The Most Damaging Soviet Spy Ring in American History | True Life Spy Stories

Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://sponsr.is/magellantv_philip. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch The Spy Who Went Into The Cold about super spy Kim Philby: https://www.magellantv.com/video/the-... Listen to my spy stories (and more!) on the True Life Spy Stories podcast! 🎙️https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show... Ways to support my channel: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompson Donate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284 Primary sources and further reading (afiiliate links): 📕 Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring, Pete Earley - Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring 📘 Spy Hunter: Inside the FBI Investigation of the Walker Espionage Case, Robert W. Hunter - https://amzn.to/4ekCCYq 📕 Breaking the Ring, John Baron - https://amzn.to/3VgiKgo Media shown in this video (affiliate links): 🎞️ A Family of Spies (1989) - https://amzn.to/4cmyntM 🎞️ On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - https://amzn.to/4b4L9vQ 🎞️ The Vietnam War (2017) - https://amzn.to/3VqClux John Anthony Walker Jnr. ran the largest and most damaging espionage ring in Cold War history. For nearly 18 years he and his co-conspirators sold US Navy secrets to the Soviets. Yet things inevitably got too big and too messy. John Walker’s contempt for his wife and those around him meant that it was only a matter of time before his house of cards went tumbling down. In the year of the spy, John Anthony Walker Jnr. was the spy of the decade. #philipthompson #truelifespystories #johnwalker