The Explorers' Club, № DCCC

Operation AXIOM: The 20th Anniversary of Robert Hanssen's Arrest
18 February 2001: F.B.I. Agent Robert Hanssen was arrested for spying against the United States since 1979, for first the Soviet Union & later the Russian Federation; in 1987, Hanssen led a "mole" hunt within the F.B.I., hunting for himself; Hanssen avoided detection in part because his activities were blamed on the C.I.A. traitor Aldrich Ames, arrested in 1994; his code name: "Ramon Garcia."

Commentary: In the more innocent—read: willfully blind & criminally self-satisfied—world that existed between the fall of the Berlin Wall & 9/11, Hanssen's treason was a major national security scandal.

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