UNITED STATES: U.S. AUTHORITIES ARREST AND CHARGE FORMER U.S. AIR FORCE SERVICEMAN BRIAN P. REAGAN WITH CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ESPIONAGE

Record ID: 338142

  • Title: UNITED STATES: U.S. AUTHORITIES ARREST AND CHARGE FORMER U.S. AIR FORCE SERVICEMAN BRIAN P. REAGAN WITH CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ESPIONAGE
  • Date: 24th August 2001
  • Summary: (W8) ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 24, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF COURT SKETCHES OF FORMER U.S. AIR FORCE SERVICEMAN BRIAN P. REGAN STANDING IN COURT (4 SHOTS) 0.26 2. ZOOM IN: SOUNDBITE (English): EXTERIOR OF U.S. DISTRICT COURTHOUSE; U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, KEN NELSON WALKING TO MICROPHON
  • Embargoed: 8th September 2001 13:00
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  • Location: ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES
  • City:
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA7WZVN7P5JV4SQJH5NZVWOJQ6
  • Story Text: A former U.S. Air Force serviceman attached to a U.S.

    agency that operates spy satellites has been charged with
    espionage.


    Brian P. Regan, was arrested as he tried to fly to Europe on
    Thursday evening (August 23). He had retired from the
    American Air Force in August last year and had since been
    employed by a U.S. government contractor and assigned to the
    highly secretive National Reconnaissance Office,
    "Last night, the FBI arrested Brian Regan at Dulles
    International Airport, as he was about to leave the country.

    Today, we have formally charged Mr. Regan with conspiracy to
    commit espionage. At the initial hearing just minutes ago, we
    asked the court to detain Mr. Regan pending trial in this
    case. The affidavit, and the complaint filed in this matter
    alleged that Mr. Regan conspired to transmit classified U.S.

    national defence information to a person or persons he knew
    was working for a foreign government, with the intent to aid
    that foreign government, and to injure the United States,"
    U.S. Attorney Ken Nelson told reporters.

    Nelson said that additional charges could be filed, as
    officials conduct a damage assessment evaluation.

    "We believe that we will be successful in this particular
    case. We are not able at this time to disclose the names of
    the countries involved, nor have we been able to complete a
    damage assessment in this particular case," Nelson said.

    According to court documents, Regan, 38, from Bowie,
    Maryland, had access to classified information in his work at
    the National Reconnaissance Office, an agency based in
    Northern Virginia which designs, builds and operates spy
    satellites.

    Regan was arrested by the FBI as he was about to take a
    flight from Dulles Airport outside Washington to Zurich via
    Frankfurt on Thursday evening.

    The arrest followed a series of spy incidents that have
    embarrassed the U.S. government and prompted reforms in the
    counterintelligence agencies. Most of these incidents involved
    passing classified information to Moscow.


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