BROTHER OF SPY SUSPECT IS TAKEN INTO U.S. COURT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000302090009-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 31, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/25: CIA-RDP90-00965R000302090009-2
'ARTICLE WE "D -.1% NEW YORK TIMES
r 31 May 1985
ON PAGE
Brother of Spy Suspect
Is Taken Into U.S. Court:
By BEN A. FRANKLIN
Mr. Walker, who wore slightly tinted
horn-rimmed- glasses, alternately
one- appointed by the court.
give him time to get a lawyer or have
magistrate then continued the prelimi-
nary hearing until 2 P.M. Monday to
"I'd feel more comfortable with'one,
Federal magistrate here.
He was arrested at 7 o'clock last
night at his home in nearby Virginia
Beach, where the Federal Bureau of
Investigation said he had admitted
turning over secret documents to his
younger brother, John A. Walker Jr.
Arthur Walker, 50 years old, is a one-
time antisubmarine warfare specialist
who has worked for five years as a
civilian engineer for a Navy research
contractor here. Flanked by Federal
agents today, Mr. Walker looked
drawn and wan as he appeared before
Magistrate Gilbert R. Swink Jr. He
was asked by the magistrate if he
wanted a lawyer.
He Did Not Plead on Charge
peared in handcuffs today before a
euten-
James Walker, a retired Navy li
ant commander and the third member,
of the Walker family to be arrested on
charges of espionage espionage, ap-
There was no immedi to explanations
of why the F.B.I. had Whited five days
to make the arrest, although the delay
might have been caused by the but,
reau's sifting of John Walker's files.. a
In a sidewalk interview, John C,,,
Wagner, the F.B.I. agent in charge;
here, said:. "Right at the morqegt
we're taking it one step at a tinie..1;_
would venture to say that there is a~
good possibility of additional arrests:'
According to the affidavit, Arthur
Walker, whose civilian job allowed him;
to see material classified "secret,:
said that on April 28, 1982, his brother
paid him $12,000 for "a defense 'y
that Arthur took from the Chesapeake,-
Va., office of the VSE Corporation, the
naval contractor Arthur worked for.
- According to a company spokesman;
"VSE" stands for Value Systems Ens
neering. The 20-year-old company vps
formerly called Value Engineering
n^-r
Report on Malfunctions, They Says
The file, according to the F.B.I..and
company spokesmen, was a report on.
malfunctioning equipment aboard-five
Navy ships.
Arthur Walker told the F.B.I. thatba `
ginia Beach where "he personally
bowed his head and supported it with
his right arm, the elbow resting on the
table. -
He was not asked to plead to charge of espionage and he spokerno--
word in public save to the magistrate.
After the hearing, he spent three hours
in the Federal courthouse before being.
whisked away by United States ma;-
shale.
The iovernment made it clear that"
Arthur Walker had cooperated in the
investigation.
In.an affidavit, Joseph R. Wolfinger,
the agent in charge of counterintelli-
gence investigation in the F.B.I.'s Noi?.
=
folk office, said Arthur Walker last Fri
day "admitted that on a_ number of oc
casions, beginning in approximately.
September 1980, he turned over to his
brother documents, files, photograp-hS,
booklets and defense plans relating to
the United States naval forces, know;'
ing that John Anthony Walker. Jr.-in-
tended to deliver or transmit thtse'-
items to the Russians." -
Elsewhere in the affidavit John-
Walker, 47, was identified as "an agent,
of the Soviet Union." John, along with
his son Michael L. Walker, were" at-,
earlier.
In the quiet Carolane Farms sulidivi
Walker and his wife, Rita, brought
Although some neighbors, including;
Caroll Joyce, described Arthur Walker .
,as an aloof man who was visible- only .
when gardening around his brick ranch '
'
house, others said that he had once
been head of the Carolane Farms Civic
League and had been a friendly and :
helpful neighbor, glad to apply his me- .
chanical skills to - repairing power,
mowers and swimming pool pumps.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/25: CIA-RDP90-00965R000302090009-2