CI/Security Awareness Training

This course will explore the story behind one of the most complex and damaging espionage cases in US history: FBI Supervisory Special Agent Robert Hanssen. It is given by those who knew him best—longtime FBI coworkers and supervisors.

• Who was Hanssen?

• What were his motivations?

• How did he operate and what kind of damage did he do to US national security?

The highlight of this day is a tour of the actual dead drops and signal sites in Northern Virginia used by Hanssen to clandestinely pass over 6,000 classified documents to the Soviet KGB and Russian SVR.

 

The damage done at each dead drop is explained, along with a discussion on how Hanssen could operate for such a long period of time without being detected.

 

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On Sunday, February 18, 2001, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Robert Hanssen woke up a free man.

 

But that afternoon, at 4:43 pm in a park in his hometown of Vienna, Virginia, his life would drastically change forever for the worse.

 

While loading a dead drop of highly classified US documents under a bridge at Foxstone Park for his Russian handlers, he was arrested by the FBI on charges of spying for the Russian intelligence service, SVR. He went to sleep that night in jail.

 

SpyDrive®: The Robert Hanssen Case takes place in Northern Virginia and you will see different sites than those seen on the regular SpyDrive®.

 

The professors will show you where Hanssen operated as a spy and other locations related to the case.

 

You will receive an in-depth review of the most damaging spy case in US history. You will learn about Hanssen's life, his work, his operational activity, his handlers and the events leading to his capture on that February day.

 

There is no other place you can get such a comprehensive look at one of the most unusual and damaging spy cases.

 

Retired senior FBI Supervisory Special Agent David Major is a leading expert in counterintelligence, knew Hanssen and has studied this case in great depth.