Ministry of Secrets | 4. Detective Lamport and the Missing Page

The Conspiracy Tapes

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History, True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Sarah investigate the first few days that followed Crabb’s disappearance with the help of Peter Marshall, the 90-year-old journalist who first broke the story. As they piece together what might have happened, they discover a sinister 1950s cover-up – one that extends to the very centre of power. Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of Cover Up: Ministry of Secrets ad-free right now. Click "Subscribe" at the top of the Cover Up: Ministry of Secrets show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Show notes: Newspaper headlines: The Times, 30 April 1956 The Times, 3 May 1956 Portsmouth Evening News, 1 May 1956 Le Monde, 7 May 1956 Le Monde, 14 May 1956 Bild Zeitung, circa June 1956 The Daily Mirror, 8 May 1956 The Daily Mirror, 9 May 1956 The Daily Mirror, 15 May 1956 Die Zeit, 10 May 1956 The New York Times, 13 June 1957 The New York Times, 29 May 1960 The Irish Times, 19 May 1956 The Irish Times, 10 May 1956 Der Spiegel, 22 May 1956 El Universal, 2006 HC Deb, Commander Crabb (Presumed Death), 09 May 1956 vol 552. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the last episode we heard how Lionel Crab's's life was in chaos by the mid 1950s,
0:16.0	how he was broke, how his best mate Sidney Knowles was convinced he was about to defect to the Soviet Union.
0:24.0	I want to run through what happened on the day Lionel Crab went missing.
0:29.0	He was last seen alive around dawn on that day,
0:32.0	and within hours the Navy knew of his disappearance
0:35.6	and for the moment that was that. Every journalist in the country was far too busy
0:42.3	writing about Nikita Christrustjoff's Cold War visit to London.
0:47.1	Every journalist that is, except one.
0:50.2	Here it is, April, Saturday, the 21st of April.
0:53.0	And on that Saturday, two days after Lionel Krab's disappearance,
0:58.0	Peter Marshall got a phone call.
1:00.0	He was the local reporter, the one who'd earned himself a tidy sum covering the arrival of the Soviets in Portsmouth.
1:07.0	He thought the story was at an end.
1:10.0	In fact, it was only just beginning.
1:13.0	So this phone call, it's from the Daily Mail.
1:17.0	I had this call from Marshall Pugh, and I knew the name well. I hadn't met him.
1:21.0	That call was from a biographer named Pugh. He was writing a book about
1:25.4	Lionel Crab at the time and was in regular contact with him. But let's stay on the timeline
1:31.1	of Lionel Crab's disappearance.
1:33.6	So the Soviet ships, they've been in the harbour
1:35.7	in Portsmouth Harbour for four days,
1:38.0	and this is when you get a call from Marshall Pugh
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