Современность; Спецслужбы; Флот; Искусство и творчество;
Еще в 1960-е годы это придумали :-))
Да и в Инете про это полно, уважаемый В. Кашин - поищите на Lionel Crabb. Байка эта существует во множестве вариантов :-))
Например:
Certain Members of Parliament became concerned about Crabb's ultimate fate, and in 1961 Commander J.S. Kerans (and later in 1964 Marcus Lipton) submitted proposals to re-open the case but were rebuffed. Various people speculated that Crabb had been killed by some secret Soviet underwater weapon; that he had been captured and imprisoned in Lefortovo prison with prison number 147; that he had been brainwashed to work for the Soviet Union to train their frogman teams; that he had defected and became a Commander in the Soviet Navy under the name Lev Lvovich Korablov; that he was in the Soviet Special Task Underwater Operational Command in the Black Sea Fleet; or that MI6 had asked him to defect so he could become a double agent.
On March 26, 2006, The Mail On Sunday published an article by Tim Binding entitled Buster Crabb was murdered - by MI5. Binding wrote a fictionalised account of Crabb's life, Man Overboard, published in 2005. Binding stated that, following the publication, he was contacted by Sydney Knowles, now living in Málaga, Spain. Binding has alleged that he then met Knowles in Spain and was told that Crabb was known by MI5 to have intentions of defecting to the USSR. This would have been embarrassing for the UK — Crabb being an acknowledged war hero. Knowles has suggested that MI5 set up the mission to the Ordzhonikidze specifically to murder Crabb, and supplied Crabb with a new diving partner ordered to kill him. Binding stated that Knowles alleges that he was ordered by MI5 to identify the body found as Crabb, when he knew it was definitely not Crabb. Knowles went along with the deception. Knowles has also alleged that his life was threatened in Torremolinos in 1989, at a time when Knowles was in discussions with a biographer.