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John Walker
Joining the navy to escape the threat of a prison sentence for theft, Walker soon became a Chief Warrant Officer, a leading advisor with specialist technical knowledge.
From 1968 to 1985, John Walker double-crossed the U.S. Navy and recruited his son and other members of his family as well as a colleague, to aid his antics. According to the Independent Online, John’s treachery “represented the most damaging leak in the history of the U.S. Navy”.

Spiraling into debt when his bar failed to succeed in 1968, Walker made a drastic decision to sell his top-secret radio cipher to the Soviet Union. Arriving at the Soviet Union’s embassy in Washington, in person, he sold his US Naval codebreaker and arranged to work as a spy for the Soviet Union for around $2,000 per week.
Useless without the accompanying code-breaking equipment used on Naval ships, John’s sale is thought to be the reason that the USS Pueblo was hijacked and captured one month later by North Korea.
Sold on to the Soviet Union, Moscow could now decode all US naval communications – a staggering win, particularly because this was during the Cold War.
For the next five years, Walker continued to sell vital information about the Navy’s plans, tactics, training, and resources, putting the U.S. military in serious danger if the Cold War had ever turned into actual physical warfare.Interrupted by a job transfer in 1973, Walker duped Jerry Whitworth (who worked in communications), into passing information to him instead, telling Whitworth that it was to help Israel.
After eight years of espionage, the cracks were beginning to show and John’s superiors were becoming increasingly suspicious of the number of mistakes that he had on his record, so Walker quickly retired. Becoming a private investigator, he then convinced his son and older brother (who were in the navy) to steal the information for him instead. When his wife (now divorced), phoned the FBI to tell them that her husband was a spy – they didn’t believe her at first.
John Walker was arrested in 1985, after leaving top secret information in the woods for Russian intelligence officers. His son was found to have a locker full of classified documents when arrested on board his ship. Reports suggest that Walker’s actions did significant damage to national security.
As a result of John Walker, the U.S military completely changed and upgraded their security, introducing new technology after Walker was sent to prison. The impact of John’s treachery meant that the Soviet Union were able to study and track the U.S. Navy for almost twenty years. One of the consequences was that they were able to stop the U.S. Navy from detecting Soviet submarines when they discovered the method that the military used to find them.
John Walker and his brother both died in prison serving life sentences. His son received a reduced sentence of 25 years as part of John’s plea bargain.
Without a doubt, one of the most famous American spies of all time.