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[narrator] It is America'smost powerful police force,
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an elite team of special agents
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secretly patrolling the nationand the world.
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Its missionis a matter of public record,
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but its tactics are classified.
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Locked safely inside the FBI'sWashington, D.C., headquarters
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are confidential files,encrypted hard drives and secrets,
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secrets so covert...
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It is an institution that is built on
and filled with secrets.
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[narrator] ...so clever...
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The capability of the government
to surveil people
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and monitor activity,
it's tremendous.
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[narrator] ...so cunning...
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They will stage a phony traffic accident
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where they'll have a police officer
stop them.
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[narrator] ...that they mustbe kept hidden from the public.
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[Garrett Graff] Robert Hanssen
sold secrets that cost lives.
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The United States has probably
never had a more dangerous spy.
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[narrator] There are those who believein the existence of a book.
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A book that containsthe most highly guarded secrets...
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of the United States of America.
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A book whose very existence
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is known to only a select few.
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But if such a book exists,what would it contain?
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Secret histories?
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Secret plans?
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Secret lies?
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Does there really exist
America's Book of Secrets?
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[narrator] The leading law enforcementagency of the United States
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is known simply as the FBI.
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Its mission: to protect and defendthe U.S.
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against domesticand international threats
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that are deemed too large for localorstate authorities to handle alone
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as well as those that may compromisethe foundation of American society.
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Spies, hackers, jihadists,mobsters and murderers
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are just a few of the criminals
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that the Federal Bureau of Investigationbattles on a daily basis.
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[Erroll Southers] The FBI is the nation's
premier law enforcement agency
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charged with prosecution
of Federal crimes, investigations,
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a whole variety of activities,
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from terrorism to narcotics, white-collar,
organized crime.
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[Max Houck]
They are tasked with investigating crimes
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that are across jurisdictions,
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federal crimes and counterterrorism.
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[Joseph Koletar] If it's a bank robbery
of a Federally insured bank,
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they're concerned about it.
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If there's an aircraft hijacking,
they're concerned about it.
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Counterterrorism is a huge issue.
Espionage is a continuing issue.
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It's kind of difficult to get your arms
around the breadth of the FBI
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because they just do
so many different things.
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[narrator] With an operating budgetof nearly $8 billion a year,
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the FBI includesover 13,500 special agents
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and nearly 22,000 analysts,scientists and specialists.
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Rarely photographedin an effort to hide their identity
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and protect their livesand that of their families,
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many would be surprised to knowthat FBI agents today
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operate all over the world.
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The Bureau maintainsover 400 locations in the U.S.
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and dozens of international offices,called legal attaches, or legats.
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[Garrett Graff]
Under J. Edgar Hoover,
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as the first
federal law enforcement agency,
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it began dealing with crimes
that were state to state.
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Over the last couple of decades,
it has morphed into what I would argue
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is the world's first global police force,
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an agency that has hundreds of agents
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posted to more than 80 countries
overseas, every single day.
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Anytime a terrorism crime
or a kidnapping happens
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to an American anywhere
in the world, the FBI responds.
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[Southers] There is now,
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out of the National
Counterterrorism Center,
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a 70-person unit and five teams
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to chase leads on sleeper cells
anywhere in the world.
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The public has no idea what role
we play on the international stage,
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particularly as it relates
to investigations.
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When things happen around the world,
almost irregardless of country,
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the FBI's going to be there first.
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[narrator] On May 2, 2011,
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FBI forensic agentswere included in the covert raid
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on Osama bin Laden's compoundin Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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[door thuds]
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The world watched and wondered,
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had bin Laden really been found?
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-[gunshots]
-[body thuds]
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And how did the U.S.gather the evidence it needed
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to positively identify the remainsof America's most wanted terrorist?
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Because of the FBI's capacity
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to collect and process information,
they're always first on the ground.
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You can bet that if there's an incident
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that involves evidence collection
and there's terrorism involved,
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and particularly if the United States
has a nexus to it, the FBI is there.
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[Houck]
You can only excavate a scene once.
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You get one chance to get it right,
because once you move something,
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that's not the way it was,
you've changed history.
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So you have to be meticulous.
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[narrator]
But while the FBI's mission is clear,
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the methods used to protect the U.S.and its citizens
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often remains top secret.
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[Graff] If there was a book
about America's secrets,
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the FBI's chapter
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would be one of the longest
and richest in the country.
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There are a lot of things the FBI
has to do that it has to keep secret.
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The FBI keeps a lot of secrets,
and we do it to keep the nation safe.
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[narrator] But is there a limiton how far the FBI can
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and should go to combat crime?
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And if so, where is the linebetween protecting the public
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and preserving our personal liberties?
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[Ken Ackerman] The amount of information
that our government has on us today,
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not just the FBI but them in combination
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with the National Security Agency
and others, is enormous.
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How it's using that information,
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how deeply
they are tracking any one of us,
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we may not know
for another 20 years.
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[computers beeping]
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[narrator] Today,the FBI's most closely guarded secret
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is a special unitof highly skilled undercover agents
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who conduct coverthuman intelligence operations.
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Known as the TacticalOperations Division, or TacOps,
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these units include hostage rescue
and crisis negotiation teams
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and regional Special Weaponsand Tactics, or SWAT, teams.
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The TacOps division of the FBI
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are the people
that you've never heard of.
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They're the secretive side of the FBI
that are responsible for surveillance
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and sort of spying on the people
the FBI is investigating.
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The FBI's biggest secret
is how it breaks into homes and offices
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to plant bugging devices
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without the agents being caught
and shot as burglars.
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[Puckett] To get the job done,
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the FBI has to be able
to get into that location,
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secure the information
and get out without ever being noticed.
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And there are ways to do this.
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I can't tell you all of them,
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because we'd have to brief you
into programs that you're not cleared for.
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[Koletar] Basically, you have to defeat
the lock and alarm systems,
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whether it's a car,
whether it's a house,
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whether it's an office building,
doesn't matter.
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We've got people
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[Kessler] Usually, about ten agents
will be involved on the actual break-in,
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and each will have a different task.
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One person will make sure
that everything is put back in place.
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They'll take photographs
of everything beforehand.
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If they move a chair,
they'll put a tape where the chair was.
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And they bring their own dust
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in case they disturb any dust
on a coffee table or a desktop.
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They'll replace that dust
with their own dust.
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Let's say they have to drill into a wall,
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they bring their own
very high-tech, small vacuum cleaner
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to clean up any sawdust.
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[narrator] If a target is spottedreturning to their location
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earlier than expected,
agents are in place to divert them.
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They will stage a phony traffic accident,
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or they'll have a police officer
stop them and give them a ticket,
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or they will open a fire hydrant
in the area so nobody can go back.
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In one case,
the FBI created a party on a yacht,
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and they had knockout gorgeous
FBI female agents go to the yacht
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and have a party for these individuals
who were involved in political corruption.
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And while the party was going on,
TacOps put the bugs in their offices.
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[narrator] In certain situations,
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undercover agents will enter the premiseswhile the target is on site.
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Using various disguises and characters,
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skilled agents can secretly planta listening device
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right underneath the target's nose.
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[Kessler] Let's say they want
to put a bug in a Mafia home.
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They will introduce static
on the individual's telephone line.
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He will call a repair service
at the phone company.
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But the FBI will intercept the call,
pretend to be repair service
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and say, "We'll be right over."
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Well, sure enough they do go over
in a telephone company truck,
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wearing telephone company uniforms.
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[Michael Chertoff] The strategy
was to go after individual families,
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like the Gambino family,
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to try to bring a case
against the leadership
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for a whole host of criminal activities
engaged in by the family.
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[narrator]
This tactic proved especially effective
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in taking down some of America'smost elusive mobsters,
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including John Gotti.
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AKA the Teflon Don.
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The violent mobster who headedNew York's Gambino crime family
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was caught on tape discussingseveral murders and criminal behaviors.
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[Jeff Lanza] John Gotti
was caught with a bug planted
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in what he thought was impenetrable.
It was his social club in New York.
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They recorded conversations about hits,
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and that's what led
to John Gotti's convictions.
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[Chertoff]
We used to hear him on the tapes.
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Gotti began to fancy himself
kind of a man about town.
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He was very public.
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And in doing that,
he really painted a target on himself
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and made himself the focus
of an enormous law enforcement effort,
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which resulted in him being
ultimately convicted and sent to jail.
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[narrator]
Thanks to the secret recordings,
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on April 2, 1992,
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John Gotti was found guilty of 13 murdersand numerous other crimes,
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and was sentenced to life in prison.
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In the two decadessince Gotti's conviction,
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surveillance equipment and techniqueshave become ever more sophisticated.
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But despite the high-tech advancements,
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many believethe most valuable intelligence-gathering
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comes from secret,undercover surveillance.
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[narrator]
To secretly track America's enemies,
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the FBIturns to its Special Surveillance Group,
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a unit of highly-trained investigativespecialists known as ghosts.
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But how deeply undercoverare these ghosts?
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Are their identitiesonly kept secret from the public,
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or are they also hiddenfrom the FBI's own special agents?
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And how exactlydo they covertly conduct
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their observationswithout being detected?
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The FBI's ghosts are part
of the secretive surveillance teams
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who most special agents don't even
know who these people are.
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I can't tell you too much about
how an SSG operative does what they do.
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A lot of that is classified,
and that would get me in a lot of trouble.
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But they're 100% undercover,
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and so they are doing covert work
to catch spies and terrorists.
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I was an investigative specialist.
I was a ghost.
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So my job was to follow spies
and terrorists covertly.
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That doesn't mean in the shadows.
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That means that I might have been
in plain sight, but I'm blending in.
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In other words, I am following them,
I am collecting information on them,
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but they never know I'm there.
Hence the term "ghosts."
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The four most important things
when conducting a surveillance are,
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one: know your target.
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If you don't know
some good facts about your target,
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about some of the places they might go,
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about some of the things
they might enjoy or like,
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you're never going to be able
to surveil them successfully.
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The second is to know your environment.
If you don't know where you are,
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you're going to have a really hard time
following someone,
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especially if that person knows it
better than you do.
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The third is to be able to blend.
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You need to be able
to hide in plain sight.
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You're not going to be the guy
sneaking around in the shadows
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or hiding behind dumpsters.
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You're going to be the person
who's walking in a crowd
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and blending completely.
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You want to be grey.
You want to be boring.
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You don't want to be James Bond.
You want to be the mousy guy
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in the corner that no one notices;
the wallflower.
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And finally,
you have to know how to adapt.
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Everything that possibly
can go wrong will go wrong,
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so you have to remain
unshaken, confident,
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and you've got to do what you can do
to keep that surveillance running,
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stay covert, continue to blend
and adapt to the situation.
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[narrator] The ability to blend inwhen tracking a criminal
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is crucialfor FBI information gathering.
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But what happenswhen there is a breach of intelligence?
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What does the FBI do
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when a special agentturns into a double agent
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and becomes an international spy?
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On June 27, 2010,
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FBI agents arrested ten membersof a Russian spy ring
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that operated in Massachusetts,Virginia and New York.
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The arrests came aftera seven-year investigation
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that included deep cover agents
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involved in a counterintelligenceoperation called Ghost Stories.
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The FBI used a variety
of different surveillance techniques,
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everything from
fixed surveillance cameras,
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down to videos
and microphones hidden in backpacks
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that they would set up in cafes.
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[narrator]
Among the spies taken into custody
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was Russian national Anna Chapman,
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a fashionable 28-year-old the mediadubbed a modern-day Mata Hari.
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The FBI claimed that neither Chapmannor her co-conspirators
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were an immediate threatto U.S. security.
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Could the arrests that day
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have been designed to servea more secret purpose?
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Weeks after the arrests,
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the U.S. traded the Russiansfor four operatives
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being held on spy chargesin the former Soviet Union.
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One of the four menhanded over to the U.S.
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was Alexander Zaporozhsky.
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Many believe Zaporozhsky
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secretly helpedtake down a rogue FBI agent
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who committed one of the worstsecurity breaches in U.S. history.
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[O'Neil] They knew
that there was a traitor somewhere.
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So the FBI started looking at sources
that could give us information
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that would lead us to this traitor
in our midst, and they found one,
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who provided a folderof information from Russia
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that had some evidencethat led to Robert Hanssen.
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[Graff] Robert Hanssen
is the most dangerous and deadly traitor
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the FBI has ever had.
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He was a career agent,
who had spent decades
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spying for the Soviet Union,
then the Russians,
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without any notice...
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and rising to actually become
one of the highest-ranking agents
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studying the Russians.
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[narrator] For 22 years,
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Hanssen had secretly suppliedthe Soviets and Russians
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with sensitive informationon U.S. security,
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as well as intelligence on KGB agentsworking for the Americans.
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[Raymond Batvinis] He knew how
counterintelligence worked.
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He knew what the strengths were,
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and he knew what the Achilles' heel
of counterintelligence was.
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Not just the FBI,
but any counterintelligence service.
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The Soviets didn't even know
who he was.
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Because Hanssen was good.
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He knew how to cover his tracks,
'cause he was in the game.
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[narrator] The FBI had strategiesfor dealing with double agents,
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but were they prepared for a traitor
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as high upin the organization as Hanssen?
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What kind of a trap did they useto take down a spy
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as skilled as a real-life Jason Bourne?
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They created a new division called
Information Assurance,
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they put him in charge of it,
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and they decided that what we'll do
is give him access to everything.
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And if we give him access
to everything,
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he'll be the kid in the candy store
with no one minding the shop,
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who just can't resist reaching up
and stealing something.
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So, I was offered the job,
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told that you're going to work
with Robert Hanssen, investigate him,
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take orders from a senior agent
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who's going to be handing down
what she wants you to do.
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And if they had used a trained,
face-to-face agent to do the job,
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Hanssen might have noticed
all of the different tips and tricks
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that someone
who's trained to do this might do.
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I had to make him feel comfortable.
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And I did that by talking with him,
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making him feel
that I wasn't investigating him,
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making him feel confident
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that the Information Assurance section
was a real division,
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that he had a real person who worked
for him who wanted it to succeed
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and wanted him to succeed
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so that we could continue to be
a functional part of the FBI.
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[narrator] By 1998,
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the CIA and FBI were working togetherto confirm their suspicion
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that Hanssen was selling secrets.
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But how do special agentssecretly investigate one of their own?
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How do you trap someone
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who knows all of the same tricksof the trade as you?
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And what couldundercover agent Eric O'Neill do
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to catch Hanssen red-handed?
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[O'Neil] You start looking
for those sort of things that they do
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to make sure that an investigator
might not find the information
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that they want to hide.
And his was a Palm Pilot.
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I went through the bag,
grabbed the Palm Pilot,
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ran down two flights of steps
to where we had a team waiting,
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and they copied it.
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And it turns out that on that Palm Pilot,
we were not only able to find,
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the day that he was going
to make the drop
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but where he was going
to make it.
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So we were able to put a team
at that drop site ahead of him
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and caught him red-handed,
in the act of espionage.
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[narrator] On February 18, 2001,
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Robert Hanssen was arrestedand charged with 13 counts of espionage.
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Five weeks from retirement,
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the rogue agent was getting readyto exit the agency with a pension
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and an estimated $1.4 million in cashfrom the Russians.
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After Hanssen's arrest,
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the FBI released a listof the secret intelligence
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the former agent sold to the Sovietsand Russians from 1979 to 2001.
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During that time, he gave up
some of the most egregious secrets
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that have been given up by a spy.
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[narrator] Included were the namesof double agents,
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military strategies,
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and details of a secret location
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where American leaders would be hiddenduring a national crisis.
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[Graff] Robert Hanssen sold secrets
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that cost people's lives,
that cost operations,
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cost taxpayers billions of dollars,
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and the United States has probably
never had a more dangerous spy
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in its 200-year history.
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When one of your own
turns out to betray
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an organization like the FBI,
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it just shakes
the whole organization to the core.
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[sirens wailing]
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[narrator]
The events of September 11, 2001,
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not only changed how the U.S. respondsto terrorist attacks,
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it influenced the way America
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now defends itselfagainst potential threats.
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(camera shutter clicking)
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Like many governmentand law enforcement agencies,
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the events of 9/11forced the FBI to reinvent itself.
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Now preventing terrorismbecame the number one priority.
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[Lanza]
The common thinking after 9/11,
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in the weeks and months that followed
if there was another terrorist attack,
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the FBI was going to be history.
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And so they needed to change the FBI
to make sure that that didn't happen.
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[Koletar] Once the bomb goes off
or once the bug gets loose, it's too late.
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So you want to find out
what the bad folks are up to,
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and then put together a strategy
to stop it before it happens.
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[Southers]
9/11 was a game changer.
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It required us now to share information.
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It required us to work on
analyzing intelligence together.
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[narrator] After nearly a centuryof working in secrecy,
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the FBI createda revolutionary new security unit
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called the Joint TerrorismTask Force.
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The JTTF put local,state and federal officials
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on the same team for the first time.
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[Lanza] This is a secret
the public really doesn't know about,
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but the FBI,
even inside its own agency,
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they could not share information
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between agents who gathered information
in an intelligence capacity,
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in other words, trying to just figure out
who the bad guys are
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that might be attacking our country,
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and then agents
working on criminal cases,
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investigating crimes
after they'd occurred.
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We were forbidden by law
from sharing that information.
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Agents sitting next to one another
in the FBI office,
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couldn't talk about these cases.
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[narrator] Today there isa Joint Terrorism Task Force team
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in every major U.S. city.
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They meet secretly,
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in undercover officescode-named fusion centers.
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[Graff] Fusion centers
are these shadowy organizations
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that combine state,
local and federal officials
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to share intelligence
and try to identify threats.
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Most people have never heard of them,
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and if the FBI has its way,
most people never will.
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[Southers] I think what the American
public would find really interesting
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is that they could be
walking past the fusion center
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and not even know it's there.
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Everybody who works in those centers
has a top secret clearance.
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Police officers next to sheriffs
next to FBI agents,
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all working on the same cases,
all collecting and analyzing data,
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something that didn't happen
a decade ago,
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that has really changed the way
that we do things.
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[narrator]
But how does the FBI use information
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gathered by law enforcement agencies
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to look into the futureand predict an attack?
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And once a plot is discovered,
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at what point does the FBI step inand prevent it from occurring?
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[Koletar] Rather than wait
for something to happen
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and then try to find the bad guys,
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the emphasis now
is much more infiltration,
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information analysis
and disrupting operations
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before they ever get off the ground.
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[siren wailing]
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[narrator] August 2005.
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Local police in Torrance, California,
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call in the Los Angeles JTTF
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after finding questionable informationin a wallet and cell phone
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dropped by one of the suspectsat the scene of a gas station robbery.
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But why was the L.A. task forceinvestigating a crime
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that, on the surface,seemed to be petty?
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The wallet belongedto Gregory Vernon Patterson,
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an employee of a duty-free shop
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at Los Angeles International Airport.
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But when they searched Patterson's home,they were alarmed.
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But what did they find?
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[Southers] When they did
the search warrant on the location,
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you would think we're looking for
the proceeds or profits of robberies,
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but when they got in there
and they saw maps,
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and laptops,
and automatic weapons,
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and a whole host of things
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that suggested this was more than
a group of guys out doing robberies.
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[narrator] Data storedon Patterson's mobile phone
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led the JTTF to a terrorist cell
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that had formed in Folsom Prison.
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They called themselves JIS,
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which was translated as
the Assembly of Authentic Islam.
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Very interesting collection of actors.
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You had Kevin James,
who was at Folsom Prison.
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Levar Washington,
who was there with him,
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and they formed a cell of four people.
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They came out of prison,
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they connected with an individual
who was a Pakistani National
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named Hamad Samana.
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Levar Washington
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was being interviewed
and spoke fluent Arabic
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and said he was from Sudan.
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When one of the JTTF members
saw some tattoos,
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ran them through
the computer system
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and realized that Washington
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was a Los Angeles
Rollin 60's Crip gang member
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who was now fluent
and self-taught in Arabic in prison,
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and part of this cell.
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These guys were out
doing gas station robberies
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trying to collect the necessary money
they needed for ammunition
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because they were going
to be active shooters at LAX.
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They were going to target
the El Al ticket counter,
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which is the official airline
of the state of Israel.
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They were going to target
the Israeli Consulate
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on Wilshire Boulevard,
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two National Guard
recruiting centers,
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and three synagogues
in the Los Angeles area.
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[Graff] In the FBI's eyes,
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if you never hear
of the Assembly of Authentic Islam,
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they've done their jobs.
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[narrator] By sharing information
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with dozens of U.S. law enforcementand intelligence agencies,
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the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forcehas successfully broken up cells
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in more than seven American cities,
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potentially saving the livesof thousands of unsuspecting people.
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[Southers]
This particular operation, we believe,
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is one of the closest ones we've had
since 9/11 to going operational
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00:28:28,456 --> 00:28:32,996
and this is living proof of why a JTTF
is necessary and what it can do.
484
00:28:34,879 --> 00:28:39,219
[Graff] The record that the FBI
has amassed since 9/11,
485
00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:44,220
that we went a decade without
a single U.S. civilian being killed
486
00:28:44,305 --> 00:28:46,425
in a terror attack in the United States
487
00:28:46,516 --> 00:28:50,436
is just an impressive record
of achievement.
488
00:28:57,652 --> 00:28:59,202
[narrator]
Business Week reported
489
00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:01,819
that college studentshave consistently ranked
490
00:29:01,906 --> 00:29:05,656
the FBI as oneof America's "Hottest Employers."
491
00:29:06,244 --> 00:29:07,754
And even though the job demands
492
00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:11,751
that recruits put their liveson the line every single day,
493
00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:14,205
Students recently voted the agency
494
00:29:14,294 --> 00:29:17,424
as the third most desirable place to work
495
00:29:17,505 --> 00:29:21,005
after Googleand the Walt Disney Company.
496
00:29:21,426 --> 00:29:25,466
The FBI loves recruits
who know science,
497
00:29:25,555 --> 00:29:28,635
who know foreign languages,
who know computers,
498
00:29:28,725 --> 00:29:33,435
who are invested
in the high-tech 21st-century world.
499
00:29:33,521 --> 00:29:35,481
[Kessler] The FBI has no trouble
recruiting.
500
00:29:35,565 --> 00:29:39,355
In fact, the competition
to become an FBI agent
501
00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:41,074
is as great as getting into Harvard.
502
00:29:42,155 --> 00:29:43,615
[Puckett] It's a secret club.
503
00:29:43,698 --> 00:29:45,698
So when you become an FBI agent,
504
00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:48,544
you've immediately got
what we call the FBI family.
505
00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:50,960
And you know, your whole life,
506
00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:54,289
that that's who you are
and who your people are.
507
00:29:57,796 --> 00:30:01,546
[narrator] But how does the FBIselect its elite group of agents
508
00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:05,263
from the tens of thousandsof applications they receive?
509
00:30:05,345 --> 00:30:08,675
Are there secret qualificationsthey look for?
510
00:30:09,098 --> 00:30:12,438
And how do they knowwho can ultimately be trusted?
511
00:30:13,019 --> 00:30:14,479
[Lanza] You want someone
who's a logical thinker
512
00:30:14,562 --> 00:30:17,482
and a hard worker and a self-starter.
That's what the FBI looks for.
513
00:30:17,565 --> 00:30:20,065
You have to be good on your feet,
quick on your feet.
514
00:30:20,151 --> 00:30:21,321
You have to be a good actor
515
00:30:21,402 --> 00:30:24,412
and you have to be able to blend in
and walk that fine line
516
00:30:24,489 --> 00:30:27,239
between non-criminal activity
and criminal activity.
517
00:30:27,325 --> 00:30:29,035
And sometimes it's a very fine line.
518
00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:33,329
The one criteria that you've got
for the people that I've met
519
00:30:33,414 --> 00:30:34,834
is they don't believe they can fail.
520
00:30:36,292 --> 00:30:41,092
[narrator] The FBI hiring processincludes a battery of interviews,
521
00:30:41,172 --> 00:30:44,342
security checks, drug testing,
522
00:30:44,425 --> 00:30:49,465
psychological evaluation,and even a polygraph test.
523
00:30:50,431 --> 00:30:54,521
[Puckett] The FBI doesn't specifically
say, "We want to intimidate you."
524
00:30:54,602 --> 00:30:56,442
What they want to do
is test your resolve,
525
00:30:56,521 --> 00:30:59,071
test your ability
to withstand pressure,
526
00:30:59,148 --> 00:31:01,938
your ability to multi-task.
527
00:31:02,610 --> 00:31:05,530
[narrator] Qualified recruitsare sent to the FBI Academy
528
00:31:05,613 --> 00:31:09,583
in Quantico, Virginia, for a 20-weekintensive training program.
529
00:31:10,743 --> 00:31:15,213
Studies include national securityand criminal investigation,
530
00:31:15,290 --> 00:31:18,960
Constitutional law,interrogation techniques,
531
00:31:19,043 --> 00:31:20,883
and firearms training.
532
00:31:20,962 --> 00:31:22,552
[gunshots]
533
00:31:22,630 --> 00:31:25,800
[Southers] You spend time doing,
really, three things.
534
00:31:25,884 --> 00:31:28,724
You're in the classroom,
you're in the gym,
535
00:31:28,803 --> 00:31:32,523
and you're on the range.
It was very, very rigorous.
536
00:31:33,224 --> 00:31:34,684
We had block exams.
537
00:31:34,767 --> 00:31:36,897
Those were our academic
coursework exams.
538
00:31:36,978 --> 00:31:39,608
If you did not meet
the minimum standard score,
539
00:31:39,689 --> 00:31:41,569
you had a chance
to repeat that exam.
540
00:31:41,649 --> 00:31:44,149
If you didn't meet the score
the second time,
541
00:31:44,235 --> 00:31:45,525
you were on a plane home.
542
00:31:45,612 --> 00:31:48,912
If you didn't qualify on the range,
you'd be on a plane home,
543
00:31:48,990 --> 00:31:50,870
and same with physical training.
544
00:31:54,245 --> 00:31:56,455
[narrator]
To prepare the agents-in-training
545
00:31:56,539 --> 00:31:59,669
for real-life, high-pressure scenarios,
546
00:31:59,751 --> 00:32:02,551
recruits are thrown into Hogan's Alley,
547
00:32:02,629 --> 00:32:07,429
or what the FBI calls"the most violent town in America."
548
00:32:07,508 --> 00:32:08,588
[agent] Don't move!
549
00:32:09,302 --> 00:32:14,602
[narrator] The mock town includesa hotel, a pool hall, and a bank,
550
00:32:14,682 --> 00:32:16,642
and it's inhabited with actors
551
00:32:16,726 --> 00:32:20,556
who are skilled in the artof misdemeanors and felonies.
552
00:32:21,189 --> 00:32:23,939
It's a 10-acre spread
that's a training ground for FBI agents
553
00:32:24,025 --> 00:32:26,735
to go out and make arrests,
to do investigations in real life.
554
00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:30,659
That bank is robbed
more than any other bank in the world.
555
00:32:30,740 --> 00:32:32,280
It gets robbed just about every day.
556
00:32:33,451 --> 00:32:35,951
[narrator]
Those who pass the 20-week program
557
00:32:36,037 --> 00:32:39,327
and are judged to be modelsof the Bureau's core values
558
00:32:39,415 --> 00:32:42,205
are invited to join the FBI,
559
00:32:42,293 --> 00:32:47,593
but there is one last requirementbefore officially becoming an agent.
560
00:32:48,591 --> 00:32:53,891
As a condition to joining the FBI,
agents agree not to reveal any secrets.
561
00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:56,602
In addition,
if the information is classified,
562
00:32:56,683 --> 00:33:00,983
then it would be a violation of federal
law to reveal those secrets.
563
00:33:03,356 --> 00:33:07,186
[narrator] When they graduate,agents also take an Oath of Office,
564
00:33:07,276 --> 00:33:10,736
agreeing to defendthe Constitution of the United States
565
00:33:10,822 --> 00:33:14,242
against all enemies,foreign and domestic.
566
00:33:14,325 --> 00:33:17,745
But why does the Bureaukeep new agents in the dark
567
00:33:17,829 --> 00:33:21,079
about where they are goingand what they might be doing?
568
00:33:21,165 --> 00:33:23,995
[Southers] You have no notion of where
you might be assigned as a new agent.
569
00:33:24,085 --> 00:33:27,415
I came in as a police officer thinking
that when I got out of the Academy
570
00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:29,295
I might be assigned
to the Fugitive Squad
571
00:33:29,382 --> 00:33:31,722
or the Bank Robbery Squad,
and I wound up being assigned
572
00:33:31,801 --> 00:33:33,641
to Foreign Counterintelligence
and Terrorism.
573
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:34,800
So you just never know.
574
00:33:37,432 --> 00:33:38,892
When Hoover was the director,
575
00:33:38,975 --> 00:33:44,685
there was a policy of new agents
not going back to their office of origin,
576
00:33:44,772 --> 00:33:47,982
so that all ties
with anyone that you might know,
577
00:33:48,067 --> 00:33:49,817
anything that would put an agent
578
00:33:49,902 --> 00:33:52,532
in a situation
where he might be compromised
579
00:33:52,613 --> 00:33:55,033
or subject to corruption was removed
580
00:33:55,116 --> 00:33:56,656
because you were transferred
to a place
581
00:33:56,743 --> 00:33:57,953
where you didn't know anybody.
582
00:33:58,036 --> 00:34:00,956
[narrator] A former Special Agent,Erroll Southers
583
00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:04,039
served mostof his FBI career undercover.
584
00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:07,045
[Southers] The hardest part
of being an undercover agent
585
00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:13,260
is not having contact with the people
that are your FBI family.
586
00:34:13,342 --> 00:34:14,972
You couldn't exactly go
587
00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:17,063
and play softball
with people from the office,
588
00:34:17,180 --> 00:34:19,060
because you never knew
who was watching you.
589
00:34:19,182 --> 00:34:23,062
The biggest fear is running
into someone who knows you,
590
00:34:23,186 --> 00:34:25,266
and them coming up
and saying my name,
591
00:34:25,354 --> 00:34:28,154
or talking about something
with people that were with me
592
00:34:28,232 --> 00:34:30,612
in a way that would compromise
the operation.
593
00:34:30,693 --> 00:34:33,363
You spend a lot of time alone,
594
00:34:34,030 --> 00:34:38,740
and that's probably
one of the toughest things.
595
00:34:39,494 --> 00:34:41,164
It's a tough job.
596
00:34:49,796 --> 00:34:52,376
[narrator] May 26, 2010.
597
00:34:52,465 --> 00:34:56,215
FBI agents arrestan Army Intelligence Analyst,
598
00:34:56,844 --> 00:34:59,104
Private Bradley E. Manning.
599
00:35:00,014 --> 00:35:03,854
He had downloaded over a quarterof a million classified documents
600
00:35:03,935 --> 00:35:09,355
and military video footageand given it all to WikiLeaks,
601
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,820
an on-line organization,based overseas,
602
00:35:12,902 --> 00:35:16,492
dedicated to exposingU.S. government secrets.
603
00:35:17,782 --> 00:35:19,412
This headline-making case
604
00:35:19,492 --> 00:35:22,912
made it clear to allthat in the 21st Century,
605
00:35:22,995 --> 00:35:26,825
the FBI has a whole new classof criminal to police,
606
00:35:26,916 --> 00:35:30,706
one that operates invisiblyin the digital domain,
607
00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:35,965
and who, with one click of the mouse,can cause military confusion,
608
00:35:36,050 --> 00:35:39,640
financial ruin or civil chaos.
609
00:35:42,014 --> 00:35:46,064
The FBI's fastest-growing part today
is its cyber branch.
610
00:35:46,644 --> 00:35:48,564
[Lanza]
Cybercrime is a huge issue today.
611
00:35:48,646 --> 00:35:53,646
What we've seen over the years
is an increasing capability of the hackers
612
00:35:53,734 --> 00:35:57,284
and the cyber criminals to stay
one step ahead of law enforcement.
613
00:35:57,905 --> 00:36:01,445
Companies are getting their
computers hacked into on a daily basis.
614
00:36:01,534 --> 00:36:03,044
Fraud is a regular part of their lives.
615
00:36:03,619 --> 00:36:04,869
And if they can't protect
their computers,
616
00:36:04,954 --> 00:36:06,374
what's going to stop a hacker
617
00:36:06,455 --> 00:36:09,165
from bringing a terrorist act
into the cyber network?
618
00:36:13,087 --> 00:36:17,587
[narrator] But what is the cybercrime,the digital doomsday scenario,
619
00:36:17,675 --> 00:36:20,295
that the FBI most fears?
620
00:36:21,262 --> 00:36:24,892
The FBI believes that the biggest threat
to the nation today
621
00:36:24,974 --> 00:36:29,104
is either a weapon of mass destruction
or a cyberattack.
622
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:32,017
The ability to take down
the nation's power grid,
623
00:36:32,106 --> 00:36:35,316
to take down a city's water system
is very real
624
00:36:35,401 --> 00:36:38,611
and something that the FBI
is concerned about every single day.
625
00:36:39,780 --> 00:36:41,570
[Lanza] Imagine if the electrical power
grid in New York
626
00:36:41,657 --> 00:36:43,827
is shut down for any length of time,
627
00:36:43,910 --> 00:36:45,950
what kind of ramifications
that would have.
628
00:36:46,996 --> 00:36:49,416
[Graff]
The FBI every day, every minute,
629
00:36:49,498 --> 00:36:52,378
is trying to monitor
the nation's critical infrastructure,
630
00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:55,590
both by working with private corporations,
631
00:36:55,671 --> 00:36:58,881
as well as keeping its own watch
in cyberspace
632
00:36:58,966 --> 00:37:01,386
about who's trying to attack us.
633
00:37:03,596 --> 00:37:07,096
[narrator] According to the Bureau,a cyber doomsday scenario
634
00:37:07,683 --> 00:37:10,563
could start with a virtual Trojan horse,
635
00:37:10,645 --> 00:37:14,605
spyware hiddeninside a free smart phone app.
636
00:37:14,690 --> 00:37:16,570
The FBI is concerned
637
00:37:16,651 --> 00:37:20,451
that this could infect
millions of other electronic devices
638
00:37:20,529 --> 00:37:23,989
and lead to anything
from a shutdown of the U.S. economy
639
00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:29,075
to an interference of the GPS signals
the military needs to guide troops
640
00:37:29,163 --> 00:37:33,173
and aircraft to nationwide blackouts.
641
00:37:36,879 --> 00:37:38,589
But if the worst does happen,
642
00:37:38,673 --> 00:37:42,593
how can the FBIfind the perpetrator?
643
00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:45,891
What covert tools and technologies
644
00:37:45,972 --> 00:37:50,182
does the Bureau haveto combat cybercrime?
645
00:37:50,268 --> 00:37:52,648
What's amazing
about cybercrime cases
646
00:37:52,728 --> 00:37:55,648
is that the FBI
almost has to solve the case
647
00:37:55,731 --> 00:37:58,781
before they know whether they're dealing
with a terrorist organization,
648
00:37:58,859 --> 00:38:01,279
a criminal group,
a foreign government,
649
00:38:01,404 --> 00:38:04,874
an organized hacker
or a teenager down the street.
650
00:38:07,493 --> 00:38:09,123
In the old days,
651
00:38:09,203 --> 00:38:11,463
which weren't that long ago,
you know, it was shoe leather.
652
00:38:11,539 --> 00:38:13,249
You went out
and got one piece of information,
653
00:38:13,332 --> 00:38:15,042
which led to another,
which led to another.
654
00:38:15,126 --> 00:38:16,746
Now you can go at light speed
on the Internet,
655
00:38:16,836 --> 00:38:18,376
a few clicks,
someone's Facebook account,
656
00:38:18,462 --> 00:38:20,302
you can get
lots of information very quickly.
657
00:38:20,381 --> 00:38:23,051
It's all out there
and it saves a lot on the wingtips
658
00:38:23,134 --> 00:38:25,144
when you just can do it
right from your desk.
659
00:38:26,220 --> 00:38:29,020
We are living
in a hyper-connected society.
660
00:38:29,765 --> 00:38:32,845
And the social network
that we're all part of,
661
00:38:32,935 --> 00:38:37,315
we're all linked
in a way that makes it quite interesting
662
00:38:37,398 --> 00:38:40,568
and challenging for law enforcement
to put those links together.
663
00:38:43,237 --> 00:38:46,197
[narrator] Of course, Facebook,Twitter and YouTube
664
00:38:46,282 --> 00:38:50,662
aren't the only new weaponsin the Bureau's 21st-Century arsenal.
665
00:38:51,537 --> 00:38:54,077
The FBI has developedits own software
666
00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:57,205
to uncover subversive social networks
667
00:38:57,293 --> 00:39:01,593
and to connect the dotsbetween individuals of interest.
668
00:39:03,174 --> 00:39:08,554
The capability of the government
to monitor computers, to observe,
669
00:39:08,637 --> 00:39:12,597
to surveil people
and monitor their computer activities,
670
00:39:12,683 --> 00:39:14,813
it's really quite tremendous.
671
00:39:17,688 --> 00:39:20,688
[Southers] If you go back and look at,
specifically, 9/11,
672
00:39:20,775 --> 00:39:23,105
we see people
in the last several years
673
00:39:23,194 --> 00:39:27,624
that we didn't know had connectivity
to some of those hijackers
674
00:39:27,698 --> 00:39:30,698
when they were here
in the United States in 2000.
675
00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:35,330
Now we are able to do that.
That is very, very important,
676
00:39:35,414 --> 00:39:37,884
because what might not be obvious
677
00:39:37,958 --> 00:39:40,958
are those people
that have no criminal histories.
678
00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:43,005
But because of the network they're in,
679
00:39:43,089 --> 00:39:44,799
it might be worth looking at.
680
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,130
At the end of the day,
681
00:39:47,218 --> 00:39:50,388
all intelligence really needs
to point to the human being.
682
00:39:50,471 --> 00:39:52,721
We've got to start
to become a lot better
683
00:39:52,807 --> 00:39:54,727
at finding the bomber
and not the bomb.
684
00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:57,983
We want to see people when they're
sitting in their apartment building,
685
00:39:58,062 --> 00:39:59,812
and not when they're at the airport.
686
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,990
[narrator]
But software and social networking sites
687
00:40:06,070 --> 00:40:10,830
are only a fraction of howthe FBI is using computer science.
688
00:40:10,908 --> 00:40:16,038
These digital detectives are now ableto find data in your electronic equipment
689
00:40:16,122 --> 00:40:21,632
just as efficiently as their forensicscientist counterparts analyze DNA.
690
00:40:22,378 --> 00:40:25,798
Concealed in secret locationsacross the country
691
00:40:25,881 --> 00:40:29,891
are 16 state-of-the-artComputer Crime Labs
692
00:40:29,969 --> 00:40:34,519
where specialists analyzewhat's known as digital evidence.
693
00:40:35,433 --> 00:40:37,443
The FBI's cyber labs
694
00:40:37,518 --> 00:40:41,518
and its regional computer forensic
laboratories
695
00:40:41,605 --> 00:40:44,935
are some of the most secretive parts
of the FBI today.
696
00:40:45,025 --> 00:40:47,525
They are high-tech, cutting-edge,
697
00:40:47,611 --> 00:40:51,821
and they're hidden in plain sight
all over the United States.
698
00:40:52,908 --> 00:40:56,578
[narrator] At any one of theseregional computer forensics labs,
699
00:40:56,662 --> 00:41:01,462
computers, cameras and phonescan be scoured for vital clues
700
00:41:01,542 --> 00:41:03,212
that might solve a crime.
701
00:41:04,003 --> 00:41:08,473
Digital evidence is becoming a bigger
and bigger part of the FBI's world.
702
00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:13,390
These are the e-mail breadcrumbs
or the Internet breadcrumbs
703
00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:16,601
that are left
by our digital lives every day.
704
00:41:17,349 --> 00:41:19,479
[Houck] Everybody's got a phone
and a computer
705
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,270
and a tablet, and you name it.
706
00:41:22,354 --> 00:41:24,944
That same sort of explosion
is happening now,
707
00:41:25,024 --> 00:41:27,404
and I would say in ten years,
708
00:41:27,485 --> 00:41:29,145
digital evidence is going to be
where DNA is now.
709
00:41:29,236 --> 00:41:31,606
We won't be able to even consider
a simple crime
710
00:41:31,697 --> 00:41:33,947
without thinking about
some form of digital evidence
711
00:41:34,033 --> 00:41:35,953
assisting that investigation.
712
00:41:37,828 --> 00:41:40,918
[narrator] As the law enforcement needsof the nation have grown,
713
00:41:40,998 --> 00:41:43,418
so, too, has the Bureau.
714
00:41:43,501 --> 00:41:46,461
But despite its global reachand resources,
715
00:41:46,545 --> 00:41:49,165
the FBI's greatest strength is perhaps
716
00:41:49,256 --> 00:41:51,716
its ability to keep America safe
717
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,180
by keeping its crime-fighting tacticssecret.
718
00:41:59,183 --> 00:42:02,853
[Graff] The FBI today is a 21st-Century
high-tech organization
719
00:42:02,937 --> 00:42:05,517
that uses cutting-edge technology,
720
00:42:05,606 --> 00:42:08,276
much of which is still secret
to the rest of us.
721
00:42:09,652 --> 00:42:11,032
[O'Neil] There are many secrets.
722
00:42:11,111 --> 00:42:14,071
Secrets of espionage and secrets of crime
and secrets of terrorism.
723
00:42:14,823 --> 00:42:18,243
Secrets of psychology
and secrets of sociology,
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and the FBI is in the middle
of all of that.
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[Koletar]
In terms of an investigative technique,
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we'll probably keep that secret,
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primarily 'cause we don't want
the bad guys to know about it.
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[narrator] In less than a century,the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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has grown from a handfulof unarmed agents
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with special powersto enforce U.S. laws nationwide,
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to a formidable international operation.
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And while their methods can be covert,their mission is clear:
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to uphold America's laws
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and protectthe citizens of the United States.
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