U.S. audit: Illegals accessed nuke site
(this is a follow up article)

By Joseph Chrysdale
Jun. 21, 2005 at 8:15AM

A federal U.S. audit has determined 16 illegal immigrants working in construction had access to a top-secret nuclear site in Tennessee last year.
Department of Energy Inspector General Gregory Friedman wrote how the lapse was discovered at the Y-12 National Security Complex near Knoxville, Tenn., where "official use only" documents were "lying unprotected in a construction trailer, which was accessed by the foreign construction workers."
The report said the men, from unspecified countries, apparently used forged green cards, or work and residency visas to get access badges to the site, CNN reported.
Friedman wrote access controls at the plant have since been tightened, and said he found no evidence that classified or sensitive information was compromised.
The Y-12 National Security Complex contains about 600 buildings on 811 acres, and was established along with the nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project to build the world's first nuclear weapon.