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Judge Hilton sentences Hanssen to 15 consecutive life terms; the FBI agent will never leave prison

Over 22 years, Hanssen sold six thousand classified documents, nuclear war strategies, and the names of double agents to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash, diamonds, and Rolex watches.

On May 10, 2002, U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton sentenced FBI agent Robert Hanssen to 15 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole. Hanssen had spent 22 years selling some six thousand classified documents to Soviet and Russian intelligence — nuclear war strategies, double-agent identities, and the location of a secret FBI eavesdropping tunnel beneath the Soviet Embassy — all for $1.4 million in cash, diamonds, and Rolex watches. The Department of Justice called it "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history."…

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