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Dosvedanya
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - November 16, 2023 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsOn February 18, 2001, Robert Hanssen’s career as an FBI agent came to an end. His next tour of duty would be served in the federal penal system as inmate #48551-083. Supermax, the notorious Colorado prison housing terrorists and drug lords, would become his home for two decades. Life in...
Room 9930
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - November 09, 2023 08:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsOnce the FBI zeroed in on Robert Hanssen as a suspect, the bureau set up an elaborate sting operation to catch him in the act. A fake promotion, a bugged office, and a daring mission led to an opportunity to finally catch Hanssen red-handed. For 22 years, Hanssen had beaten the FBI at i...
The Art Dealer
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - November 02, 2023 07:01 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsA Russian businessman arrived in New York in mid-2000, eager to export art to the United States. His counterpart in the deal, an American, appeared ready to do business, too. But neither man was exactly who they purported to be. Their encounter may have been just the break FBI mole hunt...
Wrong Man
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - October 26, 2023 07:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsThe intelligence community knew it had a mole problem. It couldn’t account for lost assets and blown operations. So the FBI and CIA set out on another mole hunt – and this time, there was one suspect who fit better than the rest. He was a career CIA officer who had been around important...
Plain Sight
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - October 19, 2023 07:01 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsHow did the FBI allow a spy to operate in its midst for more than 20 years and do such devastating damage? Robert Hanssen’s tradecraft was good, but far from perfect. In fact, the FBI missed several chances to nab him. Drop us a line: [email protected] See Privacy Policy at...
Priscilla
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - October 12, 2023 07:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsPriscilla Sue Galey was a dancer at a strip club about a 15 minute walk from the White House. Robert Hanssen told her that he'd never seen such grace and beauty. He gave her sapphires and diamonds, a Mercedes, a trip around the world. But what did Hanssen want in return? Even more surpr...
Ramon Garcia
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - October 05, 2023 07:01 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratings1985 was “The Year of the Spy.” The FBI arrested a raft of traitors spying for the USSR and other foreign governments. But that didn’t stop Robert Hanssen - or his KGB alias “Ramon Garcia.” Hanssen had developed an obsession with espionage and the result would be deadly. Drop us a lin...
The Spy Next Door
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - September 28, 2023 07:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsRobert Hanssen lived in suburbia with six kids and his wife Bonnie. They had a dog, a nice house and went to church on Sundays. Outwardly, it appeared to be an ordinary life. And for the most part, it was. Until Hanssen, an FBI special agent, turned and offered his services to the Sovie...
Introducing - Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - September 21, 2023 07:01 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsRobert Hanssen was a conundrum - an FBI agent and self-proclaimed patriot who became the most damaging spy in the bureau's history. Amid the nuclear threat of the Cold War, America's prized secrets were falling into the hands of its sworn enemy—the Kremlin. The FBI's hunt for the leak l...
Introducing Missing Justice
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - November 22, 2022 11:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsChristy Woodenthigh’s family rushed to her home on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation when they got the shocking news that the 33-year-old mother was dead. They arrived to find no police officers, no approaching sirens, and no sign of Christy. ”Missing Justice”, a new 6-episode limited s...
20 Years Later: Major's Experience Covering the 9/11 Attacks
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - September 08, 2021 04:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsIn this mini-Debrief episode, Major reflects on his experience covering the September 11th, 2001 attacks as a member of President George W. Bush's travelling press pool, and the impact of 9/11 on American society and politics. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califo...
Inside the Beltway
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - May 11, 2021 04:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsWashington, D.C. has a language all its own. Words that mean something here in the nation's capital mean something completely different or nothing at all everywhere else. We're talking about sequestration and reconciliation, fiscal cliffs and super-secret SCIFs. Even SALT, COLA and ic...
2020 Vision: 1945
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - May 04, 2021 04:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsWithout question, 2020 was a remarkable and remarkably miserable year for so many. It had a little bit of everything: disease, fire, political upheaval, social unrest, economic devastation. Oh, and murder hornets. More than 340,000 Americans died from covid-19. Unemployment reached nea...
The First 100 Days
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - April 27, 2021 04:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratings100 days is an unusual unit of measurement for anything. Normally, we'd just say "about three months." Is there anything besides a president's time in office we measure in 100-day increments? Candidates make pledges for steps they will take once in office during that timeframe. Pundits...
The Climate Crisis Part 2: Our People
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - April 20, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsEven climate change skeptics agree global temperatures have risen and ice sheets are melting in the arctic and Antarctic. But they disagree that weather patterns are becoming more extreme and downplay the role of human activity on our warming planet. As Earth Day approaches, the second...
The Climate Crisis Part 1: Our Planet
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - April 13, 2021 03:56 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsThe Earth is changing at a faster pace than at any point in the history of human civilization. Industrialization and increased carbon emissions have caused the global temperature to rise by over a degree Celsius since the turn of the last century. This seemingly small increase has had ...
Compensation: The NCAA's Big Dance
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - April 06, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsAs the NCAA's March Madness ends, athletes for both men's and women's basketball teams face the harsh reality that has plagued student-athletes for years: their sweat, tears, and hard work draw millions of viewers, and millions more in revenue for the NCAA, television networks, and univ...
Our Vote
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - March 30, 2021 04:08 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsLast week, Georgia's Republican governor signed into law sweeping changes to the state's voting procedures. The legislation, which passed with only Republican support, mandates photo ID for mail-in ballots, trims the window for requesting an absentee ballot and places new restrictions o...
The Pandemic and Paper
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - March 23, 2021 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsWe wanted to mark the one-year anniversary of pandemic lockdown without doing a year-from-hell retrospective. So we decided to explore a relationship to something that might embody how the pandemic has changed our habits and led us back to some old ones. Perhaps no relationship with a...
Children at the Border
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - March 16, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsThe new administration is grappling with a decades-old problem: how to deal with the surge of migrants at the southern border. With President Biden’s new policy of not turning away unaccompanied minors, the number of children arriving at the border has rapidly increased, up nearly 30% i...
$2 Trillion For What?
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - March 09, 2021 05:45 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsA trillion of anything is hard to fathom. It's a million millions. Or a thousand billions. Now double it. This week, the House of Representatives is expected to pass the nearly $2 trillion COVID relief package and a signature from President Biden will make it law. The legislation wi...
Ghost Kitchens
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - March 02, 2021 04:42 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsLittle by little the restaurant industry has begun to creep back to life. At the low point of the pandemic-induced recession, more than half of the industry's 15 million employees were out of work, a haunting statistic. Roughly 110,000 eating and drinking establishments closed temporari...
Virus of Hate
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - February 23, 2021 05:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsAs if the coronavirus pandemic hasn't wrought enough anguish on our country, there's a disturbing viral side effect that has no vaccine cure or therapeutic treatment. Americans are being attacked by other Americans. They're being beaten, spat upon, yelled at, shunned and hounded with ra...
The Big Lie Meets the Big I
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - February 16, 2021 02:59 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsFor the second time in just over a year, the Senate elected to acquit Donald Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors, this time over his role inciting the lethal January 6th melee at the Capitol. The vote was the most bipartisan exercise of its kind. Seven Republicans joined all 50 Dem...
Disinformation: Part 2
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - February 09, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsWhile we were putting this episode together, we quickly realized the vast, convoluted scope of QAnon, its tantalizing effect its followers and the bit players who conspired to propagate the lie were bigger and more twisted than we'd imagined. QAnon, we learned, is many things to many pe...
Disinformation: Part 1
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - February 02, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsIf your friend tells you it's going to rain tomorrow, and it turns out to be sunny, that's misinformation. Your friend was misinformed or the forecast changed. But if your friend tells you it's going to rain lizards, that is disinformation. And disinformation – deliberate falsehoods sp...
Vaccination Nation
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - January 26, 2021 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsIn a feat of human achievement, vaccine developers cracked COVID-19's scientific code in less than a year, testing and developing a shot that has so far proven effective against the deadly infection. What's proving difficult now is getting that vaccine out of manufacturing facilities a...
Inauguration Day
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - January 19, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsEvery four years on January 20th, the United States sends a worldwide reminder: this is what democracy looks like. Our incoming and outgoing presidents traditionally share a limousine ride to the Capitol. They appear together before the assembled masses and then bid one another farewell...
Insurrection: Capitol Hell
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - January 12, 2021 04:17 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsHistory will record Wednesday's assault on our democracy as one of the US's darkest, most shameful episodes. Mob rule was the ambition of the marauding, counterfeit American patriots who laid siege to the Capitol on a false premise: that Donald Trump had won an election he so clearly lo...
The She-cession
Agent of Betrayal: The Double Life of Robert Hanssen - January 05, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 333 ratingsAmerica's economy needs women. It also needs working parents. Coronavirus has taken a toll on both, but women with children have suffered more than men. They've lost more jobs, lost more in wages and some 2 million dropped out of the workforce entirely. In early 2020, there were more w...
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