Molly Conger

Lee would take the documents down to Mexico and deliver them to the Soviet embassy and return with cash, which they split. And maybe it would have worked, maybe not forever, but would have worked for a while, if not for a little mistake, a tiny careless act. In an absolutely absurd turn of history, Dalton Lee was arrested in 1977 outside the Soviet embassy in Mexico City.

Lee would take the documents down to Mexico and deliver them to the Soviet embassy and return with cash, which they split. And maybe it would have worked, maybe not forever, but would have worked for a while, if not for a little mistake, a tiny careless act. In an absolutely absurd turn of history, Dalton Lee was arrested in 1977 outside the Soviet embassy in Mexico City.

Lee would take the documents down to Mexico and deliver them to the Soviet embassy and return with cash, which they split. And maybe it would have worked, maybe not forever, but would have worked for a while, if not for a little mistake, a tiny careless act. In an absolutely absurd turn of history, Dalton Lee was arrested in 1977 outside the Soviet embassy in Mexico City.

He wasn't arrested for espionage or drug trafficking, two things he was definitely doing, but He was arrested by Mexican police for littering. But under interrogation about the drugs and documents they subsequently found on him, he admitted everything. Christopher Boyce was arrested by authorities in the U.S. just 10 days later.

He wasn't arrested for espionage or drug trafficking, two things he was definitely doing, but He was arrested by Mexican police for littering. But under interrogation about the drugs and documents they subsequently found on him, he admitted everything. Christopher Boyce was arrested by authorities in the U.S. just 10 days later.

He wasn't arrested for espionage or drug trafficking, two things he was definitely doing, but He was arrested by Mexican police for littering. But under interrogation about the drugs and documents they subsequently found on him, he admitted everything. Christopher Boyce was arrested by authorities in the U.S. just 10 days later.

And accounts vary as to whether or not Dalton Lee gave Boyce up in that initial interview. He says he didn't, and he probably didn't need to. The authorities would have arrived at the conclusion that it was Boyce who had stolen those documents, whether Dalton Lee gave him up or not. So, you know, we'll never know. But. This is where Frank comes back.

And accounts vary as to whether or not Dalton Lee gave Boyce up in that initial interview. He says he didn't, and he probably didn't need to. The authorities would have arrived at the conclusion that it was Boyce who had stolen those documents, whether Dalton Lee gave him up or not. So, you know, we'll never know. But. This is where Frank comes back.

And accounts vary as to whether or not Dalton Lee gave Boyce up in that initial interview. He says he didn't, and he probably didn't need to. The authorities would have arrived at the conclusion that it was Boyce who had stolen those documents, whether Dalton Lee gave him up or not. So, you know, we'll never know. But. This is where Frank comes back.

This is where Frank reappears in his own story. I haven't forgotten him. Because while all this CIA skullduggery and Cold War espionage is going on, Frank is sitting in a jail cell on Terminal Island, a low-security federal corrections facility in Los Angeles.

This is where Frank reappears in his own story. I haven't forgotten him. Because while all this CIA skullduggery and Cold War espionage is going on, Frank is sitting in a jail cell on Terminal Island, a low-security federal corrections facility in Los Angeles.

This is where Frank reappears in his own story. I haven't forgotten him. Because while all this CIA skullduggery and Cold War espionage is going on, Frank is sitting in a jail cell on Terminal Island, a low-security federal corrections facility in Los Angeles.

I can't find a good reason for why he would have been transported to a prison in California after being arrested in New York, but government inefficiency is as likely an explanation as anything else. Christopher Boyce was ultimately convicted of eight counts of espionage in 1977 and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

I can't find a good reason for why he would have been transported to a prison in California after being arrested in New York, but government inefficiency is as likely an explanation as anything else. Christopher Boyce was ultimately convicted of eight counts of espionage in 1977 and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

I can't find a good reason for why he would have been transported to a prison in California after being arrested in New York, but government inefficiency is as likely an explanation as anything else. Christopher Boyce was ultimately convicted of eight counts of espionage in 1977 and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

And for several months in late 77 to early 78, the two men were on the same cell block at Terminal Island. Much has been made of the apparent incongruity of Frank, a man who fought as a mercenary against communist guerrillas, befriending Boyce, a man convicted of aiding the Soviet Union, but Either of them had a fully formed set of political beliefs at the time.

And for several months in late 77 to early 78, the two men were on the same cell block at Terminal Island. Much has been made of the apparent incongruity of Frank, a man who fought as a mercenary against communist guerrillas, befriending Boyce, a man convicted of aiding the Soviet Union, but Either of them had a fully formed set of political beliefs at the time.

And for several months in late 77 to early 78, the two men were on the same cell block at Terminal Island. Much has been made of the apparent incongruity of Frank, a man who fought as a mercenary against communist guerrillas, befriending Boyce, a man convicted of aiding the Soviet Union, but Either of them had a fully formed set of political beliefs at the time.

Boyce's mother would later say that the two became quite close in those months. Frank was, for reasons I spent way too long unsuccessfully trying to figure out, transferred to a prison in Maine sometime in early 1978. Boyce would eventually be transferred to Lompoc, a prison a few hours north of Los Angeles. And in January of 1980, Christopher Boyce escaped from prison.

Boyce's mother would later say that the two became quite close in those months. Frank was, for reasons I spent way too long unsuccessfully trying to figure out, transferred to a prison in Maine sometime in early 1978. Boyce would eventually be transferred to Lompoc, a prison a few hours north of Los Angeles. And in January of 1980, Christopher Boyce escaped from prison.