Lomit: I’m so excited to be here with you guys.Īriel: Just keep talking too, because I feel like, Lomit, I read your stuff all over. Louis: I am, and fortunately, we are not alone, Ariel.Īriel: We are not alone, we are actually with Lomit Patel, the vice president of growth at IMVU. Louis: Hello, Ariel Niedermeier who is the queen of content.Īriel: And, you are the managing director of App Growth Summit. We dive into Lomit’s inspiring backstory and also receive some amazing parental advice along the way as well! Far less silly, but way more inspirational than our typical interview, you’ll love listening to, and learning more about, IMVU’s Vice President of Growth, Lomit Patel. Many people know of Lomit as the prolific app growth expert, conference speaker, and best-selling author. But O'Neill, who wrote a book about the investigation to nab Hanssen, has some theories.Overcoming great odds, living out of a car, and a photo finish hiring before the visa runs out…this is the inspiring life story of well-known mobile app industry author Lomit Patel. Hanssen never revealed his motivation for spying.
(Nothing lasts forever.)," he wrote in 1986, according to the FBI affidavit. "Eventually I would appreciate an escape plan.
In letters to the KGB, Hanssen expressed concern that he might one day be caught, and he often checked FBI computers for any sign that it was investigating him. His identity was discovered after a Russian intelligence officer handed over a file containing a trash bag with Hanssen's fingerprints and a tape recording of his voice. Hanssen was arrested after making a dead drop in a Virginia park in 2001 after the FBI had been secretly monitoring him for months. Dmitri Polyakov, who were later executed. He also betrayed double agents, including Soviet Gen. nuclear war preparations and a secret eavesdropping tunnel under the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. His job in the FBI gave him unfettered access to classified information on the bureau's counterintelligence operations. "And that led him to decide that he was going to get everything he wanted - become a spy," O'Neill said.
He was joining the FBI to do that - not to spy against the U.S., but to go in and hunt spies."īut he was angry when he didn't get the exact job he wanted at the FBI, and taking care of his growing family while living in New York and later the Washington, D.C., area was expensive. He was a James Bond fanatic, loved the movies," O'Neill said. But Hanssen, who did go to dentistry school, wanted to be in law enforcement. Using the alias "Ramon Garcia," he passed information to the spy agencies using encrypted communications and dead drops, without ever meeting in-person with a Russian handler.Įric O'Neill, who went undercover for the FBI during its investigation into Hanssen, told CBS News that Hanssen came from a complicated background and had troubles with his father, who wanted him to go into medicine. He resumed spying in 1985, selling thousands of classified documents that compromised human sources and counterintelligence techniques and investigations in exchange for more than $1.4 million in cash, diamonds and foreign bank deposits. He stopped a few years later after his wife confronted him. Three years after he was hired by the FBI, Hanssen approached the Soviets and began spying in 1979 for the KGB and its successor, the SVR.
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