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...into the Army, where, following the family's almost obsessive occupational interest, she became a communications specialist. Cynthia went to West Dennis, Mass., on Cape Cod, with her newborn son. Margaret moved to Virginia. Michael joined his father in 1980, completing his final two years of high school at Norfolk's private Ryan Upper School...
...then set out to catch John Walker red-handed. Apparently at the bureau's urging, Barbara visited her former husband in Norfolk in April. She did not tell him that she had been in touch with the authorities. During her stay, she said John bragged that if caught spying he would become "a celebrity and go down in history." Barbara told the Cape Cod newspaper that her ex-husband had been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years by the Soviets, adding bitterly: "John's a big spender. His girlfriends were very expensive...
Certainly after the divorce, if not before, Walker was often seen escorting attractive women to Norfolk nightspots. His fondness for Scotch brought him a now ironic nickname, "Johnny Walker Red." He could take dates on Chesapeake Bay cruises in his green houseboat, the Drift-R-Cruise, or on his 26-ft. sloop (each valued by his lawyer at $6,000). There were also flights in his single-engine Grumman Tiger, which was worth an estimated $20,000. He dated Pamela Carroll, a Norfolk police officer who moonlighted at his private detective agencies...
Walker worked for two years in the Norfolk branch of Wackenhut, a national firm providing industrial security services. While there he was sued for inflicting "emotional distress" by a wealthy Virginia Beach couple who claimed that Walker snooped around their home in varied disguises: as a birdwatcher wearing a green bag with eyeholes over his head and carrying a telescope; as a Boy Scout leader looking for a place to camp; as a Catholic priest. Next, Walker went into business for himself, digging up evidence in divorce cases and probing phony insurance claims. He also swept business offices for hidden...
Searches of John's two-story brick-and-wood home in Norfolk, as well as his houseboat, single-engine plane, camper, two cars and the offices of his three private-detective agencies, turned up a collection of gadgets and paraphernalia worthy of both Inspector Clouseau and James Bond. It included a clerical collar, fake IDs and business cards, a .357 magnum pistol, a walking cane that contains a gun, another that conceals a dagger and yet a third that holds hidden vials. When authorities opened his safe-deposit box, No. 257 at a Norfolk branch of the Bank of Virginia...