July 10, 2000--NYTimes
Secret Work Halted at Lab Halted After a
Lapse
By JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Classified work at the federal
government's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been
suspended as a result of a security lapse, according to Energy
Department and laboratory officials.
Laboratory officials suspended all classified work at the installation in
Richland, Wash., after an employee discovered a classified document
had been left in an unclassified but locked office for about a day. Officials
said classified work was stopped on July 3, after the classified document
was discovered in an unclassified area on June 30.
While some classified work has resumed, most secret operations at the
laboratory remain suspended, and some employees have been shifted to
unclassified work while an investigation is conducted, the officials said.
Managers have been meeting with employees who work on classified
projects "to reinforce security awareness," Greg Koller, a spokesman for
the laboratory, said.
The security lapse at Pacific Northwest appears to have been minor, but
officials responded aggressively because it came so soon after the
publicity over lax security at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New
Mexico. At the New Mexico laboratory, two computer hard drives
containing nuclear weapons data disappeared from a vault this spring,
only to reappear behind a copying machine after the opening of an inquiry
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Also, Wen Ho Lee, a former Los
Alamos scientist, is awaiting trial on charges that he downloaded vast
amounts of nuclear weapons data from the classified computer network
at Los Alamos.
The Pacific Northwest laboratory is one of nine national laboratories, but
its scientists do not design nuclear weapons. Instead, the laboratory,
which has about 3,500 employees, focuses on environmental science.
Only about 13 percent of its research is considered classified.
Mr. Koller said the classified document was believed to have been
misplaced on June 29 when a laboratory employee copied what he
thought were unclassified drawings, and then placed them in an office
outside the classified area. On June 30, another employee discovered
that one of the drawings was actually classified, and notified laboratory
officials.
No one at the laboratory has been disciplined as a result of the incident,
Mr. Koller said.
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