Word: nimitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reminded commanders to heed a requirement long on the books but often ignored: two persons must participate in the destruction of classified material. John Walker's son Michael is accused of filching classified documents out of a burn bag while serving as a seaman on the aircraft carrier Nimitz...
...movement of specific Soviet navy and merchant vessels. It also contained the "Dear Johnnie" letters from the unhappy former spy, Whitworth; Walker's own three-page "Dear Friend" letter to his Soviet contact; and enough information on other associates to lead to the quick arrests of Michael aboard the Nimitz and John's brother Arthur in Virginia Beach...
...future wife Rachel, 22, a college student living in Norfolk, after he enlisted in 1982. They have been apart most of the time since he went to sea. At the time of his arrest, a 15-lb. cache of classified documents was found near his bunk on the Nimitz. Rachel tearfully told a Virginian-Pilot reporter, "All I want to do is close my front door and not open it until this is all over...
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...
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...