The Spycatcher Part 2
I Spy
Foreign Policy
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This is part two of Eric O'Neill's story. O'Neill was an FBI agent who went undercover to catch a suspected spy in the bureau: Robert Hanssen.
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| 0:00.0 | This is I spy show from foreign policy. |
| 0:05.0 | Where spies tell their stories. |
| 0:07.0 | Kate hands me the pom pilot, the floppy disk, and the sand disk data card and says run. |
| 0:21.2 | And I do three flights of steps go through that first big vault door slam it behind me |
| 0:26.8 | run into his office kneel down in front of the bag and realize that I've got three |
| 0:32.2 | devices in my hand. |
| 0:34.0 | There are four pockets on the bag. |
| 0:35.5 | They're all completely similar and I can't for the life of me remember which device I |
| 0:40.4 | pulled out of which pocket. |
| 0:42.3 | I hear him coming through that first big vault door. |
| 0:49.9 | From foreign policy welcome to I spy on each episode we get one former intelligence |
| 0:56.0 | operative to tell the story of one operation. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm Margot Martin Dell. |
| 1:02.2 | This is part two of our episode with Eric O'Neill and FBI agent who helped catch Robert |
| 1:07.4 | Hanson one of the most damaging spies in US history. |
| 1:12.3 | If you haven't heard part one you should listen to it first and come back to us. |
| 1:17.2 | The year was 2000 and O'Neill was just 26 years old. |
| 1:22.9 | As part of his cover he was assigned to work for Hanson in the FBI. |
| 1:28.2 | Over time O'Neill begins to win Hanson's trust but the stress of the case is putting |
| 1:34.7 | a strain on his marriage. |
| 1:37.7 | O'Neill picks up the story from here. |
| 1:45.0 | Working undercover on the Hanson case was so difficult in terms of the amount of stress |
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