FBI Targets "Hoarder" In Top-Secret Thefts

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/stolen-top-secret-documents-346219

The Smoking Gun
February 1, 2012

FEBRUARY 1 -- A U.S. government employee with a top-secret security=20
clearance is the subject of an FBI investigation into his unauthorized=20
removal of classified material from the Virginia offices of an=20
intelligence agency, The Smoking Gun has learned.

When the target was confronted last month by federal agents, he=20
described himself as a =E2=80=9Choarder.=E2=80=9D During a subsequent sea=
rch of the=20
man=E2=80=99s Maryland home, investigators recovered a large cache of cla=
ssified=20
documents and computer disks.

The criminal probe is focusing on Robert Harwin, an analyst with the=20
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which creates maps and=20
interprets images from satellites and drones. The agency=E2=80=99s advanc=
ed, and=20
highly secret technological capacities allowed it to play a key role in=20
the successful raid on Osama bin Laden=E2=80=99s compound in Pakistan.

FBI agents, who began investigating the 67-year-old Harwin last month,=20
questioned him on January 20 about the discovery of secret and=20
top-secret documents in his 1991 Toyota Corolla. Along with the=20
classified documents, =E2=80=9CComputer Discs labeled with government mar=
kings=E2=80=9D=20
were found inside Harwin=E2=80=99s vehicle.

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