Ministry of Secrets | 7. Dodgy Dickie Strikes Again
The Conspiracy Tapes
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The Lionel Crab Mission
The right person to do it would have been a wrong Navy diver, not Lionel Crab. Nicholas Elliott most likely planned Lionel Crab's dive in partnership with the CIA. How free was Elliott to act on his own initiative? Nowadays MI6 has to act within the law. But how was it in the 1950s? It was a very, very different time. Very often schemes behind the scenes were devised and worked on and carried out that the government wouldn't know anything about. And in those days, necessarily have to accord with the law.
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