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Classified Data Missing From Los Alamos Lab (again)
new mexico channel ^ | 5/20/04

Posted on 05/20/2004 10:21:19 PM EDT by knak

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. -- Some classified information is missing at Los Alamos National Laboratory on Thursday.

A lab spokesman said the data was supposed to have been destroyed and cannot jeopardize national security.

The material is part of what the lab calls "Classified Removable Electronic Media." According to lab spokesman Kevin Roark, the information is still unaccounted for.

The National Nuclear Security Administration said it is sending a review team to Los Alamos to look into the incident. The missing item is described as a recordable data storage and retrieval device. Roark said lab employees conducting a re-inventory of classified information could not locate it.

The lab issued a statement that said the item in question was slated for destruction in March as part of an overall effort to reduce Classified Removable Electronic Media.

The Los Alamos National Lab is famous for an espionage investigation that grabbed national headlines.

Former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee (pictured below) was arrested in December 1999 and accused of transferring nuclear secrets.

He was indicted on 59 felony counts, but pleaded guilty to only one.

Lee was released after serving nine months in solitary confinement.

There was another security investigation at Los Alamos that made headlines last December when several lab employees were placed on leave after an inventory check revealed that ten computer disks were missing.

Those items might have contained classified information.
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