Arthur D. Nicholson, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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officially regarded by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been a victim of murder and the final victim of the Cold War
Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1947
Date of Death: 24-Mar-1985
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Arthur D. Nicholson
- Arthur D.
- Nicholson (7 June 1947 – 24 March 1985) was a United States Army military intelligence officer shot by a Soviet sentry while engaged in intelligence-gathering activities as part of an authorized military liaison mission which operated under reciprocal U.S.-Soviet authority.
- Military liaison missions were ostensibly liaisons between the British, French and U.S.
- forces and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (East Germany), but they had a known intelligence-gathering secondary mission and an important role to verify that offensive action was not being prepared.
- Reciprocal groups were authorized and operated by both the British, French and U.S.
- (in East Germany) and the Soviet Union (in West Germany) during the Cold War.
- Nicholson is officially regarded by the U.S.
- Department of Defense as having been a victim of murder and the final victim of the Cold War.
- Nicholson's death led to a U.S.
- - Soviet crisis and intense negotiations regarding the Military Liaison Missions.
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