Robert Hanssen, FBI Agent Who Spied for Russia, Dies at 79

The former senior counterintelligence official was found dead in a Colorado prison cell, where he was serving a life sentence

Robert Hanssen in a photo released by the FBI in 2001. FBI/Newsmakers/Getty Images

Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent who spied for Moscow for more than a decade, was found dead Monday in his prison cell, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said. He was 79 years old.

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