INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER BOYCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R001201880053-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2008
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: November 21, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DATE ?November 2T, 198.2 7:15 P.M. CITY Washington, D.C.
Interview with Christopher Boyce
ED BRADLEY: Last week British spy Geoffrey Prime went
to jail for giving away the most sensitive British and American
secrets. Five years ago, so did this man, Christopher Boyce..
What he had given away to the Soviets -- or, more accurately,
sold to the Soviets -- was the secret that our satellite
surveillance system was telling us just about everything the '
?Russians were up to. Having learned that we were listening in,
the Soviets started putting out false information. What that did
was to make our intelligence-gathering satellites virtually.
useless.
and his partner, Dalton Lee, did it.
Boyce is now serving 40 years for espionage at Marion
.federal penitentiary. Recently we talked with him about why he
`You willingly turned that information
Russians.
CHRISTOPHER BOYCE: You bet:.
BRADLEY: in the courts of this land, you've been-tried
BOYCE: Uh-huh.
BRADLEY: ...of espionage.
BOYCE: Right.
BRADLEY: You are a traitor.
BOYCE? Uh-huh.
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