Summary of David Wise's Spy

By IRB Media

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#1 The FBI lost two of its sources inside the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC, in 1986. The year was 1986. The FBI quickly created a six-person team to try to determine what had gone wrong. Meanwhile, the CIA was losing dozens of agents inside the Soviet Union.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822504554

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 25

Insights from Chapter 26

Insights from Chapter 27

Insights from Chapter 28

Insights from Chapter 29

Insights from Chapter 30

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The FBI lost two of its sources inside the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC, in 1986. The year was 1986. The FBI quickly created a six-person team to try to determine what had gone wrong. Meanwhile, the CIA was losing dozens of agents inside the Soviet Union.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Jack Delroy Hoschouer, nicknamed Uncle Jack by the Hanssens, was a friend of Bob Hanssen’s. They had met in high school in Chicago, and they often visited strip clubs together in Washington.

#2

On his way to the airport, Hoschouer was dropped off by Hanssen. He did not think anything of it, because he knew Hanssen’s daughter and son-in-law were coming for dinner.

#3

Hanssen had been a Russian spy for almost 22 years. He had turned over more than 6,000 pages of classified documents to the Russians, and been paid more than $600,000 in cash and diamonds.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Howard Hanssen, a Chicago police officer, and his wife, Vivian, lived in a modest two-story white bungalow in Norwood Park. Hanssen was serving as a petty officer in the Navy during World War II when his son, Robert, was born. He was a strict disciplinarian.

#2

Hanssen’s relationship with his father was a troubled one. He constantly complained that he would never be a success in life, and he was constantly put down by his father. He spent almost all of his free time at the track.

#3

Hanssen graduated from Taft in 1962, and went on to study chemistry and math at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He also studied Russian. In 1966, he returned to Chicago and studied dentistry at Northwestern University.

#4

While he was in dental school, Bob Hanssen met Bernadette Wauck, known as Bonnie, who came from a large and staunchly Catholic family in Chicago. They were married in