Posted on 02/14/2002 1:17:58 PM PST by TomGuy
It was the second time that Regan, who worked as a civilian at the National Reconnaissance Office, had been indicted on charges of attempted espionage.
Last November, Regan had pleaded innocent in federal court.
Regan was named Thursday in a four-count indictment, said Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson.
The indictment quoted Regan as telling Iraq's president in a letter: "I am willing to commit espionage against the United States by providing your country with highly classified information."
The charges characterized Regan's activities as a "systematic and calculated plan to damage U.S. security."
Regan demanded $13 million from Iraq in exchange for providing classified information, the indictment charged.
It quoted Regan as saying in the letter to Saddam that he was an analyst who was close to retiring and that the espionage would represent repeated violations of an oath he had taken to defend his country.
Prosecutors said the letter was written between 1999 and 2001, but they were not more specific.
Regan said in the letter that $13 million was "a small price to pay to have someone within the heart of U.S. intelligence agency providing you with vital secrets," the indictment said.
"There are many people from movie stars to athletes in the United States who receive tens of millions a year for their trivial contributions," the indictment quoted Regan as writing.
Two of the four charges could carry the death penalty for conviction, Thompson said.
The initial indictment against Regan was brought last August. It alleged that he improperly used a classified government computer network called Intelink to obtain secret images of missile facilities in two unidentified countries.
That indictment did not specify the countries for which he was accused of attempting to spy.
Regan was arrested last August at Dulles International Airport as he attempted to board a flight for Germany. He carried in his wallet the addresses of the Chinese and Iraqi embassies in Switzerland and Austria and also had the addresses hidden under the sole of his shoe, according to the indictment.
Regan worked at the National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Va., a military intelligence agency that designs, builds and operates the U.S. network of spy satellites. He worked at NRO from 1995 until his arrest - first as a member of the Air Force, then as a contractor for TRW Inc. beginning in October 2000.
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... Regan demanded $13 million from Iraq in exchange for providing classified information, the indictment charged ...A whore is a whore, no matter how much he or she charges.
TRW hires a lot of spys......Falcon and the Snowman.
If he is found guilty, shoot him!
Did Saddam roll over on this piece of human waste and send his letter to our people. Maybe the evil axis thing is getting to Saddam as well as Iran.
The shame of it! An Air Force member betrays his country!
They need to find out what caused him to hate his country so much he would spy for these terrorist regimes. Was it drugs, religion, politics ?
Learn the lesson and make improvements to the clearance process. Remember the system worked here in some respect as they caught him redhanded on his way out of the country.
Yeah, we just need to increase the daily flushings and keep flushing for about 20 more years. Then we will have most of this stuff out of the system!
He probably wasn't able to hire the airplane to drop leaflets containing the message over Baghdad, including his photo, home address and telephone number.
This might have been a wrong career track for this guy, what with his capacity for clandestine messaging and all.
This sounds kinda fake. Do people *really* spell it out like that in correspondence?
The charges characterized Regan's activities as a "systematic and calculated plan to damage U.S. security."
Sounds more like a calculated plan to get $13,000,000.
This sounds kinda fake. Do people *really* spell it out like that in correspondence?
The charges characterized Regan's activities as a "systematic and calculated plan to damage U.S. security."
Sounds more like a calculated plan to get $13,000,000.
I say deport 'em all...all 70 million of them.
I agree. In a heartbeat I'd give Saddam some fake crap or stuff culled from the Internet in exchange for some cash.
-bc
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