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>> so i got a call on a sunday afternoon that said hey, we found 11 of the 12 packages but having trouble with the 12th. can you help us? for that i would have to go to the original tand break it from scratch. those were the coordinates for the packages in virginia. that was the code we had the most failure with. every code has a key. and we knew we needed to find that key in order to unlock these secrets. brian provided the key to the code. the key was the phone list in his wallet at the time he was arrested. the question is what do we do next? in which case, brian didn't remember. the proble...

Was a terrible speller. >> the spelling problems were very unusual. >> espionage, e-s-p-o-s-i-n-g-e. >> satellite, s-a-t-e-l-i-g-h-t. >> at this point we didn't know what he had taken. we didn't know that he sold it. we just didn't know. 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 cia because right away they claimed to be a cia analyst and names came up in the package through various means that linked to the case and so the nro was another group that we needed to go talk to right away.

Was under surveillance. >> but we still have to prove that he's the guy that did it. >> we did not know what classified information would be taken and if brian reegan 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 reegan, he had a did i hafficul childhood. he had dyslexia. he couldn't read. people thought he wasn't bright and that's not the case. >> he made it for himself. he got into the air force and was good with c...

The area, we learned that he was in fact going to germany. >> 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 an intelligence service in a foreign country versus doing it in the u.s. >> but the fbi has no jurisdiction overseas 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 fbi, a decision was made to go ahead and execute the arrest o...

Talk about because it's still classified. there were three packages. inside the first package was classified documents, some of the pages were photographs that were classified. the second package was encrypted letter and the third package was a decryption code. >> they had the decryption key. >> i'm an analyst for the cia. i want to create ed pospionage. >> they were likely working out of the d.c. area. >> that for new york switches the case down to the washington field office. we took the decrypted leader. >> what do we know from this decoded letter that we can say