Materials Compromised
Fortunately, Regan did not successfully disseminate classified materials to foreign countries; he managed to lose and forget where he placed majority of the materials he stole. After Regan’s arrest, he agreed to fully cooperate with the government and disclose all of his locations where he placed classified materials. The FBI managed to recover approximately 20,000 pages of classified documents and multiple CDs and videotapes. Majority of the information on the materials consisted of tactical information collected on a classified network, images of missile sites of Iran, Iraq and China. (FBI, 2003) The negative impact would be detrimental if these materials were to make it to foreign countries. Adversaries of the U.S. could potentially adjust their technical and tactical procedures and possibly making our collected efforts obsolete. The U.S. is still at a technical loss of their secrets due to the materials unrecoverable …show more content…
Going over the behavioral indicators we recognized, Regan displayed: grievance of feeling underappreciated and underpaid, unreported visits to foreign countries outside of official duties; indicating a potential foreign connection. An additional indicator displayed Regan’s disregard for security procedures. He unmistakably took classified material without proper authorization and placed them in a non-secured storage and copied classified information from Department of Defense (DoD) computer systems without approval. Regan repeatedly sought out information beyond the scopes of his normal duties and at one point he requested to be reassigned overseas to increase his access to sensitive information, otherwise known as “homesteading” as defined in the Army’s Regulation (AR) 381-12, Threat Awareness and Reporting Program. One clear indicator identified relating to all counterintelligence entities is Regan’s financial
Fortunately, Regan did not successfully disseminate classified materials to foreign countries; he managed to lose and forget where he placed majority of the materials he stole. After Regan’s arrest, he agreed to fully cooperate with the government and disclose all of his locations where he placed classified materials. The FBI managed to recover approximately 20,000 pages of classified documents and multiple CDs and videotapes. Majority of the information on the materials consisted of tactical information collected on a classified network, images of missile sites of Iran, Iraq and China. (FBI, 2003) The negative impact would be detrimental if these materials were to make it to foreign countries. Adversaries of the U.S. could potentially adjust their technical and tactical procedures and possibly making our collected efforts obsolete. The U.S. is still at a technical loss of their secrets due to the materials unrecoverable …show more content…
Going over the behavioral indicators we recognized, Regan displayed: grievance of feeling underappreciated and underpaid, unreported visits to foreign countries outside of official duties; indicating a potential foreign connection. An additional indicator displayed Regan’s disregard for security procedures. He unmistakably took classified material without proper authorization and placed them in a non-secured storage and copied classified information from Department of Defense (DoD) computer systems without approval. Regan repeatedly sought out information beyond the scopes of his normal duties and at one point he requested to be reassigned overseas to increase his access to sensitive information, otherwise known as “homesteading” as defined in the Army’s Regulation (AR) 381-12, Threat Awareness and Reporting Program. One clear indicator identified relating to all counterintelligence entities is Regan’s financial