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User ID: 1100980 United States 10/02/2010 08:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Former CIA Spy Accused of Espionage From Prison PORTLAND, Ore. -- An ex-CIA spy slipped messages to his son from prison through paper napkins wadded into balls, despite the best efforts of the intelligence agency to monitor his communications, government prosecutors said in a pretrial filing. The Oregonian newspaper reports that according to court papers prosecutors filed Friday, Harold Nicholson, 59, sent his son around the globe to collect what he considered to be his "pension," and told the Russian government about his older children's debt. In the notes, prosecutors said, Nicholson sought financial assistance from the Russians and let them know he would help them if he could. He also told them he was thankful for the money and reassured them his son was trustworthy. The elder Nicholson pleaded guilty in 1997 to conspiring to commit espionage after being paid $300,000 to pass CIA secrets to the Russians. He is serving more than 23 years at the federal prison in Sheridan, just south of Portland. According to the recent court filings, the CIA reviewed every letter Nicholson wrote, monitored his phone calls and approved every person who visited, called or wrote to him, yet he was still able to mount the conspiracy to which his son, Nathaniel Nicholson, pleaded guilty last year. [ link to www.washingtonpost.com] Pearl Harbor was an inside job. |