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   From: kwilson@cdc.com   
      
   The mastermind behind one of America’s most damaging spy rings   
   has reportedly died.   
      
   John A. Walker Jr., 77, was sentenced in 1986 to two life terms   
   plus 10 years for selling U.S. secrets to the Soviets as a   
   cryptologist in the Navy and after he retired. He died Thursday   
   in a federal prison in North Carolina, according to prison   
   officials, less than nine months away from his expected release   
   due to federal parole guidelines at the time, PilotOnline.com   
   reports.   
      
   Walker eventually enlisted his brother Arthur, his son Michael   
   and a Navy friend, Jerry Whitworth, into one of the biggest   
   security breaches in the nation’s history.   
      
   Robert Hunter, the FBI agent who arrested Walker, characterized   
   him as one of the most treacherous men he’d ever met.   
      
   “I think the man was pure evil,” Hunter told PilotOnline.com.   
      
   Walker’s foray into espionage began in 1967 while working at   
   what’s now the Norfolk Naval Station, where he stole and later   
   sold “key cards” to the Soviet Union, allowing its intelligence   
   officers to unlock more than 1 million top-secret and classified   
   messages.   
      
   Walker agreed to plead guilty as part of a deal with prosecutors   
   to obtain a lighter sentence for his son.   
      
   Former Navy Seaman Michael L. Walker served 15 years in prison   
   and was released in 2000.   
      
   The brother, retired Navy lieutenant commander Arthur Walker,   
   died at the Butner hospital in July.   
      
   The fourth member of the spy ring, Ex- Navy Chief Petty Officer   
   Jerry A. Whitworth was convicted in 1986 and later sentenced to   
   a total of 365 years. A database of federal inmates shows that   
   Whitworth, now 75, is incarcerated at the Federal Penitentiary   
   in Atwater, California.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/29/spy-ring-mastermind-john-   
   walker-reportedly-dies-in-prison/   
      
       
      
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