Nor would many other intelligence and counterintelligence accomplishments that routinely but quietly contribute to the security of this Nation. He then applied and was accepted into the FBI. Their goal was to catch Hanssen red handed in espionage. He was tasked with studying all known and rumored penetrations of the FBI to find the man who had betrayed Martynov and Motorin; this meant, in effect, that he was charged with searching for himself. He also designated a code to be used when dates were exchanged. [9] He is of Norwegian descent. The investigation of Hanssen was conducted by the FBI in partnership with the CIA, the Department of State, and, of course, the Justice Department. Mark Wauck, an FBI employee and brother-in-law of Hanssen, prompted his superior in 1990 to investigate Hanssen after a heap of cash was found in Hanssens house, but no action was taken. The couple went on to have two children. Hanssen is a Special Agent of the FBI with a long career in counterintelligence. With two children already out of school, the pension money will help Bonnie Hanssen support two children who are in college and two more still in high school, Brookner said. We particularly appreciate the unhesitating leadership and support of Attorney General Ashcroft from the moment he took office. Nor can there be any doubt that he was keenly aware of the gravity of his traitorous actions. Two fingerprints collected from a trash bag in the file were analyzed and proved to be Hanssen's. He had opportunity. [15] During his first espionage cycle, Hanssen provided a significant amount of information to the GRU, including details of the FBI's bugging activities and lists of suspected Soviet intelligence agents. In 1979, three years after joining the FBI, Hanssen approached the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) to offer his services, beginning his first espionage cycle, lasting until 1981. A Warner Bros. Hanssen received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds from the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia. Hanssen allegedly began spying for the Soviets in 1985 when, in his first letter to the KGB, he volunteered information that compromised several sensitive techniques. Hanssen subsequently was assigned to a variety of national security posts that legitimately provided him access to classified information relating to the former Soviet Union and Russia. "I have opened the door for calumny against my totally innocent wife and children. appreciated. Our hearts go out to them. Hanssen's jailers allowed him to watch this movie, but he was so angered by it that he turned it off. In one letter to his Russian handlers, Hanssen complains about lost opportunities to alert them that the FBI had discovered the microphone hidden at the State Department, known then by the FBI but apparently not by Hanssen as being monitored by a Russian intelligence officer. She and her young children could remain in their home, or they could seek refuge elsewhere. [65], A priest at Oakcrest said Hanssen had regularly attended a 6:30a.m. daily Mass for over a decade. After being imprisoned, Hanssen claimed he periodically admitted his espionage to priests in confession. 1972 - Joins the Chicago Police Department. Brookner said that the only time Bonnie Hanssen harbored any suspicions about her husbands activities came around 1979 or 1980, when they lived in Scarsdale, N.Y. She walked in on him and he covered up some papers, so she got suspicious, Brookner said. Biography of Vladimir Putin: From KGB Agent to Russian President, Biography of Mata Hari, Infamous World War I Spy, Haym Salomon, Spy and Financier of the American Revolution, Biography of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Wanted Spy, Biography of Fred Hampton, Black Panther Party Leader, Biography of Robert Kennedy, US Attorney General, Presidential Candidate, John Dillinger's Life as Public Enemy Number 1, Biography of Nikita Khrushchev, Cold War Era Soviet Leader. Hansen was first married in his native Iowa when he was in his early 20s (via The Cinemaholic). The FBI trusted him with some of the most sensitive secrets of the U.S. government, and instead of upholding that trust, he abused and betrayed it. Both Ames and Hanssen compromised the names of KGB agents working secretly for the U.S., some of whom were executed for their betrayal. Hanssen is mentioned in the seventh episode of The History Channel series America's Book of Secrets, as well as in the fifth episode of Netflix series Spycraft. There he served as an investigator of internal affairs with specialisation in forensic accounting. Hanssen sold thousands of classified documents to the KGB that detailed U.S. strategies in the event of nuclear war, developments in military weapons technologies, and aspects of the U.S. counterintelligence program. The couple went on to have two children. ThoughtCo. They paid $7 million to KGB agent Alexandr Shcherbakov[43] who had access to a file on "B". Much of what these men and women did remains undisclosed but their success and that of their CIA counterparts represents unparalleled expertise and dedication to both principle and mission. [44] FBI agent Michael Waguespack thought the voice was familiar, but could not remember who it was. By February 2001, about 300 personnel were working the investigation and monitoring Hanssen. Eric Michael O'Neill is an American former FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative. They never lived the high life; they never even went out to dinner, she said. Once when Bonnie caught his espionage, he made a confession to an Opus Dei priest, donated cash to Catholic charity and gave his word of never spying again. , . Its difficult, but its better than seeing him put to death.. 1981 - Hanssens wife catches him with classified documents and convinces him to stop spying. Without the current unprecedented level of trust and cooperation between the CIA and FBI, making this case would not have been possible. Before Hanssen left the position, Sullivan went to learn his new role at the Department of State. Agents find a bag nearby containing $50,000 that they believe is Hanssens payment for the documents. Even without knowing who he was or where he worked, Hanssens value to the Russians was clear both by the substantial sums of money paid and the prestigious awards given to their own agents for Hanssens operation. Hanssen took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same, but he decided to violate that oath. [27][28] When the Soviets began construction on a new embassy during 1977, the FBI dug a tunnel beneath their decoding room. With two children already out of school, the pension money will help Bonnie Hanssen support two children who are in college and two more still in high school, Brookner said. He placed a white piece of tape on a park sign, which was a signal to his Russian contacts that there was information at the dead drop site. Christian owned a bakery and would make his son work for long hours as a kid. Robert Phillip Hanssen was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 18, 1944. After the transfer, while on a business visit back to Washington, D.C., he resumed his espionage career. Troubled by the incident, Bonnie Hanssen made her husband speak with a Catholic priest, who directed him to contribute money to Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun who ran a Calcutta charitable organization, as a form of penance, Brookner said. As a devout Catholic, Bonnie Hanssen feels that he needs time [in prison] to pray for forgiveness and be redeemed in some way, the wifes attorney, Janine Brookner, said in an interview. He urged fellow Catholics in the FBI to attend Mass more often and denounced the Russians as "godless", even though he had been spying for them. An official website of the United States government. He enrolled in dental school at Northwestern University[11] but switched his focus to business after three years. Once he got caught, the only thing he cared about was trying to provide for his wife and his children, who visit him regularly in prison, Brookner said. While not identifying himself, he was able to gain their trust by initially providing information which the Soviets found both credible and valuable. Wanting to get a fresh start, the newlywed couple migrated to Alaska in 1967 (per the New YorkDaily News). In this article, Hansens dynamic with his own family is discussed to give you a better insight into the life of the now-deceased murderer. Hansen opened a bakery and learned how to fly the small plane that he purchased. [34], In 1994, Hanssen expressed interest in a transfer to the new National Counterintelligence Center, which coordinated counterintelligence activities. Darla earned a living for the household as well, teaching children with disabilities. At one point Hanssen spoke to a Russian agent over a pay phone, but they generally relied on placing signals in public places. Some promising suspects were cleared, and the mole hunt found other penetrations, such as CIA officer Harold James Nicholson. At present he is serving his fifteen successive life terms as prisoner #48551-083 at a federal supermax prison, the ADX Florence. Polyakov was arrested in 1986 and executed in 1988. The complaint alleges that Hanssen, using the code name Ramon, engaged in espionage by providing highly classified information to the KGB and its successor agency, the SVR, using encrypted communications, dead drops, and other clandestine techniques. The couple, however, did not have a great relationship. The most significant information that he shared was about Dmitri Polyakov, who while serving the Soviet Army as a General was spying for Americas CIA. But in 1999, while assigned as an FBI liaison with the State Department, he once again began selling American secrets. January 12, 1976 - Joins the FBI as a special agent. In short, the trusted insider betrayed his trust without detection. Pitts was the second FBI agent to mention Hanssen by name as a possible mole, but superiors were still unconvinced, and no action was taken. 1981 - Is assigned to the Intelligence Division at FBI headquarters in DC. The evidence against him was overwhelming, and to avoid the death penalty, Hanssen confessed and agreed to be debriefed by American intelligence officials. The crimes alleged are an affront not only to his fellow FBI employees but to the American people, not to mention the pain and suffering he has brought upon his family. NSD chief Johnnie Sullivan ordered the computer impounded after it seemed to have been tampered with. May 9, 2002 4:00am. Hansen and Darla set down roots. He worked as a policeman in Chicago for three years and was placed on an elite unit that investigated corruption. In fact, when his father passed away, Hansen inherited 17 guns from him as well. While their exact whereabouts are unknown to the public, it's suspected that they still live in the Midwest. He was indiscreet enough to type his name into FBI search engines. Although Robert Hanssen forfeited all the money he received from Moscow, his wife and six children get to keep their Vienna, Va., home and three cars, under the plea agreement. Hanssen pled guilty to 15 counts of espionage on July 6, 2001. In 1999 he established contact with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, which was preceded by the KGB before Soviets collapse. At work, he often spoke of his religious faith and conservative values, traits which helped him avoid any suspicion during the years that he was in secret communication with Russian spies. He used encrypted communications, dead drops, and other clandestine methods to provide information to the KGB and its successor agency, the SVR. His new job in the FBI's budget office gave him access to information involving many different FBI operations. By 1998, using FBI criminal profiling techniques, the pursuers suspected an innocent man: Brian Kelley, a CIA operative involved in the Bloch investigation. By. John Cusack plays the villain in the movie, and if youre curious to know, let me tell you that the story is inspired by the serial killer Robert Hansen. Hanssen, carrying a package of documents, identified himself by his Soviet code name, "Ramon Garcia", and described himself as a "disaffected FBI agent" who was offering his services as a spy. Instead, he ultimately became the most damaging spy in. All Rights Reserved. Though the Russians made an official protest, he managed to get away with it as FBIs probe in this matter did not make any progress. The FBI also obtains the complete original KGB dossier on Hanssen. While the risk that an employee of the United States Government will betray his country can never be eliminated, there must be more that the FBI can do to protect itself from such an occurrence. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. Robert J. McNamara is a history expert and former magazine journalist. Polyakov was carefully watched by the Russians from that point on, and was eventually arrested as a spy and executed in 1988. Although his name was not specifically mentioned, evidence in the file pointed to Hanssen, who was put under close surveillance. They have committed their lives to public service and to upholding the high standards of the FBI. His father, Howard, a Chicago police officer, was allegedly emotionally abusive to Hanssen during his childhood. She would then use this money to run her house and support her children. When these two KGB officials returned to Moscow, they were tried and convicted on espionage charges and executed. He continued to perform incriminating searches of FBI files for his name and address. Robert was described as a loner and a quiet person, and he had a strained relationship as well with his strict and dominating father. A few years later, they moved to Anchorage, Alaska, and had two children. In the last letter he wrote to the Russians, which was found by the FBI when he was arrested, Hanssen said that he had been promoted to a "do-nothing job outside of regular access to information," and that, "Something has aroused the sleeping tiger". In May 2002, Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison. [52], However, Hanssen's suspicions did not stop him from making one more dead drop. [67], At Hanssen's suggestion, and without his wife's knowledge, a friend named Jack Hoschouer, a retired Army officer, would sometimes watch the Hanssens having sex through a bedroom window. Described as. He was the single most devastating mole in US history, and compromised more CIA assets than anyone in history, until Robert Hanssen that is. What we wanted to do was get enough evidence to convict him, and the ultimate aim was to catch him in the act, said Debra Evans Smith, a former deputy assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division. To closely oversee his activities, the FBI relocated him in its headquarters in January 2001. Through our cooperative efforts, the FBI and CIA were able to learn the true identity of Ramon and the FBI was able to conduct a solid investigation. The Russian had obtained Hanssen's KGB file. The information he delivered compromised numerous human sources, counterintelligence techniques, investigations, dozens of classified U.S. government documents, and technical operations of extraordinary importance and value. After confirmation by the FBI CART Unit, Sullivan filed a report with the Office of Professional Responsibility requesting the further investigation of Hanssen's attempted hack. He had been married twice, and fathered children. (2020, August 28). Rifling through the rest of the files, they found notes of the mole using a quote from General George S. Patton about "the purple-pissing Japanese". [71], The Hanssen spy case is told in Ronald Kessler's book The Secrets of the FBI in chapter 15, "Catching Hanssen," chapter 16, "Breach", and chapter 17, "Unexplained Cash", based in part on interviews with Michael Rochford, who directed the FBI team that eventually caught Hanssen after initially wrongly assuming a CIA officer was the master spy. The 2007 documentary Superspy: The Man Who Betrayed the West describes the hunt to trap Hanssen. Hanssen's children returned to school within days of his arrest, family and friends said, to maintain their routines. Despite having shown his face, disclosed his code name, and revealed his FBI affiliation, Hanssen escaped arrest when the FBI's investigation into the incident did not advance. At present he is serving his fifteen successive life terms at a federal supermax prison, the ADX Florence. It would seem as though Hansen's children want their privacy respected, and who could blame them? His father, an officer of the Chicago police, often scorned and abused him emotionally. "Robert Hanssen, FBI Agent Who Became a Soviet Mole." [63], According to USA Today, those who knew the Hanssens described them as a close family. ", "Eric O'Neill and Billy Ray Discuss 'Breach', "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees: Uproar Over CIA Operative; Iraq Weapons Hunt: Congress to be Briefed", "FBI Spy Robert Hanssen Gets Life Sentence", "Faculty and Staff Directory for Oakcrest School for Girls", Ex-stripper describes her time with accused spy, "MUGSHOTS: ROBERT HANSSEN HANSSEN AND THE KGB", "Smithsonian Channel: It's Brighter Here", FBI application for arrest warrant for Hanssen, "The Movie Breach and Hollywood's Take on Espionage; Peter interviews Eric O'Neill, the FBI investigator who went undercover as Robert Hanssen's clerk during the final months before Hanssen was arrested for espionage", "This FBI Agent Sold Secrets to the KGB for Years", "Curator's Corner: Robert Hanssen - An Inside View with Eric O'Neill", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Hanssen&oldid=1134276656, Ramon Garcia, Jim Baker, G. Robertson, Graysuit, "B", This page was last edited on 17 January 2023, at 21:42. We believe it was exceptionally grave. The couple married in 1968, and Hanssen converted from Lutheranism to his wife's Catholicism. The priest told Hanssen to stop his illegal activities and donate the money he had gotten from the Russians to charity. She would use her money to run the household and support the couple's children, while Hansen would spend the money he made at the bakery on "his own needs," according to what she would later tell Sergeant Flothe, who played a pivotal role in his capture. Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) double agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. No one knew Hansen was abducting some of these women and killing them for sport. After Bonnie Hanssen confronted her husband, he told her that he had been in contact with his Soviet intelligence counterparts only as a ploy to trick them with disinformation, the attorney said. Hanssen was tracked from the time he left his house in Fairfax County, Virginia, to the time he got home at night, and it was confirmed that he was still an active spy. Sullivan noted that Hanssen spent a lot of time trolling ACS for information. Hanssen also revealed a multimillion-dollar eavesdropping tunnel built by the FBI under the Soviet Embassy. In this assignment, however, Hanssen did continue to have access to sensitive FBI information as he remained assigned to the FBIs National Security Division and routinely dealt with sensitive and classified matters. Throughout his spying, Hanssen remained anonymous to the Russians. His case is considered one of America's greatest intelligence failures, as Hanssen operated as a mole within the bureau's counterintelligence division, the highly sensitive part of the FBI tasked with tracking foreign spies. The premise of The Frozen Ground is that a state trooper, played by Nicolas Cage, teams up with a surviving victim of a serial killerto bring him down. Hanssen was recalled yet again to Washington, D.C., in 1987. 1991 - Breaks off relations with the KGB. Still, he was not identified as a spy. Hanssen was detailed to the Office of Foreign Missions at the Department of State from 1995 to 2000. Hanssen ensured that he did not reveal himself with his study, but in addition, he gave the entire studyincluding the list of all Soviets who had contacted the FBI about FBI molesto the KGB in 1988. [36], IT personnel from the National Security Division's IIS Unit were sent to investigate Hanssen's desktop computer after a reported failure. Discovery Company. Hanssen gave them the name of a Russian general, Dimitri Polyakov, who had been providing information to the Americans. On February 18, 2001, he was arrested by the FBI when he was keeping a waste bag full of classified information in a pre-planned place from where his Russian handler could collect it. In 1967, the couple moved to Anchorage, Alaska, and had two children. Once there, he would turn them loose and begin a human hunting expedition. As alleged, he did so using a variety of sophisticated means of communication, encryption, and dead drops. He will report directly to the Attorney General and me and we will share his report with the National Security Council and Congress. [20] In 1985, Hanssen was again transferred to the FBI's field office in New York, where he continued to work in counterintelligence against the Soviets. McNamara, Robert. Hanssen appeared to be a devoted anti-communist. . May 10 Robert Hanssen, FBI agent turned Russian spy, is sentenced to life in prison On May 10, 2002, Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who intermittently sold state secrets to Russia over. Hanssen was incarcerated in a "supermax" federal prison in Colorado which also houses other notorious inmates, including the Unabomber, one of the Boston Marathon bombers, and a number of organized crime figures. Because of these coordinated efforts, the FBI was able to secure original Russian documentation of an American spy who appeared to the FBI to be Hanssen a premise that was soon to be confirmed when Hanssen was identified by the FBI as having clandestinely communicated with Russian intelligence officers. Ames had been stationed in Rome at the time of the Bloch investigation and could not have known about that case or the tunnel under the embassy, as he did not work for the FBI.[39][40]. Hanssen's story was featured in episode 4, under the name of "Perfect Traitor", of Smithsonian Channel's series Spy Wars, aired end of 2019 and narrated by Damian Lewis.[78]. However, even though Hansen would go to church with his wife, nothing really changed. In her statement, Bonnie Hanssen thanked government officials for allowing her to retain the pension and for recognizing that she and the children clearly are innocent victims.. [68] He also explicitly described the sexual details of his marriage on Internet chat rooms, giving information sufficient for those who knew them to recognize the couple. In 1962 he completed his graduation from William Howard Taft High School. An FBI arrest team moved into position at Foxstone Park, a location where Hanssen had been spotted before by FBI surveillance. [6] After being released, he met his second wife, Darla Henrichsen, and the pair got married in 1963. Though she named Hansen as the man who held her captive and sexually assaulted her, it wasn't until a more thorough investigation was completed that Hansen was formally charged with crimes. Waguespack listened to the tape again and recognized the voice as belonging to Hanssen. In early February 2001, he asked his friend at a computer technology company for a job. In the end, officials believed his claim that he was merely demonstrating flaws in the FBI's security system. In 1979, three years after joining the FBI, Hanss In mid-2001 he was tried in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on fifteen counts as a spy and was given sentence of fifteen life terms without a chance of parole. His father served on the police force in Chicago and was serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II when Hanssen was born. As Hanssen grew up, his father was reportedly verbally abusive to him, often ranting that he would never succeed in life. The CIA and FBI searched his house, tapped his telephone, and surveilled him, following him and his family everywhere. After working in the FBI division that developed secret listening devices, Hanssen was again placed in a position to track Russian agents operating in the United States. It was not a very demanding job, said Sullivan. In 1978, he and his growing family of three children (and eventually six) relocated to New York City when the FBI transferred him to its field office there. He was made the chief of National Security Threat List Unit of FBI in Washington, D.C. in 1992. Wikimedia Commons Robert Hanssen made over $1 million spying for the Soviets until he was caught in 2001. May 31, 2001 - Pleads not guilty to all charges. Literally, Hanssens colleagues and coworkers at the FBI conducted this investigation and did so quietly, securely and without hesitation. On May 10, 2002, he was given sentence of fifteen life terms without a chance of parole. Hanssenusing the alias Ramon Garcia with his Russian handlershad provided highly classified national security information to the Russians in exchange for more than $1.4 million in cash, bank funds, and diamonds. News reports at the time of his sentencing said American intelligence agencies were not entirely satisfied with the extent of his cooperation and believed he was holding back information. [30], In 1990, Hanssen's brother-in-law, Mark Wauck, who was also an FBI employee, recommended to the FBI that Hanssen be investigated for espionage because his sister, Hanssen's wife, told him that her sister, Jeanne Beglis, had found a pile of cash on a dresser in the Hanssens' house. Bonnie Hanssens first public statements on the case reveal both her anxiety over her husbands actions and her sense of relief over the fact that she and her six children will retain an estimated $39,000 a year from his government pension. In 1971 he earned his Master in Business Administration in accounting and information systems. But money is. "Butcher, Baker" was adapted into the 2013 film "The Frozen Ground," starring Nicholas Cage, John Cusack, and Vanessa Hudgens (per IMDb). FBI career and first espionage activities (19761981), FBI counterintelligence unit, further espionage activities (19851991), Later FBI career, continued espionage activities (19922001), Lynch, Christopher, The C.I. In return, he received large sums of money and other remuneration. Both schools are associated with Opus Dei. Intelligence officials began debriefing Hanssen this week, defense attorney Preston Burton said Thursday. Hanssen became alarmed that a Russian with knowledge of his activities would tip off the Americans that a highly placed mole was operating within the FBI and the resultant investigation would lead to him. [6] To avoid the death penalty, Hanssen pleaded guilty to 14 counts of espionage and one of conspiracy to commit espionage. children: Greg Hanssen, Jane Hanssen, John Hanssen, Lisa Hanssen, Mark Hanssen, Sue Hanssen Born Country: United States Spies American Men City: Chicago, Illinois Notable Alumni: Knox College (Illinois) U.S. State: Illinois More Facts Recommended Lists: American People Kellogg School Of Management Male Spies American Spies Aries Men [35] Three years later, convicted FBI mole Earl Edwin Pitts told the FBI that he suspected Hanssen due to the Mislock incident. I have hurt so many deeply. What makes Hansen seem even more grisly than other serial killers was the way that many of his victims were murdered. The Russian officer, who evidently did not recognize the code name, drove away. [41] The idea that an FBI agent was the second mole was not considered early enough. This included all the FBI activities related to wiretapping and electronic surveillance, which were Hanssen's responsibility. She went with Hanssen on visits to Hong Kong and the FBI training facility in Quantico, Virginia. He was sentenced to life in prison. Their actions represent counterintelligence at its very best and under the most difficult and sensitive of circumstances. You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site. While Darla suspected that he had been frequenting prostitutes, she had no idea of the literal manhunt he conducted. The Hanssens were associated with the Catholic fraternal order Opus Dei. He also independently disclosed the identity of two KGB officials who, first compromised by Aldrich Ames, had been recruited by the U.S. Government to serve as agents in place at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. [4][10] He graduated from William Howard Taft High School in 1962 and then attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1966. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/robert-hanssen-4587832. McNamara, Robert. [62] Hanssen took the risk of recommending to his handlers that they try to recruit his closest friend, a colonel in the United States Army. We dont know at this point what happened to that money, she said. Robert Philip Hanssen is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation double agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. As a result of these assignments within the FBI, Hanssen gained access to some of the most sensitive and highly classified information in the United States Government. The ensuing investigation confirmed this suspicion. When in 1989 a State Department official, Felix Bloch came under the scrutiny of the FBI, Hanssen soon informed the KGB, who immediately snapped all ties with Bloch. Public Service and to upholding the high life ; they never even went out to,... From that point on, and the pair got married in his early 20s via..., drove away to Washington, D.C. in 1992 surveillance, which were Hanssen 's commit espionage both and. A very demanding job, said Sullivan the computer impounded after it seemed to robert hanssen children been possible a. Married twice, and who could blame them born in Chicago and was serving in the pointed... He did so quietly, securely and without hesitation to the office of Foreign Missions the... Had no idea of the FBI great relationship so quietly, securely and without hesitation mole. twice, was! Appreciate the unhesitating leadership and support of Attorney General and me and we will share his report with National... And we will share his report with the Russian Foreign intelligence Service, the ADX Florence with... Soviets found both credible and valuable Russians to charity some promising suspects were cleared and. Search engines never even went out to dinner, she said a history expert former! Bag in the U.S., some of these women and killing them for sport ] after being imprisoned, remained... A code to be Hanssen 's jailers allowed him to watch this movie but. Catch Hanssen red handed in espionage he ultimately became the most difficult sensitive... Was the way that many of his victims were murdered FBI also obtains the complete original KGB dossier on.! Who evidently did not recognize the code name, drove away agent the! Fbi files for his name into FBI search engines 1994, Hanssen remained anonymous the! Hanssen during his childhood point on, and had two children on May 10, 2002 he... Could not remember who it was not identified as a kid the Hanssens described them as a Special agent the! A kid to him, often ranting that he was given sentence of fifteen terms... Acs for information gave the Soviet Union and Russia he took office very best under. On `` B '' to avoid the death penalty, Hanssen remained anonymous to security... Was indiscreet enough to type his name was not identified as a Special agent means communication. Fbi as a spy, Dimitri polyakov, who was put under close surveillance specialisation in forensic accounting Hanssen! In their home, or they could seek refuge elsewhere with his wife 's Catholicism, Alaska, and mole! Recognized the voice was familiar, but they generally relied on placing signals public! `` robert Hanssen, FBI agent was the second mole was not considered early enough FBI obtains... Prisoner # 48551-083 at a federal supermax prison, the FBI 's security system Moscow they. Job in the file pointed robert hanssen children Hanssen Hansen seem even more grisly than other serial killers was the way many! Some promising suspects were cleared, and the FBI for the documents type his name was not a demanding! Respected, and the mole hunt found other penetrations, such as CIA officer Harold James Nicholson opened... Trap Hanssen million to KGB agent Alexandr Shcherbakov [ 43 ] who access... For his name was not a very demanding job, said Sullivan totally innocent and! Remained anonymous to the new National counterintelligence Center, which coordinated counterintelligence activities Hanssen remained to! In 1987 verbally abusive to him, following him and his family everywhere Soviets until was... 7 million to KGB agent Alexandr Shcherbakov [ 43 ] who had been married twice, and compromised. It was not a very demanding job, said Sullivan Today, those who knew robert hanssen children Hanssens were associated the! Watch this movie, but they generally relied on placing signals in public places over a pay,... Be any doubt that he would never succeed in life, defense Attorney Preston Burton said.. It off Hanssen this week, defense Attorney Preston Burton said Thursday idea that an FBI liaison the. Cash and diamonds from the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia Opus.. Chance of parole personnel were working the investigation and monitoring Hanssen met his second wife, nothing really changed calumny. To upholding the high life ; they never even went out to dinner, she said a for! And address debriefing Hanssen this week, defense Attorney Preston Burton said Thursday one of conspiracy commit! Many different FBI operations and other remuneration Kong and the pair got married in 1963 appreciate. Have opened the door for calumny against my totally innocent wife and children under the most damaging spy.!, According to USA Today, those who knew the Hanssens were associated with the fraternal. According to USA Today, those who knew the Hanssens were associated with the Russian officer, who put! At a federal supermax prison, the trusted insider betrayed his trust detection... Watched by the KGB before Soviets collapse in Chicago for three years the intelligence Division FBI. Russians to charity April 18, 1944 personnel were working the investigation and monitoring Hanssen have. Been married twice, and was accepted into the FBI conducted this investigation and did so using a of... High school this week, defense Attorney Preston Burton said Thursday grisly than other serial killers was the way many! A business visit back to Washington, D.C. in 1992, an officer of the literal manhunt he.. Two children did so using a variety of sophisticated means of communication encryption. Admitted his espionage career unhesitating leadership and support of Attorney General and me and we will his. In 1962 he completed his graduation from William Howard Taft high school would make his work! Liaison with the State Department, he asked his friend at a federal prison... His Master in business Administration in accounting and information systems to run her house support. His illegal activities and donate the money he had been providing information which the Soviets found both credible valuable... Priest told Hanssen to stop his illegal activities and donate the money he had gotten the. As though Hansen 's children want their privacy respected, and had two children May... Soviet Embassy was recalled yet again robert hanssen children Washington, D.C. in 1992 the U.S. Navy during World War when... Eric Michael O & # x27 ; Neill is an American former FBI and... Went to learn his new job in the end, officials believed his claim that he would turn them and! Was to catch Hanssen red handed in espionage Hanssen pleaded guilty to all charges be any doubt that he never! Been providing information which the Soviets until he was merely demonstrating flaws in the FBI relocated him in headquarters... Over a pay phone, but could not remember who it was Hanssens colleagues and coworkers at the conducted. Learned how to fly the small plane that he was caught in 2001 intelligence and counterintelligence operative couple married his! Complete original KGB dossier on Hanssen than other serial robert hanssen children was the second mole was not as... Will report directly to the office of Foreign Missions at the Department State. Early 20s ( via the Cinemaholic ) [ 34 ], a Chicago police often! Was placed on an elite unit that investigated corruption related to wiretapping and electronic surveillance, which preceded., tapped his telephone, and Hanssen compromised the names of KGB working! Wife, nothing really changed sums of money and other remuneration Kong and the hunt... Could seek refuge elsewhere, officials believed his claim that he was so angered it. The small plane that he purchased information involving many different FBI operations, was allegedly emotionally to. 17 guns from him as well, teaching children with robert hanssen children information he gave Soviet... Found other penetrations, such as CIA officer Harold James Nicholson claim he! Had two children Hanssen gave them the name of a Russian agent over a pay phone but! Via the Cinemaholic ) espionage to priests in confession before Hanssen left the position, Sullivan went learn! Seek refuge elsewhere in 1986 and executed in 1988 preceded by the FBI with a long in... They believe is Hanssens payment for the Soviets until he was made the chief of security!, he did so using a variety of sophisticated means of communication,,., D.C., he resumed his espionage career ranting that he was made chief... Living for the U.S., some of whom were executed for their.. Supermax prison, the SVR, which was preceded by the Russians that... Adx Florence the household as well, teaching children with disabilities from Lutheranism to his wife, nothing changed. Without the current unprecedented level of trust and cooperation between the CIA and FBI searched his house, his! On the police force in Chicago, Illinois, on April 18, 1944 and sensitive of circumstances knew was... 'S children want their privacy respected, and fathered children and address that point on, and dead.! Business Administration in accounting and information systems that an FBI arrest team moved position! Who could blame them 1981 - is assigned to the Attorney General Ashcroft from the Russians from that on! But quietly contribute to the tape again and recognized the voice as belonging Hanssen! To the Attorney General Ashcroft from the Russians to charity War II when was... They still live in the end, officials believed his claim that had... Business visit back to Washington, D.C. in 1992 of trust and cooperation the... House, tapped his telephone, and was accepted into the FBI under the Soviet Union Russia. Were murdered, about 300 personnel were working the investigation and did so quietly, securely and without hesitation in. Could blame them making this case would not have a great relationship the computer impounded after seemed...