This is a story that will not go away even though the authorities would like it to. Many have written about the mystery and most have followed the political line. However, Mike and Jacqui Welham have not done that and as a consequence paid a price because throughout their research, they have been subjected to intercepted telephone calls, had their mail tampered with and have been spied on for many years by a government official, a spook, who they have named Agent X or ‘Crabb Watch’.

When investigated it was revealed that he was a ‘special person’, who claimed that he had access to military records. He claimed that as a civilian he had undertaken very specialised Naval diving courses and was a positively vetted Ministry of Defence contractor of many years standing. He had investigated the Crabb affair in the 1960’s interviewing anybody who had known or been involved with Crabb. As the story unfolds it will be shown that those who had offered the authors assistance were threatened and told not to talk to them. There have been attempts on the lives of Sydney Knowles, Crabb’s former diving partner and Gary Murray, a former Security Service operative and investigative TV researcher.

This is a true story about Commander “Buster” Crabb, a British naval frogman who disappeared whilst undertaking an underwater ‘spying mission’ involving the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze in 1956. Just over a year after he disappeared a body washed up, headless and handless, near Portsmouth. The Establishment took charge of the body and, at an inquest, declared it to be Crabb’s body. However, vital evidence was omitted and key witnesses not called.

It is now known that it was not his body and he was not buried in Portsmouth at that time. The problem for the establishment was that Crabb worked for the then head of the Royal Navy, Lord Mountbatten. At the time the US government security agencies alleged that Mountbatten was doing ‘unofficial’ business with senior officials within the Soviet Union.

This, of course, would be a valid explanation as to why the whole Crabb story is being held secret and cannot be disclosed for 100 years, meaning that the official papers will not be made public until 2056.

There is a link to the USA and the former USSR. The FBI provided the authors with a document box containing some 1,500 A4 pages but of this the only text not blacked out covered just six pages. The CIA sent nothing stating that it was in the interest of US national security not to make available any documentation or information. Applications to the KGB for information remain unanswered.

The authors and witnesses have been subjected to government surveillance, mail interception and telephone tapping both by the UK authorities and INTERPOL. Following publication of Frogman Spy,  attempts were made to kill both a researcher and a vital witness.