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Now it's time for this week's episode of The Silent Men. The original air date on this one is February the 17th, 1952, and the title is Stolen Arsenal.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in The Silent Men.

The national broadcasting company proudly presents Douglas Fairbanks' production of The Silent Men.

Transcribed stories of the undercover operations of the special agents of every branch of our federal government.

Very lenteless fight against crime. Now here is Douglas Fairbanks.

The infant republic of the Philippines is the great testing ground of transplanted democracy, American brand.

When it was learned by our State Department that the hooks, a communist-inspired group of Philippine rebels, were using American-made weapons in their bloody raids and an idiot investigation was called for.

And this is the story I pass on to you. In it I play the role of special agent Donald Heinz, the file case entitled Stolen Arsenal, in which only the names and places.

Because I had served in the Navy in the South Seas, I was assigned to the job.

My first contact was with a Mr. Manuel Zambales in Manila. He met me at the airport.

I spotted him leaning against the steel wire fence in Wiery looking little man.

Mr. Heinz?

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