BARRON : Breaking the ring (fülszöveg)
Electronic communications transmit the thought patterns of a modern government and are vitat to its defense. When an enemy finds a way of tapping into a nation's most secret miIitary messages, he can read his antagonist's mind. Thanks to the bizarre family espionage operation begun by John Walker in 1968, the Soviets gained intimate knowledge of American military moves and intentions for seventeen years. The Walker ring gave them, literally, a million or more messages and the keys to decipher them. It was our greatest loss and the Soviets' greatest victory in the entire Cold War. As Vitaly Yurchenko, the Soviet KGB defector, pointed out, if there had been a war during this time, the United States surely would have lost it.
Breaking the Ring is different from any other book on the Walker case in that it makes a full, sober, long-range assessment of the tremendous damage our national security has suffered. Along with that, it gives a fascinating account of the FBI's search for a mysterious traitor it long knew was out there somewhere, the break in the case when Barbara Walker could stand the weight on her conscience no Ionger, and the suspenseful hunt for John Walker and his confederates. It takes us behind the scenes in Washington when the secretary of defense overruled an embittered secretary of the navy in order to put shipboard communications expert Jerry Whitworth-Walker's most valuable source—on trial. And it follows the revelations of that trial.
This is the most authoritative book likely to be written about the Walker case. It is by the author of two highly respected books on the Russian KGB and of MiG Pilot, the best-selling story of a Russian airman defector.
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