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Rocky Flats fraud: 17-year secret

Number 5445
Subject Defense Contracts
Source Daily Camera (Boulder, Colo.)
State None
Year 1987
Publication Date August, September, December
Summary Daily Camera investigates the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, finding Department of Energy officials and top scientists involved in elaborate gifts-and goods-making operation. The investigation also disclosed gifts that went to DOE officials, plant employees and officials of Rockwell International, which runs the plant. The department's scheme cost taxpayers millions of dollars over 17 years.
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Keywords Whistleblower FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
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