Glenn Walp : Their dismissals touched off a political conflagration that quickly torched

the lab's senior managers. Since then, all of Los Alamos' top officials have been either
replaced or reassigned. Congress has held hearings -- with Walp and Doran as star
witnesses -- into the lab's slipshod operation. And the University of California's 60-year
hold on the $2.2 billion-per-year Los Alamos contract has been pried loose, with the
operation going out for competitive bid for the first time ever in 2005.

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Speaking from his home in Santa Fe, N.M., on Wednesday, Walp called on University of
California officials and managers of other federal laboratories to evaluate their
procedures to ensure "prudent stewardship of tax dollars ... and then appropriately deal
with crime and corruption and mismanagement."

Walp Glenn New Missions, Old Problems

Los Alamos was the site of the design and development of America's first atomic
weapons. Over the years, it remained the premier nuclear-design laboratory and
developed many of the warheads currently in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In 1993, the
Clinton administration shut down all nuclear testing and also the design of new warheads.
The lab now says its mission is to enhance global security by ensuring the safety and
reliability of the existing U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technologies to reduce
threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving problems related to energy,
environment, infrastructure, health and national security concerns. The lab has a $1.4
billion annual budget, mostly in federal funding from the Energy Department and other
government agencies, and is the largest employer in northern New Mexico. Public
documents also indicate that the lab manages just under $1 billion of federal property.

Glenn Walp Ironically, in July Busboom had written in Walp's performance appraisal
that he had the "potential and aspirations to have a positive and lasting impact on the
laboratory-very effective performer." Too effective, apparently, for his own good-at least
at Los Alamos.

The documents also depict program managers complaining of disruptions and delays in
critical lab national security projects as a result of the theft of lab property. The new
scandal is another blow to Los Alamos' credibility as a responsible steward of the nation's
nuclear secrets.

CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson, Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, a Los Angeles Times editorial,
and Adam Rankin of the Albuquerque Journal have covered the story. But it deserves far
more attention because of its national security implications. Lab and University of
California officials have limited their public comments, and have denied that classified
information was compromised. Los Alamos spokesperson Linn Tytler did put a happy
face on the scandal by telling local reporters that the lab had accounted for all but about
$100,000 of property in 2001. The laboratory claimed it earned an "outstanding" rating
for its property inventory for the year, a claim subsequently repeated by the lab's director.
But an internal memo put the actual 2001 loss at $1.3 million, or ten times higher than
Tytler's claim.

Glenn Walp Profile The media -- and Congress -- then took hold of the case and heads
began to roll. In January, lab director John Browne was forced to resign. Shortly
thereafter, Walp and Doran were offered new positions as security consultants at the
University of California.

Doran took the job, which put him in charge of security at all of the university's facilities
-- including Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national
laboratories.

Walp Glenn The revelations eventually prompted a decision by the Bush administration
this spring to hold an open competition for the contract to run the lab when the University
of California's current management deal expires in 2005. It is to be the first competitive
bidding for the contract since the university started managing the facility for the federal
government 60 years ago, when it was home to the Manhattan Project, the nation's first
nuclear weapons program. UC officials have not decided whether they will participate in
the bidding.