Cloak and Dagger is an NBC radio series, a foreign intrigue adventure adapted from the book Cloak and Dagger by Corey Ford [1] and Alistair McBain. [2] Ford also was host of the series. [3] Cloak and Dagger was broadcast from May 7 to October 22, 1950, as part of "a mystery block with several other shows of far inferior quality". [4] The program was sustaining for all 22 episodes. [5]
The cast that included Raymond Edward Johnson, Everett Sloane and Jackson Beck. Robert Warren and Karl Weber were the announcers. [4] Scriptwriter Wyllis Cooper directed the series with research support provided by Percy Hoskins, British journalist, crime reporter and author.[ citation needed] The producers were Alfred Hollander [5] and Louis G. Cowan, with Sherman Marks as director. Jack Gordon and Winifred Wolfe were the writers, and John Gart provided music. [4]
Stories on Cloak and Dagger "came right out of Washington files" of the Office of Strategic Services. [1] A 1950 newspaper article commented, "The stories dramatized each week are true, and yet as fantastic as any fiction writer might be able to dream up." [1] The program was the first network series based on fully authenticated case histories of OSS espionage. [6]