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National security concerns emerge in Los Alamos lab scandal.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Dan Stober
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. _ A scandal at the nuclear weapons laboratory here that began with theft and fraud has taken on national security implications as well.
Investigators say that two building managers suspected of misusing the lab purchase system to buy more than $50,000 worth of hunting and camping equipment could have left themselves vulnerable to being blackmailed by foreign agents seeking nuclear secrets. As a result, Los Alamos counterintelligence officials put the two under close watch for months to make sure they were not approached.
The two worked in the lab's intelligence division, inside the most secretive and secure facility at Los Alamos. Though they were not scientists, they could have read documents lying on desks and shelves or "absorbed" key information just by overhearing analysts who study the nuclear weapons plans of Iraq, North Korea and al-Qaida, a lab official said.
Along with a scathing Energy Department report on lab management issued Thursday, this previously unreported security aspect ...
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