SPY
The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America
Chapter One
The Mole Hunter
Disaster.
Inside the Soviet counterintelligence section at FBI headquarters in
Washington, there could be no other word for what had happened: the two KGB
agents who were the bureau's highly secret sources inside the Soviet embassy in
Washington had somehow been discovered. Valery Martynov and Sergei Motorin had
been lured back to Moscow and executed. Each was killed with a bullet in the
head, the preferred method used by the KGB to dispatch traitors.
There would be no more visits to the candy store by the FBI counterintelligence
agents; M&M, as the two KGB men were informally if irreverently known inside FBI
headquarters, were gone, two more secret casualties of the Cold War. The year
was 1986. The FBI quickly created a six-person team to try to determine what had
gone wrong.
Meanwhile, the CIA ... read full excerpt from Spy ebook
