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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 20 (UPI) -- A custodian who allegedly tried to sell a piece of nuclear junk to France has pleaded not guilty in federal court in Tennessee.
Roy Lynn Oakley of Midtown, Tenn., appeared before a judge Thursday, The Knoxville News-Sentinel reported. He is free on $25,000 bail.
Oakley faces charges of theft for allegedly removing scrap from a nuclear enrichment facility at the East Tennessee Technology Park and trying to sell the pieces "to injure the United States and secure an advantage to a foreign nation."
His lawyer, Herbert Moncier, argues that the government's case is overblown. He said Oakley picked France because he knew it was a U.S. ally, and did not know that France has one of the world's most advanced enrichment programs.
Moncier said when Oakley called the French embassy, he was laughed at.
But the French apparently reported the offer, because Oakley got a call some weeks later, court documents said, from an FBI agent posing as a potential buyer from the embassy.
"To have this become a matter of national security is stunning, is unfounded, is unfair," he said.
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