Word: lompoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigation are also named in a 1980 FBI report on the "Provenzano crime group." The 60-page document was used by the FBI to place a court-sanctioned wiretap on telephones available to Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamster boss and Mafia captain, in California's Lompoc federal prison...
...agents were part of the team that had spent the previous 19 months tracking Christopher John Boyce, 28, alias Anthony E. Lester. Convicted of selling CIA spy satellite secrets to the Soviet Union, Boyce was serving a 40-year sentence when he escaped from federal prison in Lompoc, Calif., on Jan. 21, 1980. According to the U.S. Marshals Service, which had primary responsibility for finding him, over 100 sightings of Boyce were reported during his flight. Federal agents interviewed 800 people in connection with the case and traveled to Africa, Central America and Europe to follow up leads...
...Boyce, the road to Lompoc began in 1975 when, with the aid of his father, a former FBI agent, he was hired by TRW, a conglomerate that, among other things, makes surveillance satellites for the CIA. A communications clerk, Boyce soon got "top secret" and "crypto" clearances that allowed him to handle highly classified documents. The college dropout found himself assigned to a sensitive job: transmitting coded spy information from the TRW installation in Redondo Beach, Calif., to CIA headquarters in Langley...
Although Boyce and Lee were both imprisoned at Lompoc, their collaboration had ended. Boyce occasionally saw his former partner, but their only communication was a quick hello in the prison yard...
...into his own hands once again. He had kept himself in excellent condition-a regimen of ten miles a day on the track, weight training and yoga-to be fit enough to flee through the rough, hilly terrain outside the prison. In addition, he must have been aware that Lompoc was in the process of converting to its new maximum security status. Within two months officials will install a sophisticated $67,000 alarm system along the inner fence that will sense the slightest pressure and would have detected his escape effort last week. Boyce made his move just in time...