On This Day In History Arthur Walker, Brother Of John Walker, Was Found Guilty Of Spying For Soviet Union

As History.com notes, on this day in 1985 – known as the “Year of the Spy” for the many espionage arrests that year - Arthur Walker was convicted of espionage.

Arthur Walker, a retired U.S. Navy officer, is found guilty of espionage for passing top-secret documents to his brother, who then passed them to Soviet agents. Walker was part of one of the most significant Cold War spy rings in the United States.

The arrest of Arthur Walker on May 29, 1985, came just one day after the arrest of his brother, John, and John’s son, Michael. All three were charged with conducting espionage for the Soviet Union. John Walker, also a Navy veteran, was the ringleader, and government officials charged that he had been involved in spying for the Soviets  since 1968.  

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You can also read my Crime Beat column on John Walker via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2009/04/john-walker-notorious-navy-spy.html

Convicted Cold War Spy Arthur Walker Dies

The British newspaper the Telegraph Toffers an obituary of Arthur Walker, a member of the John Walker family spy ring.

Arthur Walker, who has died in prison aged 79, was the oldest member of America’s notorious “family of spies” — three members of a naval clan who were discovered, in the mid-Eighties, to be handing classified information to the KGB. 
 

The trio passed on a huge number of US secrets to the Soviet Union and were described as “the most damaging espionage ring uncovered in the United States in three decades”. 
 

The unmasking of Arthur, a retired lieutenant-commander in the US Navy who was working for a defence contractor, and his seemingly patriotic family, shocked America. Before the Walkers — Arthur, his younger brother John (a former Naval warrant officer) and nephew Michael (an active seaman) — were exposed it was thought inconceivable that American citizens, let alone servicemen, would betray their country. Spies were considered to be foreign, not home-grown. And few were as apparently all-American as Arthur Walker, a mild-mannered former officer and father of three who coached a youth baseball team and was president of the local civic league.  

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11026471/Arthur-Walker-obituary.html