Robert Philip Hanssen - Alleged KGB "Mole" Within the FBI,
, xv + 101pp
Robert Philip Hanssen, subject of this book, was a career Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation specializing in counterintelligence. For many years the FBI never suspected that Hanssen in reality was a spy for the KGB, the intelligence arm of the Soviet Union, and later the SVR, the KGB's successor.
It was not until the end of the year 2000, after Hanssen had been spying for 15 years, that the FBI received from the CIA a KGB "case file" which covered Hanssen's early years as a spy. He was known to the KGB and SVR as Ramon Garcia who for years had been active in supplying highly classified U.S. information in return for which he was paid over $500,000.
With knowledge that a traitorous "mole" was in their midst, the FBI lost no time in identifying Ramon Garcia as Robert Philip Hanssen. Within days, Hanssen was arrested as he placed a bag filled with classified documents in a "dead drop" to be picked up by his SVR handlers.
This story of Robert Philip Hanssen proves that truth is often stranger than fiction. With added photographs the book makes intriguing and fascinating reading and belongs in the library of all who are interested in intelligence and espionage.
I-21: 8-1/2" x 11", Paperback, ISBN: 0-89412-292-4 $26.80