Analyst Charged in Spying Case

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal grand jury on Tuesday charged former Air Force intelligence analyst Brian P. Regan with attempted espionage.

Regan, 39, of Bowie, Md., was arrested Aug. 23 at Dulles International Airport in Virginia as he was preparing to leave the country.

Prosecutors say Regan, a decorated former master sergeant who worked for a defense contractor and had access to top secret national security information, tried to give classified documents to a foreign country, which a source identified as Libya.

The U.S. attorney’s office said in a statement that Regan frequently accessed Intelink, the U.S. intelligence community’s classified version of the Internet, to look at documents outside his field of work, including pictures of ballistic missile launch facilities in two countries, one of which was Libya.

Regan was trained in solving secret codes and worked for the National Reconnaissance Office, a military intelligence agency in Chantilly, Va., that designs, builds and operates the U.S. network of spy satellites.

Regan, married and a father of four, remains in jail. He will be arraigned Nov. 5.