17. Robert Hanssen:A Master Spy Gets Caught
Robert Hanssen, the FBI1 contends2, sold the Soviets and the Russian government . intelligence3 on Russian double agents, . surveillance4 techniques, and other highly sensitive information for over 15 years.
If the government's accusations are correct, FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen sold out his country for cash and diamonds. There apparently was no higher principle motivating Mr. Hanssen's alleged5 treachery6.
Mr. Hanssen had worked for the FBI for 25 years, spending most of that time in counterintelligence7--spying on Soviet and then Russian espionage8 outposts9 in the United States. He is said to have contacted the Soviets in 1985, offering them information in exchange for money. A 100-page affidavit10 released by the FBI on Tuesday, when Hanssen, 56, was arraigned11 on espionage charges, alleges that Hannssen in 1985 sent a letter to a Soviet agent volun teering to provide classified12 intelligence information in exchange for $ 100,000. For the next 15 years, the affidavit says, Hanssen passed along to Soviet and later Russian agents 6,000 pages of documents on secret programs that described how the intelligence, technologies used for listening, people who work as double agents and other highly sensitive matters.
The veteran13 spy was arrested Sunday evening just after leaving a package of classified d
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