Cloak and Dagger: The Brenner Pass Story (A0006)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Performing Arts, Drama, Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today's Adventure: An OSS agent undertakes a secret mission to blow up a highway in Italy to block the escape of the Germans.

Original Radio Broadcast: June 4, 1950

Originating from New York

Starring: Boris Aplon; Hester Sondergaard; Berry Kroeger; Virginia Payne; Raymond Edward Johnson; Karl Weber; Joseph Julian; Everett Sloan

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0:00.0	Welcome to the great adventurers of old time radio from Boise, Idaho.
0:13.0	This is your host, Adam Graham.
0:15.7	In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Cloak and Dagger.
0:20.3	But I do want to let you know.
0:21.5	Today's program is brought to you by the financial support of our listeners. You can support the
0:27.4	show on a one-time basis by mailing a donation to Adam Graham, Peelbox 15913. That's Peelbox 15913, Boise, Idaho, 83715.
0:41.2	And become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters at patreon.com.
0:45.8	com.
0:45.9	Now, from June the 4th, 1950, here is the Brenner Pass story.
0:55.7	Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission behind the enemy lines, knowing you may never return alive?
1:09.9	What you have just heard
1:11.5	is the question asked during the war
1:13.6	to agents of the OSS.
1:15.9	Ordinary citizens who to this question answered,
1:19.0	yes.
1:21.1	This is cloak and dagger.
1:25.7	Thank you. Cloak and dagger.
1:42.2	Black warfare.
1:45.1	Espionage, international intrigue.
1:47.6	These are the weapons of the OSS.
1:59.1	Today's story, the Brenner Pass, is the story of an American engineer who, single-handed, cut off the escape of part of the German army in Italy from unrushing American troops.
2:06.3	The Brenner Pass is suggested by actual incidents recorded in the Washington files of the Office of Strategic Services.
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