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Jerry Alfred Whitworth (born August 10, 1939) was sentenced to 365 years for his part in the Walker family spy ring, which, at the time of Whitworth's arrest, U.S. authorities described as "the most damaging espionage ring uncovered in the United States in three decades".
Jun 29, 1986 · RUS - as the Government alleges Jerry A. Whitworth called himself - realized he would have to answer. After all, he had started writing to the Federal Bureau of Investigation months ago,...
- 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.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28, 1986 -- In the harshest U.S. sentence for espionage imposed since the abolition of the death penalty for spying, an outraged federal judge sentenced convicted spy Jerry...
Jul 25, 1986 · SAN FRANCISCO, July 24, 1986 -- Retired Navy communications expert Jerry Alfred Whitworth -- the last of four Navy men charged in the Walker spy ring to face trial -- was convicted today of...
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Jul 25, 1986 · A Federal jury today convicted a former Navy radioman, Jerry A. Whitworth, of espionage for his participation in a Soviet spy ring that the Government has called the most damaging espionage...
Aug 29, 1986 · Aug. 29, 1986 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. SAN FRANCISCO — Calling Jerry A. Whitworth “one of the most spectacular spies of this century,” a federal judge Thursday sentenced the former U.S....
