US FBI agent Robert Hanssen, a spy for the former Soviet Union and later Russia, died Monday in a US prison where he was serving 15 consecutive life sentences for betraying the United States.
Robert Hanssen, 79, was “found unconscious” around 7:00 a.m. local time (1:00 p.m. GMT) at the “Supermax” federal prison in Florence, Colorado, where he had been since 2002, prison services said. of the US in a statement. statement.
The note, without giving details about the reason for death, specifies that no prisoner or prison staff was injured and that there was no danger to the public.
Robert Hanssen was arrested in 2001 and pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage for selling classified material to the Soviet Union and Russia during the waning years of the Cold War.
On its website, the FBI refers to Robert Hanssen as “the most damaging spy” in history, with espionage activities since 1985, nine years after joining the FBI.
Source: TSF
