don sullivan was my counter part at the washington field office. >> i showed him a spread sheet trackingia spies serving under diplomatic cover to the state department and like any spread sheet, you can see increased frequency and duration of visits. >> this is clearly evidence of activity inconsistent with regular diplomatic dialogue. >> it's a good indication of something going on. >> the state department is the spear of foreign policy. it conducts foreign negotiations, they maintain conflict resolution and their most important job is to keep things stable. if the russians figure out our bottom bargaining line, they may be able to out negotiate us, so right off the bat, i knew we have a problem. no question. >> at the end of the meeting, when robert told everybody there was not an escort policy, i was pretty flabbergasted. we would get escorted. we at the fbi went through all kinds of hoops to get in there. it didn't seem right. >> russian diplomats, yes. fbi agents, no. it doesn't get any worse than that. >> robert and i decided we needed to do surveillance that was not just outside t