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...Norfolk, federal prosecutors herded yet another Walker -- John's older brother Arthur, 50 -- through a preliminary hearing toward arraignment this week. Arthur, who retired from the Navy as a lieutenant commander in 1973, is apparently cooperating with investigators, unlike his brother and nephew, who have pleaded not guilty. Evidence in the hearing strongly suggested that money was the Walkers' motive. Documents indicated that after the 1979 failure of a car-radio shop, Arthur and John Walker faced a $28,807 lien for unpaid taxes. FBI agents testified that John Walker then urged his brother to get a job "where...
...were not likely to be checked. Moreover, as a former warrant officer, Walker could mix with Navy officers in their clubs as well as fraternize with enlisted men in their hangouts. The rank nicely bridges the Navy's class lines between noncoms and "gentlemen." Declared another private detective in Norfolk: "He couldn't have been better positioned...
Walker cultivated anything but a pinko image. He placed a photo of Ronald Reagan on his desk and talked, said an associate, "like a real patriot." One day in 1979 he persuaded Debbie Aiken, then a talk-show host for a Norfolk radio station, into letting him discuss the Ku Klux Klan on her program. He claimed to be the Klan's state organizer. "He drove up to the station in a pickup truck with bodyguards," she recalls. One carried a shotgun. "Walker told me he had to be protected, that he feared for his life at all times...
Arthur Walker taught antisubmarine warfare tactics at the Atlantic Fleet Tactical School in Norfolk from 1968 until his retirement in 1973. Entering the Navy in 1954, he had served as a sonar operator on three subs before winning his commission. His subsequent duties included those of navigator, officer in charge of communications, engineering officer and executive officer on various submarines. When he retired, he quickly found a civilian job as an engineer with VSE Corp., a Navy contractor with regional headquarters in Chesapeake, Va. He worked on plans for the maintenance of Navy carriers and amphibious ships...
...Michael's best friends was startled when "he came in one day and said, 'I think I'm going into the Navy.' It just didn't fit with the partying, the surfing." Michael met his 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...