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John Anthony Walker Jr. (July 28, 1937 – August 28, 2014) was a United States Navy chief warrant officer and communications specialist convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1985 and sentenced to life in prison. [2]
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Learn about the arrest and trial of John Anthony Walker Jr., a former U.S. Navy warrant officer who sold U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1985. Find out how he recruited his family and friends to spy for the Soviets, and what information he provided them with. See identification documents and other artifacts from the case.
- 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.
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Aug 28, 2014 · John Anthony Walker Jr. (July 28, 1937 – August 28, 2014) was a United States Navy chief warrant officer and communications specialist convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1985 and sentenced to life in prison.
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Aug 30, 2014 · Bob Daugherty/Associated Press. By William Yardley. Aug. 30, 2014. John A. Walker Jr., a former Navy officer who in 1986 pleaded guilty to recruiting his son, a brother and a friend into a...
