Yudhijit Bhattacharjee writes about the moment the FBI began to unravel an extraordinary espionage plot involving a government worker named Brian Regan.
Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by a man whose intricate espionage scheme and coded messages were made even more complex by his dyslexia.
His name was Brian Regan, and he would become known as"the spy who couldn't spell." Regan foreshadowed Snowden in exploiting digital access to defense secrets on a massive scale, devising a meticulous strategy to download, copy and bury hundreds of pages of classified documents. He deployed a multi-layered encryption system to mask his messages to foreign governments and the location of burial sites.
FBI watched potential spy doing 'odd stuff' in wooded area 00:51The account had been accessed half a dozen times from public libraries around Washington, D.C., and the New York agents were certain that the individual lived somewhere in the greater Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Carr had marked the locations of the libraries with pins on a large map of the D.C. metro area. The pins were clustered in and around the towns of Bowie and Crofton in Maryland.
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