Spy: The FBI Agent Robert Hanssen

The CIA had to obtain enough evidence to turn him over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, for them to be able to make the arrest. When all the evidence was obtained, and handed over, FBI agents made a plan to have a set up for Ames. The FBI had Ames’ boss call him into the office to discuss travel plans for a trip he was about to take to Russia. Outside his house, the FBI was waiting for him and took him into custody. Despite the worries of him staying in Russia while on this trip, in an interview released by the NY Times, Ames said he had not planned to not come back because he had no intentions of being caught. Nevertheless, Ames was not able to outwit the counterintelligence group analyzing his history. His actions of handing over information to the Soviets caught up with him. His preposterous decision led him to life in prison without parole and led his wife to five years in prison.

F.B.I agents actually make a lot of money. They make about “28.97 per hour or about 60,270 a year” (BLS.gov) This amount may increase if you wish to go higher up and be a special agent. This amount is pretty good, due to the fact that it is enough to make a nice working home possible. It also means that the money spent on college will be easy to repay. Plus the salary for an F.B.I agent is actually “higher than average” (BLS.Gov). Which means that this career must be doing well if it can afford to pay these workers that much. Again this would leave money for a steady home and even a little for luxuries. F.B.I jobs are also “expected to grow in demand” (chron.com). So this will mean even more people will be wanted for this job, which means

From after World War II, to the Cold War, to the creation of the atomic bomb, America’s fear grew stronger. Espionage played an important role in the paranoia of the country. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for conspiracy in committing espionage because of the unwarranted paranoia of a nuclear attack by the Russians and the unjustified fear of the Soviet Union in the 1950s.

Over the past few years, government surveillance in the United States has become a widely debated issue with two completely different sides. The National Security Agency, a government agency known for it’s efforts in spying and surveillance, has been at the center of this issue since it’s founding in the 1950’s. The Cold War had just begun and the United States government was doing anything they could to find potential terrorists and communists. In fact, many famous people including Einstein were being spied on by the government to find citizens with potential ties to the Soviet Union. (New York Times - New Details Emerge from the Einstein Files; How the FBI Tracked His Phone Calls and His Trash) As the cold war came to an end in the early 90’s, NSA spying seemed to come to an end as well.

We all have heard the phrase loose lips sink ships. On 19 May 2011, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) painted another picture in our mind regarding this phrase. The in-depth investigation of Bryan Minkyu Martin revealed the real reasons why he betrayed the country for his own benefit. This is a classic example to prove cyber espionage cases can be alarming to our nation’s national security.

“Just can’t be an FBI agent without being cautions and thinking thing through”. That just part of the training. The foundation of the FBI all started in July 26, 1908. J. Edgar Hoover, Charles Joseph, and Theodore Roosevelt was the founders. Becoming an FBI officer you got to know what field you would like to be in .

The above quote, by Richard Nixon, best captures the mass hysteria and paranoia that dominated the American people during the Cold War Era. It would only be 15 years till an article by a New York Times reporter by the name of Seymour Hersh accusing the CIA of targeting antiwar protestors as well as many others whom they believed where foreign agents and had conducted everything from break-ins to wiretaps and even placement of informants within groups to monitor their actions. Later in the article Hesrh would state that the concept of the program was developed by a presidential aid and was in fact encouraged by members of the executive branch. He also revealed heavy involvement by the FBI on the behest of CIA director Helms who had been known to believe that the KGB had infiltrated the United States government.

The spies also had another job trying to get a scientist to join the United States Army.

Named by Calvin Coolidge as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover quickly rose to greatness. In 1935, he was appointed by U. S. Attorney General Stone as the first director of the newly conceived F.B.I. For the next 36 years he made all of the rules, declared war on everything he disliked or that opposed his morals and personal beliefs from “Bolshevik radicals” to Martin Luther King, he hindered the progress of the civil rights movement, and used force to eradicate every suspected communist. While he brought about myriad investigative technology, including fingerprints, wire-tapping, and forensics labs that forever changed the criminal justice system, he also used the F.B.I. to intimidate celebrities and public figures, harass political activists, and illegally collect secret files of evidence and scandals against everyone. In truth, Hoover was a malicious and hypocritical man; under the guise of protecting the “American way,” his motto was “knowledge is power,” but after the Great Depression when the world changed, he didn’t

Hoover, “[given] the title of Special Assistant to the Attorney General,” devised plans to “arrest thousands of foreign-born Communists and turn them over to immigration officials to face non-criminal deportation proceedings.” These plans were heavily debated in terms of “their total disregard for basic human rights,” and further contributed to corruption of President Harding’s administration; this also resulted in a negative perception of the FBI. Ironically, to fix the FBI’s image, “Attorney General Stone named 29-year old J. Edgar Hoover Acting Director of the Bureau of Investigation.” Hoover’s actions in the years to come mirrored those of his beginning days in office. Everything he did help shape the FBI as a powerful component of the government, but his actions were often self-centered, and did not completely benefit the country as a whole. Despite this, the FBI would not have become such an important agency if it hadn’t be for Hoover’s work. Through Hoover’s strong leadership, though corrupt and sometimes inhumane, he shaped the FBI into a powerful federal agency, achieving these changes through his use of investigative techniques, strict standards, and strategic political relationships; whether positive or negative, most perceptions many have about the FBI can be attributed to Hoover.

In 2011, he was awarded Ridenhour Prize for TruthTelling and was co-recipient of Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) award. As we progress into this paper, we will discuss various stages of this crime such as what were his actions in NSA, NSA inquiry and acknowledgement, Inevitable Whistleblowing, FBI raids, Indictment, Court proceedings, Government arguments, final disposition, what happened since 2012. In this paper we will also discuss the Espionage act and Whistleblowing, what is a part of the McCarran Internal Security Act and what was the Nation Defense information, classified information which was mishandled by Thomas Andrew Drake.

In 1997, Hanssen would go onto the FBI's internal computer case record and search to see if he was under investigation. He was indiscreet enough to type his own name into FBI search engines. Finding nothing, he decided to resume his spy career after eight years without contact with the Russians. He then established contact with the SVR in the fall of 1999. He continued to do highly incriminating searches of FBI files for his own name and address. In November 2000, he sent his

For as long as I can remember our country has been involved in some form of conflict. With these conflicts came groups who sought to hurt the U.S. on its sovereign soil. I was in pre-k when the Boeing 757’s hit the Twin Towers in New York. My mother checked me out of school after it occurred; she had a sense of urgency to get my brother and I home. I didn’t know what was going on and I was frightened because my mom was as well. When we got home she went straight to the television and turned it to the news. I did not really understand what I was seeing other than a couple of buildings that were on fire. As I grew older the more my understanding of what occurred that tragic day did too. I began to feel a sense of sorrow and that was the initial I needed to set my mind on the track to become a Special Agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The task of the FBI is not to only investigate the scene after a major event like what occurred in New York, but their main focus is to stop any form of attack before it begins. April 2013, two brothers planted bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line, killing a few and injuring a couple of hundreds of people. Again, I feel this sense of sorrow, but this time I began questioning, “How safe is our country from attacks?” July 2015, Chattanooga, Tennessee a man began to open fire on the recruiting office… He killed five people four of which were Marines and the other a sailor. This act was my breaking point, my determination to

The term “Covert Action” brings with it a connotation of shadowy figures wrapped in secrecy and intrigue. It also brings with it a substantial amount of moral questions as to “what is right.” The use of covert action has been widely publicized since the early seventies, but trying to find out the truth to these events has been difficult to say the least. What is even more difficult, is historically recording these events into categories of successes or failures. These operations are difficult to dissect because of their secrecy and although events have been recorded, some facts simply aren’t apparent. This paper will seek to identify the complex issues associated with covert operations.

Using fake mailboxes and drop sites to secure his information safely to his meetings. The FBI searched his house with the warrant finding personal information about meetings and future events that will take place against the CIA. Arrested for espionage him and his wife where they were held without any bond. Being one of the most popular cases in the history because Ames collected money by the giving away CIA classified secrets and not being able to be traced nor caught since the 70’s once he started trading secrets. He remained undetected for so long that mistakes like this should never have been going for such a period which makes you think about how the most intelligent agency in the world let this happen. Something has happened before to where terrorist has destroyed people lives on our own soil just like September 11 and how they mysteriously got on the plane. For someone that’s holds the key on the inside to have knowledge of so much information to where a mole was hidden right in the CIA going undetected for over 9