Spying charges
A retired United States Navy communications specialist with top-secret security clearance has been charged with spying for the Soviet Union. He is alleged to have tried to pass classified national defence documents. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said its agents arrested John Anthony Walker, aged 47, who retired from the Navy in 1976 and who now runs a private detective agency in Norfolk, Virginia. He was charged with unsuccessfully trying to give the Soviet Union 129 classified naval documents, including material from the USS Nimitz, a nuclear-powered United States aircraft carrier. A package containing the classified data was seized after Walker allegedly left it in a wooded area near Washington. F. 8.1. agents saw a Soviet Embassy official in the same area. — Washington.
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Press, 24 May 1985, Page 13
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