Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
ISBN 13 : 9781230564081
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Book Synopsis Convicted Spies by : Source Wikipedia
Download or read book Convicted Spies written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: American people convicted of attempted spying against the United States, Convicted Soviet spies, FBI agents convicted of espionage, Robert Hanssen, Radu Lecca, Jan Guillou, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, Konon Molody, Alan Nunn May, Nadezhda Plevitskaya, Markus Hess, Alexander Ulanovsky, Bernard Boursicot, Richard Miller, Earl Edwin Pitts, Arvid Harnack, Shi Pei Pu, Chi Mak, Mikhail Mikhalkov, Brian Patrick Regan, Heinrich Koenen, Heinz Felfe, Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh, Jean-Louis Jeanmaire, Shigehiro Hagisaki, Hans Clemens, Osvald Harjo, Matts Dumell. 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...