FBI affidavit - Wired

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20. By June of 2000, Citizen had become acquainted with Inmate's family, including
his mother and brother. In June of 2000, Inmate's brother traveled to the United States from Italy
and went to FCI Sheridan with Citizen to visit Inmate. The two visited Inmate at FCI Sheridan
over the course of several days, beginning on June 6,2000; and concluding on JunelO, 2000.
This was the first time that Citizen met Inmate. During the first or second day of the visit,
Inmate sat uith his brother and Citizen in the visiting room. According to Citizen, at one point
Inmate leaned forward and pointed in the direction of another prisoner. Inmate said that he was
friends with the prisoner and the prisoner was a Russian spy. Inmate told Citizen and his brother
that the spy had information or documents and "he needed to get them to the Russians."
21. Inmate asked Citizen and his brother if they would help the spy forward
information or documents to the Russians by using the "legal mail" ruse that hate had
previously used to get the movie script to his brother through Citizen. Inmate did not, during the
June 2000 meeting, identify the prisoner by name. It was not until February 2,2002; that Citizen
learned that the Russian spy that Inmate was referriGg to was NICHOLSON. Citizen learned
NICHOLSON'S identity from another inmate whom she began talking to and who was
NICHOLSON'S eellmate in February 2002. Once Citizen learned NICHOLSON'S identity, she
contacted the FBI.
22. On July 29,2003, Inmate was interviewed by the FBI. At the time of the
interview Inmate was serving his federal prison sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in
Big Spring, Texas. At the outset of the interview, agents told Inmate that they could not promise
him anythmg in exchange for his statement and that any recommendations they made on his
behalf would be wholly dependent upon the nature, quality, and truthfulness of the information