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<\/p>\nThree years after he was hired by the FBI, Hanssen approached the Soviets and began spying in 1979 for the KGB and its successor, the SVR. He stopped a few years later after his wife confronted him.<\/p>\n
He resumed spying in 1985, selling thousands of classified documents that compromised human sources and counterintelligence techniques and investigations in exchange for more than $1.4 million in cash, diamonds and foreign bank deposits. Using the alias “Ramon Garcia,” he passed information to the spy agencies using encrypted communications and dead drops, without ever meeting in-person with a Russian handler.<\/p>\n
“He truly didn’t respect Russia very much, at least not in his conversations with me,” O’Neill said. “But he was able to use them very effectively to solve his other problems. One that he was angry at the FBI for not placing him in the position of authority and gravitas and respect that he believed he deserved. And two, he needed money. He was financially having problems and he needed money and you solve both those problems by becoming a spy.”<\/p>\n
“At some point, spying and being the top spy for the Soviet Union, while within the FBI, became the thing that made him belong to something much bigger than himself,” he added. “I think that at some point, even more than the money that became what was so important to him.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/blockquote>\n MSN<\/a><\/p>\n Used to be,\u00a0 there were four\u00a0 main motivations for spying:\u00a0 Money, love, ideology, and blackmail. If you had something to hide, you were vulnerable. If you fell in love with a partner over whom an unfriendly service had leverage, you were vulnerable. Ideology – being a closet Communist, having divided loyalties for some reason – used to be number 2 on the list, although nowadays the Snowdens and Winners are more common,\u00a0 as are losers like Manning and Texeira. Hanssen may have been one of the last who seemed motivated principally by greed and money. It’s rarely a clear cut single reason – in his case he felt slighted because the FBI didn’t make him King of the World – but primarily he wanted to live a lifestyle that FBI pay didn’t support. So adding the KGB bonus pay came in handy.<\/p>\n In the 1980s, 74 percent of spies did it solely for money, the study found. But since then, the majority of Americans caught spying on America were not recruited by a shadowy foreign agency or in it for financial benefit. Of the 37 Americans caught spying inside the United States since 1990, only one was solely motivated by monetary gain, the study found.\u00a0Washingtonian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n I’d say an unmarked pauper’s grave would be appropriate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n<\/div>\n\n
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