Robert Philip Hanssen, who received payments of $1.4 million in cash and diamonds for the information he gave the Soviet Union and Russia, has died at the age of 79, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced Monday.
Hanssen had been in custody at Colorado’s USP Florence ADMAX since July 17, 2002. In 2001, he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and conspiracy in exchange for the government not seeking the death penalty. He was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.