The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History

by David A . Vise (Author)

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  2002

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  Robert Philip Hanssen was a complex man. An FBI agent for twenty-five years; a devout Catholic and devoted family man; he frequented strip clubs; put a secret camera in his marital bedroom without his wife's knowledge, so his friends could watch him having sex; and was a regular visitor to sordid internet chat rooms. He also sold some of America's most closely guarded intelligence secrets to the Soviet Union. For more than twenty years, the massive volume of the information he divulged to the Russians - from the FBI, CIA, NSA and White House - would compromise decades of espionage work, cost of the lives of key Soviet double agents and directly jeopardize Western security. This book tells the story of how Hanssen used techniques taught to him by the FBI to avoid detection to betray his colleagues and his country, and how perseverance eventually ensnared him.Pulitzer-prize winning author David Vise untangles Hanssen's web of deceit to show how he become the most dangerous traitor in FBI history. The Bureau and the Mole is a fascinating true spy thriller, as riveting as it is unforgettable.

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  In 1979, FBI Agent Robert Philip Hanssen began to sell some of America's most closely guarded intelligence secrets to the Soviet Union. Over the next 22 years, the massive volume of information he divulged to the Russians from the FBI, CIA, NSA, and White House would compromise decades of espionage work and put the national security of the United States in immediate jeopardy. But during the mid-1990s, FBI Director Louis J. Freeh discovered that there was a mole within the Bureau, and he began to set the trap that would expose the traitor within its midst. This is the story of the man who betrayed more of his country's secrets than any other spy in American history - and of the crime-fighting legend who would bring him to justice.

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  Called a first-rate spy story (Entertainment Weekly), The Bureau and the Mole is the sensational New York Times best-seller that tells the inside story of FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Philip Hanssen, a seemingly all-American boy who would become the perfect traitor, jeopardizing America's national security for over twenty years by selling top-secret information to the Russians. Drawing from a wide variety of sources in the FBI, the Justice Department, the White House, and the intelligence community, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David A. Vise tells the story of how Hanssen employed the very sources and methods his own nation had entrusted to him in a devious game of deceit -- simply because he had something to prove. Vise also interweaves the narrative of how FBI director Louis B. Freeh led the government's desperate search for its betrayer among its own ranks, from the false leads, to the near misses, to its ultimate, shocking conclusion. Fascinating, gripping, and provocative, The Bureau and the Mole is a harrowing tale of how one man's treachery rocked a fraternity built on fidelity, bravery, and integrity -- and how the dedicated perseverance of another brought him to justice. Absorbing ... Vise's account of Mr. Hanssen's road to becoming a double agent is fascinating. -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Brisk, well documented ... a penetrating study of the villain and a gripping summary of the appalling evidence against him. -- Charles McCarry, The Wall Street Journal A carefully researched and compelling account, with a startling bombshell. -- David W. Marston, The Baltimore Sun Intelligent and well researched. -- Allen Weinstein, The Washington Post Book World