>Convicted super spy Robert Hanssen passed scores of top secret documents to Moscow over a nearly 20 year period as an FBI agent, featuring a vast amount of info on civil defense preparations, counterintelligence, and weapon systems of various kinds, as well as the existence of an FBI spy tunnel dug underneath the Soviet embassy in Washington D.C. Hanssen momentarily stopped his contacts in the early '90s after the USSR collapsed, but resumed them and continued giving documents to post-Soviet Russia until he was finally caught in 2001. He pled guilty to 14 counts of espionage and conspiracy and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Hanssen served his sentence at ADX Florence Supermax, where he spent 23 hours a day in a prison cell, and passed away in 2023 at age 79.[9]
>>18038700modern day Benedict Arnold
this dude was kinky af, he encouraged a colleague to spy on himself and his wife having sex through their bedroom window and videotape it
this dude was not some innocuous indivuual who leaked like one classified doc to the Washington Post, he gave away thousands of dox to Moscow for 20 years and even managed to get some Soviet moles who were funneling intelligence info to the US caught by the KGB and executed. he was a murderer on top of it.
>>18038758still surprised Biden or Biden's Autopen didn't pardon him
>>18038838Would you have called it murder if this guy was executed?
>>18038875he could have been except he pled guilty so he wouldn't be executed and they embarrass him by leaking those tapes of him and his wife fucking. though i bet being simply lined up and shot with a firing squad was probably more humane than being locked in ADX Florence for almost 20 years. he should have taken that option instead.
>>18038838He was caught shortly after Bush had taken office in 2001. Since it was a Republican administration he was completely fucked.
Even the russians didnt know he was, but they kept one of the drop-off bags, and when the SU collapsed, a double-agent handed over the evidence (fingerprints)
>>18038700He had so many chances, he could have stopped after the USSR collapsed and probably gotten away with it since it wasn't until at least the late 90s that they were onto him.
>>18038885>though i bet being simply lined up and shot with a firing squad wasFederal executions don't use firing squad, this is not 1850.
>>18038700>He pled guilty to 14 counts of espionage and conspiracy and was sentenced to life in prison without paroleas far as i know Amerifats are one of the only cunts that does life without parole. in any EU cunt it's generally understood that once the prisoner is past the age of 50, it's very unlikely that he'll cause any more trouble. crime is a young person's game for the most part.
>>18038902all the same it would have been more merciful than what he got. i guess he really didn't want those sex videos leaked though.
>>18038700Now let's talk Jonathan Pollard and how he walked free.
>>18038944Pollard wasn't as fucked as this guy because his activities didn't span as long a period of time, he didn't get anyone killed, and he didn't give stuff to a country the State Department classified as an adversary of the United States and its interests (regardless of what /pol/ thinks about...)
>>18038700>Hanssen momentarily stopped his contacts in the early '90s after the USSR collapsed, butPoint of information. He stopped at that point because he worried he'd get caught, but instead resumed them after a short pause. Thia is what I meant when I said he had a chance to quite while he was ahead and didn't.
>>18038977>ChatGPT post
>>18039015It's not ChatGPT, I just didn't proofread or spell check it.
>>18038700You can tell by his physiognomy he shouldnt be anywhere near sensitive information.boomers will say "what thats horseshit you cant read faces"oh but I can, and I can tell TODAY who is a spy in DC.
>>18039023it's the bad teeth. if he'd gotten them fixed he wouldn't give off that vibe.
>>18039023a guy who lets his co-worker secretly videotape himself and his wife fucking is gonna be a bit screwy
>>18038961>Israhell>not an adversary of...
>>18038961he tried giving stuff to Pakistan and China and only gave them to Israel when those cunts weren't interested
>>18038885No person has actually been executed in the United States for espionage since the Rosenbergs.
>>18039079correct. that was scandalous enough that it's never been tried since even though the death penalty for espionage is still on the books.
>>18038961Before Hanssen there was Aldrich Ames but he didn't get put in ADX Florence, he's in a relatively comfy medium security prison.
>>18039089Aldrich didn't even get near to causing the damage that Hanssen did. Nobody got close to his level.
>Rafi Eitan, the Israeli handler of Jonathan Pollard, alleged that Pollard was blamed for some of Ames' crimes. Pollard went on to serve 30 years in prison for passing classified information to Israel.[67] Eitan stated that Pollard never exposed American agents in the Soviet Union or elsewhere, and that he believed Ames tried to blame Pollard to clear himself of suspicion.[68] "I have no doubt that had Pollard been tried today, in light of what is known about Ames and other agents who were exposed, he would have received a much lighter sentence".[69]
>>18039092>Aldrich admitted that he feared Soviet double agents far more than he did the FBI or CIA, noting that "Nearly everyone who has ever been caught committing espionage got fingered by a Soviet defector."[3]
>>18039120tl;dr glowies are dumber than fuck
>>18039146yes, yes they are
>>18039120>He also offered his advice on how to beat polygraph exams. "Always stay relaxed, friendly, and nice to the examiner so you let him think you're his friend. They can't prove much of anything at that point."[3]
>>18038910ok
to answer a question made earlier in here, no actually they got rid of Federal parole not too long after Pollard's conviction. if he was sentenced under modern laws he would get life without parole unless the president commuted his sentence. should add that i don't agree with that and believe it does violate the 8th Amendment, only saying that he got out in <30 years because it was when Federal sentences still had parole.
>>18039441They also changed mandatory minimums for Federal sentences since 1980 to be 75% of your sentence. If the sentencing guidelines say 15 years max then the judge has to sentence you to at least 11.2 years. Many states also use these guidelines, although Texas still only requires 50% of the maximum sentence for the offense.
>>18039079Kind of makes wish it still happened
>>18039084It was abolished after the Rosenbergs' execution and reinstated in the late 90s but has never actually been used.
>>18039537nah we don't need to be China
>>18038700It was intentionally letting his sex life get videotaped that did him in more than the actual espionage. That's just gross. I mean, some things should stay private. But for that the judge probably would have been a bit more merciful.
>>18039092Aldrich did get some of their Soviet agents killed but yes he didn't cause quit the same damage.
>>18038700He was a modern day Worsley
>>18040170do you remember how back in 2015 or so a huge CIA Chinese spy ring got broken up and they executed everyone?
>>18038700Is this Falcon and the Snowman?
>>18038700He always stood out whenever I perused through the inmates at ADX Florence. I wonder if he had contact with Kaczynski
>>18040599was it the horse face/teeth?
>>18040199idk how much there was to see, it was a shitty 80s video camera through a window at a distance
>>18040603No, he was just one of the few white guys along with Ted. Most of them are Arab terrorists
>>18040199especially because they told him they were going to leak the videos unless he pled guilty
>>18039079When not even Obama would posthumously pardon them...
>>18040641The Rosenbergs' sons have tried for decades to get Ethel posthumously pardoned. It's really their fault because they're douchy literal communist activists nobody likes.
>>18040677>>18040199in any criminal case, the actual crime is only half the factor. your personality matters as much or more in what happens to you.
>>18038700This nigga was so addicted to spying that even after the USSR collapsed and he could have gotten away with it he kept spying for Russia.
I remember watching a few documentaries on the differences between Soviet and US spies or intelligence that became traitors. It was really interesting contrasting the motivation between the two countries. Soviets were trying to escape odd and perilous situations where as the Americans mostly just wanted cash for luxury shit lol
>>18038700Hero of the people.
>>18039026I've seen hardly anyone on earth with straighter teeth than this man. What is there to fix?
>>18041455You have a loose definition of "hero"
>>18041451>Soviet spy for the Americans:The Bolsheviks killed his White Army father during the Civil War, but he joined the Red Army and then intelligence services until becoming disturbed by the cunning and deceit within the Soviet secret services... enough for his superiors to become suspicious at his "political vigilance" and begin looking into his mysterious family background... with the walls closing in and certain death in a labor camp hanging over his head like the Sword of Damocles, he approaches the CIA at the precipice of the Cuban Missile Crisis while operating as a "jacket" in Geneva... [either gets executed or ends up working for a Western military academy to teach tactics and history]>American spy for the SovietsI like sluts, and I like butts, and I need money for sluts and butts [goes to federal prison]
>>18041471Comically large incisors and a slight overbite, just makes him look like a vampire.
And then there was Kim Philby who defected to USSR and found just how shitty and oppressive gommunism actually was.
