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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 who was coming in and they would try to follow them inside. >> when the russians stepped out of the car, we had cameras rolling with high resolution focused straightly 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 he or she might have been bringing into the main state department building. >> we saw one after another officer going in, sometime...

Common frequencies and only be left with ones that are there only when he's there. and that would be him. i get a call from my headquarters program manager saying here is the name and number of a guy, he has what you need. >> who is the guy? >> it was somebody within the intelligence community but i'm not at liberty to say. and after a week, the guy who gave me the equipment, he identified one specific frequency, an unauthorized signal that came on and went off with him coming and going. it appeared to be his rogue frequency. at this point, we need to know where it's coming from. if there's a ...

That was a concern. >> unfortunately, after six weeks, we were no closer to the answers we were seeking than when we began. >> all that we confirmed is they were coming to the main state department building in numbers and frequencies that simply was inconsistent with diplomatic dialogue. >> we were unable to go beyond that. >> when it was done, robert took it up within his chain of command to present it to the higher ups and say we probably have a threat here. >> in may 1998, the fbi gave me permission to brief thomas, the number three man at the state department and a former u.s. ambassador t...

Of guesev. we had officers movements around the state department and he was alarmed. >> i thought it was related to myerlier investigation with don sullivan, my interest perked up immediately. >> state department sees the intelligence community's most sensitive information, cia, dia, nsa, everything. >> so i look at andy without any further explanation and i say the first thing we have to do is locate that audio transmission. and we need to move fast on this. >> robert arranged for us to have electronic access badges that made us look like contractors within state department. with those access...

Debated. one group said let's disable it and see if they come in at night to fix it and then alerrest the guys coming at night. the other people said rip it out right away to examine it. it was decided to the big meeting to leave it in place and learn something from it but we have to monitor it in the conference room 24/7. >> we were going to install aud grow and video in the conference room that got piped to another listening post that his people could staff 24/7 for the duration of the operation. we had total control of the operation at that point. >> we set a camera looking into the room fa...