We used a standard computer graphics program, an ink-jet color printer, and photographs. After we printed the identifications, we laminated them. The credentials we created bear no likeness to any genuine law enforcement credentials. We were successful at each site and our agents bogus credentials and badges were not challenged by security. The sites were selected on the basis of their involvement in national security, intelligence, and criminal justice, and in their symbolic or historic significance.
All sites require screening of visitors.
All sites appeared to have magnetometers and x-ray machines at the security checkpoints for screening visitors and valises, e.g., briefcases and baggage. How Penetration Was Accomplished At all but two agencies, our undercover team consisted of two agents. Three agents worked undercover at the other two agencies. In all cases, upon entering the federal facilities, our undercover agents declared themselves as law enforcement officers, stated the name of their purported agency, stated that they were armed, and in most cases, displayed both a bogus badge and a bogus credential. In some cases, only one agent had to show a badge, and the other agent was waved in by a security guard.