complete cycle, that you ve stolen it and transferred it to a foreign power. by watching tai take the information and go through security, we re able to complete that charge that he s now committing espionage because he s flying through china in order to give it away. the operation to arrest tai mak and his wife at los angeles international airport was extremely complicated. it s not just taking down one person in one place. we had to do multiple arrests simultaneously. we have to make sure we knew where chi and rebecca were. phao, billy, tai and fuk all at the same time. prior to the arrest at the airport, we were doing heavy surveillance of them as they approached the airport. billy drove them, dropped them off and left. as they were at the airline counter, we had an outer ring of surveillance personnel who noticed an asian male standing on the sidewalk at l.a.x., outside, filming them through the window. he s at an airport and videotaping people in line in
intelligence squad in southern californi we were called to headquarters. they didn t tell us what it was about. before we could be exposed to the information we were given about this case, we had to be polygraphed. that s never happened to me before. so i knew the information itself was very sensitive, so they were taking extra steps. steps that i d never had to take before. where did the information come from? i can t actually tell you how we got the information. i m not trying to be coy, but we also have to protect our sources. we sat down and we were told that china was stealing u.s. naval secrets. kevin moberly is one of the first three agents we had on
give information. that s very typical trade craft for a spy. so we took the safest course and sent agents along with them who would watch them and make sure they didn t meet or pass any information to other people. and from what we could tell, they didn t pass any information. but the alaskan cruise, that was our opportunity, i knew, to go inside his house, covertly. we had to see what he had stored, who his contacts were, if he had any letters or correspondence with people in china. that was an important moment in the case to get inside. this was our opportunity to go in and see what he had. s even b? best, fastest, best. enough. sprint s doing things differently. they re offering a new 100% total satisfaction guarantee.
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the store gave him free coffee and that s why he went every week. [ inaudible ]. sure. sure. time and time we d doubt. the investigation wasn t going well. i wasn t sure we were on the right track. from the beginning of the case, we saw no communication between chi mak and anyone in china. but you have to be patient for your opportunity. if we push any more, we might reveal ourselves to chi mak. so it s a waiting game. we re waiting for the next time he steals information and tries to send it to china. i believe jim was under a lot of pressure. you have to remember, we were using a lot of manpower. there were times when i thought, are we going to reach the end before someone pulls the plug? that the case wouldn t advance quickly enough, and we d lose our resources and support? that worried me. at that point i knew we needed to get a look inside his house. we had to develop the rest of the picture. after we started the trash and surveillance, we started writing