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Robert Hanssen found dead in supermax prison aged 79: FBI agent, sexual deviant, and Opus Dei devotee - who tried to convert a stripper to Catholicism - sold US nuclear secrets to the Russians for 20 years
Daily Mail UK ^ | June 5, 2023 | Melissa Koenig

Posted on 06/05/2023 1:05:16 PM PDT by Morgana

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1 posted on 06/05/2023 1:05:16 PM PDT by Morgana
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2 posted on 06/05/2023 1:06:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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These days lack of character is pretty typical in the FBI.


3 posted on 06/05/2023 1:07:33 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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Space just opened up for Wray, Comey, FJB...so may to choose from.


4 posted on 06/05/2023 1:09:00 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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He proselytized a prostitute.


5 posted on 06/05/2023 1:09:52 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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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?


6 posted on 06/05/2023 1:10:58 PM PDT by Nifty
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IIRC, Jesus told one to go and sin no more. (not saying Hansson is Jesus - not at all).


7 posted on 06/05/2023 1:14:07 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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Like when Bob Beckel paid a prostitute with a check.


8 posted on 06/05/2023 1:17:14 PM PDT by LukeL
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It was from his wife’s account and was returned NSF.


9 posted on 06/05/2023 1:21:45 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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Even nuttier—Hanssen gave the drug addled stripper a credit card.


10 posted on 06/05/2023 1:22:08 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Don't be obtuse)
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11 posted on 06/05/2023 1:32:25 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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I hope he took the opportunity to repent ...

In either case, he is off to see the ultimate Judge.


12 posted on 06/05/2023 1:33:51 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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That is pretty weird.


13 posted on 06/05/2023 1:44:40 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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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.


14 posted on 06/05/2023 1:50:51 PM PDT by freefdny
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Strzok Can take Hanssen's bunk.


15 posted on 06/05/2023 1:53:43 PM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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Upon his death, he became a devout Democrat voter.


16 posted on 06/05/2023 1:54:21 PM PDT by shotgun
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"A boy's best friend is his mother."

17 posted on 06/05/2023 1:55:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Why would they need to tell us there is no threat to the public?

Remember the COVID terror?

18 posted on 06/05/2023 1:56:06 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

For Strzok ?

Only on pay day.


19 posted on 06/05/2023 1:59:18 PM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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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]...


20 posted on 06/05/2023 2:00:49 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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