Robert Hanssen

Robert Philip Hanssen ( born April 18, 1944 in Chicago) is an American double agent and former employees of the FBI, who worked for a period of more than 20 years as an agent for the Soviet Union and later Russia. He has worked in the department for counterintelligence.

In 1985, he forwarded the names of three KGB employees, who worked as a double agent for the FBI: Boris Yushin (Russian Борис Южин ), Valery Martynov (Russian Валерий Мартынов ) and Sergei Motorin (Russian: Сергей Моторин ).

On two occasions Hanssen was a list of all American Double Agent. He also gave secret information about the locations of protection systems of the U.S. government that should be used in case of a nuclear attack.

Robert Philip Hanssen tried direct meeting with his clients to avoid and created a system of dead drops and signals, to contact his KGB men in connection contact or to submit material.

Hanssen was arrested on 18 February 2001 near his home in Virginia on Foxstone Park. On 6 July 2001, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He served his prison sentence in federal prison ADX Florence, a high-security prison in Florence, Colorado.

The espionage activities Hanssens were the subject of two films: Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, an American television movie from 2002 in which Hanssen was played by William Hurt, and the movie Breach - betrayal at the highest level from the year 2007 Chris Cooper in the lead role.