Robert Hanssen Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Robert Hanssen? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Robert Hanssen from Criminals and what is the personality traits.
ENTP (3w4)
Robert Hanssen personality type is ENTP, the “Mastermind”. He was a strong example of how these functions can apply to the wrong context.
Career/Force of Nature
Enthusiastic Adventure
Interesting storyteller, but one who can also be very convincing in his ability to tell a story.
Hanssen’s career was in espionage. He was an agent for the KGB in the US who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia throughout the Cold War. He was recruited in 1979 and remained in their service until his arrest in June 2001. He also worked at the same time for the FBI, and was a double agent who betrayed his country and countrymen for money and friendship with his Russian handlers.
He was mostly successful in his espionage and was never caught. His intelligence career spanned 17 years and included:
– Covering for two Russian spies at the US embassy in Moscow
– Covering for two Russian spies in the US embassy in Vienna
– Recruiting an agent in New York City (who he sent to his handler, who was actually an FBI agent) named Robert Hanssen
Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history." He is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado.
