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Operational plan to identify russians coming to the main state department building, what offices they visited, and then how long it took for them to go back outside and get into their car. >> we would follow them to the outside of the building and notify robert's team inside the building of who was coming in and then they would try to follow them inside. >> when the russians stepped out of the car, we had cameras rolling with high resolution focused strictly on them, looking for anomalies in their clothes, in their hands, in their briefcases, anything at all that might give us an idea of what ...

>> robert arranged for us to have electronic access badges that made us look like contractors within state department. with those access badges, we could bypass security and go straight into the building. and he also gave us a tiny little coat closet with a window in it that faced directly to the street below where gusev was parking. >> the fbi began using equipment offered to us by the intelligence community in order to figure out where the audio transmission was coming from. >> it did not take long. the first day that we got into the state department an ex, the electronics technician was set...

We put a camera looking down directly over the top of it. so if robert's people saw somebody come in the room, then they would watch the second monitor to see if there was a hand reaching through the rubber tree in there. and they had a panic button. they had the power to lockdown the entire building in the middle of the day if somebody went in there to do something. >> in monitoring gusev, we had noticed that when gusev pulled his car up on virginia avenue, all of a sudden the listening device in the conference room would turn on, and a radio frequency would be directed down in the general vi...

Spear of foreign policy. it conducts foreign negotiations, they maintain conflict resolution and their most important job is to keep things stable. if the russians figure out our bottom bargaining line, they may be able to out negotiate us, so right off the bat, i knew we have a problem. no question. >> at the end of the meeting, when robert told everybody there was not an escort policy, i was pretty flabbergasted. we would get escorted. we at the fbi went through all kinds of hoops to get in there. it didn't seem right. >> russian diplomats, yes. fbi agents, no. it doesn't get any worse than ...

And responsibilities. what we had was a lot of smoke and no fire. >> unfortunately, after that meeting the policy continued the russians would not be escorted within the state department and from our observation, the activity continued. robert and i put our heads together again and said it's our job. we have to find out what is going on so we started a second round of the surveillance program. >> at the beginning of the second operation, we noticed that russian diplomats were arriving at the same rate and free aga frequency we seen during the first operation. then all of a sudden, all of these...