Ministry of Secrets is the first of the Cover Up series, exploring one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Cold War,

and at its heart is a missing person, a wartime hero, and international celebrity.

That celebrity was Lionel Krab, so famous he was the subject of a major movie.

And then, one day, he went missing.

What had happened?

It turns out that Krabs' disappearance was just the starting point.

What happens next involves the Royal Family, MI6, the CIA, and the KGB.

There's conspiracies and lies.

This story is so sensitive and it's so secret that the truth is being withheld for 100 years

until 2057.

Joint presenter Giles Martin and producer Sarah Peters for a roller coaster investigation that exposes a dark

cover-up at the center of power.

It all begins with a man named Malik.

Oh, you've made it.

No, no, we for the Malick.

Commander Julian Malick, ex-Navy, Dapper, one of those old-fashioned gents who always wears a tie,

even when pottering around in his garden shed.

I've been searching for someone like Commander Malik for the better part of 20 years.

You see, he's quite possibly the last living link to this unsolved mystery.

Commander Malik was a Navy diver before he retired,

had adventures all over the world, diffusing mines underwater water, that sort of thing. And his heroes were the great wartime divers.

I was thrilled and fascinated by the stories of men principally in the war who went off and did

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