Counterspy was an espionage drama radio series that aired on the NBC Blue Network (later ABC ) and Mutual from May 18, 1942, to November 29, 1957. David Harding (played by Don MacLaughlin ) was the chief of the United States Counterspies, a unit engaged during World War II in counterintelligence against Japan 's Black Dragon and Germany 's Gestapo . United States Counterspies was a fictional government agency devised by the program's creator, Phillips H. Lord after Lord "had a certain amount of difficulty with J. Edgar Hoover over story content in Gang Busters ." [3] Mandel Kramer played Peters, Harding's assistant.
