Their perfidy led to the deaths of American agents.
Aldrich Hazen Ames is a former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst, who in 1994 was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
Ames began working for the CIA in 1963, and his first assignment was as a case officer in Ankara, Turkey, where (somewhat ironically) his job was to target Soviet intelligence officers for recruitment.
He first began spying for the Soviet Union in 1985 when he walked into the Soviet embassy in Washington to offer secrets for money. Ames was assigned to the CIA's Europe Division / Counterintelligence branch where he was responsible for directing the analysis of Soviet intelligence operations. He had access to the identities of US sources in the KGB and Soviet military. The information Ames provided led to the compromise of at least 100 US intelligence operations and to the execution of at least 10 US sources. The Soviets paid Ames approximately $2.5 million, allowing Ames and his wife to live a lifestyle beyond the means of a normal CIA officer's family. Ames, who struggled with alcoholism, had no ideological affinity for the USSR and spied for money and ego.
He sullied his Chicago Police Department Shield.
He violated his oath "...to protect and to serve..."
A bother in Opus Dei - violated his oath to God and Man
Robert Philip Hanssen (born on April 18, 1944) was an FBI agent who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia. He was arrested on February 20, 2001 at a park near his home in Vienna, Virginia and charged with selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 15-year period. His treason has been described as the "worst intelligence disaster in US history."
Born in Chicago, Illinois, he was the son of a policeman. Hanssen suffered terrible abuse during his childhood, both mental and physical, at the hands of his domineering father. Court documents say he told his Moscow handlers that he read Kim Philby's book at age 14 and thought of him as a hero. Philby was a mole in British intelligence who eventually defected to the Soviet Union. Philby's autobiography My Silent War was published in 1968, so Hanssen must have meant a different book, or was lying to his Moscow handlers, or mistaken.
He attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and studied chemistry and Russian. He enrolled and dropped out of dentistry school, got a masters of accounting, got a business job but quit to join the Chicago police as an internal corruption investigator, then joined the FBI counterintelligence unit.
In 1979 he made his first traitorous act revealing to the Soviets that Soviet official General Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov of the GRU was selling Soviet secrets to the USA, mostly out of hatred for the current "corrupt" Soviet leadership. He was the most important mole of this period.
Hanssen's wife Bonnie found Hanssen out due to some strange behaviour; Hanssen half-confessed that he sold some worthless facts for $20,000. Bonnie made him confess to a priest, identified by the New York Times as the Reverend Robert P. Bucciarelli, former head of Opus Dei in the USA. The actual confession and advice is privileged; the priest did not break his vow of confidentiality; the spying continued for years. The teaching staff of a private school in northern Virginia, with ties to Opus Dei, includes one or more Hanssen family members on its staff in 2005.
American agents died as the result of his perfidy.
Huntsville is too good for these spies"Coastie"
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