ML092740460
| ML092740460 | |
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| Site: | 07000925 |
| Issue date: | 10/01/2009 |
| From: | - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards |
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CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS ON MAY 25 CONCERNING NOTIFICATION BY KERR-McGEE TO AEC AND NOTIFICATION WITHIN AEC
- 1.
At 2:15 PM Kerr-McGee informed our District II Safeguards Office at Oak Ridge of the missing shipment.
- 2.
At 2:25 Oak Ridge informed NMS, Headquarters, of the missing shipment.
- 3.
At 2,:35 Page informed McDowell, OSNM, -oncerning the incident (Crowson was out of the office).
Immediately follbwing the conversation with McDowell the information was passed along to Bob Tharp, Division of Security.
- 4.
At about 3:00 PM, Page informed Harold L.
Price.
Mr.
Price suggested that we notify the Joint Committee and the Commissioners' Offices of the lost shipment.
- 5.
At about 3:10 PM Page called Jim Graham of the JCAE and informed him of the incident.
Immediately after the above phone call, Page tried to reach Justin Bloom in Chairman Seaborg's office, but Mr. Bloom was unavailable.
Page left word for Bloom to call back.
Page then spoke with Alex Fremling in Commissioner Ramey's office.
immediately after that con-versation, Page phoned Jack Rosen, Assistant to Commissioner Thompson, but Mr.
Rosen was unavailable.
He then called Larry O'Donnell, Commissioner Johnson's staff assistant.
Mr. O'Donnell wanted to know what Mr.
Bloom had said about possibly informing the White House.
Page told Mr.
O'Donnell that he had not spoken with Bloom as yet,
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but would pass along O'Dcnell's concern about informing the White House.
After the call to Mr. O'Donnell, Mr. Bloom called and the information was passed along to him.
Mr.
Bloom said that he thought the White House should be informed and planned to do so.
Mr. Bloom asked whether we had informed the JCAE.
Page told him-that Mr.
Graham of the JCAE had already been informed.
Mr. Bloom said that in the future reports should be made to the Commissioners before the report is made to the Joint Committee.
Page agreed.
- 6.
Mr. Page informed John Griffin, Commissioner Larson's assistant.
At about this time Col. Rosen called back and the information was passed along to him.
- 7.
Page called Peter Mygatt of Public Information sometime between 3:30 and 4 o'clock (?)
and informed him of the lost shipment.
- 8.
Page again called Bob Tharp in Security and passed along additional information that American Airlines (AA) had apparently informed local FBI at Oklahoma City of the lost shipment.
Mr. Tharp said that he had informed FBI people here.
- 9.
Mr. Bloom called Page and said that he had informed the White House.
He said that questions had been raised about whether a public announce-ment was planned, whether we planned to inform CIA and what were the contractual arrangements between Kerr-McGee and AEC covering the shipment.
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- 10.
Page phoned Dr. Reichardt, Division of Intelligence, and suggested that he consider passing the information along to the people at Langley.
- 11.
Page phoned McDowell of OSMM, to pass along additional information and was told that Crowson had returned and Peter Mygatt was in his office.
Page then phoned Crowson and discussed the advisability of a public release.
Crowson said that he and Mygatt had discussed the matter and believed that no public announcement should be made at that time.
Page concurred in this recommendation.
- 12.
Page called Bloom and told him that OSMM, PI and NMS did not believe a public announcement should be made as yet.
Bloom concurred.
Page also informed Bloom that Reichardt had been informed and that he planned to inform CIA.
All of the above conversations took place before 4:30 PM.
- 13.
Page-informed Outten, Division of Inspection, of the incident at 4:f5 PM.
- 14.
NMS had called the District II Safeguards Office several times during the afternoon to determine the status of the trace investigation and the District II Office had been in contact with Kerr-McGee and AA several times.
At about 5:30 PM NMS called District II again and deter-mined that our District II Office was at that time talking with officials
Chronology of Events on May 25 of AA concerning the matter.
District II reported they would call back as soon as the conversation was completed.
At 5:50 PM District II called back to NMS, Headquarters, and stated that the shipment had been found at American Airlines Dallas terminal.
- 14.
Page then phoned the following people at their homes:
Crowson, Bloom, Fremling, Rosen and Griffin, informing them that the shipment had been found.
Miraglia of NMS phoned Tharp and Mygatt at their homes.
During the course of making the foregoing calls, Jim Graham of the Joint Committee called Page at 6:05 PM, asking if we had any new information concerning the shipment.
Graham was informed that the shipment had just been found in Dallas.
Page was unable at this time to reach Harold Price, Dr. Reichardt and Mr. O'Donnell.
These calls were ted by 6:30 PM.
- 15.
Page phoned Mr. Price and Dr. Reichardt from his home at about ql:00 PM and informed them of the recovered shipment.
Mr.
O'Donnell could not be reached.
A young lady at his home said that he was out for the evening.
- 16.
By 9 AM on May 26 Page phoned O'Donnell and Outten and informed them that the shipment had been recovered the previous evening at the Dallas airport.
- 17.
Miraglia informed Bloom that the shipment was a return of special nuclear material recovered by Kerr-McGee under a scrap recovery contract between the company and the AEC.