The Spy and the Scandal: The Life and Death of Robert Hanssen.

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The Spy and the Scandal: The Life and Death of Robert Hanssen.
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Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia, has died in prison at the age of 79. He was serving 15 life terms without parole for his crimes, which included leaking over 6,000 pages of secrets to the Kremlin’s intelligence services. Hanssen betrayed America and the wider Western security network not for ideological reasons but for money and the sheer excitement of putting one over on the bosses he bitterly resented for assigning him to a desk job.

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