en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_James_Nicholson
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While an instructor at Langley, Nicholson had gone to CIA Headquarters and asked several CIA employees in the European section about information on Chechnya.
Nicholson was an instructor at Camp Peary ('the Farm'), not at Langley; the record says he traveled from the training center to CIA headquarters in Langley to seek Chechnya information.
Full reasoning
This sentence conflates two different CIA locations.
Contemporaneous reporting and the official arrest materials say Nicholson was serving at the CIA training center at Camp Peary ('the Farm'), and then separately went to CIA Headquarters in Langley to ask for information about Chechnya.
So the problem is not that he went to Langley — he did. The problem is the article says he was "an instructor at Langley", which misstates where he held the instructor post. The record places his instructor assignment at Camp Peary, with Langley being the headquarters he visited.
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- Career CIA Officer Is Charged With Spying for Russia | Los Angeles Times
Nicholson allegedly traveled from 'the farm' to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and asked other CIA employees for background information about Chechnya, claiming that he needed the data for a training exercise.
- Joint CIA-FBI Press Release on Arrest of Harold James Nicholson
In April 1996, Nicholson went to CIA Headquarters and requested information about Chechnya for a training exercise. No such CIA training about Chechnya was planned.