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HIRD in the trilogy which includes '" Dossier on Dumetrius and Deadly Nightshade, the Gregory Keen espionage serial Twenty-six Hours begins shortly from ZB stations. The story, which takes 26 hours of broadcasting time, is based on two widely-publicised international _ incidents. .One is the theft of top-secret allied information from the safe of the British Embassy at Ankara during the war, and the other the theft and publication of excerpts from the diary of U.S, Major-General Robert W. Grow In the first case the information-in- | cluding plans for D-Day-was photographed by the valet to the British Ambassador to Turkey. It was sold to the Germans for what is said to be the largest sum ever paid a spy, but an ironical twist was given the story by the fact that most of the money paid over was counterfeit. The story of this spy, code-named Cicero, has been told by L. C. Moyzisch, formerly attaché to the German Embassy at Ankara, in a’ book entitled Operation Cicero. In the ‘second case ;the diary of General Grow, -written when he was military attaché at Moscow, was stolen by Communist .agents. It contained such com- ments as "War! As soon as possible! Now!" and provided the Communists with some of the best propaganda
material ever. Grow was court martialled on three charges, including one of "improperly recording . . . and failing properly to safeguard classified military information." In Twenty-six Hours, listeners will fallow the efforts of M15 agent Gregory Keen to recover a diary containing both secret information and explosive comment, This dangerous mission, labelled "Operation Cointreau," leads Keen into some nasty situations. When the twenty-six hours are up only one chapter remains to be told. An officer of M15, Milo Trentiss, tells it. A round in the cold war has been won by a man who lost his heart to a girl who was dead-and who looked back for her once too often. The serial will. be broadcast on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.30 p.m., beginning from 1ZB on June 9, 2ZB on June 23, 3ZB on July 7, and 4ZB on July 21.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 20
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352Re-enter Gregory Keen! New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 20
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