Riddle Resolved: Who Dimed Out American Traitor and Super-Spy, Robert Hanssen?

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https://www.newsweek.com/who-dimed-out-american-traitor-super-spy-robert-hanssen-1196080

By Jeff Stein
Newsweek.com
11/1/18

For over two decades, students of the spy wars between Russia and America 
have pondered one of the great remaining mysteries of the Cold War: Who 
finally dimed out Robert Hanssen, the FBI turncoat said to be the most 
destructive traitor in the annals of U.S. intelligence?

Now we know, according to an posthumously published book by the late David 
Wise, the authoritative espionage writer who died from pancreatic cancer 
last month. The informant, Wise writes, was Alexandr Shcherbakov, a 
down-on-his-luck former KGB officer who delivered the Kremlin’s dossier on 
Hanssen to an FBI counterspy who had pursued the case for years.

It was a handsome payday for Shcherbakov, now resettled under protection 
in this country: Wise’s book, released only in audio form in mid-October, 
calls him The Seven Million Dollar Spy. With Wise dead, no advance copies 
available and no hardcover in the stores, the normally best-selling 
author’s book has escaped attention until now.

Hanssen, a disgruntled senior FBI computer geek who spied intermittently 
for the Russians from 1979 until his arrest following a dead drop in the 
snowy woods of Virginia in 2001, produced "possibly the worst intelligence 
disaster in U.S. history," according to a later damage report.

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