The Most Damaging Soviet Spy Ring in American History | True Life Spy Stories
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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
📘 Spy Hunter: Inside the FBI Investigation of the Walker Espionage Case, Robert W. Hunter - amzn.to/4ekCCYq
📕 Breaking the Ring, John Baron - amzn.to/3VgiKgo
Media shown in this video (affiliate links):
🎞️ A Family of Spies (1989) - amzn.to/4cmyntM
🎞️ On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - amzn.to/4b4L9vQ
🎞️ The Vietnam War (2017) - amzn.to/3VqClux
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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Fun fact: when I was a child my baby sitter was his daughter, Cynthia. She's now married to a police officer and her son is a marine. They don't talk about her father and without knowing the back story you wouldn't ever guess her dad was one of the most destructive spy's in American history.
What movie was that?
me when i lie
@j.2_w77 she lives in Norfolk, Virginia and her husband was a transit officer originally on the Tide light rail which was relatively new at the time. She and her husband enjoyed playing candy crush style games, at the time she was baby sitting us she purchased a new house to rent out and it was completely trashed and needed thousands in work before it was ready. She still lives in Norfolk and her husband has since become a Norfolk police officer. She has a strong dislike for the circus do to the treatment of the elephants specifically and would always point it out when we rode the tide while visiting her husband.
American society and its trigger. Happy folks also has left millions disillusioned in a land of plenty ironically.only the elite live the life of untouchable kings
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His military ID says Grade CW03 (chief warrant officer 3). 10+ years plus high security clearance would be near 100k annual salary in today’s money, maybe higher depending on years in the military and level of security clearance. Also in the military it’s not only how much you get paid but how much you don’t have to pay. Much easier to have more money when you’re not spending what you have on the basic things civilians pay for daily.
Just want to put that out there to illustrate his level of greed.
Thanks, this helps me to put it into a little more perspective!
Actually an extremely important fact. Till reading it, I was thinking if only he'd received a decent wage, he would probably not have done what he did. No longer!
Yeah but that was then..my grandfather was in the navy and the pay was garbage..I’m sure cases like this is why they make so much now
"Level of greed" isn't a useful concept, at least in this sense. Greed is all about "more" - more than peers, more than everyone, more than you yesterday. In the Western world, virtually everyone's basic needs are met & then some - but often at the cost of mental health, relationships, and time. These costs, naturally, shape the attack vectors most available to the adverse powers.
In this case greed to acquire tokens of wealth wasn't in itself the individual's goal, but rather a crutch they'd appreciated to alleviate their actual issues. I write this reflecting on the incredible fact that this simple notion has flown completely over the heads of just about everyone who ought to have known better.
Considering how spicy this story is, Lord only knows what goes on in the spy world right now that we don't know about...
That's what I think about. In 40 years are we going to be watching documentary's (or plug our brains into the hivemind) about spies today?
@@AndrewJeffersonCotter its inevitable😥
It's all corporate/industrial espionage for the most part now with electronic surveillance and information gathering rather than human intelligence.
"This is thev story of selfish people that began in 2022, and the furry sysadmins that revealed their crimes."
Astute comment. All these stories should have " *that we know of* " added to their titles.
PERFECT - I am in the process of trying to change the bearing on my washing machine and this hits the ear spot 100%.
Haha that's great to hear! 😂
Good luck bro. I'm sure you will do fine, but if this helps, take pics while stripping.
it's quite a plastic item..oh that's on the dryer!
@JJsOriginals
👍👍👍👍You bastard👍👍👍👍👍
Excellent!😄😃😀😂
Now we know how K-Mart pulled off that impressive upset, winning the Cold War over both Russia and the US…
But losing to Walmart!
I can't imagine how unbearable it is for individuals like these, that are unequivocally convinced that they are better than everyone else, whilst reality consistently proves the opposite. To anyone wondering, this is the most basic profile for traitors: the malcontent. This stems from an innate belief that the subject is somehow better and should have a higher status despite their lack of actual merit. And so they go seek it elsewhere.
The brainwashing is real what are you even talking about?
Thank you Philip for another amazing true story. Having had brave patriots die in my Family to save Democracy, I am always amazed how low people will sink to make a buck!
While civilians should be regarded as innocent till proven guilty,
ALL military and intel personnel, should be viewed as suspects.
@hypnophonz👍👍👍👍
Your right!
But tell it to them too.....!
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Great work as usual. My only comment would be to put the sponsorship at the start or end. It's annoying when trying to concentrate on the documentary when it's suddenly interrupted by an ad.
Always good to see a video from you...However, I remember when this story broke. This case is very personal to me. I was upset to the point that I didn't eat that night, then got hyper-pissed off, because these dirtbags were literally trying to get me killed. I still get angry every time these sleaze bags come up.
God bless you and yours. I'm still wondering how/why the UCMJ took such a light hand with this traitor.
@@kevindorland738 For most of them, they were already out of the military. In the case of Walker's son, that was out of the Navy's hands because of Walker's plea deal for his confession.
Are u a spy then?
Judging by the photos of these men, my late stepfather was the spy, his successor, and simultaneously several of the tangential figures pictured. Every dude in the 1970s looked the same.
I am anticipating the time I have to schedule this channel for a binge. I am a new subscriber and I can't wait to watch the entire playlist... Excellent
Well done, Mr. Thompson. Your videos are very interesting. The visuals are appreciated.
Your quality is always a level above the rest. Always drops my jaw!!
Great video as always!!
I love spy stories. Very enjoyable, thank you.
Always good to hear a new spy video as I get to work.
Same here
Been waiting on your next video I’m excited
0:07 Raymond Reddington agrees with that statement
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Wow, this was incredible.
Amazingly well done video!
Excellent as usual. Thank you.
Great video!
I remember this like It was yesterday.
Funny that the actor that played Walker in the movie about a successful spy and traitor also played Jim Jones in the movie about the People’s Temple Cult’s mass suicide.
All branches of the military using the same encryption is peak comedy.
No it isn't, it is actually logical lol.
Excellent work. Subscribed.
What a piece of work.
Another amazing video
Finallyyyy!👊🏾❤️
My favorite UA-cam channel
In a way, it's not surprising that such cases exist taking in consideration that people are constantly surrounded by the idea that in order to be successfull nothing else matters.
Thank you
Traitor … breaks my heart 💔.. his son too ..
Awesome ❤❤❤
The best YT channel is back. Just bought you 10 coffees on your link🎉
Thank you so much! I have just seen, and that is very generous!
He should have paid his alimony.
First, love you vids!
The Navy doesn't seem to have very high entry standards
It does now... I wasn't welcome just based on some minor criminal troubles as a kid.
Standards can only be so high when you need hundreds of thousands of personal over many decades to maintain the force. Particularly as these days not many people want a military lifestyle.
11:49 - the Domino Theory, you have this completely incorrect. China was firmly Communist by 1949 and Cuba was firmly Communist by 1959. The Domino Theory was a theory that not only applied to Asia but also postulated that if any country fell to communism then the neighbouring countries were more likely to suffer a communist insurgency based out of the territory of the communist neighbour and more than likely to fall to communism.
3:13 Now that's Sus
The US Chief of Naval Operations should be held accountable also,
in order to ensure that these lazy-ass brass lose their complacency.
Wow no loyalty ,,I said it lets we all fear betray , betray is bad
Damn.
The Navy gave Walker an easy opportunity to continue his devious criminal tendencies.
The Russians provided John Walker
with a MINOX camera, not a Monox.
Well done Mr Walker
HIS WIFE GOT HIM.......GOOD GIRL !
I was not surprised to see people of such nature also easily fall for conspiracies out of certain frustrations. I cannot help but think of Q and MAGA folk.
The key takeaway from the history of Soviet espionage and counter-espionage is that it never really mattered. Damaging? How? What is the world like now that it would not be if cases like these never happened? Soviet and US Intelligence were chucklefucks.
How was it damaging? It got people killed in Vietnam and many other places.
@@godlymonkey That was happening anyway. Viet Nam was not Korea. France couldn't keep their hands on French Indochina, so it's a bit of bluster to assume the United States could manage better.
@@LordMarcus it got more people killed there.
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Lots of propaganda
I really look forward to your videos thank you for making such awesome content!! Nice springbok accent too 😎