Failure of counterintelligence analysis has led to leaks and exposures of numerous classified materials/missions. Insider threats come from individuals who operate inside friendly intelligence and national security organizations who purposefully set out to cause disruption, destruction, and commit crimes to those ends. Every member working within the Intelligence Community must remain vigilant for indicators of an insider threat in their work centers. As well as family members and friends as well. According to the DoD Insider Threat Mitigation Report, an " insider is anyone who is or has been authorized access to a DoD information system, whether a military member, a DoD civilian employee, or employee of another Federal agency or the private
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After 2 years, he was transferred to New York City. Here, Hanssen didn’t like the attitude of other FBI agents, and was struggling to meet ends every month. He decided to use his position in the FBI to his advantage. Hanssen approached KGB agents, in return for money. Hanssen, was caught counting money he received from the KGB by his wife in the basement. Instead of alerting the authorities, she told him to confess his actions to an Opus Dei priest. “The priest instructed him to give up his activities and to donate the money he received to Mother Theresa’s charities.”(Ibid) Hanssen agreed, and stopped spying for several years.
Hanssen knew “that the FBI was not conducting surveillance on Victor Degtyar, a KGB Colonel living in Alexandria, Virginia. Hanssen therefore sent a letter to Degtyar, with instructions to pass another letter on to Victor Cherkashin, the head of Soviet espionage efforts in Washington.” (Ibid) Because of this, he began passing classified documents to the KGB in returned for more money. He exposed 3 double agents, who were executed shortly after. (Of Spies and Saints, 2006) Throughout his years of spying, Hanssen passed over classified information that included the following:
Increased the prospect of nuclear war by compromising the Continuity of Government Plan, the super-secret program to ensure the survival of the president and U.S. government operations …show more content…
“They found a former KGB agent who now worked as a businessman in Russia and offered him upwards of $7 million to reveal the identity of the mole for whom they had been searching”.(IBID). This information didn’t provided a name, however it did reveal the “the mole talking to his Russian handler as well as files he had received and included the plastic bags in which they were delivered”. (IBID) After examination of the bag, it was revealed that the fingerprint was Robert Hanssen. “His voice was eventually recognized by a fellow agent who recalled Hanssen is uttering the same quote from General George Patton that was heard on the recording”(IBID) After beginning surveillance on him, the FBI witness him making numerous trips to Foxstone Park, where Hanssen checked for a signal that the Russians were ready to trade information for
After 2 years, he was transferred to New York City. Here, Hanssen didn’t like the attitude of other FBI agents, and was struggling to meet ends every month. He decided to use his position in the FBI to his advantage. Hanssen approached KGB agents, in return for money. Hanssen, was caught counting money he received from the KGB by his wife in the basement. Instead of alerting the authorities, she told him to confess his actions to an Opus Dei priest. “The priest instructed him to give up his activities and to donate the money he received to Mother Theresa’s charities.”(Ibid) Hanssen agreed, and stopped spying for several years.
Hanssen knew “that the FBI was not conducting surveillance on Victor Degtyar, a KGB Colonel living in Alexandria, Virginia. Hanssen therefore sent a letter to Degtyar, with instructions to pass another letter on to Victor Cherkashin, the head of Soviet espionage efforts in Washington.” (Ibid) Because of this, he began passing classified documents to the KGB in returned for more money. He exposed 3 double agents, who were executed shortly after. (Of Spies and Saints, 2006) Throughout his years of spying, Hanssen passed over classified information that included the following:
Increased the prospect of nuclear war by compromising the Continuity of Government Plan, the super-secret program to ensure the survival of the president and U.S. government operations …show more content…
“They found a former KGB agent who now worked as a businessman in Russia and offered him upwards of $7 million to reveal the identity of the mole for whom they had been searching”.(IBID). This information didn’t provided a name, however it did reveal the “the mole talking to his Russian handler as well as files he had received and included the plastic bags in which they were delivered”. (IBID) After examination of the bag, it was revealed that the fingerprint was Robert Hanssen. “His voice was eventually recognized by a fellow agent who recalled Hanssen is uttering the same quote from General George Patton that was heard on the recording”(IBID) After beginning surveillance on him, the FBI witness him making numerous trips to Foxstone Park, where Hanssen checked for a signal that the Russians were ready to trade information for