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nlikely spy makes unusual escape
United Press International
LOMPOC, Calif. — Christopher
John Boyce was the most unlikely of
spies and has now become one of the
most unusual escaped convicts ever
hunted by local and federal author
ities.
The 26-year-old son of a former
FBI agent, Boyce and accomplice
Andrew Daulton Lee, 28, were con
victed in 1977 of selling top-secret
intelligence information to the
Soviet Union.
Sentenced to 40 years in prison for
espionage, Boyce was missing last
Monday when guards at the Lompoc
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their 10 p.m. bedcheck.
Authorities later discovered a
wooden ladder, apparently made in
a prison workshop, and a pair of met
al-cutting shears near two 10-foot
fences that Boyce must have scaled
to make his escape.
Lee, meanwhile, is serving a life
sentence at the same federal prison.
Boyce and Lee, who authorities
said passed some of the most sensi
tive of America s secrets to the Rus
sians, shattered the stereotypical im
age of spies — especially Boyce who
joked with his cohort that he could
use the code name “Falcon” because
of his love of falconry.
The son of a devoutly religious
mother, Boyce was once an altar
boy. He was sometimes a straight —
A student and he had an IQ of 145.
He was a student of history and phi
losophy and in 1976 voted for Gerald
Ford.
But like many young men his age,
Boyce became troubled by the war
and Vietnam and the Watergate
scandal. When that disillusionment
took hold, he was a 21-year-old col
lege dropout making $145-a-week at
TRW Inc. in Redondo Beach, Calif,
where he held a Top Secret clear
ance from the Department of De
fense.
Boyce admitted to the FBI that he
photographed thousands of docu
ments at TRW, primarily regarding a
proposed top-secret spy-satellite
project, and passed them to Lee for
delivery to the Soviet Embassy in
Mexico City.
During interviews following his
trial Boyce said at TRW he learned of
the CIA’s activities in other nations,
adding that he was particularly
offended to discover the CIA’s inter
vention in Australia’s domestic
affairs.
Lee was a convicted drug dealer
who sold the secrets to the Russians
out of pure greed, Boyce said, insist
ing that his participation was an act of
political conscience.
“If I had to do it all over again I
would have quit my job rather than
release the information,” Boyce told
The New York Times’ Robert Lind
sey who later wrote a book about the
case “The Falcon and the
Snowman.”
Nearly 50 FBI agents, U.S. Mar
shal’s deputies and local officers
joined the search for Boyce in the
rugged terrain surrounding the fed
eral facility at Lompoc, 170 miles of
Los Angeles.
FBI spokesman, Tom Sheil, did
not give any credence to speculation
that foreign agents may have been
waiting outside the prison to help
Boyce make his getaway.
“We have no reason to believe
anybody scooped him up with a heli
copter,” Sheil said. “I don’t believe
at the present time that would be the
case.
Boyce’s attorney during the trial,
William Dougherty, said that Boyce
cooperated fully during the ClAs
debriefing of him after his convic
tion. But he added:
“It doesn’t take fantasizing to real
ize what would happen if the Rus
sians did get their hands on him
They would use hypnosis drugs ami
anything else to get out of him infor
mation he may not have told theCLt
because he just didn’t remember,"
However, the U.S. Marshals
office, which is in charge of the ease,
said it has instituted measures to
prevent Boyce from leaving the
country by normal means while coa-
tinning the manhunt-
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Gold price drops, market tightens
United Press International
NEW YORK — Gold plummeted
$250 last week as trading on world
markets ground to a virtual halt after
U.S. commodities exchanges took
action to dampen speculation.
Gold hit a record $850 an ounce in
Europe Monday the culmination of
hectic, panicky buying that took it
from $500 the day after Christmas.
The reason for the unprecedented
rise is generally accepted: demand
for physical gold was greater than the
supply available for sale.
Historically gold has been a refuge
in times of world anxiety and by any
standard the turmoil in Iran, the
holding of American hostages, the
Russian incursion into Afghanistan
and the illness of President Tito of
Yugoslavia have created that
anxiety.
Also historically, people of means
in the area of turmoil see that their
wealth is protected. This time those
people are among the wealthiest in
the world — the oil-rich Arabs. And
they were buying gold in huge
amounts.
David Mizrahi, editor of the New
York-based MidEast Report, said he
estimates, based on information
from Middle Eastern sources in
Zurich, that Arab gold holdings
amount to around 250 million
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“The Arabs didn’t sell their gold in
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New York bullion trader James
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selling by the public in Europe but
the big purchasers of physical gold
are not selling. ”
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LONDON — Blaming his depor
tation from Japan on his “American
attitude” toward drugs Paul McCart-,
ney flew home Saturday alter 10days
in a Tokyo jail for possession of about
a half-pound of marijuana, which he
said he bought in New York.
McCartney, his wife Linda and
their four children, landed un
announced at Lydd airport in Kent
and immediately drove off into
“quiet seclusion” a spokesman for
the former Beatle said.
“It has been a terrible shock, the
37-year-old musician said on the
flight from Tokyo to Amsterdam
where he changed planes. S|
"I flew into Japan before America
and I still had the American attitude
that marijuana isn’t that bad. I know
it sounds daft but that’s the truth-
that’s why I stupidly brought the
stuff with me.”
McCartney was held at Narita air
port on January 16 after he arrived
for an 11-concert sellout tour of
Japan with his hand Wings which
was canceled after his arrest. Cus
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