Foxstone Park

Foxstone Park is a 14.42-acre (58,400 m2) park located at 1910 Creek Crossing Road in Vienna, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA and run by the Fairfax County Park Authority.

Foxstone Park
Creek Crossing Road entrance to Foxstone Park
LocationVienna, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Coordinates38°54′55″N 77°15′30″W
Area14.42-acre (0.0584 km2)
Operated byFairfax County Park Authority
OpenAll year
WebsiteFCPA - Nature Trails

Robert Hanssen

Robert Hanssen, who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia, conducted dead drops there.[1]

One account relates:

Within a mile of his home, Foxstone Park meanders along Wolftrap Creek through Hanssen's neighborhood and a golf course. He used Foxstone Park's rustic wooden sign as his signal site, marking it with a piece of Johnson & Johnson medical adhesive tape placed vertically, to signal he had loaded the dead drop in the other side of the road... The drop site codenamed ELLIS was a dark, damp place under a footbridge[2]

Another account relates:

He was caught one evening, minutes after leaving a dead drop under a footbridge at Wolftrap Creek in Foxstone Park, near his house in Vienna, Virginia. FBI agents also found $50,000 the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR...) left for him at another site.[3]

Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at the park, which lies near his home (also in Vienna).[4]

Ellis dead drop site
Ellis dead drop site

He was charged with selling U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and subsequently the Russian Federation for more than US$1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period.[5]

References
  1. "Robert Philip Hanssen Espionage Case". FBI. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved Jan 2, 2014.
  2. Kessler, Pamela (2004). Undercover Washington: Where Famous Spies Lived, Worked, and Loved. Capital Books. p. 137. ISBN 9781931868976. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  3. Cherkashin, Victor; Feifer, Gregory (2014). Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer. Basic Books. p. 245. ISBN 9780786724406. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  4. Havill, Adrian. "His fate is sealed". Archived from the original on 7 September 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
  5. Wise, David (2003). Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America. Random House. p. 8. ISBN 0-375-75894-1.
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