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Workers With Phony Immigration Documents Admitted into U.S. Nuclear Weapons Facility
A group of construction workers with falsified immigration papers were admitted into the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee last year due to inadequate security standards, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, March 4). There was no indication that the 16 workers were able to obtain sensitive documents while at the plant, according to the National Nuclear Security Administration. However, authorities discovered “official-use-only” documents “lying unprotected in a construction trailer which was accessed by the foreign construction workers,” says an Energy Department inspector general’s report issued yesterday. “Thus, these individuals were afforded opportunities to access … (this) information,” the report says. “We concluded that this situation represented a potentially serious access control and security problem.” The workers had counterfeit immigration documents and were turned over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency for deportation, according to the report. As a result of the incident, visitors are now required to present passports or birth certificates to enter the plant, according to AP (Duncan Mansfield, Associated Press/Boston Globe, June 20).
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