finish interviewing him, because of some of the things he has in his bag, the justy justice agrees we have enough to arrest him. the priority is to break the code, find whatever he has taken or whatever he has given away. we needed to know what he had stolen. where was it? has he made contact with a foreign power? brian had secrets and we needed to learn what he knew and we knew we needed to unlock these codes. i recently discovered that pistachios are
to trial. and so of course, we get search warrants for his cars and house because the original encrypted letter was typed so it had to be on a computer somewhere. so we were looking for any computer that brian regan had access to. we traveled to brian s home in maryland. so doing the search of the basement, i found a computer. then the computers given to our computer department to search diligently so while the computer department is looking for any evidence, we re starting to prepare for the potential to go to trial. most of our cases don t go to trial because they don t want classified national defense information to get out to the public. and so brian regan was offered a
decided that they would offer him 12 years in prison as long as he fully cooperated thanks we would agree to that and brian regan 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 regan to gray mail the government, who says the next spy isn t going to try to do the same thing. it s a bad idea. so we prepare to go to trial. for the first time in half a century, an espionage trial could lead to a death sentence. the trial of brian regan iss underway. these codes we found on him when he was arrested reveal a lot of secrets. what is he being coded? is he trying to tell the foreign power? it would be logical these codes reveal locations of classified
plea agreement. during the talk between the government and his attorneys, they hinted there was a lot of national security information that he had buried. we found out that he would steal classified paper documents and he took those and he buried them. he would print anything that had a classification on it that he felt was important enough for an adversary and leave the building with them and to his credit, he was never detected. once he buried them, his plan was to try to sell them to a hostile intelligence service. not only is it buried treasure but national treasures, our sources, our methods and that s what brian had and we had to find them. the last thing you want to do is have that unsecured somewhere that nobody knows where it is and so then the negotiations started. and i think it was finally
on why we should be able to arrest brian regan before he gets on the airplane. in the meantime, i ve got my supervisor at the airport telling me did we get approval yet? the plane is getting ready to leave. it s almost time. finally, the department of justice official comes back, approves the detention of brian regan and we tell the people at the airport, you can stop him before he gets on the plane. he s detained. he is interviewed. his luggage was pulled out and we found some very interesting things in his luggage. he had tape, plastic bags, he had a plastic container, he had elmer s glue, the rubber fingers you put when you re doing pages and a bag of wet sand. and we later learned that he was worried about leaving fingerprints so he was going to