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INFORMATION CONTAINED fy i Is UNCLASSIFIED (Rev. 06-04-2007) DATE le-Go-2000 BY 60324 uc baw/ra/nis FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Precedence: ROUTINE Date: 2/06/2008 To: Laboratory ' CBSU From: Washington Field Approved By: Case ID #: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID (Pending) —//8@ 279A-WF-222936-LAB (Pending)- /s4¢i 27 SA-WF ~222936-BREI (Pending)—1¢2 Title: AMERITHRAX; MAJOR CASE 184. Synopsis: To request the analysis of sixty-nine (69) samples obtained from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. . Details: On 11/01 to 11/02/2002, AMERITHRAX Task Force Personnel, along with the Washington Field Office and Baltimore Field Office Hazardous Materials Response Teams, the Laboratory Division, Hazardous Materials Response and Questioned Documents Units, and the Washington Field Office Computer Analysis Response and Evidence Response Teams performed searches of a residence, vehicles, office, and laboratory spaces. During the search of a Biological Safety Level-2 (BSL-2)containment suite within the laboratory spaces of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, sixty-nine (69) samples of liquid microbial samples were collected. Some of the samples had been rendered non- viable, while the others were non-pathogenic in nature. In addition to the sixty-nine (69) microbial samples, three (3) tubes containing unidentified powders were collected from ‘the office space. The AMERITHRAX Task Force requests the Laboratory Division, Chemical Biological Sciences Unit perform, or task to be performed, the compositional and ultra-structural