BREAKING: Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent convicted of spying for Russia, was found dead in his prison cell at age 79.
, a former FBI agent who was one of the most damaging spies in American history, was found dead in his prison cell Monday morning, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
"Staff requested emergency medical services and life-saving efforts continued," Breshears said."The inmate was subsequently pronounced dead by outside emergency medical personnel." He resumed spying in 1985, selling thousands of classified documents that compromised human sources and counterintelligence techniques and investigations in exchange for more than $1.4 million in cash, diamonds and foreign bank deposits. Using the alias"Ramon Garcia," he passed information to the spy agencies using encrypted communications and dead drops, without ever meeting in-person with a Russian handler.
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