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What was taken from the pouch, which is a little smaller than an attache case, is still the subject of speculation because officials are not sure what it contained to begin with. Normally such a pouch is stuffed with what is known in national-security parlance as Sensitive Compartmented Information, which is intended for only the most senior officials. It typically might include a highly classified briefing book from the State Department's Intelligence and Research Bureau, analyzing developments around the world. (In this case the mystery visitor left the briefing book behind.) The pouch could also have contained...
...figure out the pouch's contents, the FBI is engaged in the laborious task of reconstructing the "chain of possession" surrounding the documents: who had access to them, when and for how long? Investigators told TIME they have not formally excluded other possibilities--that, for example, a secret-documents clerk innocently botched the document logs or misplaced the material and is now afraid to admit it. Or perhaps the papers were hidden by a disgruntled foreign-service officer. The FBI is moving aggressively on all fronts. Until the facts show otherwise, agents must assume the worst--that the material...
...department's top officials and especially what goes to and from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. According to a version of events supplied exclusively to TIME by a State Department employee and confirmed by other officials, the man proceeded to open, in full view of two secretaries, a zippered pouch containing some of the highest-level intelligence secrets of the U.S. Government...
What happened next has Washington's top diplomats and spy hunters both anxious and embarrassed: the mystery man, thought to be a U.S. official, methodically rifled the pouch, placed most of its contents in his briefcase and walked out. No alarms sounded; no one tried to stop him. But his unexplained presence worried secretaries, who alerted their superiors...
...faces at the State Department Monday after TIME exclusively revealed one of the most embarrassing security breaches of recent times: The tale of the man in the brown tweed jacket. This mysterious stranger apparently walked right into Madeleine Albright?s inner sanctum last month, and proceeded to empty a pouch marked Sensitive Compartmented Information into his briefcase before casually strolling out -- in full view of two secretaries...