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>> we did not know what classified information he'd taken. and if brian reagan committed espionage, he deserved to go to jail, and it was my job to put him in jail. so now we have all of our resources towards the case and we are looking very hard at his entire background. from what we learned about brian reagan, he had a difficult childhood. he had dyslexia, and so he couldn't read, and so you can imagine what that's like for a child that can't read. because of dyslexia, people assumed he wasn't bright, and that's just not the case. >> he made it for himself. he got into the air force. he di...

Information to a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power. and if he doesn't have classified information to pass on to the bad guys, you've got quite a dilemma. >> what we did know is that brian reagan expressed interest in coming back to work as a contractor at the national reconnaissance office. in fact, he had applied for a position and he was awaiting feedback from them on that application. >> so we presented to the director of nro asking that he allow reagan to come back and work for them. and the director sat back and listened to what everybody had to say. he said, i understand where...

Listen, but to see pretty much everything that he did. several days after brian returned to the nro for work, he was alone in the room and he was noticeably looking up and gazing at the roof tiles looking for what would appear to be a bug or camera. he wanted to make sure that he was not being monitored. and then once he felt comfortable, he decided that he would just browse for classified information. he browsed on anything from counter intelligence to the iranian threat, anything that was highly classified he decided that it's of interest. >> so now we've gone from being 99.9% sure to we g...

>> and so now we are in a panic because we had no idea whether he had classified on him. >> and we felt that he was probably going to make an attempt to reach out to the intelligence service in a foreign country versus doing it in the u.s. >> but the fbi has no jurisdiction overseas, and so now you have no choice but to stop him from going out of the country, but you may lose your case because of it. >> so after coordination with the intelligence community, secretary of defense and the fbi, a decision was made to actually go ahead and execute the arrest of brian. >> so our biggest problem now ...

On august 23rd, 2001, the fbi arrested brian reagan at dulles airport in virginia just as he was getting ready to board an international flight. >> there are so many different items on him when he was arrested. brian had three different letters with codes on them, sheets and sheets of these three digits. he had cryptic notations. he was basically covered with codes all the way down to his shoes. and we knew we needed to unlock these codes and find whatever he's taking or whatever he's giving away. anything we can figure out of these codes is going to be key at trial. >> so our biggest problem ...