Note that Mr. twigsnapper more than intimates that this has something to do with TTB's work, especially given the date and location and the fact that the informaiton is still classified.
On to the notes:
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twigsnapper wrote:
Ah, I changed horses in mid stream and didn't tell you. Sorry about that. Paul is busy trying to figure questions to which I have the answers. Sort of the way it goes around here and the material has been confusing for him. And probably for you to. The information that you could look for involves and incident that created a Cold War furor in 1956. His name oddly was Crabb also.
And sometimes names are linked in the strangest of ways. Spooky action at a distance. So you can stay on the same page you might try looking up information around the Sally Port Inn and a man who was known as Lionel Crabb. Don't expect to make too much sense of it right now but the background will help you someday. Note the classification date.
Best to you, twigsnapper
OK, I'm noting the date but it will take further research for me to try to correlate why that year specifically is significant. I assume you mean that there were other things in play in that year that might have some bearing on this "mystery."
I find it interesting how many of the accounts seem to reference specific actions by Crabb once he's in the water, when there really wouldn't have been any witnesses. References such as "surfaced to take notes" or "boarded the ship" who really knows?
I get two potential names for the second person with him at the Inn, one said Bernard Smith, the other Matthew Smith. Either way, we assume the first name is irrelevant because Mr. Smith was not a "real" name...In another reference we see another name entirely: "He did not return to Teddy Davies, his MI6 minder, and it was assumed that he had been captured by the Russians."
Oxford Biography Index entry
Lionel Crabb
Crabb, Lionel Kenneth Philip (1909–1956), naval frogman
From: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SScrabb.htm
Lionel Crabb was born in 1909. He worked in a variety of jobs until the outbreak of the Second World War when he became a gunner in the army. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. The following year he was sent to Gibraltar where he became a member of the navy's mine and bomb disposal unit. Crabb had the dangerous task of located and removing Italian limpet mines from the hulls of Allied ships. He was such a success he was awarded the George Medal. In 1943 Crabb was sent to clear the mines left in the ports of Leghorn and Venice. For this courageous work he was awarded the OBE.
After the war Crabb explored the wreck of a Spanish galleon and investigated a suitable discharge site for a pipe from the atomic weapons station at Aldermaston. He later returned to the Royal Navy and after helping rescue men trapped in a submarine, he was promoted to the rank of commander. However, in March 1955 he was forced to leave the navy on age grounds.
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Sir Anthony Eden, the British prime minister was furious when he discovered about the MI6 operation that had taken place without his permission. Eden forced the Diretor-General of MI6, Major-General John Sinclair, to resign. He was replaced by Sir Dick White, the head of MI5. As MI5 was considered by MI6 to be an inferior intelligence service, this was the severest punishment that could be inflicted on the organization.
http://www.francisfrith.com/pageloader. ... &start=101
In April 1956, Commander Lionel Crabb, Britain’s finest frogman, disappeared whilst diving at Stokes Bay, Gosport. On 17 April, Mr Crabb had stayed overnight at the Sallyport Hotel in Old Portsmouth. That evening Crabb went to Havant and caught a train back to Portsmouth. A frogman was seen entering the sea at the mouth of Portsmouth harbour. A Mr Smith settled Crabb’s hotel bill and removed Crabb’s possessions. Plain-clothes police officers tore out the details of everyone staying at the hotel on 17 April. Fourteen months later, three fishermen discovered what was believed to be Crabb’s corpse in Chichester harbour. It is still a mystery whether Crabb drowned, was shot, or was kidnapped. In 1965 the ‘Mary Rose’ was discovered at Portsmouth harbour.
http://www.trivia-library.com/b/mystery ... -crabb.htm
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Crabb had been spotted by a sentry on the warship. Khrushchev no doubt expected that an attempt would be made to spy on Russian underwater equipment and was not offended. Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden was furious. Crabb's dive was unauthorized, he told the House of Commons. On Apr. 29, the government acknowledged that Crabb was "dead," a remarkable and never explained admission when it needed only to state that he was "missing."
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Possible Solutions: There are several theories. 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 a West German source, Crabb is still alive but is now using the name Korablov.
It is more probable that Crabb died in Portsmouth Harbor from respiratory failure. He was in poor health and above the age limit for deep diving. His breathing equipment was meant for dives down only to 33 ft., and he would have needed to dive below that depth to clear the 25-ft. draft of the Ordzhonikidze.
Because he needed the job, Crabb took a chance--and lost. Or did he?
http://www.illuminati-news.com/071906c.htm
[excerpts:]
The British government has again hidden the files on the death of Lionel “Busterâ€