Foxstone Park

Robert Hanssen, who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia, conducted dead drops there.^[1]

One account relates:

Within a mile of his home, Foxstone Park meanders along Wolftrap Creek through Hanssen's neighborhood and a golf course. He used Foxstone Park's rustic wooden sign as his signal site, marking it with a piece of Johnson & Johnson medical adhesive tape placed vertically, to signal he had loaded the dead drop in the other side of the road... The drop site codenamed ELLIS was a dark, damp place under a footbridge^[2]

Another account relates:

He was caught one evening, minutes after leaving a dead drop under a footbridge at Wolftrap Creek in Foxstone Park, near his house in Vienna, Virginia. FBI agents also found $50,000 the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR...) left for him at another site.^[3]

Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at the park, which lies near his home (also in Vienna).^[4]

He was charged with selling U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and subsequently the Russian Federation for more than US$1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period.^[5]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Robert Hanssen.

• FBI photos
• Fairfax County Park Authority's description
• Reston Paths - Foxstone Park Park description page
• Google Maps Satellite view of the park from Google Maps.

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