Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time." A top Pentagon official gave this damage assessment: "Some of our secrets in submarine warfare, amphibious operations and weaponry, communications coding systems, intelligence gathered by the Navy, and carrier tactics." When some newspaper reports, based mainly on sources in the much embarrassed Navy, tried to downplay the ring's impact, Pentagon Spokesman Michael Burch offered a grim rebuttal: "From what we are continuing to learn, we know now that the damage evaluation has gone...
...immediate concern of security officials was whether the Walker ring had turned over key information on how the U.S. tracks submarines, thereby allowing the Soviets to develop evasion techniques. But of even graver concern was the possibility, considered remote by most experts, that the Walkers had compromised the security of America's sea-based strategic missile force. U.S. military planners contend that land-based missiles and bombers are highly vulnerable to Soviet pre-emptive attack. Only the sea leg of America's nuclear triad is thought to be impervious to detection. If either side could knock out the other...
Presumably encouraged by her mother, Laura also implicated her father. She told the FBI that he had tried to enlist her in the spy ring in 1979, which would have given the undercover operatives an entry into Army as well as Navy communications...
...contents of the dropped-off bag were devastating to the spy ring. It included 129 classified Navy documents, many indicating that the U.S. had tracked the 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...
...small ceremony in New York City. If the defendant was aware of the irony, he did not show it. While his lawyer depicted him as a callous philanderer but not a murderous one, and the prosecution made him out to be a homicidal schemer, Claus von Bulow, his wedding ring as ever on his left hand, maintained an attitude of intense if slightly distant interest. Afterward, the jury of eight men and four women filed out of the courtroom to begin deliberations on whether he had twice attempted to murder his wife with insulin injections. At week...