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[suspenseful music]

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- We knew
that there was still a mole

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who had
not been identified.

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- This wasn't just a spy.
It was the spy.

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- Oh, my God.
The mole is an FBI agent.
- Mm-hmm.

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The information that he gave

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caused irreparable damage
to the US government.

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- This is the worst possible
place for a spy.

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He says, "I understand.

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I was in that place
when I was young."

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I mean, he was recruiting me.

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- He did leave a mark
on the Foxstone Park sign.

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- I go to his bag
and I find the PalmPilot.

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In seconds he was on me.
He grabs me by the lapel.

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He lifts me up onto my toes.

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- Did he have a weapon on him?
Would he try to use it?

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- And I'm thinking to myself...

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What do I do?

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[narrator]: In the FBI
we make a lot of headlines.

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Drug busts, mob stings...

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...terrorist takedowns.

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We understand why people
want to tell stories about us.

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- Mark it.
- Freeze!

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- FBI.
- FBI!
- Action!

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[narrator]: But they don't know
the half of it.

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What really goes down?

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We save that for each other

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when we're talking
agent to agent.

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This is FBI True.

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- If Hanssen discovers
that his PalmPilot is gone

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or determines
that you betrayed him,

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he would have
a rageful incident

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and potentially
commit violence against you.

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- My handler comes to the door,

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hands me all three devices
and says, "Run."

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And I do. I ran up three flights
of stairs at a mad sprint,

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got into the main door
of the office

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and slammed it behind me.

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I go into his office,
kneel down in front of his bag

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and realize, rookie mistake...

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I've got three devices
and there are four pockets

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and I have no clue

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which I've pulled each
of the things out of.

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And as I'm trying
to cast back in my mind,

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I hear him
coming through the door.

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They had a data card
and a punch key,

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and you could hear the chimes as
he was punching in the key code.

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And I heard that and I just
dropped all three devices,

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kind of like best guess,

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ran back to my desk and put that

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original poker face right there
and tried to not sweat.

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[suspenseful music]

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And he comes in the office
in a mad rush,

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glares at me on his way
to his office, slams his door.

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And as I'm sitting here,
I hear, zip.

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And I'm thinking to myself,
"What do I do?

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How do I recover from this?

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There's no way I got this right.
The odds are impossible."

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I go into his office,

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he pulls me down
by the collar to the ground.

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Our faces are inches
away from the bag.

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And he says, "See that?
I know everything."

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- Phew!

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- And he leaves for the day.

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Hanssen was definitely
testing me.

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So just as I was trying to gain

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his trust and gather
information from him,

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he was testing me to see
how much he could trust me.

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And so he gave me
these odd tasks

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and one was incredibly strange.

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He would complain about a lot
of different people in the FBI,

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and there was an assistant
director he hated,

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absolutely hated.

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And he told me, "I want you
to go steal his art."

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And I looked at him like,
"That's really funny, boss."

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And he's like,
"No, you don't understand.
I want his art."

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He's got a conference room
on the 7th floor, which is
the executive floor.

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Someone at my level,
you don't go there.

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- The 7th floor is where
the director lives.

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- That's where
the director lives.
And you don't go there.

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And he said, "I want
you to steal the art."

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And I said, "Okay."

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And he said, "I want to see that
art in this room by tomorrow."

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- So, 'cause I was at law school
every night.
- Right.

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- I came back, it might have
been 10:00 at night.

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I grabbed a computer card,

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I went down to the 7th floor

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and I stole the art
off the wall

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in an assistant director
of the FBI's conference room.

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- Oof!
- Three paintings.

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We actually hung them
on the wall in our office.

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I even stole
the hooks off the wall,

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and then I hammered them in.

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I put a fox hunt painting
over my desk.

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And I put two men
in a boat in peril

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at sea over Hanssen's desk.
It was a little bit on the nose.

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And when he came in
the next day,

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the first thing he did was
look at the wall and then smile.

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And I smiled back.

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And there was this connection,
this exchange.

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He had given me a task,
you know, an illegal task,

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you know, of stealing.
And I'd done it.

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- Rich, what does that mean?
- Well, that means that

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he might be trying to recruit
Eric for the future.

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But the evidence we can get
for him pitching him

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to be a spy.
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- It just kind of seals the deal
what we needed in order
to arrest him, too.

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[Kristy]: So we know Hanssen
had specially encrypted
his PalmPilot,

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and we're in the process
of breaking that.

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But to put him
in prison forever,

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we need to actually get
hard evidence,

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we need to catch him in the ac.

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- We need to see physical
evidence that he may have,

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whether it is in
his vehicle, in his desk,

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and so we have to do some
arrangements of how to get him
away from the office,

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away from his car.
- Hanssen wanted to get

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in other agencies' data centres.

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As a spy, he would love
to see those centres.

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Now, one of Hanssen's tasks
for me was set up meetings

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with everybody who does
Information Assurance

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with every other agency.

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I said, "So, boss.
I set up a meeting for the DIA."

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He was really excited.
That was one of my tasks.

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He said, "You finally
did something right.

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You're normally a moron

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or an imbecile, but finally
you did something right."

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- Those are your nicknames?
- Those are my nicknames.

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And my only job was
to go down to a big Tahoe

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in the parking garage
that Rich had set up,

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to take, where I would
drive Hanssen

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and his car
would be left behind.

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That way,
they could search the car.

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A whole search team
is ready to go.

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They're going to take his car
apart, look through it.

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They're going to put tech in it.
Find evidence.

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So we went down to the garage...

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[suspenseful music]

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...and the SUV is not there.
And I know that I'm supposed

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to get him away
from his car today.

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And I'm feeling pretty
stressed out.

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And I said, "Well, maybe
it's on the other level."

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I go down another level;
it's not there.

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He says, "We've wasted
enough time already.

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We're going to be late.
We will take my car."

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And I'm thinking,
"Anything but that."

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So I think, great time
to make him angry.

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He's already really agitated.

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So as he's walking to his car,
I said, "Hey, boss..."

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just in this snide kind of way.

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He turns around and I said,

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"We're not taking your ugly,
beat-up silver Ford Taurus.

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There's no way I'm getting
into that piece of "S"."
- Yeah.

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- "And driving to the DIA.
We're going to walk around
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until we find that SUV."

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And that's it.
In seconds he was on me.

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He grabbed me by the lapel.
He lifts me up on my toes.

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And he's 6'4".

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He's spitting mad,
yelling in my face.

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"Why are you so insistent
we not take my car?"

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And I'm thinking,
"I've blown this operation."

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- So Hanssen grabs you,
he's got you up off the floor.

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What happens next?
- My first thought is,

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"I've got two black belts."

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I really wanted to hurt him,
and I had to check that.

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- Right.
- But now I've got to
win this case back.

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Anything to get him
away from his car.

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The whole search team
is ready to go,

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I just needed to get him away.

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[uplifting music]

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So we finally find the SUV
in the parking garage.

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- Wow.
- We get in the car,

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he's in a huff,
and I start driving.

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- While you're driving him
around and taking him to DIA...

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...they're back at FBI and
they're working on the car.

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- Right, so they've
pulled the car,

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his silver Ford Taurus...

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...into a hidden garage,

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and they're searching the car

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for anything that
could be useful.

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[suspenseful music]

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So we finally
made it to the DIA.

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We parked, we go in

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and we're waiting to meet

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the head of Information
Assurance for the DIA.

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And we're waiting.

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Now, Hanssen does not like
to be kept waiting.

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And after a while,

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he decides that
he's been insulted,

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and we're going to
abruptly leave.

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And so we do.
To everybody's consternation.

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I'm trying to talk Hanssen
into staying.

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He says, "We're leaving."
And won't take no for an answer.

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And I end up getting
in the car with him,

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and we're driving,
and I'm very stressed out.

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I've got to make sure
that he doesn't show up

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at FBI headquarters and then
decide, "It's late in the day.

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I'm going to go right
to my car and drive home."
- Right.

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- Game's over.
They're searching the car.

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And it's not like I could
even send a text.

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And so I knew
that I had to find a way...

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to keep Hanssen
away from the office.

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I had to do anything that
I could. So what I did was...

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...I drove into traffic.

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And for the first moment in
this case, I got a little luck.

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There was a broken-down
truck, and we were crawling.

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I mean, I could have gotten out

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and skipped faster
than we were moving.

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[suspenseful music]

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- And what was he doing?
- He got angry.

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And then he started
attacking me.

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He said, "You keep talking about
how you're such a great driver

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and you did the dumbest thing
you possibly could do."

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And he said, "You know what?
I could take a cab. I can walk."

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And he gets out of the car.

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- And what are you
thinking at this point?
You're like, "Okay."

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- I'm devastated because
I'm thinking, "Now what do I do?

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He's out of the car.
I can't control him."

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So I put the car in park
and I got out.

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So now the FBI Tahoe
is just sitting there

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in the middle of traffic
on M Street...

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and I'm running up
the street after Hanssen.

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and he turns around
and I just reached deep inside

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and did the one thing
that until that moment
I had resisted doing.

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I said, "Boss, I need you
to get back in the car 'cause

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I need to talk to you
about something.

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It has to do with my
relationship with my wife."

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[suspenseful music]

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"I finally broached the subject
of her and I not having kids,

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just like you've been telling me

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over and over and over to do.
She didn't take it well,

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we're now in the middle
of this massive fight,

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and I just thought you could
give me some advice."

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- How heavy
was your heart at that point

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when you felt
like you had to go to that

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personal place to keep
him engaged with you?

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- I felt like
I lost a part of myself.

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You give so much of yourself
to an undercover investigation.

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It becomes the most important
thing in your life.

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Becomes more important
than your family.

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You don't want it to,

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but the stakes are so high.
- Right.

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- And I said, "If God
wants me to have children
and my wife doesn't,

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what do I do?"

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And he jumped right at it.

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He turned around.

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He thought about it.
He got back in the car.

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And we ended up driving very
slowly back to the office,

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it took an enormous
amount of time.

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And then, of course,
I was stuck

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in a lengthy dialogue about

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the purpose of marriage
and to have children.

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In fact, he told me that...

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"We're going to get you
into Opus Dei.

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You're going to change
how you worship.

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We're going to church
every day together now."

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- My God!
- "We're going to bring you
into the church

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that all of the people
in the FBI are in."

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I was telling him I was
so frustrated with the FBI,

259
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I couldn't stand
the bureaucracy.

260
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I told him,
"I can't afford my life.

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They're giving me the clearance
to see these incredibly

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valuable secrets,
but they don't pay me anything.

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And I'm in law school,
I could go to any law firm

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and make five times
what I'm making in the FBI."

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And he would start saying,
"Well, you know, I understand.

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I was in that place
when I was young,

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I found a way to make it work."
- Right.

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- "God can help you find
a way to make it work."

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I mean, he was recruiting me.

270
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- So here we are on the street
that Hanssen lived.

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- It was pretty intense.

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You know, Hanssen talked about
his family all the time,

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talked about
his quaint little home

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on Talisman Lane
in Virginia.

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He actually invited
my wife and I here.

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He was making these connections,
our faith, our families.

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And he really had to learn

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whether he could trust me,

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but not only whether he could
trust me, could he recruit me.

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- so, Eric, at this point,
you've been very successful

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at what your task was.

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- Well, I'm also in my personal
life falling apart,

283
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so I'm feeling incredibly
stressed out,

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not having a good
relationship with my wife.

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And I started questioning

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whether I should be
in this case,

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whether I was being
successful at the case,

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whether I was
the right person for it.

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I started doubting myself
- Right.

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- I felt my life was spinning
out of control.

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Sitting down with my handler,

292
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I said, "I want out."

293
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And I told her my concerns

294
00:13:27,067 --> 00:13:29,199
and she said,
"This is a big case.

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You need to understand that
there is no getting out."

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- Right.

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- And she took me to
the Washington field office.

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There were all these people,

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analysts and computer techs

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and people who are
going through his records

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and people who were
surveilling him.

302
00:13:43,474 --> 00:13:45,476
- And what's the walk home
like from that,

303
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after you've seen all this,

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you know that you're not alone,

305
00:13:48,392 --> 00:13:50,655
that there's hundreds
of people involved?

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- I had a moment
of "This was big."

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And then I learned
how big it was.

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Because I learned that

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this wasn't just a spy,

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it was the spy.

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This wasn't just an individual

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who was an FBI agent
suspected of espionage.

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This was the legendary
Gray Suit,

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the spy that the entire
intelligence community

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00:14:12,677 --> 00:14:16,464
had been after for their entire
careers, for over two decades.

316
00:14:16,507 --> 00:14:19,380
And I was at the centre
of the case. I was ready to go.

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I went from investigating
to determine if he was a spy

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00:14:23,645 --> 00:14:26,648
fully into he is a spy.
Now, we're going to catch him.

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[Kristy]: The PalmPilot
that you had "borrowed"

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from Hanssen while
he was at the firing range...

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00:14:38,138 --> 00:14:40,009
...was eventually cracked.

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It turns out there was
some pretty critical
information on it.

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- On that PalmPilot,
he not only had

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some of the letters
he'd written to the Russians.

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He also had a formula

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for how we convert dates
in the PalmPilot.

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And when you
figured all that out,

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and the people who are great
at cryptography did.
- Exactly.

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- They were able to show
not only where he would make
his final drop, but when.

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We knew from
the recording we bought

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that he was using tape signals
on the Foxstone Park sign
with the Russians.

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[a camera shutter clicks]

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And the PalmPilot told us where.

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00:15:13,042 --> 00:15:16,002
Not far from this neighbourhood,
where Hanssen lived.

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00:15:39,068 --> 00:15:40,548
[hangs up phone]

336
00:15:50,036 --> 00:15:52,864
- Deborah, tell me about
February 18th.

337
00:15:52,908 --> 00:15:54,866
You think Hanssen
may make a drop.

338
00:15:54,910 --> 00:15:57,739
- Quite strongly.
But things could go wrong.

339
00:15:57,782 --> 00:16:00,524
Something could go wrong
with the actual arrest,

340
00:16:00,568 --> 00:16:02,048
they could panic.

341
00:16:02,091 --> 00:16:04,789
Did he have a weapon on him?
Would he try to use it?

342
00:16:05,486 --> 00:16:07,792
All of those things
were going through my mind.

343
00:16:07,836 --> 00:16:11,013
I was sitting in a van
with my ASAC

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and other executives
from the FBI.

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00:16:14,886 --> 00:16:16,932
[ominous music]

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00:16:21,371 --> 00:16:23,025
And we were sitting
and listening

347
00:16:23,069 --> 00:16:25,941
to the surveillance
call out and waiting.

348
00:16:27,116 --> 00:16:29,989
[ominous music]

349
00:16:30,032 --> 00:16:32,817
So Hanssen exited his car,

350
00:16:32,861 --> 00:16:36,778
and he did leave a mark
on the Foxstone Park sign

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00:16:36,821 --> 00:16:41,043
for the Russians, to let them
know that he's making a drop.

352
00:16:41,087 --> 00:16:43,654
Once doing that,
he walked back to the footbridge

353
00:16:43,698 --> 00:16:45,743
and placed
this package underneath.

354
00:16:47,702 --> 00:16:50,052
He turned and walked
out of the park

355
00:16:50,096 --> 00:16:52,054
just as we're walking now...

356
00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:55,884
...and we heard
that he was nearing his car.

357
00:16:55,927 --> 00:16:58,191
[ominous music]

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He was walking up
this very sidewalk

359
00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:04,848
towards his vehicle

360
00:17:04,893 --> 00:17:07,242
and the arrest team
was in a van ready to go.

361
00:17:07,287 --> 00:17:09,810
[suspenseful music]

362
00:17:12,596 --> 00:17:16,425
When I said, "Take him,"
they exited the vehicle...

363
00:17:16,470 --> 00:17:18,776
[suspenseful music]

364
00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:25,000
And Hanssen was right there.
They arrested him.

365
00:17:25,044 --> 00:17:27,959
[rising, suspenseful music]

366
00:17:34,444 --> 00:17:36,490
Robert Hanssen
was arrested right here,

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00:17:36,533 --> 00:17:38,361
in front of this house.

368
00:17:38,405 --> 00:17:39,623
- What was his reaction?

369
00:17:39,667 --> 00:17:42,148
- It was almost like
no reaction initially.

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00:17:42,191 --> 00:17:44,063
He was just standing there.

371
00:17:44,106 --> 00:17:47,457
He didn't try to move or get
away or anything like that.

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[eerie music]

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He said,
"What took you so long?"

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00:17:52,288 --> 00:17:54,638
[ominous music]

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00:18:02,385 --> 00:18:04,518
They put him
in the back of a vehicle

376
00:18:04,561 --> 00:18:06,128
between the two case agents,

377
00:18:06,172 --> 00:18:10,698
who showed him some photographs
of him committing espionage.

378
00:18:10,741 --> 00:18:13,440
And then they read
him his rights.

379
00:18:13,483 --> 00:18:15,659
- I heard that he asked
to speak to you.

380
00:18:15,703 --> 00:18:17,183
- Yes, he did.

381
00:18:17,226 --> 00:18:19,750
I was willing to go in and
hear him out, whatever it was.

382
00:18:19,794 --> 00:18:20,925
- Sure, absolutely.

383
00:18:20,969 --> 00:18:23,711
- So I walked into the room.

384
00:18:23,754 --> 00:18:25,278
He was sitting there alone.

385
00:18:25,321 --> 00:18:28,411
Really no expression
on his face.

386
00:18:28,455 --> 00:18:30,283
He looked at me.

387
00:18:30,326 --> 00:18:34,287
I said, "I'm Deborah Smith,
I was a supervisor on the squad.

388
00:18:34,330 --> 00:18:35,897
I understand you wanted
to speak with me."

389
00:18:35,940 --> 00:18:39,553
And he said,
"This should help your career."

390
00:18:40,336 --> 00:18:42,208
And that's all he said.

391
00:18:42,251 --> 00:18:44,732
- And what did you do?
- I looked at him.

392
00:18:44,775 --> 00:18:48,301
I turned and left the room.
- Yeah. Good for you.

393
00:18:48,344 --> 00:18:51,173
So Deborah, what was
in that last drop?

394
00:18:51,217 --> 00:18:53,828
[keyboard clicking]

395
00:18:54,263 --> 00:18:57,179
- The most important thing
in that last drop

396
00:18:57,223 --> 00:18:59,921
was a letter from Hanssen
to the Russians.

397
00:18:59,964 --> 00:19:01,966
"Dear friends,

398
00:19:02,010 --> 00:19:04,708
I thank you for your assistance
these many years.

399
00:19:04,752 --> 00:19:07,581
It seems, however,
that my greatest utility to you

400
00:19:07,624 --> 00:19:09,583
has come to an end,

401
00:19:09,626 --> 00:19:11,976
and it is time to seclude myself
from active service.

402
00:19:12,020 --> 00:19:14,414
Since communicating last,

403
00:19:14,457 --> 00:19:16,546
and one wonders if,
because of it,

404
00:19:16,590 --> 00:19:19,288
I have been promoted
to a higher, do-nothing

405
00:19:19,332 --> 00:19:23,771
senior executive job outside
of regular access to information

406
00:19:23,814 --> 00:19:25,990
within the counterintelligence
program.

407
00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:29,994
Something has aroused
the sleeping tiger."

408
00:19:30,430 --> 00:19:32,910
- It sounds like you
got him just in time,

409
00:19:32,954 --> 00:19:35,609
like he was about to run.
- That's right.

410
00:19:36,653 --> 00:19:38,220
- My handler called me.

411
00:19:38,264 --> 00:19:40,744
I was told
that in that final drop,

412
00:19:40,788 --> 00:19:43,878
he included
a piece of information
really important to me.

413
00:19:43,921 --> 00:19:46,054
My name and my information.

414
00:19:46,097 --> 00:19:48,230
And that I would be a perfect
person to recruit.

415
00:19:48,274 --> 00:19:51,146
I was driving with my wife
and I had to pull over.

416
00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:53,061
My hands were shaking
so much I couldn't drive.

417
00:19:53,104 --> 00:19:54,802
My wife was like,
"What's wrong?"

418
00:19:54,845 --> 00:19:57,413
I looked at Juliana,
and I told her everything.

419
00:19:57,457 --> 00:19:59,459
- And was she like, "What?"

420
00:19:59,502 --> 00:20:01,243
- She was shocked
and speechless.

421
00:20:01,287 --> 00:20:03,376
I thought, she's going
to get out of the car,

422
00:20:03,419 --> 00:20:06,030
call a taxi,
disappear from my life.

423
00:20:06,074 --> 00:20:08,511
But she just turned,
looked at me, and she said...

424
00:20:08,555 --> 00:20:10,557
"Now, I understand."
- Right.

425
00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,821
- And they were the most
incredible words I could have
ever heard from her.

426
00:20:15,997 --> 00:20:19,261
[reporter]: In court,
the government filed affidavits
saying Hanssen handed over

427
00:20:19,305 --> 00:20:21,785
6,000 secret documents
to Moscow,

428
00:20:21,829 --> 00:20:24,658
in exchange for 1.4
million dollars in cash,

429
00:20:24,701 --> 00:20:26,181
diamonds and escrowed money

430
00:20:26,225 --> 00:20:29,619
in an espionage career
that spanned 15 years.

431
00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:34,233
- What kind of damage
did Hanssen do?

432
00:20:35,712 --> 00:20:38,933
- Extremely grave damage
to the US government.

433
00:20:38,976 --> 00:20:42,719
The information that he gave
caused irreparable damage.

434
00:20:42,763 --> 00:20:45,287
[ominous music]

435
00:20:47,681 --> 00:20:51,946
We know that he viewed
approximately 6,000 documents.

436
00:20:52,990 --> 00:20:57,168
- I know that he had given up
that the United States

437
00:20:57,212 --> 00:20:59,649
was making a listening tunnel
under the ground,

438
00:20:59,693 --> 00:21:02,391
under the Russian embassy.
And he gave that up.

439
00:21:02,435 --> 00:21:04,698
He gave up a lot.

440
00:21:04,741 --> 00:21:06,439
The continuity of government...

441
00:21:06,482 --> 00:21:08,876
[keyboard clicks]

442
00:21:20,191 --> 00:21:24,108
And he caused the death
of three sources

443
00:21:24,152 --> 00:21:26,763
who were very important
to the US government

444
00:21:26,807 --> 00:21:29,026
by giving up their identities

445
00:21:29,070 --> 00:21:30,680
Sergei Motorin...

446
00:21:32,073 --> 00:21:33,901
...Valery Martinov...

447
00:21:35,555 --> 00:21:39,254
...and Dmitri Polyakov,
codenamed Top Hat,

448
00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:42,388
considered by some to be
America's most important asset.

449
00:21:44,085 --> 00:21:47,349
- Deborah, how will history look
at Robert Hanssen in this case?

450
00:21:47,393 --> 00:21:49,438
- I think history
will look at him as,

451
00:21:49,482 --> 00:21:51,745
number one,
the most damaging spy

452
00:21:51,788 --> 00:21:53,268
in the history of the FBI...

453
00:21:53,312 --> 00:21:55,618
[slow heartbeat]

454
00:21:57,141 --> 00:22:01,276
...and close to
the most damaging spy

455
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,844
in the history
of the United States.

456
00:22:04,584 --> 00:22:06,847
That will be his legacy.

457
00:22:06,890 --> 00:22:08,196
He's a betrayer.

458
00:22:08,239 --> 00:22:10,894
He's betrayed everything
in his life.

459
00:22:10,938 --> 00:22:12,635
He was true to no one.

460
00:22:12,679 --> 00:22:14,811
And I don't know
that he had the capacity

461
00:22:14,855 --> 00:22:16,944
to be true to anyone.

462
00:22:16,987 --> 00:22:19,207
[ominous music]

463
00:23:07,690 --> 00:23:10,258
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