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>> and the spelling problems were very unusual. >> espionage, e-s-p-o-s-i-n-a-g-e. >> disgraced, d-i-s-c-r-a-c-e-d. >> satellite, s-a-l-i-g-h-t. >> and the letter was full of misspellings. at this point we did not know what he'd taken. we didn't know that he hadn't already sold it. we just didn't know. and 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 c.i.a. because right away the person claimed to be a c.i.a. analyst. that was a given. and they started an internal investigation. and then there were names that ...

Not all the squads had that. in a case like this, it is vitally important to have someone that can put all the information that all the agents are gathering and make sense of them. >> it's like we're putting a big puzzle together. >> once we decrypted the letter, my agents created a matrix. >> matrix points are things we use where we don't know who the person is. we just line up those facts. so in this case, there were some parts of the letter that he wrote, which we use as matrix points. so the matrix points we worked off then were military background. he had a top secret security clearance o...

Not all the squads had that. in a case like this, it is vitally important to have someone who can put all of the information that all of the agents are gathering and make sense of them. >> it's almost like we're putting a big puzzle together. >> once we de crypted a letter, my agents created a matrix. >> it's what we use on sub-cases where we don't know who the person is. we lineup those facts. so in this case, there were some parts of the letter that he wrote which we use as matrix points. so the matrix points we worked off then were military background. he had a knowledge of anthology becaus...

Have the evidence that we need to make a case. and so you just keep building and building and collecting and collecting and hopefully one of these days it will all come together. >> after rev seseveral weeks, b requested personal leave to take his family on vacation in orlando. he wrote on the white board he would be going to orlando with his kids. >> we didn't see plane tickets being purchase ordinary any indication of travel to orlando. i remember looking back at his charge records. looking for any kind of indication of going to orlando and we saw a small charge to one of the airlines that w...

Information. to take someone to trial, you have to prove they have information to a foreign power of an agent of a foreign power and if he doesn't have classified information to pass onto the bad guys, you've got quite a dilemma. >> what we didn't know is brian regan expressed interest in coming back to work as a contractor at the national recognizance office. he applied and waiting feedback from them on that application. >> so we presented to the director of nro asking that he allow regan to come back and work for them. and the director sat back and listened to what everybody had to say and s...