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...government may have a harder time building its case and assessing the damage done. Unlike Ames, Nicholson is pleading not guilty. For starters, attorney Shapiro wants to subpoena the tape of the lie-detector tests, which he says can be used to refute some of the CIA's claims. The affidavit against Nicholson already contains at least one apparently inflated charge. It accuses him of selling to the Russians the name of the CIA station chief in Moscow. But as a symbol of warming ties, the U.S. and Russia actually inform one another these days of the identities of their...
...unauthorized files in Nicholson's notebook computer also allegedly included a fragment from one document that described the planned undercover assignment to Moscow of a new case officer whom Nicholson had trained at Camp Peary. In his Chevy van, agents also found a computer diskette that contained a document summarizing seven secret reports from the debriefing of business people who had visited Russia. Investigators say they won't compile a complete damage assessment until after Nicholson's trial. They fear creating a document that could be obtained by the defense during discovery proceedings and revealed in open court...
...Ames case, the government squeezed a guilty plea from him by promising to drop charges against his wife. It's not clear what comparable leverage it has against Nicholson, except to offer reduced charges in return for a confession. At present, prosecutors don't have enough evidence to seek the death penalty, but if convicted on the current charge, Nicholson still faces life in prison without parole. So silence, and the threat of taking his case to trial, may for now be Nicholson's greatest weapon. For the CIA, it also means a nightmare, as it wonders just what damage...
...League it isn't. Camp Peary, where accused double agent Harold Nicholson taught from 1994 to 1996, is the CIA's top-secret school for spies, known in agency circles as "the Farm." Students, called career trainees, take a year-long, $150,000-per-recruit program that prepares them to work in the agency's clandestine service. Located on 9,000 acres of barbed-wire-encircled woods outside Williamsburg, Virginia, the Farm looks like a community college, with brick buildings, dorms, a cafeteria and a gym laid out on a bucolic campus. But it also has such uncollegiate features...
...quality of faculty is on the upswing; for years the posts were filled by agency alcoholics needing to dry out. Still, Nicholson was arrested after allegedly making blunders that would have a Farm trainee staying after class cleaning erasers. In a story filled with cliches, from scheming Russians to a spy accused of selling out his country, this spy instructor's ham-handed technique added one more: those who can't do, teach...