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The spy's son: the true story of the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage and the son he trained to spy for Russia
The spy's son: the true story of the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage and the son he trained to spy for Russia
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.;Denson, Bryan;Nicholson, Jim;Nicholson, Nathan
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Prologue: Suspected spies in chains -- Hola Nancy -- First CIA tour, Manila Station -- "Batman" switches teams -- A new counterspy collaboration -- We have another Aldrich Ames -- Spy vs. spy under Langley's roof -- FBI takedown at Dulles -- Forsaken all allegiance to his homeland -- A new cellblock celebrity -- A fall into blackness -- The Russian Consulate, San Francisco -- A spy named "George" -- Faith, prosperity, and the door -- CIA detects codes, espionage, again -- Keep looking through your new eyes -- FBI offers a mulligan -- Inmate 734520 -- A spy swap and reparations -- Epilogue: The last asset.;By day, he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night, he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But for more than two years, Jim Nicholson met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents. In 1997 Nicholson became the highest ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage. But while behind the bars of a federal prison, he groomed the one person he trusted most to serve as his stand-in: his youngest son, Nathan.
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Year:
2015
Edition:
First edition
Publisher:
Grove;Atlantic, Inc.;Atlantic Monthly Press
Language:
English
Pages:
365 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN 10:
0802123589
ISBN 13:
9780802191311
ISBN:
9780802123589,9780802191311,0802123589
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Intelligence officers;Intelligence officers--United States;Spies;Spies--United States;Traitors;Traitors--United States;Narrative non-fiction;Biographies;Nicholson, Jim, -- 1950-;Nicholson, Nathan;United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency -- Biography;Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti;United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency;Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography;Spies -- United States -- Biography;Traitors -- United States -- Biography;United States
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