RIP Robert Hanssen

A master spy and a man of intriguing choices.

To quote The Washington Post:

[H]is time as a traitor couldn’t have been all about the money, according to those who knew him.

Many believe that Hanssen enjoyed the gamesmanship of outsmarting his employer, one of the most powerful spy agencies.

To quote from the BBC’s report:

His family drove to mass every Sunday in a 10-year-old van, and was said to be a strict father, who limited television for his children.

But behind this façade lay a sexual obsession. Hanssen secretly filmed pornographic videos of his wife and showed them to a friend.

During the time of his arrest, CBS News, BBC's US partner, reported that he would frequent strip clubs where he tried to convert strippers to Catholicism.

Additionally, he would post sexually explicit stories about him and his wife online and share nude photos of her.

A glimpse of Chris Cooper’s chilling and accurate performance as Hanssen in Breach (2007): link