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- ↑ Los Angeles Police Department News Release, March 7, 2008.
- ↑ Christopher Dickey, Securing the City (Simon and Schuster, 2009), 30ff
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- ↑ Vernon Loeb, "From the 'Hanssen Effect' to Sept. 11", The Washington Post, October 21, 2002.
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