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Christopher John Boyce (born February 16, 1953) is a former American defense industry employee who alleged CIA involvement in the Whitlam dismissal in Australia. After this, he attempted to sell United States spy satellite secrets to the Soviet Union in Mexico City in the 1970s.
The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 American spy drama film directed by John Schlesinger.The screenplay by Steven Zaillian is based on the 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey, and tells the true story of two young American men, Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) and Andrew Daulton Lee (), who sold security secrets to the Soviet Union.
Boyce was played in the film by actor Timothy Hutton. After 21 years of incarceration, Lee was released on parole in 1998. Kathleen Mills (Boyce), an activist who had worked towards earning Lee's parole, turned her attention towards the release of Boyce following Lee's freedom and eventually married Boyce.
[57] Subsequently, O'Shea was released, and specifically stated that ASIO orchestrated his release with MacDougall being a cover [57] due to them trying to prevent him from dying in jail and causing a subsequent riot, [57] the same intelligence agency also linked later to Whitlam's dismissal via Christopher Boyce.
January 1977 – Christopher John Boyce (born February 16, 1953) was convicted of spying against the United States for the Soviet Union. He was arrested in January 1977 for selling U.S. spy satellite secrets to the Soviet Union.
Christopher Murphy, 33, of Salina, was confirmed as the shooter in a gunfight that left two police officers and Murphy dead, according to Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick.
A former FBI agent was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while serving as an Alabama state trooper. Alabama's state police hired Christopher Bauer ...
Christopher John Boyce: 19347-148: Released from custody in 2003 after serving 24 years. Boyce & Lee were convicted of espionage in 1977 for selling classified information regarding US ciphers and spy satellites to the Soviet Union; they were respectively portrayed by Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn in the 1985 film The Falcon and the Snowman. [17]