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That we would agree to that. and brian reagan said, no. i don't want 12 years. i want eight years. if you don't give me eight years, i'm going to go to trial. my argument was if we allowed brian reagan to gray mill the government, who says the next spy is not going to try to do the same thing? it was just a bad idea. and so we prepared to go to trial. >> for the first time now in half a century, an espionage trial in the united states could lead to a death sentence. the trial of brian patrick reagan is underway in virginia. >> the case came to me when brian reagan decided to go to trial, and t...

>> i am a middle east north african analyst for the central intelligence agency. i am willing to commit espionage against the united states by providing your country with highly classified information. if i am caught, i will be imprisoned for the rest of my life, if not executed for this deed. my wife and my daughter will be disgraced and harassed by everyone in our community. considering the risk i am about to take, i will require a minimum payment of 13 million u.s. dollars wire transferred in swiss francs. i had never seen anything like that before in all the years that i had been working...

About the person that wrote this letter? >> i'm a middle eat north african analyst for the central intelligence agency. i'm willing to commit espionage against the united states by providing your country with hayly classifihay -- highly classified information. if i'm caught, i will be in prison for my life if not executed. my wife and daughter will be disgradi disgraced and harassed by everyone in my community. considering the risk, i'll require a minimum payment of 13 million u.s. dollars wire transferred in swiss franks. i had never seen anything like that before in all the years i had been ...

Documents in multiple locations in maryland and virginia. >> there were 19 packages total. seven in maryland and an additional 12 packages in virginia. >> he gave us the name of the parks that he had buried them in but the coordinates to where they were buried were in a toothbrush holder that was buried under a sign alongside i-95 south on exit to fredericksburg in virginia. >> in a sense, he was creating espionage treasure hunt. >> this was his way to stay anonymous. if he buried them and gave them coordinates and they picked them up, they wouldn't know who he was. they start searching the fe...

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...