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...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 again. Two months after Ames was sentenced to life in prison, Nicholson was allegedly getting $12,000 from the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHER OR TRAITOR | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...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 he may have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHER OR TRAITOR | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...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 as a mock prison where trainees get to experience solitary confinement, a pistol range where they learn to use firearms, and a private airstrip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA'S YEAR-ROUND CAMP FOR SPIES | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

After the crash, the 52nd was ready to prove it could punish its own. It took the extraordinary step of charging the two mechanics with criminally negligent homicide, punishable by four years in prison, a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances. Mueller complained in a letter to his parents' Congressman, "Now we, the little guys, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLACING BLAME AT ANY COST | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...Police dug up the bodies of four other girls, ages 8 to 19, missing for more than a year. The tragedy transfixed Belgium, and national TV broadcast their funerals live. Shock then turned to outrage when it was disclosed that Dutroux was a convicted kidnapper-rapist, released early from prison against prosecutors' advice. Worse, vital information about the original abductions was withheld by competing investigators, and Dutroux allegedly had high-level protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NIGHTMARE GOES ON | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

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