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DEVIANT

Off Script: Eric O'Neill

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

Education, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

To stop the most notorious spy in US history, Eric O'Neill went undercover, and became the tip of the spear. His part in catching Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent passing highly classified and damaging information to Russia, is legendary, and the subject of the 2007 film "Breach." In this episode of DEVIANT Off Script, Eric and host Andrew Iden talk about how he helped get Hanssen, and his career in counterintelligence and cybersecurity. It's an incredible, eye-opening story you have to hear to believe. JOIN OUR PATREON: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Buy Gray Day, Eric's thrilling book on spies and spy hunting here: https://ericoneill.net/books/gray-day/ Learn more about Eric here: https://ericoneill.net/ Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast Copyright 2024 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:31.3

So he was at one point leading the team tasked with finding him.

1:37.6

Yeah, he was asked to make a list of individuals within the government that could potentially be gray suit.

1:47.1

And he did.

1:47.8

He sat down and he made, as an analyst, he made a very detailed list and sent these FBI agents

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