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ALL INFORMATION CONTATNED y+ EREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED @ (Rev. 01-31-2003) , E 12-16-2008 BY Gogz4 UC BaW/DEYE . cee ' FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Precedence: ROUTINE Date: 01/31/2007 bé To: Washington Field Attn: TicL sd — | AMERITHRAX SSAS | SSA_R. SSA From: Washington Field b6 AMX-2 BIC b7C Case ID #: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID (Pending) -16%) Title: AMERITHRAX; MAJOR CASE 184. Synopsis: To document information obtained fron[ | | ° bé 57 Details: During an interview of B Ivin n_ 01/23/2002, Ivins provided Special Agent isa) [DD with two images he had captioned with a description of the image. The images were placed in an FD-340 and submitted to the file as item 279A-WF-222936-1A 1037. Each image bears a date and time stamp in the bottom right side of the image, an alpha-numeric label in the upper left side of the image, and displays a sheep's blood agar (SBA) plate labeled with typewritten identifiers to the left of the plate. Each caption describes the Bacillus anthracis Ames material used to innoculate the . respective plate. One caption describes: "Ames strain - From culture collection at USAMRIID. Similar in appearance to Bacillus anthracis colonies from mail. Sent to Porton Down, who sent it to who sent it to This version of the Ames strain was serially passaged before freezing down and storing in the culture collection".