Читаю сейчас книгу "Шпион" Дэвида Уайза, рассказывающую историю Ханссена.
Уайз утверждает, что Ханссен впервые вышел на контакт с Советами не в 1985 году, как официально считало следствие, а в 1979, и контактировал не с КГБ, а с ГРУ. И в 1979 году он выдал ГРУ Полякова. Тем не менее, Полякова не трогали, пока его не сдал Эймс.
Американская Вики, ссылаясь на Уайза, в статье о Ханссене тоже так пишет:
During his first espionage cycle, Hanssen told the GRU a significant amount, including information on FBI bugging activities and Bureau lists of suspected Soviet intelligence agents. His most important leak of information was the betrayal of Dmitri Polyakov, code named TOPHAT. Polyakov was a CIA informant for more than 20 years before his retirement in 1980, and passed enormous amounts of information to American intelligence while he rose to the rank of General in the Soviet Army. For unknown reasons, the Soviets did not act on their intelligence about Polyakov until he was betrayed a second time by CIA mole Aldrich Ames in 1985. Polyakov was arrested in 1986 and executed in 1988. Ames was officially blamed for giving Polyakov's name to the Soviets, and Hanssen's role remained unknown until after his arrest in 2001.