Sergei Motorin was assigned as a third secretary to the
Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C., in 1980. According to the FBI's indictment of Hanssen, Motorin was a KGB Line PR officer at the embassy. In 1983, he was recruited by the FBI after it got wind that he had been involved in an accident in Washington while in the company of a prostitute, and then observed him trying to barter his operational allowance of vodka and cigars for stereo equipment. The FBI used both events as leverage against Motorin since he was married, and bartering operational allowances was against rules for embassy employees. He passed the bureau information on every KGB agent within the embassy and in return got between US$100 and US$200 each time he met his handler. The FBI also deposited $500 each time for Motorin's use in case he ever had to defect. He met his FBI handler an estimated 75 times over the next several years. == Arrest and execution ==