This is a real story about Robert Hanssen, FBI agent that sold zillions of top secret documents to the Soviets . . . and also sold out many of our double agents in foreign countries to be killed. A real lunatic. Unfortunately this lunacy was never explored in the movie. This would have been much more interesting TO ME.Hanssen was a super religious Catholic, a pornographer that used his wife in the films and had other interesting personality quirks. He was living well beyond his means, rose to very sensitive positions in the FBI, but the FBI didn't suspect him for 20 years.
The movie soft pedals this FBI inefficiency. This "good" stuff was left out so they could make room in the movie for more palatable material to the under 35 year old movie goers. To accomplish this they introduced a young man and his wife who were involved with Hanssen.
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