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

by David A . Vise (Author)

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  2003

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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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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.25

  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.