Re: [TSCM-L] {1769} Contract employee allegedly stole classified
information, tried to sell it
James M. Atkinson wrote:
> National lab worker accused in FBI sting
> Contract employee allegedly stole classified information, tried to sell it
>
> WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors on Thursday
> accused a low-level 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, identified as Roy Lynn Oakley, age
> 67, was allegedly caught trying to sell it to
> someone he thought was representing another
> country, someone who turned out to be an
> undercover FBI agent. Federal officials will not
> say which country the agent was pretending to represent.
>
> Federal officials told NBC News that Oakley
> worked as a contract employee at East Tennessee
> Technology Park, located on the Oak Ridge reservation.
>
> He worked at a site that is conducting clean-up
> on Cold War items that are being decomissioned.
>
> Sources reportedly said money, and not ideology, was the motive for the theft.
>
> An official announcement about the sting was expected later in the day.
>
> The alleged security breach was discovered before
> it could do any damage, officials said. But the
> incident also exposed another serious security
> breach at the national laboratories.
>
> Last fall, for example, a large cache of
> classified documents from Los Alamos National
> Laboratory in New Mexico was discovered when
> police, looking for drugs, conducted a search of a mobile home.
>
> The Oak Ridge National lab, located in eastern
> Tennessee, near Knoxville, was established in 1943.
>
> The lab was part of the government's secret
> Manhattan Project, which was designed to build
> the first atomic bomb. It is the Energy
> Department's largest science and energy laboratory.
>
> Oakley is expected to be arraigned in federal court in Knoxville on Thursday.
>
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