Based on my experience and the experience of other FBI Special Agents known to me, I am aware that persons who have committed serious felonies, particularly those felonies with authorized punishments of death or incarceration for any term of years or life, will often attempt to destroy evidence, fruits, and instrumentalities of their crimes if alerted prematurely to law enforcement interest. I also know that foreign intelligence services, including the SVR, are able to communicate prearranged “danger” signals to their agents to alert them to destroy evidence, fruits and other instrumentalities of crime, as well as to execute emergency escape plans. I am also aware that these hostile foreign intelligence services, and in particular the SVR, actively seek to penetrate United States intelligence and law enforcement agencies by technical and human means to learn about FBI counterintelligence activities. As a result, law enforcement interest could be detected at any time and it may be necessary to execute a search warrant during night time hours to preserve evidence, fruits and instrumentalities of espionage from destruction.
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