Robert Hanssen
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Robert Philip Hanssen was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services intermittently against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espio
Hanssen in 2001
"Ellis" dead drop site in Foxstone Park used by Hanssen, including on the day of his arrest
Hanssen's mug shot, taken on the day of his arrest
United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, where he was incarcerated
Aldrich Ames
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Aldrich Hazen Ames was an American counterintelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994.
Robert Hanssen
…of nuclear war, developments in military weapons technologies, and aspects of the U.S. counterintelligence program. He was spying at the same time as Aldrich Ames in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Both Ames and Hanssen compromised the names of KGB agents working secretly for the U.S., some of whom were…
Ames's mug shot in 1994
Ames's portrait in the 1958 McLean High School yearbook
Replacement of the mailbox used by Ames; a horizontal chalk mark above the USPS logo at 37th and R Streets, Washington, D.C., was a signal that a meeting with the Soviets was needed. The original mailbox is now housed in the International Spy Museum.
FBI photo of the mailbox featuring the horizontal chalk mark placed by Ames on October 13, 1993, to arrange a meeting with his Russian intelligence handlers.