Dangerous Assignment: Operation Fish Hook (Haiti) 01/06/1951
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
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What is the secret mission that the commissioner assigns to Steve Mitchell?
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Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell.
Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing, though. Trouble. But when I walk into the commissioner's office, I don't realize this assignment's going to end up with me having somebody take a picture of my own murder.
Morning, Commissioner. Ruth said you had an assignment for me. I do, Steve. Your plane leaves for Haiti in one hour. Haiti? Well, I guess I'd better brush up on my voodoo before somebody puts the double whammy on me.
Might be a good idea, Steve, because I'm sending you down there to put the whammy on somebody else. What's the deal, Commissioner? Have you seen the current issue of this picture magazine?
No. What about it?
We've got a spread on Haiti. Here, take a look at it. This picture in particular.
Native jungle deep in interior of Haiti. Oh, so it's a native village. What am I supposed to do, go down there and check the plumbing? Take a look at those natives in the background. Just a bunch of them standing around the Hudson. Hey, wait. One of them looks like he's wearing a leather
flight jacket. Right. We got a copy of that picture and had a section of it blown up. Can you read the name on that flight jacket now? F. Carlson. F. Carlson it is.
Oh, look, Commissioner, I still don't see... Remember Operation Fish Hook? I heard the name a couple of months ago, but I never knew what.
meant or anything. Two months ago, a group of scientists left for the Caribbean to conduct research and tests. They were working on a revolutionary theory of anti-submarine warfare, a self-propelled depth charge with a proximity fuse. That was Operation Fish Hook? Yes, I'll skip the technical details, but what it boils down to is the most effective weapon against a submarine that's ever been devised.
How'd the tests work out?
We don't know. They were conducted in secret over a small island in the Caribbean. The scientists completed their research and compiled all the data. Then they took off for the States in a plane. That's the last we ever heard of them.
Wait a minute. I seem to remember reading about a group of scientists being lost at sea. The same group,
Steve. We suspected their plane had crashed into the ocean. That it had been sabotaged. That is, we suspected it until this magazine came out.
The magazine?
You mean... I mean the pilot of that plane was a man named F. Carlson.
How does the commissioner explain Operation Fish Hook and its importance?
The flight jacket. Steve, it's possible Carlson or some of the others are still alive. And it's also possible... That data they compile is floating around in Haiti somewhere. I'm sending you down there to get it.
Just like that, huh?
It's quite possible, even probable, that other interests have seen this picture in the magazine, too. That means it's going to be a race. Sounds real jolly. Any contacts in Haiti who can help me? Only one. The photographer took the pictures. Her name is Virginia Collins, and we've learned she's still in Haiti, at the Hotel Christophe in Port-au-Prince. Now, Steve, get down there, talk to Virginia Collins, and go anywhere and do anything that's necessary to recover that data. Well, I said, you've got your assignment. Good luck.
The National Broadcasting Company is presenting Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian Donlevy and the role of Steve Mitchell, colorful, two-fisted government agent. At all those places of the world where danger and intrigue walk hand in hand, there you'll find Steve Mitchell on another Dangerous Assignment.
Dangerous Assignment
Sure. I've got my assignment. Just a little matter of poking my way through a jungle in Haiti to find a leather flying jacket, the pilot who used to own it, and some vital data on anti-submarine warfare. And according to the commissioner, I'm sure to have some competition on the deal, which gives me an uneasy hunch that sooner or later, I'll run into an amateur voodoo artist who'll be trying his best to charm me to sleep with a slug.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the secret mission that the commissioner assigns to Steve Mitchell?
0:00–2:50
2
How does the commissioner explain Operation Fish Hook and its importance?
2:50–6:07
3
Why does Steve need to find the native with the leather flight jacket?
6:07–8:48
4
Who is Virginia Collins and what role does she play in the mission?
8:48–12:32
5
How does the jungle trek lead the team to the hidden village?
12:32–18:12
6
What happens during the voodoo ceremony and how does it affect the search for the data?
18:12–24:19
7
How does Steve finally locate the crashed pilot and recover the secret file?
24:19–29:34
Speakers
4 identifiedMore from Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
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