How Did You Know How to Pick Locks?

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"This is not a jaz jam session. You don't make it up as you go along." "My job from very early on was going to be to get through the doors". 'I took a correspondence course for locksmiths, and then i practised a lot' "'You would spend time on the street at various times of the day... And at night looking for traffic in and out of the building"' ''Here's what the fbi is doing exactly," he says.

In 1971, a woman visited an F.B.I. office in Pennsylvania. She identified herself as a college student interested in learning about opportunities for women in the F.B.I. None of that was true. She was there “to see whether there were security alarms before we could decide if we could break in.”

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