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Christopher John Boyce Biography

Christopher John Boyce is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on February 16, 1953 in Santa Monica, California, United States. Christopher John Boyce (born 16 February 1953) is an ex- American defense industry worker who was found guilty of trading United States spy satellite secrets to the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

The tale of their story was told in Robert Lindsay’s bestseller in 1979, The Falcon and the Snowman. The book was made into a film with the same name with the help of director John Schlesinger starring Timothy Hutton as Boyce and Sean Penn as Lee.

On 21 August 1981, Boyce was arrested while eating in his car outside “The Pit Stop,” a drive-in restaurant in Port Angeles, Washington, by U.S. Marshals. Authorities had received a tip about Boyce’s whereabouts from his former bank robbery confederates.

In the spring of 1982, Boyce appeared before Judge Harold Ryan in U.S. District Court in Boise and was sentenced to three years for his escape and to 25 years for bank robbery, conspiracy, and breaking federal gun laws. Given an aggregate total sentence of 68 years, he was transferred to United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth.

Boyce Lee, who was then 23 was eventually exposed when Lee was detained at the hands of Mexican police in the front of the Soviet Embassy on January 6, 1977. The arrest of Boyce was “almost by accident”: Lee was detained for littering. After a brutal interrogation Lee was found to have the top-secret microfilms in his possession at the time of being was arrested, admitted as the son of a Soviet spy and was implicated Boyce. Boyce was detained on the 16th of January, 1977, after the FBI located him in a shack that located close to Riverside, California. Boyce was found guilty on 14 May 1977, of espionage . He was sent to prison for 40 years. of prison. He was initially detained on Terminal Island and then the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego. On the 10th of July, 1979, the prisoner was sent into the Federal Penitentiary at Lompoc, California.

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In April 1985, Boyce gave testimony on how to prevent insider spy threats to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as part of its Government Personnel Security Program.

Christopher John Boyce Net Worth

Christopher John Boyce is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christopher John Boyce's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Boyce says he started receiving misrouted messages sent by his Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in which the agency discussed its desire to remove the government of the Prime Premier Gough Whitlam of Australia. Boyce said that the CIA demanded Whitlam exiled from his post due to the fact that Whitlam wanted to shut down U.S. military bases in Australia which included the crucial Pine Gap secure communications facility and also take away Australian forces from Vietnam. Some claim the U.S. government pressure was one of the main reasons for the demotion of Whitlam as the Prime Minister by Governor General Sir John Kerr, who according to Boyce was known by the name of “our man Kerr” by CIA officers. Through the cables Boyce realized evidence that showed the CIA was involved in this way that it was not only with Australia as well as other industrialized and democratically-minded allies. Boyce thought about attending a press conference however, he believed that the press’s previous disclosures of CIA role in 1973’s Chilean coup d’etat has not affected anything.

When he was in 1974, Boyce got a job at TRW, an aerospace company located in Redondo Beach, California. Thanks to his father’s highly regarded post within McDonnell Douglas, Boyce was successful in securing an employment.

On 21 January 1980, Boyce escaped from Lompoc. While a fugitive, Boyce carried out 17 bank robberies in Idaho and Washington, hoping to pay for passage to the Soviet Union, and adopted the alias of “Anthony Edward Lester.”

In 1988, with support from senators, he was transferred, out of solitary confinement, to Minnesota Correctional Facility – Oak Park Heights. He was transferred to ADX Florence in Colorado in 1998; in his opinion, this was punishment for a newspaper article that he had written. In 2000, he was transferred to FCI Sheridan in Oregon, northwest of Salem.

Boyce was released from prison on parole on 16 September 2002 after serving a little over 25 years, accounting for his time spent outside from the escape. Shortly thereafter he married Kathleen Mills, whom he had met when she was working as a paralegal spearheading efforts to obtain parole for Lee. After her success with Lee, she turned her attention to securing parole for Boyce as well, and the two developed a personal relationship. Boyce is also on good terms with his father and eight siblings, and his mother, until her death in 2017.

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Lindsey’s initial book was followed by The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape and Manhunt for America’s Most Wanted Spy (1983), an account of Boyce’s escape from prison and subsequent bank robbing spree.

Who is Christopher John Boyce Dating?

According to our records, Christopher John Boyce married to Cait Boyce . As of December 1, 2023, Christopher John Boyce’s is not dating anyone.

In 2013, Boyce published a book titled American Sons: The Untold Story of the Falcon and the Snowman, which mainly discusses his time in prison and relationship with his wife, Kathleen (AKA Cait), and writer Vince Font. At that time, he was living a relatively quiet life where he has resumed his participation in falconry as a frequent pastime. When interviewed at the time his book was released, Boyce expressed support for the actions of Edward Snowden in exposing information about the United States government’s surveillance programs.

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Christopher Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Christopher John Boyce celebrates birthday on February 16 of every year.

Where is Christopher John Boyce now?

On 10 July 1979, he was transferred to the federal penitentiary in Lompoc, California.

How did Christopher Boyce escape?

The investigation began in the late evening hours of January 21, 1980, when Christopher Boyce, with the help of fellow inmates, hid in a drainage hole, used a makeshift ladder and tin snips to cut through a barbed wire perimeter and escaped from the Lompoc Correctional Institution in Lompoc, California.

What happened to Andrew Daulton Lee and Christopher Boyce?

He was sentenced by federal district judge Robert Kelleher to life in prison and moved to the federal penitentiary in Lompoc, California, while Boyce received a sentence of forty years. Lee’s heavier sentence for the same offense was likely due to his prior criminal record and admitted drug trafficking.

Where does Christopher Boyce live now?

In January 1980 Boyce escaped from the Lompoc federal penitentiary and went on the run, robbing 17 banks in Idaho and Washington State before being recaptured in August 1981. He was released from prison in 2002 and now lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Cait.

Is The Falcon and the Snowman a true story?

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 (Sean Penn), who sold US security secrets to the Soviet Union.

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