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The Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Caught Spying - Twice! | True Life Spy Stories

433K views · Sep 5, 2025 · Entertainment

Philip Thompson

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Comments · 381

@georgesmyth6577 · 1 year ago
What astonishes me is the relative modesty of the sums of money involved.
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@tspystories · 1 year ago
What makes Nicholson’s betrayal even darker is that many of the names he sold to the Russians were his own students from “The Farm.” He handed over the names of the very people he trained. The idea that a teacher could so casually sacrifice his own trainees is chilling. <br><br>Awesome story PT once again.
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@sez5249 · 10 months ago
Apparently, the failed polygraph that led to his demise was a false cover story used to protect the human source. It was the Russian intelligence officer Alexander Zaporozhsky, who told the Americans about Nicholson.
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@michaelcarletti766 · 1 year ago
The arrogance to keep going behind prison and involve his own son... with all the damage he caused to the coutry, he should never have been released
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@a_lost_one · 1 year ago
He got 23 years instead of life... and squandered it. What a fool.
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@jeaniehyer7920 · 1 year ago
What a horrible father, grooming his son.
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@MidnightRambler · 11 months ago
So rob a bank you get life. Import coke you get decades. But selling confidential secrets you get less😮
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@aaron756 · 11 months ago
I’m really glad you started narrating this with your voice instead of an ai voice.
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@JohnLandau-h5g · 1 year ago
Incredibly lenient treatment. He should have been given life without parole and never released. His son should have done jail time.
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@pr0blumz · 11 months ago (edited)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sghVCSE3Jwc&t=74">1:14</a> 😂😂😂 He looked like he couldn't wait to go up to betray.<br>A person in the CIA with a "KGB is for me" shirt seems legit.
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@11loukis · 1 year ago
What a terrible and selfish human being Nicholson was. <br>He ruined his son’s life and endangered other  CIA agents.
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@standdownrobots_ihaveoldglory · 1 year ago
After slogging through so many recommended videos that turn out to be AI slop, I am delighted that I finally realized I could just go to my subscriptions list and get the good content.  Always appreciate your channel, but all things social sciences have been hit extra hard lately by slop, and I'm so very grateful for high quality content.
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