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Just out of the Navy after a hitch as a frogman, Jon Lindbergh, 25-year-old son of Charles, signed on for more of the same-as a Navy officer in the cloak-and-flipper film Underwater Warrior...
...position of having to justify its conduct to many of its own countrymen. Out on Cyprus, with E.O.K.A.'s amnesty offer withdrawn, bombs and guns went off all over. Terrorists attacked two police stations near Nicosia. A limpet mine, presumably placed by an E.O.K.A. frogman, holed the bottom of a small vessel anchored at the very spot where French and British supply ships were scheduled to unload later in the week...
...Frogman & the Ghost...
...that British Frogman "Buster" Crabb a strange revenant of that Stephen Crabbe of the 13th century who detected the invisible invasion ship of the piratical Eustace the Monk? He was the only one in England able to see the phantom ship, boarded it, and his companions saw him in the air above the waters, swinging his axe which slew Eustace, until he was torn to bits by demons allied with the traitorous Eustace...
This was their story: Russian seamen had spotted the frogman, wearing a black diving suit and flippers on his feet, at 7:30 one morning, floating between two Soviet destroyers. He stayed on the surface a minute or two. then dived under. The Russian admiral complained to the Portsmouth naval base commander, a rear admiral, who "categorically denied the possibility" of a British frogman in the area. "In actual fact," said Moscow, Crabb's secret activities have since been confirmed. The Foreign Office answer was a model of stiff-lipped embarrassment: "Commander Crabb carried out frogman tests...