Russian agent gets 32 years

WASHINGTON - Harold Nicholson, the highest ranking CIA agent ever charged with spying, was sentenced yesterday to 23 years in…

WASHINGTON - Harold Nicholson, the highest ranking CIA agent ever charged with spying, was sentenced yesterday to 23 years in prison without possibility of parole, the Justice Department said. Nicholson (46) pleaded guilty to espionage after prosecutors accused him of selling information to the Russians from June 1994 until his arrest in November 1996.

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