Barron,J. Breaking the Ring. 1987
Barron, John. Breaking the Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 244 pages.
This book is the story of the spy case involving John Walker, his
family, and Jerry Whitworth. Walker began spying for the Soviets in 1968,
and until the arrests of 1985, Walker's spy ring had furnished the Soviets
with over a million messages and the keys to decipher them. When Vitaly
Yurchenko defected briefly in 1985, he said that the KGB, which regarded the
Walker-Whitworth case as the greatest in its history, couldn't believe that
his wife had turned him in; they figured the U.S. must be protecting some
counterintelligence assets that they didn't know about. But Walker himself
once said that K-Mart has better security than the Navy.
John Barron was a naval intelligence officer in the 1950s, and since
then has written two books on the KGB, with assistance from his sources in
the CIA. His reputation as a U.S. intelligence booster allowed him excellent
access to the FBI agents who built the case against Walker and Whitworth, as
well as to some intelligence specialists who were concerned with damage
assessment. He also interviewed Walker, who turned state's evidence, and
attended Whitworth's trial.
ISBN 0-395-42110-1
- ALSUP JAMES (128-9, 136-7, 223)
- ANDRESS BEVERLY (59, 84-5, 108-9, 223)
- BELONOGOV ALEKSANDR M (214)
- BISHOP MAURICE (PM) (24)
- CARTER BILLY (BROTHER OF JIMMY) (100)
- CARVER GEORGE A JR (213)
- CLARK EARL DAVID (164)
- COLVERT BARRY (108-10)
- COSTA ALEXANDRA (DEFECTOR) (139)
- CULLIGAN PAUL (56)
- CUSICK ALAN (173)
- DEANE CARROLL (108)
- DION JOHN J (89-90)
- DOWDING HUGH (34)
- FARMER WILLIAM S JR (115-21, 129, 160, 224)
- FONG BARRON (133)
- FOURNIER JANET (1-5, 223)
- FOURNIER PIERRE D (2, 223)
- GOMEZ SOTO JOSE ROBERT (117-8)
- GORDIEVSKY OLEG A (141-2)
- GRIEGO ROBERT (69-76)
- HARPER JAMES DURWARD (66-7)
- HAVER RICHARD L (208-10)
- HITT KEITH (98, 110-1)
- HOBBS FLOYD (133)
- HODGES SHANNON (133)
- HOWARD EDWARD LEE (143-5)
- HUNTER ROBERT W (58-9, 93-4)
- KOLOUCH JAMES L (87, 94)
- LEFFLER RODNEY L (90, 93)
- LEHMAN JOHN FRANCIS JR (135, 151-3)
- LEVCHENKO STANISLAV A (16-7, 159, 223)
- LOWE A.JACKSON (83, 85-8)
- MAJOR DAVID G (23, 111, 203-7, 213-5)
- MARTIN JOHN L (89, 98-101, 138, 223)
- MCELWEE MICHAEL (101-5)
- MILLER RICHARD W (FBI) (66)
- MIRON MURRAY S (13, 19-20)
- NIMITZ CHESTER W (ADM) (30-1)
- OKEEFE WILLIAM P (93)
- PELTON RONALD WILLIAM (146-7)
- PETERSON JOHN (FBI) (1, 3-22, 101-5)
- POON FLORENCE (133)
- RICHARDS JERRY (90, 106)
- SCHATZOW MICHAEL (150-1)
- SCHOGGEN LEIDA (119-21, 160, 224)
- SEDDIO ALEX (132-3, 223)
- SHACKLEY THEODORE GEORGE (23)
- SHEVCHENKO ARKADY N (205)
- SMITS WILLIAM H (1, 5, 8-22, 38-9, 223)
- SPRUANCE RAYMOND AMES (30-1)
- STUDEMAN WILLIAM O (ADM) (208-12)
- STUKEY DONALD E II (66)
- SZADY DAVID W (46-51, 223)
- TKACHENKO ALEKSEI G (87-8, 207)
- TROTT STEPHEN S (152)
- VUKASIN JOHN JR (200-1)
- WALKER ARTHUR J (55, 57, 107-10, 113, 220-1)
- WALKER BARBARA (40-4, 53-7, 222)
- WALKER JOHN ANTHONY JR
- WALKER LAURA (41-4, 52-3, 222-3)
- WALKER MICHAEL LANCE (55, 60, 90, 110-3, 150, 194-6, 219-20)
- WANG WILLIAM H (94-5)
- WATKINS JAMES D (ADM) (203)
- WEINBERGER CASPAR W (152-3)
- WHITWORTH JERRY ALFRED
- WOLFINGER JOSEPH R (45-7, 224)
- YURCHENKO VITALY S (138-48, 154-7)
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