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References

Good article and timely updating with todays info. thanks !

I've created a references section with the footnote code to allow the existing Harvard style references to function and have reformatted the inline refs to aid readability. I'm coming around to the idea that inline refs screw up the format so much when they're used as frequently as they need to be, that either they should be placed at the end of the parargraph, or, better, generalised and placed in the references section, making them applicable to the whole article.

The article has the refs required banner, but I've always thought this is unhelpful in identifying the remaining unreferenced statements. Some editors just seem to love plastering banners about <g> ! -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 09:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inline references with correct <ref> code do not screw up readability, especially as they are put after sentences. The current policy favours putting <ref> code at the very end of sentences, after periods. Look at many of the prominent articles linked to from the main page.

References that are not directly referenced may stay at where they are now. Other editors might apply them more precisely to any current or future text. -Mardus 12:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's an assertive statement to make. I was unclear - I was referring to the edit window with lines of refs. mixed up with lines of text which I think is less clear than pure text. -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 19:58, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Theories are over, mystery is over, story is over, all over at BBC News.

Soviet combat driver decapitated Crabb when he tried to mine Khruchev's cruiser. The BBC News website has it all.

It is incredible how insane PM Eden became due to his amphethamine and morphine addiction. Trying to sink Khruschev in a british port with a mine? That would result in WWIII with H-bombs and mankind erased. That man was a lunatic, he thought Nasser is Hitler's reincarnation, so he orgainzed the disastrous tripartite agression on Suez, which almost caused atomic war against the USSR and sealed the fate of british empire might. -- 91.83.16.57 (talk) 20:15, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't look "over" to me. That BBC page says "It's one of the great unsolved Cold War mysteries." Maproom (talk) 14:54, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NO NO NO!!!! He was kidnapped by the same Chinese submarine that captured Harold Holt in 1967, off Melbourne. They lived together in Vladivostok, as gay lovers, for 40 years. After escaping to Canberra, they converted to Friedmano Christian Libertarianism, and are now known as Tony Abbot and Gina Rinehart. If you cannot find hard evidence disproving this assertion, then it MUST be true! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.244.89.137 (talk) 09:13, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In a War Documentary Series titled “Secrets Of War,” episode titled “The Cold War. Khrushchev's Regime“ A 1996 interview with former head of the KGB “Vladimir Semichastny” reported, Crabb’s decapitated body was found floating in the harbour 2 months after his disappearance. In the interview, Semichastny states that the “Crabb Affair” was handled elegantly. JericVgilbert (talk) 17:51, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mythbusters taken into account?

Not that mythbusters is the final word, but they did many tests on the feasability of shooting someone or something in the water, and they concluded that it was impossible because the bullets shatter in the water. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.103.249.13 (talk) 16:45, 28 July 2008 (UTC) Busters are right, as I have tried it myself. Put the barrel tip in the water and you have a busted $900 shotgun. BArrel splits open, just like a Daffy Duck cartoon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.244.89.137 (talk) 09:18, 8 September 2012 (UTC) My Father (Terry Murphy) told me in the 70s years that his father "Bill Murphy" was manning the diving hole at HMS Dolphin when Buster Crabbe turned up unexpectedly, put his finger to his lips, handed over half a crown and jumped in for his final dive. In fear of finding themselves in the middle of a diplomatic row, my father and grandfather decided to keep quiet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.228.32.166 (talk) 11:53, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Seperate article for Crabb Affair

Seems to me that the incident might be notable enough for its own article.Lord Cornwallis (talk) 17:43, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Opinions

Crabb himself seems to have held monarchist opinions. He once threatened to have someone prosecuted for putting a stamp, with a picture of the Queen's head, upside down on a letter.

S S Korablov

Wikipedia - for reasons best known to itself - fails to highlight the theory put forward by J Bernard Hutton (only mentioned as an afterthought) that Buster Crabb was offered work as a Russian frogman, training others, under the name S S Korablov. He was therefore NOT a double agent but simply a man faced with a choice between liquidation or survival doing something at which he was expert - with good pay and conditions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.170.192.138 (talk) 13:23, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-frogman techniques

I added this to "other links."

Williams, David (16 November 2007). "Cold War mystery solved? I killed Buster Crabb says Russian frogman". London: Daily Mail. Retrieved 26 December 2011. Wiki4Thal (talk) 05:51, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]