Lieutenant-Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Crabb, OBE, GM (28 January 1909 – presumed dead 19 April 1956), known as Buster Crabb, was a Royal Navy frogman...
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Nicholas Elliott (section Death of Commander Crabb)
intelligence officer. His MI6 career was notable for his involvement with the Lionel Crabb affair in the 1950s and the flight of double agent Kim Philby to Moscow...
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Based on Marshall Pugh's 1956 book Commander Crabb, the film follows the publicity created by Lionel Crabb's mysterious disappearance and likely death during...
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the first man selected to join the OSS group. In April 1956, Commander Lionel Crabb, a wartime pioneer of Royal Navy combat diving, disappeared during a...
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some historians, Soviet Naval Commanders decided to form PDSS after the Lionel Crabb incident. Most Soviet Naval spetsnaz units were transferred to the newly...
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inflatable boats and deploys one diving support boat (DSB Crabb, named for Royal Navy diver Lionel Crabb). The 2021 defence white paper indicated that henceforth...
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Knowles joined the Underwater Working Party, under Lieutenant Commander Lionel Crabb, at Gibraltar. Knowles was one of a group of underwater guard divers...
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Spetsnaz (section The Crabb Affair)
Germany in Fürstenberg/Havel.[citation needed] Lieutenant-Commander Lionel Crabb was a British Royal Navy frogman and MI6 diver who vanished during a...
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"Commander Smith". Famous examples of this are: - Lieutenant Commander Lionel Crabb Royal Navy who in conversation, biopics, Admiralty correspondence and...
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John Sinclair had to resign after the botched affair of the death of Lionel Crabb. SIS activities included a range of covert political actions, including...
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MI6 recruited diver Lionel Crabb to collect intelligence on the ship particularly its propulsion. After diving into the harbour Crabb was never seen again...
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The monument is feet away from the grave of fellow MI6 agent Commander Lionel Crabb. Wilson never divorced any of his wives, "instead keeping the women ignorant...
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