"The Bureau and the Mole takes you into the shadowy world of Robert Philip Hanssen, a twenty-five-year veteran of the FBI who was a devout Catholic and a devoted family man, who attended the same church and sent his children to the same school as his boss, Bureau Director Louis J. Freeh. But as he emerged from a troubled childhood in Chicago to rise to the highest ranks of America's counterintelligence experts, Hanssen was also leading another life - as a diabolically clever spy for the Russian government." "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David A. Vise untangles Hanssen's web of deceit to tell the story of how he avoided detection for decades while becoming the most dangerous double agent in FBI history - and how Freeh and the Bureau eventually rooted him out. Vise probes Hanssen's personal history to uncover how a seemingly All-American boy concealed a sordid sexual life from his family and ultimately became the perfect traitor by employing the very sources and methods his own nation had entrusted him with. Drawing from a wide variety of sources in the FBI, the Justice Department, the White House, and the intelligence community, Vise also interweaves the narrative of how Freeh led the government's desperate search for the betrayer among its own ranks, from the false leads, to the near misses, to its ultimate, shocking conclusion."--Jacket.

Includes maps of: Robert Hansen's Espionage - Dead Drop Sites.

1Alone 4 -- 2 Mad Dog 20 -- 3 A G-Man 28 -- 4 A Charitable Contribution 40 -- 5 Pizza Connection 51 -- 6 Betrayal 66 -- 7 Control 86 -- 8 Fbi's Blunder 96 -- 9 Boss 99 -- 10 Stripper 107 -- 11 Unwitting Porn Star 115 -- 12 Friends 129 -- 13 Independence Day 142 -- 14 Respecting the Russians 151 -- 15 Double Trouble 158 -- 16 Case Agent 168 -- 17 Clashing With Clinton 178 -- 18 A long and Lonely Time 193 -- 19 Watching and Waiting 203 -- 20 What took You so Long? 211 -- 21 Freeh Fall 217 -- Appendix I Betrayals of a Spy 239 -- Appendix II E-mails of a Spy 247 -- Appendix III Sexual Fantasies of a Spy 257. Alone -- Mad Dog -- A G-Man -- A Charitable Contribution -- The Pizza Connection -- Betrayal -- Control -- The Fbi's Blunder -- The Boss -- The Stripper -- The Unwitting Porn Star -- Friends -- Independence Day -- Respecting the Russians -- Double Trouble -- The Case Agent -- Clashing With Clinton -- A long and Lonely Time -- Watching and Waiting -- What took You so Long? -- Freeh Fall -- The Betrayals of a Spy -- The E-mails of a Spy -- The Sexual Fantasies of a Spy.