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Betrayal in Vienna
Originally Aired: October 8, 1951
Suspense #442, "Betrayal in Vienna," Colonel Alfred Radel, commander of the VIII Corps and creator of Emperor Franz Joseph's feared Black Cabinet, faces a devastating personal and professional crisis. When he learns that his dearest friend, Captain Oscar Helsinger, has been executed as a spy in St. Petersburg, Radel makes a fateful decision to flee Vienna. At the post office, he retrieves envelopes containing fourteen thousand kronen, adding to the three hundred thousand he already has hidden in a Roman bank. This routine transaction takes an ominous turn…
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