Lucent does "a significant amount of highly classified work" for the federal government, the letter said.
"There are other government and contractor facilities that do classified work with access to dangerous strains," the official said.
Donald Sebastian, the institute's vice president of research and development, said the network did not involve secret or classified work.
In connection with this employment, which involved classified work for the Armed Forces, he had obtained security clearances.
These security procedures are not designed to monitor people attempting to gain access to some secret organisation engaged in highly classified work – or even individuals visiting dangerous criminals.
Classified work at the federal government's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been suspended as a result of a security lapse, Energy Department and laboratory officials have said.
University representatives said the lab would not have classified work, but the application suggested that unidentified government subcontractors might work in the Level 3 and 4 areas, especially in the event of a bioterrorist strike or other national emergency.
Dr. Turkevich conducted highly classified work concerning nuclear technology in the Soviet Union, and developed techniques to measure the spread of gases globally, according to Dr. George A. Cowan, senior fellow emeritus at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
A17 Secret Work at Lab Is Halted Classified work at the federal government's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been suspended as a result of a security lapse, according to Energy Department and laboratory officials.
The research on advanced computer architecture, which would not have been classified work, was to be carried out at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by senior research scientist Thomas Knight '69, SM '79, PhD '83.
This has left some American politicians looking at their screens with increasing suspicion.On May 18th America's State Department said it would not use 16,000 computers it recently bought from Lenovo, a Chinese firm, for sensitive "classified" work.
