ADDENDA AND ERRATA

Crabb Coda

hanks for the article on Lionel “Buster” Crabb [“The Frogman Who Vanished,” , Autumn 2021], a very interesting update on a still mysterious case. I can add a tidbit to the story. The “tall, slim American going by the name of Bernard Smith” who was Crabb’s minder was almost certainly an Englishman named Bernard S. Smith, a Russian-language officer who worked for the British Foreign Office, the parent organization of MI6. By 1959 Smith had left the British government; exactly why, he would not say. When he died last year, an obituary noted that he took his obligations under the Official Secrets Act seriously and