1990s mid : (HAZEL O'LEARY'S "FLYING CARPET TRIPS" TO PAKISTAN, INDIA & AFRICA WHERE SHE OFFERED TO "SHARE" AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY AND OPEN US NUCLEAR RESEARCH LABS TO FOREIGN SCIENTISTS) He [ret. Col. Edward McCallum, former head of Energy's Office of Safeguards and Security] says that in her [former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary] trade trips to Pakistan, India and Africa, O'Leary invited scientists to tour the labs. "When Hazel O'Leary was on her flying carpet trips in the mid-'90s, one of the pitches she made was, 'Send your scientists. We have technology to share,'" McCallum said. And she made sure they got into the labs. - "Clinton opened nuclear labs to terrorist-state visitors," By Paul Sperry, WorldNetDaily.com, Thursday, December 13, 2001
1994 : (CLINTON ENERGY SECRETARY O'LEARY EXEMPTS LOS ALAMOS & SANDIA LABS AN EXEMPTION FROM REAGAN-ERA REQUIRED BACKGROUND CHECKS, DESPITE WARNINGS FROM SECURITY PROFESSIONALS ABOUT THREAT OF TERRORISM) Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, Energy required background checks on foreign visitors. But in 1994, O'Leary granted Los Alamos and Sandia exemptions from the rule. As a result, few background checks were conducted at those labs, and the number of foreign visits exploded. Los Alamos, for example, had 2,714 visitors in two years from sensitive countries, but only 139 were checked, according to a 1997 congressional report. The new policy did not sit well with McCallum [ret. Col. Edward McCallum, former head of Energy's Office of Safeguards and Security] , a former green beret. "We raised hell about it all the time," he said. He and other security officials worried that the uncontrolled access to the labs invited not only espionage, but terrorism. But O'Leary and her aides dismissed their warnings. In one meeting, McCallum recalls, the former Energy secretary pooh-poohed the idea of threats from other countries. "Hazel said to me, and this is a quote, 'Boy, don't you understand that the Cold War is over, and all these people are our friends now?'" McCallum said. "And we were talking about security against terrorists and espionage in the same conversation." Phone calls seeking comment from O'Leary were not returned.
After McCallum told Congress about Energy's security problems, he was punished by former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. He left the department in 1999. - "Clinton opened nuclear labs to terrorist-state visitors," By Paul Sperry, WorldNetDaily.com, Thursday, December 13, 2001