https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen >>This article is currently being heavily edited because its subject has recently died. Knowledge about the circumstances of the death and surrounding events may change rapidly as more facts come to light. Initial news reports may be unreliable, and the most recent updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. Please feel free to improve this article (but note that updates without valid and reliable references will be removed) or discuss changes on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove this template message) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen#Early_life >>Robert Hanssen was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a Lutheran family who lived in the Norwood Park neighborhood.[10] He was of Norwegian descent. His father, Howard, a Chicago police officer, was allegedly emotionally abusive to Hanssen during his childhood.[3][11] Hanssen graduated from William Howard Taft High School in 1962 and attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1966. Hanssen applied for a cryptography job at the National Security Agency following his college graduation but was rebuffed due to budget setbacks. He enrolled in dental school at Northwestern University[12] but switched his focus to business after three years.[13] Hanssen received an MBA in accounting and information systems in 1971 and took a job with an accounting firm. He quit after one year and joined the Chicago Police Department as an **internal affairs investigator, specializing in forensic accounting**. In January 1976, Hanssen left the Chicago police to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).[3] Hanssen met Bernadette "Bonnie" Wauck, a staunch Roman Catholic, while attending dental school at Northwestern. The couple married in 1968, and Hanssen converted from Lutheranism to his wife's Catholicism. [14]