Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with concrete, stacks of silver bars stashed in a safe-deposit box, hints of meetings in Europe and the Far East, and canes that become guns and daggers. There is even a woman who turns in her former husband. In hundreds of pages of documents, unsealed last week in Norfolk, Va., authorities describe how three members of a naval family allegedly schemed to supply U.S. military secrets to the Soviet Union, resulting in what Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger calls a "serious loss" for the country...
John A. (Johnny) Walker seemed to be a good ole boy, given to girls, guns and gadgets, not politics. A career Navy man who retired as a chief warrant officer in 1976, Walker, 47, worked as a private detective in Norfolk, Va., dated a policewoman and loved to fly around in his single-engine plane. His three private-investigation firms supplied security services to companies as well as run-of-the-mill snooping for individual clients. But on a rural Maryland road one night last week, FBI agents caught Walker apparently pursuing another one of his businesses: supplying U.S. military...
...ring involves other Americans. Said an FBI spokesman: "We expect there will be additional arrests in this matter." Agents have questioned John Walker's half brother, a Navy enlisted man, but no charges have been brought against him. Interviewed at the Baltimore city jail by a reporter for the Norfolk daily Virginian-Pilot, John Walker expressed concern that his arrest might cause trouble for his family and others, but demonstrated a curious bravado about his own fate. Said he: "I'm a celebrity...
Little is known about how Walker might have been recruited. Money appears to have been a motive. A former Navy communications man who served with Walker at Norfolk in the late '60s told TIME that Walker liked to live well even then. At one point during the period when Walker is now believed to have begun spying, the man recalled, Walker bought a 27-ft. sloop, no small feat on the salary of a young naval officer. Walker seems to have been enchanted by skulduggery: although a professional spy would not normally lug around incriminating evidence, Walker was caught carrying...
...damage Walker caused may never be known, he had access over the years to some of the most sensitive information that the Navy possesses. After serving on two nuclear-missile-carrying submarines, the U.S.S. Andrew Jackson and the U.S.S. Simon Bolivar, from 1962 to 1967, Walker was posted to Norfolk from 1967 to 1969. There he was privy to communications codes for the entire U.S. Atlantic submarine fleet...