Robert Hannssen dies in prison

[Platapus]

Robert Philip Hanssen, who received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds for the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia, has died, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday.



Hanssen had been in custody at Colorado’s USP Florence ADMAX since July 17, 2002.



Rotting to death in a cage. I am devastated... not.

[Rockstar]

Talk about being locked up and forgotten.

"He urged fellow Catholics in the FBI to attend Mass more often and denounced the Russians as "godless", even though he had been spying for them."

Like my mother always said: "Those that cry the loudest usually have the most to hide."

[Jimbuna]

I doubt he will be missed.

[Aktungbby]

Especially after divulging the secret tunnel under the Russian Embassy!:O:After which the Russian put secret microphones in the new
American embassy in Moscow! https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-crazy-story-of-how-soviet-russia-bugged-an-american-embassys-typewriters This was during the Cold War in the late 1970s. American spies were being arrested, and how they were being identified was a matter of great concern to U.S. intelligence. The first break came with the accidental discovery of a false chimney cavity at the Moscow embassy. Inside the chimney was an unusual Yagi-style antenna that could be raised and lowered with pulleys. The antenna had three active elements, each tuned to a different wavelength. What was the purpose of this antenna, and what transmitters was it listening to? After tens of thousands of fruitless X-rays, a technician noticed a small coil of wire inside the on/off switch of an IBM Selectric typewriter. Gandy believed that this coil was acting as a step-down transformer to supply lower-voltage power to something within the typewriter. Eventually he uncovered a series of modifications that had been concealed so expertly that they had previously defied detection.
A solid aluminum bar, part of the structural support of the typewriter, had been replaced with one that looked identical but was hollow. Inside the cavity was a circuit board and six magnetometers. The magnetometers sensed movements of tiny magnets that had been embedded in the transposers that moved the typing “golf ball" into position for striking a given letter.
Other components of the typewriters, such as springs and screws, had been repurposed to deliver power to the hidden circuits and to act as antennas. Keystroke information was stored and sent in encrypted burst transmissions that hopped across multiple frequencies. https://cafans.b-cdn.net/images/Category_92760/subcat_175815/Xtu614Ec_1510191443591gpadd.jpeg

[Torvald Von Mansee]

I hope to see variants of this headline with Snowden and Assange.