Robert Hanssen, former FBI agent convicted of spying for Russia, dead at 79
Source: CBS News
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Robert Hanssen, former FBI agent convicted of spying for Russia, dead at 79
BY CAITLIN YILEK, PAT MILTON, ARDEN FARHI
UPDATED ON: JUNE 5, 2023 / 2:55 PM / CBS NEWS
Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who was one of the most damaging spies in American history, was found dead in his prison cell Monday morning, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
Hanssen, 79, was arrested in 2001 and pleaded guilty to selling highly classified material to the Soviet Union and later Russia. He was serving a life sentence at the federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.
Hanssen was found unresponsive and staff immediately initiated life-saving measures, Bureau of Prisons Director of Communications Kristie Breshears said in a statement. ... "Staff requested emergency medical services and life-saving efforts continued," Breshears said. "The inmate was subsequently pronounced dead by outside emergency medical personnel."
Three years after he was hired by the FBI, Hanssen approached the Soviets and began spying in 1979 for the KGB and its successor, the SVR. He stopped a few years later after his wife confronted him.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-hanssen-dies-convicted-spying-for-russia-dead-age-79/
Hat tip, Tommy Carcetti in GD
A Supermax cell just opened up.
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BaronChocula
(1,573 posts)The GOP (Groupies Of Putin)
NNadir
(33,532 posts)Marthe48
(16,984 posts)just for the guy who told hannsen: 'Hold my diet coke.'
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)"Donald Trump, a former President who was one of the most damaging spies in American history, was found dead in his prison cell Monday morning, according to the Bureau of Prisons".
In fact, justice demands it.
SledDriver
(2,059 posts)"His corpse was unceremoniously dumped in a section of woods out back."
Seinan Sensei
(365 posts)That's what put him there
That's what got him out
LudwigPastorius
(9,160 posts)a room just opened up at the Supermax for a certain traitorous orange blob.
twodogsbarking
(9,772 posts)Deep State Witch
(10,438 posts)While I don't believe in the traditional Christian Hell, I hope that this Oathbreaker gets the karma that he deserves.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)Guy was a major piece of shit who got people executed.
2naSalit
(86,680 posts)That's one vacancy that could be filled with another traitor pretty soon.
honest.abe
(8,680 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Good riddance.
orleans
(34,067 posts)i don't remember a thing about this guy or the movie based on him
but wow--what a story!
and traitor trump tops it