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Swagman

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Sat Jun 15, 2013, 06:49 AM Jun 2013

Convicted U.S. spy Christopher Boyce: 'Snowden is doomed'

By Peter Shadbolt, CNN
June 14, 2013 -- Updated 1026 GMT (1826 HKT)

Editor's note: Convicted spy Christopher Boyce was jailed for 40 years for espionage in 1977 after selling U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union. In 1985, his story was turned into a Hollywood film -- "The Falcon and the Snowman" - starring Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton. Released in 2003, Boyce is currently working on his memoirs "The Falcon and The Snowman: American Sons."

(CNN) -- Sitting alone in a hotel room, unable to contact friends or family or even walk the teeming streets of Hong Kong without looking over his shoulder, there can be few who can claim to know the fear and isolation that NSA leaker Edward Snowden is living through.

One man, however, is better qualified than most.














http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/14/world/asia/hong-kong-boyce-snowden/index.html

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