TRAITORS

 Hello ladies and gents this is the Viking telling you that today we are talking about

Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames

Robert Hanssen was a former FBI counterintelligence agent and a current life prisoner at the ADX Florence Supermax Prison in Colorado. He is currently serving fifteen life sentences for betraying US secrets to the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation. 

His treachery has been described as the “worst intelligence disaster in US History.” Hanssen began selling US secrets only a few years after beginning his career at the FBI. The Soviets paid Hanssen upwards of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds for the information. When the FBI asked his motivation for selling out his country, Hanssen claimed his only motivation was profit.

Along with a litany of other secrets, Hanssen is responsible for selling out another traitor, Dmitri Polyakov, a Soviet general who secretly worked for the USA. Strangely enough, Dmitri Polyakov wasn't arrested by the Soviets until yet another American traitor by the name of Aldrich Ames, a CIA counterintelligence agent, disclosed the same information to the Soviets years later. Aldrich Ames is also serving a life sentence for the largest intelligence disasters in US History.

And as always have a chilled day from the Viking