What's up everyone? Take down here. Welcome back to another hockey card video today We're gonna be opening up 21 packs of the 2020 21 SP hockey cards, which I absolutely love the sets you guys already know I'm looking for a complete set of the base a complete set of the rookies and then some of the other numbered rookie cards and rookie jersey cards as well I haven't found too many yet. I think we only got one so hopefully we do find some more today But if you guys watch my last video, I actually opened up a hobby box of this and In that hobby box, you're supposed to be guaranteed one future watch Rookie auto and I didn't get a single one So I did reach out upper deck like I said I was going to do for that video and they did send me a care package Which I just received today, so I'm gonna be showing you guys what I got from upper deck first So here we go we get they sent me four cars, which was actually really cool because they did tell me that it is supposed to be One future watch auto card per hobby box and I didn't receive any so they did send me some current So up first we do have a Johnny Goodrow Spectrum FX Really cool card here from 17 18 They also sent a sign of the times from the 90s for Rob Brindemar, I am not familiar with the pay the player at all. This is from 1819 sp Which was really cool that they'd send that's then we did get a future watch auto numbered out of 999 this is numbered 614 for Alex.  I follow much, but that is really cool that they did send me a future watch auto in lieu of the Not receiving one in the hobby box, but we also have a nether future watch auto card that they did send and This one here is something that I love even more and That is for zanik white cloud for the Vegas Golden Knights That is awesome. The autograph looks Amazing in my opinion. This is numbered 930 out of 999 which is awesome and this is 1819 this one here was 17 18 so 18 19. I was hoping for one that was possibly newer possibly 1920 or 20 21 something like that, but still really cool So they did send me these cards because in the last video I Open up the hobby box of these and I did not receive them So they sent me not one but two future watch autos a sign of the times auto And then a Johnny good row card. So that is really cool That they did that and that is something they do so remember if you guys do not get something in the box that you're supposed to get Shoot them a message and they always make it right, but now let's get on with this video So we're gonna open up these cards here And we have 21 packs today So we're gonna skip through the base. So we have Carter base SP authentic Liam of foodie. Oh first pack in We did get a Payton Krebs SP authentic jersey patch, which is awesome I love Vegas as you guys seen because I got a Card there and we did get to base which I'll put off to the side here first pack in I only know how I couldn't even even have planned that any better to receive a Jersey card because that's something I'm looking for is a lot more of those last year I had a lot more luck with the 1920 cents, but hopefully we are having our luck change Base we have our blue base. We have kale macker authentic profiles. That's really cool We'll put that in a separate one and then two more base We do have a base a Jenny Hacken Pa, I always butcher names with another rookie Keith Yandle blue base, which seems a little thicker than the other ones and then two more base We have a base base Nick Suzuki authentic profiles. That's awesome young Compton. Oh, we do have a SP rookies numbered card This is numbered Bro and Bram numbered 1606 out of 2299 which is awesome So we did get a numbered card as well Another base And finish the stack first I think My piece here base base Patrick Kane authentic profiles really cool blue base and copetire I might even have a complete set of this eventually the blue base base base Pierre Oliver Joseph Rookie I don't have that one yet blue base of hurdle and then a regular base of hurdle base blue base another SP rookie Hemp to me. I was bush of the rookies. I don't know why base Nicholas Bowden rookie Blue base and then two more regular base I find I get a lot more stuff out of this that is really cool than I did out of the hobby box So that's really cool base base We do have a kale macker numbered authentic profiles numbered 159 out of 1299. So that's really cool that there's numbered versions of the authentic profiles which I didn't realize We have a Josh Jason Robertson rookie and then another base Do you have base? Blue base base base and a tiny Smith rookie. I love the blue rookies. They look really cool. I Like the gold and the silver too because they're numbered and autographed, but still Really cool base base. Oh Capricot I Didn't realize I forgot to what year he was a rookie. So I have his rookie now. Hopefully I can get a good one I'd love to get a rookie jersey patch of his that'd be nice Base Blue base And we have a double our first double and it was in the same video of kale macker authentic profiles base and base I Do have some of the rookies doubled? But not in the same video. So two of those in the same video is really really cool One two, there's one behind it got stuck for Peyton Krebs numbered authentic rookies 205 out of 1299 That is awesome because we have his numbered card We have his jersey patch and I already got his rookie card in another video and then we have a nether rookie here And then another base base base blue base Shane Bowers rookie base Coming near the end 21 packs in this video. That's why I try to shoot through a little bit faster even with the base cards base Blue base that way you guys have more content. I'm not gonna try to pronounce his last name I'm gonna butcher it. Something tells me I already got his jersey card his rookie jersey card though base and base Oh, we have avalanche here. I'm gonna make a second stack of base right here So we have base blue base Alexander Romanov base two more regular base. Sorry. I meant rookie. I said base, but Met rookie. This one's a little thicker. Hopefully we have a jersey in here base Rookie ooh, we have a bit Vitek Vanak numbered rookie card 138 out of 2299. That's awesome two more base base base Ooh Alex Lafraine. I already uh Have his rookie so that is a double next to Zuki Yeah, and then regular base three more packs base blue base Shane Bowers our first double of the rookies in this video. So I already have his one in this video base and base Getting more rookies than I did the hobby box, which is awesome more numbered rookies, which is awesome More better cards than I did in the hobby box to be honest with you base blue base Josh Norris sp. Rookie I already have that one base base and I'll likely put together mystery boxes on my eBay For any doubles in that even when it comes to the base, I'm gonna have a lot of doubles I know that and we're opening up the last pack here base base Ian Mitchell rookie Blue rookie a blue base. Sorry, and then a regular base And another avalanche off camera at least So that's a huge stack of base. I am going for hopefully a complete set of base we did get a lot of the Blue base as well. So I have to check to see which ones I'm missing of the vans We did get some numbered rookie cards as well We got three of them You did get a rookie patch as well and a lot of other great cards including a ton of rookie cards as well So hopefully I will look and see how many more we need for a complete rookie sets But I actually enjoyed these more than I did the hobby box So comment down below if you guys want to see more of these videos or if you guys want me to get another hobby box Which is four hundred and ten dollars compared to a cheaper price at Walmart for the individual pack So hope you guys enjoyed. I'll see you guys in the next hockey card video. Peace


Catch up and get ahead with the edge for the week of April 18th. On April 30th, the members of COPS Metro Alliance are celebrating more than 40 years of organizing for change in San Antonio. The group's transformed politics and continued to hold elected leaders accountable. COPS Metro Alliance says it brought $1 billion to the south and west side neighborhoods for drainage systems, street improvements, public libraries, health clinics, housing for seniors and public parks. The result of all of your work, of all of your efforts, of your tireless organizing and the fact that nobody was afraid, we said we're not going to be afraid, we're going to organize and we're going to take care of ourselves and take care of our family and it is because of your work that I am able to be before you today that Latinos can represent communities like this one, that we can have beautiful libraries like this one. Downcast SA has a living history map so you can tour the rich history of change brought about by COPS Metro. You can browse the interactive map for dozens of videos, oral histories, photos and documents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports a total of 358 confirmed travel-associated Zika virus cases in the U.S. while San Antonio Metropolitan Health District reports four confirmed Zika cases in Bear County. The virus can be spread through sexual contact but its primary source is from mosquito bites. Zika is expected to spread to U.S. mosquitoes as early as this summer and mosquito abatement is the only way to effectively prevent the spread of the untreatable virus known to cause birth defects in babies. It is also suspected of causing Gilean Bar Syndrome, a rare condition in which a person's immune system attacks their peripheral nerves. Jen Jarbo Russell's book, Trained to Crystal City, was just named the best non-fiction book of the year by the Texas Institute of Letters. The San Antonio writer told the story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp at the southern tip of Texas during World War II. There are thousands of families. Many U.S. citizens were incarcerated from 1942 to 1948. During a recent panel discussion and author reading at the San Antonio Public Library, Jen Jarbo Russell talked about the plight of others in America and why the issues explored in her book are so relevant today. Very tricky how we treat people in times of war. Now we're seeing this in San Antonio as well with all these immigration issues and with the Muslims, you know, of being scapegoated. And I think a lot of the problem is exactly what she said, is that we have these old rules of, especially the enemy alien act of 1798, I knew she'd get it right. I didn't know if it was 88 or 98. Right, until we get rid of that, we're not going to make much progress, you see. And there's no political power for it because it's so much easier for a politician to demonize another than to take responsibility for their own job. Get ready to be a hero and help your favorite nonprofit during the Big Give Essay on Tuesday, May 3rd. This year, 1,054 nonprofits are participating in the 24-hour day of local giving that connects donors to the causes that matter to them most. And yes, Nowcast Essay, a 501C3 nonprofit, is a Big Give Essay participant for the third year. Community one gift at a time during our 24-hour giving day. We need your help to raise $6 million for the nonprofits in our area. Give online at thebiggivesay.org. For more on all of these stories, go to Nowcastessay.com. And as always, thanks for watching The Edge.


Gareth ydylai i'r ddiffieithio o Beithio South Wales yn ei ddechrau? Yn i, mae'n ddefnyddio i ddefnyddio. Rwy'n rhywbeth~) i ddiddordeb yn ddigwadau, sy'n rhaid i'r wlad i'r cyffredin iawn. Mae'r ddifr görün i weld i'r par, yn fwynd i'r ystauffol, lle y gallwn yn dengystiad. Mae'r ddifyn nhw'n byw – rwy'n hwnna'r wasion a bod y'n ddigwadau yn cael rhai llwy, oherwydd allu'r llwy'r drwyfyn, a'r oes ei ddweud i'r cwrddwch yn dwylo arniadau oherwydd y gallwn yn dweud i'r brif, a'r oes ei ddweud i'r brif.  Mae'n edrych, mae'n edrych, mae'n edrych, mae'n edrych hwyl i'w teithio, mae'n edrych yn cyffredinol i'w'r oedol gwaith o'r cyd-elynnog. Mae'n edrych yn gael yn dweud o'r cyflwyno'n ddechrau twfynol, mae wedi symud yn gallu ei wneud gofyn hynny, yn y diwrnod oesgol y ddigon yng nghylchau yn ffordd mewn ei bod yn fan hynny. Mae'r ffordd yn dod am gyntaf i'r sydd yn iadd yn ddoch chi i'r cael ei gallu wedi'n rhanig, I can't really comment too much, but in my mind I think the referees had made a couple of bad mistakes there, but you roll with the punches you have to move on and we'll take it to Saturday and try to pick up the three points there. I speak about the positives coming forward. We looked clinical in areas where we scored the goal and had a few decent chances throughout. Is that the kind of thing we take forward that we might have been below firing areas, but we still managed to create chances of score goals? I think that's like I say the standards that we've set since Mark and Connor have come in. We've set them really high, like I say from those standards that we've set we've probably fell a little bit below those tonight. But that's not to say that there's still positives, there's still plenty of positives. I thought we looked good on the counter attack, pass or two in the final third maybe and it could have been two or three and we would have been out of sight. So we'll take the positives out of the game, there's plenty to take and we'll take them forward into the rest of the season. Your 100th appearance for the club, on a personal note, I understand it's a difficult game to have reached that milestone in but I suppose a proud moment nonetheless. Yeah, I didn't know until you just told me actually, so yeah that's a nice accolade. I'm proud to make 100th appearance for a fantastic club like Bradford and hopefully there's many more to come. Obviously coming back into the side as well after injury, it's been a bit of a stop-start season for you, I guess you could say in that sense of course now you're looking forward, you want to be a part of this team and it's about looking forward and hopefully being on the pitch more. Yeah, the season's definitely been stop-start for me, it's been frustrating having to deal with the injury but I feel like I'm in a good position. It was probably more of a fatigue thing more than anything that happened a week, ten days ago so it was good that I was able to come back so quick and I feel like I could play a big part on the running and contribute so I hope they're going to be successful into the season. I suppose throwing that forward all eyes now on Calhau that the weekend are bouncing back from this defeat? Yeah, take the positives out tonight like I've just said, probably improve a little bit of possession, talk through all that sort of thing between now and Saturday and really take the game to Calhau and confident of going there and winning.


The protest years is the second in a three volume series on the history of Asia. Volume one, which is Professor David Horner's volume, covers the period from Asia's inception in 1949, its creation then through to 1963. It covers a whole range of very significant events in Australian history. It covers the whole Venona experience, the issue of the nest of spies that led to the very creation of Asia. It talked about its successes and its controversies. The successes being the defection of Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov and also the expulsion of Ivan Skripov. And also the controversies, the Royal Commission on Espionage and the accusations of political interference and the fallout, the domestic political fallout with the split of the ALP that followed afterwards. So David's volume was controversial, but most of the people involved in it aren't around. So the level of controversy is perhaps a little more muted than that around volume two. But before I get to volume two, I just want to talk briefly about what's going to be in volume three. This is the period that covers from 1975 from the point that Malcolm Fraser becomes Prime Minister through to 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall which effectively marks the end of the Cold War. This will cover the Fraser Hawk years, the reforms initiated from the Hope-Raw Commission, the Kumi-Varnoff period, the Hilton Hotel bombing and so on. So I'm very excited about that and looking forward to that coming out in due course hopefully in October this year. And that's going to be called The Secret Called Cold War. Volume two covers an extraordinary period in Australian history from 1963 to 1975 from the Vietnam War through to the end of the Whitlam Government. And it is a great honour for me to have been chosen. Now the way it worked out is that Professor Horner won a contract an open tender contract with ASIO for ANU to publish a multi-volume history of ASIO. And he won that fair and square and part of the deal was that he would hire an additional historian to help him write the second volume and as it turned out subsequent volumes. I was hired along with Dr. Reese Crawley who initially started as the research assistant but who's gone on to help write volume three and he and I co-author volume three so watch this space for Reese's contribution. Because of the contentious nature of ASIO's role in Australia society as part of the arrangement a advisory committee was established with representation from the Liberal Party and the Labour Party and that was with Jim Carlton and Jeff Gallup as well as the Director General and of course the Deputy Director General of ASIO Kerry Hartland. This bipartisan committee was established because it was important to have both sides of politics if you like have some say and have some insight and oversight over what we were doing. But what they did was not so much interfere as help make sure that we weren't interfering and that was very important and in arranging the contract David Horner made sure that the process was at arms length so we were to write it off campus, off ASIO's premises and so we did that at ANU. We did that with full and unfettered access and that is to the credit of ASIO that they actually recognized it was a courageous move to actually in the yes minister sense to actually really be prepared to let's David and I and Reese read the files and write what we thought we should write about what was happening from ASIO's perspective during this period. Now having done that we were then required to give the manuscript to ASIO for them to review it and to consider any issues of libel, of legal implications or ongoing operational concerns bearing in mind that ASIO has a very significant responsibility and a contractual obligation to protect the identity of those people who have agreed to work for ASIO doing sensitive work and of course I was obliged and David was too to comply with that requirement, a reasonable one. But of course in writing about this there's a creative tension that we've had to grapple with this issue of being considered by the left as an apologia for ASIO and from the right as some kind of soft on communism excuse for what transpired and of course not surprisingly I have been accused of both. Along the way but the book itself it's really been a terrific process and thinking about how we were going to structure it. Part one covers the last of the Menzies years and the last years of the liberal government it covers the Vietnam War protests years and we'll talk about that in some detail about counter espionage, counter subversion and protective security and the three main sort of pillars of ASIO during this period the main rationale if you like for looking for spies and trying to counter their efforts looking for those who would try and undermine the state, the subversives and looking to protect peoples and institutions and documents counter espionage, counter subversion, protective security and then of course looking at techniques how ASIO went about its business and there's some very interesting aspects of that and of course a big part of this is looking at the Soviets and the Soviet bloc that was a lot of time spent doing that and also in addition to that some migrant groups and we'll talk about that in a moment. In part two we look at some issues concerning international engagement and the work that ASIO is undertaking in Papua New Guinea and Reese Crawley wrote that particular chapter and of course part three arguably the most exciting part of it is ASIO and the Whitlam years where we look at this very turbulent period where there are many changes in the way ASIO is required to operate in terms of counter espionage, counter subversion and protective security. There is the Murphy raid and I'll talk about that in some detail the fallout from that and then of course ASIO's involvement in the last days of the Whitlam government and what on earth was going on there and of course there are conspiracy theories are plenty and I address some of them the man who perhaps along with Sir Charles Spry shaped the organization the most was perhaps Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies who had a close and trusting working relationship with the Director-General of ASIO for much of the organization's history for most of the period in the first volume and for a large chunk of the second volume Sir Charles Spry who was the Director-General from 1950 to 1966. Chifley, Prime Minister and Chifley had founded the organization in 1949 but it was only Prime Minister for a short period until 1950 and then Menzies and Spry were the real shapers of ASIO and they were the ones who clearly articulated this three prong strategy if you like of counter espionage particularly on the Soviet block counter subversion against the Communist Party and its offshoots and protective security the tasks of vetting and worried about facilities and document protection. Interestingly enough while Menzies was a central figure Arthur Caldwell the ALP leader from 1960 to 1967 was also in on things. He denied having a close association with Spry but the two men met on numerous occasions about Communist Party of Australia penetration of the Australian Labour Party and about Croatian matters amongst other things. So he didn't want to really play that up in a public way but he appreciated the role that ASIO had to play in advising him and in advising government. Peter Barber who took over Charles Spry was like Spry was a World War II vet but he was a younger and more bookish man who took over from Charles Spry in January 1970 when Spry finally retired. Barber saw the need for reform and instituted an internal reorganization but it really faulted and the limited reform measures that he tried to implement pointed to the need for a wider ranging review and that would come in due course. The US President Lyndon Johnson visited Australia in 1966 his visit coming shortly after the introduction of National Service and the deployment of combat troops to Vietnam. This presented ASIO with significant operational challenges monitoring protest groups and reporting masses of data which quickly strained the organization and gave it an enormous amount of publicity as well. The period from 1963 to 1972 saw ASIO reporting to a range of attorneys general firstly Billy Stedden who later became opposition leader and Liberal Party leader Tom Hughes the father-in-law of current Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Hughes later recalled that the affairs of ASIO formed a very minimal part of his workload very interesting observation given how contentious it was and how important it was for oversight to be effective. Nigel Bowen who like Prime Minister Holt recognized the need for ASIO and he was in office there for a couple of periods in 1966 and then in 1971. Ivor Greenwood who was Attorney General twice and was reluctant to see ASIO resources focused extensively on conservative voting croats and we'll talk a bit about that in a second as well. Sir Charles Spry who was the Director General until 1970 he confronted Menzi's successor by two Prime Minister Gorton over allegations concerning his association with Ms. Willise pictured here and relations between Spry and Gorton never recovered from this confrontation and it actually spoke to a problem that ASIO experienced in terms of the relationship between the Director General and the Prime Minister that was to a certain extent you could consider it cozy between Spry and Menzi's but subsequently things weren't nearly as rosy. We mentioned counter espionage and this was the main purpose of ASIO since its foundation and Ivan Skripov the Soviet Embassy official who was expelled as a Soviet spy in February 1963 is a subject of Volume 1 but he features in Volume 2 because many wondered whether poor ASIO tradecraft had tipped off his illegal contact who was supposed to have been met in Adelaide and the passport photo that was uncovered of Mr. X known subsequently identified as this man Andrew Hoover ASIO officers speculated about whether this was intended for use by a Soviet illegal in Australia and why was it so hard to figure that out? This was an enduring problem so fears of penetration were a big issue at that time but they were dampened down by the word of this man Anatoly Mikhailovich Golitsyn a Soviet intelligence officer who defected to the West in 1961 and visited Australia in 1967 he said that ASIO was not penetrated but there were those who simply refused to believe him how could this be true? As it turned out this man was a favourite of the CIA's deputy director James Jesus Angleton and his role was instrumental in the creation of an organisation called CASAP which was a counter espionage focused grouping of the Canadians, Australians, Zeelanders Americans and Brits in the counter espionage domain CASAP features in the book Of course people they were interested in following were people like Dick Ellis who was an Australian born MI6 officer and in March 1971 information arose pointing to Ellis having been both a Russian and a German agent in the interwar period extraordinary this generated concerns about possible penetration of ASIO in Australia and other organisations The Russian Embassy pictured here as well on the right across from the Kingston Hotel near the Marnica shops pictured here in 1964 was a focal point for ASIO's surveillance work over decades Soviet espionage was one of ASIO's top priorities monitoring them in and around the Embassy absorbed much of ASIO's attention the operational base establishment, the OBE monitored clandestine meetings like this one between Soviet consul Vladimir Alexev, a KGB man and an unidentified man in an overcoat the photos are taken at Black Mountain Peninsula in 1970 I love these photos, they're great, the old Canberra no trees, nowhere to hide, what do you do? how do you conduct counter espionage and counter espionage in this kind of, you know, treeless environment your parker bought Falcon by the lake geez, how obvious is that? what are you doing by the lake? two blokes sitting in a car the problem was also that the cars weren't changed over very frequently and a good Soviet officer working out of the Soviet Embassy here in Canberra became quite familiar with the cars and the looks and often on occasion at least would turn and wave and take a photo of the tailing ASIO car made it very difficult for the ASIO officers but I guess that was part of the picture too the sense of that you were disrupting ASIO by making yourself even the KGB really couldn't get away with it they knew that they were being monitored and therefore they had to rely on others such as the Soviet block counterparts the people from the Czechoslovakian Embassy and eventually the East German Embassy and others such as that and there were people like Ivan Stenin on the right there who's meeting with Geronty Lazovic Stenin was the second secretary for press and information at the Soviet Embassy and ASIO looked at these guys really pretty close they took a lot of photos of them and here we have former ALP leader Arthur Corwell in November 1969 he's having a chat there with Stenin and on the right there ASIO took this photo of the Communist Party of Australia member Wilton J. Brown he's in a car with Lazovic in Sydney in 1972 and this was shortly after Brown was involved in establishing the SPA the Socialist Party of Australia as a breakaway from the CPA so there's a bit of an interesting moment there in this tiny little Toyota having this meeting where everybody if you're in the know can see who's there I mentioned the Soviet block countries Karel Frank who's the Consul General for Czechoslovakia the scene here on the left with Billys Nedin in 1969 well after the Soviet suppression in 1968 Frank opted to stay in Australia you can't really blame him he stayed with his family Frank indicated in his debriefs that there were 25 inactive Soviet intelligence officials in positions in Australia in case of war let's put the window now Frank, unlike with the Petrov defection in the mid 1950s Frank was encouraged to apply for permanent residence rather than political asylum and this is because Asia is really trying to depoliticise the process we know that there was quite a toxic fall out from the way the Petrov defection worked out politically for Asia and they were trying to avoid that recurring but there were other controversies and other controversial figures such as Australian born journalist Wilfred Graham Bircher who spent much of his career overseas he has shown him with some Viet Cong people in Vietnam in 1967 but Asia kept files on him extensively Birchit wanted a passport to visit Australia and this was eventually issued by the Whitman Government but eventually documentary proof would emerge that Birchit was on the Soviet payroll now looking at some collection methods I love these this is really terrific and there's a number of collection methods that Asia would use humans primarily and technical as well and of course when we talk about humans we're talking about officers, Asia officers and their agents and sources they go out and enlist to help them in collecting information and of course technical you've got this wonderful photographic example and there's voice recordings I'll show you in a moment but this surveillance camera was built inside two absolutely named books Christ and Communism and The Nature of Capitalism Fanta I mean somebody had a sense of humour and they did that and the books were cut out to fit the camera in as you see on the right hand side there and there's the little click below press the button below and take the photo it's brilliant, just love it and then there was radios, we used to hide cameras as well here's a Fijika camera it's built into a national Panasonic radio, similar idea that you just carry this radio around and point it around and click it's, you know, makes you smile it eats your heart out and then of course there's movie cameras too and these are sometimes used as well and here this is one hidden inside a panel van, everybody loves a panel van I used to anyway the van was used to conduct surveillance on a range of activists associated with the communist party of Australia, so this you see it pointing through the front window and here's the back which I could point through the back there's a hole at the back there but this is kind of the camouflage if you like, to hide the real purpose of the van and one of their favourite targets was Lawrence Sharky Lance Sharky, here he is taken when he was the former general secretary of the communist party of Australia photographed in February 1966 in the front of CPA headquarters where Asia conducted regular and extensive surveillance so if you ever walk past this spot chances are there's a photo of you on an Asia file another one was his successor, Laurie Lawrence Evans who took over from Lance Sharky as CPA general secretary in 1965, Mark Arons wrote a fascinating family file which I've cited demonstrating the incredible number of files on this man and on the family that Asia kept over the years then there were other interesting figures like Senator Jim McClellan who often featured he was close to Lionel Murphy and he was a really harsh critic of Asia claiming it was riddled with right-wing extremists who act like keystone cops they're so paranoid they see communists behind every bush he wasn't far wrong and then of course Arthur Geetzel he was a prominent member of the Australian Labour Party he was also suspected of being a member of the communist party of Australia and he was closely associated with its leader, Laurie Arons Aron and Geetzel met in secret in March 1973 shortly after the Whitman Government was taken office at the motor in in Wollongong and Asia conducted extensive surveillance of the meeting of course this would eventually blow back on Asia politician when Labour is in office Tom Uren another interesting figure seen here participating in a protest march in front of Gowing's menswear store in downtown Sydney in the early 1960s Uren was reported by an Asia agent as a CPA member he was seen to be in touch with the Czech Consul General Carol Frank as it turned out in Sydney in 1962 while Frank was still doing the good work of the Soviets another interesting figure who features in the book a little bit is Bob Santamaria a strong-minded Catholic lawyer who I don't need to introduce to people here who headed the National Civic Council a fiercely anti-communist organisation seen by Asia as closely linked to the DLP Asia was wary of information provided and of the NCC's interest in information from Asia and there are those who are quite unhappy with what I said about him a picture just here because really I rely, and this is one of the points about this book, I rely on the Asia records I'm not relying on others it is looking at the world through the Asia prism and I may be accused of not having captured the full picture that's not for the point of this book this book is telling the story the way Asia saw it and that's what I sought to do in this instance and of course the way Asia saw the world was largely about the Communist Party the Communists, the Soviets and their protégés in Australia who were funded by the Soviets through to the late 1960s the Communist Party of Australia in 1969 and by this stage the Soviet funding has really dried up the Soviets are no longer seeing the CPA as reliable and are looking around for alternatives so Asia was actively involved in monitoring the CPA activities with agents participating surveillance teams photographing and identifying key identities using the equipment I touched on before the CPA was instrumental anti-Vietnam war protest activity particularly early on but by the late 1960s the protests were much more than just events run by the CPA and it took a while for that to sink in a range of other protest groups were monitored including this sweet group of ladies here on the left save our sons who were labelled I couldn't quite work out if the label was facetious or not but there's a a cell of dangerous subversives and of course there was a degree of concern about save our sons and what effect they were having in terms of the anti-Vietnam war protest movement but it goes to the issue of how much how much credence you give how much weight you give to some of the reporting Asia officers are getting in from the field from their sources and agents and how reliable is it how do you step back and digest this and put this into context in a society that is actually transformed as the baby boomer generation is coming to age and people are contesting established truths the other picture is of a Hiroshima Vietnam protest march in Newcastle in August 1968 Asia routinely monitored such protests photographing participants and confirming details through corroboration from agents and contacts and the files have plenty of information to that effect now the Vietnam war moratorium demonstrations in Melbourne in 1970 this was one of the biggest ever while the CPA was involved the communist party of Australia was involved it became increasingly difficult to explain away the scale of the protests in terms of agitation by members of the CPA or even of its linter groups there's just too many people here to explain it away that way now this one is of Vietnam war moratorium demonstration in Canberra so even here in Canberra we're getting large numbers of people turning up but the momentum from the demonstrations helped convince the McMahon government to withdraw the combat troops from Vietnam at the end of 1971 and that really does take the wind out of the sails of the protest movement at that stage in the meantime Asia had actually seconded officers working in Vietnam itself and this is the little known story here's a picture of Don Prouse on the left who was seconded as a member of the special police advisory group in Saigon he had a hair-raising tail to tell which is captured in this part of the book on the international engagement chapter here he is shown being awarded a Vietnamese medal for developing courses for the government of South Vietnam similarly Mike Leslie pictured here was honored with US and Vietnamese medals for his work particularly for assisting the Vietnamese police with a number of projects Leslie was not given any Australian government award for his work now one of the other things that we found in terms of the perceived counter-subversion task was this issue of monitoring Croatians Shreco Rova pictured here in this snapshot of a TV interview on Channel 9 in 1972 he was a leading Croatian troublemaker he appeared on TV in this interview defending the Croatians and attacking Yugoslav authorities but this man had a clouded history and Mark Aaron talks about it in his book Asia was never quite sure who Rova worked for but his story would occupy Asia Mines for years and it goes to the nature of the problem that they were facing how do you substantiate the evidence, how do you prove how do you categorically get to the number of the issue, very difficult to do and of course here we see a picture of a Croatian protest in 1971 this shows Croatian demonstrators at the Yugoslav consulate in Sydney in December 1961 Croatian migrants resented the Serb dominated Yugoslav government and they saw what they were doing in Australia through their diplomatic representation as manipulative and deceitful indeed the Yugoslav authorities appeared to have been implicated in numerous incidents of violent incidents in Australia and once again with very carefully covering their trails to make it hard to prove categorically that it was them who were involved but often enough it was the Croatian extremists themselves and their actions that were most obvious here you have a photo of Tomaslav Lesic his legs were blown off when a bomb he was carrying in a bag accidentally detonated prematurely before he got to his intended designated target now as incidents mounted cooperation, trust and mutual understanding between the commonwealth police force what we now know as the Australian Federal Police and ASIO tended to falter this set the groundwork of mistrust that informed Lionel Murphy in the lead up to the raid of ASIO in March 1973 we'll get to that in a minute so that was part one really there's a lot there an enormous amount to cover in a short amount of time and space we talked about liaison a little bit with the Kazab with the other countries and the number of them I mentioned in the book and of course particularly Australia's Cold War frontline written by Riz Crawley on Papua New Guinea chapter on the life of New Guineans as we're involved in helping launch New Guinea and provide them with professional advice to establish their own security intelligence space an important legacy of the Whitlam years was the granting of course of independence to Papua New Guinea in 1975 and ASIO had responsibilities there in terms of particularly protective security and preparing a counterpart organisation to be raised for when independence is granted and that story is a very interesting one as well but perhaps the most interesting one is part three the Whitlam government from December 1972 to November 1975 in this period we have three attorneys general and they're all pictured here on the left Gough Whitlam who as part of the duombrate with Lance Barnard for the first two weeks essentially is the attorney general makes a lot of the calls he then hands over to Lionel Murphy once they are appointed by the Governor General in late 19th of December and then eventually kept end of be pictured there on the right and we'll talk a bit more about these folk in a moment now early on Whitlam invited the Yugoslav Prime Minister not sure I'm going to pronounce this correctly but forgive me if I don't get it right Gemel Vagedic on an official visit to Australia in March 1973 now in light of rumours of Croatian extremists plotting to kill him Whitlam and Murphy were concerned that Asia was not sufficiently concerned itself and this was fed by the views of a former police officer who had been working in a slightly adversarial sense with and against Asia if I can put it that way during the earlier years in monitoring Croatian extremist activities and we're figuring out who do you blame do you blame the Yugoslavs or do you blame the Croatians and it was always very opaque, very hard to figure out exactly who to pin things on but on the night of the 15th and 16th of March Lionel Murphy visited Asia's Canberra office on the night of the 15th with the former CPF commonwealth police officer Kerry Milty and he finds some of what he's after there but he suspects there's more being held in the files in Melbourne and Milty feeds this suspicion that Asia is holding something back from him so he goes down on the morning of the 16th of March he telexes early we as the ODAR 100 for the the commonwealth police force to go and close down Asia headquarters and they do that and he goes gives a talk to a mystified audience of Asia offices who are in the auditorium at Asia headquarters he looks through the files he realizes that what was on the filing camera is exactly what's on the file in Melbourne and of course the media has been alerted and this gets to be a tad embarrassing not only is Asia traumatized by this the links internationally people what's going on in Australia and of course the papers have a field day and cartoonists went to town you see there the caption that Gough is supposed to be saying to Margaret worrying about Lionel Murphy coming to visit and several cartoons featured over the next few days and Pickering's cartoon on the right here shows how the Whitlam and Murphy rivalry was accentuated by the raid and it's fallout so there's really no love lost here now during this period Joan Coxage led a group known as the committee for the abolition of political police now this is a misnomer Australia isn't like countries like the US or Canada who have an intelligence service that's linked to the police Australia's security intelligence organization has non-executive during this period very clear a demarcation between the police executive powers and asia's powers so calling it political police was a political stunt really in a sense but cap demonstrators tried to embarrass and expose asia officers photographing and then publicizing the details of these asia officers that had exposed putting glue in the locks of their cars going to the auctions of their houses making a ruckus being larricans but this caused quite a lot of consternation not surprisingly within asia and subsequently the asia act of 1979 prohibited the revealing of the identity of an asia officer so jones remit was curtailed but certainly caused quite a lot of resentment inside asia over how this group could operate with relative impunity although there are some stories of asia officers in the book resentfully tipping buckets of water out through the windows and running it having little scuffles in lifts and things like that that are in the book you'll see now while that's happening the first incident of reported middle eastern terrorism activity in Australia occurred in september 1973 this man Abdul Hamid Abdullah Azam was arrested and deported for links with the black september terrorist organization now in the picture on the right you see azam's case which was fitted with a false bottom it had apparently been used to carry a submachine gun and three grenades and you can barely make out the shape of the bombs and the weapon that were used in that case and this in effect was a bit of a turning point we saw the beginning of asia starting to re-conceptualize what it had been seeing as primarily the counter-subversion role against the communists and we saw the dipping in terms of potency if you like of the communist movement as it fractures and as the prior spring really sucks the life if you like the zeal of good soviet communists because the Prague model was the one that the communist party of Australia was starting to identify with and it seemed to be the future of communism you know if you do that maybe we'll actually get communism in Australia of course the crushing of the crash screen is incredibly demoralizing for the CPA but this happens roughly about the same time as Azam visits and there's a sense of with the Munich terrorist incident at the Olympic Games in 1972 a growing awareness that maybe asia's got some other responsibilities initially it's not something asia particularly wants to get involved in but increasingly the government's expecting it to act in this space at the same time we see a normalization of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China to the arrival of their first diplomatic delegation here kindly photographed by an asia officer on this 2nd of March 1973 the increase and expansion of diplomatic premises of communist and soviet bloc countries presented asia with a significant challenge as its resources were stretched and effectively we're not seeing a budget grow we've got a mindset in asia that's quite frugal and even with barba and particularly with spry this kind of world war 2 we can do this on a shoe box type mindset that works for a crisis but is unsustainable in the long term and leads to people taking shortcuts and not being trained properly and not being prepared for sustained campaigns and of course not surprisingly therefore we find ourselves in the situation with goff witlam appoints robert marston hope as a royal commissioner mid 1974 and he is tasked to conduct the royal commission on intelligence and security now hope's report isn't completed until 1977 and is not surprisingly therefore a significant focus for volume 3 which is coming out later this year hope's work would lay the groundwork for extensive reforms within asia and this will be explored in the future so we had under goff witlam we had keppen to be I mentioned was appointed as attorney general following lionel murphy's appointment to the high court in february 75 now jim cans pictured in the middle here was a leading figure in the anti-vietnam war protest movement during the vietnam war and incidentally a target of asio's focus because cans meets with people who asio is looking at and so cans is all frequently crossing the scopes if you like of asio's officers tasked with monitoring the subversive groups particularly the communist party and he was identified as having contact with communists his appointment as witlam's deputy prime minister in 1974 unsettled asio and international partner senator john wielden pictured on the right there was a friend of jim cans and a frequent contact of ivan stenin this concerned not only sir charles prime the late 60's but also peter barba in the 70's who suspected that wielden was a cpa member I explore that issue a little bit in the book now after peter barba's sudden resignation in september 1975 frank mani who had been a deputy secretary in the attorney general's department is appointed interim director general of asio mani stayed through until the transition he stays until march 1976 now developments in late 1975 saw asio on what i call in the book asio on the brink this is when relations with us intelligence are on ice this is when asio is asked for a list of cia officers operating in australia in october that list sees no mention of richard stallings who has been working on pine gap at working through the defense conduit and in early november on the second the fourth and the sixth of november witlam reacted in private then in parliament and then on tv to this apparent misinformation or apparent deception on the fifth of november the u.s. authority sent a letter denying the u.s. funding any australian organization quite worried about what's going on on the sixth of november the u.s. assistant secretary of state edwards passed the same message to his interlocutors the liaison officers in washington on the eighth of november the east asia division chief in washington american intelligence fellow ted shackley relayed what effectively was termed labeled as a dimash and that was passed to mani in canberra and he quickly makes sure that he gets the message to witlam witlam reads it and dictates a response mani cables a reply on the tenth of november approved by witlam seeking to allay american concerns and then of course the dismissal happens on the eleventh now this is a point of much conjecture many conspiracy theories which now the saratha tang the secretary of the department of defense who has oversight for the pine gap responsibility and therefore the connection with stallings his biographer peter edwards speaks to this and the point that even got witlam mentions in his his writings is that while the conjecture about the renewal about pine gap that was supposed to come up for the tenth of december was a point of contention that apparently was going to be some would argue was that one of the reasons why a coup had to happen so the conspiracy theorists would have us believe witlam himself acknowledged that he had actually agreed for that and didn't see that as a trigger now i talk about the book in the book about the meeting between warren christopher the envoy for jimmy carter in july 1977 who meets with got witlam with richard butler in attendance and richard reads a conspiratorial line into a message that can be read a number of different ways about the message from jimmy carter that don't worry you know the united states is not going to do anything like that again the sense of oh you've done it before that's proof that's happened before and of course jimmy carter and for that matter warren christopher weren't part of the of the administration it's conjecture as to exactly what that meant of course i interviewed malcolm frazer as part of this process and asked him specifically what he made of all this the conspiracy theorists jimmy carter was about to publish a book about the united states alliance dangerous allies was the title a provocative thought provoking challenging book about our relationship with the united states he was an opportunity to put the knife in and twist it and demonstrate that they really were dangerous and his response when asked about the conspiracy theories crap total crap so we have a sense here of the mcknights the twoies who said no one has yet proved the cia played a role in in the dismissal and that's true no one has yet proved it i can't prove one way or the other in fact i don't think anyone ever will but in terms of what the asia record say they lent no additional support to the conspiracy theorists interpretations and but like all good conspiracy theories this one likely will never die so ladies and gentlemen i have given you a tour of the book i hope if you have not yet read it that you enjoy it and that you get engaged with it and that you come back from all with volume 3 but and let me say i don't get any royalties from this this is the royalties for me this is the fact that an you got the contract i've employed by an you and the asia owns the copyright but as i reflect on on what was happening there's a number of dimensions to this this period of political change the transition from the liberal country party to the labour party social change the baby boomer phenomenon that is challenging the boundaries making asia having to rethink that was a cozy pretty straightforward arrangement from the earlier cold war years to one that's much more contested one that's much more opaque there's the demographic change with more and more migrants coming changing the dynamics of security concern demonstrated by the visit of azam and of the Croatians there is the economic changes with the downturn in the mid 1970s internationally it's a period of detente mixed with ongoing cold war rivalry that's pretty palpable in Canberra right through this period as the number of identified soviet and soviet block intelligence officers mushroom in the mid to late 1970s and administratively it's a significant period because most of the public service which in the 1940s and 50s has been in Melbourne has transitioned to Canberra asia is still in Melbourne and this presents a significant obstacle for asia's integration into government to being appreciated an integral part of the government machinery and it's one that gets addressed in bulletin 3


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When the Indian joined his masked friend, he had several newspapers as well as provisions. After a light sufferer, the Lone Ranger read the papers. As he turned the pages of the Greenville Buble, the name of an old friend caught his eye.  That's very bad. Him Sheriff of Greenville, long time. Let me see, yes, 15 years next month. I heard a lot about him before we met him. Nearly five years ago, we helped him round up crooks who break out of prison near Greenville. Yes, there's been a little crime in Greenville since then. When Bill Butcham runs Sheriff's office, it's good town for crooks to stay away from. He and his brother Tom have done a lot to make it prosperous. You do not remember Tom, Butcham? He organized the Greenville Bank. We'll stay here tonight, Tom, with the rest of the horses. In the morning, we'll start for Greenville. Greenville. Two days' travel from here. By the time we arrive, I hope Bill Butcham's completely recovered. The Lone Ranger's hope for the Sheriff's recovery was not to be realized. Bill Butcham had contracted a severe case of pneumonia, and in spite of the local doctor's best efforts to save him, he died that day. Hours after his death, Bach leaders, the owner of the King of Spades Cafe, held a conference in his office. Expert gunslingers and drifting cowhands named Mohawk, Elk, Tobi and Yuma helped themselves to the box of fine cigars the tall lantern-jawed cafe owner offered them. As he held a match to a fragrant Havana, Mohawk eyed Bach leaders shrewdly. What's the idea, Bill? You've never been so open-handed with drinks and cigars before. I haven't had anything to celebrate for the last 15 years. What are you celebrating now? Sheriff Whitcomb's death. Sheriff's death? A lot of folks in town are downright sorry he's dead. I'm not one of them. This town was wide open before he took over the Sheriff's office. That's right. A fellow could get away with anything. Short of murder. Things are sure quieted down, man. Thanks to Whitcomb. No thanks to him for my money. With Whitcomb's death, there's no law in Greenville anyway. There will be. Inside of 24 hours. How do you figure that? Whitcomb's chief deputy quit a month ago to go back east. I sure have got sick before he had a chance to hire anybody else. I'm Whitcomb and the rest of the leading citizens in town are planning to hold a special election this afternoon to elect a new sheriff. I thought Whitcomb might take over the job. Maybe he'll be elected. No, he doesn't want it. He's got enough to do running the bank. Who do you think will get the election? I don't know and I don't care. But there's one thing sure. What's that? Whoever wins the election will have a lot to learn about the job. You'll find out. I think it'll take him at least a month to learn the role. Meanwhile, I have a few plans that won't make the job any easier for him. Throw in with me and we'll all get rich quick. Oh, we'll start by robbing the bank. Then we'll rob the rest of the places in town with cash enough to make it worthwhile. That's your scheme. It's a good one, too. By striking fast, we'll be able to get away with a fortune for the new sheriff knows what's happened. Maybe so. Maybe nothing, it's a sure thing. You're not willing to go along with me, say so. We'll never have another chance as good as this one. That's right. I'll go along with you, but... I figured I could count on you, Mohawk. What about you three? Been a long time since I've had any easy money. If there's no risk, count me in. Yeah, me too. You with us, Yuma? Yeah. Good. And we're all set. As soon as we go into action, the night after the election, we'll wait until the pound's quieted down. Then, head for the bank. By eleven o'clock that night, the election was over and the ballots counted. Pete Quinn, the editor of the Greenville Jubile, was elected sheriff. He was promptly sworn in and buffed leaders was one of the first to congratulate him. You make a first-rate sheriff, Pete. Thanks, buff. I'll do my best anyway. Leaving the sheriff's office, Pete Quinn went directly to the comfortable house Tom Whitcomb had shared with his brother Bill. Tom, I don't know why I was elected, but you're handy with a gun, you're young, healthy, and smart. If I can run the sheriff's office half as well as Bill did, I'd be mighty glad you're taking over. Big John, have a lot to learn. He had everyone in town who'd do everything possible to help you. I'll need plenty of help. Now, I'll run along. I'll see you tomorrow. Good night, Tom. Good night, Pete. At three o'clock that night, the streets were deserted. The leaders opened the back door of his darkened cafe. Mohawk, Elk, Toby, and Yuma followed them to a rear window in the bank. We're out along an iron bar so we'll have no trouble forcing the lock to the other keys. Are you sure you'll be able to open this safe? Well, I'm a little out of practice if I don't have to work too fast, I'll manage. Here we are. Down. It takes care of the lock. Now the window. Yuma, you stand guard out here just to make sure no one takes us by surprise. All right. The rest of us will go inside. Come on. After taking all the currency and gold in the safe, Bob and his friends left the bank. They hurried to a nearby Cottonwood Grove, where the far-sighted cafe owner had horses waiting for them. Another half-hour it'll be daylight. He took long enough to open the safe. Oh, what are you complaining about? I got it open, didn't I? Take a saddle, boy. Head for eyeglass trick in the hills. We'll hide our tracks in the creek, then head back to town one at a time. Come on.  Late the following night, the lone ranger and Tahoe reached Greenville. They didn't know that their friend Sheriff Bill Whitcomb had been buried that afternoon. And they knew nothing of the robbery that had occurred the night before. Whiting slowly through the dark streets, the masked man kept his steps in low over his eyes to conceal his mask. As they near the Whitcomb house, they passed several townsmen who eyed them suspiciously. We not think we meet so many fellas. Neither did I, Tahoe, help none of them notice my mask. A shadow from hat-brim hide mask. But fellas looked pretty suspicious. Then keep hands close to guns. Well, here's the Whitcomb house. Who's got it? It's me. Wait here with horses, King of Sunbeam. All right, Tahoe. I'll lock up the kitchen door. Yes, sir. That is strangers. I want to talk to you, too. You have gun and hand. He's covering us. Yes, keep your hands away from your holsters while I... Great Caesar's ghost. Your mask. Hit and cover, Pete. Don't let him get away. Why go to those two right in the town? All right, stand back, boys. I've got the dropper, huh? What's the idea of holding guns on us? Why not do wrong till the moonlight struck your face? I thought you might be two strangers. But that man... You're wearing a sheriff's badge. That's right. I'm the law in this town. What about Sheriff Whitcomb? We buried him this afternoon. Still Whitcomb is dead? Don't act dumb, mister. You and your pal knew he was dead. That's why you figured you could get away with that bank robbery last night. And the express office robbery early this evening. Sheriff Whitcomb was a fraud. I'm sorry to learn of his death. Stop at time, Pete. We'll help you disarm them. Come on, boys. Close in on the Masked Man of Red Skin. We'll show them we still got law and orders this time. Come on out. Keep back, boys. I'll handle it. We'll take over. We'll hang the scum. No! We'll continue our lone ranger adventure in just a moment. Now, there's something new and amazing right on the Cheerios package. A picture that actually moves. Look for the magic wiggle picture free on specially marked Cheerios packages. 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Tom Whitcomb stood in the opening holding a shotgun. They go without mask man. Tom, give me your hand. This crowd glints crazy.  You heard Tom. I'm back in his place. I was saddened with a mask cook. We thought you were an honest chair. He is honest and so is the last man. He's the lone ranger. What? Is Indian friend his name? Clado, lone ranger. That's right. Well, I'll be just... You can't hear that. And you jughead would have lynched him. Now come out of here. Go back to your home. All right. Come on, boys. Now that the crowd's dispersing, come inside, mister. I have a lot to tell you. Very well, Tom. You come in too, Pete. Thanks. Now me stay out here. Watch the cops. Thanks, Clado. I didn't know about Bill when I came here, Tom. Clado, I hoped to see him. He was sick just about a week when he died. I'm sorry. Everyone in town feels that way, mister. We miss him. When we were outside, you said something about a robbery, Sheriff. Yeah. Crooks robbed the bank last night. He got away with $2,000 worth of gold. And $30,000 in cash. Tonight, two fellas broke into the Wells Fargo office. They got $5,000. I thought you were still out with the Posse looking for him, Pete. Well, I got back to town 20 minutes ago. Did you lose their trail? Yeah. The Posse spread out in the hills to try to pick up the tracks. It's almost like a crime wave hit town.  When did Bill die? Well, yesterday afternoon. Last night, sometime between midnight and day, break the bank was robbed. News travel rapidly. Not that rapidly. What do you mean? Bill's death couldn't have anything to do with these robberies. I think it has everything to do with him. Crooks know I'm new in office. How long would it take for Bill Whitcomb's death to reach nearby towns? Oh, a day or so. I see what you're driving at, mister. There hasn't been time enough for the news to get around. I'd like to go to the Wells Fargo office to examine the tracks you found. Come on. I'll show them to you. I'm coming with you. I don't know if you'll be able to do a better job at trailing than we did, mister. But I sure hope so. My Indian friend Tonnell will be able to help us. We're heading for the Wells Fargo office, Tonnell. How about coming with us? Hey, gunshots! Sound like gunshots fire down that way. Well, we'll see what happens. A few minutes later, the lone ranger Tom Whitcomb, Sheriff Pete Quinn and Tonnell reached the open doorway of Hank Murphy's general store. The wounded in the shoulder, the big red-faced Irishman leaned against the doorframe. Watching a coat 45, he could no longer fire. Easy, easy, Hank. Dirty evens, perpine. With any luck at all, I'd have killed him. Instead of just wound him. What happened, Hank? Bill, with the bank robb last night, the Wells Fargo office broken into it tonight. I figured they'd better stand watch in the store. Oh, steady. Come inside and sit down. Oh, boy. I'm all right. It's Landoc Ocean. She's a masked old man. This man is the lone ranger. A good ranger. What about the man you shot? Stuart McBullet hit him in the leg. I was trying to bring him down when he shot me. We'll go after him. He'll track the fellow who bumped him a buddy and pick himself up, try to run. We'll follow those tracks. You want to land him? The moonlight's bright enough. Come on, fellow. I'll get a doctor for Hank. I'm with you, mister. This is one coyote who won't get away from us. At that moment, Tobi, the wounded thief, reached the locked door leading from the alley to Buck's leader's office in the cafe. He rattled the knob and pounded on the door. Buck! Buck, let me in! Buck! Hurry, Buck! What's the idea? Put him long enough to open the door. Close it quick. What happened? I stopped the bullet. I can see that.  Well, sit down. I've got to get a doctor. If I'd known you were mixed up in the gunplay, I'd have known that trigger-happy Irishman would be sitting in his store in the dark waiting for trouble. As soon as I tried to force the lock on the back door of his place, he snatched it open for the inside. Let me have it.  What? I told you and the rest of the boys to pull no jobs unless I ordered them. But I... Alkenjuma got away with Robin the Well's fargo office just like I told him. Then they headed for the hills. They'll be back any minute. You and Mohawk were to wait until midnight before Robin the Gamblin halts down the street. Well, I... Hey, someone's at the door. At the door to the cafe. Huh? Oh, it's Mohawk. That's a good thing for you, it is. But my foot unhurt.  Hey, Buff, I... Toby, what's your trouble? Oh, we got a smart and stopped lead. So that's what brought the sheriff and the red skin here, huh? The sheriff? Where is he? He just came into the cafe with an engine. He looks like he's geared for trouble. So I figured I'd better let you know and you let him here, Toby. I didn't mean to, Buff. I was hurt to deal with you later. But I didn't know where else to go.  Kill me.  I'm a lot faster than you are. Ah, now wait a minute, Buff. You're covered. So keep your hands away from that holster. Get his gun, Mohawk. Yeah, sure. Sorry, Toby. What's the idea? It's taking my gun. No, what, Buff? Keep him covered and get him out of here. Take him away from town. I'll get him out of town if I can. You'd better get him out of your own trouble and if you're far enough away, take care of him. Huh? I got no use for a man who can't take orders. Oh, Bill. What's the matter? Sheriff. If you like a son and you'll stop a bullet. Open the door, Buff. I want to talk to you. Sure, sure thing, Sheriff. Just a minute. Back way, Mohawk. You'd better unlock the door so I can keep Toby covered all right. All right, all right, but we got to work fast. Open this door, Buff, or I'll shoot the rock off. Just a minute, Sheriff. There. I'll clear out Mohawk. What? Let's open this door. All right, Sheriff. I'm coming. Oh, well, on Toby Moog. I'm not going anywhere. You'll kill me. You heard Buff get dog. You're not going anywhere. Hey, what's the matter? Save me! Help me! As the low wanger stepped from the shadows, holding it down, Toby dropped to his knees in the open doorway. Mohawk fired at the newcomer, but he was an instant too late. His shot went wild. As the silver bullet smashed his gun. Out of my way, Toby. In the office, Buff reached for the gunny and holstered to unlock the door. No! The masked man co-proped again. He'll set the door down. Buff fell back with a bullet in the arm, as Pete Quinn and Tatto threw their weight against the office door. I heard Buff don't shoot. Hapsotting with fear, Toby pleaded for his life as the masked man stepped to the doorway.  You two are covered, but don't try a fast move. Well, Mr. You've got everything under control. Okay, we're going to kill me. Toby, you're wounded in the leg. Why? You're the other one, Hank Murphy shot. That's right, Pete. Mohawk and I were going to turn him over to the law.    You can't get away with this, Buff. I'll tell everything I know. And who'll believe a thief? I'll back every word I say. Buff's the teller you want, Pete. He got the idea of robbing the bank, and he sent Elk and Yuma to rob the Wells Fargo office tonight. That's another lie. The bank money's locked in your desk. What's more, Elk and Yuma will be back here any minute with a Wells Fargo cash. They'll knock on the back door three times. It's a signal. That's not true. I don't know whether it is or not after I've searched your desk. I'll keep these men covered, Toto, while you take care of their wounds. A few minutes later, the sheriff found the money stolen from the bank in Buff's desk. Then, as soon as the prisoners' wounds had been bandaged, Pete and Toto took them to jail. Five minutes later, the lone ranger came to the jail with Elk and Yuma. Tom Whitcomb was with the mask man. Inside, you two? The cell's waiting for you, Toto. You got him. Yes. They knocked on the back door of the cafe a few minutes after you and Toto left, Pete. By that time, I was with the mask man. We got them both. And here's the Wells Fargo cash. That's all we need.  Come on, inside. I think this will end your trouble, Pete. I'm much obliged to you and Toto, Mr. We may see you again. May I go back to your place? Time to get our horses. You're fine. Good luck in your new job, Pete. Thanks, Mr. Howdy-o. Howdy-o, Sheriff. Come on. Then thanks again. I'll see you later, Pete. I still don't, Sammy. What happened? I can tell you in mighty few words what happened, Elk. You and your pals just met the lone ranger. The lone ranger, a copyrighted feature of the lone ranger incorporated, is produced by Trenville Campbell Muir Incorporated. A part of the lone ranger is played by Brace Beemer, your announcer, Fred Floyd. Listen to the lone ranger brought to you by special recording Mondays through Fridays at this same time. 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