FBI Spies on Spy Suspect
at Maryland Public Library
FBI agents watched an accused spy use public-access Internet terminals at Anne Arundel County (Md.) Public Library’s Crofton branch two months before his arrest for attempted espionage.
An October 23 federal grand jury indictment charges that signals-intelligence expert Brian P. Regan, a 20-year Air Force veteran, sent encrypted messages to Libyan officials telling them to contact a free e-mail account issued to “Steve Jacobs,” the Washington Post reported October 24. The FBI learned the Jacobs account was being accessed from the Crofton library as well as branches of Prince George’s County (Md.) Public Library and Falls Church (Va.) Public Library. The indictment said Regan used the Crofton computer in June to look up the addresses of the Iraqi and Libyan embassies in France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Regan was arrested at Dulles International Airport August 23 as he was preparing to take a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt and then Zürich. He was carrying the coordinates of two foreign missile facilities and a missile launch-preparation site, as well as the addresses of Chinese and Iraqi embassies in Europe, the Post reported.
Posted October 29, 2001.
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