CBS Evening News - 2001-02-20
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[0:00] It's your store. Hollywood homes for
[0:02] sale. Famous kids and Nicole Kidman.
[0:04] Next, BT.
[0:06] [Music]
[0:08] An alleged act of betrayal and treason.
[0:11] An FBI agent accused of leading a double
[0:13] life, spying from Moscow for years.
[0:16] Tonight, who he is and the grave damage
[0:19] he allegedly did. China in the middle.
[0:22] The air strikes on Iraq expose a new
[0:25] danger for the US. NASCAR under fire
[0:29] after the death of its biggest star. And
[0:32] Eye on America, a doctor's warning on
[0:34] your drug safety leads to a court case
[0:37] against
[0:43] him. This is the CBS Evening News with
[0:47] Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:49] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[0:53] He swore to uphold the law. Tonight, he
[0:55] is accused of selling out his country.
[0:57] In a shocking case of espionage and
[1:00] lacks FBI security, an American citizen,
[1:03] an FBI agent, is accused of selling US
[1:06] government documents to the Kremlin. He
[1:09] reportedly did it for cash and diamonds.
[1:11] This allegedly has been going on for
[1:14] years. FBI Director Louis Free
[1:16] immediately went into a damage control
[1:18] mode for his bureau and acknowledged
[1:20] that the damage to the United States is
[1:22] quote exceptionally grave. CBS's Jim
[1:25] Stewart in Washington begins our
[1:27] coverage of what this accused spy did
[1:29] and how he was finally caught. Jim Dan,
[1:32] the FBI is calling this case a brilliant
[1:35] counter inelligence success, but it
[1:37] appears they probably had some help from
[1:39] the very people who hired this spy in
[1:41] the first place. By the time his fellow
[1:44] FBI agents began picking apart the home
[1:46] of alleged spy Robert Hansen this
[1:48] morning, the case ag