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Feb 17, 2000 · By Deseret News. 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.
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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)
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Aug 16, 2020 · Joe Wolfinger led the Norfolk FBI squad that cracked the Cold War-era Walker spy ring — one of the most notorious cases of espionage in the nation’s history. That was 35 years ago, but when...
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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.
- 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.
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May 20, 2022 · Codename Wind Flyer: The John Walker Spy Ring Was a Family Affair with 17 Years of Espionage. He was out for what appeared to be a Sunday evening drive. Traveling from the Ramada Inn in Rockville, John Anthony Walker, a retired U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer, was tooling down a country road near Poolesville, an area within the affluent ...
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...