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Los Alamos lab confirms security violation

by Deepika Garg - October 29, 2006 - 0 comments

Los Alamos, New Mexico – the Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the nation's key nuclear weapons research centers faced a potentially major security violation as three laboratory computer drives were found by the police during a drug arrest at a New Mexico trailer park.

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 <p>Los Alamos, New Mexico – the Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the nation's key nuclear weapons research centers faced a potentially major security violation as  three laboratory computer drives were found by the police during a drug arrest at a New Mexico trailer park.</p>
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 <p>"Security has always been a very serious matter at Los Alamos National Laboratory. But it's also a changing field," said Kevin Roark, a lab spokesman. "We're always adapting to new emerging threats."</p>
<p>The owner of the trailer, where officers found a sizable amount of drug paraphernalia was identified as Jessica Quintana, in the police reports released Wednesday. Quintana formerly worked as a contract employee at the lab.</p>
<p>Laboratory data was found by the authorities in the mobile home, owned by Quintana. A self-described methamphetamine addict, Justin Stone who was renting a room there denied having any knowledge about the data.</p>
<p>"I was basically at the wrong place at the wrong time," Stone, 20, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from jail.</p>
<p>"I don't know who to sell that kind of information to. I don't know who would be interested in that kind of stuff," said Stone, who is jailed on drug and probation violation charges.</p>
<p>He said Quintana had never talked about her lab work with him. "I'm freaked out. I'm still really scared about the whole thing. I had all this information under the roof that I was living in, and all of a sudden the FBI is interrogating me," said Stone.</p>
<p>Indicating that the incidence was not minor, Los Alamos Director Michael Anastasio said in a statement released on Wednesday that the lab was cooperating with the FBI and had taken steps to address potential security risks.</p>
<p>"Let me reiterate how seriously I regard this matter as one of the utmost concern to us all," Anastasio said.</p>
<p>The energy and the defense departments are weighing proposals to design the nation's newest nuclear device, the so-called reliable replacement warhead and this security violation has come at a critical time for the lab which is competing with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California to design and oversee the nuclear device.</p>
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