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Harold J. Nicholson may have had good reason to be nervous last December. He was sitting down to his third lie-detector test in eight weeks. The first of them had been a routine examination, the kind given every few years to agency employees. Since coming on board in 1980, Nicholson had been quietly but smoothly rising through the agency ranks. Now he was an instructor at Camp Peary, the CIA training facility near Williamsburg, Virginia, teaching new spies what older ones know. For instance, what to do when the other side...
...during that first routine polygraph, something wasn't quite right. In Nicholson's replies to some important questions, a sophisticated new computer program spotted the shadows of a lie. When the test was repeated four days later, the signs of a false answer showed up again. So on Dec. 4 Nicholson was sitting before the machine again. And this time, just before the most sensitive questions, he appeared to be taking long, deep breaths. The examiner, who knew that trick, told him to stop, then proceeded to ask the crucial question. "Since 1990, have you had contact with a foreign...
...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 mutual interest, like terrorism and international crime. At the same time, as old enemies and uneasy friends, they probe each other by habit and inclination, looking for weak spots. Nicholson may have been one of them, and a potentially spectacular one at that. A branch chief in the CIA counterterrorism center...
...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 conspicuous stretch on his agency salary. There were frequent trips to East Asia--where investigators say he was handing over information to the Russians--followed by unexplained payments to various Nicholson accounts. And in June there was his cloak-and-dagger passage through Singapore, this time under the eyes...
BORN: Jan. 22, 1943, Nicholson, Pa. EDUCATION: East Stroudsburg State College, B.A., 1965 FAMILY: Divorced; two children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Real estate broker; elementary school teacher POLITICAL CAREER: New Jersey Assembly, 1976-82; New Jersey Senate, 1982-84; U.S. House, 1984- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 795, Mount Holly...