| Show National Standard-Examin- Tuesday March 13 2001 7A For Hanssen family survival needs surpass shock of charges Shortly afterward the FBI asiTiogton Post arrested Hanssen in a park - WASHINGTON initial -- her FBI agent husband accused of espionage his photo plastered throughout the world - is finally fading Now comes the hard part She faces the daunting task of providing for her family and managing the psyches of six shattered children - two of them teenagers still living at home with her husband jailed indefinitely Booted out of their Vienna Va home while FBI agents scoured it for clues to Robert p Hanssen’s alleged spy work Bonnie Hanssen 54 and her teenage son and daughter moved in with one of her sisters in the area Bonnie Hanssen’s appetite dwindled and she lost weight her father said Not long after everyone in her family and her sister’s family caught the flu But last week the Hanssens’ downward spiral began leveling off Bonnie Hanssen was allowed her first visit with her husband through the glass of a jail visiting room She has moved back into the home where her family has lived since 1987 She has returned to teaching at a private school in McLean Va and her children are in school encouraged by support from fellow students and where he allegedly was dropping a garbage bag full of documents for a Russian contact “In my estimation I was the last friendly face he saw” Hoschouer said Meanwhile Bonnie Hanssen had become nervous when her husband didn’t return As FBI agents watched from nearby she got into her car and followed the route her husband would have taken to the airport Only after she reached Dulles did a government official stop her and tell her what had happened sources said the teenagers stayed home from school The FBI worked quietly inside their home on Monday and on Tuesday morning the story broke Bonnie Hanssen called the Heights a private school to let them know her youngest son would be absent and “she was obviously devastated” Head said Rob Nicholson recalls that initial stage He was baby-sittin-g for his older brother in Burke Va when the FBI knocked at the door They told Nicholson his brother had been arrested and charged with spying for Moscow to All the benefits of assisted living with the advantage of private apartments the motel and Rob Nicholson had been interview ed “I knew they thought their father was dead” said Rob Nicholson “So when I walked back in (to the motel room) the first thing I said was ‘I want you to know that he's alive and okay' Then I told them" & Organic Fresh Produce Daily tttej Reeling Bonnie Hanssen had to call her children and other family members Her older sons returned home and ther was untd the family got to “My first thought was that his buddies from the CLA were playing a joke on the boy from Oregon” Nicholson said “Then they showed me the search warrant and told me I could take the kids to a motel" The agents wouldn't let Nicholson tell the children then 12 and 15 where their fa master Richard McPherson DOWN TO EARTH NATURAL FOOD Independent Or Assisted Living 5418 WELCOME HOME! 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