More than 80,000 artifacts at Reagan library vanish: report

[Kadie]

More than 80,000 artifacts at Reagan library vanish: report
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Around 80,000 valuable artifacts from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library are unaccounted for following an audit.

The items, including mementos from Reagan's White House years, are missing because of a "near universal" security breakdown at the museum in Simi Valley, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.

The Times cited a report by the inspector general of the US National Archives, Paul Brachfeld, whose office is investigating allegations that a former employee stole Reagan memorabilia.

The probe into the alleged theft had been hampered by the museum's sloppy record-keeping, the Times reported.

"We have been told by sources that a person who had access capability removed holdings," Brachfeld told the paper. "But we can't lock in as to what those may be."

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Museum in 2004 in Simi Valley, California. Around 80,000 valuable artifacts from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library are unaccounted for following an audit.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David McNew )

[dflprincess]

1. Are they all somehow related to Iran Contra

or other criminal actions?

[valerief]

9. Wouldn't surprise me, although his whole tenure was abomination. nt

[begin_within]

2. I thought I read this once before, but I can't recall where.

[AlCzervik]

3. have they checked Ebay yet?

[marmar]

4. Is Oliver North the head librarian?

Check the shredding machine.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Incomplete in life, incomplete in death.

"At least there is symmetry." -Zathras

[El Supremo]

6. I've got 1000 jellybeans.

Make me a deal.

[NV Whino]

7. They're not missing...

he just forgot where he put them.

:spank: Ooo, bad, Whino, bad.

[madrchsod]

8. artifacts?

hell it was what was left of his brain cells......

[MrCoffee]

10. he was getting homesick in Hell...came back for his stuff.

[malaise]

11. Nah the artifacts had

Alzheimer's and lost their way just like Reagan.

[T Wolf]

12. That represents most of his brain cells that "oldtimer's" rendered unusable -

in 1976.