Details of the price of alleged FBI mole ROBERT PHILLIP HANSSEN's espionage are beginning to emerge. Sources tell TIME that Hanssen may have cost the U.S. more than $200 million in compromised intelligence programs that must now be replaced. The tab for one supersecret program that tapped Russian communications alone could top $100 million. LOUIS FREEH's FBI had failed to use a standard counterintelligence technique known as mail cover on the Russian spook who ran Hanssen. The technique involves photographing a known spy handler's mail to look for hints of whom he is running. Leads, like the false return addresses Hanssen...
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