By Scott Daugherty
The Virginian-Pilot
© August 17, 2013
Step one to building an attempted-espionage case: Respond to your target’s personal ad on Craigslist.
Step two: Pose as a single woman interested in a relationship and exchange dozens of emails.
Step three: Go on a couple of dates at Town Center.
That was how the FBI started to investigate Robert Patrick Hoffman II last year after learning that the former sailor from Virginia Beach had spent three weeks in late 2011 in Belarus.
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