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...Britain's frogman dead? The Admiralty said it thought he was (TIME, May 14). If he died in some underwater accident, what became of his body? Why had the Admiralty waited ten days before saying anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Missing Frogman | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...frogman been spying on the Soviet cruiser and destroyers lying in Portsmouth harbor? What could he see underwater if he had been spying? Had the Russians (who brought Bulganin and Khrushchev to England) caught the frogman and quietly taken him prisoner? Had they done him in, or had they dumped his body at sea to save embarrassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Missing Frogman | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Furor at Home. Last week the fate of Frogman Lionel ("Buster") Crabb, wartime hero in the Royal Navy, was giving Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden one of the most awkward times of his political career. In the House of Commons, Sir Anthony tried to dismiss the whole matter: "It would not be in the public interest to disclose the circumstances in which Commander Crabb is presumed to have met his death." But then he added mysteriously: "I think it necessary, in the special circumstances of this case, to make it clear that what was done was done without the authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Missing Frogman | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...Russians themselves were less reticent but only slightly more informative. "A watchman on our ship saw the frogman come to the surface in Portsmouth harbor," said an assistant naval attachè at the Soviet embassy, but "we were in a British port and there was nothing we could do." It was nevertheless true that soon after anchoring, the Ordzhffuikidze had taken the precaution of putting a crew of its own frogmen over the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mystery in the Deep | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...Russian frogmen met their British counterpart in the quiet deep? Had Buster Crabb been killed then and there, or kidnaped and carried off to Russia? At week's end, the mystery of Frogman Crabb's fate remained as deep and impenetrable as the waters that surrounded so much of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mystery in the Deep | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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