Do a Biographics on Gonzalo Guerrero, its a really interesting story about a Spanish Conquistador who ends up fighting with the Maya against the Spanish Crown
Love your content and all your channels. Can you do a biographic about "William Crawshay and/or Cyfarthfa Castle" or a geographic about the once "mining capital of the world-Merthyr Tydfil". Please it's fascinating. 😊🤗
I wish that was true for the Total War series of games. Goddamn single spy costs as much as half a Roman Legion and I still end up getting less out of her!
So true and some Brits and Americans didn’t even do it for money. They were communists and did it for “the cause”. Think Kim Philby or the Rosenbergs. Walker was just greedy and immoral. Many people on both sides died because of this POS.
"The family moved to Scranton Pennsylvania after the dad went bankrupt and lost his job..." that's still the number one reason people move to Scranton Pennsylvania.
Real story: I drove through Scranton Pennsylvania a couple of times, and each time, I neglected to stop in that city, and always left it shaking my head and wondering: "Who the hell would ever want to live here??" Flash forward to today, and two of my cousins are married, and living in Scranton, Pennsylvania. They're doing alright by their families, but... Scranton?! REALLY?!!?
I was a submarine radioman in the US navy, and one of the very first people I heard about in radioman school was John Walker. Here is some of the fallout from Walker's spy ring: 1. The Soviet navy sent out submarines with very noisy propellers, which made them easily tracked by western submarines. Walker's ring sold the blueprints of American submarine propellers to the USSR, which resulted in the development of much quieter submarine designs. The Soviet/Russian Shchuka-class (barracuda. NATO name: Akula (Shark)) submarine is sometimes called the "Walker Class" because of the secrets he sold to the USSR. 2. Walker supplied the cryptographic tape, but it was useless to the Soviets unless they had the devices to read them. The USS Pueblo incident could not have been done by the USSR, so they convinced North Korea to seize a US navy vessel to help hide Soviet involvement and the Walker ring. 3. Walker's ring revealed the tapping of Soviet military wire cables off the Kamchatka Peninsula by US submarines. There was no doubt whom these wire taps belonged, as they said "Property of US Government" on them. 4. The Soviet Union was interested in what the US military was doing, and understanding its crypto communications gave them a major edge thanks to Walker. What he actually provided was superseded tape. The past tape is actually more valuable since the Soviets would already have those recordings, and could use the superseded tape to break it. Releasing the future tape would be incredibly risky since missing future crypto would draw suspicion and could be easily changed if it was suspected of loss; making it worthless.
Brent, I was an STG (surface sonar technician) in the USN from 79-99. I finished my career as a master level acoustic analyst and a surface ship asw specialist. The Delta class started to show signs of Walker's treachery with the quieting techniques it employed making it significantly quieter than anything they had produced before. The Victor III class was another indication as it continued to make progress with machinery and propellor quieting, as well as sporting a towed array for the first time. When the Akula hit sometime around 82 or 83 I think it was, it was a freaking eye opener. It was significantly quieter than anything the Soviets had produced before. Everything you said was spot on. Good job shipmate.
@@BruceMusto Thank you for the comment, your story, and your service, mate! I was not aware that the Deltas and Victor III's were also modified with Walker's treachery.
@@krazytrinisteve You're welcome, mate. The USS Pueblo has actually never been retired, so it is currently the 2nd oldest vessel in commission in the US Navy after the USS Constitution. North Korea has offered to return it several times, which includes the Trump Administration. .
Glad this traitor was caught, but how did someone so cunning and intelligent NOT realize how stupid it was to piss off an ex-wife who knew his secrets by refusing to pay alimony/child support? What stupidity greed causes -- who knows how long he could have remained undiscovered if he had just sent her enough regular payments to keep her quiet.
He was living fairly close to where I lived at the time he was discovered to be a spy. At the Air Force base where I worked at the time, we all had to go through a bunch of security training.
I can not imagine being a spy and being able to sleep at night or even function day to day. I know these people are professionals but the constant paranoia would be too much for me.
“There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.” ― George W. Bush
Actually that quote isn't him being stupid, apparently after he started saying it he realized that his opponents would get a soundbite of him saying "shame on me" so he improvised and came up with that disaster of a sentence
@@shebbs1 pervert Trump? Where are the cases/ allegations against Podesta? Did he try to dodge trial like Trump keeps doing? Yeah, that's what innocent people do in rape cases, refuse to provide DNA. 🤔
When I was doing my schooling for cryptography while in the navy, they taught us about Walker, and what to look for. Coincidentally enough, we had a seaman by the name of John Walker, who we teased forever about it.
All spies should be treated the Soviet way when caught. A bullet in the back of the head. After that, throw the body in a nameless grave somewhere. These people cheat, lie, betray their countrymen, how many deaths do they cause anyway? No mercy for spies.
@@lex1945 lol. This is why Trump (a Russian puppet) is president. Merciless meaningless bloodletting. This is why Russia fell apart too: they couldn't keep up the tough guy cherade.
Cool vid. When I was stationed overseas (USN) this guy was always brought up during security briefs. Plus we saw some other things related to his actions.
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I remember the de-briefing we got when the Walkers were caught. It was a tense time in the D.O.E. world. Maybe you could do one on the whole nuclear weapons program for Megaprojects. It would be huge, encompassing Hanford Plant, Rocky Flats, Mound Plant, Pinellis Plant, Amarillo and so on. Think about it. Great job Simon!
This is a great video, Simon. Speaking of videos about traitors, I would love to also see Biigraphics videos about Aldrich Ames and the Cambridge Five, please. Thanks.
He was just an agent, not a double-agent. A double-agent is someone who you think is a spy of yours but is really spying on you or feeding you bad information (in WW2, the UK had so compromised the German intelligence agency's field operations that every single capable German spy in the UK was actually a double-agent working for the allies). A triple-agent is someone who you think is a double-agent of yours but really is working for the enemy like they're supposed to.
@@NozomuYume I think I saw a comedy sketch where there's a meeting of German spies and nearly all of them are obviously British with like one guy being an actual German. I may be mixing it up with a different comedy sketch where the obviously Third Reich is having lunch pretending to be Brits.
@@jakelaurent6 shhhhh don't tell them that! Same goes for America tbh except with Indians and East Asians with technical degrees, without which our college system would collapse.
As we are in a time where we should be practicing strict hygiene, I also recommend doing Ignaz Semmelweis. He promoted handwashing which many scientists at that time thought was a joke, But he was actually saving millions of lives every year.
I was a radioman on the USS Kitty Hawk in the early 70's. We were constantly shadowed by Soviet "fishing trawlers" that bristled with antennas during our deployment off Vietnam.. I thought what's the point, they can't break our crypto security. When he was arrested I realized they had.
@@Blueshirts07 This was 50 plus years ago but I recall the security being good with the handling of messages which is where I work. The beached was with him suppling the Soviets with the code cards. That was in a separate compartment on our ship. IIRC only two or three officers and no enlisted were allowed access.
It's interesting that when they finally got him, he was meeting with someone under official cover from the Soviet embassy, with diplomatic plates and everything. "The center" must have known that Walker was under surveillance, so they wouldn't risk sending an illegal agent, without diplomatic cover. That person would have just been arrested, the center correctly assumed.
@Hamish McIndy seems like your the triggered one. All someone did was point out that you started talking about someone that has nothing to do with the video. You know like someone that's a little obsessed.
Michael, his son was attached to my ship the USS Nimitz while I was serving onboard. We never met as he was in Communucations and I was in Aviation Intermediate Maintenance. By the time the father was arrested Michael was flown off the ship before the story broke or he would most likely be killed by his shipmates.
If you could do one on Baron De Jomini or Carl Von Clausewitz that would be great. Both are seen as amazing authors of War alongside Sun Tzu. De Jomini is seen more as practical art of war, while Clausewitz is seen more on the theoretical side. But both books by the authors: The Art of War by De Jomini (yes same name as Sun Tzus book) and On War by Clausewitz are used by military leaders to this day.
Please do one on Kaarlo Tuomi: born in the US to a Finnish father who took his family to the new USSR during the 1920's. He eventually became a spy for the KGB but I think he waa captured by the CIA and turned into a doublw agent.
Willis 1 wellington wasn’t his adversary, he was just over glorified because he was the only British general to win on land. the coalition won because of the germans and the Russians.
@@matthew15578 Wellington would have been toast if Blucher had ben only a little later. He later said that it was "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life."
He also defeated the French in Spain and Portugal. Blucher had already lost at Quatre Bras to Ney and it was only Wellington's ability to hold the French long enough for Blucher to regroup which proved decisive.
I just watched a video on how this affected the F-14, by pilots who were flying at the time. Primary the missiles the F-14 used and how to jam them and stuff, plus tactics they used. Those guys did a lot of damage to our military.
Any chance you could do one for Huey Long, the dictator of Louisiana at some point? It’s that that would be a fun one to see as he does have a rather interesting story.
I wondered this too. You always hear how the US Embassy in Moscow and Russian Embassy in DC are constantaly staked out by the FSB and FBI, respectively. From articles I've read, it sounds like they're keeping a very close watch on who goes in and out. Particularly in the case of the FSB watching the US embassy in Moscow. There was that incident a few years ago where they accused an embassy employee of trying to recruit some FSB or other siloviki to work for the US, and then the FSB tried grabbing him as he was physically pulling himself inside the lobby of the embassy, and thus onto US territory where they have no jurisdiction. Maybe they didn't keep such close tabs on it back then when Walker WALKed in (hurr hurr), or maybe there are secret entrances/exits, or someone just wasn't watching that closely.
@@shadowpresident4203 Years ago I read a book on the Walker affair. Apparently he just walked into the embassy the first time. If it was under surveillance, he got away with it. When he left, the Russians put him in a big overcoat and hat, surrounded him with 3 or 4 big guys, and drove him out in a car. They drove all over Washington for half an hour or so to be sure they weren't being followed and finally let him out in the suburbs somewhere. After that, they would meet him in person only in Europe, in situations where they could scout the locations in advance and be sure he wasn't being followed. The dead drops were real cloak-and-dagger stuff, but they never met in person. He would leave the goods, and some time later they would come get it. When he was caught, the FBI seized the stuff from the drop site so obviously the bad guys didn't get that one. But within a few hours, several of the embassy staff left the country, some of them leaving half-cooked dinners on the stove. Similar questions have been raised about Lee Harvey Oswald's 1963 visits to the Russian and Cuban embassies in Mexico City. And FWIW, in the late 1980's I drove by the soviet embassy in Washington. There was a DC cop on the sidewalk right out front, with one of those "brick" radios.
I know about this guy! :-) His story was made into a 1990 TV movie, "A Family Of Spies", starring one of my all-time favorite actors--the great Powers Boothe--portraying Walker. ^_^ Speaking of Powers Boothe, I would LOVE it if you could make a Biographics episode about him! :D P.S.: Along with Powers Boothe, I'd also love to see episodes on... * Prince * Malcolm McDowell * Stanley Kubrick * The Gabor sisters * Vincent Price * Peter Cushing * Michael Jackson * Freddie Mercury * Madame C.J. Walker * Walt Disney * Peter Sellers * Wendy Carlos
And also: * Jesus Christ * St. Thomas Aquinas * Harriet Tubman * Mae West * Hedy Lamarr * Homer the poet * Nelson Mandela * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle And for an April Fool's Day suggestion: Sherlock Holmes. 😁
You should do a Biographics on Christopher Boyce, the US spy caught and the movie "The Falcon and the Snowman" was made about. What is unknown by most is what happened after he was imprisoned. Very interesting.
I can understand how someone could get in such a negative head space that they would choose to turn on their country - bullying is the military’s achile’s heel, it breaks people down and they start losing respect for the system
Walker and Whitworth put the lives of many thousands of lives including those of us serving aboard submarines. I retired in '76 as an RMCS(SS), Senior Chief Radio man qualified in subs (4). Whitworth had the same job on a boomer of the same class. There was never a chance to meet up with him in civilian life but promised myself that I ever did I would make a public show of dismantling him one limb at a time. Slowly.
I met Jerry Whitworth once when he and I stood an afterbrow watch together. Real smooth guy. I even found his picture in my USS Constellation cruisebook.
From what I know the movie made her look far better than she was. She was a rather unpleasant human being, though that could be said for a lot of millionaires back then, and billionaires now.
My Uncle actually lived next door to this this traitor and spoke to him a few times. He was not home much. ( spying does require travel) needless to say having the FBI knocking on door and telling you having been living next to a Soviet spy is bit of a shock. He destroyed many lives due to his spying. Simon you did a great job on this video for being a short overview of his story.
Sir Wilfred Laurier Canada 7th Prime Minister would be a good person to do, sitting 15 years as PM and 45 in the House of Commons. He was the glue that held Canada together through the late 1800 and ended his time in office in 1919
Please do videos on the following people: 1. Dennis Rader 2. Jack London 3. Upton Sinclair 4. Jack Ketchum 5. Jane Austen 6. Anton LaVey 7. Annaliese Michel
7 9 20 Hey Simon & the Team, Love the cartoons in the post; thanks. Imagine, espionage is still going on, they just haven't been exposed-YET. Stay safe, keep calm, & be well everyone. v
"Walker began making lucrative money by selling American secrets to the Soviet Union.." Promptly followed by advert for Square Space ... "want to sell items online?..."
The Cold War could have went in so many different directions. All it would have took was one individual like John Walker to NOT betray their country. Cold War espionage however, is fascinating!!!
This was extremely interesting to me. I grew up in Norfolk, Va. I was 16 in 1985, and I lived less than a mile from walker's home there. Not sure if it was John or Michael, but I remember all the talk and threats to him and his home. People were threatening to blow it up, or burn it down. Graffiti was spray painted on the brick front of the house. The graffiti was not removed for many, many years. I guess the people that bought it after all the commotion settled decided it was a piece of American history and kept it. Thank you for covering it.
Traci Scott , I remember the graffiti on his house. My uncle had to put up with on lookers that would drive by and yell things at the home. The house is still there.
I drove by the place about a year ago. The FBI released picture from inside the house in the press and lets just say his interior decorating tastes were very odd.
I'm sure he was strange. Getting all that money and being the '80's, decade of over spending, I'm sure he was just all over the place with his interior design choices.
Traci Scott , one of the ways he was able to hide the money and not have any questions asked was he ran a private investigation company for many years and did a pretty good business.
Simon like all you’re channels this one is amazing, I know that you a videos in lesser known ww2 figures, so could you please do a video on Hans Ulrich Rudel? The most decorated German soilder in all of ww2( he was so good the Nazis made a medal flr him!) and quiet possibly the deadliest pilot in human history. FYI Thx for business blaze it’s a very funny channel tbat I love.
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Do a Biographics on Gonzalo Guerrero, its a really interesting story about a Spanish Conquistador who ends up fighting with the Maya against the Spanish Crown
Love your content and all your channels. Can you do a biographic about "William Crawshay and/or Cyfarthfa Castle" or a geographic about the once "mining capital of the world-Merthyr Tydfil". Please it's fascinating. 😊🤗
Could you do paulkruger?
"It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly."
--Sun Tzu
I wish that was true for the Total War series of games. Goddamn single spy costs as much as half a Roman Legion and I still end up getting less out of her!
Edwin Casimir but you can trap and destroy armies with a handful of spies.
So true and some Brits and Americans didn’t even do it for money. They were communists and did it for “the cause”. Think Kim Philby or the Rosenbergs. Walker was just greedy and immoral. Many people on both sides died because of this POS.
Edwin Casimir you have to play Stellaris or HOE4 literally don’t need a military.
If he’s so smart how come he’s dead?
"The family moved to Scranton Pennsylvania after the dad went bankrupt and lost his job..." that's still the number one reason people move to Scranton Pennsylvania.
Lol Biden country!
" The Office" !
The most depressing city in the country.
I can confirm.
Real story: I drove through Scranton Pennsylvania a couple of times, and each time, I neglected to stop in that city, and always left it shaking my head and wondering: "Who the hell would ever want to live here??"
Flash forward to today, and two of my cousins are married, and living in Scranton, Pennsylvania. They're doing alright by their families, but... Scranton?! REALLY?!!?
My father wasn't perfect, but at least he never tried to coax me into joining a Soviet spy ring!
Mine went to get cigarettes in 1999
@@MrCharlesLeonard did he ever get it?
Or so you THINK, comrade! 🤨
@@Alex-uf6ss Exactly.
He convinced you to spy for the Belgiums though didn't he.
I was a submarine radioman in the US navy, and one of the very first people I heard about in radioman school was John Walker. Here is some of the fallout from Walker's spy ring:
1. The Soviet navy sent out submarines with very noisy propellers, which made them easily tracked by western submarines. Walker's ring sold the blueprints of American submarine propellers to the USSR, which resulted in the development of much quieter submarine designs. The Soviet/Russian Shchuka-class (barracuda. NATO name: Akula (Shark)) submarine is sometimes called the "Walker Class" because of the secrets he sold to the USSR.
2. Walker supplied the cryptographic tape, but it was useless to the Soviets unless they had the devices to read them. The USS Pueblo incident could not have been done by the USSR, so they convinced North Korea to seize a US navy vessel to help hide Soviet involvement and the Walker ring.
3. Walker's ring revealed the tapping of Soviet military wire cables off the Kamchatka Peninsula by US submarines. There was no doubt whom these wire taps belonged, as they said "Property of US Government" on them.
4. The Soviet Union was interested in what the US military was doing, and understanding its crypto communications gave them a major edge thanks to Walker. What he actually provided was superseded tape. The past tape is actually more valuable since the Soviets would already have those recordings, and could use the superseded tape to break it. Releasing the future tape would be incredibly risky since missing future crypto would draw suspicion and could be easily changed if it was suspected of loss; making it worthless.
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Bravo Zulu, wow well written I always want to know why North Korean wanted the Pueblo.... now I know thank you and make sure you skivies are stenciled
Brent, I was an STG (surface sonar technician) in the USN from 79-99. I finished my career as a master level acoustic analyst and a surface ship asw specialist. The Delta class started to show signs of Walker's treachery with the quieting techniques it employed making it significantly quieter than anything they had produced before. The Victor III class was another indication as it continued to make progress with machinery and propellor quieting, as well as sporting a towed array for the first time. When the Akula hit sometime around 82 or 83 I think it was, it was a freaking eye opener. It was significantly quieter than anything the Soviets had produced before. Everything you said was spot on. Good job shipmate.
@@BruceMusto Thank you for the comment, your story, and your service, mate! I was not aware that the Deltas and Victor III's were also modified with Walker's treachery.
@@krazytrinisteve You're welcome, mate. The USS Pueblo has actually never been retired, so it is currently the 2nd oldest vessel in commission in the US Navy after the USS Constitution. North Korea has offered to return it several times, which includes the Trump Administration. .
Glad this traitor was caught, but how did someone so cunning and intelligent NOT realize how stupid it was to piss off an ex-wife who knew his secrets by refusing to pay alimony/child support? What stupidity greed causes -- who knows how long he could have remained undiscovered if he had just sent her enough regular payments to keep her quiet.
This is the ONE time that I am glad for how biased the marriage courts are.
Greed and a massive ego seemed to be this clowns downfall
@@Gos1234567 I'd imagine that both would be required in order to agree to work as a spy for the Soviet Union in the United States during the Cold War.
@@Gos1234567 no... his ex wife turn him in. Bitter.
Which is why I'm always on good terms with all my exes...and their families as well.
Why do all that? He was in Scranton he could've been a small paper company's regional manager or at least assistant (to the) regional manager
Money
@@anastasiaisabella7354 Ironic
"Want to be a Soviet spy? Try Squarespace, comrade!"
That would be Red Square Space! Best if you also have an account in the Little Red FaceBook.
True spy stories can be way more intriguing than anything made by Hollywood.
I liked the Snafu and Spy vs Spy inserts.
Yah, Pamela I chuckled pretty hard at the Spy vs Spy inserts lololololo good ole Mad magazine lolol
Calpepper ..secrets..
Russia's stealthiest submarines were known as The Walker class, because of the technology which is supplied.
He was living fairly close to where I lived at the time he was discovered to be a spy. At the Air Force base where I worked at the time, we all had to go through a bunch of security training.
I can not imagine being a spy and being able to sleep at night or even function day to day. I know these people are professionals but the constant paranoia would be too much for me.
I agree
He was a sociopath they don’t possess a conscience.
His moral compass was off to begin with.
James Sloan fascinating, thanks for sharing
Helen Kessler false diagnosis, you cannot possibly back that up. Furthermore, the misconception that sociopaths don’t have conscience is abysmal.
“There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.”
― George W. Bush
@Hamish McIndy Isn't it the Dems who are the paedophiles? Pervert Podesta? The old fart you think might beat Trump this year?
Actually that quote isn't him being stupid, apparently after he started saying it he realized that his opponents would get a soundbite of him saying "shame on me" so he improvised and came up with that disaster of a sentence
Bush is an idiot
@@shebbs1 pervert Trump? Where are the cases/ allegations against Podesta? Did he try to dodge trial like Trump keeps doing? Yeah, that's what innocent people do in rape cases, refuse to provide DNA. 🤔
@@johnsMITHhhhhh88 so thats not stupid?
When I was doing my schooling for cryptography while in the navy, they taught us about Walker, and what to look for. Coincidentally enough, we had a seaman by the name of John Walker, who we teased forever about it.
@Ярослав Л Glad you enjoyed him, since he never even finished our class.
AKA ''Johnny Walker Red.'' Congratulations, another great video. Thank you!
Me, a submariner: "This guy sounds shifty as hell."
Biographics: "He joined the submarine force."
Me: "There it is."
Just give me money..to hell with the lives I destroy.. The lack of concern for others seems to span his whole life..Soulless person.
All spies should be treated the Soviet way when caught. A bullet in the back of the head. After that, throw the body in a nameless grave somewhere. These people cheat, lie, betray their countrymen, how many deaths do they cause anyway? No mercy for spies.
@@lex1945 lol. This is why Trump (a Russian puppet) is president. Merciless meaningless bloodletting.
This is why Russia fell apart too: they couldn't keep up the tough guy cherade.
Sounds like the current US President.
@@jeff7775 You mean Trump, of course.
Cool vid. When I was stationed overseas (USN) this guy was always brought up during security briefs. Plus we saw some other things related to his actions.
This guy was active whilst I was on active duty. He revealed to the Soviets just how to hide their intentions. Very destabilizing.
I was in the US Navy and remember when the Walkers were arrested. To me it was a big shock and that seemed to be a busy time for the FBI
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I remember the de-briefing we got when the Walkers were caught. It was a tense time in the D.O.E. world. Maybe you could do one on the whole nuclear weapons program for Megaprojects. It would be huge, encompassing Hanford Plant, Rocky Flats, Mound Plant, Pinellis Plant, Amarillo and so on. Think about it. Great job Simon!
This is a great video, Simon.
Speaking of videos about traitors, I would love to also see Biigraphics videos about Aldrich Ames and the Cambridge Five, please. Thanks.
When are you going to do a video on Simon Whistler
Smash that like button! Ba da boom chi da
@EmperorJuliusCaesar ...insert Bruh meme... a Q/A video.
i rather hear about Danny.
never, it says so on their website they wont do this
I would like to see a Kendrick Oyola biographic.
There's something intensely satisfying about knowing that double-agents lead such pathetic personal lives.
He was just an agent, not a double-agent. A double-agent is someone who you think is a spy of yours but is really spying on you or feeding you bad information (in WW2, the UK had so compromised the German intelligence agency's field operations that every single capable German spy in the UK was actually a double-agent working for the allies). A triple-agent is someone who you think is a double-agent of yours but really is working for the enemy like they're supposed to.
@@NozomuYume I think I saw a comedy sketch where there's a meeting of German spies and nearly all of them are obviously British with like one guy being an actual German.
I may be mixing it up with a different comedy sketch where the obviously Third Reich is having lunch pretending to be Brits.
@@NozomuYume by late war the uk did that and The Abwer Leader was plotting against hitler it wasn’t 100% Englands accomplishment
@@fallingpetunias9046 You're referring to Inglorious Bastards. That movie by Quentin Tarantino in 2007.
No one who's ever been assigned to Norfolk considered it a promotion. I desperately wanted to stay in Japan.
We in Japan do not want outsiders to stay here.
本田盾子 Except to collect foreign aid from those "outsiders".
本田盾子 Pretty sure you will need outsiders because the birth rate is so low in Japan there won’t be enough workers to sustain the economy
@@jakelaurent6 shhhhh don't tell them that! Same goes for America tbh except with Indians and East Asians with technical degrees, without which our college system would collapse.
BC Bob why
My dad was on the USS Pueblo. Thanks for mentioning it.
An interesting figure would be Ned Kelly, the only armoured bushranger in Australia.
Judging from what I've seen, his armour could also be a Megaprojects video!
As we are in a time where we should be practicing strict hygiene, I also recommend doing Ignaz Semmelweis. He promoted handwashing which many scientists at that time thought was a joke, But he was actually saving millions of lives every year.
@@senorliamy17 Yes. Excellent idea.
Thousand dollars a week or 52,000 a year works in 1967 out nearly 400,000 a year in 2020 money.
And that was only at the beginning, before he got the higher clearance
Given what you are risking doing that job, they got him cheap.
wow these videos sure are coming out quick
I was a radioman on the USS Kitty Hawk in the early 70's. We were constantly shadowed by Soviet "fishing trawlers" that bristled with antennas during our deployment off Vietnam..
I thought what's the point, they can't break our crypto security. When he was arrested I realized they had.
Walker claimed that Kmart had better security than the US Navy....was it really that bad?
@@Blueshirts07
This was 50 plus years ago but I recall the security being good with the handling of messages which is where I work. The beached was with him suppling the Soviets with the code cards.
That was in a separate compartment on our ship. IIRC only two or three officers and no enlisted were allowed access.
It's interesting that when they finally got him, he was meeting with someone under official cover from the Soviet embassy, with diplomatic plates and everything. "The center" must have known that Walker was under surveillance, so they wouldn't risk sending an illegal agent, without diplomatic cover. That person would have just been arrested, the center correctly assumed.
Amazing that he could get that type of secret clearance with his less than exemplary background.
How could he just walk into the Soviet Embassy without anyone noticing? Shouldn’t it be under 24 hours surveillance?
Hamish McIndy Orange Man is in your head 24/7.
@Hamish McIndy seems like your the triggered one. All someone did was point out that you started talking about someone that has nothing to do with the video. You know like someone that's a little obsessed.
Hamish McIndy bruh calm down, you seem a bit obsessed
Not really, GW got 2 DUI's in Texas
Your cool thank you for the videos you have made over the years and thank you in advance for making future videos
@@ellameyer8151 the comma isn't required...
Would love to see something on Chuck Yeager, and/ or the X-1 and breaking the sound barrier for mega projects
"A RED SPY IS IN THE BASE?!"
You should do a bio of Kim Philby, probably one of the most treacherous and effective spies in history.
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Nice vid, you should do one on the Cambridge Five next
What people can do is amazing. What people will do is depressing.
Michael, his son was attached to my ship the USS Nimitz while I was serving onboard. We never met as he was in Communucations and I was in Aviation Intermediate Maintenance. By the time the father was arrested Michael was flown off the ship before the story broke or he would most likely be killed by his shipmates.
As I recall, he was arrested onbaord when the ship pulled into Haifa Isreal.
If you could do one on Baron De Jomini or Carl Von Clausewitz that would be great. Both are seen as amazing authors of War alongside Sun Tzu. De Jomini is seen more as practical art of war, while Clausewitz is seen more on the theoretical side. But both books by the authors: The Art of War by De Jomini (yes same name as Sun Tzus book) and On War by Clausewitz are used by military leaders to this day.
Please do one on Kaarlo Tuomi: born in the US to a Finnish father who took his family to the new USSR during the 1920's. He eventually became a spy for the KGB but I think he waa captured by the CIA and turned into a doublw agent.
You’ve done a biography of Napoleon, how about one about his adversary, the Duke of Wellington?
Willis 1 wellington wasn’t his adversary, he was just over glorified because he was the only British general to win on land. the coalition won because of the germans and the Russians.
@@matthew15578 Wellington would have been toast if Blucher had ben only a little later. He later said that it was "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life."
He also defeated the French in Spain and Portugal. Blucher had already lost at Quatre Bras to Ney and it was only Wellington's ability to hold the French long enough for Blucher to regroup which proved decisive.
I just watched a video on how this affected the F-14, by pilots who were flying at the time. Primary the missiles the F-14 used and how to jam them and stuff, plus tactics they used. Those guys did a lot of damage to our military.
That's why I'm here as well. Mooch sends his regards.
@@thetimebinder It's cool to hear stories from the actual people who did it/have experienced in the things you're interested in.
I was stationed at Bangor submarine base Washington State when they busted Walker I remember that day as if it was yesterday the s*** hit the fan
I was involved in the "recovery" of what Walker and his son had been doing before the world knew.
What can you share about that?
You still in the business?
Been out of the business for quite some time. As far as what we knew, let's say Michael Walker was sloppy BEFORE the FBI was involved
Would love to hear more / interview you.
Are you even allowed to post this without being reprimanded?
I've watched you start severl successful yt channels.
i was down and out, i had no more ideas, thank you for inspiring me
Any chance you could do one for Huey Long, the dictator of Louisiana at some point? It’s that that would be a fun one to see as he does have a rather interesting story.
I came here to learn more about whiskey, turns out it's a spy talk.
Damn, Doesn't the FBI keep someone outside the Russian Embassy? Seems like an obvious thing to do.
elweasel2010 You said it yourself, “obvious”, the Soviets would catch wind of it eventually and would not be pleased.
I wondered this too. You always hear how the US Embassy in Moscow and Russian Embassy in DC are constantaly staked out by the FSB and FBI, respectively. From articles I've read, it sounds like they're keeping a very close watch on who goes in and out. Particularly in the case of the FSB watching the US embassy in Moscow. There was that incident a few years ago where they accused an embassy employee of trying to recruit some FSB or other siloviki to work for the US, and then the FSB tried grabbing him as he was physically pulling himself inside the lobby of the embassy, and thus onto US territory where they have no jurisdiction. Maybe they didn't keep such close tabs on it back then when Walker WALKed in (hurr hurr), or maybe there are secret entrances/exits, or someone just wasn't watching that closely.
@@shadowpresident4203 Years ago I read a book on the Walker affair. Apparently he just walked into the embassy the first time. If it was under surveillance, he got away with it. When he left, the Russians put him in a big overcoat and hat, surrounded him with 3 or 4 big guys, and drove him out in a car. They drove all over Washington for half an hour or so to be sure they weren't being followed and finally let him out in the suburbs somewhere. After that, they would meet him in person only in Europe, in situations where they could scout the locations in advance and be sure he wasn't being followed.
The dead drops were real cloak-and-dagger stuff, but they never met in person. He would leave the goods, and some time later they would come get it.
When he was caught, the FBI seized the stuff from the drop site so obviously the bad guys didn't get that one. But within a few hours, several of the embassy staff left the country, some of them leaving half-cooked dinners on the stove.
Similar questions have been raised about Lee Harvey Oswald's 1963 visits to the Russian and Cuban embassies in Mexico City.
And FWIW, in the late 1980's I drove by the soviet embassy in Washington. There was a DC cop on the sidewalk right out front, with one of those "brick" radios.
This video was super informative! I would love to see a video on the French Foreign Legionarie Jean Danjou one day!
I know about this guy! :-) His story was made into a 1990 TV movie, "A Family Of Spies", starring one of my all-time favorite actors--the great Powers Boothe--portraying Walker. ^_^
Speaking of Powers Boothe, I would LOVE it if you could make a Biographics episode about him! :D
P.S.: Along with Powers Boothe, I'd also love to see episodes on...
* Prince
* Malcolm McDowell
* Stanley Kubrick
* The Gabor sisters
* Vincent Price
* Peter Cushing
* Michael Jackson
* Freddie Mercury
* Madame C.J. Walker
* Walt Disney
* Peter Sellers
* Wendy Carlos
And also:
* Jesus Christ
* St. Thomas Aquinas
* Harriet Tubman
* Mae West
* Hedy Lamarr
* Homer the poet
* Nelson Mandela
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
And for an April Fool's Day suggestion: Sherlock Holmes. 😁
Please do Chiune Sugihara. He was featured in your "Top 10 Manliest Quotes" video over 4 years ago. A fascinating and relatively unsung hero.
You should do a Biographics on Christopher Boyce, the US spy caught and the movie "The Falcon and the Snowman" was made about. What is unknown by most is what happened after he was imprisoned. Very interesting.
My late uncle was a falconer and was acquainted with him.
This guy is a Soviet Dwight Schrute!!
I remember watching this story on 60 Minutes growing up.
I can understand how someone could get in such a negative head space that they would choose to turn on their country - bullying is the military’s achile’s heel, it breaks people down and they start losing respect for the system
Thank you for sharing another fantastic video!
The Biographics Dude:
The Man After Every Story
I find this sort of stuff absolutely fascinating. Thank you!
1:53 Hey, Private SNAFU. There’s a face I never expected to see...
Can you do a video on Les Paul. Very interesting man. He was an inventor and very talented musician. It would be great to see you do a video on him
Your videos are great, thank you so much!
Walker and Whitworth put the lives of many thousands of lives including those of us serving aboard submarines. I retired in '76 as an RMCS(SS), Senior Chief Radio man qualified in subs (4). Whitworth had the same job on a boomer of the same class. There was never a chance to meet up with him in civilian life but promised myself that I ever did I would make a public show of dismantling him one limb at a time. Slowly.
Still waiting on your Biographic, Simon. Don't hold out on us.
I met Jerry Whitworth once when he and I stood an afterbrow watch together. Real smooth guy. I even found his picture in my USS Constellation cruisebook.
Would love to see the biographic on Madam CJ Walker 1st Black female millionaire in America.
First self-made female millionaire....black or otherwise....
From what I know the movie made her look far better than she was. She was a rather unpleasant human being, though that could be said for a lot of millionaires back then, and billionaires now.
No one cares if she was black
YYYEEEESSSSS!!!! 😁
Would love to see a video on Ian Fleming soon :)
My Uncle actually lived next door to this this traitor and spoke to him a few times. He was not home much. ( spying does require travel) needless to say having the FBI knocking on door and telling you having been living next to a Soviet spy is bit of a shock. He destroyed many lives due to his spying. Simon you did a great job on this video for being a short overview of his story.
This is a intriguing channel
You should do a Biographic on Neil Peart or Sting. Would be very interesting to see.
Do some on black leaders ; Marcus Garvey, kwame Nkrumah , Mandela, julius Nyerere, W.E.B Dubois, etc
Marcus Garvey would be great. But I'd like to see Bobby Seale.
Could you cover Tamerlane and the timurid empire? He's a brutal conqueror that isn't very well known (atleast compared to Gengis Khan)
The way he brought his kid into it was actually funny.. 007 you're a born spy
Sir Wilfred Laurier Canada 7th Prime Minister would be a good person to do, sitting 15 years as PM and 45 in the House of Commons. He was the glue that held Canada together through the late 1800 and ended his time in office in 1919
I read the biography of the U.S.S. Pueblo as a kid. I never forgot them and I never will.
Could you cover Tsar Nicolas, the last Tsar or Atilla the Hun
I think he has already done both of those.
@Rob Q I thought I had watched them....but I've watched so many it's hard to keep up lol
Please do videos on the following people:
1. Dennis Rader
2. Jack London
3. Upton Sinclair
4. Jack Ketchum
5. Jane Austen
6. Anton LaVey
7. Annaliese Michel
It's Ash, not Jack.
Fantastic channel, I'm hooked! Please would you consider Francisco Pizarro, a man of many faces. Happy to provide sources and content.
Let’s hope US intelligence now look into family dynamics and phycological disfunctions
Another spy that would be good for the Simon treatment would be Jonathan Pollard.
7 9 20 Hey Simon & the Team, Love the cartoons in the post; thanks. Imagine, espionage is still going on, they just haven't been exposed-YET. Stay safe, keep calm, & be well everyone. v
Please do a biography of Curtis LeMay
The wife's hamsterwheel explanation lol
"Walker began making lucrative money by selling American secrets to the Soviet Union.."
Promptly followed by advert for Square Space ... "want to sell items online?..."
2:13 ... Wait, hold up! You mean to tell me a guy named Johnny Walker had an alcoholic dad? Say it ain't so!
Simon your beard is looking remarkable recently
The Cold War could have went in so many different directions. All it would have took was one individual like John Walker to NOT betray their country. Cold War espionage however, is fascinating!!!
he looks literally exactly like tom cruise in the movie tropic thunder
..except Cruise was fatter.
And NOTHING like Powers Boothe!
That was a good one Simon. Still think you should do one on David Bowie.
He was a good spy until he told his wife. Huge mistake! :D
I have a suggestion for a video : the Greek dictatorship and its figures! I think you ll find it very interesting! Have a nice day 😊
Wow, Simon said "allegedly" with a straight face, more than once. What a pro👍
This was extremely interesting to me. I grew up in Norfolk, Va. I was 16 in 1985, and I lived less than a mile from walker's home there. Not sure if it was John or Michael, but I remember all the talk and threats to him and his home. People were threatening to blow it up, or burn it down. Graffiti was spray painted on the brick front of the house. The graffiti was not removed for many, many years. I guess the people that bought it after all the commotion settled decided it was a piece of American history and kept it. Thank you for covering it.
Traci Scott , I remember the graffiti on his house. My uncle had to put up with on lookers that would drive by and yell things at the home. The house is still there.
I used to babysit at a house right across the street. I remember that too. It got to be scary. Me being 16 and having 3 children under the age of 6.
I drove by the place about a year ago. The FBI released picture from inside the house in the press and lets just say his interior decorating tastes were very odd.
I'm sure he was strange. Getting all that money and being the '80's, decade of over spending, I'm sure he was just all over the place with his interior design choices.
Traci Scott , one of the ways he was able to hide the money and not have any questions asked was he ran a private investigation company for many years and did a pretty good business.
Could it be he was also the Scranton Strangler?
Unless he changed his Alias to Creed then maybe
What a charming family!
Simon like all you’re channels this one is amazing, I know that you a videos in lesser known ww2 figures, so could you please do a video on Hans Ulrich Rudel? The most decorated German soilder in all of ww2( he was so good the Nazis made a medal flr him!) and quiet possibly the deadliest pilot in human history. FYI Thx for business blaze it’s a very funny channel tbat I love.
This was pretty interesting. I can't believe the wife threatened the Soviet Union and lived to talk about it.
A little surprised SOSUS wasn’t brought up during this
what a king