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...decided on this course when I was 14. I'd read Philby's book," he wrote (although Philby's autobiography was not published until 1968, when Hanssen was 24) in a rambling discourse last March to the SVR, Russia's foreign-arm successor to the Soviet-era KGB. "My only hesitations were my security concerns under uncertainty. I hate uncertainty...
...Justice Department charges, Hanssen sent a fateful letter, addressed to a KGB officer in Washington. Inside was a second missive marked "Do not open. Take this envelope unopened to Viktor I. Cherkashin." Hanssen knew well who Cherkashin was: Moscow's chief counterspy at the Soviet embassy, a KGB colonel adept at handling double agents. (Cherkashin was already masterminding the activities of CIA mole Aldrich Ames, who was not uncovered until 1994.) Inside that second envelope was an anonymous offer to send a trove of classified papers to the KGB in exchange for $100,000, and a proposal to keep...
That initiated a sporadic series of communications and payments between "B" and the KGB lasting until December 1991. By the time of the arrest, "B" had been paid some $600,000 in cash, plus three diamonds, and had been told an additional $800,000 lay banked for him in a Moscow account (though he scoffed that he knew the account was a typical spymaster's fiction...
...took the U.S. 15 years to realize that one of its spooks was actually scaring up secrets for the Russians. Though Robert Philip Hanssen was an agent for the FBI, it now appears that he did some of his best work for the KGB, which never knew his name. Illustration for TIME by Istvan Banyai...
...Samara owners, distant relatives of the sister of the artist's widow, "just wanted to get rid of it," says another art historian who also saw the painting in Samara. For years, they had hidden it from bandits-at one point in a kgb safe, at another in a crate of potatoes. They were convinced that whoever kept the painting met with misfortune, and with good reason: the young man who brought the canvas to the bank disappeared for days afterward only to resurface in a battered, confused state, the victim of a shakedown by racketeers...