Senior FBI officials described him as . The attorney estimated that Hanssen contributed $10,000 to $20,000 to Mother Teresa in small installments over the years, although the FBI has not been able to verify the payments. I hate silence . I left that memo in your inbox, ONeill replied. Undated file photo released by the FBI February 20, 2001 shows a package recovered at the 'Lewis' drop site containing $50,000 cash allegedly left by Russians for FBI Agent Robert Philip Hanssen. As a young man, he seemed to be seeking a way out of the blue-collar life represented by his boyhood neighborhood. As an agency, we lived up to our responsibility, regardless of how painful it might be. Judge Webster and anyone he selects to assist him will have complete access and whatever resources are necessary to complete this task. During his sessions with investigators, Hanssen claimed his motivation had always been financial. The Hanssens are active members of Opus Dei, a conservative Catholic group. Robert Hanssen, in full Robert Philip Hanssen, (born April 18, 1944, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), agent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who was one of the Soviet Union 's and Russia's most valuable double agents and the most damaging spy ever to penetrate the FBI. Robert Hanssen (left), a 25-year career FBI man, pleaded guilty to, among other charges, 13 counts of espionage for Russia. At the time, he was assigned to counterintelligence in the F.B.I. So Alleman instead asked ONeill to drive Hanssen to a meeting at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in an FBI vehicle that way, she could have someone search Hanssens car while he was out of the office. ''I never knew about anything else after that first time,'' Mrs. Hanssen said in the interview. Midwestern Roots Hanssen was born in April 1944, the only child of a Chicago cop. One eye twitched.. January 30, 2003 / 4:50 PM / CBS. by Tammy A. DiNicola. (I have come about as close as I ever want to come to sacrificing myself to help you, and I get silence. In the early 1980s, Hanssen was transferred to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. To his colleagues in the bureau he seemed to be a model agent. Today in Security. I take solace and satisfaction, however, that the FBI succeeded in this investigation. I said, No way we are taking your beat-up, boring, outdated old Ford Taurus to the DIA. Mrs. Hanssen said she demanded that her husband go with her to see their Roman Catholic priest to confess. 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. 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. The Robert Hanssen Story" was released in 2002. He was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to life without parole in federal prison in 2002 Born: April 14, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois Education: Knox College and Northwestern University, where he received an MBA 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. In fact, her husband resumed his espionage career. He happens to be Catholic. Before getting caught in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison, he sold thousands of pages of sensitive material to the Soviet Union and ruined massive U.S. intelligence plans. The Department of Justice described his espionage as one of the worst in United States History. Mr. Hanssen agreed, and his wife, pregnant with their fourth child, was relieved. The pension was an important consideration for Hanssen in his plea negotiations, Brookner said. The Soviets, suspicious of being lured into a trap, demanded to meet him. He pled. He pleaded guilty to 13 counts of espionage plus two related counts and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Or, rather, one person does. Classic animal aggression, ONeill writes. Hanssen received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds from the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia. 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. ThoughtCo. Accused FBI spy Hanssen cuts deal. However, even though Hansen would go to church with his wife, nothing really changed. (AP Photo/Doug Mills) In all, by the time he was arrested in February 2001, Hanssen collected an estimated $1.4 million for giving lists of American undercover agents abroad, the identities of Russian double agents, documents showing the U.S. was intercepting Soviet satellite transmission and the methods by which the U.S . Darla was an extremely religious woman, and she felt that faith could be his way out. Although his name was not specifically mentioned, evidence in the file pointed to Hanssen, who was put under close surveillance. Hansen even followed in his father's footsteps and opened up his own bakery. In 1985 he approached the Soviets again and offered valuable secrets. His father was a supernumerary part of the 75% while his uncle was a numerary, part of the 25% that swore to a life of poverty and chastity. A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen, America's Most Damaging Russian Spy, Lis Wiehl (Pegasus, 2022), 336 pages. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 Hanssen became much more wary. Without the current unprecedented level of trust and cooperation between the CIA and FBI, making this case would not have been possible. Interestingly, Hansen got married twice. Hes also a sign of Mexicos healthcare crisis, Black residents of Jackson, Miss., blast plans by white-dominated Legislature for more state control, Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws. Apparently, even though Hansen was naturally a left-handed person, he was always forced to use his right hand, making his speech problems worse. Instead, he ultimately became the most damaging spy in. He was, after all, a trained counterintelligence specialist. I imagined I could smell gunpowder on his breath, ONeill writes. He has never answered that question for anyone. The Robert Hanssen Story" was released in 2002. So ONeill was torn when he got his next assignment: Wed like you to make [Hanssen] angry, Alleman said, hoping the suspected operatives reaction would deepen the psychological profile of him. In May 2002, Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison. You can call me sir, or boss, Hanssen said. I would like to ask him why he did it, ONeill told The Post. We believe it was exceptionally grave. The purloined PalmPilot gave the FBI the final piece of the puzzle: Hanssens next meeting with the Russians was scheduled for the following weekend. ONeill rushed everything he found to Alleman, who had all of it copied, and then quickly returned the contents to Hanssens bag. Christopher Burgess / Feb 18, 2021. He wears a revolver in an ankle holster and keeps an automatic [weapon] in his desk., In response, Alleman took a sip of her coffee to hide her smile., Fine, ONeill said. After five years working at the bureau as a ghost following suspects for a living he would be stepping out of the shadows: spying on someone in plain sight. A few years later, they moved to Anchorage, Alaska, and had two children. As it turned out, Hanssen had just been spotted by agents driving at a snails pace past the sign for Foxstone Park in Vienna, Va. Robert Hanssen is accused of spying for the Soviet Union and is awaiting trial. Follow. Our joint efforts over the last several years and specifically in this case should give pause to those contemplating betrayal of the Nations trust. I slammed the door behind me and slid to a halt in Hanssens office.. Before Hanssen left the position, Sullivan went to learn his new role at the Department of State. But Brookner said Hanssens family was never the beneficiary of any spy money and that Bonnie Hanssen has no idea what happened to the proceeds from his spying, including $800,000 that authorities say the Russians deposited for him in a Moscow bank. Investigators learned that Hanssen was set to make a dead drop on February 18, 2001. One reason for her frustration may be that some government officials were apparently not convinced of her story. Hanssen pled guilty to 15 counts of espionage on July 6, 2001. The answer shocked ONeill, then 26. A feature film called Breach was released in 2007. But money is tight, she said, and the former housewife has taken a teaching job at her daughters school in Virginia. Out of all the lingering scandals in Washington,. As alleged in the complaint, computer forensic analysis, substantial covert surveillance, court authorized searches and other sensitive techniques revealed that Hanssen has routinely accessed FBI records and clandestinely provided those records and other classified information to Russian intelligence officers. FBI agents outside Robert Hanssen's home in Virginia, Feb. 20, 2001. "She and the children clearly are innocent victims." Advertisement Robert Hanssen, 57, a former FBI counterintelligence agent, pleaded guilty last week to 15 counts of spying for Moscow. 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. May 10, 2002. This time, Mrs. Hanssen insisted that they find a cheaper place to live than Scarsdale. Why are we still having these debates? ', Before I could blink, [Hanssen] had the lapels of my sport coat twisted in his fists and curled me up to eye level, leaving my toes tipping for balance on the floor. The Russian had obtained Hanssen's KGB file. ThoughtCo, Aug. 28, 2020, thoughtco.com/robert-hanssen-4587832. FBI leadership decided Hanssen needed to be removed from his temporary position and brought back to FBI Headquarters. 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. It is alleged that Hanssen provided to the former Soviet Union and subsequently to Russia substantial volumes of highly classified information that he acquired during the course of his job responsibilities in counterintelligence. If he gave the money from the Soviets to charity, and promised not to spy again, he would have the priest's blessing not to report the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Intelligence officials began debriefing Hanssen this week, defense attorney Preston Burton said Thursday. He often steered conversations to talk of religion and his very conservative values, which were aligned with the very conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei. This story has been shared 123,032 times. . When Eric ONeills supervisor turned up unannounced at his Washington, DC-area home early on a Sunday morning, the still-groggy FBI employee was perplexed. Under Mr. Hanssen's plea bargain, she. Fourth, there is the case of Robert Philip Hanssen, a top-level FBI agent responsible for counterintelligence in the US, who spied for the Russians from 1979 until his arrest in February 2001. Read more Print length 352 pages That effort is complemented by substantial FBI proactive investigation of foreign service intelligence officers here and by the critical work done by the CIA. She next asked ONeill to retrieve Hanssens keys so the FBI could copy them, but his boss kept his keys on him at all times. Two and a half years ago, the FBI arrested Robert Hanssen, a 22-year veteran of the bureau, for selling secrets to Russia. He became an agent in 1976, and spent two years working in the Indianapolis, Indiana, field office. Caught off guard, he grabbed his guns but not his PalmPilot. Before her May 7 polygraph test began, Justice Department investigators read Mrs. Hanssen her Miranda rights, her Washington lawyer, Janine Brookner, said. Alleman tasked him with purloining Hanssens PalmPilot. Days later, ONeill helped devise another plan to get Hanssen out of the office: Two senior officers dropped in unexpectedly and said they wanted to go to the shooting practice range with Hanssen during lunch. The parents of six children, Bob and Bonnie "were the picture of a perfect family. 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. Today hes a national-security strategist for the cyber-security company Carbon Black and runs his own investigative and security-services firm. The damage Hanssen did was considerable. 's investigation of Mr. Hanssen, the former F.B.I. They never lived the high life; they never even went out to dinner, she said. 1999 - Resumes spying, this time for the Russian Intelligence agency. The complaint alleges that Hanssen conspired to and did commit espionage for Russia and the former Soviet Union. Minutes later, ONeill extracted it from the mans bag, along with a floppy disc and a flash drive, running everything downstairs for a tech team to copy. 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. Robert Philip Hansen thought he was smarter than the system. The past few weeks have uncovered many allegations of FBI agent Robert Hanssen's betrayals: unmasking U.S. agents working in Russia and exposing a multimillion dollar American . Hanssen was the son of a police officer. 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. Only David Wise could tell the astonishing, full story, and he does so, in masterly style, in Spy. He lobbied his Russian masters to buy him a newer PalmPilot, with wireless Internet capabilities, which would allow the rapid transmission of encrypted messages. On February 18, 2001, Hanssen was arrested at a park in northern Virginia after he had placed a package at a dead drop location. Robert Hanssen moments after being arrested. 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. 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. Realizing the importance of the material, the United States paid $7 million for it. Now she says she has chosen to speak out at last because she wants to answer one question she has heard dozens of times: How could Robert P. Hanssen's wife of 34 years not have known he was a spy? Robert was described as a loner and a quiet person, and he had a strained relationship as well with his strict and dominating father. We dont know at this point what happened to that money, she said. One might propose that I am either insanely brave or quite insane. 1981 - Is assigned to the Intelligence Division at FBI headquarters in DC. Robert Hanssen Ryan Phillippe Eric O'Neill Dennis Haysbert Dean Plesac Laura Linney Kate Burroughs Caroline Dhavernas Juliana O'Neill Gary Cole Rich Garces Kathleen Quinlan Bonnie Hanssen Bruce Davison John O'Neill Jonathan Watton Geddes Tom Barnett Jim Olsen Jonathan Potts D.I.A. The complaint alleges that he received over $600,000. He began to make small payments over several years to a charity affiliated with Mother Teresa's Catholic organization, moving the family close to bankruptcy, Mrs. Hanssen told the Justice Department investigators. I have hurt so many deeply." Hanssen, who began working with Soviet military intelligence in 1979, was. In school, he was bullied for his acne, girls would not talk to him, and he also developed a stutter. Blood rushed to my face. 29:4-30:1, 2006, pp. Judge Webster is uniquely qualified as a former FBI Director, CIA Director and Director of Central Intelligence to undertake this review. 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. This would be the first of many heart-stopping requests from Alleman. May 10, 2002 - Is sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. Upon becoming a special agent on January 12, 1976, Hanssen was transferred to the FBI's Gary, Indiana, field office. Hanssen, a former counterintelligence supervisor for the FBI, pleaded guilty last week to 15 espionage-related charges and admitted that he had sold the Russians thousands of pages of national security secrets in exchange for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds. They had two children together and were respected members of the community. Children: Lisa, Greg, Mark, John "Jack," Sue and Jane Education: Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, A.B. Many of the questions centered on assertions made by Mrs. Hanssen's brother, Mark Wauck, an F.B.I. Timeline. But something went wrong and when the two men showed up in the parking garage, the FBI car wasnt there. His father, Howard, had reportedly belittled, bullied, and berated the boy from childhood to his college years at Knox College, 200 miles away from his home in Chicago. The tension would not lessen over the next few days, with Hanssen telling ONeill he was a worthless clerk.. WASHINGTON -- Robert Hanssen, the longtime FBI agent accused of passing secrets to Moscow over 15 years, has reached a plea deal enabling him to avoid the death penalty in exchange for cooperating with investigators. One day in February, when Hanssen was away, ONeill took a risk and snuck into his boss office. May 31, 2001 - Pleads not guilty to all charges. The wildest part? Robert Phillip Hanssen was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 18, 1944. On May 10, 2002, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. All Rights Reserved. At the end of the Cold War, Hanssen sold classified secrets to the Soviet and Russian intelligence services. He began providing the Soviets with highly valuable material. By the time O'Neill slipped into the car on that fateful Sunday morning in 2001, an FBI operation was already underway to . 2023 Cable News Network. ONeill now feared he may have pushed Hanssen over the line from suspicion to paranoia. So he leaned back, forcing Hanssen off balance a bit, and apologized for his outburst claiming he just wanted to make sure they roll into the DIA in style, in that big black FBI SUV., This seemed to pacify his boss. 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. Clearly she doesnt approve of what hes done, and there was a whole part of this man she doesnt know, but I think with her deep religious convictions, he will, at least in mind and in spirit, continue to be her husband and the father of her children., Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Caregiver accused in Manhattan Beach child sexual abuse case believed to be in Philippines, Prosecution presents closing arguments in Alex Murdaugh murder trial, Intel agencies say theres no sign adversaries were behind Havana syndrome, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, Yet more rain expected to hit California in March. For a time he planned to become a dentist, but eventually wound up obtaining an MBA and becoming an accountant. Their goal was to catch Hanssen red handed in espionage. Sullivan noted that Hanssen spent a lot of time trolling ACS for information. Hanssen was suspected of leaking critical US intelligence. Anything else while were at it? Annoyed at ONeills seeming incompetence, Hanssen lashed out, calling him an imbecile and a moron. Finally, he said, Well take my car, and thats final.. In court proceedings the government stated that Hanssen had been paid more than $1.4 million during his spying career, most of which he never actually received, as it was held for him in a Russian bank. (Photo courtesy of FBI/Newsmakers). A few years later, they moved to Anchorage, Alaska, and had two children. During his second round of dealing with Russian agents, Hanssen was much more cautious. He had opportunity. Father Bucciarelli came up with a plan to save Mr. Hanssen from prison, Mrs. Hanssen told investigators during the polygraph test, her lawyer said. The couple, however, did not have a great relationship. FBI and CIA personnel who debriefed Hanssen about his 21 years as a spy for Moscow found him a prickly, uncooperative character and won't be sorry to see him pulling hard time in a distant lock-up. He was sentenced to life in prison. January 12, 2001 - Hanssen is reassigned from counterintelligence to an obscure office at FBI headquarters. Today's protagonist, Robert Hanssen, was an FBI agent who served his country for 20 years. Described as. Over the next few years, she said, she questioned him about whether he was working with the Russians once more. But even as her life regains some sense of normalcy, Bonnie Hanssen struggles to understand the havoc that the last few months have wrought, Brookner said. Full Name: Robert Phillip Hanssen Known For: Worked as a mole for Russian spy agencies while serving as an FBI counterintelligence agent. 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. (The bureau wanted someone pretty green so as not to arouse suspicion.) 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. Warmer storms could cause problems, Jaguars, narcos, illegal loggers: One mans battle to save a jungle and Maya ruins, Dr. Simi is a TikTok star. ONeill would have no problem achieving that but he did have a major concern. I live in Dallas, TX and growing up I was always the kid with "her nose in a book". Robert Hanssen, FBI Agent Who Became a Soviet Mole. But dont be fooled by that appearance. 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