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...scope of the ring's activities became clearer in court actions on both coasts. In San Francisco, a federal grand jury produced a new and more specific indictment against Jerry Whitworth, 46, a retired Navy chief radioman, who allegedly supplied the most valuable information. In Norfolk, Va., Arthur Walker, 50, was found guilty of conspiring with his brother John to sell secrets to the Soviets. John Walker, 48, also a former Navy chief radioman and the alleged ringleader, is scheduled to go on trial for espionage in Baltimore on Oct. 28. John's son, Michael, 22, a former Navy seaman...
...John's urging, Arthur said, that he got a job at VSE, a defense contractor in Chesapeake, Va., involved in ship maintenance, where he had access to classified material. He passed two documents to John and got $6,000 for each, he said. "It was my happy-hour money," he explained. "I bought some stuff ... a gas grill, a new hair piece, brakes...
...only person in America who feels shame and revulsion, not pride and elation, over the U.S. capture of the Achille Lauro hijackers? I thought capers like this were called piracy at best, kidnaping at worst. Quinith Janssen Shepherdstown, W. Va...
...always looking tough and in command, he freely alternated between Russian and English as he spun his tale of being "forcibly abducted" in Rome by American agents, drugged and flown to the U.S. against his will. For "three horrible months" he was held at a safe house in Fredericksburg, Va., Yurchenko claimed, taking apparent glee at revealing its exact location and details. Only on Nov. 2, when his CIA "torturers" let down their guard, so he said, was he able to escape...
...tried to buy his cooperation by offering him a $1 million payment plus $62,500 a year for life. The agency, he said, was even willing to throw in the safe house's furniture, worth about $48,000. He met with Casey over dinner at the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters, but claimed he did not recall the conversation very well because he had been drugged before the meal by agents eager to make Casey think he was a willing defector...