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Death in Ice Valley

6. Spycatcher

Death in Ice Valley

BBC

Unknown

4.44.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Keep your mouth shut! Protect yourself! The meeting on the platform. #DeathinIceValley Join the conversation: www.facebook.com/groups/deathinicevalley For documents: www.bbcworldservice.com/deathinicevalley

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0:00.0

This is Death in Ice Valley, an original podcast series from the BBC World Service and N.K.

0:20.0

I am Marit Gragh from N.K. and along with my BBC colleague Neil McCarthy,

0:28.0

we're trying to get to the bottom of the case of the Easter woman.

0:32.0

Episode 6. Spy Catcher.

0:36.0

Our last stop was in Tanangir, a small fishing village in the south of Norway.

0:49.0

This was the place where a fisherman called Berton Errtt,

0:54.0

saw the Easter woman talking to a naval officer whilst the penguin missile tests were taking place.

1:02.0

That's right, he recognised her from the police drawings in the newspaper,

1:06.0

and then he responded to the request to the public to pass on any relevant information to the police.

1:11.0

He did that, but he wasn't prepared for what came after he informed the police.

1:17.0

His son, Svaderot, was with him as the family were boarding a train at Stavanger Railway Station.

1:24.0

They were on their way to London for their Christmas holidays in 1970.

1:29.0

Waiting for the train, his father was approached by two policemen.

1:34.0

Svaderot has never gone on the record with this story before.

1:42.0

We were all four, the family was gathered there and should go on the train.

1:47.0

And he left our group and went with his policemen for about 15-20 minutes,

1:57.0

obviously talking with him.

2:00.0

He didn't say much to us. He said it was some policemen,

2:05.0

and then we were wondering about this, the whole trip we were in London.

2:09.0

Did he say why they came to the train station? What would they want to speak with him?

2:14.0

My father was a man of few words when things should be kept secret, you know.

2:20.0

When we came back, I was informed that he had had this knife and this handgun that he received from them,

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