Robert Hanssen: Double agent Concepts

1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink

by Taylor Downing · 23 Apr 2018 · 400pp · 121,708 words

every detail of how he had supplied the Americans with aviation intelligence. He was finally executed for treason in September 1986. In October 1985, Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent of some twelve years’ standing, an analyst on Soviet affairs based in New York, also made contact by letter with the KGB officer in

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events of the tense year of 1983, as we have seen. Despite the end of the Cold War, the spying of Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen carried on for some years with both men selling secrets to the Russian Federation. Ames was finally tracked down by an internal CIA inquiry and

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. London: HarperCollins, 1998. Voslensky, Michael (tr. E. Mosbacher), Nomenklatura. London: The Bodley Head, 1990. Wise, David, Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America. New York: Random House, 2002. Zubok, Vladislav, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill

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247 Dobrynin, Anatoly 114–16, 117, 146, 148, 180–1 Donovan, William 107 ‘Doomsday Plane’ see National Emergency Airborne Command Post (Boeing 747) double agents 118–35 Hanssen, Robert 284–5 ideological commitment 120–1, 278 Martynov, Valery 285–6 Vetrov, Captain Vladimir 143 see also Ames, Aldrich; Gordievsky, Oleg

Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married

by Abby Ellin · 15 Jan 2019 · 340pp · 91,745 words

II and beyond. (They were recruited while they were students at the University of Cambridge, which is where the name came from.) The FBI was deceived by Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who was also in cahoots with the Russians, as was the CIA by Aldrich Ames, who was selling secrets to the KGB for

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

by Sarah Kendzior · 6 Apr 2020

time to fix them. I did some reporting for the print side. My first article, in what now seems like ludicrous foreshadowing, was about Robert Hanssen—the FBI agent who was arrested in 2001 after spying for Russia for twenty-two years—writing pornographic stories on the internet, but my primary role was to

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

by David Hoffman · 1 Jan 2009 · 719pp · 209,224 words

about this great CIA coup. He met with Yurchenko, had dinner with him, couldn't get enough of him."26 On October 1, 1985, Robert Hanssen, an FBI analyst on Soviet intelligence, dropped a letter into a mailbox in Prince George's County, outside of Washington. Hanssen was based in the New York

Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It

by Richard A. Clarke and Robert Knake · 15 Dec 2010 · 282pp · 92,998 words

a secret, classified facility, he would have needed a small moving van and a forklift. He also would have risked getting caught or killed. Robert Hanssen, the FBI employee who spied for the Soviets, and then the Russians, starting in the 1980s, never revealed anywhere near that much material in over two decades

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

by David E. Hoffman · 9 May 2016

“his betrayal stands as the most egregious in American history.” Still more damage was caused by Robert Hanssen, an FBI specialist on counterintelligence, who offered his services to the KGB in October 1985. Hanssen and Ames remained Soviet agents for years to come. On Ames, see Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, “Assessment of the

Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy

by Eric O'Neill · 1 Mar 2019 · 299pp · 88,375 words

. I slid into the passenger seat and closed the door against the December chill. Gene didn’t bother with niceties. “Have you ever heard of Robert Hanssen?” I hadn’t. “Should I have?” I asked. “No,” Gene smiled. “That’s good.” I nodded. “That’s why we chose you.” I stayed

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“I’ll get you some extra overtime. You’ll more than earn it.” He put the car into drive. “In or out.” I leapt. Target: Robert Hanssen Suspected spy CHAPTER 2 THE TYRANNY OF SECRETS There is no such thing as a lie detector. Despite numerous advances in behavioral science and technology

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s lengthy debrief, when he mentioned that another FBI agent made him suspicious. Pitts suspected that agent might also be a spy. At the time, the FBI dismissed Pitts’s concerns and chose not to follow up with the agent he’d named: an obscure computer expert named Robert Hanssen. CHAPTER 3 LAY DOWN YOUR SWORD Gene

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kept in a locked box inside other locked boxes, it seemed I had very few keys. Gene made sure I hadn’t heard of Robert Hanssen, told me the FBI would investigate him for possible espionage, and got me to agree to share an office with him. I looked at my watch. It

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star. Kate shook my hand and pulled me into Room 9930. This was where I would be working one on one, side by side, with Robert Hanssen. I still had no idea who Hanssen was, what he was suspected of doing, or what kind of dirt I was expected to find, and

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I believe!” He gave me an appraising look, slightly different from any look he’d given me before. Then he turned away. “Pray more.” Target: Robert Hanssen Suspected spy Quick-tempered Verbally abusive Tendency toward physical reactions No evidence of espionage Knows too much about Bloch case CHAPTER 12 OPEN YOUR EYES

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a Deputy AD for IRD.” Hanssen collapsed into a chair in front of my desk. “We’ve worked together in the past.” I used the Robert Hanssen lexicon that I’d written in my head and translated. A deputy assistant director outranked Hanssen, and I’d come to know that my boss

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“I was there, you know,” she said. “I know. I heard you.” “You don’t miss anything, do you?” Kate smiled. “Neither does Hanssen.” Target: Robert Hanssen GRAY DAY SUIT Compromised national security Planning a drop to the Russians CHAPTER 14 THE ART OF THIEVERY January 25, 2001—Thursday Night The gold

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is flawed?” Kielman said. Hanssen stretched himself to his full height. “The FBI is flawed.” He wasn’t wrong. In 2003 the US Department of Justice’s inspector general conducted an exhaustive review of the FBI’s failures to detect Robert Hanssen. The IG’s team reviewed over 368,000 pages of material from

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reason I was tapped over a more seasoned agent: I was the most out-of-sight, unexpected person the FBI could find. When Gene parked in front of my apartment that frigid December morning, he’d asked me if I’d ever heard of Robert Hanssen. But that wasn’t what he was really

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we lost our chance. So much hinged on what I learned in 9930. But while the agents in the secret squad room had piles of evidence, I had nothing. No information, no leads, no case. Target: Robert Hanssen Russian mole Gray Suit, potentially Ramon Garcia, B Shared nuclear secrets Compromised overseas assets Worst

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spy in American history CHAPTER 18 MAKING A SPY In January 1976, Robert Hanssen joined the FBI. His credentials as a certified public accountant with a master’s degree in business administration complemented four years spent on the Chicago police force

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it was silent except for the coughing and wheezing of the computer workstations and the occasional belching of the HVAC unit. The austere environment fit Robert Hanssen’s personality like the black suit he wore each and every day. I recognized Hanssen’s good qualities. He cared for his family and preached

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or when we can’t investigate the spies swarming around cities like Washington, DC, and New York—buildings fall and people die. In March 2002, Robert Hanssen pled guilty to thirteen counts of espionage, one count of conspiracy to commit espionage, and a final count of attempted espionage. The maximum penalty for

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on the endpoint to move that security as close to the human operator who will make a mistake that lets the spies in or, like Robert Hanssen, turn traitor. But the solution isn’t as simple as securing our devices. Amateurs may hack machines, but professionals hack people. The Hanssen investigation

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

by Amy B. Zegart · 6 Nov 2021

://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-05-mn-36370-story.html (accessed August 22, 2020). 7. Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Robert Hanssen,” History, https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/robert-hanssen (accessed August 23, 2020). 8. Olson, To Catch a Spy, 23. 9. Olson, xiii. 10. Central Intelligence Agency, “About CIA—

The Skripal Files

by Mark Urban · 291pp · 85,908 words

his presidency, had shown himself willing to ‘go big’ on the Kremlin’s spying operations. Soon after Bush’s inauguration in January 2001, the FBI mole Robert Hanssen was arrested, and it emerged what extraordinary damage he’d done to US intelligence operations during years of spying. President Bush expelled fifty Russian diplomats

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serving as deputy chief of the SVR’s North America desk. It was rumoured that he might even have been responsible for the exposure of Robert Hanssen. Zaporozhsky had been recruited by the Americans during the free-for-all of the mid-1990s, quitting the SVR a couple of years later,

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Given the study he was engaged in, he would have been well aware of the activities of one of Russia’s most successful penetrations ever, FBI agent Robert Hanssen, since he was arrested early in 2001. Hanssen’s long spying career, going back to the mid-1980s, depended for most of its length on

This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

by Andy Greenberg · 12 Sep 2012 · 461pp · 125,845 words

, he suddenly looks up and answers me. “The man is the equivalent of a spy. He’s our next Aldrich Ames or Robert Hanssen,” Lamo says, naming two convicted double agents who sold information to the USSR over several decades. Lamo’s speech is a robotic slur, a result of the cocktail of

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-mail, or spills it onto the Web. Even after the initial leak, Mudge argues, the “tells” might continue. He points to the case of Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent currently serving a life sentence in a Colorado supermax prison for giving intelligence information to the Soviets over two decades. In 2002, he confessed

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the Pentagon’s vault of secrets. The individuals tasked with rooting out leaks—from Adrian Lamo to Aaron Barr—tend to compare their targets to Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, spies who sold uncountable secrets to foreign empires for millions of dollars. In fact, the archetypal leaker is often more like