[iwar] [fc:Spy.Suspect.Had.Missile.Site.Coordinates]

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Washington Post
October 24, 2001
Spy Suspect Had Missile Site Coordinates 
Military Contractor Also Had Embassy Addresses When Arrested, Indictment
Says
By Brooke A. Masters, Washington Post Staff Writer 
When accused spy Brian P. Regan was intercepted by federal agents at Dulles
International Airport in late August, he was carrying the coordinates of two
foreign countries' missile sites and the addresses of Chinese and Iraqi
embassies in Europe, according to an indictment handed up yesterday by a
federal grand jury in Alexandria.
The grand jury charged Regan, 39, of Bowie, with attempted espionage, which
carries a maximum of life in prison. The single-count indictment reinforces
the belief of counterintelligence experts that Regan, who worked at the
National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, first as an Air Force master
sergeant and then as a contractor with TRW Inc., was apprehended early in
his alleged spying career.
The indictment charges that beginning in 1999, Regan, an expert on signals
intelligence, began surfing on the classified U.S. intelligence intranet
known as Intelink for information about the military preparedness of China,
Iran, Iraq and Libya. Law enforcement sources said they believed that he
might have been assembling documents to sell.
He did similar surfing in the three weeks before his arrest, viewing
classified satellite images of missile facilities and launch preparations of
two unnamed countries, while taking notes, the indictment said.
Regan's attorney, Nina Ginsberg, declined to comment on the indictment.
Regan spent 20 years in the Air Force, becoming a "recognized expert" on the
air defense systems in the Middle East and former Soviet Union, the
indictment said. His last job at the NRO, which builds and maintains spy
satellites, was in the office that concentrates intelligence support for
military forces in the field.
Regan lost his top-secret security clearance in August 2000, when he retired
from the Air Force, but he regained it a year later as a TRW contractor,
when he was already under suspicion of spying.
The investigation leading to Regan's arrest began last fall, when U.S.
officials learned that Libya had classified documents that it was not
supposed to have, according to court documents and law enforcement sources.
The documents were mostly classified secret -- not the more critical "top
secret" -- and included nonclassified pages of otherwise classified
documents.
The United States also learned that Libyan officials had received encrypted
messages, telling them to contact a free e-mail account assigned to "Steve
Jacobs," of Alexandria, an FBI affidavit said. FBI agents determined that
the Jacobs account was being accessed from public libraries in Crofton,
Falls Church and Prince George's County. The two Maryland libraries are
within five miles of Regan's Bowie home, and the Falls Church library is on
his commuting route.
In June, FBI agents watched Regan use public access computer terminals in
the Crofton library to look up the addresses of the Iraqi and Libyan
embassies in France, Germany and Switzerland, the 16-page indictment said.
On June 26, Regan flew to Germany for a week-long private trip.
In August, Regan bought another plane ticket to Germany and began collecting
the information on the missile facilities, the indictment said.
Regan told co-workers he was taking his four children to Walt Disney World,
but on Aug. 23, he was intercepted at Dulles International Airport as he was
taking an airport mobile lounge to board a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt and
then Zurich.
At the time, he had the addresses of the Chinese and Iraqi embassies
concealed in a compartment in his shoe, a Global Positioning System and a
notebook with a personal code representing the coordinates of a missile
launch preparation site, the indictment said. He also had a sheet of paper
in his wallet with a similar code for two foreign missile facilities. In
addition, he was carrying a list of NRO technical training courses that
showed the level of classified information that he had access to, the
indictment said.
Regan's checked bag had tape, glue and garbage bags inside, and his carry-on
contained latex gloves, the indictment said.
A computer disk seized during a search of Regan's home contained a letter to
the Canary Islands, Spain, asking for information about off-shore bank
accounts, the indictment said. Regan had amassed $53,000 in consumer debt at
the time of his arrest, according to court documents.
Regan enlisted in the Air Force when he was 17 and won several awards during
his 20 years of service, including a medal for his analysis of the Iraqi
military during the Persian Gulf War.

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