ML20041F899

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Affidavit of AD Bosiago Re 820126 Events & Commissioner Roberts Alleged Ex Parte Contacts
ML20041F899
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Site: 05000142
Issue date: 03/02/1982
From: Basiago A
COMMITTEE TO BRIDGE THE GAP
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UNITED STATES CF APERICA NUCLEAR FIGUIATORY CCEISSION 3EFORE THE COMMISSION In the .va tter of Docket No. 50-142 THE RECENTS CF THE UNIVERSITY (Propossd Renewal of 0F CALIFORNIA Facility License No. R-71)

(UCLAResearchReactor) M 2, 1982 AFFIDAVIT OF ANDREW DANIEL 2ASIAGO STATE CF CALIFORNIA ss.

COUNTY CF LCS ANGELES I, ANDREW DANIEL 3ASIAGO, being duly sworn, depose and state as follows:

1. On Tuesday, January 26, 1982, I proceeded in my role as an investigative reporter for the UCIA Daily 3 ruin to the 3celter Hall office of School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Russell O'Neill.

I had been informed the previous afternoon that a tour of the Argonaut nuclear reactor facility was scheduled between UCIA legal representatives, NRC d ficials, and the Committee to Bridge the Gap. I entered O'Neill's office at 9:15 a.m.

2. I encountered UCIA atterney William Cormier,whom I had met previously, in the out er office of the engineering dean. Carmier angrily e am informed me that the campus press would not be invited en the tour and ou "that this is not a media event." He seemed consternated by my very "8 presence, and anxiously made two phone calls in my presence within a minute g or two of encountering me.

R At 9:20 a.m., two men and a woman arrived and met with Cermder.

s:0 3 o" Cormier's demeanor was that of an affable hest and I remember thinking gg his attitude reminded me of that of an auto dealer.

oo o .3 4 Cormier intreduced the ::1 o to the dean at ti.e door to his

@7 private office and the group met behind closed decrs until at least 9:45 a.n.,

when I left with 3 ruin photographer Andy Schlei and C3G member Steve Aftergood, who had arrived a few minutes earlier, to proceed to the reactor to see what pictures and comment we could obtain even if we would te excluded from the tour. Schlei left our company in transit to the reactor. Pricr to

leaving the dean's office, Tom Tugend, university public information officer, emerged from the room where the meeting was being conducted ard said that Dean C'Neill did not want any press on the tour.

5 At the entrance to the Argonaut Reactor /Tokomak Fusion Iab facility I met CBG president Daniel Hirsch ard KNXT Correspondent Kim McTiner and told them of the meeting I had witnessed. The group gathering at the reactor entrance expressed concern as to the whereabouts of Mr.

Cormier and the NRC Staff. Dorothy Thompson informed me that such a meeting was a possible violation of ex parte procedure.

6. P.eceding the tour, the female present during the earlier meeting was identifisi as Jessica Iaverty. Mr. Cormier and the woman I had seen upstairs in the Dean's office came out of the reactor room ani talked with Daniel Hirsch ard Dorothy Thompson. The woman was then identified as Jessica Laverty. NRC Commissioner 'Ihomas Roberts was not visually revealed to the press, and the third man has never been identified.
7. Following the tour, I confronted Mr. Cormier with the facts of what I had seen earlier in the morning. I asked Mr. Cormier, "Do you deny I saw you meet with the NRC team this morning in Dean O'Neill's office?" Cormier resporded, "No. But it was only a greeting, not a meeting." Iater, Mr. Hirsch told me Cormier said the greeting lasted between 9:50 and 10:00 a.m. This conflicts with reality as I recorded it, for I am certain I witnessed a longer discussion from at least 9:20 a.m.

to 10 a.m.

8. Iater I spoke with Dean O'Neill in person. Dean O'Neill confirmed that the meeting had occurred, ard indicated that among the subjects discussed was enrollment in Engineering classes ard the crisis in financing. - -

Executed this O day of 1%rch 1982 at Los Angeles, California.

LA*W p ew Daniel 3as o Sworn and subscribed to before me this 2 day of March 1982.

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