{"id":53625,"date":"2014-07-10T08:35:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T12:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53625"},"modified":"2014-07-10T08:35:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T12:35:47","slug":"arthur-walker-dies-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53625","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Walker dies in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Convicted spy, Arthur Walker, part of the Walker Spy Ring that was convicted of spying for the old Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, served out the first of his three life sentences this last weekend, according to the PilotOnline<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Walker had been involved in a spy ring that had operated for nearly two decades, beginning in Hampton Roads and later in San Diego, and aboard submarines and aircraft carriers, including the Nimitz and Enterprise.<\/p>\n

He was a retired Navy lieutenant commander living in Virginia Beach when he was arrested.<\/p>\n

Also part of the case: his brother John, who was considered the leader of the espionage empire; John’s only son, Michael; and a Navy friend, Jerry Whitworth.<\/p>\n

The information they sold made it possible for the Soviets to decipher more than 1 million classified messages between U.S. Navy ships and shore commands, according to the FBI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the New York Times<\/a> when he was convicted in August 1985;<\/p>\n

The Government charged Arthur Walker with stealing two sets of classified documents from VSE, a defense contractor in Chesapeake, Va., where he worked as an engineer, and giving them to his brother in exchange for two $6,000 payments.<\/p>\n

One of the documents was a four-year history of repairs made to a five-ship class of amphibious ships. The other was a set of plans for ”damage control” aboard what Navy experts said where the service’s two most sophisticated communications ships.<\/p>\n

Both documents were rated confidential, the lowest of three levels in the military’s classification scheme.<\/p>\n

The prosecution today portrayed Arthur Walker as a greedy spy who had betrayed his country for ”happy-hour money” and a new hairpiece, a gas grill and a set of brakes for his automobile. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Only two more life sentences to go, Art. Oh, yeah, he was only a month away from his parole hearing. Thanks to Bobo for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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