That’s how they operate, and I was beginning to sense that.” All they do is spend their days waiting for some snitch to call them and turn someone in. The FBI is not powerful at all because its agents are really just bureaucrats and they have the same inherent ineptitude of all government bureaucrats. You see, the FBI doesn’t really do any investigating. “ I began to realize that the FBI is not like it is on television. In fact, the FBI initially discounted Barbara’s revelations much as they ignored the information they had on the 9/11 attackers.

And he would never have been caught except John’s maltreatment of his wife. He successfully enlisted his friends and relatives in his operation. This is the extraordinary story of John Walker who, as a Navy warrant officer, passed vital secrets to the Russians, not out of any political conviction, but purely for the money. “K-mart store has better security than the U.S. military traffic until 1980 when the system was changed. didn’t change all its codes after the hijacking baffles me, but they didn’t and the Soviets could read all the U.S. The North Korean hijacking of the Pueblo in 1968 gave them the machine. The Soviets could read our communications but not break the code until Walker gave them the code cards. Some background reading revealed that John A. I have this need to always find out what really happened, i.e., what verity there might be in the dramatic film version compared to real life. Another of those must reads after watching the eponymous movie.

Family of Spies by Pete Earley