Word: radioman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ship. The warhead exploded in the officers' quarters of the vessel, which two days earlier had left behind its escort of U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf and sailed into Kuwaiti waters to load up with refined-petroleum products. Eighteen crew members were injured, including the American captain and radioman...
...former Navy radioman had much reason for remorse. At last week's sentencing hearing, prosecutors made public two affidavits containing new details of what the Soviet Union got for the $332,000 apiece that it paid Whitworth and his former Navy cohort, Spymaster John Walker, from 1975 to 1985. One affidavit was based on the debriefing of Vitaly Yurchenko, the KGB officer who defected to the U.S. and then returned to the Soviet Union last year. Yurchenko, according to the affidavit, learned from his superiors "that the KGB regarded the Walker-Whitworth operation to be the most important...
...telling of how he used to "think of you and picture ourselves together again . . . I love you with all my heart and no one will & ever come between us." No one did. Married in 1950, they reared five children. Robert Kirsch, now 66, of North Huntingdon, Pa., was a radioman en route to his B-17 squadron in Foggia, Italy. He wrote seven of the undelivered letters, two of which were to his parents, who are living in Florida. As he picked up his missives last week, he observed dryly, "If I had known that this was going to happen...
...shocked to see a two-engine bomber circling overhead. It tried to land in a field and hit a farmer, killing him instantly, before coming to a halt a few yards short of a house. The Chinese pilot, Xiao Tianyan, 33, shouted for help; the navigator was dead. The radioman walked away with light bruises and asked to be sent home to China. Thus ended Navy Pilot Xiao's dramatic escape in his Chinese-built version of a Soviet Ilyushin Il-28. The pilot said he was dissatisfied with life in China because he had been passed over for promotion...
...when he became a communications specialist aboard the carrier Constellation. Travel notes found in John Walker's home place Walker in Hong Kong in August 1977, at the same time that the Constellation, with Whitworth on it, stopped there. About a year later, Whitworth was a chief radioman aboard the supply ship Niagara Falls when it made a visit to the Philippines; once again Walker was there to greet him. Walker's travel notes, the FBI contends, show that on both these trips Walker met a Soviet contact...