今天看了电影《双面特工》，讲的是美国历史上最严重的一次CIA内鬼事件，这位主人公就是Robert Hanssen了。在看电影之前，我已经从一集Discovery知道了这个人物。看看CNN上有关这个人的报道吧
Alleged spy crimes 'the most traitorous actions imaginable'
(CNN) -- Robert Philip Hanssen, known by neighbors and colleagues as a quiet family man and hard-working FBI agent, was also a Russian spy who sold out his country for cash and diamonds, according to a government affidavit.
During more than 15 years of betrayal, the FBI charges, Hanssen gave the Soviets, and later the Russians, 6,000 pages of documents and 27 computer diskettes cataloguing secret and top secret programs.
FBI Director Louis Freeh described Hanssen's alleged espionage as "the most traitorous actions imaginable against a country governed by the rule of law."
Hanssen spent much of his 25-year career with the FBI in counterintelligence, giving him access to highly sensitive cases and documents. In 1995, he began working as the bureau's liaison to the State Department Office of Foreign Missions and the State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
The 116-page government affidavit traces the beginning of the spy case to a letter Hanssen allegedly sent in October 1985 to Viktor Ivanovich Cherkashin, the KGB chief of foreign intelligence at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. (U.S. affidavit on alleged crimes (FindLaw) Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
An excerpt from the letter contained in the affidavit reads:
"Soon, I will send a box of documents to (KGB officer) Mr. Degtyar. They are from certain of the most sensitive and highly compartmented projects of the U.S. intelligence community. All are originals to aid in verifying their authenticity. Please recognize for our long-term interests that there are a limited number of persons with this array of clearances. As a collection they point to me. I trust that an officer of your experience will handle them appropriately. I believe they are sufficient to justify a $100,000 payment to me."
The letter went on to alert the KGB that three of its officers -- Boris Yuzhin, Sergey Motorin and Valeriy Martynov -- had been recruited as double agents by U.S. "special services." Convicted U.S. spy Aldrich Ames revealed the same three names to the Russians that same year, while he was a CIA officer.
Martynov and Motorin were arrested in Moscow, tried and executed. Yuzhin was also arrested and convicted of espionage but was released from prison after six years.
The government affidavit charges that Hanssen also blew the cover on dozens of secret and top secret intelligence programs and operations, including:
--The National Measurement and Signature Intelligence Program, involving acoustic intelligence, radar intelligence and nuclear radiation detection.
--The FBI Double Agent Program.
--The Intelligence Community's Comprehensive Compendium of Future Intelligence Requirements.
--A study on recruitment operations of the KGB against the CIA.
--An assessment of the KGB's effort to gather information on U.S. nuclear programs.
--A CIA analysis of the KGB's First Chief Directorate (FCD), its international intelligence division.
--FBI counterintelligence techniques, sources, methods and operations.
"In one case, he compromised an entire technical program of enormous value, expense and importance to the United States Government," the affidavit states.
Hanssen is also accused of tipping off the KBG to the FBI's secret investigation of Felix Bloch, an agent suspected of spying for Moscow in 1989. The KGB warned Bloch, according to the FBI. Justice Department prosecutors were never able to find key evidence that Bloch passed secret documents.
The U.S. government charges that Hanssen wrote a total of 27 letters to the Russians, who knew him only by various aliases, such as "B" and "Ramon Garcia."
The Russians repeatedly asked Hanssen to reveal his identity, according to the affidavit. He allegedly responded in a letter: "I am much safer if you know little about me. Neither of us is children about this."
In another letter allegedly written by Hanssen to the Russians, he said that he was inspired by the story of British-Soviet double agent Kim Philby.
"I decided on this course when I was 14 years old," reads the letter cited in the affidavit. "I'd read Philby's book. Now that is insane, eh!"
Federal prosecutors allege that Hanssen made $1.4 million from his espionage, of which $600,000 was in cash and diamonds. The remainder was put into an escrow account in Russia.
"I have little need or utility for more than the 100,000," The affidavit quotes from another letter attributed to Hanssen. "It merely provides a difficulty since I cannot spend it, store it or invest it easily without tripping (sic) 'drug money' warning bells. Perhaps some diamonds as security to my children and some good will. ... Eventually I would appreciate an escape plan. Nothing lasts forever."
Hanssen had a cynical view of his country, according to federal prosecutors, who attribute these lines to him: "The U.S. can be errantly likened to a powerfully built but retarded child, potentially dangerous, but young, immature and easily manipulated."
Many of the exchanges of secret documents and cash were made at designated drop-off sites in parks near Hanssen's suburban Virginia home, according to the affidavit. After the KGB switched to a new drop-off site in 1987, Hanssen allegedly complained in a letter about the difficulty he had in trying to locate it at night.
"Recognize that I am dressed in business suit and can not slog around in inch deep mud. I suggest we use once again original site," reads a letter excerpted in the affidavit.
The FBI said that Hanssen used the skills he learned as an FBI agent to cover his tracks. The extent of the material disclosed in the affidavit, including many Russian documents, indicates that the case against Hanssen may have been built upon material provided by another spy.
Federal agents began investigating Hanssen near the end of 2000. Fellow FBI agents monitored his activities and conducted clandestine searches of his Ford Taurus and his office.
The FBI says he was leaving more classified material for his Russian handlers when he was apprehended in a Vienna, Virginia, park on February 18, 2001. On July 6, Hanssen pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and conspiracy charges in exchange for the government agreeing not to seek the death penalty. Instead, Hanssen will be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. The plea agreement also calls for Hanssen to be debriefed by the CIA, FBI and other intelligence officials to determine the extent of the damage he caused.
看完电影，对这种间谍与反间谍想得不是太多。这种国家，金钱，背叛的关系， 似乎是一种说不清楚的事。但是电影中表现出来的那种同事，朋友间相互猜疑，令我深感恐惧！ 不安... 我渴望信任，渴望家庭和谐，渴望宁静的生活...毕竟这个世界上做spy的料子不是很多。
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