Nope, the key thing here is that they had were through to have valuable information, so they were thought to have been kidnapped in an area where it's really ea

Nope, the key thing here is that they had were through to have valuable information, so they were thought to have been kidnapped in an area where it's really easy to exfiltrate people. I have reasons to believe this was something way beyond a security officer making up wild stories, e.g. he was working for one of the nation's top nuclear scientists, a protege of Edward Teller ... the other person cleared for that room. Who also lived under the restrictions, although things like overt, official conferences in Moscow were OK. The scientist was a real character, at one of those (maybe the only one), he sent back a post card saying "They've met my price! Please send my library." The security officer, while recognizing it was a joke, found it in very poor taste. And why bother with all this unless there were concrete reasons to make them no-go zones? If not a threat of kidnapping with a very Bad End, why were these areas off-limits???