{"id":1944689,"date":"2023-06-05T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T21:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/most-damaging-fbi-agent-in-history-who-spied-for-russia-found-dead-in-prison-cell\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T17:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T21:51:55","slug":"most-damaging-fbi-agent-in-history-who-spied-for-russia-found-dead-in-prison-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/most-damaging-fbi-agent-in-history-who-spied-for-russia-found-dead-in-prison-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI agent who spied for Russia and caused the most damage found dead in jail."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmost-damaging-fbi-agent-in-history-who-spied-for-russia-found-dead-in-prison-cell%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944689&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former FBI Agent Behind One of the Worst Intelligence Breaches Found Dead in Prison Cell<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent behind one of the worst United States intelligence breaches in history, was found dead in his Colorado prison cell Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hanssen, 79, was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/most-damaging-fbi-agent-in-history-who-spied-for-russia-found-dead-in-prison-cell\/\" title=\"FBI agent who spied for Russia and caused the most damage found dead in jail.\">caught selling highly classified information<\/a> to the Russian government. He had sold U.S. secrets for over 20 years, initially to the Soviet Union, then to the Russian Federation after the former&#8217;s collapse.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, June 5, 2023, at approximately 6:55 am, inmate Robert Hanssen was found unresponsive at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) specifically, the ADX in Florence, Colorado,&#8221; a statement from Bureau of Prisons communications director Kristie Breshears said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Responding staff immediately initiated life-saving measures. Staff requested emergency medical services and life-saving efforts continued. The inmate was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-technician-killed-in-freak-accident-on-secret-mission-report\/\" title=\"Navy technician killed in freak accident on secret mission: Report\">subsequently pronounced dead<\/a> by outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-left-rush-to-claim-pride-parade-death-as-a-homophobic-terrorist-attack-it-was-an-accident-by-another-participant\/\" title=\"Media, Left Rush To Claim Pride Parade Death As A Homophobic \u2018Terrorist Attack.\u2019 It Was An Accident By Another Participant.\">emergency medical personnel<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement added that the public was not under threat at any time.<\/p>\n<h3>A Life of Espionage<\/h3>\n<p>Hanssen became an FBI officer in 1976 and started spying in 1985, according to the FBI. Over 15 years, Hanssen delivered information that &#8220;compromised numerous human sources, counterintelligence techniques, investigations, dozens of classified U.S. government documents, and technical operations of extraordinary importance and value.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, U.S. intelligence intercepted a Russian document that confirmed the presence of a spy within their ranks. Hanssen was tracked by roughly 300 agents for several months to secure a case against him. He was arrested on Feb. 18, 2001, after being monitored while making a &#8220;dead drop&#8221; of intelligence materials to his Russian handlers.<\/p>\n<p>He plead guilty to 15 counts of espionage in July and the following year was sentenced to life without parole.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The death of Robert Hanssen marks the end of a life of espionage and betrayal. His actions compromised the safety and security of the United States and its citizens. While his death may bring closure to some, it is a reminder of the importance of vigilance in protecting our nation&#8217;s secrets.<\/p>\n<p>For more news and updates, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">The Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Hanssen, the ex-FBI agent responsible for a major US intelligence breach, was discovered dead in his Colorado prison cell on Monday. Hanssen, 79, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002 for selling top-secret information to the Russian government. He had been passing on classified US secrets for more than two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1944690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3695,11357,9471,3642,5591,5471,4280,9449],"class_list":["post-1944689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-agent","tag-caused","tag-damage","tag-dead","tag-fbi","tag-jail","tag-russia","tag-spied"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}