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She said the Hanssens were regulars at the Memorial Day block party and called Hanssen very attractive, not overly gregarious.
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The method above called Hanssen's is really that of Dr. Mayer (the
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Various
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The five-bedroom home on Talisman Drive in Vienna, Va., offered by Llewellyn Realtors as "perfect for a growing family," is the former lair of ex-FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen, regarded as one of the most damaging spies ever to betray the U.S. government.
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Some of the information Hanssen provided to the Russians over the course of 15 years, according to court records, resulted in the executions of at least two Russian agents working for the United States.
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As part of the inquiry, federal agents secretly entered the home to make a copy of Hanssen's computer hard drive, which contained encrypted letters Hanssen, who used the code-names "B" and "Ramon Garcia," wrote to his Russian handlers.
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The property was assigned to Hanssen's wife, Bernadette, whose name remains on property records.
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The FBI covertly purchased a home on Hanssen's block about two months before his arrest in February 2001 to more closely track the spy's comings and goings to secret "drop" sites at local parks.
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In the weeks before Hanssen's arrest, the home at 9414 Talisman was a central focus of an investigation that stretched from Washington to Moscow.
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Washington insiders still know the names Hanssen and (Aldrich) Ames (a former CIA officer who also sold secrets to the Russians),'' said Peter Earnest, executive director of the International Spy Museum in Washington.
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When Hanssen pleaded guilty to espionage charges, the family home was one of the few items of value the government did not seize as part of the prosecution.
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