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C . Callahan __ ‘ Shosch Goo / : ‘. of Ae: bach pe 7 . So Evans } ; Gale : | / Sullivan & H v Tovel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy . Was_ British Frogman Betrayed? | LONDON, Sept. 7 (UPI)—The Daily Express reported oo - teday that Ex-Comdr. LionelCrabb, the frogman who dis- appeared in Portsmouth Harbor in 1956, was betrayed by a . Soviet “master spy” who had worked his way into an im- portant British government agency and is still working | there. : Officials declined comment on the report. nt The Express cited U. S. Intelligence officials as the source Sy for the belief that a spy In Britain warned the Russians that fp Comdr. Crabb would be prospecting around underwater try- ; ‘ jing to get information about equipment carried by the So- viet Cruiser Sverdlov, then in Portsmouth. ‘ The spy was linked with the British trio of Donald Mac. — OLY Lean, Harold “Philby | and the late Guy Burgess, whe fled te — ‘ ta Russia after working as spies while employed by the British : ‘ government. . \ ~ y Camdr. 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, En Gy, i wrote a book, published in 1960, In which he said Comdr: SG ee : Crabb was taken prisoner by the Russians and was at that - - time training frogmen for them somewhere behind the Iyon : CufTain. The Washingten Post and Times Herald } The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Dally News / & ¢ i A al New York Post \ The New York Times . The Worker The New Leader The Weill Street Journal fy i ” . ut 38 fe f f> a 7 The National Observer X “ - - ' ; ‘ot Date \ : re RECORDED +. | ° \ ° 191 sep 11 1963 . Rn orn asanan 9iP 7 1963 WU MEP 2a psd