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🗓️ 9 November 2023
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Once the FBI zeroed in on Robert Hanssen as a suspect, the bureau set up an elaborate sting operation to catch him in the act. A fake promotion, a bugged office, and a daring mission led to an opportunity to finally catch Hanssen red-handed. For 22 years, Hanssen had beaten the FBI at its own game. Now the FBI was ready to strike back.
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0:49.8 | In December 2000, Robert Hansen was working as the FBI's liaison to the State Department. |
0:55.6 | Investigators had just discovered that he was the mole they'd been trying to root out for years. |
1:02.6 | Neil Gallagher at the time, an assistant director at the FBI, invited Robert Hansen to his office |
1:08.9 | for a meeting. I sat in a soft chair and he sat probably three feet away from me in a sofa. |
1:14.3 | So we're almost knee to knee, looking at each other, talking to each other. |
1:17.8 | Was the atmosphere friendly? Oh, extremely friendly. Friendly, personal. I said I'm not the smartest |
1:23.6 | guy in the world. I need some help in computer security. I know your expertise and I need for you |
1:32.0 | to help. The last thing Gallagher needed was Robert Hansen's help. No. What Gallagher needed was |
1:40.3 | to lure Robert Hansen from his post at the State Department back to Bureau headquarters |
1:45.1 | where the FBI could catch Hansen in the act. The fingerprint on the plastic bag, the voice |
1:50.8 | recording, the letters to the KGB, the FBI had a compelling case against Robert Hansen. |
1:59.5 | Did we have enough evidence to arrest him? Yes, but it begs an answer to the other question. |
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