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Well now it's time for this week's episode of The Silent Man. The original air date on this one

is December the 9th, 1951 and the title is Pirates 20th Century Brand.

Now it's The Silent Men on NBC.

The Silent Men starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

The national broadcasting company proudly presents The Silent Men. Transcribed stories of the

undercover operations of the special agents of every branch of our federal government and their

relentless fight against crime. And our here is Douglas Fairbanks. It has been more than a century

since piracy was a serious threat to the commerce of the world. The names of Jean Lafitte and Henry

Morgan have become things of the dim fictional past. But to law enforcement agencies of responsible

world governments the threat of international banditry has been ever present and a constant

vigil has been kept even in the far the most parts of the world to keep this menace from again

springing to life. In tonight's story this was the problem that concerns special agent Mel Gerard,

one of our government's silent men and it is his identity that I assume in tonight's file case

entitled Pirates 20th Century Brand.

As special agent Mel Gerard I've been working with the CIA our counterintelligence agency

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