thousand dollars. one of the main dangers of a missile like this is both speed but also ease. so someone like me with no experience can put it together and acquire a target in less than a minute. sites go up, power goes on, you find your target in the air you fire your missile. it s incredible. often the agency here comes into action after rather than before an attack. this is the first time a reporter has been allowed inside the center s technical analysis room. so it s a csi for combat space a csi forensic cape ability similar to crime scene investigation, a fingerprint here and dna there begins to piece together a compelling story. reporter: within minutes of mh-17 s crash, analyst here sprang into action.
an attack. this is the first time a reporter has been allowed inside the center s technical analysis room. so it s a csi for the combat space? it s a csi forensic sort of capability. similar to a crime scene investigation. a little bit of dna here and a fingerprint there pieces together a pretty compelling story. within minutes of mh-17 sprang into action. desperate to as quickly as possible determine the cause of the crash. as luck would have it, they had visitors that day who could help. a group of representatives from across the intelligence community who do just this kind of analysis. we had them here in the building. so all those experts just happened to be here on that day. just happened timing wise to work out that way. as the outside world debated the cause, the dia had a likely suspect. within an hour and a half we were confident it was a missile that shot it down, a surface-to-air missile that shot it down. we had a fair idea of this one,