Robert Hanssen
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Hanssen in 2001
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Robert Philip Hanssen April 18, 1944 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Other names | Ramon Garcia, Jim Baker, G. Robertson, Graysuit, "B" |
| Occupation | Former FBI agent and spy for the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation |
| Criminal charge | and (Espionage Act) |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment (without parole) |
| Criminal status | Incarcerated at ADX Florence |
| Spouse(s) | Bernadette "Bonnie" Wauck Hanssen |
| Parent(s) | Howard Hanssen (father) Vivian Hanssen (mother) |
Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for twenty-two years from 1979 to 2001. He is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado.
Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park near his home in Vienna, Virginia, and was charged with selling U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and subsequently the Russian Federation for more than US$1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period.
On July 6, 2001, he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He was sentenced to 15 life terms without the possibility of parole. His activities have been described by the Department of Justice's Commission for the Review of FBI Security Programs as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history".
Hanssen was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a family who lived in the Norwood Park community. His father Howard, a Chicago police officer, was emotionally abusive to Hanssen during his childhood. He graduated from William Howard Taft High School in 1962 and went on to attend Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1966.
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