US EditionRobert Hanssen: Convicted US spy found dead in Colorado prison
- Former FBI agent and convicted spy for Russia and the Soviet Union, Robert Hanssen, was found dead in his cell at a maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado.
- Hanssen had been in custody since 2002 and was serving a life sentence without parole after pleading guilty to 15 counts of espionage.
- He had provided highly classified national security information to the Russians dating back to 1985, receiving over $1.4 million in cash, diamonds, and funds in exchange. The cause of his death has not been disclosed.
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The “perfect” spy is dead: Robert Hanssen died in a US prison
Über Jahrzehnte hat der FBI-Mitarbeiter unentdeckt für die Russen spioniert. Am Montag wurde der 79-Jährige tot in seiner Zelle aufgefunden. Seine Enttarnung 2001 war für die amerikanische Bundespolizei eine riesige Blamage.
Robert Hanssen, former FBI agent who sold secrets to Soviet Union, dies in Colorado Supermax prison
Robert Hanssen (AP Photo/FBI, File) Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who sold secrets to the Soviet Union in exchange for cash and diamonds, died Monday morning in the Supermax prison in southern Colorado. He was 79. Prison staff at the United States Penitentiary Florence ADMAX in Florence found Hanssen unresponsive around 6:55 a.m., the Bureau of Prisons said in a news release. They attempted life-saving measures before pronouncing him dead, …
Death of Robert Hanssen, Kremlin trouble agent at the heart of the FBI
In charge of counterintelligence within the FBI, this mole delivered some 6,000 pages of documents to the Soviets and then to the Russians before being confused and convicted in 2002. He died at the age of 79 on Monday 5 June.
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