Spy Built Nice Portfolio With Russians’ Money
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WASHINGTON — Where does a spy put ill-gotten loot? Harold J. Nicholson, the former CIA case officer who pleaded guilty and is in jail awaiting sentencing for spying for Russia, apparently put his money into everything from mutual funds to spy novels.
In a forfeiture order filed with the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., that was made public Thursday, the government listed what Nicholson did with about $300,000 he got for passing papers.
The government will now get his valuables, which included investments in such mutual funds as the Kaufman Fund, USAA’s International Fund and its World Growth Fund, the Templeton Developing Markets Trust and the Franklin Convertible Securities Fund.
The order also said he had a secret bank account in Switzerland, eight gold coins, gold necklaces, a home, a Rolex watch, a stamp and coin collection, five guns, books by spy writer Ian Fleming and a leather-bound collection of novels of Louis L’Amour, the late Western writer.
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