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WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to rebellion in their Chechnya re gion, the Russians themselves in advertently supplied the FBI with a key piece of evidence that Harold Nicholson spied for Moscow inside the CIA. The Russians told the FBI offi cially that their agents were look ing for information on Chechnya, where Russia was waging a debili tating war against separatist rebels. Soon thereafter, Nicholson began seeking such data even though he didn’t need it for his CIA work, the FBI says. Arguably a blunder in spy tradecraft, the incident suggests that Russian intelligence officers have not fully adjusted to the up- and-down friendship that has emerged between Russia and the United States since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. At the very least, they under estimated the ability of U.S. counterspies to put disparate clues together. Meantime Tuesday, the United States lodged a formal protest with the Russians over Nicholson and reserved the right to retaliate. On Monday, the former station chief became the highest-ranking CIA officer charged with espionage. One element of the FBI’s case against the 16-year CIA veteran began last March 17 with an event that could not have happened during the Cold War with the So viet Union. That day, the official liaison of ficer of the Russian foreign intelli gence service (SVRR) contacted the FBI seeking information on Chechen terrorism. “The SVRR li aison officer added that his re quest was part of a global tasking by SVRR headquarters to gather information about Chechnya,” according to an affidavit by FBI Agent Michael Lonergan. Those kinds of exchanges did not occur during the Cold War, said Ray Mislock, national security chief in the FBI’s Washington field office. “There was no official liaison be tween the Soviet KGB and the FBI until the fall of 1991 just before the Soviet Union ceased to exist.” More incredible events fol- The spy cases Harold Nicholson \v arrest marks the sc within the CIA since 1994. Th ■and major security Imaa • cases compared: Aldrich H.Aines CIA post Counterintelligence official K Estc ™ toricils appear Harold J amesNicholsws of the edit CIA post Necessarily r. ner station chief F Arrested February 1994 Arrested November 11% Allegedly Placed government secrets in "dead drops " around Washington for pickups by the KGB: met with Soviet agents around the world 7A Mlegedly n er the identities trained during:' Id information m 'ation in Moscow on staff merr jy, regents, a lumns, guest iress the opini ntact the opii emitting guest The tipofT Wild spending patterns. Ames and his wife bought a $540,(XX) home with one payment: he earned about $70.(XX) per year The ti|xiff 'cstionable cum e -detector test la neras in his offia iphing secret(k Sf Tht -espon lowed the official request for help, according to Lonergan’s affidavit. On April 26, Nicholson asked several CIA headquarters employ ees for background information on Chechnya. He claimed to need it for his job instructing CIA recruits, but no training exercises involving Chechnyan matters were conduct ed or planned by Nicholson. In July, a CIA computer audit revealed that Nicholson was us ing his computer to search CIA databases for information using the keywords ‘‘Russia(n)” and “ChechnyaJ” CIA officials said Nicholson had no need for such documents in his work. When FBI agents searched Nicholson’s portable computer on Aug. 11, they found, among data they believe Nicholson gave the Russians, “a near verbatim copy of an actual ‘secret’ CIA report regard ing Chechnya,” the affidavit said. “I believe Nicholson gathered the Chechnyan information found on his computer in response to clandestine tasking from the SVRR, consistent with the SVRR’s global tasking for such information" that its liaison officer had described to the FBI, Lonergan wrote. Perhaps the Russians doubted i .In what has Dn’i die, Texa: public promises by theCi obubly have t to improve counterimelM*’ 11 ® 13 ^^ 6 ^ work after the 1994 arresif Although il lice. Aldrich Ames, then lef'-jerk refl a g i„ g ,urncoa,ina gtn „4^ t ^; ■■When they asked Chechnyan informal! T e , Kas yoven would have had no reas: ; e blame falls lieve we would have be ie i| shirking of of Nicholson,” said ok-! The fee incre who worked on the case ble has been ing anonymity. 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