FBI investigating possible security breach at Los Alamos lab

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) — FBI agents are investigating a possible breach of security at the Los Alamos National Laboratory that followed a drug bust in New Mexico, US officials said. Agent William Elwell of the FBI field office in Albuquerque said no arrests had yet been made but investigations were ongoing after the seizure of material from a home at a trailer park.

"We are still analysing the material and at the moment all I can say is that we believe there are grounds for the investigation to continue," Elwell told AFP by telephone. "I can't comment on what we have discovered so far." The possible security breach at the nuclear weapons research centre came to light after Los Alamos police were called to a domestic disturbance on October 17 and found evidence of drug use. That...