Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI’s Robert Hanssen Betrayed America-Fast Shipping

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Spy tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent RobertHanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for twenty-two years in what has beencalled the “worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history”–and how he was finally caughtin an incredible gambit by U.S. intelligence.

David Wise, the nation’s leading espionagewriter, has called on his unique knowledge and unrivaled intelligence sources towrite the definitive, inside story of how Robert Hanssen betrayed his country, andwhy.

Spy at last reveals the mind and motives of a man who was a walking paradox:FBI counterspy, KGB mole, devout Catholic, obsessed pornographer who secretly televisedhimself and his wife having sex so that his best friend could watch, defender offamily values, fantasy James Bond who took a stripper to Hong Kong and carried amachine gun in his car trunk.

Brimming with startling new details sure to make headlines,Spy discloses:

• how for three years, the FBI pursueda CIA officer, code name gray deceiver, in the mistaken belief that he was the molethey were seeking inside U.S. intelligence. The innocent officer was accused as aspy and suspended by the CIA for nearly two years.

• why Hanssen spied, based onexclusive interviews with Dr. David L. Charney, the psychiatrist who met with Hanssenin his jail cell more than thirty times. Hanssen, in an extraordinary arrangement,authorized Charney to talk to the author.

• the full story of Robert Hanssen’s bizarresex life, including the hidden video camera he set up in his bedroom and how he plottedto drug his wife, Bonnie, so that his best friend could father her child.

• howHanssen and the CIA’s Aldrich Ames betrayed three Russians secretly spying for theFBI–including tophat, a Soviet general–who were then executed by Moscow.

• thatafter Hanssen was already working for the KGB, he directed a study of moles in theFBI when–as he alone knew–he was the mole.

Robert Hanssen betrayed the FBI. He betrayedhis country. He betrayed his wife. He betrayed his children. He betrayed his bestfriend, offering him up to the KGB. He betrayed his God. Most of all, he betrayedhimself. Only David Wise could tell the astonishing, full story, and he does so,in masterly style, in Spy.