part of a plea bargain that allowed his wife to collect his pension. A
senior Central Intelligence Agency official likened Hanssen to Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Mr. Hyde, in his opinion, simply won out in
the battle for Robert Hanssen.HARRIS, KATHERINE (1900–1966). One the most quixotic of the
Soviet illegalswas Kitty Harris. Born in England, she moved to
Canada as a child. Along with her siblings, she became involved in
communist politics in her teens and was recruited as an illegal in the
late 1920s. Harris served in China with Earl Browderand was his
lover, and possibly his wife, on a Cominternmission. In the 1930s,
Harris was entrusted with handling important agents for the NKVD.
She was Donald Maclean’s case officer for two years; a relationship
that became romantic. All communications from Maclean to the So-
viet service went through Harris in the late 1930s. In the 1940s Har-
ris was handling agents in the United States and Mexico. Her code
name was “Ada.”
While Harris was an effective agent handler, her lack of discipline
drove her Soviet masters to distraction. She apparently repeatedly
had affairs with agents, and often disregarded Moscow’s direct orders
to break off compromising relationships. In 1946 she was exfiltrated
to the Soviet Union, where she was detained by the ever suspicious
MGB, seeking reasons for the collapse of American networks. After
spending 10 years in prison, she was released in 1956. She died in the
Soviet Union in 1966. See alsoVENONA.HAYHANEN, REINO (1919–1961). Hayhanen was born Eugene
Maki, a Soviet of Finnish nationality, and was initially recruited by
the NKVDas an informer. In the late 1940s he assumed the Hayha-
nen identity to serve as anillegalin the United States as William
Fisher’s courier. He arrived in New York in 1952 and worked with
Fisher for almost five years. Hayhanen was an impossible spy: in-
competent and often drunk, he repeatedly failed to carry out Fisher’s
orders. In May 1957 Fisher decided to send him back to Moscow for
reassignment, which Hayhanen knew meant punishment. In Paris,
where he was to change planes, he defected to the U.S. embassy and
betrayed Fisher, who was arrested six weeks later. Four years later,
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