Robert Hanssen provided Russians with US security information in exchange for $1.4 million in cash, bank funds and diamonds.
FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who spied for the former Soviet Union and then the Russiadied this Monday, the 5th, in the penitentiary where he was serving 15 consecutive life sentences for betraying the U.S. Hanssen, 79, was “found unresponsive” at the Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado, according to a statement released by the FBI. The statement gave no details on the reason for the death, but said no inmates or prison staff were injured and there was no danger to others at any time. The prisoner was pronounced dead by the emergency crews who treated him at the scene. Hanssen was arrested in 2001 and pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage for selling highly classified material to the Soviet Union and Russia during the last years of the Cold War. He had been in prison in Colorado since 2002. On its website, the FBI describes him as “the most damaging spy” in the country’s history, as he provided Russians with national security information “in exchange for $1.4 million ( BRL 6.8 million) in cash, bank funds and diamonds”.
*With information from EFE.
Source: Jovempan
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