1 00:00:20,368 --> 00:00:22,500 - We knew that there was still a mole 2 00:00:22,544 --> 00:00:24,415 who had not been identified. 3 00:00:24,459 --> 00:00:27,070 - Our nation, our free society, 4 00:00:27,114 --> 00:00:31,944 is an international target, in a dangerous world. 5 00:00:39,343 --> 00:00:42,172 - They said, "We want you to go undercover 6 00:00:42,216 --> 00:00:44,348 in FBI headquarters to catch him." 7 00:00:44,392 --> 00:00:46,089 - The espionage operations 8 00:00:46,133 --> 00:00:49,223 designed to steal vital secrets of the United States 9 00:00:49,266 --> 00:00:52,791 are as intense today as they have ever been. 10 00:00:52,835 --> 00:00:55,229 - This is a big case, there is no getting out. 11 00:00:56,099 --> 00:00:58,101 He told me, "You could make a fortune 12 00:00:58,145 --> 00:01:00,625 by dropping that to a foreign intelligence agency." 13 00:01:00,669 --> 00:01:02,975 - If he determines that you betrayed him, 14 00:01:03,019 --> 00:01:04,760 he would commit violence against you. 15 00:01:04,803 --> 00:01:07,415 - He's armed. He has a gun. 16 00:01:07,458 --> 00:01:11,245 - This wasn't just a spy, it was the spy. 17 00:01:15,814 --> 00:01:19,079 - Oh, my God, the mole is an FBI agent. 18 00:01:25,128 --> 00:01:28,349 [narrator]: In the FBI we make a lot of headlines. 19 00:01:31,047 --> 00:01:33,876 Drug busts, mob stings... 20 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:37,358 ...terrorist takedowns. 21 00:01:39,142 --> 00:01:42,189 We understand why people want to tell stories about us. 22 00:01:42,232 --> 00:01:43,886 - Mark it. - Freeze! 23 00:01:43,929 --> 00:01:46,235 - FBI. - FBI! - Action! 24 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:47,846 [narrator]: But they don't know the half of it. 25 00:01:49,413 --> 00:01:51,241 What really goes down? 26 00:01:52,068 --> 00:01:54,070 We save that for each other 27 00:01:54,114 --> 00:01:56,203 when we're talking agent to agent. 28 00:01:59,249 --> 00:02:02,948 This is FBI True. 29 00:02:08,562 --> 00:02:10,565 - We're in Washington, D.C. 30 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,741 Spy capital of the world. 31 00:02:12,784 --> 00:02:14,525 Where you worked on 32 00:02:14,569 --> 00:02:17,702 one of the most important cases in American spy history. 33 00:02:18,747 --> 00:02:21,053 - I lived right over there. 34 00:02:21,097 --> 00:02:22,751 I was working for the FBI, working undercover, 35 00:02:22,794 --> 00:02:24,361 newly married. 36 00:02:24,405 --> 00:02:27,103 I worked counterintelligence and counterterror. 37 00:02:27,147 --> 00:02:29,627 So I was part of the S.S.G., A.K.A. The Ghosts. 38 00:02:29,671 --> 00:02:32,239 I would follow either a spy or a terrorist, 39 00:02:32,281 --> 00:02:34,589 track them and investigate them. 40 00:02:35,285 --> 00:02:37,983 - So it's the weekend, you have some downtime, 41 00:02:38,027 --> 00:02:39,637 and your life is about to change forever. 42 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,292 - I was asleep in this apartment over here. 43 00:02:42,336 --> 00:02:44,773 Juliana and I had been married three months at the time, 44 00:02:44,816 --> 00:02:48,211 and I got a phone call early on a Sunday morning. 45 00:02:48,255 --> 00:02:51,127 And it was Gene McClelland, supervisory special agent 46 00:02:51,171 --> 00:02:53,869 out of the Washington field office for my entire team of ghosts. 47 00:02:53,912 --> 00:02:55,218 So my boss. - Right. 48 00:02:55,262 --> 00:02:57,264 - In fact, like my boss's boss. 49 00:02:57,307 --> 00:03:01,006 And I said, "Okay, Gene, let me get dressed. I'll come downtown." 50 00:03:01,050 --> 00:03:03,313 And he says, "I'm parked right outside." 51 00:03:04,314 --> 00:03:05,402 - What are you thinking? 52 00:03:05,446 --> 00:03:07,535 - I'm thinking I'm in a lot of trouble. 53 00:03:07,578 --> 00:03:10,015 - Well, absolutely, because, I mean, let's face it, the FBI, 54 00:03:10,059 --> 00:03:13,628 the only time people get an invitation to come outside the house and talk to us 55 00:03:13,671 --> 00:03:15,195 is if we're going to arrest you. 56 00:03:16,761 --> 00:03:21,591 - When I arrived on the Russian espionage squad in 2000, 57 00:03:21,636 --> 00:03:23,855 they were actively searching for a mole. 58 00:03:23,899 --> 00:03:25,204 - How did you get to Washington? 59 00:03:25,248 --> 00:03:27,468 - Four years with counterintelligence 60 00:03:27,511 --> 00:03:29,209 and one year with Russian organized crime. 61 00:03:29,818 --> 00:03:31,646 - So you arrive in D.C. 62 00:03:31,689 --> 00:03:32,864 What's the situation? 63 00:03:32,908 --> 00:03:35,519 - There were multiple US persons 64 00:03:35,563 --> 00:03:38,348 from various intelligence agencies 65 00:03:38,392 --> 00:03:40,307 who were arrested for espionage. 66 00:03:40,350 --> 00:03:44,398 - The FBI says Randy Jeffries sold government secrets to the Soviets. 67 00:03:44,441 --> 00:03:48,053 If that sounds familiar, it should. 68 00:03:48,097 --> 00:03:52,362 Randy Jeffries is the 11th American this year arrested in an espionage case. 69 00:03:52,406 --> 00:03:55,452 - ...but all of those arrests didn't really account 70 00:03:55,496 --> 00:03:58,238 for all of the sources that were wrapped up. 71 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:01,415 One of those sources who was neutralized 72 00:04:01,458 --> 00:04:03,808 had the code name Top Hat. 73 00:04:05,549 --> 00:04:08,117 - Top hat was a Russian general. 74 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,641 His name was Dmitri Polyakov. 75 00:04:10,685 --> 00:04:13,949 He was recruited and worked for 76 00:04:13,992 --> 00:04:17,518 US intelligence for approximately 17 years. 77 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,042 No one at the time knew exactly what happened 78 00:04:20,084 --> 00:04:23,306 or why or how he was given up. 79 00:04:23,350 --> 00:04:24,873 And that was always a mystery. 80 00:04:24,916 --> 00:04:28,616 He risked his life not for money but for his ideals. 81 00:04:28,659 --> 00:04:32,750 And the CIA director said Top Hat kept the Cold War from heating up. 82 00:04:33,403 --> 00:04:37,494 But Top Hat was eventually arrested by the Russians... 83 00:04:47,287 --> 00:04:49,941 ...for his work with the US government. 84 00:04:50,899 --> 00:04:54,119 It was said that he was executed with a gunshot to the back of the head 85 00:04:54,163 --> 00:04:55,947 and his body was never found. 86 00:04:58,298 --> 00:04:59,951 Like, what's going on? 87 00:04:59,995 --> 00:05:03,390 Do we have a mole in the US government 88 00:05:03,433 --> 00:05:05,348 that's working for the Russians? 89 00:05:05,392 --> 00:05:08,264 So we knew that there was still a mole out there 90 00:05:08,308 --> 00:05:10,310 who had not been identified. 91 00:05:10,353 --> 00:05:13,443 The case was given the codename Graysuit. 92 00:05:15,619 --> 00:05:18,579 Actually, this is the most difficult part 93 00:05:18,622 --> 00:05:20,450 of this case for me to talk about. 94 00:05:20,494 --> 00:05:23,279 It's because we're talking about sources and methods, 95 00:05:23,323 --> 00:05:26,456 and we're literally talking about lives of individuals. 96 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,894 But we paid a source for information to help us 97 00:05:29,938 --> 00:05:33,332 find the mole working for the United States government. 98 00:05:33,376 --> 00:05:35,117 I believe it was close to 7 million. 99 00:05:35,159 --> 00:05:37,380 It was a lot of money. 100 00:05:37,424 --> 00:05:41,079 The most jarring piece of evidence we got was a secret audio tape 101 00:05:41,123 --> 00:05:44,082 that we hoped would lead us to the identification of the mole. 102 00:05:44,126 --> 00:05:47,869 It was a phone call between a Russian individual 103 00:05:47,912 --> 00:05:50,437 and an unknown male. 104 00:06:25,123 --> 00:06:29,476 Around 5 a.m., I received a call from the analyst, 105 00:06:29,519 --> 00:06:32,696 and he said, "I need you to come into the office." 106 00:06:32,740 --> 00:06:34,045 [laughs] 107 00:06:34,089 --> 00:06:35,960 And I said, "I'll be right in." 108 00:06:36,004 --> 00:06:39,747 The analyst had worked for the individual. 109 00:06:39,790 --> 00:06:41,575 Knew him personally, 110 00:06:41,618 --> 00:06:42,837 knew the way he spoke. 111 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,492 So he writes the identity of the mole 112 00:06:45,534 --> 00:06:47,232 on a 3x5 card, 113 00:06:47,276 --> 00:06:50,932 and he takes that card over to headquarters, 114 00:06:50,975 --> 00:06:53,935 where another analyst was sitting. 115 00:06:53,978 --> 00:06:56,677 The two of them listened to the recording of the phone call. 116 00:07:11,953 --> 00:07:15,783 They both recognize the previously unknown individual 117 00:07:15,826 --> 00:07:17,306 on that recording. 118 00:07:17,349 --> 00:07:19,482 And when he finished, 119 00:07:19,526 --> 00:07:22,964 I had no doubt that he was correct. 120 00:07:23,007 --> 00:07:26,054 The mole was a highly placed FBI Agent 121 00:07:26,097 --> 00:07:27,534 who could do a lot of damage. 122 00:07:28,839 --> 00:07:30,275 - Okay. So you get dressed... 123 00:07:30,319 --> 00:07:33,931 - Shaken. Heart pounding. I walked out the door. 124 00:07:33,975 --> 00:07:36,630 I'm checking the corners. I'm looking up and down the street, 125 00:07:36,673 --> 00:07:38,849 and I look across the street, 126 00:07:38,893 --> 00:07:41,461 and there's Gene, my boss. 127 00:07:41,504 --> 00:07:43,419 I walked over. I got in the car next to him. 128 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:44,551 He puts the windows up. 129 00:07:44,594 --> 00:07:47,467 What the hell is happening right now? 130 00:07:48,337 --> 00:07:51,296 He told me that this was a decorated agent, 131 00:07:51,340 --> 00:07:52,733 a supervisory special agent, 132 00:07:52,776 --> 00:07:54,909 somebody who they suspected of espionage. 133 00:07:54,952 --> 00:07:57,868 He told me that they wanted me to go undercover 134 00:07:57,912 --> 00:08:00,480 and he says, "Have you ever heard of a guy named Robert Hanssen?" 135 00:08:00,523 --> 00:08:03,308 [ominous music] 136 00:08:03,352 --> 00:08:04,832 I said, "No." 137 00:08:04,875 --> 00:08:08,879 He said, "Good, because we don't want you to ghost him. 138 00:08:08,923 --> 00:08:10,533 We want you to go undercover 139 00:08:10,577 --> 00:08:13,405 in FBI headquarters to catch him. 140 00:08:13,449 --> 00:08:15,320 Where does he go? Who's he meeting with? 141 00:08:15,364 --> 00:08:18,236 What kind of data is he trying to access?" Anything I could see. 142 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,325 I asked him, "Do I get a legend? 143 00:08:20,369 --> 00:08:22,414 How am I going undercover here?" 144 00:08:22,457 --> 00:08:24,721 And he said, "No, you have to go in as yourself. 145 00:08:24,765 --> 00:08:27,594 We believe he's able to penetrate computer systems. 146 00:08:27,637 --> 00:08:29,596 So what happens if he learns your identity?" 147 00:08:29,639 --> 00:08:30,858 So I felt uncomfortable. 148 00:08:30,901 --> 00:08:32,554 - Did you understand that you had the ability 149 00:08:32,599 --> 00:08:34,164 to say, "No, I don't think I should do this." 150 00:08:34,209 --> 00:08:37,038 - I felt like Gene was giving me a choice until he said, 151 00:08:37,081 --> 00:08:39,823 "Look, Eric, I've got to know right now 152 00:08:39,866 --> 00:08:43,566 if you're in or out. Not tomorrow, not next week, right now. 153 00:08:43,610 --> 00:08:45,220 Because my next meeting is downtown 154 00:08:45,263 --> 00:08:47,178 with the Director of the FBI, 155 00:08:47,222 --> 00:08:49,224 and he wants to know if you're in or out. 156 00:08:49,267 --> 00:08:52,009 I'm thinking, "The director of the FBI knows who I am?" 157 00:08:52,053 --> 00:08:54,185 Of all the agents in the Bureau, 158 00:08:54,229 --> 00:08:56,623 they chose me to be the eyes and ears 159 00:08:56,665 --> 00:08:59,887 of the FBI inside an elaborate mouse trap. 160 00:08:59,930 --> 00:09:01,149 What are you supposed to say to that? 161 00:09:01,192 --> 00:09:02,803 - "I'm in." - I said, "I'm in." 162 00:09:10,637 --> 00:09:14,902 - The decision was made to create a job for Hanssen. 163 00:09:16,207 --> 00:09:17,644 - Deborah, what did you think of that idea? 164 00:09:17,687 --> 00:09:19,559 If you're near the end of your career, 165 00:09:19,602 --> 00:09:21,169 you didn't apply for a promotion, 166 00:09:21,212 --> 00:09:23,867 but you're given a promotion... 167 00:09:23,911 --> 00:09:24,999 [laughs] 168 00:09:25,042 --> 00:09:28,045 ...and it just doesn't ring true. 169 00:09:28,089 --> 00:09:30,134 I felt that it would cause suspicion 170 00:09:30,178 --> 00:09:33,137 and my biggest fear is that he would bolt. 171 00:09:33,181 --> 00:09:36,184 - What are some of the assets and players we brought into that? 172 00:09:36,227 --> 00:09:38,708 - We needed someone who Hanssen wouldn't know. 173 00:09:38,752 --> 00:09:41,885 So someone maybe fairly new to act as his assistant. 174 00:09:41,929 --> 00:09:44,235 And that's where Eric O'Neill came into play. 175 00:09:47,848 --> 00:09:50,328 [Kristy]: The FBI is giving us rare access 176 00:09:50,372 --> 00:09:51,939 to film inside Headquarters, 177 00:09:51,982 --> 00:09:54,158 where the spy hunt went down. 178 00:09:54,202 --> 00:09:58,249 So Eric, your first day coming into the Hoover Building, what's that like? 179 00:09:58,293 --> 00:10:02,166 - It was early in December 2000 180 00:10:02,210 --> 00:10:05,996 and I come in to the 9th floor and meet Rich Garcia. 181 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,346 [suspenseful music] 182 00:10:09,957 --> 00:10:12,176 - And Rich, do you remember that moment when you met Eric? 183 00:10:12,220 --> 00:10:14,657 - I do. I was fighting H.R. 184 00:10:14,701 --> 00:10:16,877 because they said we have qualified people in our building 185 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:18,879 to put in there with Hanssen, 186 00:10:18,922 --> 00:10:21,272 and I couldn't tell them why I needed Eric. 187 00:10:21,316 --> 00:10:23,492 - So the only two people 188 00:10:23,535 --> 00:10:27,278 that I knew were Rich Garcia and my handler. 189 00:10:27,322 --> 00:10:30,020 She would debrief me, she would give me different tasks, 190 00:10:30,064 --> 00:10:31,413 Rich was right down the hall. 191 00:10:33,023 --> 00:10:35,460 [Rich]: So we converted this two-room office. 192 00:10:36,897 --> 00:10:39,682 - He brought me into this room that was at that point just a skeleton. 193 00:10:39,726 --> 00:10:42,511 There were barely walls. There was all this tech. 194 00:10:42,554 --> 00:10:44,034 There were wires everywhere. 195 00:10:44,078 --> 00:10:45,862 And he says, "This is where you're going to be working." 196 00:10:47,081 --> 00:10:50,824 - What kind of assets are we putting in to help us out? 197 00:10:50,867 --> 00:10:53,696 [Rich]: We were getting various technology 198 00:10:53,740 --> 00:10:56,612 to capture a conversation and video. 199 00:10:56,656 --> 00:11:00,703 We had to move the wiring from that floor down to lower floors, 200 00:11:00,747 --> 00:11:03,053 where we had a monitoring room. 201 00:11:05,969 --> 00:11:08,493 - So the job that you're now walking into, 202 00:11:08,537 --> 00:11:09,669 what kind of job is this? 203 00:11:09,712 --> 00:11:11,583 [suspenseful music] 204 00:11:11,627 --> 00:11:15,283 - I was told that Hanssen's been exploiting computer systems 205 00:11:15,326 --> 00:11:18,634 and because I had a background in computers, 206 00:11:18,678 --> 00:11:20,027 they put me on the case. 207 00:11:20,070 --> 00:11:21,724 - Hanssen was going to retire 208 00:11:21,768 --> 00:11:23,552 that following year in April, mandatory. 209 00:11:23,595 --> 00:11:27,512 And so we were concerned, investigative-wise, 210 00:11:27,556 --> 00:11:29,514 that he was going to leave before we had evidence 211 00:11:29,558 --> 00:11:31,516 in order to convict him and arrest him. 212 00:11:32,474 --> 00:11:34,911 So we had to create a job, 213 00:11:34,955 --> 00:11:37,479 enough of a carrot to keep him around. 214 00:11:37,522 --> 00:11:39,002 It's a new job 215 00:11:39,046 --> 00:11:40,830 because we have antiquated computer systems at the time, 216 00:11:40,874 --> 00:11:44,138 we were in the process of renovating all these systems, 217 00:11:44,181 --> 00:11:46,096 but we weren't there yet. 218 00:11:47,184 --> 00:11:50,579 - So Robert Hanssen, he was in charge of the Analytic Unit, 219 00:11:50,622 --> 00:11:53,408 - Correct. Those analysts were looking for the mole. 220 00:11:53,451 --> 00:11:55,758 - So being that he was the bad guy, 221 00:11:55,802 --> 00:11:58,239 seeing some of the investigative results 222 00:11:58,282 --> 00:12:00,023 of some of the investigations, 223 00:12:00,067 --> 00:12:02,547 looking for a variety of moles to include himself, 224 00:12:02,591 --> 00:12:04,941 he would have access to see that. 225 00:12:04,985 --> 00:12:07,074 - It increased the complexity tremendously. 226 00:12:07,117 --> 00:12:10,077 So he knew the players, he knew the Russian players. 227 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:11,600 He knew how they operated. 228 00:12:11,643 --> 00:12:14,429 He knew how to investigate the cases. He knew a lot. 229 00:12:14,472 --> 00:12:17,214 [suspenseful music] 230 00:12:17,258 --> 00:12:19,347 - So Rich is your new boss. 231 00:12:19,390 --> 00:12:20,652 What does he tell you your job is? 232 00:12:20,696 --> 00:12:22,654 - The first was, "Don't screw up." 233 00:12:23,481 --> 00:12:26,789 Number two was to gain Hanssen's trust. 234 00:12:26,833 --> 00:12:30,010 If I didn't gain his trust, then he was never going to talk to me. 235 00:12:30,706 --> 00:12:34,144 And I had this other task I was supposed to do that I really didn't want to do, 236 00:12:34,188 --> 00:12:36,059 which was make him angry, 237 00:12:36,103 --> 00:12:39,976 we want to see how he reacts when he's stressed. 238 00:12:40,020 --> 00:12:43,327 - Day one, you walk in the office for your new job. 239 00:12:44,285 --> 00:12:47,418 - He comes strolling in. Doesn't even say a word to me. 240 00:12:47,462 --> 00:12:49,507 Goes in his office and shuts the door. 241 00:12:50,639 --> 00:12:52,119 He was a very large man, 242 00:12:52,162 --> 00:12:54,730 a lot taller than me and physically imposing. 243 00:12:55,296 --> 00:12:58,473 And after a few minutes, I thought, "I got to talk to this guy." 244 00:12:58,516 --> 00:12:59,648 - You gotta say hi. 245 00:12:59,691 --> 00:13:01,215 - I sat down across the desk from him 246 00:13:01,258 --> 00:13:02,825 and he told me, "I didn't tell you could sit." 247 00:13:02,869 --> 00:13:05,436 - Oh. - And that was our relationship. 248 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,308 I tried to fumble into a conversation. 249 00:13:07,351 --> 00:13:10,833 He stops me, throws a legal pad over at me, 250 00:13:10,877 --> 00:13:14,228 and he asks me to write down my name, my address, 251 00:13:14,271 --> 00:13:16,621 my Social Security number. And then he said, "While you're at it, 252 00:13:16,665 --> 00:13:17,971 put your parent's names there. 253 00:13:18,014 --> 00:13:19,755 You're married, right? Your wife's name, 254 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:21,583 her Social Security number, her birth date." 255 00:13:21,626 --> 00:13:23,846 What's he trying to do? 256 00:13:23,890 --> 00:13:25,979 Is he trying to challenge me? 257 00:13:26,022 --> 00:13:28,329 Or is he testing me? - We have the room wired, 258 00:13:28,372 --> 00:13:30,853 and you're listening to everything. 259 00:13:30,897 --> 00:13:33,987 How's that going? Is the system working like we thought it should? 260 00:13:34,030 --> 00:13:35,858 - Uh, no. 261 00:13:35,902 --> 00:13:37,381 His voice was very low, 262 00:13:37,425 --> 00:13:39,775 so it was hard to pick up sometimes on the microphone. 263 00:13:39,819 --> 00:13:41,385 It was very difficult because 264 00:13:41,429 --> 00:13:43,735 the systems that they put in were there; 265 00:13:43,779 --> 00:13:48,697 and to change it would be very disruptive and suspicious. 266 00:13:48,740 --> 00:13:50,786 - How do we capture what he's saying? 267 00:13:50,830 --> 00:13:53,702 - I became a human recording device. 268 00:13:53,745 --> 00:13:57,619 So I started to learn how Hanssen did what he did 269 00:13:57,662 --> 00:14:01,188 by talking to him about how we could fix cybersecurity. 270 00:14:01,231 --> 00:14:03,190 - He's talking about ACS system. 271 00:14:03,233 --> 00:14:05,105 Tell me what he told you about 272 00:14:05,148 --> 00:14:08,151 the ACS system and the failures of the Bureau. 273 00:14:08,195 --> 00:14:10,240 - It was a system to track cases, 274 00:14:10,284 --> 00:14:11,807 and one of the big ideas 275 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:14,679 is it would have interconnectivity with other agencies. 276 00:14:14,723 --> 00:14:16,551 And the way he said it is, 277 00:14:16,594 --> 00:14:20,033 "I can start typing in names of individuals, 278 00:14:20,076 --> 00:14:21,817 addresses of individuals. 279 00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:24,864 And if it comes back in the ACS system Xed out, 280 00:14:24,907 --> 00:14:26,909 it means there's an open case." 281 00:14:26,953 --> 00:14:29,912 He said that you could use it to find spies. 282 00:14:29,956 --> 00:14:32,784 You could use it to find investigations into spies. 283 00:14:32,828 --> 00:14:35,352 And then if you learned that information, you could drop it. 284 00:14:35,396 --> 00:14:37,180 Even though you can't see the information, 285 00:14:37,224 --> 00:14:39,008 he said, "You could make a fortune 286 00:14:39,052 --> 00:14:42,403 by dropping that to a foreign intelligence agency." 287 00:14:43,143 --> 00:14:44,971 Essentially, what Hanssen was doing 288 00:14:45,014 --> 00:14:47,625 was telling me how you could exploit the ACS system 289 00:14:47,669 --> 00:14:50,759 if you were a spy and make a ton of money from it. 290 00:14:52,326 --> 00:14:55,982 And he says, "I want to tell you the only thing you need to know 291 00:14:56,025 --> 00:14:58,071 to be a successful counterintelligence agent. 292 00:14:58,114 --> 00:15:00,725 The spy is in the worst possible place." 293 00:15:00,769 --> 00:15:02,945 Why the hell is he telling me this? 294 00:15:02,989 --> 00:15:05,861 He's clearly trying to play me but how? 295 00:15:05,905 --> 00:15:08,733 And he says, "The spy is that person 296 00:15:08,777 --> 00:15:10,605 who has access to the information 297 00:15:10,648 --> 00:15:12,520 that will do the most damage 298 00:15:12,563 --> 00:15:14,261 and the knowledge and the wherewithal 299 00:15:14,304 --> 00:15:17,133 to get that in the hands of those who will pay the most for it. 300 00:15:17,177 --> 00:15:20,223 And that, Eric, is what we are here to defend against." 301 00:15:20,876 --> 00:15:23,487 I'm thinking, "I'm in FBI headquarters. 302 00:15:23,531 --> 00:15:26,099 This is the worst possible place for a spy." 303 00:15:32,496 --> 00:15:35,195 - How complex did that make doing a criminal matter 304 00:15:35,238 --> 00:15:36,848 when the subject is right in your house? 305 00:15:36,892 --> 00:15:39,982 - We didn't know how much Hanssen knew 306 00:15:40,026 --> 00:15:41,592 about what we were doing. 307 00:15:41,636 --> 00:15:43,594 So we had to find out, 308 00:15:43,638 --> 00:15:46,293 what is he doing in our computer system? 309 00:15:46,336 --> 00:15:47,555 What is he following? 310 00:15:48,295 --> 00:15:51,211 Has he been reading about the other cases? 311 00:15:52,255 --> 00:15:55,693 - How much surveillance support did we use in this case? 312 00:15:55,737 --> 00:15:59,741 - We had physical surveillance and we had technical surveillance both for 24/7. 313 00:15:59,784 --> 00:16:03,963 We had to go out and brief the surveillance teams 314 00:16:04,006 --> 00:16:07,792 and let them know. "If you know Robert Hanssen or if there's any 315 00:16:07,836 --> 00:16:10,143 chance that he knows you or your face, 316 00:16:10,186 --> 00:16:13,537 you will not work this case. He's armed. 317 00:16:14,712 --> 00:16:17,193 He has a gun. We know he's trained to use it." 318 00:16:18,890 --> 00:16:21,502 So we had to designate him as 'A and D'. 319 00:16:21,545 --> 00:16:24,766 So that meant that for each surveillance shift, 320 00:16:24,809 --> 00:16:27,160 an agent with a gun had to be on that shift. 321 00:16:27,203 --> 00:16:29,727 And there were over 300 people who worked it. 322 00:16:29,771 --> 00:16:32,948 - How is this one different besides the fact that it was an FBI agent? 323 00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:35,603 - An espionage investigation can go on for years. 324 00:16:35,646 --> 00:16:37,474 This case, we didn't have that luxury. 325 00:16:37,518 --> 00:16:39,476 We didn't know whether or not he was still active. 326 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,176 Is he still committing espionage or has he is he just 327 00:16:43,219 --> 00:16:45,091 on ice and not doing anything right now? 328 00:16:45,134 --> 00:16:46,875 And that was one of the burning questions. 329 00:16:46,918 --> 00:16:48,833 [suspenseful music] 330 00:16:48,877 --> 00:16:51,314 [Eric]: Hanssen was a control freak. 331 00:16:52,576 --> 00:16:54,056 He had to maintain control 332 00:16:54,100 --> 00:16:56,319 and he wanted me to react to him. 333 00:16:56,363 --> 00:16:57,929 I had a desk in the main area 334 00:16:57,973 --> 00:17:01,368 and he had a separate smaller office right off that. 335 00:17:02,108 --> 00:17:05,807 And there was one time I was working on something for him on my laptop, 336 00:17:05,849 --> 00:17:09,244 and he came around behind me, he put his hands on my shoulders 337 00:17:09,289 --> 00:17:12,204 in a real creepy way, sort of leaned his chest against my back. 338 00:17:12,248 --> 00:17:16,078 And If you look here, this is my desk here, right? 339 00:17:16,122 --> 00:17:18,602 This is a pit area. There was never going to be anyone here. 340 00:17:18,646 --> 00:17:19,733 - Right. - Here's my desk. 341 00:17:19,777 --> 00:17:21,910 I've surrounded my desk with chairs. 342 00:17:21,953 --> 00:17:26,045 I actually moved a file cabinet and a computer stand 343 00:17:26,088 --> 00:17:29,222 to make it impossible for him to come around behind me. 344 00:17:29,265 --> 00:17:32,138 [suspenseful music] 345 00:17:32,181 --> 00:17:35,532 - So what did we learn about Hanssen's lifestyle? 346 00:17:35,576 --> 00:17:39,014 - We learned that there was some deviancy there with Hanssen. 347 00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:42,061 For instance, with his friend Jack Hoschouer, 348 00:17:43,149 --> 00:17:45,281 Jack would visit their home 349 00:17:45,325 --> 00:17:47,501 and Hanssen would, 350 00:17:47,544 --> 00:17:50,939 you know, allow or tell Jack, basically, 351 00:17:50,982 --> 00:17:55,074 where to stand outside of the home 352 00:17:55,117 --> 00:17:59,991 so he could watch Hanssen and his wife together. 353 00:18:01,515 --> 00:18:04,692 He set up a feed in a room that Jack stayed in 354 00:18:04,735 --> 00:18:07,738 so that he could also watch them together. 355 00:18:07,782 --> 00:18:10,611 - So when you say that he set up a feed so that Jack could watch 356 00:18:10,654 --> 00:18:12,134 he and his wife together, 357 00:18:12,178 --> 00:18:15,703 do you mean sexually? - Yes, I do mean sexually, yes. 358 00:18:15,746 --> 00:18:18,358 - Does his wife know about this? - His wife did not know. 359 00:18:18,401 --> 00:18:19,750 We learned too 360 00:18:19,794 --> 00:18:21,665 that Hanssen befriended a dancer, a stripper... 361 00:18:21,709 --> 00:18:24,712 [suspenseful music] 362 00:18:24,755 --> 00:18:25,930 ...Priscilla Sue Galey. 363 00:18:27,584 --> 00:18:30,370 Both say that it was not a sexual relationship, 364 00:18:30,413 --> 00:18:33,155 but he purchased certain things for her. 365 00:18:33,199 --> 00:18:34,809 He gave her money to fix her teeth. 366 00:18:34,852 --> 00:18:38,160 He gave her a used Mercedes Benz. He gave her a credit card. 367 00:18:40,249 --> 00:18:43,252 He was on inspection, what we call inspection at the time. 368 00:18:43,296 --> 00:18:46,037 And they'd go out and inspect different areas of the FBI. 369 00:18:46,081 --> 00:18:48,823 - He took her on a trip abroad. - So I just want to clarify. 370 00:18:48,866 --> 00:18:54,220 Robert Hanssen took his stripper friend on an inspection mission? 371 00:18:54,263 --> 00:18:55,221 - Yes. 372 00:18:58,876 --> 00:19:01,444 He went to church during the day, 373 00:19:01,488 --> 00:19:03,838 and then he would stop and see Priscilla 374 00:19:03,881 --> 00:19:05,753 in the evening on his way home from work. 375 00:19:05,796 --> 00:19:08,234 So he betrayed everything and everyone. 376 00:19:08,277 --> 00:19:10,453 He was not loyal to anyone. 377 00:19:10,497 --> 00:19:14,457 - There was another time I was sitting in one of the chairs in front of my desk, 378 00:19:14,501 --> 00:19:18,853 and he comes over and he puts his leg up on the armrest of the chair. 379 00:19:18,896 --> 00:19:22,335 So then I'm staring right at his crotch. 380 00:19:22,378 --> 00:19:24,902 And I just got up 381 00:19:24,946 --> 00:19:26,861 and I moved away and I'm like, "What are you doing?" 382 00:19:26,904 --> 00:19:29,690 So I think a lot of this was power. 383 00:19:29,733 --> 00:19:31,648 [suspenseful music] 384 00:19:31,692 --> 00:19:33,302 [Kristy]: That's what it seems like. 385 00:19:33,346 --> 00:19:35,217 It seems like he was constantly invading your personal space, 386 00:19:35,261 --> 00:19:37,176 physically and emotionally as well. 387 00:19:38,612 --> 00:19:42,006 - He was particularly interested in my personal life, 388 00:19:42,050 --> 00:19:45,227 in my marriage, in why my wife and I, 389 00:19:45,271 --> 00:19:47,969 even though we had been married, what, four months at the time, 390 00:19:48,012 --> 00:19:49,405 didn't have children yet, 391 00:19:49,449 --> 00:19:52,930 about my religion, about how I was disobeying 392 00:19:52,974 --> 00:19:56,151 the precepts of my religion by not getting my wife pregnant. 393 00:19:56,195 --> 00:19:58,762 I remember coming in once, 394 00:19:58,806 --> 00:20:02,375 and he's at my desk, on my phone. 395 00:20:02,418 --> 00:20:04,115 I said, "Who are you talking to?" 396 00:20:04,159 --> 00:20:06,770 And he said, "Oh, I'm having a conversation with Juliana," 397 00:20:06,814 --> 00:20:11,427 my wife, and I remember feeling so angry. 398 00:20:11,471 --> 00:20:13,995 It was visceral, it was a gut check. 399 00:20:15,605 --> 00:20:18,608 So as we're collecting evidence for the criminal case, 400 00:20:18,652 --> 00:20:21,655 what are some of the things we want ideally to get? 401 00:20:21,698 --> 00:20:24,571 - We knew he was writing notes on this Palm Pilot. 402 00:20:24,614 --> 00:20:27,051 [suspenseful music] 403 00:20:27,791 --> 00:20:31,360 - Hanssen had a routine where he kept the thing in his back pocket all the time. 404 00:20:31,404 --> 00:20:34,929 Always one back left pocket. Any time he sat down, 405 00:20:34,972 --> 00:20:37,105 he'd pull it out of his pocket and put it in his bag. 406 00:20:37,148 --> 00:20:39,542 And I thought, there has to be information on here. 407 00:20:39,586 --> 00:20:42,066 He's never separated from it. 408 00:20:42,110 --> 00:20:44,373 He talks about it more than his children, 409 00:20:44,417 --> 00:20:47,985 and he's told me that he's written the encryption on it himself. 410 00:20:48,029 --> 00:20:50,553 - Is there a possibility that he's going to leave it behind 411 00:20:50,597 --> 00:20:52,207 if he has to go someplace? 412 00:20:52,251 --> 00:20:53,948 - We used everything that we learned about Hanssen. 413 00:20:53,991 --> 00:20:56,037 He was a narcissist. 414 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,170 So, being challenged meant that he had to show superiority 415 00:20:59,214 --> 00:21:01,434 and he really loves to shoot. 416 00:21:01,477 --> 00:21:03,479 And we came up with this idea that 417 00:21:03,523 --> 00:21:06,047 Rich and the assistant director, 418 00:21:06,090 --> 00:21:08,745 were going to come in unannounced. 419 00:21:08,789 --> 00:21:12,880 - So we set up a firearms shoot, at FBI headquarters. 420 00:21:14,273 --> 00:21:16,623 We have a range in the basement. 421 00:21:16,666 --> 00:21:20,104 [suspenseful music] 422 00:21:20,148 --> 00:21:23,020 - So they interrupt him and they literally 423 00:21:23,064 --> 00:21:26,067 slap $20 on his desk and said, "You and me at the range now. 424 00:21:26,110 --> 00:21:28,678 And I bet you that $20, 5 targets out of 5, I can beat you." 425 00:21:28,722 --> 00:21:30,637 - And what was Hanssen's reaction to that? 426 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,639 Because now you're picking him up and you're like, "Let's go, Sparky." 427 00:21:32,682 --> 00:21:35,424 - So now he's mad. He grabs his ear protection, eye protection, 428 00:21:35,468 --> 00:21:38,558 he holsters his firearm, he gets up and he stumbles off after them. 429 00:21:38,601 --> 00:21:40,908 And for the first time, he forgets that Palm Pilot. 430 00:21:42,997 --> 00:21:46,043 - We knew Hanssen had a lot of interest in guns and weapons like that. 431 00:21:46,087 --> 00:21:48,524 And he always wanted to challenge me in the shooting competition 432 00:21:48,568 --> 00:21:51,353 because he figured that he's got to do something 433 00:21:51,397 --> 00:21:53,877 to show that he's superior to me. 434 00:21:53,921 --> 00:21:57,054 [suspenseful music] 435 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:00,144 - So he's out of the office. 436 00:22:00,188 --> 00:22:02,538 [shots are fired] 437 00:22:09,284 --> 00:22:11,068 What are you up to? 438 00:22:11,112 --> 00:22:15,159 - The Palm Pilot was in his bag, right? It was a Palm 3X. 439 00:22:15,203 --> 00:22:16,596 - Wow. 440 00:22:16,639 --> 00:22:17,945 - I go to his bag. 441 00:22:17,988 --> 00:22:19,468 There are four identical pockets. 442 00:22:19,512 --> 00:22:22,079 I open all four and I find the PalmPilot, 443 00:22:22,123 --> 00:22:24,778 but I also find a data card and a floppy disk. 444 00:22:24,821 --> 00:22:27,041 Remember, we're going back to 2001 at this point. - Oh, yeah. 445 00:22:27,084 --> 00:22:29,348 - My heart is pounding. I'm really excited. 446 00:22:29,391 --> 00:22:31,132 I really wanted to get this thing. 447 00:22:31,175 --> 00:22:33,700 I believe that the information we wanted was on it. 448 00:22:33,743 --> 00:22:37,268 So I just grabbed all three things, decided I don't have a lot of time, 449 00:22:37,312 --> 00:22:40,663 ran down three flights of stairs where Rich had set up a tech room 450 00:22:40,707 --> 00:22:44,406 where these computer techs were just ready for whatever I brought down, 451 00:22:44,450 --> 00:22:46,103 any level of encryption. 452 00:22:47,191 --> 00:22:50,412 They hooked up the devices and said, "Yes, it is encrypted. 453 00:22:50,456 --> 00:22:52,632 We're just going to copy it now 454 00:22:52,675 --> 00:22:54,329 and we'll break the encryption later." 455 00:22:54,373 --> 00:22:56,113 - Right. - I could literally see 456 00:22:56,157 --> 00:22:57,506 they're using a program called Norton Ghost. 457 00:22:57,550 --> 00:23:00,944 They're cloning it. And I see the 83%. 458 00:23:00,988 --> 00:23:03,425 And I get a text on my pager saying 459 00:23:03,469 --> 00:23:06,080 'out of pocket coming to you'. 460 00:23:08,474 --> 00:23:10,084 They kick me out of the room. 461 00:23:10,127 --> 00:23:11,999 They're like, "You're disrupting us." 462 00:23:12,042 --> 00:23:15,698 So I knock on the door. I'm like, "I'm going to need those devices." 463 00:23:15,742 --> 00:23:17,787 And they're like, "We're almost done." 464 00:23:17,831 --> 00:23:21,312 I said, "You don't understand. He's armed. I'm not. He's angry. 465 00:23:22,183 --> 00:23:24,881 And if I don't get up there before him, he's going to shoot me!" 466 00:23:30,191 --> 00:23:33,063 [narrator]: Next time on FBI True. 467 00:23:33,107 --> 00:23:36,676 - This wasn't just a spy. It was the spy. 468 00:23:37,459 --> 00:23:41,898 - The information that he gave caused irreparable damage to the US government. 469 00:23:41,942 --> 00:23:44,684 - This is a big case. There is no getting out. 470 00:23:44,727 --> 00:23:49,428 - He caused the death of three sources by giving up their identities. 471 00:23:49,471 --> 00:23:52,953 He did leave a mark on the Foxstone Park sign 472 00:23:52,996 --> 00:23:55,912 to let the Russians know that he's made a drop. 473 00:23:55,956 --> 00:23:58,393 - If Hanssen determines that you betrayed him, 474 00:23:58,437 --> 00:24:00,482 he would commit violence against you. 475 00:24:00,526 --> 00:24:03,180 - He grabs me by the lapel. He lifts me up onto my toes. 476 00:24:03,224 --> 00:24:06,009 - Did he have a weapon on him? Would he try to use it? 477 00:24:06,053 --> 00:24:07,533 - There's no way I got this right. 478 00:24:07,576 --> 00:24:09,056 The odds are impossible. 479 00:24:13,539 --> 00:24:16,455 Subtitles: difuze