The Walker Spies: Story of a KGB Agent Who Recruited His Family—And Was Betrayed by His Daughter

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02:21 Buying Treason: The KGB's Billion-Dollar Miscalculation
04:44 $600 Per Month: How America's Submarine Secrets Got a Price Tag
08:53 $2 Million Divided: How Walker Sold His Own Son
13:13 Alcoholism, Violence, and the Secret That Wouldn't Stay Buried
16:37 Laura's Choice: Saving a Brother by Destroying a Father
20:45 365 Years: The Sentencing of America's Most Valuable Spies
24:51 Greatest Triumph, Greatest Mystery: How the KGB Lost What It Couldn't Explain
28:46 What Money Can't Buy: The Vulnerability That Became Strength
32:22 Walker in Prison: The Spy Who Never Understood His Own Failure
35:27 In the End: Why You Can Purchase Betrayal But Not Silence

For almost two decades during the height of the Cold War, US Navy officer John Walker sold the USSR its most critical naval secrets. Recruited over personal debt , this spy transformed his family into a multi-generational network. Walker, his brother, son, and best friend passed key lists to the Soviet Union, allowing their submarines to read encrypted US Navy orders in real-time, "as easily as a morning newspaper".

KGB defector Vitaly Yurchenko called Walker's operation "the greatest intelligence triumph" in the history of Soviet espionage, costing the Soviets less than $2 million. The damage to American History was "breathtaking in scope".

But this incredibly successful operation failed not because of counterintelligence. It collapsed because of Walker's daughter, Laura, who refused to accept moral complicity. Tired of her father's betrayal, her single phone call to the FBI destroyed the network. This is the story of how the KGB's ideological blindness—their inability to comprehend the power of individual conscience in a free society—proved stronger than any technological breakthrough.

Discover how the freedom Walker sold ultimately saved the country from his treason

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