BOYCE'S ESPIONAGE DELAYED SALT, COMPROMISED U.S., MOYNIHAN SAYS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: November 22, 1982
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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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Boyce's espionage delayed SALT,'
compromised U.S., Moynihan says
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NEW YORK - Convicted spy Chris-
topher Boyce may have delayed the
approval of the Strategic Arms Limi-
tation Treaty by selling the Soviets
lop-secret documents detailing the
U.S. satellite surveillance 'system,
Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D., N.Y.)
has told CBS.
Moynihan told CBS' "60 Minutes"
that Boyce "compromised" the U.S.
satellite system and made the satel-
lites "useless" because "the Soviets
could block them."
"And the fear that that would hap.
pen, had happened, permeated the
Senate and, as much as any one
thing, was responsible for the failure
of the SALT treaty," the senator said.
CBS reported that Boyce had
worked his way up to a top-secret
position in the code room at a TRW
Inc. plant, which had the govern-
ment contract for producing the sat-
?ellites.
CBS also interviewed Boyce on the July 1980.
"60 Minutes" program and reported Boyce. told CBS that he would
that Boyce said there--was virtually smuggle documents in and out of the
no security at TRW, located in Re- top-secret TRW facility by using doc-
dondo Beach, Calif. ument satchels. His boss would send
"Like, the codes are supposed to be him out to buy liquor, Boyce said,'
destroyed every day but we used to and he would smuggle documents
just throw them in the corner. And, out in the satchels, which the guards
there was a large blender to put the never inspected because they
codes in and we'd blend them down thought they contained only liquor
to mush. Well, they never used that approved by Boyce's boss.
to destroy the codes with. We would, "So, it was very simple to, to take
we made da'
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ns to
CBS -it, Boyce told _ the rolls of documents and put them
.
Boyce started -selling top-secret
documents to the Soviet Union with
the aid of his old friend Andrew D.
Lee, who used the Soviet money to
finance his illegal drug business,
CBS said.
The men were the subject of the
book, The Falcon and The Snowman.
Boyce was convicted of espionage in
1977, escaped from a federal prison
in January 1980, and was captured in
in a satchel and take them out the
same way that I would go and buy
liquor for my superiors."
The problem was in returning the
documents, Boyce said. -
"One time 1 bought a potted plant, a
pot and a plant, and I rolled 'docu-
ments up in plastic and stuck them
in the pot and put dirt over that and
stuck the plant'in the top and then
walked in and told ... the guards to
go out to my car and bring the potted
plant into the offices," Boyce told "60
Minutes."
Moynihan said he did not see how
the U.S. government could "ever
again give a security-sensitive con-
tract to TRW."
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