Finding the body of the most dangerous Russian spy, who was spying against the United States of America in the aftermath of the Cold War, which lasted for decades within the policy of imposing control over the world.
The information received via the (BBC) website confirmed that the news of death is confirmed, according to the statement reported by the Office of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in America.
Robert Hansen, a former FBI agent who spied for Russia and the Soviet Union, was found dead in his prison cell in Florence, Colorado, according to the office's statement.
The spy, who was known by his pseudonym "Ramon Garcia", was serving a sentence in Volrenco prison since 2002, on charges of spying for Russia, after being convicted of more than ten counts of espionage in 2001, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Federal Prison Service said in a statement that on Monday morning, its employees found Hanssen, considered the "most damaging spy" in the history of the FBI, dead in his cell.
Emergency medical services were sought and tried to save his life and take the necessary measures, but their attempts were unsuccessful.
The cause of death has not yet been determined, but medical staff expect the cause to be natural.
For more than two decades, Hansen, 79, revealed a lot of highly classified information related to national security to the Russians in exchange for more than $ 1.4 million in cash, in addition to jewelry, diamonds and bank money deposited in Russian accounts.
And the "BBC" website stated that Hansen began his work in the FBI on January 12, 1976.
He pointed out that they (the FBI) had failed to arrest him for years for using Ramon's name while communicating with his employers despite suspicion of his unusual activities.
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