The Spy's Son, Part 2/2: Dark Inheritance | CIA

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When he was arrested in 1996, Jim Nicholson - nicknamed 'Batman' - was the highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of espionage for the Russian Federation. 10 years later, he did it again. Join Vanessa Kirby for the first ever True Spies duology - a tale of spy-craft, treachery, and a toxic father-son relationship. In Part 2, DoJ Attorney Ethan Knight shines the spotlight on Nicholson's son, Nathan, who was manipulated by his incarcerated father into continuing his espionage work. But before long, his spy fantasies turned sour. Could YOU live a double life? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Disclaimer, this episode features strong language throughout.
0:03.6	Incoming transmission.
0:05.6	Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:12.6	Week by week, mission by mission. You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:22.6	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:27.6	What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?
0:34.6	This is True Spies.
0:37.6	The Nicholson case was a unique effort to try and compress the timeline and the loss of material and national security information
0:47.2	by accelerating the timeline of an espionage investigation.
0:52.2	Watching him actually do it and prepare himself to load up classified stuff to take a load of it to give to the Russians just piss me off.
1:01.8	We wanted folks to know what was unique about this case and what really were the risks.
1:06.2	We thought the public face based on, you know, Jim Nicholson's continued deception and now the involvement of his son.
1:12.6	I'm Vanessa Kirby and this is True Spies.
1:16.8	The spy son, part two, dark inheritance.
1:26.4	It's early morning in San Francisco.
1:28.8	An young man in a crumpled black suit is trudging resolutely uphill.
1:34.2	He's exhausted, courtesy of an eight hour drive from Portland and the streets are punishingly steep.
1:41.4	But he's been given a mission and the price of failure is steeper still.
1:46.8	He'd gone to the consulate the nearest one at that time by car from Portland, Oregon and went in.
1:54.0	The Russian consulate to be exact.
1:56.6	An imposing, dust-colored block, just a stone throw from the Presidio National Park.
2:03.0	The decheviled visitor's name is Nathan Nicholson.
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