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Top NASA Official Jailed/Missing Under Suspicious Circumstances

A top NASA official has been jailed and has subsequently gone missing under suspicious circumstances.  According to an article from June 2015, the NASA COMSEC Administrator was “fired” and put in jail after “admitting” to amassing child pornography whilst at work: “70-year-old NASA worker who was fired last month is in jail after admitting he amassed child pornography.” “He was in a mental hospital, where he was admitted because he was suicidal.” “He was fired May 29 from his job at Kennedy Space Center … as well as Science Applications International Corp., after they accused him of several security violations.” “Federal agents asked a judge to sign a search warrant, allowing them to search several of Lawson’s electronic storage devices for information related to NASA and his work, but when they began looking, they spotted a photo of three nude boys, according to his warrant.” “(He admitted) that he had downloaded 600 to 800 child porn images.” “A NASA spokesman was not immediately available to explain the security violations that led to Lawson’s dismissal.” Donald Lawson was NASA’s Communication Security Administrator (COMSEC Admin) for the past thirty years. Since the Reagan Administration, Lawson has been the man in charge of controlling [...]