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Read the book: https://amzn.to/3yWLdxT Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America is a 2002 non-fiction book by David Wise. It is about the Robert Hanssen case. Publishers Weekly stated that the author "covers aspects of the case that have been largely neglected to date" due to the information from people involved in the case and how Wise placed the central figure, Hanssen, in context. The CIA had asked Wise to not state the name of a CIA employee who was erroneously accused of spying before Hanssen; Wise stated that the agency gave him "intense pressure" but he refused to do so. Instead he criticized the agency in a subsequent The New York Times op-ed article. Kirkus concluded that it is "a first-rate true-crime story" and that the author's writing was done "well and capably". Publishers Weekly stated that the book is "so far, the definitive account of" the case and that it was "Well researched and ably written". CIA spokesperson Bill Harlow criticized the book, stating it was "otherwise unremarkable" and that it went "on the market with a resounding thud". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy:_The_Inside_Story_of_How_the_FBI%27s_Robert_Hanssen_Betrayed_America David Wise (May 10, 1930 – October 8, 2018) was an American journalist and author who worked for the New York Herald-Tribune in the 1950s and 1960s, and published a series of non-fiction books on espionage and US politics as well as several spy novels. His book The Politics of Lying: Government Deception, Secrecy, and Power (1973) won the George Polk Award (Book category, 1973), and the George Orwell Award (1975). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wise_(journalist) The Hanssen spy case is told in Ronald Kessler's book The Secrets of the FBI in chapter 15, "Catching Hanssen," chapter 16, "Breach", and chapter 17, "Unexplained Cash", based in part on interviews with Michael Rochford, who headed the FBI team that eventually caught Hanssen after initially wrongly focusing on a CIA officer as the master spy.[72] Hanssen was the subject of a 2002 made-for-television movie, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, with the teleplay by Norman Mailer and starring William Hurt as Hanssen. Hanssen's jailers allowed him to watch this movie, but he was so angered by it that he turned it off.[73] Eric O'Neill's role in the capture of Robert Hanssen was dramatized in the 2007 film Breach, in which Chris Cooper played the role of Hanssen and Ryan Phillippe played O'Neill.[74] The 2007 documentary Superspy: The Man Who Betrayed the West describes the hunt to trap Hanssen. Hanssen is mentioned in chapter 5 of Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code, as the most noted Opus Dei member to non-members. Because of his sexual deviancy and espionage conviction, the organization's reputation was badly hurt.[75] The American Court TV (now TruTV) television series Mugshots released an episode on the Robert Hanssen case titled "Robert Hanssen – Hanssen and the KGB".[76] The investigation is covered in O'Neill's memoir Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy, published by Penguin Random House in spring 2019.[77] David Wise wrote Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America. Hanssen's story was featured in episode 4, under the name of "Perfect Traitor", of Smithsonian Channel's series Spy Wars, aired end of 2019 and narrated by Damian Lewis.[78] Hanssen is also mentioned in the seventh episode of The History Channel series America's Book of Secrets, as well as in the fifth episode of Netflix series Spycraft. At Hanssen's suggestion, and without the knowledge of his wife, a friend named Jack Hoschouer, a retired Army officer, would sometimes watch the Hanssens having sex through a bedroom window. Hanssen then began to secretly videotape his sexual encounters and shared the videotapes with Hoschouer. Later, he hid a video camera in the bedroom that was connected via closed-circuit television line so that Hoschouer could observe the Hanssens from his guest bedroom.[68] He also explicitly described the sexual details of his marriage on Internet chat rooms, giving information sufficient for those who knew them to recognize the couple.[69] Hanssen frequently visited D.C. strip clubs and spent a great deal of time with a Washington stripper named Priscilla Sue Galey. She went with Hanssen on a trip to Hong Kong and on a visit to the FBI training facility in Quantico, Virginia. Hanssen gave her money, jewels, and a used Mercedes-Benz, but cut off contact with her before his arrest when she fell into drug abuse and sex work. Galey claims that although she offered to sleep with him, Hanssen declined, saying that he was trying to convert her to Catholicism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen