Frogman Extraordinary - The Commander Crabb Case

Neville Spearman Ltd, 1960

In April 1956 Commander Lionel (Buster) Crabb, G.M., dived in Portsmouth harbour to examine the hull of the Russian warship Ordzhinikidze. He failed to return. After ten days' silence the Admiralty reported him dead but denied all knowledge of the exploit. Fourteen months later `his' body was recovered from the sea at Chichester, decomposed and totally unrecognisable. Three days previously three Russian submarines had passed through the English Channel. Crabb was not drowned. He was captured by the Russians, taken aboard the Ordzhonikidze, flown by helicopter to Stettin, and thence by plane to Moscow - escorted by six Security Officers, through heavily drugged. This is the fully documented and authenticated account of what really happened to Commander Crabb since the day of his disappearance. It is revealed in full in the Russian Top Secret dossier which has reached us by underground agents from behind the Iron Curtain. This dossier divulges that Crabb joined the Red Navy and is serving as 1st Lieutenant in the Far Eastern Naval Command at Vladivostok...