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Cloak and Dagger|World War 2 Spy Adventures

Cloak and Dagger|World War 2 Spy Adventures

Auteur(s): Adam Graham|Old Time Radio Spy Story Host
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 Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the enemy lines, knowing you may never return alive?

This was the question asked of men and women, ordinary citizens. Those who said yes became part of the Office of Strategic Services. They risked their lives in dangerous missions and formed a powerful spy system throughout Europe and Asia which would be key to Allied success in World War II.

During the War, the stories of their adventures - of their courage and their sacrifice - remained closely-guarded military secrets. When the War came to its end, their story began to be told in the 1945 book Cloak and Dagger by Lt. Colonel Corey Ford and Major Alastir Macbain.

That book inspired Cloak and Dagger, a radio series dramatizing cases from the OSS’s Washington, D.C. files. It aired from May to October 1950 on the NBC network. As the late old time radio historian John Dunning observed, the series opened a Sunday afternoon mystery block "of far inferior quality," receiving little media attention and no sponsorship.

On paper, it looked like another low-budget, network-sustained placeholder. It was an anthology program starring a solid group of New York radio regulars who reliably turned in great acting performances for union scale. On paper, it looked like one of those cheap network-sustained placeholder.

The series disappeared from the air, unlamented and unremembered. However, according to Dunning, contemporary researchers discovered a nearly complete run of the series. What was discovered was a "gripping show with every story an unpredictable departure from formula." The twenty circulating episodes live up to Dunning's praise, and then some, while celebrating the vital clandestine work of the OSS.

Adam Graham is your guide through all circulating episode of this amazing series of courage and adventure.Copyright Adam Graham Art Divertissement et arts de la scène Monde Théâtre
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  • Cloak and Dagger: A Recommendation from Rommel

    Cloak and Dagger: A Recommendation from Rommel
    Sep 27 2025
    Today's Adventure: An OSS agent in Italy finds himself in a compartment on the train has been double-booked, and his travel companion is General Rommel.

    Original Radio Broadcast: August 6, 1950

    Originating from New York

    Starring: Ralph Bell; Barry Kroeger; Jan Miner; Boris Aplon; Arnold Moss; Jerry Jarrett; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber

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    36 min
  • Cloak and Dagger: Swastika on the Windmill

    Cloak and Dagger: Swastika on the Windmill
    Sep 20 2025
    Today's Adventure: An OSS agent goes behind enemy lines into occupied Holland to stay at his uncle's house.

    Original Radio Broadcast: July 30, 1950

    Originating from New York

    Starring: Les Tremayne; Lester Fletcher; Harvey Hayes; Jared Burke; Gordon Stern; Francois Grimar; Basil Langton; Patricia Courtleigh; Beulah Garrick; Victor Chapin

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    36 min
  • Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Box

    Cloak and Dagger: The Secret Box
    Sep 12 2025
    Today's Adventure: Two OSS agents are on a mission to bring in a captured Japanese colonel, but the mission goes awry, leaving the two men in a battle for survival.

    Original Radio Broadcast: July 23, 1950

    Originating from New York

    Starring: Jerry Lester; Larry Haines; Dan Ocko; Irene Hubbard; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Arnold Robertson

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    39 min
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