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The Falcon and the Snowman
1985 · Film · 132 min
Directed by John Schlesinger
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
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People may remember that the CIA also had a hand in this sordid episode, documented in the movie The Falcon and the Snowman (based on a real case) where someone working in signals (much like Edward Snowden) watching all the telexes go by realised that the US was taking part in the downfall of another democratic government
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman
IIRC it was indicated as the motivation behind convicted spy Christopher John Boyce in the movie The Falcon and the Snowman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman
The movie "The Falcon and the Snowman" was a dramatization of a real event where a Snowden-like figure sold secrets to the Russians after reading the secret telexes when the CIA was trying to roll the Aussie government
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman
Falcon and the Snowman is an underrated film peeking into the geopolitics of this in the 70s
I was just seeing "The Falcon and the Snowman" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087231/?ref_=nv_sr_1) on Hulu, where David Suchet plays the wily Russian agent Alex (his father's side of family is originally from Russia, however in that movie his accent sounded quite British to me).
A movie was made about the Boyce case, The Falcon and the Snowman.
The US did this to Australia. That's why the spy whose story is portrayed in the book and movie "The Falcon and the Snowman" started passing US secrets to the Soviets.
He didn't like it that US propaganda was being used to steer once-leftist Australia to what we have now, far more right-wing in many respects even than the US.
Not sure how accurate it is but I enjoyed Thirteen Days: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146309/
Fog of War also features the subject and is excellent: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/
EDIT: Falcon and the Snowman is also great and it's kind of related so it's worth a mention: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087231/