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rr oo ~IE NS ry oO be DIF To: Washington Field From: Washington oe Re: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID, 05/24/2005 had nd presumptive positi or the presence of B.a. outside the suite. IVINS told that he intended to conduct further sampling in their office and asked if he could sample| _| desk area. sampled. ° the issue because Geclined the_offer to have[ | area ted that did not become involved in had other ings to do.” eel April 16, 2002, Ld bews-scal ating that IVINS needed to ta to Eventually, IVINS informed | | he found eee positives for B.a. outside o 4 Jouite.” ean indibated that he had no prior knowledge of the surveillance cultures of several locations outside the suite.” According tof who viewed the cultures, one appeared to be a "pure colony” of about 200 spores, which was not considered a significant amount. The other samples yielded one to two coloni appeared "dirty" with other organisms? to on April 16, 2002,[___]was advised _b IVINS had identified contamination outside the laboratory reported this information to that IVINS told[__Jabout the swabbing after the fact.” as upset that IVINS conducted the sampling without going through the appropriate channels for approval.” On either the afternoon of i 2002, or the morning of April 18, 2002, IVINS cold bh dabous his sampling survey and the findings. became very upset with IVINS and told him that he should have gotten_approval.”®* According to IVINS, on April 18, 2002, he went to [land told of the sampling survey and the findings. was also upset with IVINS for sampling without authority. Likewise, USAMRIID's command staff was very upset with IVINS' actions.”® According to cvins, ("nary reaction to learning of IVINS' ane ae ent_environmental sampling confirmed IVINS' suspicions that would have opposed the survey if IVINS had sought preapproval .” According on April 17, 2002, during a conversation between and IVINS, IVINS stated that it would be interesting to see what was lying around the facility. [took the statement to mean that IVINS was curious as to what microorganisms would be found if a sampling survey was conducted.*° [WRITER'S COMMENTS - During an interview on March 31, 2005, IVINS claimed that the path he chose wab was the path that the Daschle letter took from] to that through the pass-box in the wall of suite B3.% To the n , LVINS did not swab the hallway or locations near[ | Aside from the areas 2 —