It was also at this time when Hanssen applied for a cryptographer position in the NSA but was rebuffed due to budget setbacks.

For obvious reasons, Hanssen ensured that he did not unmask himself with his study, but in addition, he also turned over the entire study, including the list of all Soviets who had contacted the FBI about FBI moles, to the KGB in 1988.

In 1990, Hanssen's brother-in-law, Mark Wauck, who was also an FBI employee, recommended to the bureau that Hanssen be investigated for espionage.

Hanssen also believed he was hearing noises on his car radio that indicated his car was bugged, although the FBI was later unable to reproduce the noises Hanssen claimed to have heard.

Opus Dei member Father C. John McCloskey III said Hanssen also occasionally attended the daily noontime Mass at the Catholic Information Center in downtown Washington, D. C. After going to prison, Hanssen claimed he periodically admitted his espionage to priests in confession.

He also acted in the thriller Breach, playing real-life FBI agent and traitor Robert Hanssen.

Hanssen also posted sexually explicit stories to the Internet crafted to allow readers who knew the Hanssens to identify them, also without his wife's knowledge.

Residents also include Theodore Kaczynski, a domestic terrorist otherwise known as the Unabomber, who once attacked via mail bombs ; Robert Hanssen, an American FBI Agent turned Soviet spy ; Terry Nichols, an accomplice to the Oklahoma City bombing ; and Richard Reid, known as the " Shoe Bomber ", who was jailed for life for attempting to detonate explosive materials in his shoes while on board an aircraft.

Hanssen was arrested on 18 February 2001 at Foxstone Park near his home in Vienna, Virginia, and was charged with selling American secrets to Russia for more than US $ 1. 4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period.

Hanssen was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a family of mixed Danish-Polish and German descent.

His father, a Chicago police officer, was emotionally abusive to Hanssen during his childhood.

Hanssen met Bernadette " Bonnie " Wauck while he was attending dental school in Chicago.

Hanssen joined the FBI as a special agent on 12 January 1976 and was transferred to the Bureau's Gary, Indiana, field office.

The next year, Hanssen was moved into counter-intelligence and given the task of compiling a database of Soviet intelligence for the Bureau.

It was then, in 1979, only three years after joining the FBI, that Hanssen began his career as a Soviet ( and later a Russian ) spy.

Hanssen never indicated any political or ideological motive for his activities, telling the FBI after he was caught that his only motivation was the money.

Hanssen was nearly exposed in 1981, when Bonnie Hanssen caught her husband in their basement writing a letter to the Soviets.

However, Hanssen falsely claimed that he was only passing along false intelligence.

Hanssen was transferred to the Washington, D. C. office in 1981 and moved to the suburb of Vienna, Virginia.

In 1983, Hanssen transferred to the Soviet analytical unit, which was directly responsible for studying, identifying, and capturing Soviet spies and intelligence operatives in the United States.

In 1985, Hanssen was again transferred to the FBI's field office in New York, where he continued to work in counter-intelligence against the Soviets.

Since the FBI attributed the leak to Ames, the trail to Hanssen was diverted.

The 1 October letter was the beginning of an active, long espionage period for Hanssen.

In 1987, Hanssen was recalled yet again to Washington.

In May 1989, eight days after the meeting of Bloch with the KGB operative, Hanssen warned the KGB that Bloch was under investigation.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, Hanssen, possibly worried that he could be exposed during the ensuing political upheaval, broke off communications with his handlers that same month and was out of contact for a time.

Hanssen, carrying a package of documents, identified himself by his Soviet codename, " Ramon Garcia ", and described a " disaffected FBI agent " who was offering his services as a spy.

* Robert Hanssen 1966 — Former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia in 2001, and is the subject of the film Breach ( 2007 )

Robert Hanssen's jailers allowed him to watch this movie, but Hanssen was so angered by the film that he turned it off.

* Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story – CBS TV Movie

* Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

* To Catch A Spy: Probe To Unmask Hanssen Almost Ruined Kelley

" Was Hanssen a Spy for the Right Wing, Too?

* 1944 – Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent

* 2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union.

agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $ 1. 4 million in cash and diamonds.

* May 10 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $ 1. 4 million in cash and diamonds.

As part of his plea bargain agreement for his case of espionage for the Soviet Union, Robert Hanssen would be made to undergo a polygraph at any time as part of damage assessment.

Robert Philip Hanssen ( born April 18, 1944 ) is a former American Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001.

In later life, Robert Hanssen speculated that his father had done this in order to ' toughen him up '.

The elder Hanssen constantly disparaged his son and said that Robert would never make anything of his life.

The failure of the Bloch investigation, and the FBI's suspicion of how the KGB found out about the Bloch investigation, drove the mole hunt that eventually led to the arrest of Robert Hanssen.

He was eventually placed on administrative leave, where he remained, falsely accused, for nearly two years, until after Robert Hanssen was arrested.

FBI analyst Bob King remembered Robert Hanssen using that same quote.

Waguespack listened to the tape again and recognized it as the voice of Robert Hanssen.

The story of Eric O ' Neill's role in the capture of Robert Hanssen was dramatized in the 2007 film Breach, in which Chris Cooper played the role of Hanssen and Ryan Phillippe played O ' Neill.

The 2007 documentary Superspy: The Man Who Betrayed the West describes the hunt to trap Robert Hanssen.

* The secret PROMIS software Robert Hanssen leaked to Russia

* USA vs. Robert Hanssen, The Smoking Gun

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