The Bureau and the Mole; The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Mark Malseed (Map). 24 cm, xi, [3],272 pages. Illustrations. Map, Appendices. Sources. Signed by the author on the title page. The author is a Pulitzer Prize-winner. David A. Vise (born June 16, 1960), a journalist and author for over 20 years, is now a Senior Advisor to New Mountain Capital, a New York-based investment firm, and New Mountain Vantage, its public equity fund. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 while working as a business reporter for the Washington Post. He has authored or co-authored four books, including The Bureau and the Mole (2002) (about FBI agent and convicted spy Robert Hanssen) and The Google Story (2006), a national bestseller published in more than two dozen languages. Vise received an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The school named him to a list of 125 influential alumni on its 125th anniversary and honored him in 2009 with The Joseph Wharton Award for career achievement and community service. Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001. He is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences at a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado. Hanssen was charged with selling U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and subsequently the Russian Federation for more than US$1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period. He pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage. Hanssen moved into counter-intelligence and given the task of compiling a database of Soviet intelligence for the Bureau. In 1979, Hanssen approached the Soviet GRU and offered his services. Hanssen told the GRU a significant amount, including information on the FBI's bugging activities and lists of suspected Soviet intelligence agents. His most important leak was the betrayal of Dmitri Polyakov, a CIA informant who rose to be a General in the Soviet Army.