Robert Hanssen
Robert Hanssen (born
April 18,
1944) was an
FBI agent who was convicted of
spying for The
Soviet Union. He was arrested on
February 20,
2001 and charged with selling American secrets to
Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 15-year period.
On May 10, 2002 in exchange for cooperating with authorities, he was spared the death penalty and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Hanssen was also a member of the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei.
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