Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who was serving a life sentence for working for Russian intelligence, was found dead in a federal prison in Florence, Colorado, USA. This was announced on June 5 by the agency Associated Press.
The convict was found unconscious in his cell, the doctors pronounced him dead.
An unnamed source told the agency that Hanssen, 79, appeared to have died of natural causes. Officially, the cause of death of the convict was not called, the Associated Press notes.
Hanssen is one of the most famous American spies who worked for Russia, notes BBC .
He was arrested in February 2001. This was preceded by a special operation, in which he was transferred to a new FBI office and given a false assignment. Hanssen was detained near a hiding place in the park, where he brought secret information.
The ex-FBI officer was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002, 300 agents worked on his case. According to investigators, Hanssen, who used the pseudonym Ramon Garcia in correspondence with curators from the Russian Federation, received more than $ 1.4 million in cash, money orders and jewelry for his services.
2023-06-06 17:40:05
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