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Sep 2, 2014 · Twenty-five years ago the FBI finally shut off the biggest espionage leak in U.S. Navy history when it arrested former senior warrant officer John A. Walker.
John and Arthur Walker were each sentenced to life in prison. Michael Walker was sentenced to 25 years in prison and was paroled in 2000, and Jerry Whitworth was sentenced to 365 years and a...
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John Walker was arrested during the early morning hours of May 20, 1985, by a team of agents from the Norfolk and Washington FBI field offices. The FBI apprehended Walker himself at a motel in Montgomery County by telephoning his hotel room and telling him that his car had been hit in an accident. [1]
Dec 21, 2011 · The officer commandeered a passing car and, firing two shots, chased John Walker through the streets of Scranton. Still, Walker made it to the state high- way, and got away. For five days. Walker pleaded guilty and Juvenile Court Judge Otto P. Robinson announced that he would sentence the youth to the State Correctional Institution.
Shortly before dawn on 20 May 1985, in Rockville, Maryland, the house’s owner, a retired Navy warrant officer named John A. Walker, Jr., was arrested by FBI agents and charged with espionage. For the Navy, the arrest would mark the beginning of the worst spy scandal in its history.
John Walker was arrested May 20, the day after FBI agents, ac- cording to an affidavit, saw him drop a bag filled with classified Navy documents at a remote site in Montgomery County. Soviet vice- consul Aleksey G. Tkachenko, who left the country four days later, had- been spotted near the alleged drop site, according to court papers and testimony.
Aug 29, 2014 · A tip from Walker's ex-wife helped lead to his arrest in May 1985, the FBI said. He was sentenced in November 1986 to life in prison. But under sentencing laws at the time, he was due to be ...
