The investigation was not fruitful and the FBI was unable to charge Bloch on any account. With two children already out of school, the pension money will help Bonnie Hanssen support two children who are in college and two more still in high school, Brookner said. An FBI arrest team moved into position at Foxstone Park, a location where Hanssen had been spotted before by FBI surveillance. 1980 - Begins working for the counterintelligence unit, focusing on the Soviet Union. Although Hanssen was unaware of it, Ames had already exposed all three agents earlier that year. 2023 Cable News Network. I intend to act swiftly on his recommendations. She sold their house and bakery in Alaska and shifted closer to her family in Arkansas after the children were getting bullied massively at their school. Hanssen became alarmed that a Russian with knowledge of his activities would tip off the Americans that a highly placed mole was operating within the FBI and the resultant investigation would lead to him. She would use her money to run the household and support the couple's children, while Hansen would spend the money he made at the bakery on "his own needs," according to what she would later tell Sergeant Flothe, who played a pivotal role in his capture. Robert Hansen. Mark Wauck, an FBI employee and brother-in-law of Hanssen, prompted his superior in 1990 to investigate Hanssen after a heap of cash was found in Hanssens house, but no action was taken. Hanssen met Bernadette "Bonnie" Wauck, a staunch Roman Catholic, while attending dental school at Northwestern. In what is now considered the largest intelligence breach in FBI history, Robert Hanssen's scandal made him millions in diamonds and cash, but cost the FBI $7 million and the lives of three informants. [12] Hanssen received an MBA in accounting and information systems in 1971 and took a job with an accounting firm. Hanssen is a Special Agent of the FBI with a long career in counterintelligence. A proficient hunter and tracker since childhood, Hansen chased down his victims in the Alaskan wilderness with a Ruger Mini-14 and a knife. Sunday night the FBI arrested Robert Philip Hanssen who has been charged with committing espionage. He then applied and was accepted into the FBI. As alleged, he did so using a variety of sophisticated means of communication, encryption, and dead drops. It was not a very demanding job, said Sullivan. As a result of these assignments within the FBI, Hanssen gained access to some of the most sensitive and highly classified information in the United States Government. Please be aware how deeply Mrs. Hanssen regrets the damage that her husband, Robert Hanssen, has caused to our country and to their family, the statement said. The Hanssen case was regarded as a low point for the FBI, especially as Hanssen had been so trusted and had committed such betrayals for so many years. He met his second wife, Darla, shortly after his parole. Asked what Bonnie Hanssen thinks may have motivated her husband, Brookner said: Who knows? [38], The existence of two Russian moles working in the U.S. security and intelligence establishment simultaneouslyAmes at the CIA and Hanssen at the FBIcomplicated counterintelligence efforts during the 1990s. Because of his experience and training as a counterintelligence agent, Hanssen went undetected for years, although some of his unusual activities had aroused suspicion from time to time. At present he is serving his fifteen successive life terms at a federal supermax prison, the ADX Florence. When O'Neill could briefly obtain Hanssen's PDA and have agents download and decode its encrypted contents, the FBI had decisive evidence. After being imprisoned, Hanssen claimed he periodically admitted his espionage to priests in confession. Brookner said that the only time Bonnie Hanssen harbored any suspicions about her husbands activities came around 1979 or 1980, when they lived in Scarsdale, N.Y. She walked in on him and he covered up some papers, so she got suspicious, Brookner said. The complaint alleges that Hanssen conspired to and did commit espionage for Russia and the former Soviet Union. With the mole finally identified, locations, dates, and cases were matched with Hanssen's activities during the period. It is alleged that Hanssen provided to the former Soviet Union and subsequently to Russia substantial volumes of highly classified information that he acquired during the course of his job responsibilities in counterintelligence. I dont think there was anybody more shocked by all this, Brookner said. O'Neill ascertained that Hanssen was using a Palm III PDA to store his information. Although his name was not specifically mentioned, evidence in the file pointed to Hanssen, who was put under close surveillance. That effort is complemented by substantial FBI proactive investigation of foreign service intelligence officers here and by the critical work done by the CIA. Hanssen subsequently was assigned to a variety of national security posts that legitimately provided him access to classified information relating to the former Soviet Union and Russia. The 2007 documentary Superspy: The Man Who Betrayed the West describes the hunt to trap Hanssen. He had opportunity. All Rights Reserved. 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 22 years. 1991 - Breaks off relations with the KGB. He often steered conversations to talk of religion and his very conservative values, which were aligned with the very conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei. He became an agent in 1976, and spent two years working in the Indianapolis, Indiana, field office. He placed a white piece of tape on a park sign, which was a signal to his Russian contacts that there was information at the dead drop site. We dont know at this point what happened to that money, she said. Since he held key counterintelligence positions, he had authorized access to classified information. Both schools are associated with Opus Dei. The full extent of the damage done is yet unknown because no accurate damage assessment could be conducted without jeopardizing the investigation. All denied everything. Hanssen applied for a cryptographer job in the National Security Agency but was rebuffed due to budget setbacks. In 1978, Hanssen was transferred to the FBI office in New York City and was assigned to a counterintelligence post. Literally, Hanssens colleagues and coworkers at the FBI conducted this investigation and did so quietly, securely and without hesitation. The couple married in 1968, and Hanssen converted from Lutheranism to his wife's Catholicism. In January 2001, Hanssen was given an office and an assistant, Eric O'Neill, who, in reality, was a young FBI surveillance specialist who had been assigned to watch Hanssen. Troubled by the incident, Bonnie Hanssen made her husband speak with a Catholic priest, who directed him to contribute money to Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun who ran a Calcutta charitable organization, as a form of penance, Brookner said. [7] On July 6, 2001, he pleaded guilty to 13 counts of espionage, one count of attempted espionage, and one of conspiracy to commit espionage in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. After a stint of three years he was shifted to the Soviet Analytical Unit that delved in probing, recognising and catching Soviet agents in the US. Galey claims that although she offered to have sex with him, Hanssen declined, saying he was trying to convert her to Catholicism. [70] Hanssen gave her money, jewels, and a used Mercedes-Benz but ended contact with her before his arrest when she began abusing drugs and doing sex work. Press Release - Veteran FBI Agent Arrested and Charged with Espionage, FBI.gov is an official site of the U.S. Department of Justice. In November 1998, they had a man with a foreign accent come to Kelley's door, warn him that the FBI knew he was a spy, and tell him to show up at a Metro station the next day to escape. She left her children, Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric well taken care of, but she didn't leave . At least three Russian agents he identified had been executed, and it was suspected that he compromised dozens of intelligence operations. "I apologize for my behavior. A lock () or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Christian owned a bakery and would make his son work for long hours as a kid. Robert was described as a loner and a quiet person, and he had a strained relationship as well with his strict and dominating father. Hanssen was finally discovered when a former KGB agent contacted American intelligence agents. , . Hansen would force some of these women into the small plane that he owned and fly them to a remote location in the Alaskan wilderness. Therefore, after he was given a 461-year sentence for his crimes, she chose to divorce him. Hanssen is mentioned in chapter 5 of Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code as the most noted Opus Dei member to non-members. 2. While Darla suspected that he had been frequenting prostitutes, she had no idea of the literal manhunt he conducted. He was made the chief of National Security Threat List Unit of FBI in Washington, D.C. in 1992. After Ames's arrest in 1994, some of these intelligence breaches remained unsolved. I have asked Judge William H. Webster, and he has graciously agreed, to examine thoroughly the internal security functions and procedures of the FBI and recommend improvements. His job was to help assemble a database of foreign officials posted in New York who, while posing as diplomats, were actually intelligence officers spying on the United States. (Photo courtesy of FBI/Newsmakers). The most significant information that he shared was about Dmitri Polyakov, who while serving the Soviet Army as a General was spying for Americas CIA. May 10, 2002 - Is sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. The following year he was shifted to counter-intelligence division where he was delegated the job of organising data of Soviet intelligence. The crimes alleged are an affront not only to his fellow FBI employees but to the American people, not to mention the pain and suffering he has brought upon his family. Polyakov was carefully watched by the Russians from that point on, and was eventually arrested as a spy and executed in 1988. He began providing the Soviets with highly valuable material. Hanssen was serving as a detailee to the Office of Foreign Missions at the Department of State at the time suspicions around him arose. Their goal was to catch Hanssen red handed in espionage. To closely oversee his activities, the FBI relocated him in its headquarters in January 2001. Hanssen's children returned to school within days of his arrest, family and friends said, to maintain their routines. They gave him a new job supervising FBI computer security. Judge Webster and anyone he selects to assist him will have complete access and whatever resources are necessary to complete this task. Bonnie Hanssens first public statements on the case reveal both her anxiety over her husbands actions and her sense of relief over the fact that she and her six children will retain an estimated $39,000 a year from his government pension. The pension was an important consideration for Hanssen in his plea negotiations, Brookner said. In this article, Hansens dynamic with his own family is discussed to give you a better insight into the life of the now-deceased murderer. He relayed secret information to Russia regarding US intelligence and counterintelligence operations. In return, he received large sums of money and other remuneration. During his second round of dealing with Russian agents, Hanssen was much more cautious. In court proceedings the government stated that Hanssen had been paid more than $1.4 million during his spying career, most of which he never actually received, as it was held for him in a Russian bank. On August 10, 1968, he married Bernadette "Bonnie" Wauck, a dedicated catholic. After executing a search warrant, authorities found items in Hansen's home that belonged to other missing women from the area. In school, he was bullied for his acne, girls would not talk to him, and he also developed a stutter. While not identifying himself, he was able to gain their trust by initially providing information which the Soviets found both credible and valuable. (Serial Killer) Robert Christian Hansen was a convicted serial killer from America who abducted, raped, and murdered at least 17 women in and around Anchorage, Alaska, in the 1970s and early 1980s. He continued to perform incriminating searches of FBI files for his name and address. [4] The family moved to Richmond, California in 1942, but returned to Iowa in 1949, settling in Pocahontas. The level of support and expertise from Acting Deputy Attorney General Robert Mueller, Counsel for Intelligence Policy Frances Fragos Townsend, U.S. Attorney Helen Fahey and Assistant United States Attorney Randy Bellows is superb. With two children already out of school, the pension money will help Bonnie Hanssen support two children who are in college and two more still in high school, Brookner said. On January 12 that year he was posted in FBIs field office in Gary, Indiana, and in 1978 he was again transferred to its field office in New York. While their exact whereabouts are unknown to the public, it's suspected that they still live in the Midwest. But Thursday, Bonnie Hanssen issued a statement through her attorney revealing the torment that the case has caused. 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. Robert Christian Boes Hansen was born in Estherville, Iowa, at Coleman Hospital on February 15, 1939, the elder of two children to an American mother and a Danish father. He never indicated any political or ideological motive for his actions, telling the FBI after he was caught that his only motivation was financial. I am shamed by it," Hanssen told U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton. "Once he got caught, the only thing he cared about was trying to provide for his wife and his children," who visit him regularly in prison, Brookner said. NSD chief Johnnie Sullivan ordered the computer impounded after it seemed to have been tampered with. The failure of the Bloch investigation and the FBI's investigation of how the KGB learned that they were investigating Bloch caused the mole hunt that eventually resulted in the arrest of Hanssen. After the transfer, while on a business visit back to Washington, D.C., he resumed his espionage career. Hanssen pled guilty to 15 counts of espionage on July 6, 2001. [25] That same year, Hanssen, according to a government report, committed a "serious security breach" by revealing secret information to a Soviet defector during a debriefing. As difficult as this moment is for the FBI and for the country, I am immensely proud of the men and women who conducted this investigation. Clearly she doesnt approve of what hes done, and there was a whole part of this man she doesnt know, but I think with her deep religious convictions, he will, at least in mind and in spirit, continue to be her husband and the father of her children., Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Im afraid for her life: Riverside CC womens coach harassed after Title IX suit, Six people, including mother and baby, killed in Tulare County; drug cartel suspected, Want to solve climate change? Kelley instead reported the incident to the FBI. Polyakov was carefully watched by the Russians from that point on, and was eventually arrested as a spy and executed in 1988. His active and long stint as a Soviet spy began on October 1, 1985, when he sent an unsigned letter to KGB, where he mentioned the names of at least three agents of KGB who were covertly serving FBI. Later, he hid a video camera in the bedroom connected via a closed-circuit television line so that Hoschouer could observe the Hanssens from his guest bedroom. 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Yet some investigators believed anger about how his father treated him as a child triggered a need to rebel against authority. [46][47][48], The FBI surveilled Hanssen and soon discovered he was again in contact with the Russians. At some point in 1979, Hanssen made a decision to sell American secrets to the Soviets. During the early 1990s, KGB veterans began to approach western intelligence agencies and provide information. Under Mr. Hanssen's plea bargain, she. Hanssen received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds from the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia. Realizing the importance of the material, the United States paid $7 million for it. The FBI trusted him with some of the most sensitive secrets of the U.S. government, and instead of upholding that trust, he abused and betrayed it. However, even though Hansen would go to church with his wife, nothing really changed. "[55], Hanssen is Federal Bureau of Prisons prisoner #48551-083. For two children, that was devastating. He enrolled in dental school at Northwestern University[11] but switched his focus to business after three years. Hanssen would later claim that his goal was simply to make some extra money, as living in New York City was putting a financial squeeze on his growing family. His Russian contacts and Hanssen were highly trained in espionage techniques and were able to work together without ever meeting. children: Greg Hanssen, Jane Hanssen, John Hanssen, Lisa Hanssen, Mark Hanssen, Sue Hanssen, education: Kellogg School Of Management, Knox College (Illinois), See the events in life of Robert Hanssen in Chronological Order, (Former FBI Double Agent Who Spied for Russian Intelligence Services Against the United States from 1979 to 2001), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Hanssen.jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert-Philip-Hanssen.jpg. Did you encounter any technical issues? The prolonged abuse that he endured not only made his childhood challenging, but also chased him throughout his life. After being released, he met his second wife, Darla Henrichsen, and the pair got married in 1963. We particularly appreciate the unhesitating leadership and support of Attorney General Ashcroft from the moment he took office. in Chemistry, 1966; Attended Northwestern University Dental School, 1966-1968;. At present he is serving his fifteen successive life terms as prisoner #48551-083 at a federal supermax prison, the ADX Florence. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much He was finally arrested in early 2001 from Foxstone Park for trading classified information of the US to the Soviet Union and later to the Russian Federation. Robert J. McNamara is a history expert and former magazine journalist. . Hanssen took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same, but he decided to violate that oath. After his release 20 months later, Hansen worked at putting his life back in order. Robert Hanssen is a former FBI agent who sold highly classified material to Russian intelligence agents for decades before he was finally arrested in 2001. Hanssen claimed he was trying to connect a color printer to his computer but needed the password cracker to bypass the administrative password. In mid-2001 he was tried in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on fifteen counts as a spy and was given sentence of fifteen life terms without a chance of parole. Robert Hansen died at the age of 75 in 2014, still safely behind bars (via the Anchorage Daily News). [7][8] On May 10, 2002, Hanssen was sentenced to 15 consecutive sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was arrested while in the process of using a dead drop to clandestinely provide numerous classified documents to his Russian handler. Robert Phillip Hanssen was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 18, 1944. When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. The FBI waited two more days to see if any of Hanssen's SVR handlers would show up at Foxstone Park. However, Hanssen escaped notice, likely because these efforts concentrated on CIA agents rather than FBI agents. Their actions represent counterintelligence at its very best and under the most difficult and sensitive of circumstances. The plea bargain allows Bonnie Hanssen to receive about 55% of Hanssens pension, which will total an estimated $39,000 per year. Hanssen then began to videotape his sexual encounters secretly and shared the videotapes with Hoschouer. Apparently, even though Hansen was naturally a left-handed person, he was always forced to use his right hand, making his speech problems worse. Pitts was the second FBI agent to mention Hanssen by name as a possible mole, but superiors were still unconvinced, and no action was taken. When they failed to appear, the Justice Department announced the arrest on February 20. Robert Philip Hanssen is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation double agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. He had been married twice, and fathered children. 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. They never lived the high life; they never even went out to dinner, she said. Both Ames and Hanssen compromised the names of KGB agents working secretly for the U.S., some of whom were executed for their betrayal. In 1971 he earned his Master in Business Administration in accounting and information systems. Hanssens espionage activities began in 1985. Unlike Cold War spies of an earlier era, Hanssen claimed to have no political motivation for selling out his country. After graduating from a public high school, Hanssen attended Knox College in Illinois, studying chemistry and Russian. He was indiscreet enough to type his name into FBI search engines. While it did not contain Hanssen's name, among the information was an audiotape of a July 21, 1986, conversation between "B" and KGB agent Aleksander Fefelov. Hansen even followed in his fathers footsteps and opened up his own bakery. [26], Later that year, Hanssen gave extensive information about American planning for measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), a general term for intelligence collected by a variety of electronic means, such as radar, spy satellites, and signal intercepts. Hanssen was set to retire, so investigators had to move fast. Hanssen restarted communications the next year and continued until his arrest. The damage Hanssen did was considerable. They created a list of all agents known to have access to cases that were compromised. A feature film called Breach was released in 2007. He was also tasked with observing and learning as much as he could about Hanssens information technology setup in his office and with keeping an eye out on who Hanssen was meeting and talking with. FBI agents remove evidence from Robert Hanssen's home in Vienna, Virginia on February 20, 2001. . In fact, when his father passed away, Hansen inherited 17 guns from him as well. His espionage of more than two decades had earned him cash of over 1.4 million USD and diamonds. Further, the complaint alleges that Hanssen, using his training and experience to protect himself from discovery by the FBI, never met face-to-face with his Russian handlers, never revealed to them his true identity or where he worked, constantly checked FBI records for signs he and the drop sites he was using were being investigated, refused any foreign travel to meet with the Russians, and even declined to accept any trade craft. Hanssen never displayed outward signs that he was receiving large amounts of unexplained cash. Before concluding, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet for the cooperation and assistance of his agency in this investigation. Rifling through the rest of the files, they found notes of the mole using a quote from General George S. Patton about "the purple-pissing Japanese". A reader replied to the blog, claiming to have been roommates with Hansen's daughter in the early 1990s, but this has yet to be substantiated. Though both Hansen and his wife earned respectable incomes, it would . His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. Hanssen gave them the name of a Russian general, Dimitri Polyakov, who had been providing information to the Americans. After divorcing Robert, Darla was faced with a choice. Updated He is a public speaker and security Authorities say Hanssen was driven by greed, but Brookner rejected that assertion. She supports the plea agreement and agrees that the sentence of life in prison without parole, rather than the death penalty, is appropriate in these circumstances.. The Russian officer, who evidently did not recognize the code name, drove away. A few years later, they moved to Anchorage, Alaska, and had two children. 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