The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold: The Secret Life of FBI Double Agent Robert Hanssen
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.46 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312287828 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Havill, a seasoned chronicler of criminals and celebrities, creates a taut and troubling portrait of a disturbed man who compromised the security of a nation. A staunch conservative and strict Catholic, he took money from communists--to give diamonds and Mercedes to strippers on one hand, and to send his six children to expensive Catholic schools on the other. He also gives an inside look into the oft-inept FBI, the National Security Agency's futuristic surveillance systems, and the spy-versus-spy world of Russian intelligence. --Lesley Reed. While the term double agent implies contradiction, Adrian Havill's portrait of spymaster Robert Hanssen reveals a man truly driven by opposing demons. Hanssen was a consummate loner, "Walter Mitty squ
Good enough for government work hsurfo The book had been interesting all of the way through but fell short at the end. Lacking insight soon why, post trial findings, these are the details I was looking forward to and they were nonexistent. Still a good read for those who want insight on this true story.. Bob Chamberlin said Solid writing - Nothing fancy. This is a well-written and footnoted account of the Robert Hanssen spy case. Author Havill provides ample background information on Hanssen's early years and his involvement in Opus Dei that sheds some light on the spy's troubled personality. On the face, Hanssen was dedicated to his family, his religion and was a right of center flag waver. On the other side. Gets the Word Out Post 9-11, how many people really know how deeply Robert Hanssen damaged national security? A recent dinner with several academics suggested, not a whole lot, if that sample counts in any way. Havill's book may not satisfy the connoisseurs of this niche of investigative journalism, but the book serves an important function; it exposes the depth of the betraya
Along with the cash came Rolex watches and cut diamonds. Robert Philip Hansen thought he was smarter than the system. The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold tells not only how he did it, but why.. That's when federal agents surrounded him while he was attempting to complete an exchange with his handlers at a Virginia park. Moscow did not allow their moles the luxury of a defense: at least two men named by Hanssen were executed; a third languished for years in a Siberian hard labor camp.For more than twenty years, Bob Hanssen was the perfect spy. Instead, he chose to become one of the most dangerous spies in America's history. And until February 18, 2001, he was right. Soviet government leaders, and their successors in the Russian Federation, use