If you enjoyed this movie I also recommend The Pentagon Papers starring James Spader.To be honest I actually thought that The Penatgon Papers was a better film than The Falcon & The Snowman.I did enjoy both films though.Plot summary for The Pentagon Papers is at the link below.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330760/plotsummary
This movie immediately made me think of The Pentagon Papers. I kept wondering why Boyce didn't just go the press the way Daniel Ellsberg did. I know he thought no one would believe him, but so what? Anything is better than selling secrets to the Russians. There were so many other avenues he could have taken, it's pretty clear his main motivation was greed.
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Did you see the movie? If you did you would have heard what he said: that going to the media was futile, since they already knew the truth, printed it - but people don't care either way. That government agencies put out probability denial - stories mixed with some truth and a lot of lies, so people don't know what to believe. He even used the Chile incident as example. Have you heard about Chile in the 60-70s? It's well known that CIA orchestrated the military to assassinate the president, which legally had won the election. So be careful before throwing around words like "greed" in relation to this freedom fighter.
I'm actually baffled about this film from early 80s did not get more attention inside the US? Are most people deaf and blind to what's going on around the world?
"Freeedom Fighter"? "Greedy"?, How about just plain stupid. To begin with, Boyce and Lee were complete amateurs in the ways of espionage. Lee was an unreliable junkie on the run, and Boyce was a fool to partner with him. The were being fed disinformation and didn't have a clue. As "spies", they were like guppies swimming with sharks.
If they had gone to the media, what would they say? Nothing that could be proven. Public opinion would have been strongly against them in those days.
I'm not defending the CIA, they had really gone renegade as the Cold War wore on. But the Cold War was deadly serious. The USSR truly was the "evil empire".