Spy tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how
FBI agent Robert Hanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for
twenty-two years in what has been called the "worst intelligence
disaster in U.S. history"-and how he was finally caught in an incredible
gambit by U.S. intelligence.
David Wise, the nation's leading espionage writer, has called on his
unique knowledge and unrivaled intelligence sources to write the
definitive, inside story of how Robert Hanssen betrayed his country, and
why.
Spy at last reveals the mind and motives of a man who was a walking
paradox: FBI counterspy, KGB mole, devout Catholic, obsessed
pornographer who secretly televised himself and his wife having sex so
that his best friend could watch, defender of family values, fantasy
James Bond who took a stripper to Hong Kong and carried a machine gun in
his car trunk.
Brimming with startling new details sure to make headlines, Spy
discloses:
- the previously untold story of how the FBI got the actual file on
Robert Hanssen out of KGB headquarters in Moscow for $7 million in an
unprecedented operation that ended in Hanssen's arrest.
- how for three years, the FBI pursued a CIA officer, code name gray
deceiver, in the mistaken belief that he was the mole they were seeking
inside U.S. intelligence. The innocent officer was accused as a spy and
suspended by the CIA for nearly two years.
- why Hanssen spied, based on exclusive interviews with Dr. David L.
Charney, the psychiatrist who met with Hanssen in his jail cell more
than thirty times. Hanssen, in an extraordinary arrangement, authorized
Charney to talk to the author.
- the full story of Robert Hanssen's bizarre sex life, including the
hidden video camera he set up in his bedroom and how he plotted to drug
his wife, Bonnie, so that his best friend could father her child.
- how Hanssen and the CIA's Aldrich Ames betrayed three Russians
secretly spying for the FBI-including tophat, a Soviet general-who were
then executed by Moscow.
- that after Hanssen was already working for the KGB, he directed a
study of moles in the FBI when-as he alone knew-he was the mole.
Robert Hanssen betrayed the FBI. He betrayed his country. He betrayed
his wife. He betrayed his children. He betrayed his best friend,
offering him up to the KGB. He betrayed his God. Most of all, he
betrayed himself. Only David Wise could tell the astonishing, full
story, and he does so, in masterly style, in Spy.
