Posted on 07/23/2004 12:04:30 PM PDT by CedarDave
LOS ALAMOS
— FBI agents seized a small computer hard drive marked "secret," two rolls of printed stickers reading "secret" and a Verbatim-brand 8 mm tape from a business that for years has sold recycled equipment from Los Alamos National Laboratory and other places.
An agent confiscated the items Tuesday and gave Black Hole Store and Museum owner Ed Grothus an itemized receipt listing the things taken, Grothus said.
Grothus said Friday the items have been a big joke in his store for years. "I had for years been jesting" that they were missing tapes from the federal nuclear weapons lab, and said he added the printed tape labels reading "secret."
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Grothus, an anti-nuclear activist for years, described the hard drive as about the size of a thin cigarette pack, the cassette as similar to what would be played in a car and the rolls as 2-inch labels saying "secret," one roll printed in black and the other in red.
He said he asked the FBI agent Thursday what was on the cassette tape, and the agent told him it hadn't been examined. "I don't know what's on the tape either," Grothus said. "I get things from the lab surplus yard, things from the school, things from people who know I'm a recycling center, they leave things on my door."
On Tuesday, Grothus and Holmquist also offered the agent some atomic bomb detonation cables with unique connectors, dating from the 1960s, according to a written statement by Holmquist.
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Sometimes LEO's amaze me, and sometimes...
BTW, "Holmquist" is the store's assistant manager, Frank Holmquist.
Huh?
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