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(AP) - A search warrant indicates that police
traced a security leak ahead of the Republican National Convention to a FedEx/Kinko's shop in St. Paul.

      A company helping police prepare for the convention went to the
shop to copy training documents. Those documents later turned up on
the Web site of an anarchist group that promised to "crash the
convention."

      Defense Technology of Casper, Wyo., had ordered copies of
training materials for "law enforcement use only" at the Kinko's
on July 28, according to the search warrant and supporting
affidavit.

      The company sells chemical grenades, "distraction devices" and
a "less-lethal instructor certification," according to court
papers.

      Police -- believing someone at the shop could have made the
materials available to the anarchists -- narrowed their search to a
shop employee. That 31-year-old employee has not been charged with
a crime.

      FedEx spokeswoman Sandra Munoz said the man is "no longer employed with us."

      His apartment was searched a week before the start of the
Republican convention. Police found thumb drives, a laptop
computer, two hard drives and a digital camera. They also found a
small amount of suspected marijuana.

      The man initially told police he might have made a digital copy
of the material to give to someone else. It's not clear if he
directly transferred the material to the RNC Welcoming Committee, a
group that described itself as an anarchist, anti-authoritarian
group.

      The group advocated transportation blockades in downtown St.
Paul during the convention and said on its Web site, "We didn't
get an invitation, but we're showing up anyway."

      St. Paul police officials would not discuss the role of Defense
Technology in convention security arrangements. Spokesman Tom Walsh
said it is common for police to take materials to Kinko's and other
copy centers and that the department has a contract with the
company.

      Munoz, the FedEx spokeswoman, said the company considered the
document transfer "a serious breach" of its ethics code.

      "Any client - I don't care, quite frankly, if it's a card for
your grandmother," she said. "Those are important documents. We
want our customers to understand that everything they give us" is
private.


      Information from: St. Paul Pioneer Press,
http://www.twincities.com

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