Notorious Russian Spies Throughout History

Notorious - Russian Spies Through History From the Soviet era on, organized clandestine agents from the Motherland have operated in the west with daring and inguinity
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Christopher Boyce
Boyce, who was inspiration for Robert Lindsey's best seller The Falcon and the Snowman as well as the film adaptation, sold classified communiqués to the Soviets through his friend Andrew Dalton Lee. Boyce was arrested in 1977 after Lee was nabbed in front of the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. After a prison break in 1980, Boyce went on a bank-robbing spree and plotted to escape to the Soviet Union. He was rearrested in a diner parking lot in 1981. Boyce was released in 2003 and remains on parole until 2047.

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