According to his own sources, the death of Robert Hanssen, a former employee of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and convicted of spying on behalf of the USSR and the Russian Federation, was of natural causes. Associated press.
Hanssen, 79, was found unconscious in a cell at Florence Prison in Colorado. After a while, the authorities announced his death. According to the agency, Hanssen died of natural causes.
The former FBI officer was arrested in 2001. It was claimed that he worked for the Soviet Union and Russia for many years. Hanssen was accused of transmitting classified information, including electronic intelligence data, to Moscow, and also exposed several double agents.
He was sentenced to 15 life sentences in 2002. Hanssen was serving his sentence in the United States’ most secure federal prison near Florence.
Earlier, the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergey Naryshkin, in an interview declarationHe said Hanssen’s contribution to ensuring the security of the USSR and the Russian Federation was “simply extraordinary”.