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ENERGY DEPARTMENT TO REVAMP SECURITY
New 'Czar' Will Report Directly to Secretary
May 11, 1999
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stung by allegations of espionage at weapons
research labs, Secretary Bill Richardson is consolidating Energy
Department security operations under a "security czar" who will
report directly to him, officials said.
AP
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson
Richardson was to unveil details of the changes today.
Under the plan, the department would still have a separate
counterintelligence office, which Richardson previously beefed
up,
putting a veteran FBI official in charge. That office also
reports
directly to the secretary.
The new consolidation, however, will put the department's $800
million physical security function at the DOE's nuclear weapons
complex, including the national research labs, under a single
security office, officials said.
Retired general sought
No one has yet been name to head the new office, but Richardson
was
said to be searching for a retired general to serve as the
department's first security "czar" -- as Richardson has
described
the post.
A DOE official, who asked not to be further identified, said
Richardson also will announce new counterintelligence measures,
separate from the consolidation of physical security programs.
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The central security office also will be responsible for
computer
security, which has been the focus of attention in the alleged
theft
of nuclear secrets at weapons labs, especially the Los Alamos,
N.M.,
lab.
Currently, separate offices at DOE are responsible for
classified
and unclassified computer systems, and the physical security
function is spread out across the $18 billion operation of the
department and its contractors.
Former CIA official hired
Security at the DOE nuclear weapons facilities has been the
subject
of controversy at the department for years. In addition to the
espionage scandal at the Los Alamos National Laboratory,
questions
were raised earlier this year about physical security and safety
at
the former warhead manufacturing plant at Rocky Flats in
Colorado.
But the apparent theft of nuclear secrets at Los Alamos -- in
the
1980s, but possibly as recently as 1995 -- has put new pressure
on
Richardson to increase the department's security across the
board.
Earlier this year, Richardson beefed up the department's
counterintelligence office and also directed that it report
directly
to him. He hired Ed Curran, a former CIA official and still one
of
the FBI's top counterintelligence experts, to head the office.
Communications breakdowns blamed
Congressional critics have assailed the department's security
operation -- especially counterintelligence activities at the
labs
-- as lax and often ineffective.
Richardson has acknowledged that communications breakdowns on
security matters between the DOE headquarters and its field
office
and labs have caused problems in the past.
For example, in 1997 it had been decided by senior FBI and DOE
officials that a scientist under suspicion of espionage at Los
Alamos could be removed from his sensitive job without
jeopardizing
the investigation. Yet he was left at his job for another 18
months
because word never reached Los Alamos managers.
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