All articles tagged with #double agent
Aldrich Ames, a former CIA officer who sold secrets to the Soviets and Russia, died at 84 in prison. His betrayal compromised over 100 operations and led to the deaths of at least 10 agents, earning him around $2.5 million and a lavish lifestyle. His espionage career spanned nine years before his arrest in 1994, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his treachery.
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.