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…istorically, we have many notable cases in which Russian moles eluded intensive investigations for many decades. Robert Hanssen served as a KGB penetration in the FBI for over 20 years without being caught. Similarly, Aldrich Ames, acted as a KGB mole in the CIA for more than ten...

…alone” in gathering espionage material. I next turned to an even more important KGB coup with Cher- kashin: the Robert Hanssen case. From the KGB’s perspective, Hans- sen was an extraordinary espionage source. He was a walk-in who © never entered the Soviet embassy or met with...

…ces,” as the KGB preferred to call them, who first stole secrets and later voluntarily delivered them to an adversary. Hanssen, who successfully penetrated the FBI for the Russian intelligence services from 1979 to 2001, according to the assessment of a 2002 presidential commiss...

he clearly succeeded. Just as Robert Hanssen had

it was only after newspapers reported that Hanssen had been arrested by the

… Peter Taylor, “Are you a traitor,” Transcript. BBC Panorama, October 15, 2015 (Aired on BBC October 10, 2015) “Robert Hanssen changed positions...”—See Robert Hanssen, Appendix A “In respect to China alone...”-- James Risen, “Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia,” Ne...

…James Jesus Angleton: Was He Right. op cit. In handing Cherkashin my book, I told him that his recruitments of Ames and Hanssen had validated Angleton’s theory that the KGN was capable of sustaining long-term moles in U.S. intelligence. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020428

…e SVR, the Russian foreign intelligence service, would have paid millions of dollars for such a document.” Unlike Ames, Hanssen and Pelton, Snowden was not after money. He sought documents that enhanced his power and importance. He made no secret of this part of his motive after...

… day, we needed some reason to believe the gift was genuine.” “Would you need to vet the person delivering it?” “With Hanssen we did not have that opportunity,” he said. “If we believed the documents were genuine, we would of course grab them.” The final recruitment I asked Ch...

…ned when it came to the NSA’s sources. In 1985, the KGB’s task ended when Pelton was arrested by the FBI. Like Ames and Hanssen, Pelton was © sentenced to life imprisonment. © Looking at his watch, Cherkashin politely excused himself. I subsequently spoke to Colonel Oleg Nechi...

…Greenwald, for example, that encryption was “critically necessary” for anyone to evade NSA surveillance. Just as Robert Hanssen had deliberately compromised the NSA’s interception of Soviet communications in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, Snowden deliberately compromised the NSA...

…particularly interested in his recruitment of three top American intelligence officers: Aldrich Ames of the CIA, Robert Hanssen of the FBI, and Ronald Pelton of the NSA. I hoped that see- ing these intelligence coups through the eyes, and mind-set, of their KGB handler might prov...

… accept the delivery of U.S. secrets from an unknown espionage source that it neither recruited nor controlled, such as Hanssen, it would obviously have little hesitancy in acquiring the secrets that Snowden had stolen of his own volition, even if Snowden had acted for idealistic...

…d to call them, who first stole secrets and later voluntarily deliver them to an adversary. Consider the case of Robert Hanssen, who successfully penetrated the FBI HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020277

…particularly interested in his recruitment of three top American intelligence officers; Aldrich Ames in the CIA, Robert Hanssen in the FBI and Ronald Pelton in the NSA. I hoped that seeing these intelligence coups through the eyes, and mind-set, of their KGB handler might provide...