- Hanssen tells O'Neill, "if I ever catch you in my office again, you're gonna be pissin' purple for a week." The real Robert Hanssen's undoing was a George S. Patton quote about "the purple-pissin' Japanese", a quote which Hanssen was fond of repeating. The FBI had paid a Russian agent $7 million for the KGB's file on the American mole - known to the KGB at the time only as Ramon Garcia. The file included a note of the mole about "purple-pissing Japanese" and Robert Hanssen became the prime suspect in the investigation. The FBI arrested Hanssen three months after receiving the file. The film concerns the last two months of the investigation.
- During an appearance on the radio program "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," the real Eric O'Neil told Gross that the real Robert Hanssen had a crush on the movie star Catherine Zeta-Jones, and he used to watch her movies at the office while he was supposed to be working. This is briefly referred to in Breach when investigators find DVDs of The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment among Hanssen's effects.
- Movie Goof (factual errors): When Eric O'Neill removes Robert Hanssen's Palm Pilot from his briefcase you can clearly see the Palm Pilot Model is a Palm III, which doesn't use an SD memory chip, which is lying next to it. This Palm has a 8 meg of internal memory only - no External memory card.
- Movie Goof (revealing mistake): In the night street scene in front of Eric's apartment, set in DC, there is a Canadian "Do Not Enter" sign clearly visible in several shots.
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