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DOE's Foreign Visitor Program Has Major Weaknesses

T-RCED-89-2 Published: Oct 11, 1988. Publicly Released: Oct 11, 1988.
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GAO reviewed the Department of Energy's (DOE) foreign visitor controls at its weapons laboratories. GAO found that DOE: (1) headquarters, field offices, and laboratories did not obtain required background data on most foreign visitors; (2) inadequately identified potentially sensitive subjects, which resulted in possible information leaks to communist or other sensitive nations; (3) did not have effective controls to approve, monitor, and report on foreign visits; and (4) did not have an integrated system to obtain and disseminate foreign visitor information to its field offices.

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