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Article: Security breaches unnerve Congress.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 26, 2000
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Undercover agents from the General Accounting Office told a House subcommittee yesterday they could easily have carried weapons, explosives or listening devices unchallenged into several federal agencies they entered using bogus badges and phony credentials.
Robert Hast, assistant controller general for the GAO's Office of Special Investigations, told members of Congress the undercover agents were never confronted by security officials, and had no trouble penetrating 19 federal agencies and two airports - gaining entry to 18 of the 21 sites on the first attempt.
"At no time during the undercover visits were our agents' bogus credentials or badges ...