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Bob Hanssen afviste til sidst psykiatri -erhvervet. Selvom han havde givet op på tre karrierer, vedvarede han og vendte tilbage til Northwestern, hvor han til sidst fik en MBA -grad i regnskab. Måske havde han ingen valg, som han var forelsket, og den snart spion var gift med et barn på vej.
Bernadette 'Bonnie' Wauck was as different from Bob Hanssen as day is from night. She was one of eight; he was an only child. She was Catholic; he was Lutheran. His father was a cop; her father was a University professor. She lived in upscale Park Ridge, just outside the Chicago city limits. Norwood Park, three train stops away, was working class. And Bonnie was also a member of Opus Dei, an organization that required going to mass daily and confession weekly.
Bob og Bonnie blev gift den 10. august 1968.� By the time Howard Hanssen retired in 1972, Bob was ready to fill his father's shoes. He entered the Chicago Police Department as a rookie three months after his father retired and moved, with Hanssen's mother, to a modest subdivision house just south of Sarasota, Florida. With an MBA degree, Hanssen was a marked man and was soon pulled out of his training class and asked if he would like to be in a new secret unit called C-5. Bob leaped at the chance.
Det specielle Elite Corps var blevet oprettet til at infiltrere sin egen art. Politiet tog bestikkelse fra narkotikahandlere og så derefter den anden vej. Bobs enheds job var at buste med officerer.
John Clarke, hans chef, begyndte snart at tro, at Hanssen var en dobbeltagent, der arbejdede inde i enheden.
”Han var strålende, og han lignede en alterdreng,” huskede Clarke. ”Men jeg troede altid, at han var en spion, en counterspy, da han arbejdede for os. Jeg troede, at han arbejdede for politiets messing, der ville vide, hvad vi gjorde. Jeg følte altid, at der var noget galt, så vi holdt Hanssen i en kort snor. På et tidspunkt troede jeg, at han måske arbejdede for feds, fordi han var så nysgerrig om borgmester Daley. '
Senere gav Clarke sin teori om, hvordan Bob Hanssen kom til at bruge aliaset af Ramon Garcia. ”Jeg fortalte ham historien om et irsk barn fra Rhode Island. Jeg havde ansat ham som en undercover -agent til at infiltrere den mexicanske mafia. Hans kodavn var Ramon. '
