Word: hoschouer
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Just as FBI spy Robert Hanssen prepares to be sentenced to life in prison, Hanssen's best friend Jack Hoschouer has come forward with a shocking new charge: Hanssen, he says, suggested that he drug and have sex with Hanssen's wife Bonnie...
...anecdote, recently published in a mostly fictional "novelization" of the Hanssen story by Lawrence Schiller, a specialist in lurid crime stories, has been confirmed to TIME by Hoschouer, a retired Army lieutenant colonel now living in Germany. "Bob fantasized about me making love to Bonnie and knew that she wouldn't go for it," Hoschouer says. "He got fascinated with Rohypnol [an illegal "date rape" drug] and suggested I might be able to come up with some here. I told him that I had looked for some but without success." Hoschouer says he put Hanssen off until he gave...
...true, the episode, which Hoschouer says took place sometime in the '90s, not only sheds new light on Hanssen's twisted psyche but also underscores the weakness in the FBI's system for vetting security clearances. Prior to Hanssen's arrest for espionage in February, 2001, Hoschouer, the renegade agent's childhood friend and closest confidante, was never interviewed during the bureau's periodic reviews of Hanssen's suitability for access to highly classified material...
...Hoschouer admits that even if approached by the FBI prior to Hanssen's arrest, he probably would not have volunteered information about their talks about sex and crime because "I was also doing something that I knew was morally wrong and I might well have omitted mentioning what would embarrass me." That embarrassing part, according to Hoschouer, was that Hanssen had set up a video surveillance system in his bedroom and invited his friend to watch the Hanssens having sex. Hanssen's X-rated descriptions of these trysts can be found on an adult Internet site...
...Still, something might have turned up if the feds had at least talked to Hoschouer. "What they called a background check was laughable," says one Justice Department official. "The closer the person gets to the crown jewels, the deeper we need to get into that person's head." If Hoschouer had divulged that he and Hanssen had had even casual conversations about setting up the rape of Hanssen's wife, says the official, "it would strike me as weird on two or three different levels. Is he seriously proposing a criminal act? Was he drunk, or was this the raving...
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