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Robert Hanssen, a twenty five year veteran of the FBI and likely one of the most damaging spies in US history, was found unresponsive in his cell in ADX Florence, the Supermax Prison Facility where he was being held since 2002 after a guilty plea and being sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. He was 79 years old.

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Robert Hanssen: Convicted US spy found dead in Colorado prison

Robert Hanssen had received more than $1.4m in cash, diamonds and money paid into Russian accounts.
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His case was so interesting that Hollywood even made a movie about it called Breach in 2007 starring Chris Cooper as Robert Hanssen. And having watched it, I will say... it was a pretty good film.

One of the things is that he seemed to be extremely narcissistic. He didn't do it for the money apparently, and he didn't just betray the FBI and his country, but his Church and family as well with his well hidden indiscretions.



Also unlike some more famous traitors and spies, such as Aldrich Ames or John Anthony Walker, Robert Hanssen's spycraft was actually far better as his Russian sources never figured out his identity, he was able to keep his payments hidden (and even admitted to his Soviet handlers he didn't need egregious amounts of money), he precisely planned the dead drops and he kept his espionage work completely hidden from anyone despite a few minor slip ups in communication to his Soviet handlers.
 
Author Cormac McCarthy passed away at the age of 89.

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Cormac McCarthy: Tributes to 'unique' author of The Road and No Country for Old Men

The Pulitzer-Prize-winning author wrote novels including The Road and No Country for Old Men.
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He wrote many uplifting books, several of which were adapted into equally upbeat films like the neo-Western No Country for Old Men that took place in 1980's West Texas and the post-apocalyptic father-son survival film The Road.

Other novels he wrote include Blood Meridian and All The Pretty Horses. He also rarely gave out interviews but made an exception for Oprah. :p

 
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Husky_Khan said:
Author Cormac McCarthy passed away at the age of 89.

www.bbc.co.uk

Cormac McCarthy: Tributes to 'unique' author of The Road and No Country for Old Men

The Pulitzer-Prize-winning author wrote novels including The Road and No Country for Old Men.
www.bbc.co.uk

He wrote many uplifting books, several of which were adapted into equally upbeat films like the neo-Western No Country for Old Men that took place in 1980's West Texas and the post-apocalyptic father-son survival film The Road.

Other novels he wrote include Blood Meridian and All The Pretty Horses. He also rarely gave out interviews but made an exception for Oprah. :p

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Husky_Khan said:
Robert Hanssen, a twenty five year veteran of the FBI and likely one of the most damaging spies in US history, was found unresponsive in his cell in ADX Florence, the Supermax Prison Facility where he was being held since 2002 after a guilty plea and being sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. He was 79 years old.

www.bbc.com

Robert Hanssen: Convicted US spy found dead in Colorado prison

Robert Hanssen had received more than $1.4m in cash, diamonds and money paid into Russian accounts.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

His case was so interesting that Hollywood even made a movie about it called Breach in 2007 starring Chris Cooper as Robert Hanssen. And having watched it, I will say... it was a pretty good film.

One of the things is that he seemed to be extremely narcissistic. He didn't do it for the money apparently, and he didn't just betray the FBI and his country, but his Church and family as well with his well hidden indiscretions.



Also unlike some more famous traitors and spies, such as Aldrich Ames or John Anthony Walker, Robert Hanssen's spycraft was actually far better as his Russian sources never figured out his identity, he was able to keep his payments hidden (and even admitted to his Soviet handlers he didn't need egregious amounts of money), he precisely planned the dead drops and he kept his espionage work completely hidden from anyone despite a few minor slip ups in communication to his Soviet handlers.
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I swear that I think I saw someone making him FBI director in an alternatehistory timeline somewhere.
 
TheRejectionist said:
I swear that I think I saw someone making him FBI director in an alternatehistory timeline somewhere.
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Wouldn't surprise me. He was actually a highly capable agent from what it appears. It doesn't even seem like his betrayal was ideologically or even to a degree financially based but more borne out of narcissism and pride IMHO. A lot of other double agents had extremely poor spycraft and the fact they weren't caught speaks more of how pants on head retarded counterintelligence was at not noticing what seemed extremely obvious, especially in hindsight. Hanssen made mistakes, but they were minor in comparison (with the exception of a big one during the collapse of the Soviet Union/transition to the Russian Federation but led to no followup investigation).
 
Hollywood Actor Treat Williams was killed in a Motorcycle Accident in his home state of Vermont. He was 71 years old.

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Treat Williams' Hollywood legacy: co-stars and friends pay tribute to actor's life and career

Treat Williams, star of "Hair," "Everwood," and many more TV and film roles died in a motorcycle accident. His friends and co-stars paid tribute to his life and legacy on social media.
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He was a pretty distinctive actor though the works I best know him for are the 1998 movie Deep Rising and The Substitute sequel movies he starred in and to be perfectly honest, I wasn't a fan of his performance in any of those films. Just didn't rub off on my as an actor star or hero in either of those performances.

With that said, he had a distinguished career beyond those films. Going over his filmography, apparently he was in other films I'm familiar with like the war movie The Eagle Has Landed which starred Michael Caine as the leader of a German Fallschirmjager sent to Britain to assassinate Winston Churchill. Treat Williams apparently portrayed a US Army Ranger Captain in the film and he was so young I didn't recognize him until now.



He was also an extra in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back as a Rebel Trooper at Echo Base and a Cloud City Police Officer. He had major roles in films like Once Upon a Time in America, as the main villain in the film The Phantom, and even as the Sheriff in the Daily Wire produced film Run Hide Fight. He also had major recurring roles in television series like Chicago Fire, Blue Bloods, and Everwood.
Anyways... as a proper send off.

I do remember these scenes from the Substitute film series quite well...





Okay he ain't no Tom Berenger but I guess he did alright in the role.

His last Tweet.

 
Hong Kong American Singer Coco Lee passed away from suicide reportedly due to dealing with depression.

Taiwan News said:
Coco was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to California at the age of nine. She won first runner-up at the New Talent Singing Awards in 1993 after entering on a whim and made her musical debut in Taiwan in 1994 with the album "Love from Now On."

She released many hit songs and became popular in the Mandopop world with her unique American-style vocals. She has won many awards, and later successfully entered the American music scene with the album "Just No Other Way."

She sang for the song "Reflection" and was the voice of heroine Fa Mulan for the Mandarin version of the Disney film "Mulan." At the Oscars, she sang the song "A Love Before Time," from the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
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She was 48 years old.

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Hong Kong-American diva Coco Lee dies from suicide at 48 | Taiwan News | 2023-07-05 23:23:00

Coco's sister said that Lee had been battling depression, recently took turn for the worse | 2023-07-05 23:23:00
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