US authorities stated that FBI agent Robert Hanssen discovered useless jail. (Representational)
Washington:
Robert Hanssen, the previous FBI agent turned spy whom the bureau describes as probably the most damaging in its historical past, was discovered useless in his jail cell on Monday, U.S. authorities stated.
Hanssen, 79, was sentenced in 2002 to life in jail after pleading responsible to spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for over 20 years.
Jail employees initiated life-saving measures after discovering Hanssen unresponsive on Monday morning however weren’t profitable, the Bureau of Prisons stated in an announcement. It didn’t present a reason behind dying.
Hanssen joined the FBI in 1976 and started promoting categorised info to the Soviet Union in 1985, in line with the FBI’s web site.
By the point of his arrest in 2001, he had been compensated with greater than $1.4 million in money, financial institution funds and diamonds, in change for compromising quite a few human sources, intelligence strategies and categorised U.S. paperwork, the FBI’s web site says.
FBI investigators labored for years to attempt to determine the spy of their ranks. Within the weeks main as much as his February 2001 arrest, some 300 personnel have been engaged on the investigation and monitoring Hanssen, in line with the FBI.
An arrest staff took Hanssen into custody after catching him making a “useless drop” of categorised supplies in a park in suburban Virginia, the FBI says.
He had been serving his life sentence in a most safety facility in Colorado.
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