Thread: Fake Documents Got Workers Into Nuke Plant

From washingtonpost.com....

Fake Documents Got Workers Into Nuke Plant

By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
The Associated Press
Monday, June 20, 2005; 12:32 PM

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Sixteen foreign-born construction workers with phony immigration documents were able to enter a nuclear weapons plant in eastern Tennessee because of lax security controls, a federal report said Monday.

Controls at the Y-12 weapons plant have since been tightened and there was no evidence the workers had access to any sensitive documents, said the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees nuclear weapons facilities for the Department of Energy.

However, the DOE inspector general's office said in the report issued Monday that its field agents found "official use only" documents "lying unprotected in a construction trailer which was accessed by the foreign construction workers" at the plant.

"Thus, these individuals were afforded opportunities to access ... (this) information," the inspector general wrote. "We concluded that this situation represented a potentially serious access control and security problem."

The report, initiated by a tip in 2004, said the workers had fake green cards that certified them to work in the United States. Their cases were turned over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency for deportation.

The Y-12 plant, created for the top-secret Manhattan Project that developed nuclear bombs in World War II, makes parts for nuclear warheads and is the country's principal storehouse for weapons-grade uranium. The plant in Oak Ridge, about 25 miles west of Knoxville, has been criticized for losing keys to sensitive areas and purported cheating on security drills, weaknesses that officials say have been corrected.

In response to the foreign workers intrusion at the plant, visitors now must provide passports or birth certificates along with other background information.

National Nuclear Security Administration spokesman Steve Wyatt said that agency and managers for Y-12 contractor BWXT became concerned earlier this year about the potential for uncleared workers entering a construction site within the Y-12 complex, mostly involving steel and concrete workers.

He said the case was turned over the IG after investigators confirmed that some undocumented workers had access to the area.

The inspector general said it was particularly concerned about allowing subcontractors to self-certify the citizenship of their employees, and that the Office of Counterintelligence didn't know foreign constructions workers were at the Y-12 site until it was notified by the inspector general's office.

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"The report, initiated by a tip in 2004, said the workers had fake green cards that certified "

this is mid 2005 how many bombs could they have planted?????

This is the stuff of nightmares...

How the hell can this happen???

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

This is the stuff of nightmares...

How the hell can this happen???

Washington takes such good care of us

Yeah, you gotta have a library card to get into one of those fortresses, unless of course you have a consular whatcha ma callit card.

Originally Posted by Scarecrow

Yeah, you gotta have a library card to get into one of those fortresses, unless of course you have a consular whatcha ma callit card.

seeee seeee sinnnyour

Makes you wonder where all of these electronic Green cards that are working just fine are coming from. They are issued by the Department of Homeland Security.

We busted a guy in North Carolina with hundreds of these. The police never said where he got them.

Who is it in DHS that is giving out or selling these cards to illegal aliens or brokers?

W

Apply online:

Green Card Lottery
Work and Live in the USA
http://www.us-green-card-lottery.org/?a ... nn=1292001

USA Green Card Lottery Service
http://www.usagcls.com/

My God, Charles, you're right! A web site to apply for green cards, even offering free air fare to the U.S.

I think I am going to hurl!

Los Alamos National Laboratories sits in the middle of their Aztlan area along with several other highly sensity military research facilities. I wonder how many have illegals working the beat?

And we wonder how the Red Chinese stole our 2 stage rocket technology in the last few years so they now have the ability to nuke the entire US instead of just the left coast.

Anyone remember the missing hard disk drives from about 2-4 years ago?

W