FBI probing contractor in missile shield
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is
looking into charges that military contracting giant TRW Inc.
committed fraud and sought to cover it up in the U.S. national
missile defense program, an FBI letter made public Monday showed.
As many as 53 House Democrats had urged the FBI to investigate
the allegations, which have been used by critics to assail as
unworkable the so-called "hit-to-kill" technology central to the
anti-missile shield.
The FBI's action was disclosed in a July 31 letter from Thomas
Kubic, deputy assistant director of the criminalinvestigative
division, to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, whose
office released it Monday.
"I have asked the FBI's Washington field office, in coordination
with the Office of Inspector General, Department of Defense, to
review the allegations contained in your letter and the material
prepared by Professor Postol to determine if there is a violation
of federal law under the FBI's jurisdiction," Kubic wrote.
Kucinich, in a June 15 letter co-signed by 52 of his colleagues,
had urged FBI Director Louis Freeh to check whether the Pentagon
acted properly in classifying as secret allegations of fraud and
coverup made by Theodore Postol, an arms expert at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As part of a letter he sent to the White House, Postol had
included a declassified document shared with him by Nira
Schwartz, a senior engineer at TRW in 1995 and 1996. Schwartz
has charged that Cleveland-based TRW falsified work in an effort
to portray a "kill vehicle" on which it had been working as more
capable than it actually would have been.
"The American people need an independent investigation of this
matter to determine if the well-documented and serious
allegations of fraud in the National Missile Defense system are
true, and if a coverup of that fraud has taken place," the
congressional letter had said.
TRW spokesman Jay McCaffrey said the company was "still not aware
of any investigation by the FBI related to the charges alleged by
Nira Schwartz."
"We have been found by many government agencies to have acted
appropriately and we're confident that any new investigation will
once again validate TRW's work on this project," he said.
Defense Week, the first to report the FBI action, quoted unnamed
government officials as saying the FBI was looking not so much
into whether Postol's letter had been improperly classified as
whether Schwartz's claims against the company had merit.
The FBI declined comment, saying it stood by the text of its
letter on the matter. ^ REUTERS@
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