He was later a commentator on intelligence issues for CNN for six years.īeginning in 1962 with an examination of the Lockheed U-2, Wise published a series of non-fiction books (the first three with Thomas B. In 1970–71 he was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and in 1977–79, he lectured in political science at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was chief of the paper's Washington bureau from 1963 to 1966. Only David Wise could tell the astonishing, full story, and he does so, in masterly style, in Spy.Wise joined the New York Herald-Tribune in 1951, and became the paper's White House correspondent in 1960. He betrayed his best friend, offering him up to the KGB. that after Hanssen was already working for the KGB, he directed a study of moles in the FBI when–as he alone knew–he was the mole. how Hanssen and the CIA’s Aldrich Ames betrayed three Russians secretly spying for the FBI–including tophat, a Soviet general–who were then executed by Moscow.

the full story of Robert Hanssen’s bizarre sex life, including the hidden video camera he set up in his bedroom and how he plotted to drug his wife, Bonnie, so that his best friend could father her child. Hanssen, in an extraordinary arrangement, authorized Charney to talk to the author. Charney, the psychiatrist who met with Hanssen in his jail cell more than thirty times. why Hanssen spied, based on exclusive interviews with Dr.

The innocent officer was accused as a spy and suspended by the CIA for nearly two years. how for three years, the FBI pursued a CIA officer, code name gray deceiver, in the mistaken belief that he was the mole they were seeking inside U.S. the previously untold story of how the FBI got the actual file on Robert Hanssen out of KGB headquarters in Moscow for $7 million in an unprecedented operation that ended in Hanssen’s arrest. Spy at last reveals the mind and motives of a man who was a walking paradox: FBI counterspy, KGB mole, devout Catholic, obsessed pornographer who secretly televised himself and his wife having sex so that his best friend could watch, defender of family values, fantasy James Bond who took a stripper to Hong Kong and carried a machine gun in his car trunk.īrimming with startling new details sure to make headlines, Spy discloses: intelligence.ĭavid Wise, the nation’s leading espionage writer, has called on his unique knowledge and unrivaled intelligence sources to write the definitive, inside story of how Robert Hanssen betrayed his country, and why. history”–and how he was finally caught in an incredible gambit by U.S. Spy tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for twenty-two years in what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in U.S.

Spy by David Wise