everything that s in the matrix. and so we start to conduct a full investigation on brian reegan. now we re doing 24-hour surveillance on him, 24-hour surveillance on someone, it s not an easy task. i remember the first shift of the surveillance observed him doing really odd stuff out in chantil chantilly. they described brian driving to a wooded area, walking into the woods, putting something down and then getting back in his car and going about his own way. i remember telling the surveillance saying do not go into the woods. let s see what happens. we later found out what he did was he put a voice activated tape recorder into the woods because he wanted to see if anyone was following him. he was doing counter surveillance because he was working up to doing something wrong so he wanted to see if he
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 said i understand where the fbi is coming from and i understand he has to be caught committing the act of treason and i will allow him to come back for 90 days, so fbi, you have 90 days to solve this case. so the pressure was on. [ turn around, look at me -the vogues ] there is someone
we looked at financial difficulties, training, performance history. i was given a small room and a cart and i was provided hundreds and hundreds of pages of documents. it was exciting in the beginning, i m actually on the chase but after a couple weeks, it became pretty numbing. so i was just pouring through hundreds and hundreds of pages of people s security files. and then i came across brian reegan s file. i was able to quickly see that he had had some cryptogophy training and financial difficulties and got a detailed review of brian s performance evaluation. brian s career he received a
in his work space. they had cameras mounted in the equipment as well as audio. so we were able to not only 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 a camera. he wanted to make sure that he was not being monitored. and then once he felt comfortable, he decided he would go browsing for classified information. he browsed on anything from counter intelligence to the iranian threat, anything highly classified he decided that it s of interest. so now we ve gone from being 99.9% to being sure we got the right guy but we still don t
put glue on his fingers, dip them in sand, put the ribber tips on and then handle the information. that is a really interesting and complex scenario, one i ve never seen before. and later, they find documents between the sole of his shoe and the liner of his shoe. they contain addresses of the overseas embassies that we were concerned about and he has a number of documents that are encrypted. brian had three different letters with codes on them, sheets and sheets of these three digits. brian had notes with cryptic words and notations on pieces of paper on his wallet. he was basically covered with codes all the way down to his shoes. and so by the time they