loan up to $100k. >>> in late 1999, while working the investigation of russian technical officer stanislave room of our main state department building. this was the first time anybody anywhere had seen something like this. the fact that they got a bug in a conference room on the 7th floor just down the hall from the secretary of state is just astounding. >> a huge, and i mean huge inter agency i.c. meeting was held over at the fbi headquarters. the agencies all had their own different preferences and it was debated. one group said let's disable it and see if they come in at night to fix it and then arrest the guys coming in at night. other people said rip it out right away so we can technically examine it and do counter measures. it was finally decided at this meeting to leave it in place, let's see if we can learn something from it. but we have to monitor it in the conference room 24/7. >> we were going to install audio and video in the conference room that got piped to another listening post that his people could staff 24/7 for the duration of the operation. we had total control of the o