Their scouting determined that an underground corridor linked the hotel and the office complex, so they rented a hotel banquet room near the corridor for May 26 and planned to fake a corporate event that would last until the complex emptied out for the night. They believed they had a narrow window to execute a break-in: According to McCord and Hunt, an alarm on the corridor stairwell kicked in at 11 p.m. McCord and Baldwin’s observation post across the street would allow them to see when the DNC offices were empty for the night; after the entry, it would serve as a listening post once the bugs
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