Convicted Russian Spy Robert Hanssen Found Dead in Prison at 79

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Convicted Russian Spy Robert Hanssen Found Dead in Prison at 79
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Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for spying for Moscow during and after the Cold War, was found dead in his cell in a federal prison in Colorado on Monday. He was 79. Hanssen had been in custody at the Florence lockup, maximum security facility, since July 17, 2002, after he was sentenced to life in prison without parole in May of that year after pleading guilty to 15 counts of espionage.

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