Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society or even earn the label Crime of the Century.

But the stories that made headlines in decades past aren't necessarily remembered today. I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author,

and in each episode of this show,

I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today

but was huge when it happened. This is crimes of the centuries. Oh, Two kids from affluent Southern California families proved two important things in the mid-1970, one we already knew but had to be reminded of,

and the other would shock a nation and change the American intelligence community forever.

Let's take the easy one first.

Christopher Boyce and Andrew Dalton Lee, barely out of their teens,

proved that having everything you want growing up doesn't make growing up easier, nor does it

make you smarter or destined for success. It certainly doesn't make you prudent.

Still from their privileged start, Boyce and Lee went on to prove,

maybe without really meaning to, that the American military industrial complex was as

secure as great-aunt Minnie's purse.

They revealed that a lot of America's deepest military secrets,

the ones that were supposed to safeguard us fromitable sieve, an open invitation to idiots

and ideologues to pilfer and offer for sale to somebody else's country.

The young men who were immortalized as the Falcon and the Snowman by a 1985 film of the same name

eventually shared classified documents that detailed how US spy

satellites operated and some of what they found.

Those satellites were built by TRW, a defense contractor based in Southern California.

Boys and Lee shared the plans, as well as communication code books and CIA secrets with a

KGB via the Soviet Union's Mexico City embassy. The Paris treason lasted

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