The Spy Who Couldn't Spell
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Cryptographic system, history of, 173–74
Death penalty, 192–94, 210, 214, 224, 276
Defense, U.S. Department of, 83, 89, 130, 172, 192, 215, 216, 272
Defense Computer Forensics Lab, Linthicum, Maryland, 53
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 9, 85
Deptula, David, 216, 217
DiBernardo, Richard, 253
Dictionary (Bailey), 185
Dion, John, 151–52
Donahoo, Debra, 51–54, 131
Double-agent operations, 35–36
Drug Enforcement Administration, 117, 179
du Maurier, Daphne, 185
Dyslexia, 3, 13, 43, 60–62, 70, 71, 73, 94, 164, 177, 245
Eastman Kodak, 84
800-numbers, 29–30, 108
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 80, 83
Encryption schemes, 108–9, 176, 178, 184–86, 241–42, 250–59, 274
Enigma machines, 176, 182
Faga, Marty, 87–89
False-flag operation, 29
Farmingdale, Long Island, 57, 58, 71, 73, 93, 96, 98, 99, 144, 171, 206, 208, 231
Farmingdale High School, Long Island, 3, 4, 65, 67, 69, 70, 145, 171–72, 208, 232
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 7–16, 20, 24–26, 28, 29, 31, 38, 41, 44–48, 96, 108, 180. (see also Carr, Steve)
Computer Analysis and Response Team (CART), 49, 188, 189
criminal complaint against Regan, 161, 168
interviews with Regan, 154–56, 229–32, 237, 240, 252–57
Regan in prison and, 199, 201–2
Regan’s computer and, 188–90
searches and visits of Regan’s house by, 166, 172, 187, 202–4
searches for stolen material, 208–10, 232–39, 245, 260–69
tracking and surveillance of Regan by, 117–19, 123–26, 130–33, 138–43, 145, 147–54, 162, 207
First Gulf War, 88, 216–17
Fishburne Military School, Virginia, 25
Flaps-and-seals operations, 41, 46, 48
Florio, Bob, 63, 74, 191, 252
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 124–25, 131
Form letter espionage, 193
Fort Meade, Maryland, 14
Fraud Bureau, 12
Frequency analysis, 175
Friedman, William, 183
Gaddhafi, Muammar, 10, 44, 50, 128, 190, 191, 231
Gaithersburg, Maryland, 24
Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) satellites, 85–86
Gambit satellites, 84–85
Gardner, Howard, 63–64
Gelles, Michael, 263
Gillis, James P., 188, 192–94, 224
Gillis, Mrs. James P., 192–94
Ginsberg, Nina, 169–70, 186–88, 220–22
Good, Ronald, 123–24
Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas, 70, 108, 109, 178
Gould, Michael, 64–65, 68–70, 73, 96, 99–101, 165–66
GPS navigator (Garmin III), 119, 123, 160, 161, 203, 208, 222, 223, 273
Graymail, 212–13
Green, Bill, 52
Hall, Keith, 130–33
Hanssen, Robert, 45, 125
House Armed Services Committee, 88
How to Be Invisible (Luna), 223
Hussein, Saddam, 75, 190–92, 211, 224, 231
Index of coincidence, 183
Intelink, 10, 13, 38–39, 42, 43, 46, 49, 51, 53–54, 102–5, 116, 117, 139–41, 162, 168, 170, 182, 208, 216, 217, 222, 231, 272
Iráklion air station, Crete, 70–72
Iran, 105, 190, 191, 230, 231
Iraq, 75, 76, 88, 90, 105, 109, 124, 125, 141, 143, 164, 165, 178–79, 190–92, 207, 211–12, 214–17, 223–25, 230, 231, 273
Israel, 106, 231
Jackman, Ken, 93
jacobscall@mail.com, 12, 26–29, 31, 44, 45
Jechorek, Lydia, 8, 11–12, 14–16, 151–52, 156, 172–73, 189, 205, 232, 264
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 75
Joint Military Intelligence College, 76
Joint Tactical Exploitation of National Systems (JTENS) manual, 10, 21, 50, 266
Justice, U.S. Department of, 147, 151, 153, 155, 156, 172, 173, 192, 262
Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, 125, 152
Kampiles, William, 87
Kasiski, Friedrich, 17
Kelly, Brian, 45, 125
Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, 72
Khrushchev, Nikita, 79–81
KH-11 spy satellite, 87–88
Kimble, Gregory, 200, 201
Klopfer, Peter, 61, 252–53
Korean War, 72
Krofcheck, Joe, 37, 43
Kurds, 76
Kuwait, 75
Lace, Bill, 38–40, 44, 45, 49, 149–51, 235, 238
Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, 70
Lambert, Dave, 153–55
Lee, Andrew Daulton, 87
Lee, Gerald Bruce, 212, 213, 226
Library of Congress, 29
Libya, 90, 105, 124, 125, 191, 223, 224, 230, 231
Libyan embassy, Bern, Switzerland, 128–29
Libyan embassy, New York, 8–16, 20–24, 29, 37, 43, 108–9, 115, 127, 155, 170, 175, 190, 218–22, 234
Libyan intelligence service, 21–23, 29, 35, 108, 115, 127, 128, 208
Lie detector tests, 36, 37
Luna, J. J., 223, 236
Mail.com, 28
Manassas National Battlefield Park, Virginia, 116, 117, 204
Manhattan Project, 176
Manhunter (movie), 274
Manning, Chelsea (Bradley), 272
Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages (Al-Kindi), 174
Maryland National Guard, 25
McCaslin, Robert, 14–16
McNulty, Paul, 139, 143, 145–47, 149
Mediterranean Sea, 71
Microsoft, 218–19
MiG-17 fighter aircraft, 80
Mill Lane Junior High School, Farmingdale, Long Island, 61, 65, 250, 252, 254
Mojave Desert, 90
Multiple intelligences, theory of, 63–64
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 83
National Counterintelligence Center, 36
National Counterintelligence Policy Board, 133
National Cryptologic School, 74
National Guard, 12
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), 27–28, 35–40, 42, 43, 46–54, 76, 83, 85, 87–94, 101, 104–8, 121, 130–33, 137–46, 160, 161, 172–73, 187, 193, 208, 229, 230, 233, 242, 267, 272–74, 276, 277
National Security Agency (NSA), 9, 14–16, 26–28, 38, 39, 42–45, 47, 49, 74, 176–77, 222, 229, 233, 242, 272
Network Miner, 54
Nicholson, Jim, 7, 104, 188, 273
North Korea, 192
Olson, Daniel, 177–86, 222, 239–45, 250–58, 260, 274
Onetime pad, 274
Open skies treaty, 80
Operation Desert Storm, 75–76, 178
Operation Grand Slam, 80
Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident (Powers), 81
Osan Air Base, Korea, 72
Oxon Hill, Maryland, 45
Padres, Bret, 51–54
Patapsco Valley State Park, Maryland, 110, 120, 121, 123, 230, 245, 258, 260–71
Pattern recognition, 71, 178, 179
Pentagon, 87–89, 130, 131, 133, 173
Pinelands National Reserve, New Jersey, 206
Pitts, Earl, 169
Pocahontas State Park, Virginia, 122–23, 230, 231, 235–38, 245
Polischuk, Georgiy, 86–87
Po
llard, Jonathan, 11, 132, 152
Polyalphabetic substitution, 19
Porath, R. J., 270
Powell, Colin, 151
Powers, Francis Gary, 79–82
Price-Lace, Andrea, 38, 188
Prince George’s County, Maryland, 12, 44
Prohibition, 175
Purple cipher, 176, 183
Radio, birth of, 175
Rail-fence cipher, 143
Rebecca (du Maurier), 185
Reconnaissance missions, U-2 planes and, 79–82
Reeser, Marc, 209–10, 230, 235, 238, 262, 265–71, 276
Regan, Anette Stenqvist, 109, 129, 143–45, 168
children of, 91
FBI searches of house of, 166, 172, 198, 202, 249–50
finances and, 98, 127, 167, 199
issue of prosecution of, 210, 225, 276
letter from Regan in prison to, 202–5
marriage to Regan, 72
relationship with Regan, 73, 95–96, 99, 101, 126, 166–67
request from Regan to bury toys, 203–6
visits Regan in prison, 198–99
Regan, Anne, 57, 58, 59, 70, 73, 100, 144, 197, 213
Regan, Brian Patrick
absentmindedness of, 126, 221
accompanies FBI to Patapsco Valley State Park, 264–71
ad in Washington Post placed by, 21–22, 30–31, 127
Air Force training and, 70, 71, 74
arrest of, 146, 160
becomes suspect, 44–45
boyhood pranks of, 66–67
bullying of, 62, 63, 68
burying of stolen material by, 4, 110–11, 122–23, 170–72, 223, 230–39, 245, 250, 261–71
Carr’s interviews with, 154–56, 229–32, 237, 240, 250, 252, 255, 272
cheating by, 69, 102
childhood and youth of, 57–66
children of, 91, 93, 95, 98, 144, 167, 168, 198, 210–11
codes used by, 108–9, 148–49, 156, 159, 161–64, 168, 173, 177, 182–86, 200, 206, 230, 232, 239–45, 250–60, 274
counterintelligence course taken by, 103
coworkers attitude toward, 92–94
Crofton library surfing session of, 123–26, 168, 222
death, thoughts about, 197–98
death penalty issue and, 192–94, 210, 214, 224, 276
drinking of, 99, 197
dyslexia of, 3, 13, 43, 60–62, 70, 71, 73, 94, 164, 177, 245
early employment of, 62–63, 68
education of, 59–61, 65, 69, 70
e-mail account created by, 12, 26–29, 31, 44
enlists in Air Force, 70
European trips by, 14, 127–29, 138, 143–44, 150, 153, 168, 273
expelled from school, 59–60
FBI code name for, 45
FBI interviews with, 154–56, 229–32, 237, 240, 252–57
finances of, 38, 96–99, 101, 127, 144, 167, 268, 276, 277
first car of, 68
gambling and, 97
Gateway computer of, 186–91, 218–20, 223
Gould and, 64–65, 73, 96, 99–101, 165–66
health of, 197, 211
hypnosis and, 263
idea of spying and, 101–3, 121
indictment of, 168, 191
infidelity of, 96, 108–9, 151
Intelink searches and downloads by, 10, 13, 38–42, 53–54, 102–5, 117, 139–41, 162, 168, 170, 182, 208, 216, 217, 222, 231, 272
inventions of, 97–98
lawyers for, 169
letters and documents in prison and, 200–6
letter sent to Libyan embassy, 8–16, 20–24, 29, 37, 43, 108–9, 115, 127, 155, 170, 175, 190, 218–22, 234
lists made by, 94–95, 120, 171, 275
marriage to Anette, 72
medal awarded to, 76
at National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), 76, 89–94, 101, 104–8, 117, 131–33, 137–46, 161, 173, 187, 208
newspaper delivery by, 62–63
Operation Desert Storm and, 75–76
paranoia of, 115–16, 118, 119, 141, 208–9, 231, 274
parents of, 58–59
personality of, 91–94, 166–67, 221, 275
phone calls eavesdropped on, 125–26
physical appearance of, 3, 50–51, 67, 92, 94, 96, 110
plea deal issue and, 170, 210–11
possessions of, at arrest, 159–61, 163, 184, 208, 214–16
in prison, 182–84, 198–201, 210, 224
proffer agreement and, 168, 170, 172–73
promotions of, 72–73, 76
rebuttal letter to performance appraisal by, 43, 44
as recluse, 91
relationship with Anette, 73, 95–96, 99, 101, 126, 166–67
religion and, 59, 100
retirement from Air Force, 115
searches of house by FBI, 166, 172, 187, 202–4
security clearance of, 4, 13, 115, 130, 131, 137
sentencing of, 225–26
siblings of, 57–58, 71, 73, 74, 98
as signals analyst, 71, 74–76
social awkwardness of, 3, 51
solitary confinement of, 224–25
sorting of stolen documents by, 109–10, 120–22
spelling errors of, 3, 26, 43, 44, 51, 53, 57, 65, 105, 191, 210, 221, 275
sports and, 62
tracking and surveillance of, 26–31, 38, 40–42, 45–50, 53, 117–19, 123–26, 130–33, 138–43, 145, 147–54, 162, 207
“treasure hunt” defense plan and, 203, 205–7
trial of, 211–24
at TRW, 115, 116, 130, 137, 144
visit to Libyan embassy in Bern, 128–29
Regan, Michael, 57–60, 73, 98, 100, 144, 213
Renaissance, 175
Rice, Bob, 139, 229, 272
Richmond, Virginia, 210
Rosecroft Raceway, Fort Washington, 204
Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius, 192
SAMbushes, 216–17
SA-3s, 217
Satellite photoreconnaissance, 28, 42, 82–90, 162, 216
Saupp, Eugene, 180
Scytale, 173–74
Security clearances, 4, 13, 36, 115, 130, 131, 137, 219
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 131, 133
Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), 39, 219
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 165, 191, 199
Shapiro, Jonathan, 215, 218
Shiite Muslims, 76
Signals intelligence, 85, 88, 90, 92, 178
Signals Security Agency, 176
Simulations (mock battle), 89–90
6903rd Electronic Security Group, 72
6931st Electronic Security Squad, 71
6934th Electronic Security Group, 73
Smitty (surveillance specialist), 118
Snowden, Edward, 272
Soviet Union, 23, 71, 79–81, 84–87, 104–5, 176
Spartans, 173
Springstead, Kathy, 202–5, 234
Sputnik 1, 82
Spy Who Loved Me, The (movie), 65
State, U.S. Department of, 151
Statistical analysis, 183
Strategic arms control treaty (1971), 86
Sudan, 105
Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, 79
Telegraph, birth of, 175
TRW, 14, 115, 116, 130, 137, 139
Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library, Falls Church, Virginia, 27, 28
United Nations, 211
Ural Mountains, 79, 80
U-2 spy planes, 72, 79–83
Venona program, 176
Vigenère, Blaise de, 16
Vigenère cipher, 16–19, 175
Vigenère table, 17, 19
Wagner, Brian, 67, 74, 191, 252
Wagner, Cliff, 62, 63, 65, 68, 74, 252
Wainwright, Duncan, 155–56
Walker, Gary, 35–38, 42–46
Walker, John Jr., 132
Walker, Mark, 218–20
Washington Post, 9, 21, 29, 30, 108, 127, 273
Weapons of mass destruction, 211
West Point Military Academy, 207
Wheeler Air Force base, Honolulu, Hawaii, 73
Wickman, William, 123–24
Woolsey, James, 39
World War II, 175–76, 185
*The name was actually that of the Regans’ youngest child, which I’ve changed to protect the child’s identity.
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