Robert Hanssen Dies at 79

A NY Times article on breaking news that former FBI Special Agent Robert Hanssen was found dead in his cell at the Supermax federal prison in Colorado yesterday, “Robert Hanssen, F.B.I. Agent Exposed as Spy for Moscow, Dies at 79.” Some of our colleagues knew and worked with Hanssen. I recall my partner at the time, David Major, as we learned of his arrest in February 2001, asking Paul Moore and me if it was “our Bob Hassen” who’d just been taken into custody. We were all shocked! And then, as more of the story became available to the public, we began to understand that none of us, me particularly, had never really known Bob Hanssen at all. If you are interested, the best book on the Hanssen case is by David Wise, “Spy, The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America.”

Robert Hanssen, F.B.I. Agent Exposed as Spy for Moscow, Dies at 79.