Event Details

January 01, 1996

Description

CIA officer Harold Nicholson identified as SVR mole.

Participants (3)

Name Type Mentions
CIA person 2 View Entity
Harold Nicholson person 28 View Entity
SVR organization 102 View Entity

Source Documents (1)

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020299.jpg

Book Excerpt / Report (House Oversight Committee Exhibit)
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This document is a page from a book or report (Chapter 18: The Unheeded Warning) marked as House Oversight evidence. It details the history of Alexander Poteyev, a high-level SVR colonel recruited by the CIA in the 1990s who provided warnings in 2010 about Russian espionage. The text explains the SVR's strategy of using 'illegal' sleeper agents in the US to bypass FBI surveillance of diplomatic staff and service moles within US intelligence agencies.

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Event Metadata

Type
Unknown
Location
USA
Significance Score
5/10
Participants
3
Source Documents
1
Extracted
2025-11-19 18:28

Additional Data

Source
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020299.jpg
Date String
1996

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