Glenn Walp Website : In a memo dated March 26, 2002, titled "Analysis of Theft of Property at LANL" (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Walp told Busboom that thievery at Los Alamos has been a problem since at least 1999. Walp told Busboom that he was trying to portray in a "holistic" manner a "comprehensive view of the thief picture presently being experienced by LANL." Attached to the memorandum are inventory logs detailing "Reports of Lost and Stolen" lab property for the years 1999 through 2001. The memo says that missing items under $5000 in value are not reported to security. On the inventory logs, such items including computers, are plentiful. In fact, the logs list dozens of computers-laptops, personal, and desktops as well as Sun Micro Systems workstations valued up to as much as $9,500. The next most popular items are cell phones, computer printers, and VCRs. There are also "big ticket" items, including many highly technical instruments like oscilloscopes, spectrometers, an electrophorometer worth $16,900, and a "centrifuge" worth $6,000. Equipment used in signals analysis and processing is listed as lost or stolen. Motorola and Ericsson radios belonging to lab security and emergency management and response teams are also missing.

About Glenn Walp

The disclosures by Glenn Walp and a second whistleblower, Steve Doran, led to the scrutiny of security failures of U.S. nuclear labs. As a result of the disclosures, 18 top officials at Los Alamos were fired, demoted or transferred including its director and deputy director.

Glenn Walp Bio Doran said Busboom told him in September that his "career would end" if he damaged the University of California's "relationship with the FBI, inspector general or U.S. attorney."

A few weeks later, Busboom ordered Walp and Doran off an important fraud case, and told them to sever their relationship with the FBI.

When Doran and Walp told investigators from the Energy Department's inspector general's office about all this in November, the pair was fired, just about on the spot.

About Glenn Walp Instead, the two, whose lab salaries are about $150,000 and $75, 000 respectively, allegedly brought dozens of items for their personal use. They are apparently outdoorsmen as many of the purchases were of camping gear, all-weather garments, all-terrain vehicle accessories, motorcycle helmets for themselves and their children, hand-held land and maritime global positioning system devices, footwear, and, in one order, 135 different types of specialty knives. At least one television and VCR plus a CB radio, bought through the lab, were found in one employee's recreational vehicle parked at his home. The affidavits also listed cameras, scanners, rangefinders, tools, fly-fishing equipment, and plumbing fixtures. One of the employees was remodeling his bathroom and used the purchase order to upgrade his plumbing fixtures.

Glenn Walp Services University of California has paid a roughly $930,000 settlement to Los Alamos National Laboratory whistleblower Glenn Walp, the nuclear weapons lab's former head of the Office of Security Inquiries, who was fired in retaliation for documenting national security breaches, mismanagement, fraud, cover-up, and corruption at the facility. Disclosures by Mr. Walp and a second whistleblower, Steve Doran, led to long overdue scrutiny of security failures of U.S. nuclear labs.

Glenn Walp Lab Security Director Put on Notice

Through its claims to have requested an Energy Department inspection and its statements minimizing the actual value of the thefts, the lab clearly hoped to limit damage to its public image. But that posture was hard to maintain after whistleblowers sent two more internal documents to POGO. The first is an internal memo prepared by Walp and sent to his supervisor, the lab's Director of Security, Stanley L. Busboom, a retired Air Force security police colonel.