A remarkably active Cold War spy for the Soviets was John Anthony Walker, a Navy warrant officer.
Walker, sometimes with the help of his son, Michael and other accomplices is said to have aided the Soviets in translating upwards of 200,000 encrypted messages, beginning in 1967 when the elder Walker was working aboard a U.S. nuclear submarine.
Two sad aspects of this saga were that Walker had been allowed to join the military rather than serve time for burglary--not the very best way to recruit-- and that no one suspected him of selling documents to a foreign power until his own ex-wife ratted him out when he would not pay her alimony.
Son Michael got out of prison in 2000, but Walker and the other members of his spy ring all received life sentences.
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