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on distant cruise ships twinkling with tiny lights. if those ships came close enough they would see a new mom swimming with their healthy, happy baby. i remember coming out here many times. you can see how rough it is and how remote it is. there's no one here. and there's no one to see you. never in a million years would i expect to be in the woods digging holes to find classified information. in a sense, we're digging for treasure. it was critical information buried out here that was important to the defense of the
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united states and we had to find it. >> as a former fbi agent and chairman of the house intelligence committee. i had oversight of all 16 of our nation's intelligence agencies. my name is mike rogers. i had access to classified information gathered by our operatives. people who risked everything for the united states and our ph families. you don't know their faces or think names. you don't know the real stories for the people that live the fear and the pressure until now. >> spying is beyond anything i can comprehend. i don't know how you could spy if you thought you were going to get somebody killed. that's putting our military people in jeopardy. that's putting our operations in
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jeopardy. my job was always to safeguard secrets of the united states and i took that very seriously. they are secrets for a reason. if one part of this fell into the wrong hands, lives are lost. i've been involved in espionage cases since 1983. my quad at tsquad did espionage with unknown subjects and we got word in december of 2000 that new york had information they had an espionage case and the case involved libya, iraq and iran and so the new york office received packages that an unknown subject had provided to a foreign intelligence service. >> how did the new york office come into possession of these packages? >> that's information i can't
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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
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about the person that wrote this letter? >> i'm a middle eat north african analyst for the central intelligence agency. i'm willing to commit espionage against the united states by providing your country with hayly classifihay -- highly classified information. if i'm caught, i will be in prison for my life if not executed. my wife and daughter will be disgradi disgraced and harassed by everyone in my community. considering the risk, i'll require a minimum payment of 13 million u.s. dollars wire transferred in swiss franks. i had never seen anything like that before in all the years i had been working, close to 25 years in espionage cases. he was actually trying to hide his identity so that the recipient would not know who it was and that was very unusual. we were lucky to have mark assigned to the case as an analyst.
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not all the squads had that. in a case like this, it is vitally important to have someone that can put all the information that all the agents are gathering and make sense of them. >> it's like we're putting a big puzzle together. >> once we decrypted the letter, my agents created a matrix. >> matrix points are things we use where we don't know who the person is. we just line up those facts. so in this case, there were some parts of the letter that he wrote, which we use as matrix points. so the matrix points we worked off then were military background. he had a top secret security clearance or had access to top security clearance or access to intel link. the close fassified internet. he probably worked with the intelligence community. he was married with children and lived in the d.c. area and he
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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.
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>> it's a government agency of the world. the nro is the yeah in the sky for the u.s. intelligence apparatus. so the fbi came in december of 2000 and briefed us on the investigation. >> once the nro was briefed, we discussed what we needed from them and that was for them to look at their personnel to see if anybody fit in that matrix. >> so we wanted to either rule out the nro or to figure out who it was. and we made a decision to open up our own inquiry in addition to the active investigation the fbi had. >> the matrix points were good, they are vague. someone with a family, bad speller. the nro's job was not an easy one. >> at nro, he had access to the
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on the investigation. one of the first things the fbi did inform of us is they believed he was an employee. they believe the person has some training and they believe he was dyslex dyslexic. they explained it based on the misspellings in the letter. the information he stole was highly classified and could cause significant damage to intelligence agencies, as well and we had no idea who the spy is. my golfs to conduct a review of the nro employees which would include thousands of files. and reduce the counter intelligence review down to one individual we felt was the spy. so what we decided to do was look at other factors, things that are more ptraditional.
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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
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number of performance evaluations, all of which were exceptional. there was one evaluation that he received where he was downgraded minimally but so used to receiving the top levels across the board, he actually wrote a rebuttal. and in that letter, you could see evidence of dyslexia. when i saw the misspellings, i actually couldn't believe it was reading them properly. i thought it was misreading it and read it again and read it again. i said wow, this can't be coincidentkoin coinciden coincidence. this person had the same problems with spelling as the fbi. once i was confident it may have been brian, i put together a briefing and requested we brief that to the fbi. >> now we have to start looking at brian because he's one of a couple people that fit
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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
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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 codes and numbers. >> brian was an air force master sergeant. he had been trained by the air force to work in the
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intelligence community and he had worked primarily at the national security agency in the national recognizance office. >> he by all accounts was a very intelligent individual but he had some flaws. he had a lot of credit card debt. >> when we first started looking at brian regan, he was $50,000 in debt. months later, it was over $100,000 in debt. >> how did he get into so much debt in the first place? >> he had four children. his wife didn't work. so he was borrowing from one credit card to pay another credit card and he saw no way of getting out of it. >> he thought this was the best way to do it. >> once we identified brian regan as being the primary suspect, the problem is he already retired and to the best of our knowledge, he no longer had access to class fiose fi cl
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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
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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
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have the evidence that we need to make a case. and so you just keep building and building and collecting and collecting and hopefully one of these days it will all come together. >> after rev seseveral weeks, b requested personal leave to take his family on vacation in orlando. he wrote on the white board he would be going to orlando with his kids. >> we didn't see plane tickets being purchase ordinary any indication of travel to orlando. i remember looking back at his charge records. looking for any kind of indication of going to orlando and we saw a small charge to one of the airlines that was too small to be airfare. it was too small to be baggage and it ended up being administrative fee you get when you cash in your frequent flier miles so he was cashing in his frequent flier miles to travel overseas. >> 24 hours prior to his leaving
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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 of brian. >> so our biggest problem now is it's happening at the last minute and department of justice has to approve it to arrest him. so while we're waiting for approval from the department of justice, brian regan is being followed by our surveillance to the airport so now i'm trying to brief the department of justice
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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
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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
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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
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on august 23rd, 2001, the fbi arrested brian regan as he was getting ready to board an international flight. >> there were so many different items on him when arrested. he had three different letters with codes on them. sheets and sheets of these three digits. he had cryptic notations. he was basically covered with codes all the way down to his shoes and we knew we needed to unlock these codes and find whatever he's taken or whatever he's giving away, anything we can figure out of these codes is going to be key at trial. >> so our biggest problem now is we have to prove at least that he's attempted to commit espionage but we don't have the evidence that we're going to need to make a good case to go
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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
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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
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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
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documents. there was immense pressure to break these codes. i'm the unit chief of the fbi laboratory. encrypt analyst breaks codes made by people. what is this person doing? are the corks of this individual that produce this type of code? our sole purpose is breaking these codes as the trial date is getting closer and closer and closer so i walked into a room where brian's codes were laid out and it was just like a board of different codes. it was really kind of overwhelming. so let's go after the biggest one first and that was three three numbers that couldn't be broken. it's a three-number combination. every code breaker i think goes through the same roller coaster, when you first look at a code, you think i'll never be able to do anything with this.
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it's an overwhelming challenge but you sit down and start to look, you notice patterns and you see things and a ray of hope, i think i can actually break this. sometimes try as you might, you hit a wall and that roller coaster goes back down and now you feel like never break this and so you have to recognize when you're beat, you have to be able to move on otherwise you'll never sleep again. the one thing is there were so many codes to try, when you get smalled stalled at one, you can start working on another. i had a little note and i thought i wonder if it's something as simple as shifting everything over. for example, every a becomes a b and every b becomes a c. i shifted all 25 chakracters ovr and it was german. [speaking foreign language]. >> those aren't exactly words
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that jump out at you if you're not looking for them. it ended up being a list of banks in europe and the locations of those particular banks. but that was the first success. it was a small success but a confidence builder because we have nothing, anything is something. the next pivotal moment came when more codes and documents were found on his laptop computer. brian thought that he had deleted those from the computer, but the fbi was able to find them. one document was a letter written to saddam hussein. the next was a coded message to saddam hussein and the third was a coded letter to the leader e libya. everything for trial. here was brian in his own words telling iraqi president saddam hussein he's willing to commit espionage against the united
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states and willing to sell our secrets. to hear the callousness and lack of remorse motivates you to want to see this through to the end. so we went into court and told our story. i showed the jury where we succeeded and i showed them where we couldn't figure out the codes and left it in the hands of the jury. and it was just a short time later that we found that he was convicted. >> brian regan was found guilty by a jury in february of 2003. this is a man that went from having the potential of 12 years to now sentencing, which ended up being life. strangely enough, while that's an exciting moment, we still have a lot of work to do. >> the case wasn't closed as long as there is thousands of documents out there somewhere. there are national secrets buried all over the mid
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brian regan was found guilty by a jury in 2003. >> the case wasn't closed as long as there is thousands of documents out there somewhere. >> so after the trial, he air knees to cooperate with the governme government. part of the reason it was fully cooperating is because his wife continued to be a beneficiary to his retirement. she would have lost his pension, a woman with no job and four children. >> we go into debriefing him for an extended period of time. most of it at the beginning dealt with where is all the close fi classified information. >> the sources, methods, as long as these packages are out there, there is always a possibility the wrong person is going to find him. >> and so brian regan told the debriefers he had buried
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documents in multiple locations in maryland and virginia. >> there were 19 packages total. seven in maryland and an additional 12 packages in virginia. >> he gave us the name of the parks that he had buried them in but the coordinates to where they were buried were in a toothbrush holder that was buried under a sign alongside i-95 south on exit to fredericksburg in virginia. >> in a sense, he was creating espionage treasure hunt. >> this was his way to stay anonymous. if he buried them and gave them coordinates and they picked them up, they wouldn't know who he was. they start searching the fence line at i-95 looking for a toothbrush holder. much to my astonishment, we found that toothbrush holder and it had coordinates inside of it. >> in the toothbrush case, he had the plain text coordinates for the packages in virginia and
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the coded core anytiordinates a maryla maryland. >> once you found that location, what did you do? on the ones in pocahontas park in virginia, brian put roofing nails on the side of the tree and then marked out the number of paces from that side of the tree, that's where you were to dig. >> that was a very interesting approach we hadn't seen before. it was very complicated. so we went out with metal detectors trying to find trees in the forest that had nails in them. finally, we found of the 12 cashes of documents that he had buried in that park, 11 of them that night. >> we're not talking about a little package this big. >> we're talking about tremendous amount of documents. so we have 11 other packages and would not find the 12th one.
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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 problem was, two years has gone by and he didn't know how to use the key anymore. he forgot how to use it. >> he really didn't remember? >> well, at this point brian was being foing forthcoming. we believe he was telling the
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truth, even how to break the codes. we followed everything brian tried to tell us and tried to reconstruct what he couldn't remember and tried to make it work but it was tough. and as i came up with a solution, the case agent was on the phone with the team in the state park and they dug it up 30 minutes later. after they recovered all of the 12 packages from virginia, the next battle was the coded locations for seven more packages buried in maryland. this is a code i had never seen before because this code was from the toothbrush case. now we have a whole new problem and a whole new set of packages to recover. the next step is figuring out what is the key to unlock this code? so brian said the key is my yearbook. we went to the house. we got the yearbook. this is the 1977 mill lane junior high school yearbook he
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used to encipher the coordinates for the packages bury in maryland. brian provides the key but two years has gone by and he can't remember how he enciphered the messages. he made it so complicated he couldn't remember how to use the keys to break the codes. and so we needed to sit down with brian regan to talk about how to use the yearbook to unlock the code. and so we spent hours and hours together going over different parts of the code. we sneneeded to figure out the relationship between the numbers in the code and the yearbook itself and so when you look at the code, the first line of the maryland code was the words number one. we learned number one represented brian regan. the entire code system revolved around his picture in the yearbook. of all things, the number that kept appearing in the code was the number 13.
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referencing the 13th picture from brian's picture. it was a picture of brian down on the bottom corner. now the 13th picture over, was not a person. the the 13th picture is a student with a mask and it says mystery man. it was a practical joke in the yearbook. above the word mystery man, brian had written the word frank. there's not a single child whose name starts with "f." brian had to create a frank so his code would work. that's why we have the word frank written in front of the picture of the mystery man. brian needed a frank in a yearbook because he needed a student whose first name started with "f," because he needed the letter "f" seven times to represent feet seven different times.
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and so, we made a breakthrough. but we still needed to break the rest of the message. right toward the end of the interview, we pointed out some anomalies that we had observed on the bottom of the code. we said, brian, what is this? why did this happen? the two lines were not mathematically similar to the rest of the message. of course, i don't remember. brian has a method of using complex methods was a detriment to a lot of the codes he made. and we need to know where everything is. brian had access yobeyond wheree was working so he could provide information on terrorism matters. he could provide information on a host of other things, not even matched to the reconnaissance office. as long as the packages are out there, there's a possibility that the wrong person is going to find them. and we need to get them before
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that was easy! glad i could help. at xfinity, we're here to make life simple. easy. awesome. so come ask, shop, discover at your xfinity store today. right towards the end of the interview, we pointed out some anomalies we observed on the bottom of the code. we said, brian, what is this? why did this happen? the bottom two lines mathematically were not similar to the entire rest of the message. of course, i don't remember. don't remember. we asked if we could send the yearbook and the code with him
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so he could sleep on it overnight. once brian got alone and time to think about the areas we had focused on, he then remembered that the bottom of the code contained the coordinates for the last seven packages of top secret material in maryland. the coordinates were right there, in plain text. it's like writing the password of a message into the message itself. and so, a team of fbi agents went to the state park and began digging up packages. >> if you can picture men and women from the fbi, walking down a trail in the woods like the seven dwafrfs, with shovels and picks over their shoulders, you get an idea of what this looks like. we would spend all day digging holes and nothing would come up. >> we were out for weeks.
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and we dug holes that you cannot believe. i think we were digging swimming pools at some point. and we could not find the documents. there was a problem. >> it was important to recover all of this material. we needed to make sure all of the classified material was all accounted for at the end. >> so, a case agent came to me and said, we think we need to take brian regan out of jail and take him out there. >> brian was visual. so, our last-ditch effort was a, let's try and take him out and seeing if things start clicking with him. >> in my mind, it didn't make any sense that brian regan would be able to find the documents three years later in the middle of the woods. >> but we got the approval, with a lot of conditions. and myself, the case agent, brian regan and a s.w.a.t. team drove up.
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so, we're going down these trails, with the guy handcuffed and the hands in front of him. it's not like he's picking flowers and stuff. he's shackled. brian walked over and he starts pointing with both his hands, i think it's here. and so, we grabbed the shovel, started digging. and within maybe four or five shovel diggs, we found the first package. >> and so, we continued searching, much to my amazement. brian regan remembered his tracks. he found the documents. we would not have found them without his cooperation. >> as far as we know, he got no money. and the information that was buried, we recovered everything. this is one of those cases that we can sit back and say, we prevented it from happening. that's something that i am proud
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of and i'm sure all of the guy that worked it are proud of. >> if you betrayed the trust of a country like brian regan did, that's putting our military people in jeopardy, that's putting our operations in jeopardy. to be able to stop that, is a satisfaction i don't think you can even describe. >> spying is inevitable. there will always be spies. there will always be people that understand the systems well enough to exploit them. by all accounts, brian regan was a patriot. he served in the military. and he luoved his country that much. but for some reason, he was able to sell out his country for money. >> every spy goes into thinking, i'm the one that doesn't get caught. i'm going to study other spies and see what they did wrong. i'm not going to make those mistakes. i'm going to outsmart them all. brian fell victim to what other
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spies do, which is superiority. he took government secrets and buried them to sell them for his own gain. he brought this all on himself. ♪ being a twin is awesome. there's always someone to look after you and be by your side. >> both: we love being twins. >> what is it that we find so captivating about multiples? >> we've been twins for 84 years. i think. i think it happened in the womb. i don't think i had anything to do with it. >> i always tell people i'm the handsome one. >> identical twins have been a source of endless fascination throughout the course of history. worshipped as gods and feare
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