Logan screeners fail weapons tests

[MaineDem]

By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff, 10/16/2003

Five undercover agents of the US Department of Homeland Security posing as passengers last week carried weapons through several security checkpoints at Logan International Airport without being detected, officials confirmed yesterday.

George Naccara, federal security director at Logan Airport, acknowledged that certain "prohibited items" were carried past the federal screeners hired to improve airport security after Sept. 11, 2001. A homeland security official who asked not to be identified also confirmed the breaches.

Neither would specify the items smuggled past the screeners, but a source who works in security at Logan said the undercover agents, who work for the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, brought knives, a bomb, and a gun in carry-on baggage through several checkpoints at different terminals without being stopped.

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