Former U.S. Navy warrant officer John Walker dies in prison

[Misfit]

http://news.yahoo.com/john-walker-mastermind-notorious-spy-ring-dies-u-174246137.html

WINSTON-SALEM N.C. (Reuters) - A former U.S. Navy warrant officer who orchestrated a spy ring for the Soviets that was considered one of the most damaging security breaches in American history has died at a federal prison in North Carolina, a prison spokesman said on Friday.

 

[CrashTest]

My father was his C-School instructor.

 

[b23hqb]

I was Navy Radioman 1972 - 1976. Onboard USS Worden (CG-18) out of Yokuska, Japan, we often ran across - literally - Russian warships, especially Krivak-class destroyers/frigates. They regularly came abreast about 150 feet from us for hours at a time, and we would look at them looking at us. One day in radio central, a call came down from the signal bridge that the Ruskie had flagged for us to repeat a sequence of messages from our broadcast network, stating their receivers were down and missed them. We all laughed it off as a joke, straight to our CO.

It very likely wasn't a joke. Screw Walker, Whitworth, and the rest of those scumbags.

 

[dan0623_2000]

I thought the Navy was still using signal flags and lights for message traffic back in in those days!!!

 

[Baja28]

Good riddance to the traitorous POS.

 

[Ken King]

I was wondering, since that POS was sentenced to two life sentences plus 10 years will they just box him up and leave him in his cell for a while?

 

[Freefaller]

I was wondering, since that POS was sentenced to two life sentences plus 10 years will they just box him up and leave him in his cell for a while?

I say, Box him up and FedEx him to Vladimir Putin!

 

[Baja28]

I say, Box him up and FedEx him to Vladimir Putin!

:like:

 

[b23hqb]

I thought the Navy was still using signal flags and lights for message traffic back in in those days!!!

Pretty poor thinking. We were just entering the sat/computer age when I got out, but HF did the job.

 

[GURPS]

fed his corpse through a mulch er, and use whats left a fertilizer

 

[edinsomd]

AMF, Johnny Walker Red. He was sentenced for 30 to life. Looks like he got both.