Robert Hanssen Passed Away!

The country's most notorious turncoat passed away.

The former FBI agent who worked as a foreign agent for the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation passed away at the age of 79.

Robert Hanssen, a former top level FBI agent was perhaps the country's most notorious spies. He spent over 20 years giving secrets to the Russians. His information set back U.S. intelligence for 15 years.

He died while serving 15 consecutive LIFES in Florence Federal Time Out, the United States Supermax. He took a plea deal to avoid the DEATH card. 

Eventually, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange will be there. Foreign operative and Biden accuser Tara Reade will be eventually in Carswell, the high level federal time out for women.

In 1979, three years after joining the FBI, Hanssen approached the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) to offer his services, beginning his first espionage cycle, lasting until 1981. He restarted his espionage activities in 1985 and continued until 1991, when he ended communications during the collapse of the Soviet Union, fearing he would be exposed. Hanssen restarted communications the next year and continued until his arrest. Throughout his spying, he remained anonymous to the Russians.

Hanssen sold thousands of classified documents to the KGB that detailed U.S. strategies in the event of nuclear war, developments in military weapons technologies, and aspects of the U.S. counterintelligence program. He was spying at the same time as Aldrich Ames in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Both Ames and Hanssen compromised the names of KGB agents working secretly for the U.S., some of whom were executed for their betrayal. Hanssen also revealed a multimillion-dollar eavesdropping tunnel built by the FBI under the Soviet Embassy. After Ames' arrest in 1994, some of these intelligence breaches remained unsolved. The FBI paid $7 million to a KGB agent to obtain a file on an anonymous mole, whom the FBI later identified as Hanssen through fingerprint and voice analysis.

Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park, near his home in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Vienna, Virginia, after leaving a package of classified materials at a dead drop site. He was charged with selling U.S. intelligence documents to the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia for more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over twenty-two years. After his arrest, he was initially detained at the Alexandria Adult Detention Center. To avoid the death penalty, Hanssen pleaded guilty to fourteen counts of espionage and one of conspiracy to commit espionage. He was sentenced to fifteen life terms without the possibility of parole, and was promptly transferred to ADX Florence, where he remained incarcerated until his death in 2023.