
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have found a new way of life here in Soviet Germany, and I shall
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not return to America. I have discovered the truth and you will never see
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me again, so do not try to find me. Aleck. It's like
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a letter of a ten year old wild cry he received this morning. Yes,
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it was mail from Berlin four days ago. And Wen did Addick leave
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New York April a second he was going to Paris first, and Rome in
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Berlin a month in each. He arrived in Berlin three weeks ago Saturday to
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do what the Grees and Oil had a refinery in Berlin before the war.
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It's all been re equipped. Where in Berlin in the British sector, Alec
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went over to supervise the installation of a new catalytic cracking plant. And well,
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Alec arrived on schedule three weeks ago Saturday, and the following Monday,
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he left the plane at six o'clock and they haven't seen him since. But
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weren't they concerned? They received a telegram from Paris signed by Alex saying that
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he'd been suddenly called back to America. Obviously the telegrams that fake. But
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I am wondering what particular motive of communists would have for taking him prisoner.
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Do they need a motive? And Alec is a prominent American industrialist, He's
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an authority on the catalytic cracking of crude petroleum. They could be after what
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he knows that they could want him to come out publicly on the side of
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communism. Can you imagine what the Daily Worker would do? With that letter.
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It requires no imagination at all. Mister Motow help me. Please find
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alec for me. That may be difficult and expensive, but we're not exactly
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poor. You know. I have five thousand shares of Gleasee and Oil preferred
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stock in my own name. It occurs to me that, yes, could
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you fly to Berlin with me tomorrow? Of course, if it's necessary,
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I have ways of arranging the flight. What time would we leave? That
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depends on how quickly I can see the one man in New York who can
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help us. I cannot tell you his name. He is posing here in
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New York as a communist leader. Oh, I see one thing more?
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Yes? Can you get a letter of credit to the Bank of England for
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fifty thousand American dollars by tomorrow? It's rather a large sum of money,
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can you well? I yes, yes, I think so good. I
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will contact my man here. If all goes well, sometime tomorrow evening we
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will take off for Europe. It's good to see you more now, I've
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been pretending to be a communist for so long. Please please do not tell
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me about your work. Tell me one thing. Is Madeline Rodier still in
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Berlin? Yes? Is she still with British counter intelligence? Yes, she's
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now known as Emmy Bruner. She runs a clock shop just off the butts
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down her plats in the American sector. You are still her new your contact?
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Yes? How do I get to her? You give her this watch
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Paul Anna at exactly three in the afternoon, and give her this watch set
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at ten after eight. That's her called eight ten three in the afternoon.
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This watch at at ten after eight, a clock shop off the Potsdamma flats.
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Excuse me, but I wonder if it's possible to speak with Troy Line
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Bruner. I am Throy Line Bruner. Three o'clock, yes, and my
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watch is stopped debt ten after eight. Who are you? My name is
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motor, mister I a motor, not thee mister Moto. I am sorry
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if my miserable reputation has be seated. If you worked on the resmic of
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a ID and what do you want information about? An American citizen named Eric
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Bison Alec Gleason. He arrived in Berlin a little over three weeks ago.
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He has disappeared behind the curtain. It would seem so he may have wandered
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him by accident or incidinant. He is a prominent American oil man. There
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are many reasons why they would want you know that I am doing this sort
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of thing all the time, which is why I came to you. I
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get them out and in return I ask only that they tell the world.
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But very few of them talk. They're either afraid or so sick that rational
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thinking is impossible. Can you help me? The quickest way is with money.
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Alec Gason's wife is with me in Berlin. She is a wealthy woman.
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You understand. I take nothing myself. I have to pay certain people
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how much If he is in the Soviet sector, and if I can find
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him, his release can be obtained for a hundred thousand miles that can be
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arranged. Give me a week. Find Missus Gleason the oldest clothes you can.
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I will make some inquiries. Bring her here a week from tonight.
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So you are Missus Gleason. Yes, yes, I am. Your hands
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so so smooth. I hope that once more, before I die, I
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can be a woman again. Brolin I I can't tell you how much I
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appreciate what you're doing. We are both very bigful funn Thank you your husband.
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Missus liston isn't strout our prison, your friend, I have not found
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him. No, I am telling you that is where he is. They
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are trying to force him to come out publicly on the side of communism.
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They've waited long for a rich, important American. They want him to make
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speeches to the workers in the Soviet zone. But why why? Missus Geason
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is most gracious and kind, but she is not completely aware. Well at
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the moment, Missus Gleason, the party propaganda is stay think that American workers
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are slaves. It would be a great triumph to have an American industrial is
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confirmed this statement. But alex an American citizen, why can't we just marching
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with con soldiers and pass pleased and keep your voice down? Even my clocks
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have hears and it is much more difficult American. What what do we do?
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I can get more money. I can table my word, mister Morto.
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The facts are these. He is inch throughout our prison. A Russian
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named money Love, who is a lieutenant in the folks Polity is worth the
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folks Politie, they're the secret police. Money Love works. It's thro out
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our prison. He will try to arrange something for a hundred thousand marks.
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And that's the beginning. For three long months we planned. I sat up
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nights polishing my Russian until I spoke it like a nitting. I studied the
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flopland of Strallow prison until I knew every curator, every door, every cell,
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I thought. Janet Gleason waited with the desperate patients, born of her
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deep love for her husband. Emmy Brunner worked with the fanaticism born of suffering
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and hate. She anticipated every daytre for saw every possibility. At last we
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are ready, and at last Manilof were able to arrange it. He came
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one night, very late to Emy Bruna's cup shop. Emmy, it is
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perfect. He's a different man, Yes, Manilov, it is good.
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I will pass as a Mongolian Russian anywhere the smooth shafted, the slanting ice.
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It is perfect. And his face, emmy face, I interjected,
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parisin under the cheekbone, Mister Moto, I am sorry. I had no
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ether, but it was impossible to obtain pain. Ferline is to the oriental
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of a state of mind. In a few weeks, the wax will melt
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and drain away. The controls of your face will go back to normal.
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Manlove the last check. Let's go over it again. You a card certifying
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he's a member of the Fox pray fat good, and my identity card.
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Yes, and ration cartists. I have bribed Grison's regular guard for two weeks.
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Beginning tomorrow. He will pretend to be sick. You will take his
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place. Yes, and you understand that if you are caught, I will
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deny I ever saw. If he knows that Manilov Griefon is in the subpasement,
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sell forty. When you report him to me, I will give you
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the keys, even if I am alone. Do not let on. You
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know me. The whole think is of the greatest change. I will use
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every dispassion Ali Greason may not be easy to convince. Why not? They
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keep three inches of water on the stone floor of his cell. What four
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months now? He has been lying on a narrow wooden bunk. If he
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wishes to move, he must walk through the water. It is I Scot
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and he's in bare feet. In humanity to his brother, as well as
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the impulse hypnosis, he had done other things. Mean the pail, Yes,
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three times a week they put a large galvanized scrub pail over his head.
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Then they beat it with an iron bar. Oh there is not a
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mark made on his body, but the noise of it crashes in his ears
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like the music of her I Mascona. It's dangerous for me to be in
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the American sector. You will report for work or the prison tomorrow night,
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mister motto man and by manilof before you go. Why were you so surprised
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when we told you missus Gleason was in Berlin because part of their torture of
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Ali Gleason was to tell him, tell him what, tell him his wife
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was dead? An flow, go away, I'll say anything you want.
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You'll leave me alone. Mister Kayson. Please listen. I am a friend
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from outside. Do you understand, mister Kayson? Your wife and I are
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trying to get you out of here. I'll never get out. Go away.
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I am pretending to be your attendant. I am really a Japanese American.
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Your wife and I are in Bernu in mine. They got hurt.
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No, no, no, mister chair, they talk. Please believe me,
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mister chiscause she's dead. German is dead. Leave me a look,
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no, no, please, please keep your eyes up and look look at
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this. It is the luck that you gave your wife for her birthday last
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year. Look look at it, mister Keayson. Please please, it's a
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trick, Thank children, they said. She believe me. I know I
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look like I'm I'm going in mushian. I am not. And your one
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is all right. I swear she is. Let me see the latter.
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Yeah, listen, are you? I promise I give you my word.
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Your wife is alive. She is well and in burning peace. Please to
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get you out of here. Please please think ahead and give me that last
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night. It's much. If they find it everything, I'll be going to
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give it you. It's my somebody's coming there. It's him, fool the
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doctor. They they take me upstair with me. It's my name, I
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said, and give me the tarte ah all, rebellious patient, I know
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what are you? And then you got the regular one is sick, you
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said, his many off assigned me to his place. You're a dentity.
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Car Yes, doctor here, we'll know what the door. Yes doctor,
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I have him in the operating room in ten minutes. Yes, I will
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go. I won't gone your fault up there in ten minutes. What followed
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was a nightmare of horror. I took Alec Gleason upstairs to the first floor,
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where doctor Stating there waited in a small well e quick operating Alec Gleason
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was strapped to a standard tight uperating table and two silver electrons were fastened in
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place at his temples, another to his back at the base of his spine.
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Doctor Stattenberg fit the switch machine. Evening he must make a speech for
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us a week from Thursday is to tell the workers here the true state of
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affairs in America. The auto hypnosis and suggestion must be complete yesterday. Listen
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to me, Alec, I guess in American factories the workers are changed to
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their jobs for seventeen hours a day. In American factories, the workers a
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change to their jobs seventeen I wasn't good, alic excellent? Here where the
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glorious Soviet culture flourishes like a flower I held for the first time in my
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life, seeing true freedom here for the glorious Soviet culture florishes like a flower
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I have for the first time in my life, seemed true, free excellent.
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By a week from Thursday, he will publicly repute. Yet is American
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citizenship? And and then what does the mode okay makes you say? Incredible
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things? Electro magnetiquivensis. Don't you No, No, missus Gison, that
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is not their way. When they see to make the speech, there is
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a youth rally and the Congress Halley at the Berlin Zoo. A week from
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thursday. I just can't see him. This is a time. Promise you
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that a week from Thursday you will have him. That you are sure they
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don't suspect you. May Love has dutched them. My papers are in order
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and a makeup is bos. This man Love coming to night any minute now.
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Manlove is afraid. He is playing both ends against the middle. It's
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hard to be punctual when you sleep with the terror. We can do it
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tonight. Grease makes the speech a week fantastic. Yes there will be you
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Alli Greason and doctor Stouton got in the car. Yes, yes, you
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pass within three blocks of the border separating the British from the Soviet sector.
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How you do it is up to you. If you fumble, I will
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deny everything, of course denied. Please needs to speak. I will assign
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you to cut his serv and shaving Manilov. Do they suspect anything? No,
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No mottos Russian is perfect across the papers, but a single slip,
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and it is finished. They will empty the cell of water tomorrow. The
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breaking of his will is over. On little hypnosis is to continue your animals,
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all of yours. I'd like to take everything one of your one.
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Listen, please, Manuel, I am holding the money one hundred thousand miles.
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Deliver him here on Thursday and you will be paid now for quickly.
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Money. Love. It is dangerous, Frida, Yes, I must have
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a revolver. Carrying a gun is dangerous, and the night of the speech
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being without one will be more dangerous. Missus. Listen. Yes, somehow
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before a week from Thursday, you must find me some adrenaline and some caffeine.
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Otherwise I am afraid your husband will be mentally and physically unable to go
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operate with me at all. An American military doctor is the most likely sauce
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all right, and also a hypodermic meture. I can get you that.
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Then all that remains for us to do between now and a week from Thursday
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is to pray that God will protect our efforts. They are mista vision,
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your hair is cut, are shaved and best. How do you feel the
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work is in America? Victim Aleck, listen to me, I am not
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going to hurt you. I am your friend. I have to give you
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an injection. Help. You'll help you, nan, and please don't hurt
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me anymore. I must have your cooperation and help. In just a few
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seconds, you will feel stronger the head clearer. Now please hosted. I
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don't say anything. Just listen. Your speech to Nut is supposed to be
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of your own free will. There will be no gods, just you,
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doctor Stattenberg and I. You are not supposed to be a prisoner. Not
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a prisoner. I will be driving. You will sit in the back with
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the doctor I have here and I am no, don't hey, I don't
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like they put a pain over my head. And no, no, no,
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Alec h it is so very very important that you understand. I cannot
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manage it alone. I have to drive. Now listen. On our way
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to the conquers life, we have to pass through an alley that is three
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blocks from the British sector. When we get to that point, Alec,
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do you understand me? Right? I think so. When we get to
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that point, I will hunk the horn twice. Short hunks. Can you
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hit doctor Stantenbert with this iron bar? You will be in the back seat
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with him, hit him and shove him out of the car. Out of
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the car, Alic, it is very important that you'll help me. Remember
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two hunks of the horn. He didn't shut him out of the back seat.
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That's sleep, doctor Scotty Aleck. Alec, it is very very dangerous,
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and you are sick. But you must fly very very hard in less
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than hour. You cannot be with your wife. You're driving too fast.
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You'll make him nervous. Yes, doctor, you're all right, darling.
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Yes, I'm fine. You're seem much stronger. You're up poster dilated almost
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the open rick. What are you go? Help open the dialect? Open
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the dark quickly, subby, not hurry, hurry, Aneck, I can
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How are you heaving? All right? All right, just a hundred dark,
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Alic. The soldiers there, you're left the genus, look out the
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good right down, Alec, get down on the floor. Hang on.
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Coming to the by line. What are they doing there? They're twenty minutes
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later. Sometimes there are delayed What could go wrong? Perhaps at the barrier
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there was something. Oh God, please tell him out. Please. First
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we sit here and listen to those collect they drive you crazy? Say they
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mind me? Missus? Lissen. The time is running out. With every
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second we draw closer to the edge of the Abyss, It's still we cannot
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decide whether we want to win the last war or the next. I'm sorry,
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I'm just not used to this rh It's so fantastic not to me.
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So when you go back, tell them in America, tell them to get
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down on their knees every day of their lives and thank God for their country.
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Tell them what you've seen here, mister Morton tomorrow, I'll right a
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bullet exploded at times. No, no, no, missus Jason. He
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may not recognize you. The effect of the Adainlan has one off. Please
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try not to up take him. Come in, Aleck, aleckquilt, Darling,
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it's me. It's Janet. You're all right now, all right?
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Thank you know me, Darling. I I'm Janet. I'm your wife.
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Yeah, Hi, what jan Yes, you have just heard mister Mohaul,
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the world's greatest international secret agent. In The Victim, James Monk starred as
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mister Mohaul. The script was written and directed by Harry W. Junkin,
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produced by Carol Irwin and Now with a preview of next week's story, mister
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I a moto thank you. Next week, the story of a man of
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God who held the devil for a playmate, of an annue princess, whose
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elegant, shapering hands held the secret of riddles undivined, the hitherto untold history
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behind the experiment known as Project seventy seven. And now, may the sweet
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soft mystery of night surround your slumber with the perfume of cedar and jasmine,
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and may the first breath of morning reach you with a fragrance of a thousand
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roses. And enjoy the very best radio. Be sure that you're dialing right.
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Write the very best radio. Morning Nerd and Ninth is from this station,
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Morning Nerd and Night NBC. Phil Baker invite you to join the sixty
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four dollars Question next on NBC. Welcome back this story here. It is
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actually the tops of torture experience. It really is something that's well documented from
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the Cold War era, whether you're reading the memoirs and stories of American POWs
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in Vietnam, or whether you're reading the stories of people persecuted for political or
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religious reassons. This was throughout the entire Soviet era, a very common practice
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by many of the communist governments. And I have to say that if all
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the radio detective shows of the era, Mister Moto is the one that most
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just barrels right into these sort of issues. Overall, A very good performance
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and just a a solid story. All right, Well, that will do
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it for today. Join us back here tomorrow we continue yours truly, Johnny
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Dowler. Next Tuesday, we will resume with another episode of Mister Moto.
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