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Robert Philip Hanssen (April 18, 1944 – June 5, 2023) was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001.
Hanssen’s wife, Bonnie, knew the priest through Opus Dei, and the clergyman initially encouraged the FBI agent to turn himself in to authorities -- before calling Hanssen later to say that ...
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002) is a made-for-television movie based on the story of Robert Hanssen, who was charged with and convicted of selling American secrets to the Soviet Union. It was written by Norman Mailer and directed by Lawrence Schiller .
Eric Michael O'Neill (born March 3, 1973) is an American former FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative. He worked as an Investigative Specialist with the Special Surveillance Group (SSG) and played a major role in the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of FBI agent Robert Hanssen for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia.
Robert Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, on February 15, 1939, the eldest of two children to an American mother, Edna Margret Hansen (née Petersen; October 27, 1916 – April 24, 2005) [5] and a Danish father, local baker Christian "Chris" Hansen (September 16, 1907 – August 12, 1983). [6] Robert was employed at his father's bakery.
"In 1990, Hanssen's brother-in-law, Mark Wauck, who was also an FBI employee, recommended to the FBI that Hanssen be investigated for espionage because his sister, Hanssen's wife, told him that her sister, Jeanne Beglis, had found a pile of cash on a dresser in the Hanssens' house."
Robert Hanssen, Soviet spy; lived at 150 Webster Road in Scarsdale, 1978–1981; his children attended Immaculate Heart of Mary School [6] Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel, gangster and Las Vegas resort builder; owned a house in Scarsdale from 1929 on; was increasingly absent in later years but his family continued to live there [7]
It would later come out 2 years later in 2001 that Robert Hanssen had been recruited by the Russians to be a spy for them. [45] In 1994 after it was discovered that Aldrich Ames was a spy for the Russians, Freeh was advised to require routine polygraph tests for FBI agents; no action was taken by him. [45]