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FBI Denies Energy Department Request to Investigate Los Alamos Security Incident
The FBI for now has declined a request by U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham to have the agency investigate the disappearance of classified computer disks at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, according to the Los Angeles Times (see GSN, July 21). Abraham yesterday issued a public memo calling on Energy Department officials to ask the FBI Los Alamos field office to begin an investigation into the incident. FBI officials have said, though, that there is no Los Alamos field office, according to the Times. The FBI’s Albuquerque office has been in contact with Los Alamos, but does not plan to assign any agents to investigate the missing disks and would instead monitor the situation, bureau spokesman Bill Elwell said. “We are not initiating a separate investigation. We want them (the Los Alamos lab’s internal security force) to exhaust all of their avenues. They are questioning their own employees and that can be easier than those employees sitting down with an FBI agent,” Elwell said (Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times, July 22). Meanwhile, Los Alamos is set to ask employees to report co-workers who violate security procedures, laboratory spokesman James Fallin said (Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times, July 22).
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