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Date: July 19, 2007 5:27:03 PM PDT
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Subject: No-Bid Government Contractors' Fringe Benefits
Bechtel Jacobs contractor accused of stealing nuclear secrets
National lab worker allegedly stole classified information, tried
to sell it
19 Jul 2007
Federal prosecutors on Thursday accused a low-level Bechtel
contract worker at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory — birthplace
of the nuclear bomb — with stealing highly classified information
about how to make enriched uranium, a key ingredient in nuclear
weapons. The suspect was allegedly caught trying to sell it to
someone he thought was representing another country, who turned out
to be an undercover FBI agent.
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No one claims $500,000 stash in truck
By Cindi Lash
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 20, 2006
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06110/683609-57.stm
When security guards at the Beaver Valley Power Station discovered
a bag containing thousands of dollars in a tractor-trailer cab, one
of the vehicle's occupants told them his boss planned to use the
cash to buy a truck.
It must have been some truck.
State police said the bag, which guards spotted on Tuesday while
conducting a routine search of the tractor-trailer at the entrance
to the nuclear power plant, contained 10 plastic-wrapped bundles of
cash totaling $504,230.
Police later seized the money and bag after a dog trained to detect
drugs sniffed and reacted to the bag, indicating contact with
controlled substances.
The truck driver and passenger, whose names were withheld but who
are from Texas, were released without charges because no apparent
crime had been committed.
State police were investigating to determine who owns the money and
how it got into the tractor-trailer. If no one comes forward to
claim legitimate ownership of the money, police said, they will
begin proceedings for forfeit of the cash to the government.
"I wanted to know, why is somebody running around with that amount
of money when they're not in a Brink's truck?" said Shippingport
police Sgt. R.N. Davis Jr., who pulled the truck over after it left
the power plant in Beaver County.
Investigators also notified the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force,
but said they do not believe the money or truckers are linked to
workers or activities at the plant.
"Most likely, they were just between runs," said Trooper Jonathan
Bayer. "The investigation is continuing, but there is no indication
that there is any connection to the power plant."
The truckers worked for a company hired by San Francisco-based
Bechtel Corp., which is performing construction work and replacing
equipment at the plant, said Richard Wilkins, spokesman for plant
owner First Energy Nuclear Operating Co.
The name of the company was not released, but police said the
truckers had come from Chicago and were making a scheduled stop to
pick up and transport containers of tools to Youngstown, Ohio.
The white semi-truck and empty flatbed trailer pulled up to the
plant entrance about 4:15 p.m. Plant security officers told them
every vehicle entering the plant must be searched and obtained
permission to do so, police said.
In the search, the officers found a green, blue and black duffel
bag with a padlock in the sleeper berth of the cab, Trooper Bayer
said. The truckers didn't have a key for the lock, so guards cut it
off and spotted cash inside, he said.
The truckers said the money wasn't theirs and they didn't know how
it got there, Trooper Bayer said. In court papers filed to obtain a
search warrant, state police said one of the truckers told security
officers that "it was their [boss's] money and he was going to buy
a truck with it."
But when the security workers called the truckers' boss in Houston,
he also said he knew nothing about the money. The security officers
called police, but the truckers backed out of the plant and drove off.
"There's nothing [in the law] that says you can't carry a lot of
cash around with you. It's just a little unusual," Mr. Wilkins
said. "Any kind of unusual or suspicious activity, or even a person
who's acting a little suspiciously, whether they've broken a law or
tried to do something that was against the regulations on site,
would be reported."
Police broadcast a description of the truck and Sgt. Davis pulled
it over after spotting it on Route 168 south, near the Shippingport
Bridge. He said the truckers were polite, but the passenger had no
identification and said it had been stolen from the truck the night
before.
"Your ID is stolen but not that bag of cash? Red flags were popping
up all over," Sgt. Davis said.
State police also arrived and obtained a warrant to search the
truck. They said the cash was packed in bundles of $50,000, each
containing 10 packets of $5,000 in mostly $20 bills but also $100,
$50 and $10 bills. The bundles were tightly compressed and wrapped
in silver tape and plastic, but their contents could be seen.
"I picked the bag up with one hand and then said 'Whoa.' It had to
weigh a good 60 pounds," Sgt. Davis said. "I told the state police,
'This is all yours.' I said [there is] no way I'm counting this all
night."
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October 25, 2006
Los Alamos Classified Info Found in Drug Raid
http://www.pogo.org/p/homeland/ha-061003-lanl.html
Police found what appeared classified information from Los Alamos
National Laboratory during a drug raid, according to a Project On
Government Oversight tip confirmed by the Associated Press and CBS
News last night. The incident is under investigation by the FBI.
“This appears to be a new low: even drug dealers can get classified
information out of Los Alamos ,” said Danielle Brian, Executive
Director of the Project On Government Oversight (POGO).
According to unconfirmed sources, the information was classified as
Secret Restricted Data which means it would involve nuclear weapons
data and may have concerned detection of underground nuclear
weapons testing. Also unconfirmed, the person in possession of the
information worked either in Technical Area 55 where all of the
Lab’s plutonium is stored or in the X Division which handles
nuclear weapons design data for a maintenance subcontractor of the
Lab.
POGO works with an extensive network of sources in the nuclear
weapons complex. Since 2002, the Project On Government Oversight
has exposed seven incidents involving the mishandling or loss of
classified information including today’s announcement. A list of
previous incidents is listed below. In 1999, the infamous Wen Ho
Lee espionage scandal broke, eventually resulting in the scientist
pleading guilty to the improper handling of restricted data.
Two years ago, Los Alamos Lab was plagued by a series of incidents
involving safety and the mishandling of classified information. In
May and July of 2004, POGO issued two news releases revealing the
loss of computer disks containing classified information and the
mishandling of classified emails.
Those events prompted then-Lab Director Pete Nanos to suspend all
work activities for the Lab in July, 2004. The Lab shut down lasted
many months. On July 23, 2004 the Department of Energy shut down
operations involving Classified Removable Electronic Media (CREM)
across the entire nuclear weapons complex. A subsequent review by
the Department of Energy found that the missing Los Alamos media
were never created, noting “the weaknesses revealed by this
incident are severe and must be corrected.”
In May 2004, the Department of Energy outlined a new plan “to move
to diskless workstations for classified computing.” POGO Executive
Director Danielle Brian criticized the plan at the time, saying:
“Five years is too long. DOE's proposed initiative to secure
classified data in the nuclear weapons complex should begin
immediately with Los Alamos as the top priority.”
According to a November 2005 Government Accountability Office
report: “LANL security officials told us that as a result of
reports of missing CREM in late 2003, LANL undertook an inventory
of its CREM holdings and reduced its holdings from over 80,000
pieces to about 35,000 pieces by moving the information stored on
CREM to secure networks and then destroying the CREM. LANL further
reduced its CREM holdings to 20,000 pieces during the stand-down,
according to these officials.” As of April 2006, Los Alamos
reported that its CREM holdings had been reduced to roughly 13,000
pieces.
Documents released by the Los Alamos Police regarding the Friday
October 20 drug bust.
LANL Police Department Report and the Police Report of the items
seized.
SIX PREVIOUS INCIDENTS INVOLVING CLASSIFIED INFO AT LOS ALAMOS
(not including Wen Ho Lee incident)
1) POGO Alert - Thumbs Up to Secretary Abraham's Decision to Halt
Classified Removable Media Operations in Nuclear Weapons Complex.
July 23, 2004.
DOE Press Release “Energy Secretary Abraham Directs Complex-Wide
Stand-Down of Classified Operations Using Controlled Removable
Electronic Media,” July 23, 2004.
POGO Alert - More security blunders at Los Alamos. July 18, 2004.
2) POGO Alert - Classified Computer Media Missing at Los Alamos.
May 20, 2004.
3) POGO Alert - Computer Disks with Classified Information Missing
at Los Alamos National Laboratory. December 9, 2003.
4) POGO Alert - DOE Secretary "Deeply Troubled" Over Missing
Classified Hard Drive at Los Alamos National Laboratory. January
17, 2003.
POGO Alert - Another Computer Hard Drive is Missing at Los Alamos.
January 15, 2003.
5) POGO Alert - Leaked Document: Mishandling Lost and Stolen
Computers at Los Alamos. November 19, 2002.
6) POGO Alert - Missing Computer Data at Los Alamos ? Continuing
Security Lapses May Jeopardize National Security. January 29, 2002.
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