The real Robert Hanssen was allowed to watch this film by his jailers, but he was so angered by it that he turned it off.
Part of the movie was shot in Toronto and a scene in which Robert Hanssen visits a strip was shot at "Club Zanzibar", an actual strip club preceded by a face-on shot of Hanssen looking at the club with a store called "The Glass Head Shop", another real store which sold drug paraphernalia. Both of these establishments did exist during movie's time-line however the "Glass Head Shop is now gone.