The CIA Scandals: How Bad a Blow?

Harold Nicholson, left, and Nathaniel Nicholson
(L to R) Central Intelligence Agency / AP ; Multnomah County Sheriff's Office / AP

From Time Magazine:

The last thing the CIA needs right now is another scandal, let alone two.

Allegations that the CIA chief in Algiers (identified in the press, though not by the government, as Andrew Warren) drugged and raped two women is going to hurt badly. The accusations that Harold Nicholson, a former CIA operative in federal prison convicted of spying for the KGB, continued his work from behind bars isn't nearly as serious, but it won't exactly help the agency's reputation. Nicholson, who allegedly enlisted his Nathaniel son to collect his KGB "pension" and to pass on whatever secrets Dad still knew, is pretty much stale history. But even so, the news is an unwanted reminder that the KGB was eating the CIA's lunch in the 1990s — along with the National Security Agency's and the Department of Defense's.

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My Comment: And these are the scandals that we know about.