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Date: March 6, 2007 5:05:06 PM PST
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Subject: Nuclear Power Plants, Duffel Bags with Half a $Million,
Bechtel, and the CIA
Strange Situation Reported At Nuclear Plant;
$500K Seized;
by Thistime
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/20/101226/730
Thu Apr 20, 2006 at 07:12:26 AM PST
This report about $500,000 found by security guards at a nuclear
plant is just too strange.
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State police said the men drove up to the Beaver Valley Power
Station in a tractor-trailer on Tuesday night to pick up two large
containers of tools for a contractor for whom they worked.
Security guards stopped the men for a routine inspection, but they
drove away, police said.
The guards became suspicious and called police, who pulled the
truck over about a mile from the plant.
A state trooper got a warrant to search the vehicle and found a
duffel bag, which he said contained $504,230 in mostly small bills.
An alternative take on the find:
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State police said the bag, which guards spotted on Tuesday while
conducting a routine search of the tractor-trailer at the entrance
to the nuclear power plant, contained 10 plastic-wrapped bundles of
cash totaling $504,230.
Police later seized the money and bag after a dog trained to detect
drugs sniffed and reacted to the bag, indicating contact with
controlled substances.
(my obeservation: any pile of cash that large will smell like drugs
to a dog)
The truck driver and passenger, whose names were withheld but who
are from Texas, were released without charges because no apparent
crime had been committed.
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We do know this about the truckers:
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Police broadcast a description of the truck and Sgt. Davis pulled
it over after spotting it on Route 168 south, near the Shippingport
Bridge. He said the truckers were polite, but the passenger had no
identification and said it had been stolen from the truck the night
before.
"Your ID is stolen but not that bag of cash? Red flags were popping
up all over," Sgt. Davis said.
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But not to worry:
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Investigators also notified the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force,
but said they do not believe the money or truckers are linked to
workers or activities at the plant.
"Most likely, they were just between runs," said Trooper Jonathan
Bayer. "The investigation is continuing, but there is no indication
that there is any connection to the power plant."
The truckers worked for a company hired by San Francisco-based
Bechtel Corp., which is performing construction work and replacing
equipment at the plant, said Richard Wilkins, spokesman for plant
owner First Energy Nuclear Operating Co.
The name of the company was not released, but police said the
truckers had come from Chicago and were making a scheduled stop to
pick up and transport containers of tools to Youngstown, Ohio.
And from the first link:
Both men were detained and later released. No charges have been filed.
I have to run so I won't be able to update for a while, if need be.
This is such an interesting story I thought it should be up anyway.
Update: Thanks to Joynow for this Times story provides more
information on the drivers. It also mentions the desire of the
authorities to keep the identity of the company involved as well as
the identity of the drivers' boss secret.
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The men, Donald R. Kingsby and William Lewis, were released Tuesday
evening, though state police kept the money because they suspected
there could be drug residue on it. The men denied the money
belonged to them.
According to a state police search warrant, the men, with Kingsby
driving, went to the security gate at the Shippingport plant around
4:15 p.m. Tuesday in a semi rig hauling an empty flatbed trailer.
Todd Schneider, a spokesman for FirstEnergy Corp., which owns the
nuclear plant, said the men were expected at the facility. With
construction work on a $300 million upgrade to the plant wrapping
up, Schneider said, contractors are beginning to remove equipment.
Kingsby and Lewis, Schneider said, were to pick up containers
loaded with tools belonging to a contractor at the plant and take
them to another work site.
Schneider and state police did not release the name of the trucking
company or say to which contractor the equipment belonged.
According to the search warrant, security officers at an entrance
gate, following normal procedures, stopped the rig and told Kingsby
and Lewis they would have to search the vehicle, and the men
consented.
During the search, according to state Trooper Jonathan Bayer,
security guards found a green, blue and black duffel bag, the size
of a large gym bag, in the sleeper portion of the rig.
The bag had a lock on it, Bayer said, but when security guards
asked Kingsby to unlock the bag, he said he didn't have a key. A
guard then cut the lock off the bag and saw a large amount of cash
inside. Kingsby said the money belonged to his boss, who had
"planned to buy a truck," according to the warrant.
When security guards called Kingsby's boss, whom state police did
not name, he denied any knowledge of the money, according to the
warrant.
Kingsby's boss told security guards, according to the warrant, that
the two men had driven from Houston and had stopped in Chicago on
Monday before heading to Shippingport.
Because of the confusion surrounding the money, Bayer said,
security guards notified state police, who began heading toward the
plant. In the meantime, Kingsby turned the rig around and drove
away, Bayer said.
Davis said Kingsby and Lewis called their boss while state police
were being notified, and their boss told the men to leave and he
would send another truck to remove the tools.
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Update: Thanks to meg for pointing out this "it's a small world"
coincidence. Donald Kingsby is the name of one of the two men in
the truck, and wouldn't you know it? There was a Donald Kingsby in
the CIA who was the head spy at Pine Gap?
It seems impossible to me also that it could be the same guy, but
so much of what has happened during the past five years has seemed
impossible.
Aussies to Bear Missile Shield
BRISBANE, Australia -- President George W. Bush's re-election and
the victory of a key ally, Australian Prime Minister John Howard,
assure the continued deployment of the United States' so-called
missile shield at Australia's Pine Gap defense facility, much to
the ire of the Chinese government.
Australia will support the shield, allowing Americans to use Pine
Gap -- located in the Northern Territory, 10 miles outside of Alice
Springs -- to detect and track missile launches using an array of
sophisticated antennas.
Staffed by Australians and Americans, the facility has been used
for decades (since the late '60s, when two American-run satellite
terminals were installed) to spy on the radio, electronic and
telephone communications of Asian countries. Of the estimated 850
staff at the base, a big portion is reportedly Americans from spy
agencies like the CIA and the National Security Agency, as well as
the U.S. armed forces.
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"It's public knowledge that Pine Gap already has an early warning
role," said Howard's defense minister Robert Hill. "To not address
this opportunity of a defense of this type for the future would be
foolish."
According to a paper written by professor Des Ball from the
Strategic and Defense Studies Centre in Canberra, the Australian
installation would provide a "critical element of future U.S.
national ... missile defense systems." Satellites would look for
telltale infrared radiation, indicating missile launches, and relay
the data to Pine Gap as part of the U.S. Space-Based Infrared System.
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Update: And another thing! How likely is it that a trucking company
would allow a driver to continue on this trip? The company had been
notified that driver is engaged highly suspicious behavior which
the authorities have described as drug related, but it's all OK
with them? In the real world, a new driver would have been sent in
immediately. Semi trucks are expensive and so is liability insurance.
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