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Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen

Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen

By: CBS News
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Amid the nuclear threat of the Cold War, America's prized secrets were falling into the hands of its sworn enemy. The FBI's hunt for the leak led to an astonishing discovery—the mole was one of its own, special agent Robert Hanssen. For two decades, Hanssen masqueraded as a devoted patriot while ruthlessly selling out his country, trading classified intelligence to the Soviet Union and later Russia, in exchange for cash and diamonds. He was a whirlwind of contradictions—a self-proclaimed patriot and a traitor; a family man who sexually betrayed his wife; an ardent man of God and a sinner. Through interviews with Hanssen’s family, friends, and colleagues, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett (Host of “The Takeout”) delves into the double life of Robert Hanssen and unravels the chilling truth about the most damaging spy in FBI history in “Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen”.© 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. True Crime World
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  • Dosvedanya

    Dosvedanya
    Nov 16 2023

    On February 18, 2001, Robert Hanssen’s career as an FBI agent came to an end. His next tour of duty would be served in the federal penal system as inmate #48551-083. Supermax, the notorious Colorado prison housing terrorists and drug lords, would become his home for two decades. Life in prison also means death in prison.

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    53 mins
  • The Art Dealer

    The Art Dealer
    Nov 2 2023

    A Russian businessman arrived in New York in mid-2000, eager to export art to the United States. His counterpart in the deal, an American, appeared ready to do business, too. But neither man was exactly who they purported to be. Their encounter may have been just the break FBI mole hunters were looking for.

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    37 mins
  • Wrong Man

    Wrong Man
    Oct 26 2023

    The intelligence community knew it had a mole problem. It couldn’t account for lost assets and blown operations. So the FBI and CIA set out on another mole hunt – and this time, there was one suspect who fit better than the rest. He was a career CIA officer who had been around important cases that went sideways. The FBI tailed him for two years and then squeezed him and his family for almost two more. Just one problem: he wasn’t the mole.

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    39 mins
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The many personal accounts of, and surprising twists, of a man of many faces. I really enjoyed this, and reading of his death this is as close as one can get to him and his story.
Federal agent, father, spy, husband, traitor. Many words that fit. I do enjoy these forms of intimate journalism, and hearing the slightly biased opinions around the facts.

A close look into a complicated, controversial, and massively fascinating story.

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