1956 - A MAN CALLED X: Speech

X is sent to Nepal to find out about the sabotage going on in an oilfield. The fellow agents there know about everyone in town – so do the others. X's conversation with a local agent and guide (a taxi driver) is overheard by an agent of the other party. Soon afterwards Ken Thurston goes to his local superior, who tells him that the driver is a suspect, too, but this does not mean anything. He doesn't trust anybody and everybody is a suspect to work for the communists, who want the oilfield for themselves. The taxi driver introduces X to the sister of the country's ruler, whom they believe to be in danger as long as the contract is not signed with the Americans. 

His Highness instead does not think so and wishes to live a normal life, without extreme safety precautions in spite of X's warnings. But X gets a pass guarateeing him free access everywhere. X, the ruler's sister and the taxi driver plan to kidnap His Highness for his own safety - too late, he already is kidnapped by the agents working for the communists and X's chief turns out to be with them, sending his agent after X. X suspects that they kidnapped the ruler to prevent him from delivering his speech about the planned signing of the oil contract. 

Now X plans to trap them. He makes them overhear a wired transmission of his plan about a delivery by truck. And the plan works. The truck is stopped and the car with the ruler's sister in is also stopped by a roadblock and the agent and his gang kidnap the sister, too. That way X finds the tent where His Highness is held. They all listen to a radio transmission faked by the enemy. In time X frees them all and they send an immeadiate transmission after the first one, correcting the statements. 

All are said to be caught and X's chief confesses and kills himself.