One of America's most notorious spies, Robert Hanssen, has died at a maximum security prison in Colorado, Bureau of Prisons spokesperson tells ABC News. The official says Hanssen, 79, was found dead in his cell just before 7 a.m. on Monday morning.
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Hanssen used encrypted communications, "dead drops," including one just outside of Washington, D.C., at a park in Fairfax County, Virginia, and other methods to provide information to the KGB and Soviet Union. On more than 20 separate occasions, Hanssen left packages for Russian authorities at various drops around the Washington area, the FBI said, totaling more than 6,000 pages of classified material. Some of the material was used to hunt down confidential human sources in Russia, according to the government.
Foxstone Park where FBI agents reported that FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen made document drops to Russian agents and in turn picked up money for his services.By 2001, investigators believed Hanssen was going to make a "dead drop" of information at a park in Virginia, just outside Washington. Agents said they observed Hanssen trade a plastic bag full of classified information for $50,000 in cash.
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