Master Spy: The Life Of Robert P. Hanssen

Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former American FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for more than 20 years. Despite the fact that he revealed highly sensitive security information to the Soviet Union, federal prosecutors agreed to not seek the death penalty in exchange for his guilty pleas to 15 espionage and conspiracy charges.[1] He is serving a life sentence in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.[2]Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park[3] near his home in Vienna, Virginia, charged with selling American secrets to Moscow for more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period.[4] On July 6, 2001, he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage in federal court.[5][6] He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison without parole. His activities have been described as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in US history".[7]

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Master Spy: The Life Of Robert P. Hanssen

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