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- In the annals of American espionage, Jim Nicholson holds four superlatives. He’s the highest-ranking CIA officer convicted of selling America’s secrets to a foreign nation. He’s the only US intelligence officer convicted twice of betraying his country. And he’s the only one to have pulled it off from behind prison bars.
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Nov 28, 2023 · The target was Harold ‘Jim’ Nicholson, a charismatic career spy and devoted single dad who’d been working for the CIA for 16 years. He’d end up serving even more time than that in prison. The...
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A merica’s most notorious, double-dealing spy, Jim Nicholson, was officially released from prison on Friday, according to the Federal Burea of Prisons. The highest-ranking CIA officer ever...
In an undated photo taken at a CIA function, Jim Nicholson's shirt is rich in irony in light of his crimes. CNN: In the book, Jim's colleagues describe him as a formidable spy, but he made some...
Hear more about Jim Nicholson on True Spies podcast: The Spy’s Son Parts 1 & 2. Harry James Nicholson was convicted of spying for Russia - twice - and released from prison in November 2023. So what does a master manipulator do for an encore? CIA officer Jim Nicholson saw himself as a superhero during his time in South Asia.
An FBI affidavit submitted at Nicholson's first espionage trial suggests that, while in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during 1992–1994, as Deputy Chief of Station/Operations Officer, Nicholson might have been recruited by the Russian intelligence service while meeting with an officer of the Russian intelligence service in Kuala Lumpur on four ...
Jun 15, 2012 · Harold "Jim" Nicholson, after his arrest in 1996 Michael Rochford, who spent a career at the FBI countering Russian espionage against the United States, says that what the Russians were trying to...
The Soviet spy was to the CIA what Nicholson was to the KGB/SVR and, as Denson suggests, “Jim and Zaporozhsky weren’t all that diferent. They climbed to the higher rungs of their nations’ respective spy services, and picked their nation’s pockets to sell secrets to their competitors.”
