Spy Who Traded American Secrets to Russians Dies in Prison

The man involved in one of the most famous spy cases in American history has died. Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent is believed to have died of natural causes in his Florice, Colorado, prison cell. He was serving a life sentence without parole since 2002. Hanssen was paid in more than $1 million in cash, diamonds and watches in exchange for sharing information about American Intelligence. He pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage.

[jokodihaynes]

"The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies, it comes from those you trust the most"

[Seek]

Back when we actually punished traitors.

[risanddanny]

“While I would never wish a man dead I’ve read plenty of obituaries with pleasure” -Clarence Darrow

[_paper_chase_]

They talked about him every year in our annual Army insider threat brief.

[danleonhart]

The day he was arrested.. his response was "What took you guys so long?"

[invhincible]

Imagine how many people die because of his greed

[granitegobbler]

Talk about greed. He’s lucky he didn’t get beaten to death.

[jokodihaynes]

"in a liberated Netherlands, there would be no more room for traitors"- queen Williamina of the Netherlands

[btsskins]

Damm I was born in 2002 so he’s been in there my whole life

[Jaxon_mouser]

When the justice system wasn’t crazy or whatever and now look at it…. Ugh 😩

[angiepangie]

It's ironic that this story is right next to the story where the ex president had boxes of classified information just laying around his public golf club

[zackhickey]

Didn’t we just trade a Russian spy for a dude who plays women’s basketball lol

[jcdova]

He got paid with cash, jewelry and rolex watches? Damn that must of been interesting payments.

[shawnblack]

Payable upon death funny thing is I was just reading about this guy last week when I was reading about AVX Florence prison so foreshadowing...but we all knew he wasn't gonna come out of there alive god rest his treacherous soul

[calebsmith]

Treason is a crime committed by the lowest class of humanity.

[hulsscoped]

Reminds me of a Netflix series called Blacklist were a high ranking naval officer named Raymond reddigton provided the soviets the location of a U.S Submarine where 144 American Naval officers died but there is a plot twist

[tommyvigil]

Those inmates finally had an opportunity to get to this traitor.

[krenn]

Good luck with the life review - you're going to need it.

[francodelrosario]

I’d like to call the situation, “The Spies who Betrayed Me”

[Didenne]

NPC vibes. Sold your soul to the government, then sold your soul to Russia. Shows how worthless his life was