Word: kgb
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...whole thing was a setup, Einhorn assured followers. Through his antiwar research and with contacts that extended beyond the Iron Curtain, he simply knew too much about weapons development, psychic research and global conspiracies. Maddux was murdered to discredit him. The CIA, the KGB, who knew? The most damning evidence against him was also the most obvious proof of his innocence: Would a man as smart as he murder his girlfriend and keep the evidence at his bedside...
...happy to forgo some personal closure for more practical rewards. Both the FBI and the CIA will now have a chance to debrief Hanssen as to some tantalizing gaps in their knowledge of what secrets he passed and how he passed them, particularly the period after 1991 when the KGB file on him ends abruptly without explanation, and the period between 1999 and his arrest in February...
...corners as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA chief George Tenet and would clearly prefer the back-room route from here on out. For one thing, a trial would have forced prosecutors to put on the witness stand the FBI's prize source - a Russian who stole Hanssen's KGB file from Moscow Center, as Russian intelligence headquarters is known, and handed it over to the bureau. For another, the National Security Agency would have had to reveal highly classified details about its communications intercept capabilities in order to show exactly why the secrets Hanssen sold were so damaging...
...happy to forgo some personal closure for more practical rewards. Both the FBI and the CIA will now have a chance to debrief Hanssen as to some tantalizing gaps in their knowledge of what secrets he passed and how he passed them, particularly the period after 1991 when the KGB file on him ends abruptly without explanation, and the period between 1999 and his arrest in February...
...corners as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA chief George Tenet and would clearly prefer the back-room route from here on out. For one thing, a trial would have forced prosecutors to put on the witness stand the FBI's prize source - a Russian who stole Hanssen's KGB file from Moscow Center, as Russian intelligence headquarters is known, and handed it over to the bureau. For another, the National Security Agency would have had to reveal highly classified details about its communications intercept capabilities in order to show exactly why the secrets Hanssen sold were so damaging...