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Dug holes that you cannot believe. i think we were digging swimming pools at a certain point and we could not find the documents so there was obviously a problem. >> we had needed to make sure this classified material was all accounted for at the end. >> and so my case agent and mark reaser came to me and said i think we need to take brian regan out of jail and take him out there. >> brian was visual. so our last-ditch effort was a let's try taking him out and seeing if things start clicking with him. >> in my mind it didn't make any sense that brian regan would be able to find the documents t...

Truth, even how to break the codes. we followed everything brian tried to tell us and tried to reconstruct what he couldn't 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 this code was from the toothbrush case. now we have a whole new problem and a whole new set of pac...

And we dug holes that you cannot believe. i think we were digging swimming pools at some point. and we could not find the documents. there was a problem. >> it was important to recover all of this material. we needed to make sure all of the classified material was all accounted for at the end. >> so, a case agent came to me and said, we think we need to take brian regan out of jail and take him out there. >> brian was visual. so, our last-ditch effort was a, let's try and take him out and seeing if things start clicking with him. >> in my mind, it didn't make any sense that brian regan would b...

>> we were still discussing things but i wasn't going to go forward with anything else. i got everything that i wanted to get out of him. we set up a phrase with the cover team. it was time to come in and arrest him. >> we arrested everybody in the room and separated everybody. this is the moment i had been preparing for as the case agent.

Laws giving the fbi jurisdiction to conduct investigations overseas for hostage taking, for the attempted killing of americans and prosecute it in the united states. so in august of 1992, my supervisor came by and dropped a big, dusty box and said, try to make something of this. and it was investigation of the hijacking of egyptair flight 648. this case was given to me as a matter of routine. we review all these cases to see if there might be some prosecutive potential in case the defendant is set free somewhere. the bureau wanted a contingency. can we prosecute him in the u.s. if he was relea...