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Open doors found at Seattle FBI office
Monday, July 29, 2002
Seattle police officers searched a floor at the FBI's Seattle headquarters yesterday after a building security officer reported finding three doors locked but open, an FBI spokesman confirmed.
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| A security guard works inside a building housing Seattle FBI offices after police were called yesterday. Renee C. Byer / Seattle Post-Intelligencer Click for larger photo |
Police found no evidence of a break-in at the high-security building at 1110 Third Ave., said FBI spokesman Ray Lauer.
But the agency's leaders may decide to check for electronic monitoring devices just the same. It has yet to be determined, Lauer said, "if the front office decides to sweep the rooms" for bugs.
A security guard was making his rounds around 1:30 p.m. yesterday when he discovered that the doors to three rooms -- a telephone closet containing wiring for the FBI phone system, another room containing files on closed investigations, and the pump room for the building's boilers -- were locked but not closed.
Either the guard called police directly or his bosses did, Lauer said.
The police dispatcher who broadcast the call referred to "a federal agent in Denver" requesting assistance at the Seattle address. The Federal Protective Service of the U.S. General Services Administration, which manages federal buildings, lists its Denver office as the emergency contact number for Washington state.
Two patrol officers were at the Seattle FBI office for more than an hour.
A police officer initially reported over the radio: "This building is supposed to be secure. A door to the evidence room is propped open. I'm going to wait for backup."
Lauer said he did not know why police referred to an evidence room being open.
He said the building's five entrances are heavily secured with code requirements and other such protections.
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