FBI agent Eric O’Neill was a newbie when his boss drove over to his house at 8 am one Sunday morning for an unscheduled meeting. When does that ever bode well?
“So I went outside, got in the car with him - and he's just grinning because he knows that I'm stressed out - and he says: ‘Have you ever heard of a guy named Robert Hanssen?’”
The FBI was offering O’Neill the career opportunity of a lifetime but it was one that came with a huge risk. They wanted O’Neill to work as an undercover spycatcher reporting to a new manager: suspected FBI-KGB mole Robert Hanssen, believed to be the biggest traitor in US espionage history.
“At that moment, I had no clue what I was getting into,” O’Neill told SPYSCAPE’s True Spies podcast.
