Harold Nicholson was a CIA operative convicted of espionage for selling CIA identities to Russia. Since 1997, he’s been in jail. But allegedly, his son Nathan has carried on the family business…
According to prosecutors, Nathan’s father taught him the ways of spydom from jail over his mobile phone UPDATE: from his cell (duh), coaching Nathan through meetings with Russian agents in Mexico, Peru and Cyprus. And then, there was the issue of how to handle the money.
…Nathan Nicholson, a former Army paratrooper, had returned from his visits with the Russians with at least $US35,000 in cash, some of it in a PlayStation video game case. The money was intended in part to settle a “pension” that Harold Nicholson said was owed him from his days as a C.I.A. spy for the Russians before his arrest in 1996, the prosecutors said.
[NYTimes Thanks ibelli!]
josh ehmann
Monday, February 2, 2009 at 11:27 PMoriginal playstation 2 console would have been the box of choice. there is a massive sheilded compartment that can be easily accessed from the back. i beleive it was intended for a hard drive at one stage.