The Chalk Mark: The FBI Agent Who Sold America’s Secrets to Moscow - Couverture souple

Colby, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798188871673

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Robert Hanssen spent twenty-five years inside the FBI, much of it working in intelligence and counterintelligence. For more than two decades, he secretly sold classified information to Soviet and Russian intelligence, exposing human sources, compromising surveillance operations, revealing sensitive technical programs, and using the Bureau’s own computer systems to watch the investigators searching for him. His clandestine network relied on encrypted disks, coded letters, suburban dead drops, strips of tape, thumbtacks, and chalk marks that appeared meaningless to everyone except the people waiting for them.Drawing on FBI records, court filings, criminal affidavits, plea documents, and official Justice Department investigations, The Chalk Mark reconstructs how Hanssen became one of the most consequential insider spies in modern American history. It follows his first approach to Soviet military intelligence, his return under the name Ramon Garcia, the failed mole hunt that focused on an innocent CIA employee, the Russian file that finally exposed him, and the surveillance operation that ended beneath a footbridge in Virginia. More than a true-crime account of betrayal, this is a case study in institutional trust, hidden access, counterintelligence failure, and the small clues that finally revealed the spy inside the FBI.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798188871673
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 83
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