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John Anthony Walker Jnr. ran the largest and most damaging espionage ring in Cold War history. For nearly 18 years he and his co-conspirators sold US Navy secrets to the Soviets.

Yet things inevitably got too big and too messy. John Walker’s contempt for his wife and those around him meant that it was only a matter of time before his house of cards went tumbling down.

In the year of the spy, John Anthony Walker Jnr. was the spy of the decade.

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Primary sources and further reading (afiiliate links):

📕 Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring, Pete Earley - Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring - https://amzn.to/4v0Sgjw

📘 Spy Hunter: Inside the FBI Investigation of the Walker Espionage Case, Robert W. Hunter - https://amzn.to/4ekCCYq

📕 Breaking the Ring, John Baron - https://amzn.to/3VgiKgo

Media shown in this video (affiliate links):

🎞️ On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - https://amzn.to/4b4L9vQ

🎞️ The Vietnam War (2017) - https://amzn.to/3VqClux