Its difficult, but its better than seeing him put to death.. Our joint efforts over the last several years and specifically in this case should give pause to those contemplating betrayal of the Nations trust. in Chemistry, 1966; Attended Northwestern University Dental School, 1966-1968;. Investigators learned that Hanssen was set to make a dead drop on February 18, 2001. Intelligence officials began debriefing Hanssen this week, defense attorney Preston Burton said Thursday. 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. He used encrypted communications, dead drops, and other clandestine methods to provide information to the KGB and its successor agency, the 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. But money is. 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. She is also challenging some of her husbands credit card bills. All Rights Reserved. A TV movie called Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story was released in 2002. He managed to avoid a death penalty by negotiating a plea deal where he agreed to cooperate with government agents. His twenty two years of espionage against the US began in 1979. 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. After Ames's arrest in 1994, some of these intelligence breaches remained unsolved. McNamara, Robert. Unlike Cold War spies of an earlier era, Hanssen claimed to have no political motivation for selling out his country. He then applied and was accepted into the FBI. In 1967, the couple moved to Anchorage, Alaska, and had two children. His wife was a teacher of theology at Oakcrest. Interestingly, after being relocated to Washington in 1987, he was delegated with a specific probe which actually meant searching for himself but he tactfully managed it. For more than a decade, Hansen had been luring sex workers into his vehicle or home with the promise of an easy transaction. 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. A lock () or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. May 31, 2001 - Pleads not guilty to all charges. Friends of Hanssen later came forward and told journalists that Hanssen had exhibited eccentric behavior, which included an obsession with pornography. He was delegated to probe police officers who were suspected of corruption. 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 . [36], IT personnel from the National Security Division's IIS Unit were sent to investigate Hanssen's desktop computer after a reported failure. 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. Later he would convert to Catholicism from Lutheranism. [77] David Wise wrote Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America. Our hearts go out to them. 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. [4][31], When the USSR disbanded in December 1991, Hanssen, possibly worried that he could be exposed during the ensuing political upheaval, ended communications with his handlers for a time. 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. As Hanssen grew up, his father was reportedly verbally abusive to him, often ranting that he would never succeed in life. On February 18, 2001, Hanssen was arrested and charged with committing espionage on behalf of Russia and the former Soviet Union. Hanssen received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds from the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia. Hanssen's story is the subject of the 2021 documentary A Spy in the FBI. For these reasons, the FBI learned of his true identity before the Russians; they are learning of it only now. In fact, when his father passed away, Hansen inherited 17 guns from him as well. While it did not contain Hanssen's name, among the information was an audiotape of a July 21, 1986, conversation between "B" and KGB agent Aleksander Fefelov. When O'Neill could briefly obtain Hanssen's PDA and have agents download and decode its encrypted contents, the FBI had decisive evidence. "Butcher, Baker" was adapted into the 2013 film "The Frozen Ground," starring Nicholas Cage, John Cusack, and Vanessa Hudgens (per IMDb). 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. Interestingly, Hansen got married twice. 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. The couple went on to have two children. Darla was an extremely religious woman, and she felt that faith could be his way out. Still, he was not identified as a spy. In school, he was bullied for his acne, girls would not talk to him, and he also developed a stutter. 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. Under the plea agreement, Hanssen is obligated to return the $1.4 million in spying proceeds to the government, but Brookner said she doubts that will ever happen. His book written about this experience, Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy, was published in spring 2019. Polyakov was carefully watched by the Russians from that point on, and was eventually arrested as a spy and executed in 1988. I intend to act swiftly on his recommendations. Hanssen was detailed to the Office of Foreign Missions at the Department of State from 1995 to 2000. 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. 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. His active and long stint as a Soviet spy began on October 1, 1985, when he sent an unsigned letter to KGB, where he mentioned the names of at least three agents of KGB who were covertly serving FBI. The couple's relationship was fraught, and Darla, who had a master's degree in Education and taught children with learning disabilities, supported herself. 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. His espionage of more than two decades had earned him cash of over 1.4 million USD and diamonds. His bride left him after six months when Hansen was put in prison for setting fire to the local school district's bus barns. [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. He was the single most devastating mole in US history, and compromised more CIA assets than anyone in history, until Robert Hanssen that is. Both schools are associated with Opus Dei. In May 2002, Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison. [25] That same year, Hanssen, according to a government report, committed a "serious security breach" by revealing secret information to a Soviet defector during a debriefing. 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. A turning point came in 2000, when the FBI and CIA were able to secure original Russian documentation of an American spy who appeared to be Hanssen. But police also found an aviation map Hansen had marked with various X's, later revealed to be his kill map (via Murderpedia). The Soviets, suspicious of being lured into a trap, demanded to meet him. 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. Is sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. The first marriage lasted only for six months; his wife divorced him while he was serving a 3-year sentence for arson in Iowa. She supports the plea agreement and agrees that the sentence of life in prison without parole, rather than the death penalty, is appropriate in these circumstances.. 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. Robert Hansen died at the age of 75 in 2014, still safely behind bars (via the Anchorage Daily News). 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. [53] Upon being arrested, Hanssen asked, "What took you so long?" None of the internal information or personnel security measures in place alerted those charged with internal security to his activities. 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. On January 12, 1976, Robert Philip Hanssen swore an oath to enforce the law and protect the nation as a newly minted FBI special agent. Though both Hansen and his wife earned respectable incomes, it would be revealed that it was Darla who was supporting the household. [7] On July 6, 2001, he pleaded guilty to 13 counts of espionage, one count of attempted espionage, and one of conspiracy to commit espionage in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. When they failed to appear, the Justice Department announced the arrest on February 20. After graduating from a public high school, Hanssen attended Knox College in Illinois, studying chemistry and Russian. After her children endured relentless bullying at school, she decided that her best path led out of Alaska (via The Cinemaholic). For two children, that was devastating. Regrettably, I stand here today both saddened and outraged. It belongs to his wife . 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. The Russian had obtained Hanssen's KGB file. Yet Brookner said Bonnie Hanssen has no intention of divorcing her husband. He often steered conversations to talk of religion and his very conservative values, which were aligned with the very conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei. The complaint alleges that Hanssen conspired to and did commit espionage for Russia and the former Soviet Union. 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. Robert Hanssen moments after being arrested. Hanssen's children returned to school within days of his arrest, family and friends said, to maintain their routines. In 1979, three years after joining the FBI, Hanss Darla earned a living for the household as well, teaching children with disabilities. Because of his sexual deviancy and espionage conviction, the organization's reputation was badly hurt. Robert was described as a loner and a quiet person, and he had a strained relationship as well with his strict and dominating father. , . 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. In the end, officials believed his claim that he was merely demonstrating flaws in the FBI's security system. [52], However, Hanssen's suspicions did not stop him from making one more dead drop. 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. The level of support and expertise from Acting Deputy Attorney General Robert Mueller, Counsel for Intelligence Policy Frances Fragos Townsend, U.S. Attorney Helen Fahey and Assistant United States Attorney Randy Bellows is superb. For more information:- Press Release - Veteran FBI Agent Arrested and Charged with Espionage- Affidavit- Statement ofFBI Director Louis J. Freeh on the Arrestof FBI Special Agent Robert Philip Hanssen (see below), Statement of FBI Director Louis J. Freeh On the Arrestof FBI Special Agent Robert Philip Hanssen, For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 20, 2001Washington D.C.FBI National Press Office. 1991 - Breaks off relations with the KGB. He was made the chief of National Security Threat List Unit of FBI in Washington, D.C. in 1992. Marriage: Bernadette Bonnie (Wauck) Hanssen (August 10, 1968-present), Children: Lisa, Greg, Mark, John Jack, Sue and Jane, Education: Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, A.B. 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. When he pleaded guilty and received a 461-year prison sentence in 1984, Darla divorced him. 2. Robert Hanssen was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Lutheran family who lived in the Norwood Park neighborhood. 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. Realizing the importance of the material, the United States paid $7 million for it. The investigation was not fruitful and the FBI was unable to charge Bloch on any account. [14] The next year, Hanssen was transferred to counterintelligence and given the task of compiling a database of Soviet intelligence for the FBI. He continued to perform incriminating searches of FBI files for his name and address. [9] He is of Norwegian descent. The first time around, his wife divorced him after a mere half-year because of his incarceration for arson in Iowa. While not identifying himself, he was able to gain their trust by initially providing information which the Soviets found both credible and valuable. Wauck also knew that the FBI was hunting for a mole and spoke with his supervisor, who took no action. [54], With the representation of Washington lawyer Plato Cacheris, Hanssen negotiated a plea bargain that enabled him to avoid the death penalty in exchange for cooperating with authorities. Robert was born in 1939 in Iowa to Danish immigrants Christian and Edna Hansen. [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. FBI leadership decided Hanssen needed to be removed from his temporary position and brought back to FBI Headquarters. in Chemistry, 1966; Attended Northwestern University Dental School, 1966-1968; Northwestern University, M.B.A. in Accounting and Information Systems, 1971. In early February 2001, he asked his friend at a computer technology company for a job. By. In January 2001, Hanssen moved into a small office in FBI Headquarters secretly outfitted with surveillance cameras and microphones. 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. Described as. He enrolled in dental school at Northwestern University[11] but switched his focus to business after three years. 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. However, two cases- the Bloch investigation and the embassy tunnel- remained unsolved. Hanssen's wife, Bonnie, retired from teaching theology at Oakcrest in 2020. Hanssen warned the KGB that Bloch was being investigated, causing the KGB to end contact with him abruptly. At present he is serving his fifteen successive life terms as prisoner #48551-083 at a federal supermax prison, the ADX Florence. He visited an office of the Russian government's trading company and offered to spy. His exposure explained many of the asset losses U.S. intelligence suffered during the 1980s, including the arrest and execution of Martynov and Motorin. 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. Imagine finding out that your husband is a ruthless serial rapist and murderer. 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. He received $5,00,000 and jewellery for this work. While their exact whereabouts are unknown to the public, it's suspected that they still live in the Midwest. Hanssen also revealed a multimillion-dollar eavesdropping tunnel built by the FBI under the Soviet Embassy. Robert Hansen. On February 18, 2001, Hanssen was arrested at a park in northern Virginia after he had placed a package at a dead drop location. 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 investigation of Hanssen was conducted by the FBI in partnership with the CIA, the Department of State, and, of course, the Justice Department. July 6, 2001 - Pleads guilty to 15 counts of espionage and conspiracy in exchange for the government not seeking the death penalty. A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. [41] The idea that an FBI agent was the second mole was not considered early enough. In 1980, after his first interactions with the Soviets, Hanssen told his wife what he had done, and she suggested they meet with a Catholic priest. The prolonged abuse that he endured not only made his childhood challenging, but also chased him throughout his life. FBI agents remove evidence from Robert Hanssen's home in Vienna, Virginia on February 20, 2001. . She left her children, Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric well taken care of, but she didn't leave . His application in the National Security Agency, for the post of a cryptographer, was rejected due to budget restrictions. The following year he was shifted to counter-intelligence division where he was delegated the job of organising data of Soviet intelligence. Nor can there be any doubt that he was keenly aware of the gravity of his traitorous actions. In January 2001, Hanssen was given an office and an assistant, Eric O'Neill, who, in reality, was a young FBI surveillance specialist who had been assigned to watch Hanssen. The couple went on to have two children. For many years, the CIA and FBI have been aggressively engaged in a sustained analytical effort to identify foreign penetrations of the Intelligence Community. The CIA and FBI searched his house, tapped his telephone, and surveilled him, following him and his family everywhere. Furthermore, she supported her husband when he was first incarcerated for theft, and then for abducting and sexually abusing a housewife and a prostitute (although the rape charge concerning the latter was dropped when he pleaded guilty.) This is particularly timely as we move to the next generation of automation to support the FBIs information infrastructure. After around five years he joined the FBI in January 1976. The actions alleged date back as far as 1985 and, with the possible exception of several years in the 1990s, continued until his arrest on Sunday. Finding nothing, Hanssen decided to resume his spy career after eight years without contact with the Russians. Hansen was convicted in 1984 after confessing to killing 17 women, mostly dancers and prostitutes, during a 12-year span. Hanssen restarted communications the next year and continued until his arrest. 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. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. [60] He refused to use the dead drop sites that his handler, Victor Cherkashin, suggested and instead chose his own. One notable example was the information that the Americans had dug a tunnel under the Russian embassy in Washington to install sophisticated listening devices. 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. history. [4][42], FBI investigators later made progress during an operation where they paid disaffected Russian intelligence officers to deliver information on moles. "[3] Hanssen is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences without parole at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado. In 1993, he took a daring step by personally approaching a GRU official to offer his espionage, mentioning his codename Ramon Garcia, but the official turned him away. A digital investigation found that an attempted hacking had occurred using a password cracking program installed by Hanssen, which caused a security alert and lockup. The couple married in 1968, and Hanssen converted from Lutheranism to his wife's Catholicism. He could sit in his office and shut the door. His most important leak was the betrayal of Dmitri Polyakov, a CIA informant who passed enormous amounts of information to U.S. intelligence while rising to the rank of general in the Soviet Army. However, Hanssen escaped notice, likely because these efforts concentrated on CIA agents rather than FBI agents. Hanssen is mentioned in chapter 5 of Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code as the most noted Opus Dei member to non-members. Hansen would frequent the strip clubs in the area. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/robert-hanssen-4587832. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history." Hanssen is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences without parole at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado. Martynov and Motorin were condemned to death and executed via a gunshot to the back of the head. Judge Webster is uniquely qualified as a former FBI Director, CIA Director and Director of Central Intelligence to undertake this review. After being imprisoned, Hanssen claimed he periodically admitted his espionage to priests in confession. After being released, he met his second wife, Darla Henrichsen, and the pair got married in 1963. Eric Michael O'Neill is an American former FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative. In 1985 he approached the Soviets again and offered valuable secrets. Once there, he would turn them loose and begin a human hunting expedition. 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. 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". [45] FBI analyst Bob King remembered Hanssen using that same quote. They attended Mass weekly and were very active in Opus Dei. Robert Hansen was a reputed baker and a married man with two children living in Anchorage, Alaska. "I apologize for my behavior. After divorcing Robert, Darla was faced with a choice. 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. January 12, 1976 - Joins the FBI as a special agent. He wrote to them anonymously. There he served as an investigator of internal affairs with specialisation in forensic accounting. 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. The Hanssens were associated with the Catholic fraternal order Opus Dei. 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. In 1999, the FBI even interrogated Kelley, his ex-wife, two sisters, and three children. Before Hanssen left the position, Sullivan went to learn his new role at the Department of State. At present he is serving his fifteen successive life terms at a federal supermax prison, the ADX Florence. Robert Hanssen's business cards, chalk and thumb tacks, which he used to communicate with his Russian contacts, according to the FBI. Hansen even followed in his fathers footsteps and opened up his own bakery. 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. After the transfer, while on a business visit back to Washington, D.C., he resumed his espionage career. With the mole finally identified, locations, dates, and cases were matched with Hanssen's activities during the period. Hanssen appeared to be a devoted anti-communist. [44] FBI agent Michael Waguespack thought the voice was familiar, but could not remember who it was. Special Agent Don Sullivan, a squad supervisor at the FBIs Washington Field Office at the time, volunteered to replace Hanssen. 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. 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. December 2000 - The FBI begins surveillance of Hanssen. His father, an officer of the Chicago police, often scorned and abused him emotionally. During the early 1990s, KGB veterans began to approach western intelligence agencies and provide information. Robert Hansen's Parents. [27][28] When the Soviets began construction on a new embassy during 1977, the FBI dug a tunnel beneath their decoding room. 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. According to her, Hanssen never slept with her. Some promising suspects were cleared, and the mole hunt found other penetrations, such as CIA officer Harold James Nicholson. (Photo courtesy of FBI/Newsmakers). 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. 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. 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