series titled Secrets of War, episode titled "The Cold War. Khrushchev's Regime", a 1996 interview with former head of the KGB Vladimir Semichastny (who was the first secretary of Komsomol at the time of Crabb's disappearance) reported, Crabb's decapitated body was found floating in the harbour two months after his disappearance. In the interview, Semichastny states that the "Crabb Affair" was handled elegantly. References in popular culture Crabb's time in Gibraltar is covered in the film The Silent Enemy (1958), with Laurence Harvey portraying Crabb. Tim Binding's novel Man Overboard (2005) is a fictional memoir of Crabb, who looks back over his career from a sanatorium in Czechoslovakia, having been seized by the KGB on his final mission for the British. Crabb appears in the first issue of Warren Ellis' comic Ignition City. John Ainsworth Davis/Christopher Creighton in his thinly disguised fictional account The Krushchev Objective (1987) with co-author Noel Hynd, states he was the second diver with Crabb that thwarted an assassination attempt on the Soviet dictator by defusing limpet mines. The "Crabb affair" inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond adventure Thunderball. The frogman briefly seen in the Tintin book The Red Sea Sharks was based on a photograph of Crabb. The Crabb affair features in Edward Wilson's novel "The Envoy" (London, Arcadia Books, 2008) See also List of people who disappeared Notes References Further reading External links Lionel Crabb in Spartacus Educational Lionel Crabb in Trivia Library BBC News page on release of National Archive documents, October 2006 National Archive page 1909 births 1956 deaths People of the Cold War Cold War military history of the United Kingdom British Merchant Navy personnel British spies against the Soviet Union English underwater divers Espionage scandals and incidents Frogman operations Military history of Gibraltar Officers of the Order of the British Empire Gibraltarians People from Streatham Recipients of the George Medal Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II Royal Navy officers Secret Intelligence Service personnel Soviet Union–United Kingdom relations 1950s missing person cases People who died at sea People educated aboard HMS Conway Missing person cases in England Professional divers British Army personnel of World War II Royal Artillery soldiers