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==== The Crabb Affair ====
[[Lieutenant commander (Royal Navy)|Lieutenant-Commander]] [[Lionel Crabb]] was a British [[Royal Navy]] frogman and [[MI6]] diver who vanished during a reconnaissance mission around a Soviet cruiser berthed at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1956. In November 2007 the [[BBC]] and the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' reported that Eduard Koltsov, a former [[Russian commando frogmen|Soviet frogman]], claimed to have caught Crabb placing a mine on the [[Sverdlov-class cruiser|''Ordzhonikidze'']] hull near the ammunition depot and cut his throat. In an interview for a Russian documentary film, Koltsov showed the dagger he allegedly used, as well as an [[Order of the Red Star]] medal that Koltsov claimed to have been awarded for the deed.<ref name="mirror-20071117">{{cite news|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/11/17/cold-war-spy-riddle-ends-89520-20119884/|title=Cold war spy riddle ends|author=Nick Webster and Claire Donnelly|date=17 November 2007|newspaper=[[Daily Mirror]]|access-date=17 November 2007|archive-date=18 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118224401/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/11/17/cold-war-spy-riddle-ends-89520-20119884/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7097646.stm|title=Russian 'killed UK diver' in 1956|publisher=BBC.co.uk|date=16 November 2007|access-date=3 September 2017}}</ref> Koltsov, 74 at the time of the interview, stated that he wanted to clear his conscience and uncover what exactly had happened to Crabb.<ref>{{cite news| last = Stratton | first = Allegra | title = Retired Russian frogman confesses to cold war 'killing' | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] |date=16 November 2007| url = https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/nov/16/russia.world | access-date = 2 June 2013}}</ref> Peter Mercer of the Special Boat Service describes this incident in his autobiography: "The cruiser [Ordzhonikidze] was carrying the two Soviet leaders, Khrushchev and Bulganin, on a goodwill visit to Britain. His [Crabb's] task was to measure the cruiser's propeller and to discover how the ship managed to travel at twice the speed originally estimated by British naval intelligence."