[ RadSafe ] RE: Oak Ridge Case

[Steven Dapra]

July 20

         Why are you calling him a dirtbag?  He hasn't been convicted of 
anything, has he?  Apparently not, because according to an AP article in 
today's Albuquerque Journal he (Oakley) entered a not guilty plea on 
Thursday (the 19th).  My guess is there hasn't been a trial yet.  Why are 
you calling him a dirtbag?

         The above-noted article says a "law enforcement official" said 
Oakley was looking for buyers for the material (rods) he had.  According to 
his lawyer, Herb Moncier, Oakley sold the rods to "an undercover federal 
agent who told Oakley that he represented the French Embassy."  That makes 
the Federal agent a liar right then and there, doesn't it?

         Also:  "The government said" the material was classified, blah, 
blah, blah.  Is that the same government that said there was no torture at 
Abu Graib prison, and that there were no secret CIA prisons?  Quickly with 
your answer, please.

         According to an unsourced posting on yesterday's RADSAFE, "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."   In sting operations there seems to be a very fine line 
between criminal behavior by the accused, and entrapment by "the 
government."  Below you even said Oakley got "set up."

         The posting yesterday also said, "there is concern the stolen 
nuclear secrets, which may include information about the uranium enrichment 
process . . . ."   I can think of five countries that enrich their own 
uranium.  Is enrichment that all-fired secret?  Especially the gaseous 
diffusion process?  My goodness even the Iranians know how to enrich 
uranium.  (I'm only asking, I don't know.  For the record, I don't know 
this Oakley fellow.)

Steven Dapra
sjd at swcp.com



At 08:42 PM 7/19/07 -0400, Shawn Hughes \(Road2\) wrote:
>
>This dirtbag lives five miles from me. He didn't have any secrets, per se.
>He was initially a Q-cleared escort, and later was assigned to D&D at K25.
>He pocketed certain materials considered mission critical to the gaseous
>diffusion process (the *key* part), and attempted to sell it to a few
>places. When he called the French Embassy, shortly thereafter, he got set
>up.
>
>Last year, every alphabet agency in the country decended on my teeny hamlet
>to recover the materials, and make sure he didn't have anything else. The
>high powered Knoxville attorney is trying to paint it as he took some pipes
>destined for the scrap heap. For around a year now, his lawyer and the
>Government have been working out a plea agreement, and apparently it fell
>through, because the USAO got an indictment for him.
>
>It's caused quite the furor here. We still have huge billboards saying
>"loose lips sink ships" here. Quite frankly, its' an embarrassment.
>
>-Shawn
>
>
>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
>
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