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From there Nicholson flew on to Bangkok for some time off with the Thai woman he hoped to marry, before heading back to Washington. Meanwhile, the FBI continued the investigation it had begun in January. Agents searched Nicholson's Virginia town house and Chevy van, dredged his computer hard drive, checked his accounts and finally used a hidden camera to videotape him as he photographed documents under his desk. On Nov. 16, the day before his 46th birthday, Nicholson was at Dulles International Airport in Washington, planning to board a flight for New York and from there a connection...
...made much the same walk. This time in the subway station he was met by a man who walked with him toward a taxi stand, where they were met by a car with the diplomatic plates of the Russian embassy, all in full view of his FBI tail. After Nicholson threw a camera bag into the trunk and got into the back seat, the car drove away. The affidavit notes drily: "This meeting with Russian nationals was not authorized...
...time of his arrest Nicholson was allegedly en route yet again to meet his Russian contacts. Investigators say he not only turned over classified documents repeatedly to the Russians but may also have told them the names and assignments of Camp Peary's recent graduates, blowing their covers at the outset of their careers. And he may have identified "access agents," business travelers in Russia who agreed to be debriefed by the CIA, jeopardizing them and making it harder to get others to cooperate in the future. "I would consider the damage to be significant," CIA Director John Deutch said...
...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 CIA was in an uproar over Ames, the most important mole ever discovered within the agency. On the basis of information Ames provided over almost nine years of betrayal, Moscow executed at least 10 Soviets working secretly for American intelligence. Anger and embarrassment led the agency to swear it would never happen...
...both cases, old spyhands see instances--exacerbated by post-cold war ambivalence--where spies turned traitor not out of ideological passion for the other side--what "other" side?--but from devotion to the ultimate free-market incentive, cash. To Nicholson's stunned family, who spoke to Time last week, that image didn't square with the idealistic, spiritual man and devoted father they knew. "Jim's whole life has been a commitment to the U.S. government and to his job," said his father Marvin, a retired Air Force master sergeant living near Eugene, Oregon. "Greed?" asked brother Robert. "That...