When Trust Vanishes: How To Protect Your Organization From Moles

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After the FBI's moles in the KGB were exposed, Robert Hanssen was charged with finding a mole within the FBI. Unknown to officials, the mole was Robert Hanssen who has been working for the KGB since 1979.

On February 18, 2001, Hanssen was arrested on charges of selling US intelligence documents to the Soviet Union and then Russia for more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period. 

As a leader, the issue of trust is not to be taken for granted but to be safe, know that anyone could be a mole. Businesses today adopt security measures and also adopt a process driven system that keeps everyone in check, including top level executives. 

If there aren't checks and balances within any system, such system will crumble in the hands of spies, moles and corrupt persons. A system where the gate man is equally able to check what top level executives are taking out of the gate and spares no one is the real deal. 

Hanssen pleaded guilty to 14 counts of espionage and one count of conspiracy to commit espionage in order to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to 15 life sentences with no chance of release. 

If the FBI had listened to Hanssen's brother-in-law Mark Wauck, who was also an FBI agent, they would have caught him much sooner. 

Wauck told his supervisor Jim Lyle that Hanssen might be the mole, but nothing came of it. Because of a man named Aldrich Ames, who was also a traitor in the CIA at the time, he was able to get away with it for so long. 

Because the authorities couldn't believe there were two moles at the same time, they didn't immediately target him.

Don't get caught, act smart and ensure you have a process driven organization. Even you can be the mole. 

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