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DOUBLE LIVES.(Robert Hanssen)(Edie Sedgwick)(Movie review)

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Some kinds of perversity are so bizarre that one despairs of ever understanding them. The mental state of Robert Hanssen, who for more than twenty years spied for the Soviet Union and then for Russia while productively employed as a counterintelligence analyst for the F.B.I., may be one such case. Hanssen, who was arrested in February, 2001, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in May, 2002, was not a rebel with a romantic attachment to Communism, like the British double agents Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Donald Maclean. On the contrary, Hanssen appears to have despised Communism and to have loved this country, though the ...

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