CI/Security Awareness Training

John Walker, along with his best friend Jerry Whitworth, his brother Arthur, and his son Michael were all arrested for espionage in May 1985. He and eventually his network had spied for the KGB since December 1967.

CI Centre Professor KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin supervised this case for the Soviet KGB when it began and when it ended.

John Walker was brought to CI Centre Professor David Major’s office in the Baltimore Office of the FBI where he was the CI Supervisor and Program Manager.

Starting with the Lipka espionage case in 1967, the story between these 18 years will be explored as never before.

Answers to such questions as:

• How was the case handled by the KGB?
• How important was the case to the Soviets?
• How could it last for so long?
• Who were John Walker and members of his ring?
• What were they really like?
• What are the untold stories about how this extraordinary espionage case was uncovered?
• What was the damage to US national security that resulted from this profoundly important case?
• What impact did it have on the Vietnam War?

The arrest of the Walker espionage ring resonated within the National Security Community and in the White House. It led directly to the appointment of David Major as the first Director of Counterintelligence on the National Security Council staff.

The end result was a series of presidential policy decisions to break the back of Soviet/Russian intelligence in the United States that had a positive impact on mitigating some of the damage done by the Robert P. Hanssen espionage case.

The lessons of these events and their legacy for today’s counterintelligence issues will be discussed in this intensive course.