Welcome to the great adventurers of old time radio from Boise, Idaho.

This is your host, Adam Graham.

In a moment, we're going to bring you our new series, Counter Spy.

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Now we're going to talk about counterspy.

And even though, particularly at the beginning,

it might seem to be covering similar ground to cloak and dagger,

but there are many big differences.

Cloak and dagger told tales inspired by true adventures of the OSS overseas.

Counter-spy, particularly at the beginning, told stories of American counterintelligence

and the efforts to support the efforts of spies and fifth columnists.

By nature, these stories were fictional, since the U.S. government wasn't about to

tell stories in the middle of the war about our counterintelligence effort, because there

were all sorts of risk in doing so and you'd pick

up some of that from some of the post-war films that came out like house on 90 second street in that

film it was portrayed that the u.s had uh tracked down the key to a Nazi spiring, but found more valuable

use of it to continue to use it to intercept true information and send some inaccurate information

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