LONDON — Secret documents released today showed that British authorities lied to cover up the fate of a naval commander who died during a 1956 scuba-diving spy mission near a warship used by Soviet ...

Last Tuesday some of the remaining family plus author John Bevan paid tribute to Commander Lionel '˜Buster' Crabb who disappeared when diving under a Russian cruiser in Portsmouth Dockyard 60 years ...

Is 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 ...

The fate of a naval hero said to have been the inspiration for James Bond was hushed up by the government, secret documents released yesterday reveal. Ministers were keen to play down claims that ...

A POOLE relative of the famous naval diver Lionel "Buster" Crabb has reacted angrily to new claims he was murdered while trying to sink a Russian ship. Commander Crabb, thought to have acted as Ian ...

The Silent Enemy [from the book Commander Crabb by Marshall Pugh] tells the remarkable story of Lieutenant Crabb, a young naval bomb disposal officer, whose exploits in leading frogmen against the ...

What happened to the frogman? All over Britain the question was being asked last week, but the answer was shrouded in a watery mystery that suggested a Jules Verne fantasy rewritten by Eric Ambler.

Spy agencies were paranoid that a frogman who vanished on an undercover diving mission for MI6 had been caught by the Soviet Union for propaganda, newly released files reveal. Officials wrote of the ...