May 22, 2000
ChiComs ogled top-secret papers
Ex-diplomat claims State Department's
security meltdown included Korea desk
By Paul Sperry
� 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON -- Security in the State Department has been so lax
that Chinese officials in 1994 were able to pore over top-secret
documents left out on desks during the North Korean nuclear
crisis, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer says.
The "stacks" of documents included information about nuclear
materials and policy, the officer said in an exclusive interview
with WorldNetDaily. He worked on the Korea desk at the time.
"Security under the Clinton administration was incredibly
sloppy," he said.
In a departure from security rules in the Bush years, delegations
from foreign embassies were allowed to roam unescorted throughout
State's main building, says the career diplomat, who also worked
under former State Secretary James Baker.
It wasn't uncommon to see foreign ministers sitting at officers'
desks looking at piles of unsecured classified papers dropped off
by the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, the officer says.
Prior to 1993, such sensitive papers were kept in drawers and had
to be checked out.
"We constantly had delegations from foreign missions, including
the Korean embassy and the Chinese embassy. And they had free
rein to walk around the office," said the officer, who wished to
go unnamed.
"And there was stuff left on the desks -- and I mean secret, top
secret -- it was just left right there. And if a staff person was
not present, the desk was vacant and a phone was available, and
one of these people was allowed to just sit down and start using
the phone," he said.
"And I began to perceive that they were looking at our secret
documents," he added. "So I would go around as diplomatically as
possible and collect these documents. I'd come over and slip in
front of them and say, 'Oh, excuse me,' and then take them away."
Military-related documents classified as "secret" (information
that could cause serious damage to national security if leaked)
and "top secret" (information that could cause exceptionally
grave damage to national security) were "just thrown around like
some kind of casual operation," said the desk officer, who once
worked in Defense Department intelligence.
"And this included nuclear papers, because the crisis we were
dealing with at that time had to do with North Korea developing
nuclear weapons," he said.
Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington reached a fever pitch
in June 1994. The Kim Il Sung regime refused to allow inspections
of 8,000 spent fuel rods from a main nuclear reactor. The U.S.
suspected the communists were producing plutonium for a secret
nuclear weapons program, in violation of the Nonproliferation
Treaty and an alarming threat to South Korea.
"This was the top crisis in the United States government in Asia
at that time," the diplomat said. "And it was stunning to me that
there was no accountability for these documents and they just
floated around."
The Bush administration had a more "rigorous" system of routing
classified documents to the Korea desk, he asserted.
"Pol-Mil kept top-secret documents in little drawers and they had
signatures and little routing slips on them," he said.
What's more, foreign delegations were kept on a "very tight
leash" back then, he said.
"They were kept in special offices where there was no other
activity going on," he said. "Nobody from these foreign
delegations could just wander around the building. They had their
certain entrance and exit, and their little plastic tags to
wear."
Under the Clinton administration, "there really was no security"
at the State Department, the former Korea desk officer concluded.
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