But authentic blank passports, when filled out correctly, are extremely difficult to detect.

Belgium's troubles with stolen blank passports really began only in 1995.

In 1996 alone, 3,600 blank passports were stolen, bit by bit.

They print out a blank stolen passport in the wrong typeface.

Instead, he said, the Rumanians gave the group blank passports and intelligence support.

Exley sends Klein a package in the hospital, which includes a blank passport and a gun.

He was carrying five blank Honduran passports with the intention, he later said, of selling them for $30,000 to $40,000 each.

We have a number of blank American passports.

But the agency estimates that more than 100,000 blank passports have been stolen in the last several years.

The official was arrested a year ago for trying to sell blank passports to help people illegally enter the United States.