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...they think nothing about sending three or four pages, and many of these are being sent just because you can send them." Admits Turner: "There is no question that our entire procedure for handling classified documents in this Government is sloppy." Horror stories abound. Turner recalls that, when CIA Clerk William Kampiles sold a classified manual on satellite surveillance to the Soviets (for $3,000), the CIA checked and could not find 13 other authorized copies of the same document...
Last week a federal grand jury indicted John Walker, 47, a private detective and retired Navy communications specialist, and his son Michael, 22, an operations clerk aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Nimitz who had been arrested the week before and charged with espionage. The next day the FBI arrested John Walker's brother Arthur, 50, a retired Navy lieutenant commander who once taught antisubmarine tactics and has been working as an engineer for a defense-contracting firm in Chesapeake, Va. He was charged with supplying to his brother classified documents for delivery to Soviet agents...
Several years ago, Mrs. Volcker, who has been ill, went to work as a clerk to add to the family's income. The Volckers also took in a boarder to help make ends meet...
Walker had not been acting alone. Federal authorities say letters in his home indicated he was receiving documents from his son Michael, 22, an operations clerk aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Nimitz. In March, young Walker wrote his father that he was accumulating a stash of classified material and noted, "Storing it is becoming a problem." In another letter, in April, the son referred to his problem once more, saying, "At the rate I'm going, I'll have over a hundred pounds of sovenirs (sic)." Many of the documents in the Poolesville trash bag came from the Nimitz. When...
Seven years ago, on his 41st birthday, Philip Glass was driving a New York City taxicab. From the age of 17 he had worked as a hotel night clerk, an airport baggage loader, a crane operator in a steel mill, a furniture mover and a plumber, all the while pursuing his real vocation: composer. Glass, however, was not hoping to make a big score with a pop song or a Broadway show. Rather, he was that least salable commodity, a revolutionary avant- gardist...