Foreign Intrigue

Two U.S. correspondents, Robert Cannon and his former flame Helen Davis, are assigned to find a lost detailed report that includes important information on German atomic research. While taking a train to Switzerland to look for the couriers who previously had the documents, they find one dead in their compartment. It's up to Cannon and Davis to find the murderer and retrieve the papers.

Robert Cannon's assignment to cover an ordinary convention in Brussels winds up with two corpses. While there, he is mistaken by a black marketeer for a contact man to receive some stolen diamonds. After the black marketeer realizes Cannon is not the contact and tells him what they are looking for, they promptly have Cannon followed for knowing too much.

A U.S. Correspondent is found dead in Switzerland, and Robert Cannon is questioned and assigned to cover the murder, despite how dangerous the task is. As he investigates, Cannon decides to recreate the final actions of the fellow reporter while simultaneously gathering material on Europe's black markets.

After Cannon and Davis each receive a counterfeit ten dollar bill in an envelope, they discover that three million dollars were printed by the Germans during World War II, but were never recovered and are now stored near the Parisian flea market. The French police, however, do not believe their story.

Robert Cannon is invited to an occupied country for an interview with a fellow reporter, David James, who has been convicted as a spy. Cannon learns that the scribe, in order to make an example out of him, has been forced to confess his guilt and is ultimately protecting a girl. Cannon needs to find the girl, in order to prove the reporter's innocence.

Robert Cannon takes a plane trip with two convicted black marketeers and gets an exclusive interview with death. The two pilots are killed while the plane is on automatic pilot. Cannon realizes he should have heeded the advice of a passenger, when her "woman's intuition" predicted what was going to happen.