Posted on 06/05/2023 1:05:16 PM PDT by Morgana
A former FBI agent convicted of espionage for Russia and serving a life sentence in a Colorado Supermax prison has died at the age of 79.
The bureau confirmed Monday that Robert Hanssen was found unresponsive in his supermax federal prison cell at the ADX in Florence, Colorado around 6.55am.
A cause of death has not yet been released, but officials say there is no threat to the public.
Hannsen became notorious in the United States when he was arrested in 2001 and pleaded guilty to selling highly classified materials to the Soviet Union and later Russia for more than 20 years.
He was sentenced to life in the Supermax prison, where he has languished for the last two decades.
After his arrest, details of Hanssen's sordid life as a sexual deviant became known as he allowed a friend to watch him and his wife have sex without her knowledge. Hanssen then began to secretly record the encounters and detailed his sex life in online chat rooms.
Hanssen - a devout member of the Opus Dei sect of the Catholic Church - also spent time with a stripper named Priscilla Sue Galey, giving her money, jewels and even a 1985 Mercedes-Benz 190E sedan.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
These days lack of character is pretty typical in the FBI.
Space just opened up for Wray, Comey, FJB...so may to choose from.
He proselytized a prostitute.
From the article......”A former FBI agent convicted of espionage for Russia and serving a life sentence in a Colorado Supermax prison has died at the age of 79.
The bureau confirmed Monday that Robert Hanssen was found unresponsive in his federal prison cell at the ADX in Florence, Colorado around 6.55am.
A cause of death has not yet been released, but officials say there is no threat to the public.”
Why would they need to tell us there is no threat to the public?
IIRC, Jesus told one to go and sin no more. (not saying Hansson is Jesus - not at all).
Like when Bob Beckel paid a prostitute with a check.
It was from his wife’s account and was returned NSF.
Even nuttier—Hanssen gave the drug addled stripper a credit card.
I hope he took the opportunity to repent ...
In either case, he is off to see the ultimate Judge.
That is pretty weird.
Why all the Catholic stuff in the headline? Was he on a secret mission for the Pope? I agree that’s it’s an interesting part of the story. But a simple worst spy in American history who the FBI put in charge of finding himself is the bigger part of the story I think.
Upon his death, he became a devout Democrat voter.
"A boy's best friend is his mother."
Remember the COVID terror?
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
For Strzok ?
Only on pay day.
I wonder who the supervisor in Chicago was who dismissed the brother-in-law Wauk’s concerns about the cash found and Hanssen saying he was going to retire in (Warsaw Pact) Poland? I wonder if he still works for the FBI and how high up?
...In August 1990, Hanssen’s brother-in-law, FBI Special Agent Mark Wauck, heard that Hanssen’s wife Bonnie had found $5,000 in unexplained cash in Hanssen’s dresser drawer. Wauck reported this and other incidents he found suspicious to a supervisor in the FBI’s Chicago Field Office. Although Wauck and the supervisor now have significantly different recollections of their conversation, we believe that Wauck provided the supervisor with enough information to warrant some follow up. Instead, the supervisor readily dismissed Wauck’s concerns, in part because there was no policy or procedure mandating that he pass the information on for analysis and possible investigation. (p. 12) [emphases added]...
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