Mizrahi’s Prison

In 1942, two OSS officers are tasked with kidnapping a German officer from an internment camp in a neutral country. Their assignment is to kidnap the physicist—they are authorized to execute him if the kidnapping attempt fails. The officer is one of Germany`s leading physicists who Army Intelligence believes was inadvertently assigned to the Africa Corps.

Realizing their mistake, the Germans reassign him to the Kaiser Wilheim Institute of Physics. While flying back to Berlin, his aircraft is shot down and Turkish fisherman pluck the physicist from the Gulf of Adalia. Subsequently, according to international law, he is interned by the neutral Turkish government.

At a meeting with President Roosevelt's aide, Harry Hopkins, the OSS officers are handed a technically complex planning document. They think the plan is unworkable until they see Jimmy Doolittle`s signature. Hopkins informs them the president has just greenlighted the operation and their orders stand—get him out or exterminate him.