Kentucky has won a homeland security grant to ensure that money from bingo games stays out of terrorist coffers.

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The state Office of Charitable Gaming plans to use the $36,300 grant from the Department of Homeland Security to buy laptop computers for its five investigators and access to a commercial law-enforcement data base, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.

No one has ever heard of terrorists using Kentucky's bingo games for funding, including John Holiday, the office's enforcement director. But he says that doesn't mean it can't happen.

"But the potential there, to me, is just huge," Holiday told the newspaper. "You can earn a lot of money very fast and deal entirely in cash. I actually went on the Web and did a lot of research about this. There are articles that have linked terrorism to charitable gaming."