re-watching it right now

I'm not sure if I've seen the movie. I never read the book. I mentioned a while back in another thread that my uncle knew Robert Hanssen. I talked to him about it a few days ago.

A disability resulted in my uncle changing careers and becoming a teacher at an expensive Catholic school. He taught some of Hanssen's children. So he'd see Hanssen at least four times per year at teachers' conferences. My uncle always had to initiate any conversation with him; Hanssen never did so. The last time he saw Hanssen was when FBI Director Louis Freeh gave a speech at the school, while Hassen stood at the back of the room. Apparently Freeh knew that Hanssen was the mole at the time, but they were not ready to arrest him until a few weeks later.

Catholics regularly hold "retreats," where groups of people hold a religious conference, usually on a weekend. My uncle said that Hanseen was at one, and captivated the group with a 30-45 minute discussion of a case he knew about, involving a spy.

Hanssen's wife got him to convert to Catholicism a long time ago. His wife now lives very near my uncle and they see her at church all the time. She had to get a good lawyer to obtain Hanssen's FBI pension. She visits him in prison a few times per year. With life without parole, Hanssen spends his time reading books now.

After the arrest, my uncle likely read all about the case. He's still astounded that Hanssen's brother-in-law, an FBI employee, told the FBI, 10 years before the arrest, about finding a huge sum of money in Hanssen's bedroom ($50K?). Espionage was the only credible explanation for how he obtained it. There were so many times that he should have been caught, long before it actually happened.