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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JUNE 7, 1985
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Thank you for the letter of April 25. In it you made this state
ment, "I have always said that God causes the income to come in
according to how well we please him in our personal and callee
tive lives." This statement reminded me of my own 1ukewarm con
dition and I pray that it will have the same effect upon the other
lukewarm brethren. May we all get our acts together so that more
money will be poured into God's work, so that more ministers may
be gotten into the field.
Member (Altoona, KS)
I am writing this at 2:30 a.m. I awoke thinking of the need des
cribed in your letter and realizing that as a co-worker with
Christ, I want to do something. My offering in response to your
letter of April 25 is enclosed. Also, my prayers are urgent.
ON THE WORLD SCENE
M.A. (Littleton, NC)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
SPY SCANDAL RIPS INTO U.S. SECURIT Y: "THE REAL WAR" (PART I) FBI agents
have uncovered the biggest Soviet espionage ring to operate in the U.S. in
30 years. It has the earmarks of the most damaging security breach since
the notorio_
us Rosenberg cas·
e of the early 1950s. The FBI net so far en
closes four principie subjects, three of whom are in one family: Ex-marine
John A. Walker, Jr., age 47: his son, 22-year-old Michael Walker, a crewman
aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Nimitz: and Arthur J. Walker, 50, John's
older brother, also a Navy veteran and a one-time anti-submarine-warfare
specialist. A fifth suspect is under investigation and authorities believe
the ring may expand still further.
U.S. defense chiefs are deeply concerned that the nation's security has
been severely compromised, especially with regard to the Navy's undersea
deterrent forces. Underneath the world's oceans, U.S. and Soviet nuclear
powered and -armed subs engage in a vast cat-and-mouse game. The principle
aim is for craft of either side to be able to run silent and deep undetected
by the other's subs, anti-submarine warning aircraft and satellites. To be
in possession of the enemy's tactics and abilities would confer an enormous
advantage. Here, first, are excerpts from a cover article in the June 10,
1985 NEWSWEEK, entitled "A Family of Spies." (It seems that NEWSWEEK, with
such a bold assertion, might actually jeopardize the prosecution's case
since no subjects have even been brought to trial yet.):
How many more would be caught
by
the FBI's net? And how badly had
U.S. security been breached?
With backgrounds in perhaps the
most sensitive of all naval areas--the undersea nuclear forces-
the Walkers were conceivably in position to pass on details about
America's undersea deterrent.
It has been a dismaying time for the defense establishment. In
the last 12 months alone, espionage charges have been brought in
eight separate cases, implicating 15 people--including, for the
first time, an active agent of the FBI. The offenses alleged
range from theft of coding devices to an offer to sell the Soviet
Union information about America's critical radar-evading Stealth
technology. Worse, there are people who think these cases may be