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00:01In the secret world of counterintelligence, one fear looms larger than all others.
00:08Betrayal from within, by a traitor you believe is a friend.
00:14How dare you? How could you do that to us? We are all in this fight together.
00:20Suspicion points to a key figure in Western intelligence,
00:23trading secrets worth billions of dollars, causing damage on a global scale.
00:30This man betrayed secrets, leading to the darkest day in American history, September 11th.
00:37This is the inside story of the hunt to trap the most damaging spy of all time.
00:42Download it now. I gotta go.
00:47It has remained secret, until now.
01:09In the heart of the city, there's a spy, among the very people charged with protecting the nation, the FBI.
01:18The traitor must be uncovered. But who can carry out such a delicate task?
01:25The case was a little different than what I had done in my background.
01:32Eric O'Neil isn't sure what he's taking on.
01:35There's no manual for a mission like this.
01:40I had been working on the street and was told that there was a temporary duty assignment to headquarters
01:48to work undercover on a potential target.
01:56It was very tense from the beginning.
01:58One of the largest cases the FBI had worked in their history.
02:02So you can imagine the pressure right from the start.
02:05O'Neil, with only four years' experience at the FBI,
02:09has been hand-picked for perhaps the most sensitive and secret operation ever mounted.
02:14No one at headquarters was to know, except for a very few select people.
02:21It's the climax of an operation which has been underway for nearly two decades.
02:29I didn't want to be the single guy in this chain of people
02:33who had been looking for this target for years, who screwed it up.
02:40O'Neil's target is a spy, working deep undercover.
02:45A double agent, with access to the highest levels of the CIA and other agencies.
02:52The codename assigned to the unknown traitor is Greysuit.
02:57The hunt for the mysterious Greysuit goes back to as early as 1985.
03:05This former White House security advisor is a 23-year veteran of the FBI.
03:10You had things going wrong that you couldn't explain.
03:14Technical programs, human sources compromise.
03:17What is going wrong?
03:18What are the anomalies?
03:20There was very heavy surveillance in Moscow.
03:26The former chief of U.S. security served when Greysuit was most active.
03:31You could have been an interception of communication.
03:35And then you work your way through to the bottom line, the unthinkable line, that there's a mole.
03:46It's the nightmare scenario.
03:48The spy catchers have a spy in their midst.
03:53You start making lists of people and indications of what has gone wrong.
03:58And you're looking then for tells that says, well, the only number of people that could have known this are
04:03X.
04:04Who's the common denominator?
04:07They really were very frustrated because they knew they had a problem and they couldn't find it.
04:13This intelligence specialist is an expert on the case.
04:18Information that was available only to those who would be at the highest levels of security clearance
04:24had fallen into the hands of the Russians.
04:28The heads of U.S. security order a new approach.
04:32They'll attempt to buy the traitor's name.
04:36They said, let it be known within the Russian intelligence community,
04:40you could become a millionaire with the American intelligence if you could help them uncover who their mole was.
04:47The search for Greysuit's identity leads here, to Moscow.
04:53But who's going to talk, knowing the consequences if they're caught?
04:58The man would be arrested, charged with treason and shot.
05:03There were no other options.
05:06Oleg Kalugin was a senior KGB spy handler.
05:11Soviet intelligence were highly dedicated people.
05:15They were driven by communist ideology.
05:18Most people were very loyal and they would never betray.
05:26That loyalty will now be put to the test.
05:29What do you got over there, boys?
05:33How far back is that?
05:35Analysts draw up a short list of five names from the very highest ranks of the KGB.
05:43Even today, their identity is a closely guarded secret.
05:50Agents from the Greysuit Task Force fly to Russia and in a series of clandestine meetings, they make their pitch.
05:59A fortune and a new life for a name.
06:04Initially, they were turned down.
06:07In Russia, it's much harder than it would be in the West to get someone to betray his country in
06:14exchange for cash.
06:17Still, they persevere.
06:20And now, they strike gold.
06:24A KGB boss offers something even better than Greysuit's name.
06:30To their great surprise, he said,
06:33how would you like the entire operational file for this case out of KGB archives?
06:41It appears that when the Soviet Union was collapsing in 1991,
06:47he said, this is an interesting retirement plan.
06:49Let me borrow these files, put them in a secure location,
06:52and maybe they'll be of value someday.
06:55And literally, they remain hidden for almost 10 years
06:58before the U.S. government comes calling in 2000.
07:02And that's when he said, yep, I have those files for you, if you want them.
07:10The price tag for the Greysuit file?
07:13Seven million dollars.
07:15Relative to the billions of dollars in secrets
07:18that had been stolen by Greysuit,
07:21it was an insignificant sum.
07:29The file is smuggled out of Russia.
07:33The contents will be analyzed at FBI headquarters.
07:42Now they'll discover whether those millions were well spent.
07:48It takes your breath away.
07:50It is the entire operational files.
07:53And so you're reading exactly
07:55what the Russians are saying to their mole
07:58and what the mole is saying to them
07:59and where the dead drops are,
08:01the methods of communication,
08:03what he had given them,
08:04the letters that have been written both ways.
08:07Greysuit has betrayed secrets more damaging
08:10than anyone had even suspected.
08:14He compromises the CIA.
08:16He compromises the entire double agent program
08:19run by the U.S. government for over 10 years.
08:24The most damaging thing that he did
08:27was to identify the people
08:29that we had recruited on the other side.
08:35Greysuit is ruthless and cold-blooded.
08:39To protect his own identity,
08:41he's betrayed Russian agents
08:43who were secretly working for the United States.
08:49The KGB response to traitors in their ranks
08:53was swift and decisive.
08:55Our most precious assets were promptly executed.
09:01The full damage assessment must wait.
09:05First, they need to identify the traitor within.
09:11The file purchased from Russia shows that Greysuit has concealed his identity,
09:16even from his KGB handlers.
09:23One of the items that was recovered from the KGB was a tape recording
09:29of a conversation between the spy and the Russian handlers.
09:53Much to the horror and much to the dismay of the senior brass at the FBI,
10:03the voice on that tape was one of their own.
10:28The people in that room knew, oh my God, of all the people that you want to have a spy,
10:33this is about the worst news that you could have.
10:37The voice is that of Robert Hanson,
10:39an FBI special agent for 25 years.
10:44This guy was an incredible counterintelligence agent.
10:48And here I was working intelligence against him.
10:54Tasking rookie agent Eric O'Neil with close surveillance is a huge gamble by the FBI.
11:02I didn't have a background in undercover, James Bond-type operations.
11:08They wanted someone who was more of a novice.
11:13They fear using a more experienced agent will put Hanson on the alert.
11:17Bob Hanson.
11:18Good to meet you, sir.
11:19Good to meet you, Eric. Have a seat.
11:21Sure.
11:21Well, welcome to Information Resources Division.
11:24Good to be aboard.
11:25Good.
11:25When you...
11:26Hanson is a data systems expert.
11:29As a cover story to explain his new assistant,
11:31he's been promoted to a top-level job in data protection.
11:36I'm 27 years old.
11:3727?
11:3827.
11:3927.
11:40I had to be the perfect assistant and hang on his every word
11:43and allow him to become the professor and open himself up to me.
11:48That's me.
11:49That's my wife, Bonnie.
11:50That's the 27-year-old.
11:56Robert Hanson's suburban existence in Vienna, Virginia,
12:00seems far removed from the twilight world of international espionage.
12:06Here's where Hanson and his wife have brought up six children.
12:11He's been married for 33 years.
12:14His wife, Bonnie, teaches at a Catholic girls' school.
12:21I knew Bob Hanson since 1980.
12:25Now, Bob Hanson is not what I would call a guy-guy.
12:29I wouldn't have gone running with him.
12:30I wouldn't have gone out drinking with him.
12:33I wouldn't have gone to a football game with him.
12:35But I enjoy talking to Bob Hanson because Bob Hanson is one of the smartest FBI agents I ever met.
12:46It's a fine family, sir.
12:48Well, we try, we try.
12:50Bob, by the way, call me Bob.
12:51Hanson was certainly very intelligent.
12:53Good deal, good deal.
12:53But he had an overinflated sense of his brilliance,
12:57and he believed that anything he had to say was incredibly important and everyone should listen.
13:04Well, Neil, there's gotta be some Irish in there.
13:07Yep, there surely is, sir.
13:09You go to mass, Eric?
13:10Yeah, every Sunday.
13:12How about you?
13:14Oh, I go to St. Catharines myself.
13:19Hanson is deeply devout.
13:23His church is one of the most traditional, where mass is said in Latin.
13:29He attends at 6.30 each morning and is a member of the Catholic group Opus Dei,
13:35favored by many of the Washington elite.
13:39Anybody who knew Bob Hanson and were trying to make a list of who the subjects was
13:44would not have put Bob Hanson on the list if there were a thousand people.
13:48And I absolve you from your sin.
13:51Above and beyond speaking with him and getting him to open up.
13:54I was looking for electronic devices.
13:57I was looking for log books he might keep.
13:59I was looking for a diary, if we were really, really lucky.
14:05I had to be incredibly careful not to worry him, or even raise the level of concern to the point
14:12where he thought,
14:13well, I don't know that I'm under surveillance, but I don't think I'm going to take the risk.
14:19I did know that he was armed frequently.
14:22He was somewhat of a gun fanatic.
14:24We were also in a soundproof room, where it would not be too difficult to shoot me and then close
14:31the door behind him.
14:32And it could be some time before anyone knew.
14:36I believe that should be fine.
14:38And thank you very much.
14:40Can a few crackly words on tape prove this 25-year servant of the state is the traitor Graysuit?
14:52The file from Russia yields a second remarkable discovery.
14:57There was something else that was very interesting.
14:59A black garbage bag.
15:05The bag once contained documents left for the Russians.
15:15Graysuit, who had been very, very careful with his spycraft, made one critical error.
15:23The garbage bag yields evidence of fingerprints 15 years old.
15:28But whose are they?
15:31The moment of truth will come when the prints of Robert Hansen are compared with those of Graysuit.
15:42The immediate reaction by some people is that the KGB was setting Bob Hansen up.
15:48That somehow they had gotten his thumbprint and they had placed it on there to protect the real mold.
15:55It would be very easy for the target to say, I've been in the FBI for 25 years.
16:01I've worked counterintelligence.
16:03Why wouldn't they want to hurt me?
16:05They could do a bit of double crossing and frame me and set me up.
16:09And I have done any number of communications over to targets I've tried to turn in Russia and become our
16:14spy, so why wouldn't there be a voice recording?
16:18They were particularly anxious to make sure the case was locked up tight.
16:21This legendary lawyer represented Monica Lewinsky and CIA double agent Aldrich Ames.
16:29We would have attacked the evidence on this authenticity as to how they got it, who they got it from.
16:37All issues that they probably would not want to disclose.
16:41We didn't have enough to go for more than conspiracy to commit espionage, which would have gotten a maximum of
16:4625 years and that would have been the end of the story.
16:50We wanted to commit to catching him in the act.
16:55If Hansen is guilty, they need him to talk.
16:59If O'Neill can catch him committing espionage, Hansen will face not just incarceration, but execution.
17:07A powerful persuader.
17:12Hansen's new job gives him free access to the innermost secrets of the FBI.
17:19It's a bold strategy to trap him.
17:23In essence, they were giving him the keys to the kingdom.
17:25They're giving him free reign over the FBI and headquarters and saying you can take any information you want, go
17:30down to the data room, go look at the FBI super computers, see where everything is and have full access.
17:37In the hope that he would take some of the information from the Russians so that we could catch him.
17:42We really needed to catch him in the act and we needed to get him to do a drop.
17:47We'll see you Thursday by 9 o'clock.
17:49All right, bye-bye.
17:52Okay.
17:53I'm going to go see our friends in budget.
17:56And if I stop by the machines, you want something?
17:58No, no thanks. I'm good.
18:00All right, well, I'll see you in a few minutes.
18:26My job was to look for places that he might hide information that might give us a heads up for
18:31a drop date when he's going to clandestinely pass secrets to the other side.
18:43The room has been rigged with a secret surveillance camera.
18:48I had a pager to let me know that, hey, you're in the office and Hansen's on his way.
19:05He was the sort of person who, if someone's moved a stapler a fraction of an inch, you know they've
19:10done it.
19:19In any instance where you are a bad guy and you're worried that the good guys might try to catch
19:25you, you have to have some concerns that you're walking into a mousetrap.
19:32I was face to face with him and he said, look, Eric, the spy is always in the worst possible
19:37place where he can do the most damage and gain access to the information he needs to do that damage.
19:44And he said, I call this Hansen's law and it's the first rule you need to know when you go
19:49into counterintelligence, which, as you might imagine, completely floored me.
19:55What is he trying to say to me?
20:01Now, O'Neill is worried.
20:05Does Hansen realize that he's under suspicion?
20:07Another worry was that he might flee.
20:11We had information that he may have a fake passport and driver's license and those sort of documents that could
20:18get him overseas without us knowing.
20:22If Hansen is indeed gray suit, he's thoroughly versed in spy craft.
20:33The Russian file reveals an ingenious system of dead drops, like a mailbox for exchanging secrets and cash located in
20:41public parks.
20:43Each is given a code name.
20:48One of them is close to Hansen's home in Vienna.
20:54Foxton Park, code name, Dead Drop Ellis.
20:59Here, Gray's suit came, taking a package that looked like this, and it had classified material in it.
21:06And he would take the package and place it underneath the bridge.
21:09And then an intelligence officer from the Russian intelligence service could come at a later date and pick it up
21:15and they would never be at the same place at the same time.
21:19Now it's revealed how they communicate, using a post at the park entrance.
21:25A piece of tape placed vertically means it's time to make a drop.
21:31Turned horizontally, it means the drop has been made.
21:36These very simple methodologies are brilliant because there's no electronic trail, there's no way to track it.
21:42Once it's happened, it's happened.
21:44If I call you, it could be wiretapped.
21:46If I use a computer, I can monitor that.
21:49If I use a satellite communication, that could be monitored.
21:52But this, it's simple, but it works.
21:57Gray's suit also developed a system to mislead anyone who might intercept communications between himself and the Russians.
22:05And the simple system was to subtract the number six from the month and the day that he was to
22:11leave documents for the Russians.
22:12So let's go to the month of September, it's the ninth month of the year, and let's go to the
22:18ninth day.
22:19If Gray's suit were to write 9-9, what he really would mean is 3-3, or March the 3rd,
22:27subtracting six from the month, subtracting six from the day, and March 3 would be the time of the dead
22:34drop.
22:39The start of Eric O'Neil's second week on assignment.
22:44And the evidence linking Robert Hansen and Gray's suit begins to build.
22:49The FBI keeps a highly confidential internal database called the case system, listing current investigations.
22:59When you're going to work a guy, you log in that you're going to work him.
23:02That way nobody's stepping on each other's toes.
23:08On January the 22nd, Hansen goes into the system.
23:15He types Foxton.
23:20And dead drop.
23:24Is there an investigation with those keywords anywhere in the system?
23:44The ultra-secret Gray's suit case has been deliberately kept out of the database.
23:50Hansen finds nothing.
23:53But why was he looking?
23:54The fact that Hansen checked the case system suggested to us that there's something going on here.
24:03The next day, investigator's suspicions harden still further.
24:10A tracking device has been hidden inside Hansen's car.
24:16At 5.50pm, he approaches the entrance to Foxton Park.
24:33Three days later, the same thing.
24:37Is he looking for a sign?
24:40Is he about to make a dead drop?
24:45The concern and worry were obviously heightened.
24:48The net was tightened.
24:53The pressure to come up with hard evidence, and quickly, is now intense.
24:59On the 30th of January, agents make a thorough search of Hansen's car.
25:06We found a number of things that really let us know that this is a bad guy.
25:12He had weapons in the back of his trunk, but he also had things like plastic bags.
25:18And tape the sorts of things that you use when you're going to mark signal sites.
25:24There are stolen documents, too, detailing FBI counterintelligence operations.
25:31Instead of being seized, they'll be replaced exactly as they were.
25:36Just as O'Neill had hoped, Hansen seems to be planning a drop where he can be caught red-handed.
25:47Now the investigation moved into an incredibly high gear.
25:53Now we knew that this target was no longer a target.
25:58He was the spy.
26:04Once they know that, you've now got to concentrate on him,
26:07and literally strip him like an onion.
26:10Look at every aspect of his life.
26:14Hansen's house on Talisman Drive is placed under 24-hour surveillance.
26:20The FBI, actually, they purchased a house just across the street.
26:26And they installed very sophisticated video and audio surveillance devices
26:31so they could follow every movement that was occurring in and out of the house.
26:36In these sorts of investigations, the view into another person's life is almost complete.
26:44Hansen's list of acquaintances is also scrutinized.
26:52His closest friend and frequent house guest is Jack Hoshauer, a U.S. Army veteran.
27:03They're gonna try to look at everyone he's in contact with.
27:09His home phone is monitored, his cell phone's monitored, his keystrokes on his computer.
27:14The image of a loyal FBI agent, a devoted family man, now appears no more than a disguise.
27:23Hansen posted obscene and pornographic stories about his own wife, Bonnie, on the internet.
27:32Bonnie would shower in the mornings and sit perched on a high stool in front of her dresser mirror to
27:40do her hair while still naked.
27:43She was stimulated enormously by situations where she might be seen naked by other men.
27:55This case is not just about spying.
27:59This writer made a special study of the Hansen case.
28:02This case is about betrayal on every level, from the oath that an FBI agent takes to his country, to
28:12betrayal of his wife.
28:14And he also betrayed himself.
28:21Hansen's innocent-seeming evenings with an old friend have a much darker purpose.
28:28Can you stay tuned?
28:30Good night.
28:31It will be.
28:36Bizarrely, Hansen and Jack Hoshauer have their own secret surveillance system inside the house.
28:43They set up a video surveillance from the bedroom to a television monitor in another part of the house.
29:05Hoshauer could watch Bonnie Hansen and Bob Hansen having sex.
29:24Now, who thinks like that?
29:26This is how strange and twisted this man was, and I don't think I begin to know the depths of
29:31it.
29:34He's a risk-taker.
29:36You know, maybe the boredom of life has set in so much that he has to find a kind of
29:41a fantasy life.
29:43Not only espionage, but also sexual fantasies.
29:49Investigators are astonished when they discover just how big a risk Hansen has been running in his personal life.
29:56For two years, he's pursued an affair with an exotic dancer, Priscilla Gailey.
30:03They first meet at a downtown DC strip club, only a short distance from the FBI.
30:09Hansen doesn't even try to disguise his identity, saying that he's a senior official at the Bureau.
30:17She knew about him, and so did her mother and her sisters, and all those people knew.
30:22He said he was going to bring her out of this life of sin.
30:26He didn't pick an ugly girl to bring out of a life of sin, we noticed.
30:31Bob Hansen's personal life shocked us as much or more than his espionage.
30:39What bugged me the most is that he was a hypocrite, and a true hypocrite in every sense of the
30:45word.
30:45You can't sit there in an office with someone and lecture them about morality and church and family the whole
30:53time.
30:54He was not even a small bit moral person.
30:59Investigators now realize what they're up against.
31:01A man who practices deception in every facet of his life.
31:11O'Neill suspects that Hansen is planning a dead drop, but needs to know when.
31:16Where does Hansen keep his secrets?
31:19Hansen kept a Palm Pilot in his pocket, constantly.
31:23And the only times he had it out of his pocket is when he sat down and put it on
31:27his desk.
31:28The Palm Pilot was obviously incredibly important to him.
31:31So this great effort to separate Hansen from the Palm Pilot began.
31:36The Palm Pilot could hold the key to cracking the case.
31:41O'Neill devises a strategy to discover what's inside.
31:47Any time someone who he perceived as inferior was coming around and ordering him around, it greatly angered him.
31:53Right this minute.
31:55Hansen is ordered down to the FBI's basement shooting range.
31:59All right, all right.
32:02Anyone who's angry and loses their temper makes mistakes.
32:05So he got red in the face, muttered a couple of expletives, grabbed his shooting goggles and his gun and
32:13left with them in a huff.
32:15All right.
32:16All right.
32:16Yeah, yeah.
32:17See you later.
32:18Good luck.
32:30I went into all the pockets of the briefcase, opened them all up.
32:33There were four Zippard pockets and saw the Palm Pilot in there.
32:37And there was a data card.
32:56I ran down to a pre-arranged location that we had set up just for this event.
33:06It was just staffed all the time, just ready in case this happened.
33:26I don't have much time, guys.
33:28I said, would you guys freaking hurry up because I'm going to be in a lot of trouble.
33:31They, of course, are just like, don't worry about it.
33:33We got to finish this.
33:34What are we seeing here?
33:37It's encrypted.
33:39It's not one of ours.
33:40This is his encryption.
33:42This is going to take more time.
33:44If you're not getting it, just download it.
33:45It's going to take, well, I mean, I can copy the contents onto my hard drive, but I don't have
33:49time to do that.
33:49Do that, do that.
33:58You got it?
33:59You got it?
34:00Hold on.
34:05Do you want to do another round?
34:09I got to get this stuff back.
34:11Are we done?
34:11I want you to do another round?
34:13No, I really don't have the time.
34:15I got to do another round.
34:16I got to do another round.
34:28I gotta go.
34:29I got it.
34:56This guy is now rapidly coming up to an office that is two floors above me and doesn't
35:02have his Palm Pilot.
35:10My heart went from somewhat rapid to hurting my chest and my anxiety, you know,
35:16exploded.
35:49I realized I've opened every single pocket and I can't remember which one I pulled it
35:54out of.
36:02In the last possible second, I just sort of shook my head, you know, dropped the Palm
36:10Pilot and the data card into the pockets that I hoped were right and really tried to just
36:18calm my breathing.
36:25Sitting there, trying my best not to sweat, because that's a little bit of a tell.
36:32I was thinking, there's a good chance I'm about to get shot.
36:36You could have realized at that point that the game was up and that he was going to either
36:41get the death penalty or life in prison.
36:43So what did it matter anyway?
36:50Any calls?
36:52Nope.
36:53It turns out that I had fortunately put the Palm Pilot in the right pocket.
36:57We know that because he didn't challenge me on it.
37:02In James Bond movies, the bad guys always have all the secrets somewhere for James Bond
37:06to find.
37:07I don't know what he was thinking, but for some reason he had all his letters to the
37:12Russians and other information on that data card.
37:25The extent of Hansen's treachery is now becoming clear, and the investigators' worst fears are
37:32realized.
37:34As Hansen said, the spy is always in the worst possible place.
37:37He's in that place where he has access, he knows what to do with that information, and
37:42he knows who to give it to to do the worst damage possible.
37:46FBI targets included not only Russian agents, but terrorists too.
37:53There was a room at the FBI, operated for years, 24 hours a day, that was devoted to nothing
38:00but trying to trace and track Osama bin Laden.
38:05Robert Hansen stole a classified online system to track and monitor the movements of various
38:13people abroad.
38:17once in Russian hands, a rogue copy of this top-secret surveillance program is believed to have been offered for
38:23sale.
38:25Bin Laden ended up with this information, and it facilitated the al-Qaeda terrorist network climaxing in the devastation of
38:33September 11th.
38:37This is a spy who might have gone to church every morning, but he certainly had blood on his hands.
38:48He increased the prospect of nuclear war by revealing something called the continuity of government plan.
38:54This is the way the U.S. government protects itself against an attack, primarily a nuclear attack, but it could
39:02be a huge terrorist attack.
39:04I mean, this is the holy of the holy, and he compromises this program.
39:11Hansen also derailed one of the most expensive national security agency projects ever undertaken.
39:21During the 1980s, a tunnel is done, snaking all the way from Georgetown to a spot below the Russian embassy,
39:31to eavesdrop on secret Soviet communications.
39:42The reality was that the Russians knew all about this system, which cost more than a billion dollars,
39:48before it ever became operational.
39:51For his Russian handlers, Hansen is proving to be the perfect spy.
39:57It was a superb source. I ran and supervised hundreds of agents, including some very important and valuable in the
40:08United States,
40:09but none was equal to Robert Hansen. None, absolutely.
40:14To make their case watertight, investigators are still determined to catch Hansen making a dead drop.
40:25The breakthrough comes once the data is fully decrypted.
40:32The Palm Pilot gave us a drop location.
40:36The code name Ellis means Foxton Park.
40:39The data card gave us a date.
40:42February the 18th, 8pm.
40:46A drop to the Russians was going to happen within days.
40:53The escalation of the case was enormous.
40:56More stress was put on me to watch him and to gauge whether it looked like he was going to
41:01go ahead with this drop.
41:03Hansen became very anxious constantly, more short, a bit more morbid, in fact, in the way he was talking and
41:10almost fatalistic.
41:14Could Hansen even be aware that he's being drawn into a trap?
41:20A note decrypted from the data card reads like a sad farewell to his handler.
41:27Dear friends, it seems it is time to seclude myself from active service.
41:33Something has aroused the sleeping tiger.
41:43He's noticed bursts of radio interference inside his car.
41:51Are they, just possibly, signs of a tracking device?
42:01Bob is smart enough to know that if, in fact, there is a burst transmission in his car, it's over.
42:09It's just a matter of time before they're going to come knocking on the door.
42:13But at the same time, hope burns eternal because there may not be a burst transmitter in my car and
42:18I'm not sure.
42:21I will leave this alone, for knowledge of their existence is sufficient.
42:27Amusing the games children play.
42:36It's the day of the scheduled dead drop.
42:40Investigators still can't be sure whether Hansen knows he's being watched.
42:45By now, a surveillance team of more than 50 people is shadowing his every move.
42:51But where is he headed?
42:55Agents report that he's not alone.
42:58Longtime buddy Jack Hoshauer is with him.
43:03Suddenly, the watchers report alarming news.
43:06Call systems be advised.
43:09Forming direction in the way of Dulles International Airport.
43:16Copy that.
43:17There must have been some very, very sweaty people who were trying to keep track of him when he went
43:22into a major international airport,
43:24where he could board a plane and escape to Russia or some other country.
43:28Of course, he knew how to try and slip surveillance.
43:30He had a fake passport and an identification.
43:47Do it!
43:48Thank you, Bob.
43:49No problem, Jack.
43:50Let's see if I put the trunk for you there.
44:00He's there to drop off his pal.
44:03I like it!
44:03That door!
44:13He heads back towards home.
44:20But now, something strange is happening.
44:28Hansen pulls into a shopping mall parking lot.
44:33He spends a few moments checking something in the trunk.
44:39Could he be preparing a bundle of documents for a dead drop?
44:54He returns to the highway, and soon there's no doubt.
45:00He's heading for Foxton Park.
45:03But the drop is scheduled for much later that night.
45:08He arrives very early.
45:10He comes in a little after 4.40.
45:13And the surveillance teams have been there just a few minutes.
45:16So they had to scramble to be in place.
45:23His every move is now being watched and taped.
45:39This is what Eric O'Neill has been praying for.
45:50Now Hansen is no longer merely a conspirator, but guilty of espionage.
45:55A crime which may land him on death row.
46:05Those were his last steps that he took as a free man.
46:14Officers yelled, freeze!
46:20Even as they were putting handcuffs on him, Hansen said, what took you so long?
46:29It was an enormous sigh of relief that this was finally over.
46:33I didn't have to keep up this facade of deception and lies.
46:39When I found out that Bob was arrested for espionage, I felt as I had gotten kicked in the stomach.
46:45We were all in this fight together.
46:47We were working as a brotherhood.
46:49How dare you?
46:50How could you do that to us?
46:53I'm glad we caught the guy.
46:55But why Hansen did what he did is the million dollar question.
47:00The spy has a stark choice.
47:04Talk or face execution.
47:09He agrees to submit to interrogation and reveal the secrets he has kept for 20 years.
47:18Perhaps the greatest secret of them all, Hansen says that he has been confessing his treachery for many years to
47:25his priest.
47:27He was told to pray more and cease spying, but never did.
47:33He was told to be the right of the father, the son and the Holy Spirit.
47:37A spy is the loneliest person in the world.
47:41During 30 hours face to face, this psychiatrist hears things Hansen has never shared before.
47:47I wind up stepping into the shoes of a spy handler because I become a person that he can reveal
47:58himself to.
48:00A complex mix of motives begins to emerge.
48:04Hansen admits that he loved the thrill of secretly shaping events on the world stage.
48:11It must have been an incredible high to realize you were in that much control of the world for a
48:18while and he has the ultimate power.
48:22Money, Hansen reveals, was secondary.
48:26He feared Bonnie would become suspicious if he brought home more than his modest FBI salary.
48:35His affair with a stripper proved the easiest way of enjoying his dirty money.
48:42Gifts, including a second-hand Mercedes car and items of jewelry, came from his KGB payoffs.
48:49Hansen, on average, received $30,000 per year for betraying one's country,
48:55for selling secrets worth billions of dollars, for putting his own life at risk.
49:00Chump change.
49:03In one extraordinary session with the psychiatrist, Hansen offers his own explanation.
49:10I came in, sat down, and shut up, and two hours later I left, trying to absorb all the stuff
49:20that he had to say.
49:22Hansen confides that beneath a joyful veneer, his childhood included torment, breeding lifelong resentment.
49:31He was an only child, and his father was a Chicago city cop, who was one of these really tough
49:39dudes,
49:40and was not a warm, supportive and mentoring father.
49:45In fact, he would, on many occasions, humiliate his own little son.
49:52Hansen says the FBI was filled with characters just like his father.
49:57Authoritarian, demanding, never willing to praise or reward him.
50:02And so he head back, in the only way he could.
50:06Of all the things that I learned, I think that may have been the largest seed around which grew this
50:14spying career.
50:17But some who've studied the case say that lying and deception are what Hansen does best.
50:24There are plenty of people who had fathers who were not warm and fuzzy.
50:28And I don't think he feels a bit sorry for what he's done.
50:32That's why I think he's evil.
50:35I think that Hansen himself even had to know that he was evil.
50:39He certainly is a study in conundrum.
50:43This corrupt individual was a family man who believed in God, yet he became the worst spy in our history.
51:10On Monday, join Andrew Denton with respected ex-White House bureau chief and still a powerful force in American journalism,
51:17Heaven Thomas.
51:18On Elders with Andrew Denton, Monday night at 8 on ABC1.
51:22But stay with us now for late edition news.
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