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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The notorious American FBI agent caught spying for the Soviet Union ( later, Russia ), Robert Hanssen, took explicit photographs of his wife and sent them to a friend.

It was started by Vidar Hanssen in 1995, who was dj ' ing for a local student radio with the program The Beatservice Radio Show at the time.

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.

Originally set to become a doctor, Hanssen took the opportunity to enroll in the dental school at Northwestern University.

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

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

In the words of David Major, one of his superiors at the FBI, Hanssen was " diabolically brilliant ".

The priest at the Oakcrest School said that Hanssen had regularly attended a 6: 30 a. m. daily mass for more than a decade.

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.

The Norwegian minister of labour and migration, Bjarne Håkon Hanssen, responded that Krekar could leave at any time and that he would be given " travel documents within the day.

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.

During their stay at the South Pole, it is believed that Hanssen passed within 200 yards ( 180 meters ) of the mathematical South Pole point.

Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent who betrayed several spies to the Soviet Union and Russia, is serving a life sentence at ADX for his crimes.

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

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* 1944 – Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent

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

* 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.

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.

Hanssen left the department after four years, joining the FBI in January 1976.

In 1978, Hanssen and his growing family ( of three children and eventually six ) moved to New York when the FBI transferred him to its field office there.

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.

In the letter, Hanssen gave the names of three KGB agents in the United States secretly working for the FBI: Boris Yuzhin, Valery Martynov, and Sergei Motorin.

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 1989, Hanssen compromised the FBI investigation of Felix Bloch.

Despite showing his face, giving away his code name, and revealing his FBI affiliation, Hanssen escaped arrest when the Bureau's investigation didn't go anywhere.

Mislock has since theorized that Hanssen actually went into his computer to see if the FBI was investigating him, and invented the document story to cover his tracks.

Three years later, convicted FBI mole Earl Edwin Pitts told the Bureau that he suspected Hanssen due to the Mislock incident.

Pitts was the second FBI agent to mention Hanssen by name as a possible mole, but the FBI simply wrote this off as a reference to the Mislock incident.

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