The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History
by David A. Vise
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The New York Times–bestselling "first-rate spy story" of the FBI agent who sold top-secret information to the Russians for more than twenty years (Entertainment Weekly).Drawing from a wide variety of sources in the FBI, the Justice Department, the White House, and the intelligence community, Pulitzer Prize–winning author David A. Vise tells the story of how FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Philip Hanssen employed the very sources and methods his own nation had entrusted to him in a show more devious game of deceit—simply because he had something to prove. Vise also interweaves the narrative of how FBI director Louis B. Freeh led the government's desperate search for its betrayer among its own ranks, from the false leads, to the near misses, to its ultimate, shocking conclusion. Fascinating, gripping, and provocative, The Bureau and the Mole is a harrowing tale of how one man's treachery rocked a fraternity built on fidelity, bravery, and integrity—and how the dedicated perseverance of another brought him to justice.
"Absorbing . . . Vise's account of Mr. Hanssen's road to becoming a double agent is fascinating." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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Somewhat of a dual biography of former FBI director Louis Freeh and American Traitor Robert Hanssen. Unfortunately you'll finish this book wanting more. Simply due to the nature of espionage, details of the case are few and far between, but I couldn't find any better wrap up of the Hanssen case than what Vise laid out. It's a well written book about a sad piece of American History.
Pretty lame. Not much juicy stuff. But Hanssen certainly was / is weird. The Louis Freeh bit is just used to fill out the book.
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En mycket bra bok för alla oss som gillar spionage dokumentärer. Denna bok handlar om en av dom , Robert Hansen och som kanske är den som har skadat sitt land mest av alla.
Jun 9, 2014Swedish
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David A. Vise David A. Vise was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a 1982 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and has earned an MBA from the Wharton School, as well as an Honorary Doctorate of Literary Letters from Cumberland University. A former Wall Street investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Vise also studied at the London School show more of Economics. He started his career in journalism at The Tennessean, first as a copyboy and later as an intern reporter. Eventually he became a reporter for The Washington Post and covers the FBI and the Justice Department. Vise won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for a four-part Washington Post series, "The Man from Wall Street: John Shad's Reign at the SEC," and received the 1990 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, the 1992 Distinguished Alumnus Award from University School of Nashville, and numerous awards from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association for coverage of the nation's capital city. He is the coauthor of "Eagle on the Street," a book about the Securities and Exchange Commission and Wall Street's insider trading scandal of the 1980s. He is also working on a movie based on "The Bureau and the Mole", in development from Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney's Touchstone Pictures. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2002
- People/Characters
- Robert Philip Hanssen; Louis Freeh
- Important places
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Dedication
- To our daughters, Lisa, Allison, and Jennifer
And especially to Lori
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 327.1247073 — Society, government, & culture Political science International Relations: Spies Foreign policy and specific topics in international relations Espionage and subversion Intelligence Gathering - Europe
- LCC
- UB271 .R92 .H372 — Military Science Military administration Military administration Intelligence
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.25)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 6
