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Prosecution paints chronology of FBI probe
(CNN) – On Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Patricia Haynes sketched a timeline of Regan's career and the chronology of the FBI's investigation. In 1980, Regan entered the Air Force straight out of high school. Fifteen years later, he became part of the highly secretive National Reconnaissance Office, which operates spy satellites. In 2000, he was promoted to master sergeant, and retired from the U.S. Air Force that same year. He then went to work for defense contractor TRW Corp., keeping the same security clearance he had when was in the military. Haynes told the jury the FBI began seven-day surveillance on Regan in June 2001, but she never indicted what supposedly tipped them off. She said agents also installed monitoring equipment at Regan's desk at TRW. On June 26, 2001, she said, the FBI was caught off-guard when Regan made a spontaneous trip to Germany. Then on August 23, 2001, Regan was arrested at Washington's Dulles International Airport before getting on a flight to Zurich, Switzerland. Haynes said Regan told agents he was taking his family to Disneyland on vacation, but she said his family wasn't with him. What he did have with him, she said, was a spiral notebook with encrypted codes describing images of a missile launcher in the northern no-fly zone of Iraq and of another launcher in China. Haynes also said agents found -- hidden in Regan's shoe -- a list of street addresses for several Libyan, Iraqi and Chinese embassies. She said agents confiscated a handheld GPS system, which the FBI maintains Regan was going to use to determine a drop site. She told the jury the father of four had run up $116,000 in credit card debt. Part of that was college tuition.
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