page_title: Robert Hanssen
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Hanssen
caption_attribution_description: Photo of KGB agent Robert Hanssen who started working for the FBI and then defected to the KGB while pretending to work for the FBI. A depiction of this photo takes place in the film "Breach".
context_page_description: Robert Philip Hanssen is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent.
  He spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was called by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history."
  He is serving a 15 consecutive life sentences at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado.
context_section_description: Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent.
  He spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was called by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history."  
  He is serving a 15 consecutive life sentences at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado.
caption: Hanssen in 2001
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