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instructions from? you want to be partners? i m offering you a partnership. in the 1970s, boyce was an nsa contractor. he claimed he was angry about what he called a u.s. plan to overthrow the australian government, so he teamed up with his friend, lee, to steal secret nsa codes and sell them to the soviets. they were caught, tried for espionage, sent to prison. dalton served 20 years, boyce served 25, but what happened after they were freed has been a mystery until now. christopher boyce and his wife, kate, are providing some answers in their new book, the falcon and the snowman: american sons. they sat down with me for an exclusive interview. it was christopher s first on-camera interview in 28 years. now, i asked him how the relationship with chris s childhood friend and co-conspirator deteriorated, why he sold the secrets to the soviets in the first place and if the decades he served in prison were worth it. i am saying that it is a
who did you receive your instructions from? you want to be partners, i m offering you a partnership. that was a clip from the mo offy the falcon and the snowman. the 1985 film starring timothy hutton that helped launch convicted spy christopher boyce into infamy. i ll be looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life. his real life story began in 1974. the clean cut son of a former fbi agent was working at a defense firm in california when he intercepted a cia cable that allegedly discussed the plan to destabilize the australian government. he teamed up with childhood friend andrew dalton lee to, quote, do as much damage to the american intelligence community as he could. to boyce, that meant selling nas codes to the soviet union. he later said his prime motivation was to punish the u.s. for allegedly being in cahoots to overthrow the government of its ally. after two years on the run, boyce was caught outside the soviet embassy in mexico and was
promptly handed other to the fbi. he knew it was coming. it s to make your life miserable. it s to wake up in the morning with a fear in your stomach and you re always wondering if you re going to get caught and you ve made yourself into chattel to a foreign bureaucracy that doesn t care about you and only wants to exploit you. he was tried, convicted of espionage, and sentenced to 40 years in federal prison. his accomplice received a life sentence though he was released after 20 years. but boyce s adventures were not over. he escaped in 1980 followed by 19 months on the run robbing banks. after being caught and serving more time, he was paroled in 2003. he had served only 25 years of his sentence. boyce credits a paralegal, kate mills, with his release. they fell in love and married while he was still in prison. this summer they went public with what happened after boyce s conviction in a memoir, the
for a year or two and then he will regret that he did it to himself. what do you think about the falcon and the snowman, is it an accurate portrayal of what you went through? yes, and it was very surreal to be brought out of solitary confinement myself and sit down with the actors that portrayed me and watch a film in a room with federal beau yo krats. the furry and the anger, they were sitting there with us. was there a satisfaction then that you felt in watching that? yes, but it was also very strange. everything about my life had become strange. i had not seen the sun in, you