Comments on: The Spy Who Loved Nothing

By: DelRay

DelRay — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 19:33:08 +0000

I was friends with Robert Johnson jr. when he lived in Warwick Village in Alexandria, Va. This was 1963-64. It would be interesting to find out what happened to him after his release from prison for killing his father.

He was a good kid. Nothing seemed out of place or unusual during that time. He was just a regular kid that liked to hangout with the other neighborhood kids.

By: DaveH

DaveH — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 05:35:07 +0000

My dad was a AF mechanic stationed at Orly in the early 60’s. Bobby was one of my best friends. It was sad to read about all this.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 23:08:50 +0000

I am adding a comment to my posting of 22 August 2021 at 04:16 pm. My husband passed away 11 days after I posted that comment, but he told me to correct one statement. He did not put Bobby on a bus, he took him to the Indianapolis Airport and put him on a plane for the purpose of returning to Walter Reed, and I promised him I would correct my error. I am still looking for Bobby. For those reading this with a military background, Bobby was a Disabled Veteran who got benefits from the VA. He was in Vietnam and his boonie hat (which I have) has several identifying pieces of information on it: 1st RECON 506th, the Screaming Eagles patch, and a scroll for 2 STRIKE FORCE 502.

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:16:14 +0000

My husband was best friends with Robert Lee Johnson, Jr (a/ka Bobby) since being stationed in Paris as high school kids. They went into the service together from Indiana. My husband into Special Forces, Bobby into operation Dust-Off as a medic. I knew him personally as well and have photos. Bobby lived with my husband and his grandparents in Indiana before going to Vietnam and on returning. He was put on a bus (by my husband) in route to Water Reed Hospital for mental health assistance and in route, re-routed to the prison where he killed his father. The FBI spent a good deal of time with my husband over the matter (agent name was “Richardson”). Since Bobby was released from prison my husband has sought information about this whereabouts, but to date we have had no luck.

Hedwig went by the nickname “Heddie” and suffered terribly from mental health issues, and the last my husband knew of her she had been hospitalized. Additionally, there was another child, a daughter named Jessica (sister of Bobby) who was adopted by a doctor and his wife in Alexandria, Virginia.

As of this writing, we are still searching for Bobby.

By: Dennis Stewart

Dennis Stewart — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:35:48 +0000

Very interesting article indeed. I would say Robert Johnson was a hero. What really happened to his son and wife? Are they still alive???

By: Gator Weiss

Gator Weiss — Wed, 06 May 2020 10:52:07 +0000

The story is true. It’s disappointing to see comments that could be construed as supportive to the actions of Johnson and Mintkenbaugh. They are not heroes for American or then Soviets. They were self serving dangerous people who would sell out.to anything for a buck. The real heroes are those who captured them. If you stand against the United States of America you should not be permitted to reside here. National Security is a high priority in preservation of the freedoms everyone enjoys here. Political views are one thing. Attempts to destroy America is quite another.

By: Old Prof Bob

Old Prof Bob — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:24:17 +0000

As a young lieutenant, I worked with Sfc Johnson at the courier station in the Pentagon. You can’t imagine my surprise when he was arrested and tried a few years later. I do not know if he was still providing documents to the KGB at that time. If he was, it certainly was not evident. We handled some of the most highly classified materials; I hate to think that he might have been selling us out to the KGB while there.

By: L

Sun, 02 Nov 2014 12:05:49 +0000

No…there is a difference. I don’t buy the idea that the U.S. and the Soviets were the moral equivalent of 2 scorpions fighting in a box for survival. For example, look at the results of the client states.

What are you talking about? you need to have a look at Operation Condor in South America or a simple list of dictators supported by US and get out this self righteousness delusion

By: Kevin Paulson

Kevin Paulson — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 18:09:17 +0000

Mitrokhin said: “To the above comment on Johnson Jr dying in Vietnam in 1967, that Johnson Jr was born in 1945 in Oklahoma, the Johnson Jr I read about in a Times article on the stabbingindicated he was 22 in 1972 and from Indiana .”

Any idea as to his present whereabouts?

By: Mitrokhin

Mitrokhin — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:33:29 +0000

To the above comment on Johnson Jr dying in Vietnam in 1967, that Johnson Jr was born in 1945 in Oklahoma, the Johnson Jr I read about in a Times article on the stabbingindicated he was 22 in 1972 and from Indiana .