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According to Arthur, John later complained that the papers were "not worth the risk involved" and prodded him for better secrets. Arthur supplied two more documents. One was a "damage-control book" for the U.S.S. Blue Ridge. It outlined procedures to follow whenever a part of the ship sprung a leak, developed a fire or otherwise broke down. The other was an extract of "casualty reports," detailing equipment problems experienced by a class of amphibious assault ships. Arthur's lawyers argued that the documents carried the lowest security classification, "confidential," and were of little value to the enemy. But Captain...
...Arthur Walker's trial shed new light on his brother's activities. Not only did John recruit his son, brother and best friend as spies, he allegedly strapped a money belt on his unsuspecting mother to bring spy payments back from Europe. Also introduced as evidence was a set of KGB instructions seized at John Walker's Norfolk home. They read like something out of a bad mystery novel. Hand-lettered in red and blue ink, the directions told Walker what route to take to meet a Soviet agent in Vienna, starting at a store called Komet Küchen, which...
Walker was allegedly following KGB instructions at the time of his arrest. According to testimony at Arthur Walker's trial, FBI agents learned from telephone wiretaps that John was going to make a drop last May 19. They trailed his van by car and helicopter as it wound through the back roads of Maryland, eventually stopping several times at the same remote spot. When Walker finally left the vicinity, agents tramped through the woods, kicking smelly garbage bags, until they came across what one called "a classic type of Soviet drop site." It was a log between two trees marked...
Mydans was released in time to cover the fighting in Italy and France, then accompanied General Douglas MacArthur's campaign in the Philippines, where he took one of the war's best-known shots: Mac Arthur sloshing onto the beach at Luzon. For a home front with fresh memories of the war's bleak beginnings, it was more than a picture; it was an encapsulation of every hope. Forty years later, we see not just the redoubtable general but also the canny military showman who knows that victory is the ultimate photo opportunity...
Serious business, indeed. West Point, said General George S. Patton Jr., class of '09, is "a holy place." The academy, said General Maxwell Taylor, '22, is "not for everyone, only for those with a true vocation." That calling is to lead in battle. "Your mission," General Douglas Mac-Arthur, '03, told the cadets in 1962, "remains fixed, determined, inviolable: it is to win our wars...