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The story goes, it was
a bright spring morning.
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Kgb colonel valery martynov
and major sergei motorin
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Are high ranking soviet
intelligence officers.
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Yet both are also cia spies.
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And this will be their
last russian dawn.
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Some might say their fate
was an occupational hazard.
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But their deaths sent a shockwave Through
america's intelligence agencies.
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Because they were not
alone in being betrayed.
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This is the story of robert hanssen, An
american traitor who systematically dismantled
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The united states' network of undercover
soviet agents From the inside out.
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Perhaps the most dangerous
spy in us history,
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His actions pitted the cia against the fbi
And triggered a mole hunt that brought
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The american intelligence
services to their knees.
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The short-lived regimes of ailing soviet
hardliners In the kremlin had heralded the rise
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Of the young, dynamic
mikhail gorbachev.
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While preaching reform and
rapprochement with the west,
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Gorbachev still relied on the support of
factions Within the kgb that viewed america
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And its allies as enemies.
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Behind the public smiles and handshakes,
Tensions in the intelligence world
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Were ratcheting
to breaking point.
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Milton bearden was deputy chief Of the cia's
soviet/east european operations at the time.
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There was a very high degree of paranoia
In the soviet union in the mid-80s.
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The soviet union began to enter
The first stages of crumbling.
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Washington and london were putting
This heavy, heavy pressure on them.
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But in 1985, in spite Of its economic and military
frailties, The soviet union still appeared
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To have the upper hand in the intelligence war,
By systematically exposing and eliminating
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A whole slew of cia
agents in its midst.
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We lost a massive
number of assets in moscow,
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All taken out and shot within a very
quick period, Short period of time.
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It came as a profound shock.
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Us intelligence prided itself
on being able to penetrate
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The soviet security services almost at
will, Without being compromised in return.
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It was, the single word To
answer what happened, betrayal.
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American counterintelligence
Began to think the unthinkable,
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Someone in the cia was a
traitor, a russian spy.
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We knew that there had to be a very high placed
mole Within the us intelligence community
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Who had access to the names and identities
Of these very, very, very secret
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High placed spies
in the soviet union.
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The traitor had to be stopped Before america's
intelligence network Was destroyed altogether.
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The biggest mole hunt in
american history was underway.
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In the mid-1980s, special agent david major
Was the fbi national security council advisor
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To president ronald reagan.
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The cia starts their study, The fbi
analytical unit is doing a study.
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I know, because I was
there at the time.
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Methodically, both us intelligence
services Began to gather evidence.
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They start doing a study about what caused
this, What is causing our loss of sources.
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The g-men of the bureau Had never
really trusted the spooks of the cia.
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And the suspicion
was entirely mutual.
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If there was a penetration, Which there
probably was, It probably was in the cia.
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So we go back and look at every single potential
penetration We ever had with the russians,
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And we'll see if we can pinpoint What's
the commonality, and we do this.
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One of the people that was supervising
That study was bob hanssen.
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Fbi security specialist, Robert philip
hanssen Would become one of the key players
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In the mole hunt for the
american traitor in the cia.
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But he wasn't your
typical fbi agent.
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I met bob hanssen at fbi
headquarters in about 1981.
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I realized this guy's
a really bright guy.
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Now very, very shy, very
introverted, doesn't talk often.
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He was a very strange
man to work for.
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He lacked the basic
social skills.
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He was in the budget unit.
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Nobody wants to be
in the budget unit.
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So he's odd man out.
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He wasn't one of us.
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But hanssen had talents That
made him valuable to the fbi.
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In 1985, he had a skill That few
fbi agents had or even understood.
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Bob hanssen's hobby
was running computers.
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He liked computers,
he liked technology.
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So he was a geek, when geeks, Before
it was fashionable to be one.
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He had an incredible level of sophistication
With computer systems, at a time when the fbi
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Barely knew how to
turn computers on.
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He was a wizard inside the bureau Because he
understood things a lot of other people didn't.
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Thanks to his computer skills, Hanssen was
promoted from the budget unit to analytics,
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Compiling data on
russian intelligence.
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At a time when the fbi was still using handwritten
notes, Hanssen spoke a different language.
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It made him the perfect man to
help unmask the russian mole.
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He maintained a computer, a standalone computer
database That we had entered all the information
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That the fbi had ever gathered
from every single penetration
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It had made on the russian intelligence service,
Bob hanssen essentially knew everything
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That we knew about
the russian program.
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Hanssen was put in charge Of a small team
of analysts tasked with going through
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All of the fbi's soviet
counterintelligence files.
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The acute sensitivity and secrecy Of the
operation suited hanssen perfectly.
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He already knew the mole was an intelligence
agent Who had access to the bureau's
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Most highly classified secrets.
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But bob hanssen wasn't
going to share this intel.
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Because hanssen was
the russian spy.
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There are many reasons that people
Betray their own countries.
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Undeniably ideology and
politics have some role to play,
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But really most reasons for
committing treason are personal.
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Dr. David charney had a unique insight
Into the mind of robert hanssen.
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He was his psychiatrist.
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He was frustrated because He wanted to be
a success, And he was a partial success.
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But that wasn't enough, and that led to
I think A sense of alienation, anger.
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He joined the fbi to be james bond, And they
had made him a librarian, and he was angry.
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They didn't listen to him, they didn't give
him The job he wanted, and he needed money.
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In 1985, hanssen
was married with six children,
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Mortgaged to the hilt, and
making barely $46,000 a year.
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He needed to support his wife, He wanted to send
the children To expensive catholic schools.
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Where men have trouble dealing with
things That don't go well in their life,
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They've got to do
something to fix it.
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And sometimes the fix can be something
Very terrible, turning traitor.
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Hanssen's treachery
had a simple beginning.
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He sent an unsigned letter to victor
cherkashin, The man he knew was the kgb's
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Head of counterintelligence
in washington.
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In it, hanssen offered his services, Requested
$100,000, and as a sign of goodwill
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Revealed the names of the cia informants
Known as m and m, martynov and motorin.
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With a single unsolicited letter Hanssen had
sent two soviet us informants to their deaths.
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The russians do not play games With
people who betray the motherland.
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And bob hanssen alone is
responsible for that happening.
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But this was just the beginning.
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Because hanssen was sitting
on an intelligence goldmine.
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He had access to a
treasure trove of information.
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The russians knew our game plan,
How we operate, where we go,
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How many agents we have, how
much surveillance we have.
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Bob hanssen compromised
every single human source
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That the fbi had ever
worked against the russians.
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He compromised hundreds
of double agents.
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Hanssen delivered his secrets to the
soviets Using old fashioned spy craft,
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A method known as a dead drop.
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Hanssen wrapped the documents in plastic bags
And hid them at a pre - Arranged location
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Near his home in virginia.
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He placed a piece of white tape on a signpost
As the signal his drop had been made.
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It meant that hanssen never had to meet
The soviets handlers face to face.
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He was smart enough to know That he
needed to keep his true identity
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Hidden from the kgb as
much as from the fbi.
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Cherkashin and the soviets Had
no idea about his identity.
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The greatest danger for spies of any side Is
to be exposed by spies on the other side.
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Spies catch spies,
that's the usual saying.
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Using the alias of ramon garcia, Hanssen
made 22 dead drops in five years,
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Supplying the kgb with not only the identities
Of us agents in russia, but thousands of pages
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Of america's most
closely guarded secrets.
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The damage ran deep.
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He compromised our continuity government program,
Which is one of the greatest secrets we had,
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And that is how do you respond
at a time of nuclear attack.
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It's unheard of the amount
of insight they had.
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The fbi was now running The biggest
spy hunt in living memory,
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To track down the
source of these leaks.
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But by 1994, the mole hunt was seemingly
No closer to finding the traitor.
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They decide to go back and look At
all the people that could have known
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About these cases
that were compromised.
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There were 20 that
itzeroed in on.
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I was on that list.
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One name
stood out from the crowd,
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A cia agent who had received
money from a suspicious source.
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They began to realize that there was this
money That was deposited in his account.
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Further digging revealed the cia officer Had
been in contact with russians in washington dc.
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They noticed he'd meet the russian,
Then there'd be a deposit.
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He'd meet him, then
there'd be a deposit.
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And so something was wrong here.
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And so one of them he eventually said, "you
know, this doesn't take a brain surgeon
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"to realize something's
going on here."
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The mole hunters believed
they had found the traitor
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Who had sent so many loyal
agents to their deaths,
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A man they believed was the most
dangerous mole In intelligence history.
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How wrong they were.
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After a nine year mole hunt, The
man the fbi finally arrested
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For selling state secrets to the russians
was aldrich ames, An officer in the cia's
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Soviet counterintelligence
division.
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Well ames, he was a pretty mediocre officer,
But he was an officer within the cia
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And he did have access
to an awful lot of stuff.
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He's sitting there on top of all these cases,
For example, that we're running in moscow.
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The fbi's investigation revealed That
on June 13th, 1985, aldrich ames
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Had walked into chadwick's restaurant in
washington dc For an authorized meeting
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With a diplomat from
the soviet embassy.
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But instead, at the table Was soviet
counterintelligence chief, victor cherkashin.
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During his time as moscow correspondent,
Greg feifer, got to know cherkashin well.
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At one point during this half an hour
conversation, Ames took out a piece of notepaper
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And wrote down the list Of many of
the american assets in the ussr.
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This was at the very least One of the most
stunning Intelligence coups in kgb history.
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Ames gave the soviets information About
virtually every agent they had inside the ussr.
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Aldrich ames was no
less than a serial murderer.
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He killed all those people.
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But unlike hanssen,
ames had become careless.
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He had done about $40,000
worth of work on his teeth.
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Then his wardrobe
got a little better.
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He bought a 500 and something
Thousand dollar house for cash.
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The money trail Led the fbi back to ames's meeting
With cherkashin in chadwick's restaurant.
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The evidence was damning
and conviction swift.
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Ames was sentenced to life in prison, And he's
currently in a medium security prison in indiana,
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Never to be released.
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There was relief and elation
In us intelligence circles
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That the russian agent
had finally been caught.
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And it only made hanssen
feel more secure.
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He thought any other spy, Including aldrich
ames and others, were bumbling idiots.
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He was the only
really great spy.
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At his request, the kgb rewarded hanssen With
a modest gift of just a few thousand dollars,
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So as not to raise suspicion.
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For hanssen that
was payment enough.
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It wasn't about money.
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Bob was driven by other demons.
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Often agents turn traitor For reasons
of greed, ideology, or revenge.
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For hanssen, it seems
more complicated.
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His life was full
of contradictions.
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He converted to catholicism And
took it very, very, very seriously.
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So much so that he adopted A more
serious subset of it called opus dei,
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And he was very serious
about adhering to its rules.
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I think there must
have been a constant anguish
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And turmoil about who he
actually was as a person.
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And trying to resolve his devout religious
faith, His sense of right and wrong.
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Hanssen would spy for the russians, And then
turn to god on his lunch break for forgiveness.
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As he saw it, he returned to his
desk Absolved of his worldly sins.
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Hanssen is one of the most complicated,
Complex people that I've met with.
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Of all the people that I've met in my regular
practice I would put him at the top rank of people
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Who live very much of a
compartmentalized mental life.
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I don't know how he did it.
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A devout man was such an unlikely traitor That
his fellow mole hunters never suspected him.
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His faith had become his cover.
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Ames' arrest in 1994
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Should have put an end
to the fbi's mole hunt.
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But not everything
was adding up.
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Investigators were unable to link All of
the intelligence leaks to aldrich ames.
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Ames was not in a position To know about the
bloch case, And therefore it didn't explain
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What had happened with bloch.
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In the late 1980's, felix bloch Was
a senior state department official,
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A man the fbi
suspected of espionage.
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They listened to his telephone conversations, And
they realized he was going to have a meeting
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With somebody in paris.
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We figured we had a spy.
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They had him surrounded at the hotel, And at
the last minute felix bloch gets a phone call.
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He never meets his
intelligence officer.
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The fbi never catches him.
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A mole had tipped him off.
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Federal investigators realized the tip-off
Could not have come from aldrich ames,
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Because he was unaware of
the bloch investigation.
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So, it had to be somebody else, somebody with,
With good information about the felix bloch case.
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And we knew that we
still had this mole,
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Once again, the rivalry Between
cia and fbi confused the issue.
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It was their guy who screwed up.
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And so, the next time
the suspicion arose,
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It was natural for the fbi to
say it might be the cia again.
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The fbi hastily assembled A
new team of mole hunters.
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They operated out of the black vault,
A secure room at fbi headquarters.
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Right across the hallway was
robert hanssen's old office.
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It's a lot harder to
spot spying than is thought.
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You can really get away with it for far longer
Than you might imagine if you're any good at all.
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Because people don't wanna think about somebody
Sitting next to you in the next cubicle as a spy.
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Hanssen had been careful and meticulous,
But in early 1993, he made a mistake.
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One that should have
led to his downfall.
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He was found to have hacked Into the double
agent operations within the russian section.
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This was the inner sanctum Of the
fbi's counterintelligence operations,
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Where the identities of all those suspected
Of spying for the russians were kept.
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It should have triggered
hanssen's immediate arrest.
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Instead, hanssen calmly
talked his way out of it.
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The rationale that he
gave was that he was trying
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To show that the system was
fragile and easy to hack
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And that it should be a heads
up to the powers that be.
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The fbi had missed a red flag.
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Hanssen continued to hack
into the fbi mainframe,
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This time to see if he was
on the bureau's watchlist.
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Because by now hanssen had reached
tipping point And wanted out.
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Conflict, conflict.
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Do I really wanna do this?
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Is this something
that I want to do?
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Is it safe for me to do this?
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Is it possible something terrible will happen
And I really should get out of doing it now?
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Can I ever have a
normal life again?
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All these thoughts are in the
mind I believe of every spy.
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All this time, hanssen was able To avoid
suspicion because the fbi investigators
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Still believed the
traitor was in the cia.
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By 1998, they had a
shortlist of suspects.
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They zeroed in on seven people inside the cia
In a position to know about the bloch case.
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One of the men that was there was brian
kelley, Because brian kelley had been
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In the right place
at the right time.
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Brian kelley was a cia specialist in illegals,
Russian spies who worked without diplomatic cover.
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He was made prime suspect Because of his
direct involvement In the felix bloch case.
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They start an intensive
investigation into brian kelley.
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He's surveilled every single day, They
have aircraft on him every single day.
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They tried all kinds of I would call it tricks
To get him to reveal what his true identity was.
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They found a map on his kitchen table That
they misconstrued as being a drop site map.
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It turned out to be brian
kelley's jogging map.
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Brian kelley was very
convenient for hanssen.
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He lived around the corner from hanssen,
His jogging route took him past
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Some of his hanssen's
signal sites and drop sites.
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By 2000, after over a decade of investigation,
The fbi was no closer to catching the mole.
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But then they had
a stroke of luck.
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They came into contact with a
disgruntled former soviet spy
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Who claimed he had a piece
of electrifying evidence,
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The kgb file on the russian
mole known as ramon garcia.
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A couple of scraps of evidence, a garbage bag
Used to hand over a dead drop of documents,
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And also there was a
telephone recording.
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At one point ramon garcia Spoke to
one of cherkashin's subordinates.
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The price of the kgb file
was a staggering $7 million.
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To the fbi, it was a small price
to pay To unmask once and for all
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The greatest traitor in
us intelligence history.
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The fbi had paid $7 million for a secret
kgb file That would unmask a mole
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Within the us intelligence community,
A mole who had been giving away
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State secrets for over a decade.
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When they eventually get the file,
And in it is a tape recording.
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And that tape recording Is
supposed to be between the source,
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The mole if you would,
and the kgb officer.
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After a 15 year man hunt, federal agents Were going
to hear the evidence that would nail the man
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Who had betrayed his
country and its agents.
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They are convinced they know who the traitor is
And that this will confirm their suspicions.
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They know it's going to be brian kelley And
they're going to be able to make a case.
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So, when they finally turn it on, They
listen to it, it's not brian kelley.
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The fbi was shocked When they
heard that taped phone call.
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"wow," they said,
"that's bob hanssen."
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Of all the people you thought would ever
do this, Bob hanssen was not one of them.
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It was a revelation that
would tear the bureau apart.
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All the time, they'd been looking at the
cia As the source of the treachery.
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And now they knew the
traitor worked from within.
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Hiding in plain sight, hanssen
had made fools of them all.
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To take him down, they'd have to find
evidence That would stand up in court.
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And that wouldn't be easy.
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Bob hanssen was a trained
Counterintelligence officer.
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He spent his career looking for spies,
So he knows how spies are caught.
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The fbi needed a
special kind of spy catcher,
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Someone who could equal
hanssen's computer skills
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And who could get close to him
without arousing suspicion.
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They chose eric o'neill.
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I was a ghost.
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The official title is
investigative specialist,
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Which means an undercover
operative who follows people.
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I spent my days following spies and
terrorists, Tracking them from the morning
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Until they were asleep at night And
sometimes listening to them sleep.
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Like hanssen, o'neill Had a
very particular skillset.
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The problem was that hanssen was a
computer genius, He was a hacker.
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He could breach systems, He could
write programming language.
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And they had to find someone
who understood computer systems
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In order to investigate
him, and that was me.
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I was their only option.
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O'neill became hanssen's new aide, The
perfect cover to stay close to his target.
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We needed not only to catch
him Spying for the russians,
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We believed he was still active
and we wanted to catch him
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Making a drop of
secrets to the russians.
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So, they positioned him Where
they could watch his every move.
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They put him in charge of looking
At the fbi's security technology,
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Looking at the fbi's computer systems And devising
methods where we could better secure them
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From outside attackers
and inside penetrations.
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The fbi appeared to have placed
The biggest spy in us history,
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A computer hacker who had
been handing state secrets
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To the kgb for decades, in
charge of cyber security.
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In fact, it was a ruse to track hanssen's movements
And enable o'neill to get closer to him.
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Hey, bill.
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My first conversation with hanssen, And
one of the first things he tells me is,
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"what we're doing here in information
assurance section, "we are hunting spies.
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"and we will find the spies
in the worst possible place."
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Now to do this day, I don't know whether
He was challenging me to catch him
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Or whether he was just
trying to be a mentor.
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Privately, doubts appear To have
been forming in hanssen's mind.
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He regularly hacked into the fbi database To
see if his name appeared on any investigations
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Into operation graysuit,
the mole's codename.
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He found nothing except files
on cia operative brian kelley.
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When hanssen learned About the
brian kelley investigation,
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And learned that they thought brian kelley was
graysuit, It made him feel very confident.
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Hanssen continued To plan
his drops to the russians.
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The location, a park just a few hundred
yards From his home in virginia.
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On one surveillance recce, the fbi caught
him Casing the area four times in one day.
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But even this wasn't enough.
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We needed him making
a drop to the russians
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So we could catch him red-handed
in the act of espionage.
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I needed to find a way to get information
That would lead us to when he would make
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A next drop to the russians,
because we believed
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He was going to make a drop
of secrets to the russians.
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I looked at everything
that surrounded hanssen,
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All of the things he said,
all of the things he did.
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And the one thing that he protected
Most zealously was his personal device,
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A palmpilot.
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O'neill suspected hanssen's palmpilot
Held encrypted information
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About kgb dead drop
locations and times.
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To bait a trap, o'neill had
to get hold of that palmpilot.
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And hanssen had this Very
significant and obvious routine.
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He would keep it in his left back pocket
And every time he sat down at his desk
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He'd put it in a bag that he
kept In the same spot every day.
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Like clockwork.
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So I knew we had to
get that away from him.
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The plan was simple.
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Hanssen would be summoned to the firing range
Under the pretext of a formal assessment.
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He had a tough time
getting him to go to firearms.
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You're supposed to go every
quarter, and he just didn't go.
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Being ordered to go down to firearms Was
not something that he would love doing.
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The order was intended To make him
angry enough to forget his palmpilot
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And give o'neil enough time
to steal the data from it.
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At 12.05 they make the call.
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Really?
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Again?
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He stands up angrily,
he grabs his firearm.
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And for the first time he forgets To
reach down and grab his palmpilot.
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And goes down all
those flights of steps
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To the sub basement where the
fbi has their shooting range.
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I go over to his bag,
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And I grabbed the palmpilot,
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Run down three flights of steps
to where we had a tech team
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Set up with all sorts
of computer equipment.
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As soon as they start to copy
it I get a text on my pager.
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Apparently, hanssen had
got down to the range,
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Had set his target, pulled his
firearm, fired a few times...
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Then holstered his firearm, excused
himself, And walked right back to the room.
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Now I knew I had
about nine minutes.
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It took that long to get all
the way up to the ninth floor.
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I told the tech team,
"you've got to hurry."
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And finally, they get it finished, They
hand me the devices and say, "run."
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I bolt up three flights of steps, I get to his
office, I kneel down in front of his bag.
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I've got a good two minutes
before he shows up by my watch.
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And I look at his bag and I
realize, There are four pockets.
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And I can't for the life of me remember what
pockets I've pulled these things out of.
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Horrible rookie mistake.
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The success of the 15 year spy hunt
Could rest on o'neill's next move.
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If I got the palmpilot wrong, The
game is over, the case is done.
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There's a good chance he will shoot me
Because he knows that he's finished.
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Door closing.
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He comes through the
door into the office.
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And he glares at me, goes
into his back office.
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And I hear him checking
for his palmpilot.
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And he gives me this angry look and
he says, "were you in my office?"
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And I sat back, had a neutral expression, Looked
at him and said, "yeah I was in your office.
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"I put a memo in your
inbox, didn't you see it?"
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And he looks at me, and then he looks at me and
he says, "I never want you in my office again."
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When analysts decoded the data On hanssen's
palmpilot, they found a reference
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To a dead drop in
three weeks' time.
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We knew that hanssen was planning to make a
drop Under a footbridge in foxstone park
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On a Sunday night at
about seven o'clock.
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What the fbi didn't know Was the hanssen was
planning To quit spying for the russians.
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This was the fbi's only chance
to catch him red handed.
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The net was closing
around the most prolific
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And damaging spy in us history,
a man who, for 15 years,
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Had sold america's best-kept
secrets to her greatest enemy.
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The last time I saw bob hanssen, I
said, "bob, you look terrible."
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I said, "what are you doing?"
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He says, "well they've just
forgotten me in the bureau.
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"I'm going to retire next year, "but I
just, you know I just, I'm miserable."
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It was interesting.
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The strain of leading a double life
Was finally getting to hanssen.
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He was spooked.
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He thought he had heard radio
signals coming from his car,
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The tell-tale signs
of a bugging device.
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Life is a misery
for these people.
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They're all the time
terrified of being caught.
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Sooner or later in the counterintelligence
world, I'm totally convinced,
431
00:37:26,444 --> 00:37:31,281
That the spy gets
betrayed, almost always.
432
00:37:31,291 --> 00:37:39,214
So you're under this stress constantly,
Fear, uncertainty, and uncertainty
433
00:37:39,291 --> 00:37:41,925
Is the worst state for
a human to deal with.
434
00:37:43,303 --> 00:37:47,964
And I think the tiresomeness
of it gets to people.
435
00:37:47,975 --> 00:37:51,810
They're so sick of that life That
they just wanna get it over with.
436
00:37:53,638 --> 00:37:58,316
In the third week of February 2001,
Hanssen prepared for his final
437
00:37:58,393 --> 00:38:00,151
Drop of secrets to the russians.
438
00:38:03,148 --> 00:38:08,576
In what was effectively his resignation letter
to the kgb, He seems to recognize his fate.
439
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:15,166
He wrote, "it seems however it is time
"to seclude myself from active service.
440
00:38:15,243 --> 00:38:18,169
"something has aroused
the sleeping tiger"
441
00:38:18,246 --> 00:38:21,331
Meaning the fbi is awakened.
442
00:38:21,341 --> 00:38:23,508
He should go to ground,
he shouldn't do anything.
443
00:38:23,585 --> 00:38:25,176
You shouldn't be going
filling a dead drop.
444
00:38:25,253 --> 00:38:26,928
You should just stop.
445
00:38:27,005 --> 00:38:30,557
But he didn't, 'cause I think He
had to play out the last chapter.
446
00:38:31,685 --> 00:38:37,355
On February 18th, 2001, The fbi began
the single most important operation
447
00:38:37,432 --> 00:38:39,733
In its history of
counterintelligence.
448
00:38:43,530 --> 00:38:49,492
At four p.M., agents arrived to stake out The
bridge at foxstone park, codenamed ellis.
449
00:38:51,112 --> 00:38:53,455
But almost immediately
there was a problem.
450
00:38:55,876 --> 00:39:00,378
He arrives early, they expect him to be At
seven o'clock to come to fill the dead drop.
451
00:39:00,455 --> 00:39:03,539
And he doesn't, he
shows up way early.
452
00:39:03,550 --> 00:39:06,926
The surveillance team's only been
Put in place for like 15 minutes.
453
00:39:08,630 --> 00:39:09,804
And in drives bob hanssen.
454
00:39:09,881 --> 00:39:11,056
Everyone is scrambling.
455
00:39:13,051 --> 00:39:15,060
They have cameras and
everything else on ellis,
456
00:39:15,136 --> 00:39:18,388
This place he'd done before,
and he doesn't go there.
457
00:39:18,398 --> 00:39:19,731
Turns around and
goes into the woods.
458
00:39:19,808 --> 00:39:21,232
Oh my god, where's he going?
459
00:39:24,646 --> 00:39:28,907
What the fbi didn't know Was that
the kgb had switched the location
460
00:39:28,983 --> 00:39:30,617
To a different part of the park.
461
00:39:33,830 --> 00:39:36,081
Hanssen made his
final drop unseen
462
00:39:37,584 --> 00:39:39,167
And the fbi had missed it.
463
00:39:40,745 --> 00:39:43,162
The second he walked
off that bridge feeling elated,
464
00:39:43,173 --> 00:39:46,424
Like he'd just made his last drop to the
russians, Feeling all these emotions,
465
00:39:46,501 --> 00:39:50,595
That he was going to retire as a spy, That
this was his final moment, his swan song,
466
00:39:54,518 --> 00:39:55,558
Swat team showed up,
467
00:40:03,944 --> 00:40:05,235
Put handcuffs on him.
468
00:40:08,448 --> 00:40:12,525
Despite missing the drop, The fbi
had had to seize the moment.
469
00:40:16,114 --> 00:40:18,289
Then hanssen did something odd.
470
00:40:22,212 --> 00:40:26,881
They take him into the car And they ask him one
question, "were you working just for the russians
471
00:40:26,958 --> 00:40:28,550
"or russians and others?"
472
00:40:28,626 --> 00:40:30,710
And bob says, "just
for the russians."
473
00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:34,046
Well you know what that
constituted, a confession.
474
00:40:34,057 --> 00:40:38,226
When he said that, he just confessed To the
agents for being a spy for the russians.
475
00:40:38,303 --> 00:40:39,602
By answering that question.
476
00:40:40,972 --> 00:40:45,224
Hanssen's takedown Had been a
top-secret operation in the fbi.
477
00:40:45,235 --> 00:40:49,529
So, when the news broke within its
ranks, It rocked the bureau to its core.
478
00:40:51,491 --> 00:40:57,662
Yeah, I think those of us who worked for bob
Would never forgot where each of us was
479
00:40:57,739 --> 00:41:00,907
At the time we learned
about bob's arrest.
480
00:41:00,917 --> 00:41:03,075
I was driving to work.
481
00:41:03,086 --> 00:41:04,827
I had to pull the car over.
482
00:41:04,838 --> 00:41:08,998
I immediately felt like I had
been punched In the stomach.
483
00:41:09,009 --> 00:41:12,844
And then drove the rest of the way
Into the office, dumbfounded.
484
00:41:24,107 --> 00:41:27,859
There were literally people
crying In the halls of the fbi.
485
00:41:28,770 --> 00:41:34,782
Hardcore, stoic agents who had learned
That their entire career had been a waste,
486
00:41:34,859 --> 00:41:36,868
That everything
that they had done
487
00:41:38,112 --> 00:41:41,197
Hanssen was undoing
behind the scenes.
488
00:41:41,208 --> 00:41:44,792
And then I thought, that
day, what did I not see,
489
00:41:44,869 --> 00:41:49,038
What did I miss, what should
I have seen as a professional?
490
00:41:49,049 --> 00:41:50,706
I don't think I missed anything.
491
00:41:50,717 --> 00:41:53,793
I don't think I missed anything about
what he said, What he did, how he acted,
492
00:41:53,803 --> 00:41:57,213
That would have given me an indication
That he was going to become a betrayer.
493
00:41:57,224 --> 00:41:59,307
And that standpoint,
he was a perfect spy.
494
00:42:01,803 --> 00:42:05,813
Bob hanssen escaped the electric
chair By confessing all to the fbi.
495
00:42:07,892 --> 00:42:12,153
Though the scale of his deception Was
far greater than anyone had imagined.
496
00:42:13,907 --> 00:42:20,161
There are some in the intelligence community
Who believe that bob hanssen may have been
497
00:42:20,238 --> 00:42:23,873
The most damaging spy in
modern american history.
498
00:42:24,834 --> 00:42:27,585
Hanssen gave up a
lot of real secrets.
499
00:42:27,662 --> 00:42:35,001
I mean from an intelligence point of view You
can say we were really clobbered by hanssen.
500
00:42:35,011 --> 00:42:38,087
Bob hanssen compromised The
entire intelligence community.
501
00:42:38,098 --> 00:42:44,352
He compromised nro, nsa, the three military
services, Everything that we're doing
502
00:42:44,429 --> 00:42:47,397
In counterintelligence
anywhere, he compromised us.
503
00:42:48,775 --> 00:42:50,608
And that's breath-taking stuff.
504
00:42:52,687 --> 00:42:56,281
Hanssen is
serving 15 life sentences.
505
00:42:56,357 --> 00:43:01,536
He's imprisoned at colorado's supermax
Alongside the world's deadliest criminals.
506
00:43:03,540 --> 00:43:05,364
But he will never meet them.
507
00:43:05,375 --> 00:43:08,626
He will see out his remaining
days in solitary confinement
508
00:43:09,546 --> 00:43:13,881
Where he will be remembered As
america's most notorious traitor.
509
00:43:13,931 --> 00:43:18,481
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