Who do you trust with your spy operation? A junkie of course! (spoiler)

Snorting heroin = junkie. If this film portrays the events accurately, I would say that Christopher Boyce was a total fool to trust a junkie in an endeavor like this. He was also a total amateur not to realize he was passing along disinformation. That's like the first chapter in Espionage 101. He was like a guppy swimming with the sharks.

Education time. Junkie is a reference to someone using injection by syringe. Snorting coke was pretty common in the 70's (well known) and done by a lot of high profiled people like CO's, police, politicians and especially among the rich and famous. Seen the Wolf of Wall Street? Were they junkies you'd say? About the trust issue, well, they were childhood friends, growing up in a nice well protected high income home, of course he would trust him, even knowing he had a thing for weed and coke (as so many others were). It's always a bond between long time friends, especially if it's a really close relationship. Then again he was not that well schooled in espionage, so again, not like it is today. Remember the times it is made in. So would like to hear your take on this once you'd tried thinking about your initial comments AFTER learning more about the 70's. I guess you were not born then?

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