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...were considering possible charges to bring against Lonetree -- including espionage, which carries a possible death sentence -- the situation served to illustrate the continuing problem of security breaches by low-level personnel. Like Lonetree, Navy Yeoman Michael Walker, 24, convicted last year of sending classified material from the aircraft carrier Nimitz to his father, Soviet Spy John Walker, had easy access to sensitive documents: he too was on the burn-bag squad...
...Michael said. "I was shocked and afraid of what my dad was suggesting." Nonetheless, Michael did it. He first gave his father secret papers from a "burn bag" while he was assigned to a Navy fighter squadron in Virginia Beach, Va., in 1983. Aboard the carrier Nimitz, starting in 1984, Michael routed messages about U.S. tracking of Soviet submarines and filched copies for his dad. "My father was pleased and said it looked like we were on a roll," Michael said. While it is estimated that John Walker collected at least $1 million from the Soviets for the secrets...
...lack of firepower available should it choose to launch a retaliatory raid. The aircraft carrier Nimitz, with at least 60 fighter- bombers and an amphibious landing force of 1,500 Marines, sits just off the Lebanese coast. A Delta Force unit reportedly stands ready on Cyprus, 100 miles from Beirut. The 100-plus Delta operatives are highly trained, but they have been used only twice against terrorists -- both times unsuccessfully. The 1980 Iranian hostage-rescue attempt was aborted in the desert when two helicopters broke down; during the invasion of Grenada the Delta commandos failed to reach the Richmond Hill...
...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...
...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...