In Cockerland's description, the metal cabinets in the California First Republican Bank were used by a CIA operational group as a safe house to store passports, weapons, cash, and other items.
The stolen cash and weapons were not important; what mattered were those passports.
Cockerland stated that the numbers on those passports were real and documented, missing only the corresponding photos and personal information.
Once the photos and personal information were properly attached to the passports and verified through a certain website, these "fake passports" would have an 80% chance of passing through federal and most international customs as "real passports"!
Upon learning that the California First Republican Bank had been robbed, the superior officer of the CIA operational group was extremely angry and immediately dispatched Cockerland to identify the six robbers and retrieve those blank passports.
