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Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001. He is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado. Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001 at Foxstone Park〔Adrian Havill, crimelibrary.com. (His fate is sealed ). Retrieved September 10, 2007〕 near his home in Vienna, Virginia, and was charged with selling US secrets to the USSR and subsequently Russia for more than US$1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period. On July 6, 2001, he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.〔(''Transcript of Hanssen Guilty Plea'' ), July 6, 2001. Retrieved February 22, 2007.〕〔United States Department of Justice (''Thompson Statement Regarding Hanssen Guilty Plea'' ) July 6, 2001. Retrieved February 22, 2007.〕 He was then sentenced to 15 life terms without the possibility of parole. His activities have been described by the US Department of Justice's Commission for the Review of FBI Security Programs as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history."〔"(A Review of FBI Security Programs )'' (Webster Report) (March 2002). Commission for Review of FBI Security Programs, United States Department of Justice.〕 ==Early life== Hanssen was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a family of mixed Danish, Polish and German descent. His father, a Chicago police officer, was emotionally abusive to Hanssen during his childhood.〔U.S. Department of Justice ("A Review of the FBI's Performance in Deterring, Detecting, and Investigating the Espionage Activities of Robert Philip Hanssen" ), ((Archive )) August 14, 2003〕 Hanssen lived in the Norwood Park community in Chicago.〔Havill, Adrian. "(The Spawning of A Spy )." ''Robert Philip Hanssen: The Spy who Stayed out in the Cold''. Crime Library. Retrieved on April 11, 2012.〕 For unknown reasons, Howard Hanssen arranged for his son to fail a driver's test. In later life, Robert Hanssen speculated that his father had done this in order to 'toughen him up'. The elder Hanssen constantly disparaged his son and said that Robert would never make anything of his life. Hanssen graduated from William Howard Taft High School in 1962 and went on to attend Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1966. While at Knox, he took an interest in Russian through elective courses. It was also at this time when Hanssen applied for a cryptographer position in the NSA but was rebuffed due to budget setbacks. Originally set to become a doctor, Hanssen took the opportunity to enroll in the dental school at Northwestern University.〔Adrian Havill, Court TV, (''Robert Philip Hanssen: The Spy who Stayed out in The Cold'' ). Retrieved February 6, 2007.〕 He did well academically, but said that he "didn't like spit all that much."〔Monica Davey, the Chicago Tribune, (''Secret Passage'' ) 2002 April 21. Retrieved February 6, 2007.〕 He switched his focus to business after three years,〔Dolores Flaherty, Chicago Sunday-Times (''Hanssen, the spy with two faces'' ) 2003 November 23. Retrieved February 6, 2007〕 and received an MBA in accounting and information systems in 1971. After graduating, he took a job with an accounting firm but quit to join the Chicago Police Department as an internal affairs investigator, specializing in forensic accounting. Hanssen left the department after four years, joining the FBI in January 1976.〔 Hanssen met Bernadette "Bonnie" Wauck while he was attending dental school in Chicago. Bonnie was one of eight children from a staunchly Roman Catholic family. The couple married in 1968. After Hanssen married, he converted from Lutheranism to his wife's Catholicism, becoming a fervent believer and being extensively involved in Opus Dei.〔Spy's Wife Speaks, After Taking a Lie Test by James Risin, NY Times, 16 May 2002; http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/us/spy-s-wife-speaks-after-taking-a-lie-test.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Hanssen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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