2023-06-06 00:44:04
Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who became one of the most notorious spies in American history was found dead in federal prison on Monday morning, according to the “New York Post”.
He would have died of natural causes. The 79-year-old was serving a life sentence for spying on the United States and providing information to the Soviet Union and, later, Russia.
Robert Hanssen was arrested in February 2001 while passing classified information to his Russian intelligence contacts in a park near his home in northern Virginia. He pleaded guilty to 13 counts of espionage, one count of attempted espionage and one of conspiracy to commit espionage.
“The FBI entrusted him with some of the most sensitive secrets of the US government. Instead of maintaining that trust, he abused it and betrayed it,” the FBI said at the time.
Robert Hanssen had started his clandestine activities by providing information to the KGB in 1985. American agents had found his name on Russian government documents. The Americans quickly investigated Hanssen before arresting him shortly before his retirement. He reportedly received $1.4 million from Russia for giving intelligence to the Soviets.
According to US authorities, Robert Hanssen transmitted some 6,000 documents and 26 computer disks.
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