Arthur Walker Dies In Prison

[Sailor]

Arthur Walker, one of four men convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, has died in federal prison. He was 79.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons website confirmed that he died this month. A spokesman said he died over the holiday weekend, and Walker's family told Pete Earley, who wrote "Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring," that he died of acute kidney failure.

A Bureau of Prisons spokesman said today that Walker died Saturday, July 5, not July 4 as originally reported.

Walker was serving three life sentences plus 40 years for copying and conspiring to deliver secrets to the Soviet Union. He was sentenced in 1985.

Earley said he was one month away from a parole hearing when he died.


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I hope his brother, John, isn't far behind. I still believe the bunch should have had a date with old sparky or a hangman.

[101ABN]

Plenty of room in the 9th circle of hell for traitors like them.

[Sailor]

Cold enough to freeze hydrogen according to Niven's interpretation of Dante. If there is any justice in the universe he'll have brother John and Jerry Whitworth for company soon.

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Art died at Butner, in the federal prison complex there, after 29 years behind bars. He was 79, and, according to Early, one month away from a parole hearing. John is also up at Butner, at a medical facility, and has been seriously ill, according to the Virginian-Pilot.

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