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Dear|:|
Pursuant to the ongoing criminal investigation into the
2001 mailings of letters laced with Bacillus anthracis, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI! requests the items,
documents, and/or access listed below. If a point of contact for
an item or document has been identified by one of ourinvestigators, that point of contact isllisied with the item ordocument. Please contact Special Agent l[::::] when the items are available for pickup from USAMRIID.
I Any electron microscopy stubs and micro ra hs from anyAmes spore preparations at USAMRIID E::%::?::::::::]
I Final contract documents from the contract between
USAMRIID and Duggay for the production of Ames spores
for aerosol chall ges including the protocol actually
used, micrographs, and other documentation Bruce
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I Requirements for the production of Standard Beference_Materials in the Bacteriology Division 92
I Research Protocols numbered BOlO7, BOO-03, D9803,
FO011, D9902 for aerosol challenges.
I Access to personnel records for the following
employees:
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Travel, leave, and time and attendance records for the
following employees:
Laboratory notes, computer files, and otherdocumentation regarding AmeEyjamnles_Ames_researgh1andAmes spore production kent I
|Frederickesell deceased! ,| ISeveral of these
individuals are no longer at USAMRIID, but their
documentation was left at USAMRIID.
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Diseases USAMRIID!_, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland. SAI:I
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for an inventor of Bacillus anthracis B.a. maintained inrooms| I andI:Iof USAMRIID's Building SAI De rolt Division, was also present on Ju y , 2004.
I:I provided the following information with res ectto items located in the glassdoor refrigerator in roomI:F
[sample container notations are denoted below in bold]:
The 1.5 milliliter mL! vial labeled Ames
Bruce's contained ~l mL of an Ames spore suspension.
The l liter L! flask labeled ZOOBLFO II 1¥Bruce Ivins contained ~ mL of an Ames
s ore suspension. T e spores were produced at Dugway ProvingI: and were purified by IVINS.I I
The 0.5 mL vial labeled DPG spores
Investigation on O7 / 17 / 2 0 O4 an Frederick , Maryland
File # 279A"~WF-22293 6USAMRIID Date dictated
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The 1.25 mL vial labeled Dugwa Ames spores, 1 x 10 /mLcontained ~1 mL of a spore suspension.[:::::::]indicated that[:::] likely received this spore material rom IVINS.
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this material, nor the identity of the B.a. strain.
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submitted previously to the FBI Repository.
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During the inventory of the roomI Irefri eratorof| I quality control samples related to weeks
study were located. The "QC" samples derived from a blind study
in which materials were coded with "BA "
identify the materials by B.a. strain.
Foll wing is a lis of the eight "QC" samnles_nresenF t6in the roomI Irefriqeratorj $29
on July 21, 2002, $AIE:::;g;g;;;:::]viewed information b6
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I I From the information provided, it D6was determined that theI Ilocated in the room b7C
E::] refrigerator were not B.a. Ames. According to the email
document ' .a. Ames was used during test weekE:]and wascoded asI I No such material was located during the
inventory of room rovided a hard co of the emailexchanges related to th to S[:::::i?i:]on
The refri rator in room[:::]contained multi le itemswhich, according to were samples generated byE::::;]
h t f Ch FBI. All t at t e reques 0 e lquo s o
were not qpllegtgd.E::::::]confirmed that the
produced_byThe material was generated from an Ames stock provided
b and was used for:
[:::::::];movided the fTllQwinq information with respectto materials located in the room [sample
container notations are denoted below in bold]:
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'ndieated that the FBI did not take this Ames
material durin a revious collection of[:::]spore materialsstored in thd[¬:::¬:::::::::] Additionally, the tube was not
fingerprinted, as were the other tubes containing Ames sporepreparations stored by[::::::]in.the roomI I
The 1.25 mL vial labeledI I
contained.E::::] of I Idid not recall
which Ames stock was used to generate these spores.
Four items were located in the roomI I
room in a box labeled I Iindicated that the
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c0ntainedI total of four
identical vials of "B.a. Ames were present.
believed that the spores identified as
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inventory log sheets. T e inventory og sheets are maintained in b7c
a 1A envelope FD340!, along with additional documents related
to the USAMRIID search conducted on July 16-23, 2004.