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The agency thinks it has the real answer now, along with substantial evidence to support its conclusion that for more than two years Nicholson has been spying for the Russians. With the cold war over, the intelligence services of both nations are trying fitfully to cooperate on some matters of...
Though Nicholson was a spy teacher, he doesn't seem to have been much good at practicing what he preached. Though less extravagant than Ames, who drove a Jaguar to work and paid $540,000 in cash for a big house, Nicholson began spending in ways that would be a...
If the charges are true--Nicholson's two attorneys, Jonathan Shapiro and Liam O'Grady, say their client will fight them vigorously--then Nicholson would have been either a very cool customer or a weirdly reckless one; maybe both. He allegedly went to work for the Russians just as the...
If Nicholson was paid $180,000, that would still be far less than the $2.5 million that Moscow sent to Ames over the years. But Nicholson may have been at the start of a beautiful friendship with the Russians. With one more promotion at work he would have had access...
The agency insists that Nicholson's arrest is a vindication of safeguards put into place after Ames had evaded detection for so long. For years the CIA ignored signs that Ames was on the Soviet payroll. Now any personal troubles or financial windfalls are noted in an officer's file...