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>> so i got a call on a sunday afternoon that said hey, we found 11 of the 12 packages but having trouble with the 12th. can you help us? for that i would have to go to the original tand break it from scratch. those were the coordinates for the packages in virginia. that was the code we had the most failure with. every code has a key. and we knew we needed to find that key in order to unlock these secrets. brian provided the key to the code. the key was the phone list in his wallet at the time h...

Was a terrible speller. >> the spelling problems were very unusual. >> espionage, e-s-p-o-s-i-n-g-e. >> satellite, s-a-t-e-l-i-g-h-t. >> at this point we didnt know what he had taken. we didnt know that he sold it. we just didnt know. if classified documents fell into the wrong hands, lives are lost. and so the very first thing to do of course was to go to the cia because right away they claimed to be a cia analyst and names came up in the package through various means that linked to the case an...

Was under surveillance. >> but we still have to prove that hes the guy that did it. >> we did not know what classified information would be taken and if brian reegan committed espionage, he deserved to go to jail and it was my job to put him in jail. so now we have all of our resources towards the case and we are looking very hard at his entire background. from what we learned about brian reegan, he had a did i hafficul childhood. he had dyslexia. he couldnt read. people thought he wasnt bright ...

The area, we learned that he was in fact going to germany. >> and so now we are in a panic because we had no idea whether he had classified on him. >> and we felt that he was probably going to make an attempt to reach out to an intelligence service in a foreign country versus doing it in the u.s. >> but the fbi has no jurisdiction overseas so now you have no choice but to stop him from going out of the country but you may lose your case because of it. >> so after coordination with the intelligen...

Talk about because its still classified. there were three packages. inside the first package was classified documents, some of the pages were photographs that were classified. the second package was encrypted letter and the third package was a decryption code. >> they had the decryption key. >> im an analyst for the cia. i want to create ed pospionage. >> they were likely working out of the d.c. area. >> that for new york switches the case down to the washington field office. we took the decrypt...