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p.2 HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIO DATE le-15-2008 BY 603 QC BAW SRS /LSC ALL INFORMATION CONTATMED This weeks Bialogical Weapans stories for Thursday, April 18, 2002. Recent Stories: Biological Weapons Anthrax: Handwriting Analysis Refines Investigation Profile A handwriting analyst has said the person responsible for last fall’s anthrax attacks is @ white, middle-aged man with a bipolar disorder and a martyr complex and who suffers from sexual dysfunction, the Washington Times reported today (see GSN, April 10). “At this point, the FBI investigation has been focused on people who have had access to anthrax,” said Mark Smith, a handwriting analyst who is familiar with the letters included in the anthrax attacks. °*Taking into account the possibility that these characteristics are inherent in the makeup of the perpetrator could greatly reduce the size of the investigation.” The FBI requested Smith’s assistance soon after last fall’s anthrax attacks, he said. The FBI did not comment on Smith’s handwriting analysis of the anthrax letters, according to the Times. The uniform and pronounced curving of the writing in the anthrax letters Indicates that the person who wrote them tikely has bipolar disorder, Smith said. “(The sender} probably wrote these letters on a manic high, triggered by the Sept. 11 attacks,” he said. The style of the writing also indicates that the person behind the attacks could suffer from some form of sexual dysfunction, according to Smith. “Anything below the baseline, such as the loops in the letters ‘y’ and ‘9,’ traditionally gives insight Into sexual characteristics,” he sald. “In the case of the anthrax letters, there’s nothing below the baseline. ... It means there Is nothing happening in the sexual zone of the writing, which leads me to believe the anthrax sender Is sexually dysfunctional.” The use of block letters could indicate the age of the letter sender because jt is a style taught to children from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, Smith sald. The use of all capital Setters Indicates the sender was trying to demonstrate a sense of power, which is connected with a martyr complex, he added. Investigators have to be cautious when analyzing the handwriting used in the anthrax jetters, however, because there was an obvious attempt to disguise the writing, said handwriting analyst Roger Rubin. “Tt’s very difficult to pierce the veil of personality when somebody could be trying to disguise themselves,” Rubin said, “It's like looking at a mask on a person's face and analyzing the mask instead of the person underneath it” (Guy Taylor, Washington Times, March 18).