Soviet Spies Against the United States - Robert Hanssen, List of Soviet Agents in the United States, J. Peters, Hede Massing (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Robert Hanssen, List of Soviet agents in the United States, J. Peters, Hede Massing, Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher, Jacob Golos, Oleg Kalugin, Arthur Adams, Anatoly Gorsky, Ricardo Setaro, Alexander Feklisov, Semyon Semyonov, Anatoli Yatskov, Mikhail Mukasei, Edna Patterson, Vladimir Pozner, Ignacy Witczak, Elizaveta Mukasei, Isabel Gallardo. Excerpt: Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former American FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001. He is currently serving a life sentence at the Federal Bureau of Prisons Administrative Maximum facility in Florence, Colorado, a "Supermax" federal penitentiary in which Hanssen spends 23 hours a day in solitary confinement. Hanssen was arrested on 18 February 2001 at Foxstone Park near his home in Vienna, Virginia, and was charged with selling American secrets to Russia for more than US$1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period. On 6 July 2001, he pleaded guilty to thirteen counts of espionage in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He was then sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. His activities have been described as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in US history." Hanssen was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a family of mixed Danish-Polish and German descent. His father, a Chicago police officer, was emotionally abusive to Hanssen during his childhood. For no known reason, Howard Hanssen arranged for his son to fail a driver's test. In later life, Robert Hanssen speculated that his father had done this in order to 'toughen him up'. The elder Hanssen constantly disparaged his son and said that Robert would never make anything of his life. Hanssen graduated from William Howard Taft High School in 1962 and we...