It wasn't Crabb what done it.......
So implied The Mail in June 1957.
And with a tip of the hat to the Embassy Girl and the Page Boy to get this into the UK Social History Pool.....
On June 9, 1957, fishermen dragged from Chichester Harbour, the body of a man dressed a frogman's suit.. Had and one hand were missing. The body could have been in the water for 6 to 14 months, the time elapsed since Crabb's supposed last dive, but it was impossible to determine the cause of death.
The body bore marked similarities to Crabb,size of feet, shape of legs, colour of body hair--and it bore a scar on the left knee identical to a wartime wound Crabb had received.
Had his body, half-eaten by fish, drifted from Portsmouth, or had it been released from a Soviet submarine?
Sooooooo did the Russians kill Crabb beneath the cruiser and allow the body to drift away? Did they take him to Russia and kill him there? Did they persuade him to join the Soviet navy and dump another body in the English Channel? According to an unnamed West German source, Crabb survived and lived behind the Iron Curtain using the name Korablov. Or was it just a dive too far for an unfit ageing man.
The British Government's papers on the affair will remain classified for a further fifty years by which time I shall be 103 years old.....
Shortly afterwards Hugh Gaitskill, the then leader of the Labour opposition,speaking in Parliament said that whilst the necessity for secret services cannot be denied in what he termed 'the present circumstances' i.e. the Cold War and the 'Communist threat' that there should be four conditions under which such services should operate:-
i) that operations be ultimately and effectively controlled by by a minister of state
ii) that operations should be secret
iii) that international relations should not be harmed
iv) and that such operations should be reasonably successful.
To laughter in the house he observed that in the affair of Commander Crabb not one single condition had been met.
It wasn't Crabb what done it.......
So implied The Mail in June 1957.
And with a tip of the hat to the Embassy Girl and the Page Boy to get this into the UK Social History Pool.....
On June 9, 1957, fishermen dragged from Chichester Harbour, the body of a man dressed a frogman's suit.. Had and one hand were missing. The body could have been in the water for 6 to 14 months, the time elapsed since Crabb's supposed last dive, but it was impossible to determine the cause of death.
The body bore marked similarities to Crabb,size of feet, shape of legs, colour of body hair--and it bore a scar on the left knee identical to a wartime wound Crabb had received.
Had his body, half-eaten by fish, drifted from Portsmouth, or had it been released from a Soviet submarine?
Sooooooo did the Russians kill Crabb beneath the cruiser and allow the body to drift away? Did they take him to Russia and kill him there? Did they persuade him to join the Soviet navy and dump another body in the English Channel? According to an unnamed West German source, Crabb survived and lived behind the Iron Curtain using the name Korablov. Or was it just a dive too far for an unfit ageing man.
The British Government's papers on the affair will remain classified for a further fifty years by which time I shall be 103 years old.....
Shortly afterwards Hugh Gaitskill, the then leader of the Labour opposition,speaking in Parliament said that whilst the necessity for secret services cannot be denied in what he termed 'the present circumstances' i.e. the Cold War and the 'Communist threat' that there should be four conditions under which such services should operate:-
i) that operations be ultimately and effectively controlled by by a minister of state
ii) that operations should be secret
iii) that international relations should not be harmed
iv) and that such operations should be reasonably successful.
To laughter in the house he observed that in the affair of Commander Crabb not one single condition had been met.