Ex-FBI agent Robert Hanssen was discovered lifeless in his jail cell on Monday morning (Footage: Getty/Reuters)
A former FBI agent who was convicted of spying on the US for Russia has been found lifeless in his jail cell.
Robert Hanssen, 79, was discovered unresponsive in his supermax federal jail sail round 6.55am on Monday, in keeping with the Bureau of Prisons.
‘Workers requested emergency medical companies and life-saving efforts continued,’ said Bureau of Prisons Director of Communications Kristie Breshears, in keeping with CBS News.
‘The inmate was subsequently pronounced lifeless by exterior emergency medical personnel.’
Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen was arrested in 2001 (Image: Reuters)
His reason for demise was not instantly launched.
Hanssen was serving a life sentence at a federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. He was amongst spies who inflicted probably the most harm ever to the US.
The Soviets approached Hanssen three years after he began working for the FBI. He started spying for the KGB, the previous Soviet secret police, in 1979, in addition to the successor SVR.
Hanssen’s employment with the FBI allowed him to entry nearly any categorised paperwork. He assumed the alias Ramon Garcia in sending US intelligence to spy companies through lifeless drops and encrypted messages.
He stepped again from spying a number of years after beginning, when his spouse confronted him, however picked it again up in 1985. He despatched info on the US’s secret nuclear battle preparations in addition to a tunnel used for eavesdropping beneath the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC.
In alternate for feeding US intelligence, Hanssen obtained greater than $1.4million in international financial institution deposits, money and diamonds. He by no means met face-to-face with the Russians he despatched info to.
Robert Hanssen was arrested after putting a bundle of categorised materials in a park in Virginia (Image: Getty Photographs)
Hanssen was arrested in 2001 after making a lifeless drop in Virginia. He pleaded responsible to promoting extremely categorised paperwork to the Soviet Union and Russia.
He was convicted of espionage, conspiracy to commit espionage and tried espionage, and sentenced to fifteen consecutive life sentences. Hanssen had served 20 of these years.
No different inmates or employees have been injured as Hanssen’s physique was found and there was no menace to the general public.
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