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 
clearance is the subject of an FBI investigation into his unauthorized 
removal of classified material from the Virginia offices of an 
intelligence agency, The Smoking Gun has learned.

When the target was confronted last month by federal agents, he 
described himself as a “hoarder.” During a subsequent search of the 
man’s Maryland home, investigators recovered a large cache of classified 
documents and computer disks.

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

FBI agents, who began investigating the 67-year-old Harwin last month, 
questioned him on January 20 about the discovery of secret and 
top-secret documents in his 1991 Toyota Corolla. Along with the 
classified documents, “Computer Discs labeled with government markings” 
were found inside Harwin’s vehicle.

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