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Partially Withheld Memo Re Interview of K Ormstedt Concerning Allegations of Util Corporate QA Audit Program
ML20238A484
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Site: Comanche Peak  Luminant icon.png
Issue date: 12/19/1984
From: Griffin H
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
To: Gilbert T
NRC OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS (OI)
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INTERVIEW OF KAREN ORMSTEDT -

On November 2 1984 as interv ewed by NR ohn Zudans, and this r orting investigator i made ions related to the TUGC0 corporate QA aud t program for Peak. 1so provided the NRC wi,th an internal investigation report on in on which is an exhibit to Q4-84-050. 150 providEJ the Office of Investigations with a xer'.,x copy of n id he received from another auditor by the name of Karen Ormstedt. aid Oms ad told him she had been receiving threatening notes at her office. . asked that this reporting investigator speak with Ormstedt regarding the re s that she had been receiving.

On November 30, 1984, Ormstedt telephonically contacted the NRC Region IV Office of Investigations and left her telephone number. This reporting investigator telephonically contacted Orristedt and made arrangements to meet her on Monday, December 3,1984, at a Denney's coffee shop in Arlington, Texas.

On the night of December 3,1984, this reporting investigator was approached by an unidentified male at the Denney's in Arlington. The unidentified male said c: - he was a friend of Omstedt's, and that uld not be able to meet ause

@E she had been hospitalized that afternoon Onnstedt's friend said that Ormstedt wos atte t to recontac ting

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@ $ ,,come to the hospital and interview her.

8 At 3:0 .m. on December 1984, Ormstedt was interviewed in ht:. hospital room En at the Omstedt said she had been employed a TUGC0 QA ,

cor ra au tor for 1 ars and worked under the supervision ( I Ormstedt sai RK4ogg cp @C/)

Mion Onnstedt said that for the last 4 months she had been working

, another TUGC0 QA auditor, conducting site and vendor audits for Comanche Peak. Ormstedt said that Cook had died on October 30, 1984, under very mysterious circumstances.  !

Ormstedt provided this reporting investigator with two notes she had found at .

her office during the last month and a half. Ormstedt said that she had received another note which she had thrown away. Ormstedt said she received I the first note on Wednesday, October 10, 1984. Ormstedt said the note read l

" HELL IS FOR HER0ES, DONT BE A HER0" Ormstedt said she found this first note I in her in-box on her desk. Ormstedt said she showed the note to Tilton Cook, but said they decided it must be a joke and she threw the note away.

Onnstedt said that on the Sunday following Cook's death she found another note on her desk inside a TUGC0 envelope along with one of her own business cards.

Omstedt said the note read, " EASE OFF GIRL DONT START WHAT Y CANT FINISH."

cussed the note with another QA auditor, {s Onnstedt said she Ormstedt said she then decided to discu s the note with l

~ the TUGC corpora A manager, David Chapman. Ormstedt said she showed J Chapman the note, and that Chapman told her not to worry about it. Onnstedt said she gave Chapmen a copy of the notes which Chapman said he would give to the vice president, William Clements, and David Andrews, the corporate security director.

Onnstedt said she had a meeting with David Andrews on the following Monday. l Onnstedt said Andrews mainly questioned her about an October 19, 1984 start-up audit and another environmental radiological monitoring audit that she and Tilton Cook had performed. Ormstedt said that Andrews seemed more interested in the conduct of her audits than he was in the threatening notes. Onnstedt said that since her meetira with Andrews she had t received any feedback from Andrews, Spangler, or Chapman.

Ormstedt said that on the day following her meeting with Andrews she spoke with Clements, and said she asked him if he was aware of the threatening notes that had been left on her desk. Ormstedt said that Clements seemed to know about the second note she had received, but not the first.

Ormstedt said th mber 12,1984, she found a third note in her briefing bag when she and were on an airplane flight enroute to San Diego, California, to p form a endor audit Flui ponents. Inc., San Marquis, California. Ormstedt said that she an re both upset by the fact that the note was on top of a pile of w, grou meat in the bottom of her bag. Omtedt said this third note read " DEAD MEAT."

Onnstedt said that on the following Thursday when she returned to the corporate offices, she discussed the note found in her bag with Andrews. Ormstedt said that during this interview Andre s was rimaril concerned with tioni her about onsultingcontractthat{

and Tilton Cook had prev ous a n cens ng nn.

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I The reporting investigator questioned Ormstedt at length to try and determine who might have left the threatening notes. Ormstedt claimed that she did not know who would want to harm or threate her. Orms said she recalled that she and another auditor by the name ad disagreed a year earlier over an audit finding tha anted to report as a deficiency.

Ormstedt said she, as the audit te 4 der, had not believed it merited I reporting, and sai eventually own aded his concern to a "coment."

Orustedt said this sag ement with ccurred in November of 1983.

Ormstedt said that on December 3,198N, when she had been scheduled to meet with this reporting investigator she had been hospitalized. Ormstedt said she i believed that there may had been something in the coffee she drank that day I that made her sick. Ormstedt said she starting getting sick during the day and said she left work at 3:00 p.m. Ormstedt said she entered the hospital that evening. Ormstedt also complained that she had been receiving " hang up" phone i calls, and had received a call where someone just laughed into the phone. j Ormstedt said that following her hospitalization she asked one of her fellow employees (not further identified) to bring her coffee cups to the hospital.

Ormstedt said that her friend brought her the coffee cup she had drunk from on the day she became 111. Orustedt said the friend also brought her other coffee cup which had been on her desk. Ormstedt said the coffee cup that she had not use contained some kind of fluid. Ormstedt said she believed this same fluid may have been in the coffee cup that she used on the day she became sick.

Ormstedt said she recalled that the coffee had tasted " funny," and that she had not eaten that day. Ormstedt said she wished to provide the coffee cups, including the one containing the unidentified fluid, to the NRC 01. This ,

reporting investigator took custody of the two coffee cups and stored them on the following day in a locked safe in the Region IV Office of Investigations office.

This reporting investigator also questioned Ormstedt about the threatening notes that had been left for hcr. Ormstedt said she believed the paper the notes had been stenciled on appeared to be the same paper used in the QA audit offices. Ormstedt also said she believed that the printing on the paper looked as though a template had been used to construct the letters.

Onnstedt said she had the impression that the corporate managers for TUGC0 did not consider her problems significant, and said she did not believe they were receptive to anybody who caused them additional problems. Onnstedt also expressed the opinion that the corporate managers were not receptive to QA auditors who were quick to report deficiencies during the QA audits. Ormstedt said she was presently looking for another job and said she would probably make a decision soon as to whether she would continue her employment with TUGCO.

On December 10,1984, Karen Ormstedt visited the Office of Investigations field office in Arlington, Texas, and provided the reporting investigator with the original copies of the notes containing the threats. Ormstedt provided the notes for the purpose of having the notes, along with the suspect coffee cups,

. analyzed by a forensic science institute. Ormstedt said she had decided not to make a complaint to the police department about the coffee or the notes.

Ormstedt said her decision was based on the fact that she did not know who would want to threaten het, and said she also was not sure that her medical problems were caused by something she ingested.

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Also on December 10, 1984, David Andrews, the TUGC0 corporate security director, contacted the reporting investigator regarding Karen Ormstedt.

Andrews said he was aware that Ormstedt had been talking to the reporting l investigator. Andrews indicated that Ormstedt had not made any particular allegations to TUGCO other than she had been receiving the threatening notes. I Andrews . stated that he had been attempting to contact Ormstedt over the weekend .!

to encourage her to make an official complaint to the Dallas police department. j 1

On December 11, 1984, the reporting investigator took the suspected coffee cups j and the original copies of the threatening notes provided by Onnstedt to the . l

' Southwest Institute of F i in Da as, Texas. The evidence was  !

received at th stitu ho agreed to analyze the cups I and the notes, gne an NRC )repare chain custod t acknowledging r ceipt o the evfdence.

f th titute discussed Ormstedt's e(tidence with the reporting invest gator.; i ndicated that the members of the institute were aware of the {

ence f the notes through the investigative interviews conducted following the death of Tilton Cook. The doctors indicated they were anxious to analyze the additional evidence in case there was a link with the' Cook case. The j institute agreed to provide the NRC Office of Investigations with written '

reports on both the notes and the contents of the cups.

also provided the reporting investigator with the details of the investigation of the death of on Cook uding the autopsy results and the toxicological examination. 1so showed the reporting investigator see ot o taken by the institute's investigator. tatedthatj ad ruled that Mr. Cook's death by asphyxiation from carbon mon de poisonthg s a suicide.

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Utilities Generating Company (TUGCO) Quality Assurance (QA) auditor alleged that in the Summer of 1983 a TUGC0 Quality Control (OC) manager interrupted a TUGC0 QA l' auditor's meeting and threatened the auditors with " physical or political" harm if a l

l they were persistent in conducting their audits in the manner which they have in  ;

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uudiLui5, Lhci ihritC suonager in quesiivir-bei ieved the Lief-it iencies wh it.h the audit group had identified were invalid. The a'ileger explained that he was intimidated and is of the belief that other auditors were intimidated. .

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