-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! TREASON HUNT 'Clever' FBI spy left sloppy trail Hanssen telegraphed his activities, yet Freeh failed to pick up signals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- By Paul Sperry © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- Media reports have described former FBI special agent Robert Philip Hanssen as "clever," since he allegedly managed to sell secrets to Russia unmolested for more than 15 years. But a closer look at his activities reveals he didn't do a thorough, or even particularly careful, job of covering his tracks -- making it even harder to understand how the FBI could have failed to pick up his scent until "late last year," as FBI Director Louis Freeh has said. Agents who worked with Hanssen, arrested Sunday, have been quoted this week as saying he was a pro who knew how to avoid triggering any internal alarms. He didn't flash cash, make big bank deposits or travel extensively abroad -- all warning signs of a mole. But according to the government's 100-page complaint and clues uncovered by WorldNetDaily, he telegraphed his activities in other ways, including: Leaving a memory storage card in his FBI office that contained letters he allegedly wrote by computer to his Russian handlers. Making more than 70 searches over the past several years of an FBI counterintelligence database to see if his name, address, names of secret drop sites or Russia showed up, which would have signaled that the agency's spy-hunters were on to him. By doing this, Hanssen left a digital trail that the FBI could easily have audited. Using a flashlight to search a signpost by the side of a road for a cash pick-up signal -- in the form of a piece of white medical adhesive tape -- after slowly driving by the designated site several times in frustration. Leaving a roll of Johnson & Johnson white adhesive tape and thumbtacks in the glove box of his car. He allegedly used the materials -- tried and true in the spy business -- to leave his own signals at drop sites for Russian agents. Leaving boxes of classified FBI documents in the trunk of his car, along with black trash bags he allegedly used to waterproof the classified packages he left at drop sites. (Agents from the FBI's National Security Division searched Hanssen's car long before his arrest -- without him ever knowing it. They put everything back the way they found it, undisturbed, as they did when they secretly searched his office and found the memory storage card. Hanssen, a specialist in the foreign counterintelligence field, knew better than anyone that counterintelligence agents could get a secret warrant and conduct such searches, yet he left the incriminating evidence in his car anyway.) Secreting packages under a jogging-park footbridge in plain view of two homes located within 50 yards of the bridge. (The same park, Foxstone, is also within walking distance of Hanssen's Vienna, Va., home and where he was arrested after allegedly leaving a classified package for Russian agents.) Connecting his home computer to his own separate server to access the Internet, making it harder for the government to monitor his email traffic. USA Today reported yesterday that Hanssen once openly "hacked" into the office computer of the FBI's top Russian counterintelligence official in the early 1990s. But agents have responded that the move didn't raise red flags, because Hanssen was demonstrating the vulnerability of the system during a meeting. Democratic Sen. Bob Graham, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Hanssen -- who allegedly got more than $600,000 in cash and diamonds from the Russians -- was motivated by one thing: "greed." But over 15 years of payments, Hanssen apparently didn't spend the cash, driving a Ford Taurus and living in a modest home he'd owned since 1987. According to letters he allegedly wrote to Russian agents, he asked them to launder the cash through Swiss banks, but to no avail. By never really pushing the issue hard, Hanssen seemed in no rush to convert the cash into currency he could safely spend, which belies a rapacious impulse. He also said in one letter that he wanted the diamonds as an investment for his children. Hanssen, who at least so far doesn't appear to be a major communist sympathizer, may have committed espionage simply for the thrill of the game. Hanssen's FBI colleagues say he was smart, but arrogant about it. Criminal profilers say smart, ego-driven perpetrators eventually yearn to be caught -- like the successful cat burglar who targets the same houses or the arsonist who returns to the scene -- so they can brag about their feats to detectives and the press. 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