Plot

Elihu Laban, a political refugee from the Balkans, hopes to obtain the papers from a leader who supposedly committed suicide. He and a group assemble a plan using a former member of the OSS. When the seller is killed, he is charged.

When Balkan dictator Oscar Volney dies after being under house arrest for several years, deposed by opponent Franz Schreck, local exiles in Los Angeles led by Elihu Laban want to obtain the dead man's papers hoping to expose the current government's corruption. With help from several, including his friend, newspaper publisher Garrett Richards, Laban hires former OSS agent Conrad Bucola to retrieve the Volney papers. The papers are supposed to be delivered to Laban when Schreck visits Los Angeles on a trade mission. When Schreck is killed at the exchange site, an amusement park, Laban is charged with murder and using Perry Mason's staff (Perry is recovering at home from an operation): playboy lawyer Bruce Jason defends him. Complicating the situation is that the fact that Laban swears that Jason is the OSS agent Bucola. Jason worked for the OSS but swears he is not Bucola.—garykmcd

Hugh O'Brian guest stars as a lawyer defending a man charged with murdering his former World War II comrade in order to secure the Volney Papers. The papers will reveal treacheries performed during the war and an American counter agent. The plot thickens when the accused accuses his lawyer of being at the scene of the crime and giving him a big whack on the head. Hugh gets to the bottom of the mystery of the Volney Papers as well as the murder.