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a LL Ty PORATION CONTATNED | HERFYN IS UNCLASSIFIED | DATE L2e-l6-2008 BY soszauceamypx cou QD @ FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95) -1l- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of transcription 12/12/2003 date _of birth Social interviewed by\Special Agénts ——— was at place’ of employment at ; the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases S| (USAMRIID), Ft Detrick, Maryland. After being advised of the identities of the interviewing Agents and the nature of the interview,[——svoluntarily provided the following information: current Lti i S| duties are to : have access to Bacillus anthracis (B.a.). use both agar and broth to grow B.a. Tryptic Soy Agar (TSA) is used most often as the agar growth medium, and sometimes New Sporulation Media (NSM) is also used, but not very often. as unsure whether Modified G media is used. believes that would have laboratory notebooks that would answer that question. Both single colony and multiple colony culturing_techniques have been used depending on the type of experiments. guesses that for the culturing of the Ames strain, multiple colony culturing was utilized. first worked with B.a. during [a During the first Gulf War in the 1990's, work wit @ Ames Strain of B.a. increased as it was used as the test strain in the laboratory. has worked with, and continues to work with, live B ut has never produced a powdered form of anthrax. believes that it would not be difficult to produce powdered B.a. One would simply culture it and dry it using a lyophilizer, and then'mill it until it turns into a powder. has traced the geneology of the Ames strain that[___]has back to BRUCE IVINS. Investigation on 12/12/2003 «a Frederick, Maryland pow . NBR File# 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID; 279A-BA-C101392Date dictated N/A . SA by SAI This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.