Robert Hanssen, most damaging spy in FBI history, dies in prison

Robert Hanssen, a former FBI special agent who accepted $1.4 million in cash and diamonds in exchange for information he gave the Soviet Union and then Russia has been found dead in a Colorado penitentiary.  Author David Vise and The World’s Marco Werman discuss Hanssen’s crimes.

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