* 1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

A second attempt with a team, consisting of Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, Oscar Wisting, and Amundsen himself, departed on 19 October 1911.

With him on this expedition were Oscar Wisting and Helmer Hanssen, both of whom had accompanied Amundsen to the South Pole.

On 14 December 1911 along with Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Olav Bjaaland and Sverre Hassel, Wisting planted the Norwegian flag on the Geographic South Pole, the first explorers to have reached that point.

On 14 December 1911, Hassel together with Amundsen, Hanssen, Olav Bjaaland and Oscar Wisting were the first to reach the South Pole.

He arrived there on December 14, 1911, along with four other members of his expedition: Helmer Hanssen, Olav Bjaaland, Oscar Wisting, and Sverre Hassel.

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

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.

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 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 made a very risky approach to the GRU, with whom he had not been in contact since his initial foray into espionage in 1979 – 1981.

The Russians then filed an official protest with the State Department, believing Hanssen to be a double agent.

Hanssen was sent in 1995 to the Office of Foreign Missions at the State Department as the senior FBI liaison, with the task of coordinating travel by foreign diplomats in the United States.

The FBI believed his story and Hanssen was let off with a warning never to do it again.

The FBI placed Hanssen under round-the-clock surveillance and soon discovered that he was again in contact with the Russians.

Hanssen realized in his final days with the FBI that something was wrong.

With the representation of Washington lawyer Plato Cacheris, Hanssen negotiated a plea bargain that enabled him to escape the death penalty in exchange for cooperating with authorities.

Hanssen never told the KGB or GRU his identity and refused to meet them personally, with the exception of the abortive 1993 contact in the Russian embassy garage.

Hanssen frequently visited D. C. strip clubs, and spent a great deal of time with a Washington, D. C., stripper named Priscilla Sue Galey.

She went to Hong Kong with Hanssen on a trip and on a visit to the FBI training facility in Quantico, Virginia.

Galey claims that although she offered to sleep with him, Hanssen declined, saying that he was trying to convert her to Catholicism.

The report about this journey closed with a quotation by Helmer Hanssen, who had been responsible for the welfare of the sled dogs in Amundsen ’ s South Pole team:

The Void entity existed without any host for a short time, before the actions of the traitor Noir endangered its existence and Spartan temporarily became its new host before it bonded with paramedic Nikola Hanssen.

* February 2001: Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested for spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for more than 15 years of his 27 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A new production, directed by Mel Hooley with Zimbabwean actors Kevin Hanssen and Anne Fischer is being staged at Dorchester Arts in Dorset from 19 – 21 August 2010, supported by the British Council.

Along with Helmer Hanssen, Hassel was picked as an expert dog driver to take part in Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition 1910 – 1912.

Later Hanssen invited his friend to clandestinely observe him having sex with his wife during his occasional visits to the Hanssen household.

On two occasions, Hanssen gave the Soviets a complete list of American double agents.

The existence of two moles working simultaneously – Aldrich Ames at CIA and Hanssen at FBI – complicated counterintelligence efforts in the 1990s.

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

In addition, it had been ascertained that expedition member Helmer Hanssen — one of the expedition members that had been skiing in a grid pattern between the ' box ' markers — came to within two hundred yards of the mathematical South Pole on one of his runs.

Hanssen graduated from William Howard Taft High School in 1962 and went on to attend Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1966.

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

During his first espionage cycle, Hanssen told the GRU a significant amount, including information on FBI bugging activities and Bureau lists of suspected Soviet intelligence agents.

" Ellis " dead drop site in Foxstone Park used by Hanssen, including on the day of his arrest.

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.

After dropping a friend at the airport on February 18, 2001, Hanssen drove to Virginia's Foxstone Park.

The FBI, having caught him in the act, swooped in and arrested Hanssen on the spot.

By contrast, most espionage agents, such as CIA Director of Counterintelligence Aldrich Ames and FBI agent Robert Hanssen who spied on the US government for the KGB, are either recruited or offer their services as spies after they are in place as members of the target organization.

Helmer Julius Hanssen ( 24 September 1870 – 2 August 1956 ) was a Norwegian polar explorer, and one of the first five to reach the South Pole on the expedition of Roald Amundsen.

Helmer Hanssen was born in Bjørnskinn, on the island of Andøya in the northern part of Norway.

From 1903 to 1905 Helmer Hanssen participated in Roald Amundsen's successful search for the Northwest Passage, as second mate on board the ship Gjøa.

Helmer Julius Hanssen was awarded the Knight of St. Olav for exceptional seamanship on Roald Amundsen's expeditions in the northern and southern parts of the world.

His crew were Godfred Hansen, a Danish naval lieutenant, Gjøas first officer ), Helmer Hanssen, the second officer, an experienced ice pilot ( who would accompany Amundsen on many of his subsequent expeditions ), Anton Lund, an experienced sealing captain, Peder Ristvedt ( 1873-1955 ), the engineer, Gustav Juel Wiik, the second engineer, a gunner in the Norwegian navy, and Adolf Henrik Lindstrøm ( 1866-1939 ), the cook.

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.