he wrote a book and said i didn t know who the guy was until i saw it on my tv screen. this rocked the bureau and the largest intelligence community. even though he worked russian cases and had access to the highly sensitive information he was never polygraphed and when i was in the bureau we were polygraphed every five years and when you sit in the polygraph room, the first thing they asked you have you provided information that you should not to, and are you a spy? that aloud robert hanssen to spy for over 20 years. some of this persists and with technology you can have someone take classified documents and as we re seeing with the airmen. as holes are plugged new holes open up with technology. brianna? gavin newsom reports called
this just in to cnn. the fbi once called him the most damaging spy in bureau history, and today convicted former agent robert hansen has died in a federal prison. hansen received pages of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds for information he provided to the soviet union and after that to russia and he s been in custody since july 2002. according to the fbi s inspector general, hansen compromised some of the nation s some of the most important intelligence and military seekets including the identities of dozens of human sources, three of whom were executed. josh campbell joins me now. you worked for the fbi for a number of years and the fbi has long placed hansen in the pantheon of the worst spies that affected not just the bureau, but the country, as well.
hanssen betrayed that to the russians saying, look, the u.s. government is able to spy on you. that obviously, allowing the russians to take countermeasures. hanssen himself was betrayed by a spy in russia who was recruited by the u.s. government. at that time there was a feud between the cia and the fbi regarding where this mole was. they knew there was a mole and didn t know which agency. this russian spy carted out a file that the kgbh on robert hanssen and in the basement of fbi headquarters that group looked at a fingerprint that was uncovered and that matched to robert hanssen and as you see on the video screen he was eventually taken into custody by the fbi and at that point, jim, there wasn t a death penalty under the aldridge aames case. robert hanssen eventually decided to plead guilty rather than go through the death penalty and he was found this morning dead at 79.
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