A TV movie called Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story was released in 2002. Agents find a bag nearby containing $50,000 that they believe is Hanssens payment for the documents. The Soviets, suspicious of being lured into a trap, demanded to meet him. In 1985 he approached the Soviets again and offered valuable secrets. It would seem as though Hansen's children want their privacy respected, and who could blame them? His job was to help assemble a database of foreign officials posted in New York who, while posing as diplomats, were actually intelligence officers spying on the United States. Hanssen then began to videotape his sexual encounters secretly and shared the videotapes with Hoschouer. [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. [38], The existence of two Russian moles working in the U.S. security and intelligence establishment simultaneouslyAmes at the CIA and Hanssen at the FBIcomplicated counterintelligence efforts during the 1990s. Authorities say Hanssen was driven by greed, but Brookner rejected that assertion. Hanssen applied for a cryptographer job in the National Security Agency but was rebuffed due to budget setbacks. [36], IT personnel from the National Security Division's IIS Unit were sent to investigate Hanssen's desktop computer after a reported failure. 1980 - Begins working for the counterintelligence unit, focusing on the Soviet Union. On February 18, 2001, Hanssen was arrested and charged with committing espionage on behalf of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Hanssen pled guilty to 15 counts of espionage on July 6, 2001. But police also found an aviation map Hansen had marked with various X's, later revealed to be his kill map (via Murderpedia). In 1979, Hanssen approached the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and offered his services. O'Neill ascertained that Hanssen was using a Palm III PDA to store his information. A Warner Bros. When he pleaded guilty and received a 461-year prison sentence in 1984, Darla divorced him. His exposure explained many of the asset losses U.S. intelligence suffered during the 1980s, including the arrest and execution of Martynov and Motorin. Aside from a few brushes with the law, Hansen led a fairly ordinary life. As soon as they let their guard down, Hansen would attack, brutally sexually assaulting them before finally killing them (per Anchorage Daily News). During his sessions with investigators, Hanssen claimed his motivation had always been financial. They paid $7 million to KGB agent Alexandr Shcherbakov[43] who had access to a file on "B". However, two cases- the Bloch investigation and the embassy tunnel- remained unsolved. 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Robert Philip Hanssen is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, who became infamous as a notorious double agent of the intelligence services of Soviet Union and later Russia. Breaking her five-month silence, the wife of FBI spy Robert Philip Hanssen said Thursday that she deeply regrets the damage her husband has caused the United States and believes it is appropriate that he spend the rest of his life in prison. Robert Christian Boes Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, at Coleman Hospital on February 15, 1939, the elder of two children to an American mother and a Danish father. Hanssen is a Special Agent of the FBI with a long career in counterintelligence. The Hanssen case was regarded as a low point for the FBI, especially as Hanssen had been so trusted and had committed such betrayals for so many years. 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. [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. The investigation that led to these charges is the direct result of the longstanding FBI/CIA efforts, ongoing since the Aldrich Ames case, to identify additional foreign penetrations of the United States Intelligence Community. 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. He was indiscreet enough to type his name into FBI search engines. The Hanssens are active members of Opus Dei, a conservative Catholic group. After being imprisoned, Hanssen claimed he periodically admitted his espionage to priests in confession. However, Hanssen escaped notice, likely because these efforts concentrated on CIA agents rather than FBI agents. He restarted his espionage activities in 1985 and continued until 1991, when he ended communications during the collapse of the Soviet Union, fearing he would be exposed. [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. 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. In 1999, the FBI even interrogated Kelley, his ex-wife, two sisters, and three children. The plea bargain allows Bonnie Hanssen to receive about 55% of Hanssens pension, which will total an estimated $39,000 per year. "I have opened the door for calumny against my totally innocent wife and children. The news that he used to literally hunt women and kill them after sexually assaulting them sent shockwaves through the state of Alaska, and on occasion, even beyond its borders. An FBI Agent who raised his right hand and spoke those words over 25 years ago has been charged today with violating that oath in the most egregious and reprehensible manner imaginable. 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. This innocent looking house in Vienna used to belong to Russian spy Robert Hanssen before he was caught by the Feds. 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. At least three Russian agents he identified had been executed, and it was suspected that he compromised dozens of intelligence operations. All denied everything. The first marriage lasted only for six months; his wife divorced him while he was serving a 3-year sentence for arson in Iowa. 2:02 PM EDT, Thu April 14, 2022, FBI Agent Robert Philip Hanssen is shown in this undated file photo, released by the FBI February 20, 2001. On May 10, 2002, he was given sentence of fifteen life terms without a chance of parole. May 9, 2002 4:00am. The priest told Hanssen to stop his illegal activities and donate the money he had gotten from the Russians to charity. Their actions represent counterintelligence at its very best and under the most difficult and sensitive of circumstances. [72], Hanssen was the subject of a 2002 made-for-television movie, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, with the teleplay by Norman Mailer and starring William Hurt as Hanssen. What makes Hansen seem even more grisly than other serial killers was the way that many of his victims were murdered. With the mole finally identified, locations, dates, and cases were matched with Hanssen's activities during the period. Robert Hanssen is a former FBI agent who sold highly classified material to Russian intelligence agents for decades before he was finally arrested in 2001. For more than a decade, Hansen had been luring sex workers into his vehicle or home with the promise of an easy transaction. Interestingly, Hansen got married twice. I have hurt so many deeply. Three years later, Hanssen transferred to the FBI's Soviet analytical unit, responsible for studying, identifying, and capturing Soviet spies and intelligence operatives in the United States. Robert Hanssen moments after being arrested. The CIA and FBI searched his house, tapped his telephone, and surveilled him, following him and his family everywhere. Still, he was not identified as a spy. Discovery Company. After a few years working as an accountant, he decided to enter law enforcement. 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. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. He relayed secret information to Russia regarding US intelligence and counterintelligence operations. His application in the National Security Agency, for the post of a cryptographer, was rejected due to budget restrictions. [26], Later that year, Hanssen gave extensive information about American planning for measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), a general term for intelligence collected by a variety of electronic means, such as radar, spy satellites, and signal intercepts. Our joint efforts over the last several years and specifically in this case should give pause to those contemplating betrayal of the Nations trust. Bonnie had previously told her brother that Hanssen once talked about retiring in Poland, then part of the Eastern Bloc. He began providing the Soviets with highly valuable material. While not identifying himself, he was able to gain their trust by initially providing information which the Soviets found both credible and valuable. Hanssen later joined the Catholic organization Opus Dei[13] with like-minded individuals. Robert Hanssen, FBI Agent Who Became a Soviet Mole. Darla, who had a masters degree in Education, would earn her own income by teaching learning disabled kids. By February 2001, about 300 personnel were working the investigation and monitoring Hanssen. Polyakov was carefully watched by the Russians from that point on, and was eventually arrested as a spy and executed in 1988. Once there, he would turn them loose and begin a human hunting expedition. 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. 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. The complaint alleges that Hanssen conspired to and did commit espionage for Russia and the former Soviet Union. The plea bargain spared Hanssen the death penalty. He wrote to them anonymously. 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. He will report directly to the Attorney General and me and we will share his report with the National Security Council and Congress. The affidavit alleges that Hanssen voluntarily became an agent of the KGB in 1985 while assigned to the intelligence division at the FBI field office in New York City as supervisor of a foreign counterintelligence squad. When Robert Hansen was arrested in 1983, it would soon be revealed that this mild-mannered Alaskan baker was responsible for the deaths of as many as 17 young women in the Last Frontier. 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. Yuzhin was imprisoned for six years before he was released by a general amnesty to political prisoners, and subsequently emigrated to the U.S..[24] Because the FBI blamed Ames for the leak, Hanssen was neither suspected nor investigated. Hanssen was serving as a detailee to the Office of Foreign Missions at the Department of State at the time suspicions around him arose. Robert was described as a loner and a quiet person, and he had a strained relationship as well with his strict and dominating father. He became an agent in 1976, and spent two years working in the Indianapolis, Indiana, field office. He compromised information about Americas plan of forming Measurement and Signature Intelligence, its bugging plan over the Soviets by digging a tunnel under the decoding room of the Soviets new embassy and data on double agents of the US. She left her children, Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric well taken care of, but she didn't leave . Yet some investigators believed anger about how his father treated him as a child triggered a need to rebel against authority. [56][57], Hanssen never told the KGB or GRU his identity and refused to meet them personally, except for the abortive 1993 contact in the Russian embassy parking garage. At least two movies have been made about Hanssen. After around five years he joined the FBI in January 1976. Later he would convert to Catholicism from Lutheranism. They created a list of all agents known to have access to cases that were compromised. He was the single most devastating mole in US history, and compromised more CIA assets than anyone in history, until Robert Hanssen that is. 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. 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. He was arrested while in the process of using a dead drop to clandestinely provide numerous classified documents to his Russian handler. In what is now considered the largest intelligence breach in FBI history, Robert Hanssen's scandal made him millions in diamonds and cash, but cost the FBI $7 million and the lives of three informants. In 1979, three years after joining the FBI, Hanss Hanssen would later claim that his goal was simply to make some extra money, as living in New York City was putting a financial squeeze on his growing family. [75], The American Court TV (now TruTV) television series Mugshots released an episode on the Robert Hanssen case titled "Robert Hanssen Hanssen and the KGB".[76]. That could leave Bonnie Hanssen, who works part time at the Catholic girls' school that her youngest child attends, in dire straits. Hanssen made the donation to a charity affiliated with Mother Teresa, and cut off contact with the Soviets for the next few years. After a stint of three years he was shifted to the Soviet Analytical Unit that delved in probing, recognising and catching Soviet agents in the US. Before Hanssen left the position, Sullivan went to learn his new role at the Department of State. NSD chief Johnnie Sullivan ordered the computer impounded after it seemed to have been tampered with. [63], According to USA Today, those who knew the Hanssens described them as a close family. He was also tasked with observing and learning as much as he could about Hanssens information technology setup in his office and with keeping an eye out on who Hanssen was meeting and talking with. 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". In fact, when his father passed away, Hansen inherited 17 guns from him as well. The FBI believed his story, and Hanssen was merely given a warning. Hansen was convicted in 1984 after confessing to killing 17 women, mostly dancers and prostitutes, during a 12-year span. For a while he was in contact with Priscilla Sue Galey, a stripper in Washington, who received cash, jewelry and other benefits from Hanssen. [9] He is of Norwegian descent. Hanssen was detailed to the Office of Foreign Missions at the Department of State from 1995 to 2000. Press Release - Veteran FBI Agent Arrested and Charged with Espionage, FBI.gov is an official site of the U.S. Department of Justice. Without the current unprecedented level of trust and cooperation between the CIA and FBI, making this case would not have been possible. The first time around, his wife divorced him after a mere half-year because of his incarceration for arson in Iowa. Because of his experience and training as a counterintelligence agent, Hanssen went undetected for years, although some of his unusual activities had aroused suspicion from time to time. For unknown reasons[dubious discuss], the Soviets did not act against Polyakov until he was betrayed a second time by CIA mole Aldrich Ames in 1985. He also designated a code to be used when dates were exchanged. 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. He continued with his counter-intelligence work after being shifted to the New York field office in 1985. On August 10, 1968, he married Bernadette "Bonnie" Wauck, a dedicated catholic. 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. Investigators learned that Hanssen was set to make a dead drop on February 18, 2001. In 1962 he completed his graduation from William Howard Taft High School. He emerged as one of the most damaging spies to have infiltrated the FBI resulting in probably the worst intelligence disaster in the history of the US. Robert Hansen Remains 'Person of Interest' in Mom's Disappearance As for the investigation back in the 1960s when Joan Hansen disappeared, Urquhart was obviously not working for the Sheriff's office. Robert J. McNamara is a history expert and former magazine journalist. WASHINGTON - Convicted FBI spy Robert Hanssen, who's set to be sentenced to life in prison tomorrow, asked his best friend to drug and have sex with . Apparently, even though Hansen was naturally a left-handed person, he was always forced to use his right hand, making his speech problems worse. [41] The idea that an FBI agent was the second mole was not considered early enough. Friends of Hanssen later came forward and told journalists that Hanssen had exhibited eccentric behavior, which included an obsession with pornography. December 2000 - The FBI begins surveillance of Hanssen. He then enrolled at the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, to study dentistry but after three years shifted to business studies. The following year he was shifted to counter-intelligence division where he was delegated the job of organising data of Soviet intelligence. 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. Hanssen's story is the subject of the 2021 documentary A Spy in the FBI. Did you encounter any technical issues? Robert was described as a loner and a quiet person, and he had a strained relationship as well with his strict and dominating father. Both schools are associated with Opus Dei. 1979 - Begins spying for the Soviet Union. According to her, Hanssen never slept with her. Eric Michael O'Neill is an American former FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative. Hansen even followed in his fathers footsteps and opened up his own bakery. Hanssen disclosed this information to the Soviets in September 1989 and received a $55,000 payment the next month, equivalent to $120,232 in 2021. The information he is alleged to have provided compromised numerous human sources, technical operations, counterintelligence techniques, sources and methods, and investigations, including the Felix Bloch investigation. Special Agent Don Sullivan, a squad supervisor at the FBIs Washington Field Office at the time, volunteered to replace Hanssen. Two fingerprints collected from a trash bag in the file were analyzed and proved to be Hanssen's. 2023 Cable News Network. The FBI believes that the Russians never knew the name of their source. 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. [66] Opus Dei member C. John McCloskey said he also occasionally attended the daily noontime Mass at the Catholic Information Center in downtown Washington. [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. Hanssen restarted communications the next year and continued until his arrest. Wikimedia Commons Robert Hanssen made over $1 million spying for the Soviets until he was caught in 2001. Through Attorney General John Ashcroft, I would like to thank the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. Mislock has since theorized that Hanssen probably went onto his computer to see if his superiors were investigating him for espionage and invented the document story to cover his tracks. He was Amazon.com's first-ever history editor and has bylines in New York, the Chicago Tribune, and other national outlets. Ames was arrested in 1994. To be very clear on this issue, at no time was he authorized to communicate information to agents of the KGB/SVR. It wasnt money, thats for sure, she said, noting that the family lived in a modest home with three mortgages and drove older-model cars as they scrimped to send their children to private Catholic schools. 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