A Guest Document
The Perversions of ex-FBI Agent
and Opus Dei Member - Robert Philip Hanssen
and
The Price to the Security of the
United States of America
(and we worry about Muslim fanatics...)
by Lee Penn
NOTE: The following
is an excerpt from an article by Lee Penn, "Opus
Dei & the Da Vinci Code, part II", published in the Journal of the
Spiritual Counterfeits Project [SCP] (Vol. 29:4-30:1, 2006, pp. 42-67.)
(*) (**) (***)
Fourth, there is the case of
Robert Philip Hanssen, a top-level FBI
agent responsible for counterintelligence in the US, who spied for the
Russians from 1979 until his arrest in February 2001.(1)
He told the Soviets about four of their own intelligence staff who were
spying for the US, interfered with the investigation of a Soviet spy in
the US State Department, and gave the Communists “the plan of a program
for the continuity of government in case of a Soviet nuclear attack and
planned defense and retaliation.”(2) A biographer
calls him “the most damaging spy in history.”(3)
For his efforts, the KGB (and its successor agency, the FSB) gave
Hanssen $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
While betraying his country, Hanssen was a devoted member of Opus Dei.(4)
With the Soviet money, Hanssen put his children through Opus
Dei-approved private schools. According to one report, Hanssen believed
that his children “might in the future be part of a holy war that would
remerge God and country, whose leaders would then ban abortion, divorce
and other evils of the world that he and Opus Dei opposed.”(5)
He and his wife were public activists against abortion.(6)
Meanwhile, he put sex stories about his wife on the alt.sex group on
the Internet, “shared pornographic photos of his wife with his best
friend, [and] secretly broadcast his sex acts over closed-circuit
television to his guest room.”(7) He also spent
$80,000 of Soviet-supplied cash on a two-year flirtation with a
stripper – and justified himself by refraining from intercourse with
her, and by trying to get her to attend church.(8)
When his wife confronted him in 1982 after she caught him in the
basement counting out $20,000 in $100 bills,(9)
she made him confess to an Opus Dei priest – Fr. Robert Bucciarelli,
the former head of Opus Dei in the US. The priest told Hanssen to give
the $20,000 that he had thus far received to Mother Teresa’s charities.(10)
The rite of penance did not cause a change in Hanssen’s behavior; he
continued to spy on the US throughout the Gorbachev era. Hanssen and
Louis Freeh (head of the FBI from 1993 to 2001) attended the same
church,(11) St. Catherine of Siena,(12)
as have Justice Antonin Scalia and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa).
One way that Hanssen might have rationalized his behavior was his
belief that the Soviet Union would soon collapse. One of Hanssen’s
bosses at the FBI said, “He was a religious person who put the Soviets
into a religious context. He would say that the Soviet Union is bound
to fail because it is run by communists and communists don’t have God
in their life. He said to me, ‘Without religion, man is lost.’”(13)
The reporter Adrian Havill added, “Did Hanssen believe that giving our
most vital secrets to the Soviet Union was a moot issue because they
were about to collapse? If so, he was a true seer. Mikhail Gorbachev
would declare communism dead in 1991. ‘Ramon Garcia’ [the name Hanssen
used in his dealings with the KGB] went to ground a few months later.”(14)
Another reporter sees a more direct link to Vatican and Opus Dei
statecraft: “It may seem paradoxical that Hanssen would spy for the
Soviet Union, a moral adversary and indeed a satanic force in the eyes
of Opus Dei. During Gorbachev’s glasnost era, however, there is
evidence of behind-the-scenes collaboration between the Vatican and
Moscow. In particular, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Agostino
Casaroli, a powerful Opus Dei supporter, pursued a policy of reaching
out toward Moscow with the aim of gaining Poland’s release from the
Warsaw Pact. …
Hanssen’s most damaging activities in FBI counterintelligence coincided
with these years, 1985-89. Secrets from America’s intelligence vaults
could well have been part of the quid pro quo in the late cardinal's
dance with Moscow. Certainly, the Vatican has had no qualms about
violating American sensitivities. Indeed, it seems to reflect a
Eurocentric triumphalism. The papal encyclical on labor rights slapped
rampant materialism – that is, the immoral United States – as the
‘other’ great evil afoot in the world. The Vatican’s political work
with Moscow paid off handsomely with the independence of
Catholic-dominant (sic) Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine and later,
from Moscow’s nominal ally Yugoslavia, of Slovenia and Croatia. All the
while, Hanssen kept up the flow of U.S. secrets to Moscow.”(15)
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NOTES
(*) Although we appreciate the courtesy of the Journal of the
Spiritual
Counterfeits Project [ SCP Journal] in allowing us to publish documents
authored by Mr. Lee Penn, documents which have appeared in their
magazine, we do not in any form whatsoever endorse, agree or recommend
any other article or recommendation and/or promotion which may appear
the SCP Journal.
(**) The entire article, which describes the track record of
Opus Dei
and its members, is available to those who order a copy of this
magazine. To do so, visit the magazine's web site at http://www.scp-inc.org, or call
their office in Berkeley,California at 510-540-0300, between 9am and
5pm, Pacific time.
(***) The full text of Part 1 of Lee Penn's article about Opus
Dei is
now available on-line, courtesy of SCP. To read the article go to http://www.scp-inc.org/publications/journals/J2902/index.php.
(1) Information in this paragraph, unless
otherwise noted, is from Wikipedia, “Robert Hanssen,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen,
printed 09/08/05.
(2) Wikipedia, “Robert Hanssen,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen,
printed 09/08/05.
(3) Adrian Havill, “Robert Philip Hanssen: The
Spy Who Stayed Out In the Cold,” section 4, “On the Road to Oblivion,” http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hanssen/7.html?sect=23,
printed 09/08/05.
(4) In addition, his brother-in-law is an Opus
Dei priest in Rome, and one of his daughters is an Opus Dei numerary.
(“Robert Philip Hanssen: The Spy Who Stayed Out In the Cold,” section
5, “Secret World of a Spy,” http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hanssen/5.html?sect=23,
printed 08/28/03.)
(5) Adrian Havill, “Robert Philip Hanssen: The
Spy Who Stayed Out In the Cold,” section 5, “Secret World of a Spy,” http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hanssen/5.html?sect=23,
printed 08/28/03.
(6) Michael Walsh, “Secrets and Spies,” The
Tablet, January 1, 2005, http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00966,
printed 09/08/05.
(7) Wikipedia, “Robert Hanssen,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen,
printed 09/08/05.
(8) Adrian Havill, “Robert Philip Hanssen: The
Spy Who Stayed Out In the Cold,” section 6, “Inside Robert Hanssen’s
Weird World,” http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hanssen/6.html?sect=23,
printed 09/08/05.
(9) Adrian Havill, “Robert Philip Hanssen: The
Spy Who Stayed Out In the Cold,” section 4, “NYC to Washington and
Back,” http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hanssen/4.html?sect=23,
printed 09/08/05.
(10) Adrian Havill, “Robert Philip Hanssen: The
Spy Who Stayed Out In the Cold,” section 4, “NYC to Washington and
Back,” http://www..crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hanssen/4.html?sect=23,
printed 09/08/05.
(11) Freeh and Opus Dei have denied repeated
allegations that Freeh is an Opus Dei member. (Wikipedia, “Robert
Hanssen,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen,
printed 09/08/05.)
(12) Yoichi Clark Shimatsu, “Was FBI Agent's True
‘Loyalty’ To Opus Dei?,” Pacific
News Service, March 5, 2001, http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/6.31/010305-spy.html,
printed 08/28/03.
(13) Adrian Havill, “Robert Philip Hanssen: The
Spy Who Stayed Out In the Cold,” section 5, “Secret World of a Spy,” http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hanssen/5.html?sect=23,
printed 08/28/03.
(14) Adrian Havill, “Robert Philip Hanssen: The
Spy Who Stayed Out In the Cold,” section 5, “Secret World of a Spy,” http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hanssen/5.html?sect=23,
printed 08/28/03.
(15) Yoichi Clark Shimatsu, “Was FBI Agent's True
‘Loyalty’ To Opus Dei?,” Pacific
News Service, March 5, 2001, http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/6.31/010305-spy.html,
printed 08/28/03.
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