 Crabb's MI6 officer John Nicholas Rede Elliott always took the view that Crabb had suffered equipment failure and/or his health had given way, and that his reputation had been unfairly dragged through the mud.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 (who was the first secretary of Komsomol at the time of Crabb's dissappearance) reported, Crabb's decapitated body was found floating in the harbour two months after his disappearance.