John Walker Jr., a former American sailor convicted during the Cold War of leading a family spy ring for the Soviet Union, has died in a prison hospital in North Carolina, officials said Friday.
He died Thursday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke told the Los Angeles Times via email. Prison officials did not release a cause of death, and the North Carolina Medical Examiner's office had no immediate information on the cause of death. He was 77.
Walker was considered the ringleader of a spy ring that authorities at the time said was among the most damaging in U.S. history.
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Back in the 60's and 70's, Johnny Walker was a popular voice on WDMV, 540 on the AM radio dial in Pocomoke City. Few were aware that he was John Anthony Walker, Sr., father of the notorious spies.
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