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ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT TO MAKE STATEMENT
REGARDING AGENT ROBERT PHILIP HANSSEN
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Attorney General John Ashcroft will join FBI Director Louis J. Freeh for a press conference at 12:45 p.m. at FBI Headquarters to provide details regarding the arrest of FBI Agent Robert Philip Hanssen for espionage. Copies of statements, an affidavit and photographs will be released at that time.
Hanssen will be arraigned today at 11:00 a.m. in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
TIME: 12:45 p.m., Tuesday, February 20, 2001
EVENT: Attorney General / FBI News Conference
PLACE: FBI Headquarters
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
(Members of the media should access the building through the
visitors entrance)
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