[ RadSafe ] Oak Ridge Worker Charged With Trying To Sell Nuclear Secrets

[Johnston, Thomas]

Oak Ridge Worker Charged With Trying To Sell Nuclear Secrets

 

A former Bechtel Jacobs contract worker is accused of stealing nuclear
secrets from the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), the former K-25
site, in Oak Ridge. 

67-year-old Roy Lynn Oakley of Roane County has been indicted on charges
of trying to sell classified material to a foreign country in violation
of the Atomic Energy Act. 

Oakley was arrested as part of a months-long sting operation in which
federal agents posed as agents of a foreign country seeking to buy the
classified materials. 

Officials say that the breach is a serious one, and there is concern the
stolen nuclear secrets, which may include information about the uranium
enrichment process, could have fallen into enemy or terrorist hands. 

Oakley apparently worked as a contract "escort" at ETTP, taking visitors
to and from various offices at the lab. 

He turned himself in to authorities Thursday morning, and is expected to
be arraigned in federal court in Knoxville Thursday afternoon. 

 

 

-Tom