Greece's Olympic Venue Lockdown

All Olympic facilities will be "secured and sealed" by authorities more than a month before the 2004 Athens games.

The plan, announced Friday by Greece's top law enforcement official, is meant to limit access to the sites before the Aug. 13-29 Olympics to avoid possible surveillance or sabotage by terrorists.

"Forty-five days before the beginning of the games, all Olympic works will be given over to be checked, secured and sealed," Public Order Minister George Florides told a gathering of ethnic Greeks living abroad.

He repeated that the NATO alliance has offered to help safeguard the games, and Greek crews will fly surveillance planes.

Olympic security is budgeted at more than $750 million and the government is working with a seven-nation advisory group that includes the United States and Israel.

The security network also will include 10,000 military personnel working alongside 40,000 police and a 200-member team trained by U.S. and British experts to face biological, chemical and nuclear attacks.

"Our goal is not to deter a person who would get on a truck with explosives to hit something," Florides said. "Our goal is to not have such a person."