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
by Bryan Denson
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Jim Nicholson was the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage. A single father, respected mentor and brilliant case officer, he was also a double agent selling thousands of state secrets to the Russians. However, it was from behind the bars of a federal prison that he conducted his greatest betrayal. Just 12 years after Jim's conviction, his youngest son, Nathan, was arrested for the same crime. Through interviews, private letters, and access to Jim's personal journal, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Bryan Denson pieces together a fascinating family portrait of a father so caught up in his life as a double agent that he manipulated his own son - an army veteran - to betray his country in order to stay loyal to his family.
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United States, Traitors, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Intelligence officers, Official secrets, Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti, Soviet Union, Fathers and sons, Biography, Spies, Intelligence officers, biography, United states, central intelligence agencyPlaces
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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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