Forbidden Cargo 54xxxx 07 Narcotics Intelligence Bureau

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Forbidden Cargo – Narcotics Intelligence Bureau

Podcast: Harold's Old Time Radio
Host: Harold's Old Time Radio
Episode Air Date: January 13, 2026
Golden Age Radio Feature: Forbidden Cargo (1954) – “Narcotics Intelligence Bureau”

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Episode Overview

This episode transports listeners to the world of post-war Cairo, following two special officers, Captains Bill Nyberg and Rex Sanger, as they work with the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau to crack a hashish-smuggling ring. Featuring undercover operations, tense interrogations, and classic noir banter, the story illustrates the perils and shadows of the narcotics game amid international intrigue.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Breakdown

1. Setting the Stage: Cairo, 1954

• Smuggling is rampant via ship, plane, road, and “human carriers”:
  “Goods are smuggled dangerously out of one country into another, goods which are forbidden cargo.”
  — Captain Bill Nyberg (00:28)

• Nyberg and Sanger find themselves at a hotspot for drug activity: the notorious Café Carney.

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2. A Suspicious Encounter

• The duo observes a disturbance spilling into the street—a gun-related scuffle tied to a supposed lieutenant, later revealed as a fraud, Jack Hallam.

• Confrontation and Reveal:

  • Hallam, carrying forged papers and posing as a British officer, is unmasked by the officers.
    “We ask the questions… These papers… are forgeries. Brilliantly done. But still forgeries. So come on out with it, chum.”
    — Captain Rex Sanger (04:54)

• Notable exchange on their true identities:

  • “This is Captain Rex Sanger. Me? I'm Captain Bill Nyberg. Special officers on loan to the Egyptian government, Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau.”
    — Captain Bill Nyberg (05:22)

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3. The Drug Trade Unveiled

• Hallam admits he's a runner, smuggling hashish for a shadowy figure: Abu Tig.
• Café Carney is confirmed as a distribution center for narcotics.
• Hallam, pressured by the threat of local police brutality, opens up about contacts and the operation’s mechanics: “I stick around the Café Carney. I get my orders there… My name’s Hallam. Jack Hallam. I was with the Royal Army Service Corps. I deserted… making money. The fast way.”
  — Jack Hallam (07:07)

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4. Undercover Sting Operation (08:42 – 13:05)

• The officers devise a plan: Hallam introduces them as trustworthy replacements to Abu Tig ahead of a smuggling run.
• A tense negotiation on payment unfolds with Abu Tig: “Let’s quit the palaver and get down to business. …How much?”
  — Captain Bill Nyberg & Rex Sanger (11:30–11:45)
• The trio is paid half up front and instructed on the route and logistics for the hashish run.

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5. The Smuggling Run & The Set-up (17:47 – 25:03)

• Driving with Abu Tig, they follow a mysterious black Ferrari through checkpoints, arriving at a coastal location near Gaza.
• Contraband is concealed in cans, posing as “high-octane gas”.
• Upon return, suspicion brews as Abu Tig takes control of the cargo and truck.

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6. Bust at the Drop House

• The truck is tracked to a house owned by Hartley Weaver.

• The officers demand to inspect the petrol cans. Weaver protests but is overruled: “I’m afraid you'll have to take my word for it… The caps have been soldered… And I don't intend to go to all the trouble to prove I'm not lying.”
  — Hartley Weaver (24:08)

• Using a bayonet, they discover hashish concealed beneath fuel in the cans.

• An altercation ensues; Weaver attempts resistance, resulting in gunfire and a fire—
  “We saved enough hashish to get a conviction… Hallam, army deserter, was sentenced to two years, Abu Tig, 5, and Weaver, 10 years.”
  — Captain Bill Nyberg (26:10)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Sanger on Narcotics:
  “Drug running, dope smuggling is one of the dirtiest games in the world… In Egypt alone, 3 million souls are reported each year to be suffering from some form of narcotics poisoning.”
  — Captain Rex Sanger (14:30–15:07)

• Show’s Noir Tone, Example Banter:
  “You scream, 30 seconds to start or I pick up this phone. It's a direct line to police headquarters. Sanger, start counting them off.”
  — Captain Bill Nyberg (06:18)

• On Tough Choices:
  “Get this chum. He goes through with this. When it's over, we'll think about your future. But don't plan anything for at least the next five years.”
  — Captain Bill Nyberg (16:45)

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Important Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment/Highlight | |-----------|-----------------------------| | 00:28 | Introduction to “Forbidden Cargo” and narcotics context | | 02:23 | Arrival at Café Carney, suspicion arises | | 04:54 | Hallam confronted, identity revealed as forgery | | 05:35 | Officers reveal true identity and Hallam's role | | 06:18 | Hallam pressured to confess the operation | | 08:42 | Officers plot undercover sting with Hallam acting as go-between | | 11:02 | Negotiation with Abu Tig, securing the smuggling job | | 14:30 | Sanger on societal impact of narcotics trade in Egypt | | 17:47 | Launch of the smuggling run toward Gaza | | 19:21 | Smuggling ruse: “petrol” cans loaded down by the coast | | 22:36 | Arrival at drop house, confrontation with Hartley Weaver | | 24:20 | Discovery of hashish inside petrol cans | | 26:10 | Resolution: Fire destroys the house, sentences and wrap-up | | 27:05 | Disclaimer: Based on true events; names changed |

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Tone and Style

Classic radio drama style: crisp, hard-boiled noir language, sharp quips, persistent tension. Characters speak in clipped, transactional exchanges—typical of ‘50s detective stories. The show punctuates action with brooding lectures on the human cost of narcotics and the gritty realities of undercover work.

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Summary Takeaway

In a tightly wound tale of crime and deception, “Forbidden Cargo – Narcotics Intelligence Bureau” blends suspense, subterfuge, and moral warnings. As Nyberg and Sanger expose the network—using craft, intimidation, and nerve—they not only break the hashish ring but highlight the societal costs of the narcotics trade, delivering a quintessential Golden Age radio lesson wrapped in intrigue and drama.

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Transcript

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[Captain Bill Nyberg]

It's. By ship, by plane, by road, by human carriers. Goods are smuggled dangerously out of one country into another, goods which are forbidden cargo.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Revealing the inside story of Narcotics Intelligence Bureau.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Cafe Carney. Gunfight, Daniel every night.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Think we should look into it, Myberg?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Listen, chum, we're not stationed here in Cairo to do the work of the police. We're on loan to the Narcotics Intelligence Bureau, remember?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

All right, all right. Only when I hear gunshots at night. Always the old war horse, eh?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Sniff gun, smoke. You want to get stuck right back into it. I'd be glad to get back to the flat. I've just arrived.

[Hartley Weaver]

Hold on.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Where's this coming.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

Hey, why don't you look where you're going? What'd I say?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

I'm sorry.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

I said why don't you look where you're going?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

I said I'm sorry. On your way, chum.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

Who said that? Come on, who said that?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

I did. Want to make something of it?

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

You be careful how you speak to an officer and a gentleman. That's what I am, an officer and a gentleman. You got to act in Parliament to prove a chum.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Don't you know this part of Cairo is out of bonds to all service personnel at night?

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

I got.

[Abu Tig]

I got, got.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

I got a pass.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Show me.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

Yeah, yeah, I'll show you. Now wait a minute. Who do you think you are? A couple of no good fatherless Provos? This is peace time. This is 1954 and I'm.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Who do you think you are? Show me your identity cards.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

I am Lieutenant Stuart Rickard of the Royal Investigation, the Special Investigation Branch.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

You're a liar.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

She'll call me a liar. Prove who I am.

[Jack Hallam]

I've got my papers.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Got em.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Right.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

Give her back.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Give it back.

[Jack Hallam]

That's mine.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Take it easy.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

That's my gun.

[Jack Hallam]

My gun. Give it back.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Just been fired.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

It's a Luger. Nyberg. Sanger. I'm taking a chance, Mr. New. Consider yourself under arrest. Arrest?

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

He can't arrest me. I'm an officer.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Yeah, we know, we know.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Come On.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Okay, chum, you asked for it.

[Jack Hallam]

All right. All right, fellas, I've cut the comedy.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

Lay off me, will you?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

When you tell us the truth.

[Jack Hallam]

Who are you two anyway?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

We ask the questions.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

These papers, this pass you're carrying. And forgeries. Brilliantly done. But still forgeries. So come on out with a chump.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

I've got to know who you are first.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Why?

[Jack Hallam]

Well, I.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Well, I.

[Jack Hallam]

Okay, I admit it. They're forgeries. I'm no more an officer than you are.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

That's where you're wrong, pal.

[Jack Hallam]

But you're not British army men, okay?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

No harm in telling him, chum. This is Captain Rex Sanger. Me? I'm Captain Bill Nyberg. Special officers on loan to the Egyptian government, Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau. Now, how does that suit you?

[Jack Hallam]

Narcotics.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Narcotics. So start talking. Why the gun play in the Cafe Carney?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

The Cafe Carne is the haunt of known drug addicts. Suspected hashish distributing center.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

We saw you coming from the cafe.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

We heard the gunshots.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Bullets fired from this gun.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Your gun.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

That sticky brown stuff near the elbow on your sleeve. It smells like musty hay, and that makes it hashish.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

So back it in, chum, and start talking.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Otherwise, we hand you over to the Egyptian cops. They won't be polite. They'll just toss you inside one of their jails and let you rot until you don't talk.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

You scream, 30 seconds to start or I pick up this phone. It's a direct line to police headquarters. Sanger, start counting them off.

[Abu Tig]

5.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

10, 15.

[Jack Hallam]

Okay, okay. For the love of heaven, don't call that your post.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

20, doll.

[Jack Hallam]

I'm talking, ain't it? I'm talking. Start asking questions. I'll answer.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

I'll answer.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

30.

[Jack Hallam]

Put it down. Put it down.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

I'm not an officer.

[Jack Hallam]

Those papers are forged. My name's Hallam. Jack Hallam. I was with the Royal Army Service Corps. I deserted when they went back home after the war. I stayed on out here.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Doing what? I said, doing what?

[Jack Hallam]

Making money. The fast way.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Don't you mean the dirty way?

[Jack Hallam]

Well, if I didn't anymore.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

Woods.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Hashish or what?

[Jack Hallam]

So much sleeve.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Hashish. Right. Hallam, we're still waiting.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

I told you, you haven't got the brains to be anything but a runner. Who's your big boy?

[Jack Hallam]

I don't know.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Still lying.

[Jack Hallam]

But I don't. I tell you, I've got a truck. I stick around the Cafe Carney. I get my orders there.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Who's the contact?

[Jack Hallam]

Lately, Gippo. Name of Abu Tig.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

How do you mean? Lately, these contacts come and go.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

What's he look like?

[Jack Hallam]

Abu Tigg's around 30. Tall for his kind. About 6 foot. He supplied me with those papers. An identity card. He gives me border passes too, whenever he's got a job on.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

You see him tonight?

[Jack Hallam]

No. That shooting. Some clock tried to get off with my girl. Pulled a knife. I fired over his head and then all the others in the cafe joined in. I scrammed fast. Saw you two in the street before you saw me and pretended I was drunk.

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[Captain Rex Sanger]

Yes, getting back to this Abu Tig, when you're meeting him again.

[Jack Hallam]

What's the time?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

5 past 11.

[Jack Hallam]

He said he'd meet me at the Cafe Carney at midnight. Another run to Gaza and back. Pick up a load and smuggle it in.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Deliver it where?

[Jack Hallam]

I don't know. When we get back, he takes over my truck. Returns it later. The cagey camel. Highly educated, though in England he once told me.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Hang on. I think we can get hold of a truck pretty fast.

[Jack Hallam]

What? Now wait a minute.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Shut up. Think we can't sing?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Why not?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Alan, listen to me. You rendezvous with this Abu Tig at midnight. You tell him you're having trouble with your truck. Take a few days to fix it. But you've met a couple of your old army friends. They're reliable. You can trust them. So rather than let him down, you've persuaded your friends to make the run for him.

[Jack Hallam]

He won't believe me.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Then that's going to be too bad, Hallam. Too bad for you.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Hate to see a young chap like you rot in a duper jail.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

All right, all right.

[Jack Hallam]

I'll meet him. I'll meet him.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

But will he believe you, Hallam?

[Jack Hallam]

If it's the last thing I do, I'll make him.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

It will be if you don't.

[Jack Hallam]

So I wouldn't let you down, Tig. I took my two old army pals into helping out. They're straight as a die on the left.

[Abu Tig]

Where are these two? My friends?

[Jack Hallam]

They're sitting over there. I told them to wait till I talked with you. The dark thick Set ones build with fair head curves. Rex. They have just arrived from Palestine in their own truck.

[Abu Tig]

Very well, my friend. Beckon them over. If the matter were not so urgent, I could wait for your truck to be repaired.

[Jack Hallam]

They're okay, I tell you. They're a bit green at this sort of thing. But they're just the boy. So treat them right, fella.

[Abu Tig]

Perhaps.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Wanting us, chum. Got your signal.

[Jack Hallam]

This the one meets our boutique boys. Bill, Rex.

[Abu Tig]

Greetings.

[Hartley Weaver]

Glad to know you.

[Abu Tig]

Please sit down.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Thanks.

[Jack Hallam]

I. I told Abu Tig about you two.

[Abu Tig]

You know the road to Gaza?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

The road and all the other tracks. Blindfolded. There's a customs checkpoints too. And dodge around them.

[Abu Tig]

Our friend here says you are not familiar with this type of assignment.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

We don't tell everybody everything.

[Abu Tig]

Two wise men look here.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Let's quit the palaver and get down to business. Me and my partner want business. You want us to make a run to Gaza. Pick up some stuff, bring it back.

[Abu Tig]

Okay.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

No questions asked. Except one.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

How much?

[Abu Tig]

£50.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Starving, chum. Let's go. This curve thinks we run our truck on water from the Nile.

[Abu Tig]

75.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

180.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Wasting our time so long.

[Abu Tig]

The impatience can be a one sided virtue. A gain for you, a loss for me. 100.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

That's more like it. Give us the gem.

[Abu Tig]

Pardon?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Detail.

[Abu Tig]

Meet me here tomorrow night at 8 o'. Clock. We shall take the road to Ismailia. And then we. I ride with you. There is room in the cabin?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Plenty.

[Abu Tig]

There will be no need for detours on the trip out.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

What about border checks for reason of journey?

[Abu Tig]

I shall provide everything. You provide the truck and intelligence for driving.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

You're the boss. When do we get paid?

[Abu Tig]

After completion of the journey.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

50 now, 50 then when we retire. Sorry, no dice.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Alan, you told us he'd pay first.

[Jack Hallam]

I can't do anything about it.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

But we can. We can do nothing. Any of other pickings around?

[Jack Hallam]

Please. Take 50 now, 50 later. Like you always pay me.

[Abu Tig]

Three against one. Who am I to argue? I pay you half.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Now that's more like it, chump.

[Abu Tig]

10, 20. 30.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

40. Thanks, John. See you here tomorrow night. 8:30.

[Abu Tig]

All being well.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Let's go, chum.

[Jack Hallam]

I want to stay here. There's a friend who sent you.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Get it. We don't want to lose you. You're our mascot.

[Hartley Weaver]

Run your feet.

[Jack Hallam]

Okay.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Here you take.

[Abu Tig]

Of course.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Let's go find a place where there's some cold English beer.

[Hartley Weaver]

The real stuff.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Not this one.

[Abu Tig]

Zavala. Zavala, come here. You saw those Englishmen talking With me. Hold them closely. I do not trust the Dark One. Nor the Fair One. Find out who they are, where they go. Report back to me. Now. Hurry.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Your mate Fig doesn't trust us, Hallam.

[Jack Hallam]

He gave you the 50 quid, didn't he?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

I don't mean that.

[Jack Hallam]

And he's meeting tomorrow night.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

We mean putting a tail on us.

[Jack Hallam]

There's no one following.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

No. When we come to this next corner, you two keep going.

[Jack Hallam]

You're wrong.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

We'll see.

[Jack Hallam]

Abu Tig believed me.

[Hartley Weaver]

Honest he did.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Here's the corner. Keep going with me, chum. You know, Hallam, you're a fool to get yourself mixed up in this dirty wreckage.

[Jack Hallam]

Yeah, it's the racket that provides your sort with nice cushy jobs. Don't come to stunt that.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

I'm not coming any stunt review, Hallam. I'm merely pointing out that drug running, dope smuggling is one of the dirtiest games in the world. I'll tell you something. In Egypt alone, 3 million souls. As I was saying. In Egypt alone, 3 million souls are reported each year to be suffering from some form of narcotics poisoning. Mostly the result of smoking.

[Abu Tig]

Hush.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Ish.

[Jack Hallam]

That scream back there.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Scream?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Oh, yes. Nyberg attending to our Boutig's tracker. Getting back to the figure I mentioned. When we return to headquarters in a moment, I'll show you reports we have from the hospital.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Apologies.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Well, Helen, what do you think of the reports, eh? Pretty grim reading figures.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Reports.

[Jack Hallam]

They can be doctored to tell any story, twisted to show any picture.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Okay, have it your way. You're just a very small cog in a monstrous machine. We know.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Now, get this, pal. We're locking you up till we're ready to take off with the truck. Tomorrow night, meet our boutique at the Cafe Carney. There are bars on the window, guard at the door with orders to flatten you like a piece of old linoleum if you try any funny business, Understand?

[Jack Hallam]

If I play ball, what do I get out of it?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Ye gods. Always on the make, aren't you?

[Jack Hallam]

Oh, why not? New coves have got me cold. I said I'd cooperate. Provided you don't stick me in a gypo jail. And if you do, I've got friends, see? Powerful friends with lots of money. You know as well as I do lots of those gypo gods had slit their own mother's throats for a couple of hundred piastre.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Yeah, that's quite right, Hallam. Matter of fact, we could bribe them ourselves to slit your throat, couldn't we? Accidentally Killed whilst endeavoring to escape from custody.

[Jack Hallam]

You wouldn't do that.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

We have saved an awful lot of bother, didn't it, Sanger? Yeah, certainly did.

[Jack Hallam]

You're killing, are we?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Get this chum. He goes through with this. When it's over, we'll think about your future. But don't plan anything for at least the next five years.

[Jack Hallam]

But Winterfella doesn't report back to Tig Winterfeller. But what's that?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

So you knew Tigg put a shadow on us there, that beggar. I think you're screwy. I don't know what's keeping my hands off you, chum. Must be my genteel upbringing. And I'll work on it.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

What else do you know but haven't told us?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Nothing.

[Lieutenant Stuart Rickard]

Honest.

[Jack Hallam]

I swear on a stack, nothing more.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

All right. Anything goes wrong on this trip, we'll plant the blame fair square right on your neck. Now let's go over the details. We pick up the truck, meet our boutique at the Cafe Carney. Then we wait and see what happens. Here he comes alone too.

[Jack Hallam]

Told you he believed me.

[Abu Tig]

We'll see. Good evening, gentlemen. There is room pop up.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Move up a bit, chump.

[Abu Tig]

Drive along the main Ismailia road. Turn left along the Bala lakes for exactly three miles. There you'll see a black Ferrari waiting. Follow it right through to the sea coast, the site of Gaza. When the car stops, you stop. I have all the papers needed for clear passage through the customs barriers and border checkpoints. And I also have a gun. Start the truck, please. He said he'd meet us at the three mile post. Please slow down.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Who's that?

[Abu Tig]

Our guide with the Ferrari.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

There's a car.

[Abu Tig]

Flash your lights, please, once. Thank you. Now follow him.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

I don't get this. Loading cans of petrol in the truck. All over from those sandhills on donkeys. I expected to see a launch. Come in.

[Jack Hallam]

Not too loud. Those Arabs have got sharp ears.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Are you telling me anything?

[Jack Hallam]

Sorry, it's always like this. Either here or up the coast a little.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Hold it. What's in those cans to day?

[Abu Tig]

High octane gas, my friend. Aviation spirits. You return now by detour. I want our cargo back in Cairo by tomorrow night.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Where did you get this high octane stuff?

[Abu Tig]

Disposable fe. Into the truck. It must be in Cairo tomorrow night.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Okay.

[Abu Tig]

Thank you, my friends. I shall not take over.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

You mean take our truck?

[Abu Tig]

I shall return it here within one hour.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Well, I. I don't know. That's a mighty valuable 3 tonner. It cost us a lot of Money.

[Abu Tig]

It has a mighty valuable cargo. It cost a lot of money.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Didn't see you pay any.

[Abu Tig]

You will wait here.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

My earth. We want our truck and the rest.

[Abu Tig]

Of our pay within the hour.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Where's our car?

[Jack Hallam]

I took him to Tillness in wait till the truck had gone and they'd pick us up fast.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

They'll have someone skin for this. If they don't show up, we'll never trail Tig Hellam. Are you positive you don't know where he unloads the contraband?

[Jack Hallam]

No, I told you. He always takes over when I get back from a run. Returns the truck later, just like you said. Now, here it comes. All right, Helen, get in. Get in.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Man, where the blazes are have you been told? The Bureau to have this car ready to pick us up instantly after the.

[Jack Hallam]

Truck left for sir.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Now get going, will you? To the left, man.

[Hartley Weaver]

To the left.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

There's the truck. Just pulling away from that house.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Slow down.

[Jack Hallam]

Slow down.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Pull up 50 yards from the house.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Alan, you're staying here.

[Jack Hallam]

No need for the bracelet.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Making sure you stay with the driver. Handcuff you to the door column. All right, Sanger, let's go look at that house. Keep your gun handy. My, you take a bet that whoever lived here be waiting for delivery of those cans. Perhaps. Maybe this is our bed.

[Hartley Weaver]

Who the devil are you? What are you doing in my house?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

I wouldn't if I were you, chump.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

No, just take your hand out of your pocket slowly and cleanly.

[Hartley Weaver]

Merely getting a cigarette.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Like one.

[Hartley Weaver]

Good Lord. You didn't think I carried a gun, did you?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

What's in those cans?

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Why, we're from Narcotics. Intelligence Bureau.

[Hartley Weaver]

Narcotics? I'm very sorry, but your intelligence has gone very much.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

I don't keep narcotics.

[Hartley Weaver]

As for those cams, tins of petrol, boy. High octane fuel. You know aviation? I run my own private aircraft. Have a devil's own job getting the right juice. So, Well, I suppose I'll have to confess. I buy black market. Did your Bureau regard that as crime? Or will you report me to other authorities?

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Maybe. What's your name?

[Hartley Weaver]

I don't like. Your turn. Oh, boy. Surely, having made yourself at my place, poured through my things, you've at least discovered my name. No.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Weaver.

[Hartley Weaver]

Hartley Weaver. At your service, gentlemen.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Well, that's fine. Then do us a service by opening.

[Abu Tig]

One of those cans.

[Hartley Weaver]

What a waste. My precious aviation fuel. Have a heart.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Open it. Or do we get an axe?

[Hartley Weaver]

I'm afraid you'll have to take my word for it, as you've no Doubt noticed. Those cans are sealed. The caps have been soldered. And I don't intend to go to all the trouble to prove I'm not lying.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Then we'll go to the trouble. Thanger, take a look around for something to open them up with.

[Hartley Weaver]

You won't find anything here.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Well then we'll just carry them outside and pump a few bullets.

[Jack Hallam]

If you wish to be utterly stupid.

[Hartley Weaver]

Cots, do so by all means. And I shall have much pleasure in suing your. Your Intelligence Bureau for willful destruction of private property.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Here's something that ought to do the trick. Old army bayonet. Uses a fire poker by the looks of. Smells like high octane. Satisfied thing to empty it out.

[Hartley Weaver]

Oh, no you don't. Not here. Not on my good floors.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

Through the bureau.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Only a couple of pints in it yet it's still heavy. That's better. Smell of musty hay. This tin's three quarter full of raw hashish. All right, Weaver, what's your story?

[Hartley Weaver]

This.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Watch out. Drop it.

[Hartley Weaver]

No.

[Jack Hallam]

You ask for a charm.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

I'll take your gun now, Weaver.

[Jack Hallam]

You won't. You won't.

[Hartley Weaver]

The fool.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Shut up.

[Jack Hallam]

The gas. Get him out of here before the place burns down. Hurry. Hurry.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

This is Nyberg speaking. Captain, Narcotics Intelligence Bureau. Captain Sanger and myself dragged the wounded man out before anything else could be done. The fire his bullets had started burned the place to the ground. But we saved enough hashish to get a conviction. Turned out to be the organizing brain behind the narcotics smuggling from Gaza into Cairo. Hallam, army deserter, was sentenced to two years, Abu Tig, 5 and Weaver, 10 years.

[Captain Rex Sanger]

The story you have heard is factual. Names have been changed to protect the identities of those concerned. Listen again for another expose of those.

[Captain Bill Nyberg]

Who deal in forbidden cargo. Foreign.

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