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Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who was convicted of spying for Russia, dies
in prison

  By LINDSAY WHITEHURSTJune 5, 2023 GMT
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  FILE - In this artist depiction, U.S. Attorney Randy Bellows, right,
  addresses the court during the sentencing of convicted spy Robert
  Hanssen, center, seen with his attorney Plato Cacheris, left, at the
  federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., May 10, 2002. Hanssen was given
  a life sentence. The former FBI agent who took more than $1.4 million
  in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Russia and the former Soviet
  Union in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history has
  died in prison.(William Hennessy, Jr. via AP)
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  FILE - In this artist depiction, U.S. Attorney Randy Bellows, right,
  addresses the court during the sentencing of convicted spy Robert
  Hanssen, center, seen with his attorney Plato Cacheris, left, at the
  federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., May 10, 2002. Hanssen was given
  a life sentence. The former FBI agent who took more than $1.4 million
  in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Russia and the former Soviet
  Union in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history has
  died in prison.(William Hennessy, Jr. via AP)

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who took more than
  $1.4 million in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Moscow in one
  of the most notorious spying cases in American history, died in prison
  Monday.

  Hanssen, 79, was found unresponsive in his cell at a federal prison in
  Florence, Colorado, and later pronounced dead, prison officials said.
  He is believed to have died of natural causes, a person familiar with
  the matter told The Associated Press. The person was not authorized to
  publicly discuss details of Hanssen’s death and spoke to the AP on
  condition of anonymity.

  He had been serving a sentence of life in prison without possibility of
  parole since 2002, after pleading guilty to 15 counts of espionage and
  other charges.

  Hanssen had divulged a wealth of information about American
  intelligence-gathering, including extensive detail about how U.S.
  officials had tapped into Russian spy operations, since at least 1985.

  He was believed to have been partly responsible for the deaths of at
  least three Soviet officers who were working for U.S. intelligence and
  executed after being exposed.

  He got more than $1.4 million in cash, bank funds, diamonds and Rolex
  watches in exchange for providing highly classified national security
  information to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

  He didn’t adopt an obviously lavish lifestyle, instead living in a
  modest suburban home in Virginia with his family of six children and
  driving a Taurus and minivan.

  Hanssen would later say he was motivated by money rather than ideology,
  but a letter written to his Soviet handlers in 1985 explains a large
  payoff could have caused complications because he could not spend it
  without setting off warning bells.

  Using the alias “Ramon Garcia,” he passed some 6,000 documents and 26
  computer disks to his handlers, authorities said. They detailed
  eavesdropping techniques, helped to confirm the identity of Russian
  double agents, and spilled other secrets. Officials also believed he
  tipped off Moscow to a secret tunnel the Americans built under the
  Soviet Embassy in Washington for eavesdropping.

  He went undetected for years, but later investigations found missed red
  flags. After he became the focus of a hunt for a Russian mole, Hanssen
  was caught taping a garbage bag full of secrets to the underside of a
  footbridge in a park in a “dead drop” for Russian handlers.

  The story was made into a movie titled “Breach” in 2007, staring Chris
  Cooper as Hanssen and Ryan Phillippe as a young bureau operative who
  helps bring him down.

  The FBI has been notified of Hanssen’s death, according to the Bureau
  of Prisons.

  ___

  Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.

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