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Last month FBI agents also watched Nicholson drop a sealed airmail envelope into a mailbox in Dunn Loring, Virginia. Inside the envelope was a picture postcard that read...
...Nicholson joined the CIA. After almost two years of training, he was posted to Manila, then Bangkok and Tokyo, stations where young agents generally played the complicated game of recruiting spies from among the Soviet and East bloc officials. Some of them were intelligence officers themselves, who attempted in return to recruit the Americans. Within 10 years, fast progress by agency standards, he had landed a station chief's job in Bucharest, Romania...
...Malaysia, where Nicholson arrived in 1992, he was what the CIA calls a declared asset, meaning the U.S. informed the Malaysian government, though no one else, that he was a spy. In the expatriate community, he made little impression except as a genial neighbor and a leader of the Eagle Scout troop that included son Jeremiah. During Nicholson's two years in Kuala Lumpur, one of the main jobs for American intelligence agents was tracking leads in the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. The suspected mastermind of the bombing, Ramzi Yousef, had passed through...
Early the next month Nicholson returned to the U.S. to start his teaching job at Camp Peary. But twice each year he made personal trips to East Asia, and each one was followed by a payment to one of his accounts. After the meeting with Russians that agents say they observed in Singapore, for instance, Nicholson paid $8,300 cash into his American Express account, purchased two gold commemorative coins and paid his $1,679.59 bill at the Shangri-La Hotel in cash...
...card is presumed to be a signal from Nicholson to his Russian handlers that he wanted a meeting in Switzerland earlier than previously scheduled. Seasoned spies say Nicholson's method is almost quaint. An up-to-the-minute agent today would have cellular phones and portable computer linkups. "Nobody would use those techniques today unless you were an awful agent or cutting corners like hell," says David Whipple, president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers...