Espionage
'Buster' Crabbe – Frogman Spy. On April 19, 1956, Commander Lionel 'Buster' Crabbe O.B.E. G.M. R.N.V.R, one of the worlds greatest experts on underwater tactics and warfare and a decorated war time frogman, disappeared while examining the underwater hull of the Soviet Cruiser Ordzhonikidze in Portsmouth Harbour. Ten days later the Admiralty announced he must be presumed dead. Fourteen months later and after three Soviet submarines had passed through the English Channel, a headless and handless body was recovered from Chichester Harbour. Despite his first wife saying it could not have been her husband, who had deformed toes, the body was identified as that of Commander Crabbe and buried in Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth. Many believed he had in fact been captured by the Russians and was still alive in the Soviet Union. They included Patricia Rose (pictured) who helped me in researching his story and provided me with two family pictures.
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Nipple radio transmitter invented by Ken Achurch in 1972 involved taking a mould from the woman’s breast to create a life sized model of her own nipple into which a transmitter could be fitted. The same inventor also created the ultimate spy bug on the back of a model fly that could be positioned anywhere in the room to be bugged. Positions illustrated using models. Tessina spy camera – I subsequently purchased one and use it on a number of assignments including one working undercover in a public school.
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Tombs Peter, South African Spy
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