The spy's son
Subtitle: 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
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780802123589
Subjects: United States; Traitors; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Intelligence officers; Official secrets; Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti; Soviet Union; Fathers and sons; Biography; Spies
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-348) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Suspected spies in chains; title: Hola Nancy; title: First CIA tour, Manila Station; title: "Batman" switches teams; title: A new counterspy collaboration; title: We have another Aldrich Ames; title: Spy vs. spy under Langley's roof; title: FBI takedown at Dulles; title: Forsaken all allegiance to his homeland; title: A new cellblock celebrity; title: A fall into blackness; title: The Russian Consulate, San Francisco; title: A spy named "George"; title: Faith, prosperity, and the door; title: CIA detects codes, espionage, again; title: Keep looking through your new eyes; title: FBI offers a mulligan; title: Inmate 734520; title: A spy swap and reparations; title: Epilogue: The last asset.