Convicted Spy Robert Hanssen Dies in Prison

Facts

A US Bureau of Prisons spokesperson has revealed that former FBI agent and convicted Soviet spy Robert Hanssen was found dead in his prison cell on Monday morning.¹
Hanssen, whose cause of death is yet unconfirmed, served in the FBI from 1976 until in arrest in 2001 and subsequent life sentence in 2002 for espionage. He received over $1.4M in cash, diamonds, and money paid into Russian accounts for sending classified material to Russia and the USSR.²
In 1979, Hanssen approached the USSR and spied on behalf of the KGB, as well as its successor agency SVR, for 20 years. His 2001 arrest followed a months-long FBI investigation.³
Approximately 300 personnel were involved in the investigation, which culminated in him getting caught making a "dead drop" of classified information at a park in suburban Virginia.⁴
The FBI says Hanssen provided Russian and Soviet handlers with approximately "6,000 pages of valuable documentary material" as well as 26 computer disks under the alias of "Ramon Garcia." He also allegedly helped expose a secret US tunnel under the Soviet Embassy in Washington used for eavesdropping.⁵
After the 79-year-old was unresponsive, it was noted that staff requested emergency medical services to try and save his life, with the spokesperson adding that no staff or inmates were injured.⁶

Pro-Russia narrative, as provided by RT. The story of Hanssen explains less about Russian espionage than it does American incompetence. Now holding an abysmal espionage record in post-Soviet Russia, it's thanks to the likes of Hanssen that an entire portfolio of CIA and FBI spies were found and rounded up, with America never fully recovering from the blow to its credibility.
Anti-Russia narrative, as provided by Independent. A surprisingly devout and conservative family man, Hanssen's ruthlessly efficient espionage has been deemed by many as one of the worst intelligence disasters in US history. A story of shocking betrayal, becoming one of America's most notorious criminals, his death within the maximum-security complex is an inglorious end to a life of treachery.