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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.”
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for his job instructing CIA recruits,
but no training exercises involving
Chechnyan matters were conduct
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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
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Nicholson had no need for such
documents in his work.
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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
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