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listeners. It's a frigid afternoon in December 1991.

FBI agent Robert

It's a frigid afternoon in December 1991.

FBI Agent Robert Hanson parks his car outside of an old Catholic church in Indianapolis

and begins bundling himself up preparing to face the cold.

Hanson came to Indianapolis on official FBI business to inspect a local field office and make sure

there are security protocols or up to the agency's exacting standards, but this afternoon's

errand is entirely personal.

Hanson is a devoutly religious man and a member of the small ultra-conservative

Catholic sect known as Opus Day, so he's here at this church today to meet with a priest and confess his sins, which are numerous.

Hansen began selling top secret documents to the Soviet Union more than a decade ago in 1979.

And over the last six years, he supplied the KGB with a treasure trove of secrets.

He shared documents about NASA spy satellites and the United States contingency plans for nuclear war.

He's also revealed the names of a number of KGB double agents who have been secretly working with American intelligence.

Several of those men have since been called back to Moscow and executed.

In return for divulging these secrets, the Soviets have given Hansen close to a half

million dollars in cash and diamonds, but things have recently

taken a bad turn for Hansen's friends in the KGB.

The Soviet Union is collapsing and Moscow is in chaos.

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