<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Earlier this year, the U.S. Army launched an internal review of records related to the recovery of remains in Grenada in 1983, and efforts to locate Maurice Bishop’s body.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;“This is the first serious effort by the Pentagon in decades to address the role the United States played in the disappearance of Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop’s remains,” said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who pushed for the Army to investigate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;In this new update to the series, The Washington Post’s Martine Powers unpacks the findings of the Army’s investigation, the facts and events that it outlines, and the questions it stops short of answering.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/10/23/empty-grave-comrade-bishop-podcast-guide/?utm_source=podcasts&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=the-empty-grave-of-comrade-bishop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(17, 17, 17);"&gt;Read the June letter sent by the secretary of the Army on the Maurice Bishop internal investigation in our special episode guide here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A development in the mystery of Maurice Bishop’s missing remains offers some new answers — and even more new questions.

Update: The U.S. Army investigates

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Ava Wallace, sports reporter at The Washington Post, is in France to report on the Summer Games — and eat a lot of croissants. Join her through the entire run of the games, for several episodes a week as she captures the highs, the lows and the Paris of it all, along with other Post colleagues.

Introducing, "The Sports Moment"

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"&gt;What does the United States owe to Grenada about the mystery of the missing remains of Maurice Bishop, his cabinet members and supporters? In the final installment of the series for now, Martine Powers takes on that question as she assesses the conclusions of the team’s current reporting. She speaks with a member of the U.S. House of Representatives who has made another formal request of the U.S. military to turn over records related to the case. The Post’s reporting indicates that there are several records that exist and have not been released despite multiple Freedom of Information Act requests. The episode opens with a trip to an old cemetery in Grenada’s capital, where it is possible that the remains could be located. Martine learns why, despite excavations by experts over the years, confirming this has been so difficult.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;You can find photos and documents from the investigation in our special episode guide &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://washingtonpost.com/emptygrave?utm_source=podcasts&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=the-empty-grave-of-comrade-bishop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Subscribers to The Washington Post can get early access to the rest of the series on Mondays on Apple Podcasts, as well as ad-free listening. Link your Post subscription now or sign up to become a new Post subscriber &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/washington-post-audio/id6442482183" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

There is a cemetery in Grenada where the remains of Maurice Bishop could be buried. But confirming this has proven incredibly challenging. Meanwhile, a member of the U.S. Congress says it’s time for the U.S. government to say more. 

Episode 7: "A stain on our country"

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;When Martine Powers began looking into the mystery of the missing remains of Maurice Bishop, his cabinet members and supporters, one of the most noted explorations of the case turned out to be done by a group of high school boys in Grenada more than two decades ago. She was able to locate some of the now-adult investigators and the old principal of the school to learn what compelled them to do this as a class project, and how they found their sources. One of the people they interviewed, a former Jamaican soldier, witnessed the exhumation at Calivigny. What he told them more than 20 years ago is central to why many Grenadians think the U.S. government has not told the entire story of what happened to the remains after they were discovered. But he eventually stopped responding to students.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Martine and her colleagues searched for the witness for more than a year. They also amassed hours of other tape from interviews with other people who were at the exhumation. What they were left with were incomplete memories of exactly what transpired the day the remains at Calivigny were recovered.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Then, there was a breakthrough – with new questions about where all of this leads.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;You can find photos and documents from the investigation in our special episode guide &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://washingtonpost.com/emptygrave?utm_source=podcasts&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=the-empty-grave-of-comrade-bishop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Subscribers to The Washington Post can get early access to the rest of the series on Mondays on Apple Podcasts, as well as ad-free listening. Link your Post subscription now or sign up to become a new Post subscriber &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/washington-post-audio/id6442482183" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

In 2000, a group of teens interviewed a former Jamaican soldier for a class project. They revealed an account that’s shaped the mystery about Maurice Bishop’s missing remains. But the soldier went quiet. Martine Powers asks: Can we trust his testimony?

Episode 6:  "I know what I saw"

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"&gt;Why would the U.S. government have an interest in hiding the remains of an assassinated revolutionary leader? In this episode of “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop,” Martine Powers puts this question to Americans who served in Grenada after the invasion 40 years ago, including alumni of the U.S. State Department and a former CIA analyst.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"&gt;“I don't follow the logic of Maurice Bishop as a symbol for communism or anti-Americanism,” said Lino Gutierrez, a former ambassador who worked as a foreign service officer in Grenada. According to Guy Farmer, a spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Grenada, “It would have been good for us if we had found Maurice Bishop's body, showing how violent and terrible the Bernard Coard-Hudson Austin faction was. That would have been good for us.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"&gt;But when The Post’s reporting turns to the role of the U.S. military – and in particular, a battalion of Army rangers who conducted an attack on a Grenadian military training camp – the picture gets more complicated, raising new theories about when and how the United States might have discovered a critical piece of evidence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;You can find photos and documents from the investigation in our special episode guide &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://washingtonpost.com/emptygrave?utm_source=podcasts&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=the-empty-grave-of-comrade-bishop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Subscribers to The Washington Post can get early access to the rest of the series on Mondays on Apple Podcasts, as well as ad-free listening. Link your Post subscription now or sign up to become a new Post subscriber &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/washington-post-audio/id6442482183" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

When Army rangers launched a raid on a Grenadian military training camp, they expected to find hundreds of enemy combatants. Instead they made a chilling discovery. The Post uncovers a new theory in the mystery of Maurice Bishop’s remains. 

Episode 5: "An ugly, dirty job"

Grenada’s revolutionary leader, Maurice Bishop, was executed in a coup in 1983. Seven other people, members of his cabinet and friends, were killed alongside him. The whereabouts of their remains are unknown. Now, in a series two years in the making, The Washington Post’s Martine Powers discovers new information about the 40-year-old mystery, including the role the U.S. played in shaping the fate of this Caribbean nation.

The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop

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