that the absence of evidence could indicate a skilled concealment, leading to a mole hunt that damaged trust and careers. The cases of Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and Yuri Nosenko illustrate the dangers of recursive logic and the need for 360-degree vision in counterintelligence, where the search for certaint

that the absence of evidence could indicate a skilled concealment, leading to a mole hunt that damaged trust and careers. The cases of Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, and Yuri Nosenko illustrate the dangers of recursive logic and the need for 360-degree vision in counterintelligence, where the search for certaint

Us All An opinion piece from the Daily Mail (07/15, O'Neill) reported that Eric O'Neill, the former FBI operative who helped capture notorious spy Robert Hanssen, warned that cybercrime today is the modern evolution of espionage and poses a national security threat as serious as any traditional spy case. Fram

overnment Happening Now Washington Times (08/12, Lovelace) reported that Eric O'Neill, a former FBI investigator renowned for his role in capturing Robert Hanssen, a notorious Russian spy, warned of ongoing foreign espionage activities within the U.S. government. According to the article, O'Neill, speaking at

ests are unreliable and can be used to falsely accuse innocent people, with examples including the failure to detect spies such as Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, who either passed polygraph exams or were never given one. Continued Reporting: U.S. Intelligence Worker Arrested for 'Trying to Leak Secrets to Ge

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be used to motivate someone to “act alone” in gathering espionage material. I next turned to an even more important KGB coup with Cher- kashin: the Robert Hanssen case. From the KGB’s perspective, Hans- sen was an extraordinary espionage source. He was a walk-in who @ never entered the Soviet embassy or met wi

are sent over the Internet. He told Greenwald, for example, that encryption was “critically necessary” for anyone to evade NSA surveillance. Just as Robert Hanssen had deliberately compromised the NSA’s interception of Soviet communications in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, Snowden deliberately compromised the

ly mean such a mole does not exist. Historically, we have many notable cases in which Russian moles eluded intensive investigations for many decades. Robert Hanssen served as a KGB penetration in the FBI for over 20 years without being caught. Similarly, Aldrich Ames, acted as a KGB mole in the CIA for more than

on the NSA payroll in May 2013. If he intended to damage the NSA’s ability to monitor unsuspecting individuals abroad, he clearly succeeded. Just as Robert Hanssen had compromised the NSA’s interception of communication at the Soviet Embassy in the 1990s, Snowden compromised the NSA’s interception of Jihadist ta