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Feb 17, 2000 · BOSTON (AP) -- The youngest member of a family spy ring for the Soviet Union has been released from a halfway house after serving 15 years of a 25-year prison sentence. Michael Lance Walker, 37, the son of the ring's leader, John A. Walker Jr., was released Wednesday. He will be on supervised probation for the rest of the sentence.
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In exchange, prosecutors agreed to a lesser sentence for Walker's son, former Seaman Michael Walker, who was also involved in the spy ring. During his time as a Soviet spy, Walker helped the Soviets decipher more than one million encrypted naval messages, [3] organizing a spy operation that The New York Times reported in 1987 "is sometimes ...
- 4; including Michael Walker (accomplice), Laura Walker (attempted accomplice)
- American
- Deceased
- Espionage
Aug 16, 2020 · The Walker spy ring operated for nearly 20 years, spanning five presidencies, stealing top-secret information from the Navy and selling it to the Soviet Union. Anyone who’s watched the FX...
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- 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.
- Building the Ring. John Walker's network began with an old Navy friend, Senior Chief Petty Officer Jerry Whitworth, also a radioman, who had left the service but re-enlisted in the fall of 1974.
Jun 29, 1986 · John A. Walker Jr., 48, pleaded guilty to espionage last October; Arthur J. Walker, 51, his brother, was convicted of stealing classified documents, and Yeoman Michael L. Walker, John's...
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Walker Family Spy Ring. John Anthony Walker, a United States citizen, successfully spied on behalf of the Soviet KGB from 1967 to 1985. 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.
Nov 7, 1986 · Ex-Wife and Daughters in Court. Barbara Walker, John Walker's former wife, whose tip to Federal agents led to the investigation that uncovered the spying ring, rushed to the front of the...
