https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Document:Ames_and_Hanssen_Driven_to_Spy_by_Reckless_Double_Agent_Operations&feed=atom&action=historyDocument:Ames and Hanssen Driven to Spy by Reckless Double Agent Operations - Revision history2024-03-29T04:57:23ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.33.2https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Document:Ames_and_Hanssen_Driven_to_Spy_by_Reckless_Double_Agent_Operations&diff=106311&oldid=prevRobin at 11:15, 14 February 20172017-02-14T11:15:45Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On Oct. 4th, Hanssen had sent a letter by mail for [[Viktor Cherkashin]], the Washington Embassy's counterintelligence chief, outlining what the West was planning, how it hoped to succeed, and with whose help. Not only did he identify double agents Motorin, Martynov, and Yuzhin (op. cit - "Excerpts..."), he described in detail how they would promote operations, what Ames might not have known much about. Motorin would telephone from Moscow confirmation of KGB, and hopefully Bergling's, involvement in the shooting; Martynov would inform, possibly through the network of ham radio operators, how the Soviets were reacting to the surprise; and Yuzhin, most well versed in the naval standoff in the Barents and Batlic Seas (Wise, p. 103), could supply information about how Soviet forces, especially the Red Banner Fleet, were reacting to the challenge. Hanssen described the whole electronic network by which Washington and London hoped to keep on top of Moscow's every move. A few days later, he sent Cherkashin a box of documents to confirm what he was claiming.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On Oct. 4th, Hanssen had sent a letter by mail for [[Viktor Cherkashin]], the Washington Embassy's counterintelligence chief, outlining what the West was planning, how it hoped to succeed, and with whose help. Not only did he identify double agents Motorin, Martynov, and Yuzhin (op. cit - "Excerpts..."), he described in detail how they would promote operations, what Ames might not have known much about. Motorin would telephone from Moscow confirmation of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>KGB<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, and hopefully Bergling's, involvement in the shooting; Martynov would inform, possibly through the network of ham radio operators, how the Soviets were reacting to the surprise; and Yuzhin, most well versed in the naval standoff in the Barents and Batlic Seas (Wise, p. 103), could supply information about how Soviet forces, especially the Red Banner Fleet, were reacting to the challenge. Hanssen described the whole electronic network by which Washington and London hoped to keep on top of Moscow's every move. A few days later, he sent Cherkashin a box of documents to confirm what he was claiming.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Palme unwittingly ratcheted up operations by stopping a secret transshipment of 80 HAWK missiles through [[Sweden]] on Nov. 17, what [[Oliver North]]'s [[Enterprise]] had arranged with the [[Israel]]is and Teheran to help gain the release of hostages, and for the Contras to fight better their war, but had failed to get clearance for.<ref>William S. Cohen, and George J. Mitchell, Men of Zeal: A Candid Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings, p. ixff. N.b. that they are not permitted to identify the six countries which supplied arms to the Contras, Sweden apparently being the sixth, claiming instead that [[Portugal]], which was not one of them, was the country concerned.</ref> The statsminister, in doing so, was only adhering to official US policy (Operation Staunch), and quieting critics who claimed that he had long been allowing the Soviets to violate Swedish territory, and carrying on a secret nuclear weapons program to help their surrogates. <ref>Chris Mosey, "Secret nuclear weapons row breaks in Sweden," The Observer, April 28, 1985, p. 17</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Palme unwittingly ratcheted up operations by stopping a secret transshipment of 80 HAWK missiles through [[Sweden]] on Nov. 17, what [[Oliver North]]'s [[Enterprise]] had arranged with the [[Israel]]is and Teheran to help gain the release of hostages, and for the Contras to fight better their war, but had failed to get clearance for.<ref>William S. Cohen, and George J. Mitchell, Men of Zeal: A Candid Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings, p. ixff. N.b. that they are not permitted to identify the six countries which supplied arms to the Contras, Sweden apparently being the sixth, claiming instead that [[Portugal]], which was not one of them, was the country concerned.</ref> The statsminister, in doing so, was only adhering to official US policy (Operation Staunch), and quieting critics who claimed that he had long been allowing the Soviets to violate Swedish territory, and carrying on a secret nuclear weapons program to help their surrogates. <ref>Chris Mosey, "Secret nuclear weapons row breaks in Sweden," The Observer, April 28, 1985, p. 17</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The time could have been better spent in 'connecting the dots' which led to September 11th - what FBI agent [[Ken Williams]] was suggesting about Arabs attending flight training in Phoenix, agents in Minneapolis were suspecting about [[Zacarias Moussaoui]], agent [[John O'Neill]] in NYC was claiming about [[Khalid Al Midhar]]'s and [[Nawaq Al-Hamzi]]'s role in [[Al-Qaida]]'s attacks, and I claimed in a May letter to [[US Attorney General|Attorney General]] [[John Ashcroft]] about the recklessness of former [[FBI Director|Director]] [[Louis Freeh]], and his cohorts Buck Revell and [[James Kallstrom]] claiming that the President should take action against the biggest source of terror, the Iranians! <ref>Julian Borger, "Test for Bush as FBI Names Bombers," The Guardian, May 9, 2001</ref> I was so angry about the Justice Department's foot-dragging over the Hanssen affair that I wrote to Ashcroft no less than three times, describing in greater detail what this article is about, and promising to testify in his defense if it persisted in seeking his execution, a possibility counsel [[Plato Cacheris]] indicated to me over the phone in July 2001 he might take advantage of if it did. While, of course, Ashcroft never even acknowledged receipt of my letters, he let the Webster Commission, Paul Redmond's CIA Assessment Team, and the JD's Inspector General go through the 200-hour charade during 75 meetings of debriefing Hanssen to determine what he disclosed to Moscow, and whether he was being fully cooperative. Webster, as Bureau Director when his spying started, and DCI when everything had to be covered up, knows full well what Hanssen did and why, and Redmond, as you shall see, was largely responsible.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The time could have been better spent in 'connecting the dots' which led to September 11th - what <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>FBI<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>agent [[Ken Williams]] was suggesting about Arabs attending flight training in Phoenix, agents in Minneapolis were suspecting about [[Zacarias Moussaoui]], agent [[John O'Neill]] in NYC was claiming about [[Khalid Al Midhar]]'s and [[Nawaq Al-Hamzi]]'s role in [[Al-Qaida]]'s attacks, and I claimed in a May letter to [[US Attorney General|Attorney General]] [[John Ashcroft]] about the recklessness of former [[FBI Director|Director]] [[Louis Freeh]], and his cohorts Buck Revell and [[James Kallstrom]] claiming that the President should take action against the biggest source of terror, the Iranians! <ref>Julian Borger, "Test for Bush as FBI Names Bombers," The Guardian, May 9, 2001</ref> I was so angry about the Justice Department's foot-dragging over the Hanssen affair that I wrote to Ashcroft no less than three times, describing in greater detail what this article is about, and promising to testify in his defense if it persisted in seeking his execution, a possibility counsel [[Plato Cacheris]] indicated to me over the phone in July 2001 he might take advantage of if it did. While, of course, Ashcroft never even acknowledged receipt of my letters, he let the Webster Commission, Paul Redmond's CIA Assessment Team, and the JD's Inspector General go through the 200-hour charade during 75 meetings of debriefing Hanssen to determine what he disclosed to Moscow, and whether he was being fully cooperative. Webster, as Bureau Director when his spying started, and DCI when everything had to be covered up, knows full well what Hanssen did and why, and Redmond, as you shall see, was largely responsible.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On the surface, it is hard to imagine cases more deserving of the death penalty than the spying by Ames and Hanssen. According to their accusers, they risked putting the Cold War back on a level playing field when the USSR, in fact, was starting to suffer its death throes. David Vise, in The Bureau and the Mole, claimed that Hanssen increased the risk of nuclear war, especially a first strike by Moscow, "...by giving the KGB the U.S. plan to protect the president and other top government officials should the Soviets attack," and the ones for U.S. retaliatory responses. <ref>"What made the American turncoat tick," CNN, May 10, 2002</ref> In the process, Hanssen allegedly sold the Soviets software which enabled them to track the handling of double agents, leading to the execution of two of them, and the imprisonment of another. The espionage act under which he was charged specifically allowed for the death penalty under these circumstances. <ref>Neil A. Lewis, "Zigs and Zags of Spy Cases Put a Damper on Predicting," The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2001, A15</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On the surface, it is hard to imagine cases more deserving of the death penalty than the spying by Ames and Hanssen. According to their accusers, they risked putting the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Cold War<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>back on a level playing field when the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>USSR<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, in fact, was starting to suffer its death throes. David Vise, in The Bureau and the Mole, claimed that Hanssen increased the risk of nuclear war, especially a first strike by Moscow, "...by giving the KGB the U.S. plan to protect the president and other top government officials should the Soviets attack," and the ones for U.S. retaliatory responses. <ref>"What made the American turncoat tick," CNN, May 10, 2002</ref> In the process, Hanssen allegedly sold the Soviets software which enabled them to track the handling of double agents, leading to the execution of two of them, and the imprisonment of another. The espionage act under which he was charged specifically allowed for the death penalty under these circumstances. <ref>Neil A. Lewis, "Zigs and Zags of Spy Cases Put a Damper on Predicting," The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2001, A15</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Former [[Director of Central Intelligence]] [[James R. Woolsey]] called Ames a "serial killer", comparing him to the betrayer of American independence, Benedict Arnold. <ref>Pete Earley, Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames, p. 203</ref> According to Earley, Ames was responsible for the execution of at least 10 double agents in the USSR. Ames even tipped off Moscow in the mid-1980s that the CIA had tapped a major underground telephone cable in the city with a miniaturized recording device, like the sea pods the US Navy was using to tap Soviet naval cables. <ref>Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, p. 309, note</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Former [[Director of Central Intelligence]] [[James R. Woolsey]] called Ames a "serial killer", comparing him to the betrayer of American independence, Benedict Arnold. <ref>Pete Earley, Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames, p. 203</ref> According to Earley, Ames was responsible for the execution of at least 10 double agents in the USSR. Ames even tipped off Moscow in the mid-1980s that the CIA had tapped a major underground telephone cable in the city with a miniaturized recording device, like the sea pods the US Navy was using to tap Soviet naval cables. <ref>Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, p. 309, note</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Neither Hanssen nor Ames did anything to soften public hostility for what they had done either. In a June 8, 2000 letter to the Russian successor service to the KGB, when Hanssen increasingly feared being exposed, and was trying to indicate that he was a different spy from the one in 1985 in order to avoid the death penalty, he, acting as if he had modeled himself on Philby since he was 14 (making Kim's autobiography appear 10 years before it did), wrote:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Neither Hanssen nor Ames did anything to soften public hostility for what they had done either. In a June 8, 2000 letter to the Russian <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[FSB|</ins>successor service<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>to the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>KGB<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, when Hanssen increasingly feared being exposed, and was trying to indicate that he was a different spy from the one in 1985 in order to avoid the death penalty, he, acting as if he had modeled himself on Philby since he was 14 (making Kim's autobiography appear 10 years before it did), wrote:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|The U.S. can be errantly likened to a powerfully built child, potentially dangerous, but young, immature and easily manipulated. But don't be fooled by that appearance. It is also one which can turn ingenious quickly, like an idiot savant, once convinced of a goal. The (deleted) Japanese (to quote General Patton once again) learned this to their dismay. <ref>"Excerpts from the F.B.I. Affidavit in the Case against Robert Hanssen," The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2001, A15</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|The U.S. can be errantly likened to a powerfully built child, potentially dangerous, but young, immature and easily manipulated. But don't be fooled by that appearance. It is also one which can turn ingenious quickly, like an idiot savant, once convinced of a goal. The (deleted) Japanese (to quote General Patton once again) learned this to their dismay. <ref>"Excerpts from the F.B.I. Affidavit in the Case against Robert Hanssen," The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2001, A15</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On the surface, it is hard to imagine cases more deserving of the death penalty than the spying by Ames and Hanssen. According to their accusers, they risked putting the Cold War back on a level playing field when the USSR, in fact, was starting to suffer its death throes. David Vise, in The Bureau and the Mole, claimed that Hanssen increased the risk of nuclear war, especially a first strike by Moscow, "...by giving the KGB the U.S. plan to protect the president and other top government officials should the Soviets attack," and the ones for U.S. retaliatory responses. <ref>"What made the American turncoat tick," CNN, May 10, 2002</ref> In the process, Hanssen allegedly sold the Soviets software which enabled them to track the handling of double agents, leading to the execution of two of them, and the imprisonment of another. The espionage act under which he was charged specifically allowed for the death penalty under these circumstances. <ref>Neil A. Lewis, "Zigs and Zags of Spy Cases Put a Damper on Predicting," The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2001, A15</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On the surface, it is hard to imagine cases more deserving of the death penalty than the spying by Ames and Hanssen. According to their accusers, they risked putting the Cold War back on a level playing field when the USSR, in fact, was starting to suffer its death throes. David Vise, in The Bureau and the Mole, claimed that Hanssen increased the risk of nuclear war, especially a first strike by Moscow, "...by giving the KGB the U.S. plan to protect the president and other top government officials should the Soviets attack," and the ones for U.S. retaliatory responses. <ref>"What made the American turncoat tick," CNN, May 10, 2002</ref> In the process, Hanssen allegedly sold the Soviets software which enabled them to track the handling of double agents, leading to the execution of two of them, and the imprisonment of another. The espionage act under which he was charged specifically allowed for the death penalty under these circumstances. <ref>Neil A. Lewis, "Zigs and Zags of Spy Cases Put a Damper on Predicting," The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2001, A15</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Little wonder that while [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Olaf </del>Palme|Palme]]'s [[assassination]] went off like clockwork on the night of the 28th, British and American intelligence services having completely hoodwinked their Swedish counterparts, the Soviets were totally prepared to avoid any final showdown with the West, thanks to the spying by Ames and Hanssen. The KGB went to the unprecedented length of having its chief, Viktor Chebrikov, announce to the CPSU Congress on the morning of the shooting that all the double agents had been rounded up <ref>(Christopher Walker, "KGB reveals big swoop on state spies,"The Times, March 1, 1986, p. 1</ref>, making the assassination pointless. It even closed down the residency that night, so there would be no calls from Bergling. Of course, there were no communications from Motorin, Martynov, Yuzhin or anyone else either. (Wise, p. 254ff.) But you know what they say about cocksure zealots, so the assassination went ahead as scheduled, making the fate of all the double agents involved a foregone conclusion. Only trouble with the weather in Norway, and with Admiral Trost's Task Force Eagle arriving prevented NATO's Anchor Express Exercise from developing into a full scale attack on the Kola peninsula - whose outcome would undoubtedly have been the incineration of us all. When the crisis finally passed by the summer, Cherkashin, and six other [[KGB]] counterintelligence officers were awarded the rarely given Order of Lenin by FCD Chief Vladimir Kryuchkov at an unprecedented ceremony at Yasnevo (Wise, note, p. 327), for work we should all applaud.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Little wonder that while [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Olof </ins>Palme|Palme]]'s [[assassination]] went off like clockwork on the night of the 28th, British and American intelligence services having completely hoodwinked their Swedish counterparts, the Soviets were totally prepared to avoid any final showdown with the West, thanks to the spying by Ames and Hanssen. The KGB went to the unprecedented length of having its chief, Viktor Chebrikov, announce to the CPSU Congress on the morning of the shooting that all the double agents had been rounded up <ref>(Christopher Walker, "KGB reveals big swoop on state spies,"The Times, March 1, 1986, p. 1</ref>, making the assassination pointless. It even closed down the residency that night, so there would be no calls from Bergling. Of course, there were no communications from Motorin, Martynov, Yuzhin or anyone else either. (Wise, p. 254ff.) But you know what they say about cocksure zealots, so the assassination went ahead as scheduled, making the fate of all the double agents involved a foregone conclusion. Only trouble with the weather in Norway, and with Admiral Trost's Task Force Eagle arriving prevented NATO's Anchor Express Exercise from developing into a full scale attack on the Kola peninsula - whose outcome would undoubtedly have been the incineration of us all. When the crisis finally passed by the summer, Cherkashin, and six other [[KGB]] counterintelligence officers were awarded the rarely given Order of Lenin by FCD Chief Vladimir Kryuchkov at an unprecedented ceremony at Yasnevo (Wise, note, p. 327), for work we should all applaud.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The time could have been better spent in 'connecting the dots' which led to September 11th - what FBI agent Ken Williams was suggesting about Arabs attending flight training in Phoenix, agents in Minneapolis were suspecting about Zacarias Moussaoui, agent John O'Neill in NYC was claiming about Khalid Al Midhar's and Nawaq Al-Hamzi's role in Al-Qaida's attacks, and I claimed in a May letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft about the recklessness of former Director Louis Freeh, and his cohorts Buck Revell and James Kallstrom claiming that the President should take action against the biggest source of terror, the Iranians! <ref>Julian Borger, "Test for Bush as FBI Names Bombers," The Guardian, May 9, 2001</ref> I was so angry about the Justice Department's foot-dragging over the Hanssen affair that I wrote to Ashcroft no less than three times, describing in greater detail what this article is about, and promising to testify in his defense if it persisted in seeking his execution, a possibility counsel Plato Cacheris indicated to me over the phone in July 2001 he might take advantage of if it did. While, of course, Ashcroft never even acknowledged receipt of my letters, he let the Webster Commission, Paul Redmond's CIA Assessment Team, and the JD's Inspector General go through the 200-hour charade during 75 meetings of debriefing Hanssen to determine what he disclosed to Moscow, and whether he was being fully cooperative. Webster, as Bureau Director when his spying started, and DCI when everything had to be covered up, knows full well what Hanssen did and why, and Redmond, as you shall see, was largely responsible.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The time could have been better spent in 'connecting the dots' which led to September 11th - what FBI agent <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Ken Williams<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>was suggesting about Arabs attending flight training in Phoenix, agents in Minneapolis were suspecting about <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Zacarias Moussaoui<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, agent <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>John O'Neill<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>in NYC was claiming about Khalid Al Midhar's and Nawaq Al-Hamzi's role in Al-Qaida's attacks, and I claimed in a May letter to Attorney General <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>John Ashcroft<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>about the recklessness of former <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[FBI </ins>Director<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">|Director]] [[</ins>Louis Freeh<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, and his cohorts Buck Revell and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>James Kallstrom<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>claiming that the President should take action against the biggest source of terror, the Iranians! <ref>Julian Borger, "Test for Bush as FBI Names Bombers," The Guardian, May 9, 2001</ref> I was so angry about the Justice Department's foot-dragging over the Hanssen affair that I wrote to Ashcroft no less than three times, describing in greater detail what this article is about, and promising to testify in his defense if it persisted in seeking his execution, a possibility counsel Plato Cacheris indicated to me over the phone in July 2001 he might take advantage of if it did. While, of course, Ashcroft never even acknowledged receipt of my letters, he let the Webster Commission, Paul Redmond's CIA Assessment Team, and the JD's Inspector General go through the 200-hour charade during 75 meetings of debriefing Hanssen to determine what he disclosed to Moscow, and whether he was being fully cooperative. Webster, as Bureau Director when his spying started, and DCI when everything had to be covered up, knows full well what Hanssen did and why, and Redmond, as you shall see, was largely responsible.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On the surface, it is hard to imagine cases more deserving of the death penalty than the spying by Ames and Hanssen. According to their accusers, they risked putting the Cold War back on a level playing field when the USSR, in fact, was starting to suffer its death throes. David Vise, in The Bureau and the Mole, claimed that Hanssen increased the risk of nuclear war, especially a first strike by Moscow, "...by giving the KGB the U.S. plan to protect the president and other top government officials should the Soviets attack," and the ones for U.S. retaliatory responses. <ref>"What made the American turncoat tick," CNN, May 10, 2002</ref> In the process, Hanssen allegedly sold the Soviets software which enabled them to track the handling of double agents, leading to the execution of two of them, and the imprisonment of another. The espionage act under which he was charged specifically allowed for the death penalty under these circumstances. <ref>Neil A. Lewis, "Zigs and Zags of Spy Cases Put a Damper on Predicting," The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2001, A15</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On the surface, it is hard to imagine cases more deserving of the death penalty than the spying by Ames and Hanssen. According to their accusers, they risked putting the Cold War back on a level playing field when the USSR, in fact, was starting to suffer its death throes. David Vise, in The Bureau and the Mole, claimed that Hanssen increased the risk of nuclear war, especially a first strike by Moscow, "...by giving the KGB the U.S. plan to protect the president and other top government officials should the Soviets attack," and the ones for U.S. retaliatory responses. <ref>"What made the American turncoat tick," CNN, May 10, 2002</ref> In the process, Hanssen allegedly sold the Soviets software which enabled them to track the handling of double agents, leading to the execution of two of them, and the imprisonment of another. The espionage act under which he was charged specifically allowed for the death penalty under these circumstances. <ref>Neil A. Lewis, "Zigs and Zags of Spy Cases Put a Damper on Predicting," The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2001, A15</ref></div></td></tr>
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