Ex-CIA spy from Eugene's son pleads guilty

Nathaniel and Harold Nicholson

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By WILLIAM McCALL Associated Press Writer

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The son of a top former CIA agent now in prison because he spied for Russia has admitted that he met with his father's former handlers in other countries and accepted money from them.

Nathaniel "Nate" Nicholson of Eugene, Ore., pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government and conspiracy to commit money laundering. | Read the original indictment

Federal prosecutors saidthe younger Nicholson traveled around the world taking cash from agents of the Russian Federation trying to find out how much ex-CIA agent Harold "Jim" Nicholson had told U.S. investigators.

Jim Nicholson, an Oregon native, was the CIA's chief instructor in spy "tradecraft" when he sold information on the agents he was training to the Russians.

The elder Nicholson was convicted in 1997 and is serving a 23-year sentence in federal prison in Oregon.


(Copyright 2009 The Associated Press)

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