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Ce ——— Callahan Conrad - 7 . Evans —_____ Gale —_____ Rosen : [ySatlvan a Tovel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy seca, Was British Frogman Betrayed? LONDON, Sept. 7 (UPI)--The Daily Express reported - today that ExComdr. Lionclt€rabb, the frogman who dis- appeared in Portsmouth Harbor in 1956, was betrayed by a Soviet “master spy” who had worked his way into an jm- portant British government agency and is still working ; ere. ’ Officials declined comment on the report. nal The Express cited U. S. Intelligence officials as the source SG for the belief that a spy in Britain warned the Russians that . Comdr. Crabb would be prospecting around underwater try- ing to get information about equipment carried by the So- viet Cruiser Sverdlov, then in Portsmouth. x The spy was linked with the British trio of Donald Mac- Lean, Harold“Philby and the late Guy Burgess, who fled to . ta Russia afté* working as spies while employed by the British A government, . ) g Comdr. Crabb disappeared on April 19, 1956. A headless, “ handless body in a frogman suit, found a year later on a beach near Portsmouth, was officially identified as his, but there have been repeated rumors that it was not. J. Bernard*Hutton, a newsman from Red Czechoslovakia, 3 ik ec, wrote a book, published in 1960, in which he said Comdr: Scat} u Crabb was taken prisoner by the Russians and was at that TO - time training frogmen for them somewhere behind the gon ¢ Cuftain. The Washington Post and Times Herald } The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American _____ New York Mirror New York Datly News ( . & & L { “, New York Post , The New York Times . The Worker The New Leader ‘i LEC. Khas /: The Wall Street Journal The National Observer —____ aN hoy of mo \ ' 7 > Date \! NOT EECORDED -. + . 191 sep 11 1963 en apy =P7 1963 GO SEP 191953 ee, opr Uwe ytiite tee: oe wee Ree aS ‘wan Ne Ns Sg om