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Thursday, October 06, 2005
 Major Developing Story Local Man May Have Been a White House Spy "Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history," reports ABC News, and the man at the center of the investigation is from the South Jersey town of Deptford. Ex-Marine Leandro Aragoncillo (left), 46, a U.S. citizen born in the Phillipines, was arrested last month and charged with downloading and e-mailing documents from FBI computers in Fort Monmouth, N.J., and then passing the information to officials in Manila. Now he's suspected of spying while working in the White House for the last two vice presidents, Dick Cheney and Al Gore. According to an ABC News report last night, Aragoncillo admitted taking classified documents while working for Cheney. The report is likely to generate new worries for the beleaguered Bush administration, already heavily criticized for its handling of Hurricane Katrina and allegations that staffers leaked the name of a CIA agent. See reports from the Associated Press, ABC News, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Agagoncillo who lived on Branchwood Drive with his wife, Cynthia, was a member of the St. John Vianny Parish in Deptford, the Gloucester County Times reported after his Sept. 12 arrest. Aragoncillo's 21-year-old nephew, Steven Gaano, told a reporter then that his uncle has two sons, 20 and 19, according to the Associated Press. "We're close, but I don't really talk to him about work or anything like that," said Gaano, who described his uncle as an avid jogger.
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