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    Who was the highest ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage?

    Question #66319. Asked by rcngobeavs. (May 29 06 4:39 PM)


    lanfranco

    		The best I can do is Harold Nicholson, who was convicted and sentenced in 1997, after spying for Russia.

    Interesting, isn't it, that the motivations these days seem to involve money only, rather than money and ideological convictions?

    Then again, who knows how politically sincere the "classic" spies of the past actually were? The Cambridge Group and Alger Hiss will continue to provide endless fodder for speculation:


    http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/05/cia.nicholson/index.html

    May 29 06, 5:03 PM
    zbeckabee

    		Per attached link: "Harold J. Nicholson, the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage."

    http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/030497/ciaspy.htm



    May 29 06, 8:16 PM

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