The And the producer director Philip Sage Lord was one of the busiest during the Golden Age of radio

with several popular shows that enjoyed long runs.

His specialty was crime dramas.

Lord was the man behind gangbusters and he helped to develop Mr.

District Attorney. To join his heroes who fought crime and prosecuted the

guilty, Lord introduced David Harding, secret agent and chief of the United States

counterspies. For 15 years on radio, Harding and his colleagues battled the enemies of America, both at home

and abroad, in Counter-Spy, from the start of World War II through the early years of the Cold War.

Counter-Spy made its debut as Americans confronted fears of foreign espionage at the outset of World War II.

Just as Lord released gangbusters as the public was enthralled with the FBI's pursuits of

bank robbers, he struck while the iron was hot in presenting stories of intrepid men working to protect America and her secrets

from enemy agents of the Axis powers.

Those early years of Counter-Spy focused on wartime efforts. In 1945, with World War II at an end, the series

turned its attention to the burgeoning Cold War and battles against Soviet spies.

Finally, in its later years, battles against Soviet spies.

Finally, in its later years, at a time when other spy shows on radio had lost steam,

Counter-Spy evolved again with stories of domestic criminals, hijackers, bank robbers, and swindlers. In this respect, it began to resemble shows like This is your FBI, and it helped to keep

counter-spy on the Air for years after espionage adventures like

Dangerous Assignment and the man called X had come to her close. Stories were

inspired by headlines but they weren't dramatized from actual case files.

In the early days of gangbusters, Phillips H. Lords sought to present actual FBI cases, but

the show was nearly shelved by Jay Edgar Hoover, who was incredibly sensitive

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