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Wednesday ABC's Brian Ross led with a spy story from Algeria. Now CBS' Bob Orr leads us through a trail of espionage that starts in a federal prison in Oregon and tracks through San Francisco, Mexico City, Lima and Cyprus. Orr recounted federal allegations against Harold Nicholson, once a high ranking official in the CIA, and his son Nathaniel. Nicholson was convicted of spying for Russia in 1997 and is serving a 23-year prison term. The allegation is that Russia still owed Nicholson money so he sent his son on a series of fake vacations to collect $35,000 in back pay. Both father and son could face a further 100 years behind bars if convicted. Orr's unnamed spook sources reassured him that only money--not "any new sensitive information"--was handed over.
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