[1] During US Army service in World War II he was wounded by shrapnel.
[1] After joining the Central Intelligence Agency in October 1951, Hathaway worked as a case officer in Germany, in Frankfurt and Berlin, for ten years, before moving to South America for nine.
Shortly after moving to Moscow, Hathaway persuaded his superiors to take on Adolf Tolkachev as an asset, at a time when the Agency was wary of KGB counter-intelligence operations and anxious to protect bilateral relations.
Suspecting a mole due to the loss of several Soviet agents that year, Hathaway launched an investigation which culminated in the exposure in 1994 of Aldrich Ames, several years after Hathaway's retirement.
[3] Hathaway retired in 1990, and was awarded the Distinguished Intelligence Medal.