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Walker gained custody of his son, put him to work as an apprentice at his detective agency in order to prepare him for espionage and encouraged him to re-enroll in high school to earn a diploma, then to enlist in the Navy.
- 4; including Michael Walker (accomplice), Laura Walker (attempted accomplice)
- American
- Deceased
- Espionage
- Building a Naval Career. John Anthony Walker Jr. was born in 1937, the middle son of a Warner Brothers film marketer and an Italian-American mother. Nicknamed “Smilin’ Jack,” he attended Catholic school and became an altar boy; however, his childhood was traumatic.
- A Second Career. Espionage became Walker’s way out, though in his telling political disaffection also played a role. He suspected John F. Kennedy’s assassination had been engineered by government and corporate leaders intent on preventing the President from toning down the Cold War.
- Life As a Spy. John Walker’s trickle of intelligence meanwhile became a flood. According to Walker’s account, he mostly supplied the Soviets with old key lists – much less zealously guarded – and the KGB never pressed him for current or future ones.
- End of Walker’s Espionage. A most troubling aspect of the Walker affair is how it could have gone on for 18 years without authorities uncovering the leak.
May 6, 2024 · John Walker was a U.S. Navy communications specialist who for almost two decades (1967–85) passed classified documents, including navy code books and reports on movements of submarines and surface ships, to agents of the Soviet Union. At first obtaining the documents himself while on active duty,
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Jun 29, 1986 · On April 28, John Walker took the stand in a San Francisco courtroom and announced to the world his claim that he had recruited Whitworth as a spy. As he spoke, he was smiling, as though ...
Walker employed friends and members of his family in the business of espionage, stealing secrets from U.S. Naval Intelligence and selling them to Soviet agents. During the course of his career, Walker compromised United States military communications ciphers, copied blueprints of Naval vessels and weapons, and stole secret documents.
Aug 29, 2014 · In 1991, he broke off relations with the KGB, but resumed his espionage career in 1999, this time with the Russian Intelligence Service. He was arrested after making a drop in a Virginia park in...
Born into tumultuous circumstances on July 28, 1937, and embarking on a Navy career under the shadow of youthful indiscretions, Walker’s descent into espionage would not only betray his country...
