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...Navy contingency plans for a Middle East war. Details on the top-secret communications network used by all of the Armed Forces. The weaknesses of a Navy vessel that serves as the communications center for the entire Atlantic fleet. Those were only some of the secrets allegedly passed to Soviet agents by John Walker's Navy spy ring, federal prosecutors claimed last week. Summed up Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger: "For 20 years this flow of classified material went to the Soviets. It is a serious loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spy Ring Goes to Court | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...charges originally filed against Whitworth on June 17 were grave enough. The one-count indictment accused him of conspiring to commit espionage, claiming that he had given John Walker, a longtime Navy friend, "cryptographic key lists and key cards" that were later sold to Soviet agents. Such keys would allow the Soviets to eavesdrop on coded Navy communications, and even, in the opinion of one communications expert, to change Navy messages for their own deceptive purposes. Holding the highest security clearances, Whitworth had been in charge of cryptographic centers on the carrier Enterprise and at the sprawling Alameda Naval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spy Ring Goes to Court | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...activities to the FBI after his arrest, waiving his right to have a lawyer present. As related in court, he said John had begun his contacts with the KGB in a simple way: "He drove to Washington and parked down from the Russian embassy for a couple of nights." Soviet agents noticed him and made contact. Arthur said that early in 1980, after the brothers' electronic repair shop went broke, John told him how he could make a lot of money. At the time, Arthur was feeling very depressed. "We were sitting outside in his pickup truck," Arthur told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spy Ring Goes to Court | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...officer in the U.S. Atlantic Command, identified the Blue Ridge as the key communications vessel for the Atlantic fleet and called the damage-control book "a bible for sabotage." As for the casualty reports, he said, "I would give my eye teeth to have the similar history of a Soviet class of ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spy Ring Goes to Court | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...payments back from Europe. Also introduced as evidence was a set of KGB instructions seized at John Walker's Norfolk home. They read like something out of a bad mystery novel. Hand-lettered in red and blue ink, the directions told Walker what route to take to meet a Soviet agent in Vienna, starting at a store called Komet Küchen, which sells kitchen cabinets. He was to make repeated stops at specified shop windows. "You will be contacted either at the Bazala store or somewhere on your route," the paper said. "If no one contacts you, please use alternate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spy Ring Goes to Court | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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