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Banks in europe and the locations of those particular banks. but that was the first success. it was a small success, but it was a real confidence builder in some ways because when you have nothing, anything is something. the next pivotal moment came when more codes and the documents were found on his laptop computer. brian thought that he had deleted those from the computer, but the fbi was able to find them. one document was a letter written to saddam hussein. the next letter was coded message ...

Put glue on his fingers, dip them in sand, put the ribber tips on and then handle the information. that is a really interesting and complex scenario, one ive never seen before. and later, they find documents between the sole of his shoe and the liner of his shoe. they contain addresses of the overseas embassies that we were concerned about and he has a number of documents that are encrypted. >> brian had three different letters with codes on them, sheets and sheets of these three digits. brian h...

Finish interviewing him, because of some of the things he has in his bag, the justy -- justice agrees we have enough to arrest him. >> the priority is to break the code, find whatever he has taken or whatever he has given away. we needed to know what he had stolen. where was it? has he made contact with a foreign power? brian had secrets and we needed to learn what he knew and we knew we needed to unlock these codes. i recently discovered that pistachios are

Decided that they would offer him 12 years in prison as long as he fully cooperated thanks we would agree to that and brian regan said no. i dont want 12 years. i want eight years. if you dont give me eight years, im going to go to trial. my argument was if we allowed brian regan to gray mail the government, who says the next spy isnt going to try to do the same thing. its a bad idea. so we prepare to go to trial. >> for the first time in half a century, an espionage trial could lead to a death ...

That jump out at you if youre not looking for them. it ended up being a list of banks in europe and the locations of those particular banks. but that was the first success. it was a small success but a confidence builder because we have nothing, anything is something. the next pivotal moment came when more codes and documents were found on his laptop computer. brian thought that he had deleted those from the computer, but the fbi was able to find them. one document was a letter written to saddam...

States and willing to sell our secrets. to hear the callousness and lack of remorse motivates you to want to see this through to the end. so we went into court and told our story. i showed the jury where we succeeded and i showed them where we couldnt figure out the codes and left it in the hands of the jury. and it was just a short time later that we found that he was convicted. >> brian regan was found guilty by a jury in february of 2003. this is a man that went from having the potential of 1...

Documents. there was immense pressure to break these codes. im the unit chief of the fbi laboratory. encrypt analyst breaks codes made by people. what is this person doing? are the corks of this individual that produce this type of code? our sole purpose is breaking these codes as the trial date is getting closer and closer and closer so i walked into a room where brians codes were laid out and it was just like a board of different codes. it was really kind of overwhelming. so lets go after the ...

Its an overwhelming challenge but you sit down and start to look, you notice patterns and you see things and a ray of hope, i think i can actually break this. sometimes try as you might, you hit a wall and that roller coaster goes back down and now you feel like never break this and so you have to recognize when youre beat, you have to be able to move on otherwise youll never sleep again. the one thing is there were so many codes to try, when you get smalled stalled at one, you can start working...

Used to encipher the coordinates for the packages bury in maryland. brian provides the key but two years has gone by and he cant remember how he enciphered the messages. he made it so complicated he couldnt remember how to use the keys to break the codes. and so we needed to sit down with brian regan to talk about how to use the yearbook to unlock the code. and so we spent hours and hours together going over different parts of the code. we sneneeded to figure out the relationship between the num...

Truth, even how to break the codes. we followed everything brian tried to tell us and tried to reconstruct what he couldnt remember and tried to make it work but it was tough. and as i came up with a solution, the case agent was on the phone with the team in the state park and they dug it up 30 minutes later. after they recovered all of the 12 packages from virginia, the next battle was the coded locations for seven more packages buried in maryland. this is a code i had never seen before because...