We found 11 of the 12 packages, but we re having trouble with the 12th. can you help us? for that i would have to go to the original trinomes and break it from scratch. those were the coordinates for the packages in virginia. that was the code that 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 his phone list that was in his wallet at the time that he was arrested. our next question is, what do we do next? in which case brian didn t remember. the problem was two years has gone by and he didn t know how to use the key any more. he forgot how to use it. he really didn t remember? well, at this point brian was being forthcoming. we believe he was telling us the truth, even the truth when he said he couldn t remember how to break the codes. and so we followed everything brian told us, tried to reconstruct what he couldn t
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Maryland. he couldn t remember how he encyphered the numbers. he couldn t remember the key to break the codes. we needed to sit down with brian reagan to figure out how to use the year book to unlock the code. and so we spent hours and hours together going over different parts of the code. we needed to figure out the relationship between the numbers in the code and the year book itself. and so when you look at the code, the first line of the maryland code was the words number one. we learned that number one represented brian reagan, the entire code system revolved around his picture in his middle school year book. of all things that kept appearing in the code was the number 13. referencing the 13th picture. from brian s picture. it was a picture of brian down
So we are going down these trails with a guy handcuffed with his hands in front of him. it s not like he s picking flowers and stuff. he s shackled and he knows it. brian walked over and he starts pointing with both his hands i think it s here. and so we grabbed the shovel, started digging and within maybe four or five shovel digs we found the first package. and so we continued searching much to my amazement brian regan remembered his trees. he found the documents and we would not have found them without his cooperation. as far as we know, he got no money. and the information that was buried, we recovered everything. this is one of those cases that we can sit back and say we prevented it from happening. and that s something that i am proud of and i m sure all the
Guys that worked it are proud. if you retain the trust of the country like brian regan that s putting our military people in jeopardy, that s putting our operations in jeopardy to be able to stop that is a satisfaction that i don t think you can even describe. spying is inevitable. there will always be spichltz there will always be people that understand the systems well enough to exploit them. by all accounts brian regan was a patriot. he served in the military and everyone felt that he loved his country that much. but what we found was that for some reason he was willing to sell out his country for money. i think every spy goes into it thinking i m going to be the one that doesn t get caught. i am going to study other spies and see what they did wrong and outsmart them all. i think brian fell victim and