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...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...
...terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. The suspected mastermind of the bombing, Ramzi Yousef, had passed through Malaysia. While in Kuala Lumpur, Nicholson had got agency permission to meet with a Russian agent by telling his CIA superiors he thought he could recruit the man. According to the FBI affidavit, in June 1994, one day after Nicholson's last reported meeting with the Russian, $12,000 was wired to Nicholson's savings account in Eugene, Oregon. Later agency hands would remember how Aldrich Ames had offered himself to the Russians: by getting permission to meet...
...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...
...effort to bolster minority enrollment, Kennedy School officials said yesterday that the school plans to actively recruit potential students from under-represented ethnic and racial groups...
Surely the K-School still retains its liberal credentials. After all, it did bring Hillary Clinton (the It-Takes-A-Village-"socialist") and Jesse Jackson (who's as liberal as you get) to speak this fall. And the K-School did bring back Clinton policy adviser Ellwood and recruit establishment preserver/reformer William Julius Wilson. Maybe the K-School is simply following the winds of national change for fear of irrelevance. Hopefully, that fear will not cause it to lose its ordinary reasonableness for some temporary gain in popularity. The inclusion of perspectives necessary to open debate is one thing...