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b2 b7E od ro To: Washington Field From: Washington Field Re: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID, 05/24/2005 near the B3 pass-box and the freezers in the hallway outside the B3 suite, IVINS did not extensively survey the hallway leading to B3. Of the 56 samples collected on April 15-16, 20 38 samples were obtained from the shared office space in room 4 8 samples were collected from the men's locker room, and 10 samples derived from locations near the B3 pass-box and the tops of freezers in the hallway between the B2/B3 hallway." Based on IVINS' claim that he swabbed the path of the Daschle letter, and given the fact that over haif of the survey samples derived from his office, the following question could be posed: Did IVINS have reason to suspect contamination in his office because he had intimate knowledge that the Daschle letter was present in room| __| at some point in time? IVINS expressed, during multiple interviews and in sworn statements, his concerns regarding the unsafe laboratory practices of DSD employees. As a justification for his unauthorized environmental surveys, IVINS cited information that DSD personnel did not utilize safety precautions. However, during neither the December 2001 survey, nor the April 2002 survey, did IVINS swab_areas associated with DSD laboratorj personnel, aside from| ~~ |desk. According to IVINS, inwardly seemed pl ith IVINS' finding of contamination because it allowed | _—_|to "point a finger" at DSD for poor laboratory safety procedures.* Notably, the majority of the B.a. contamination identified on the cold-side of Building 1425 was in locations associated with IVINS more so than DSD. informed [] of th results of IVINS' independent environmental survey. egarding IVINS' survey AFTERMATH OF IVINS' APRIL 2002 INDEPENDENT SURVEYS On April 16, 2 esponse to IVINS' independent survey [~ |directeal_—~ feo collect samples from around the cold-side of the pass-thru box, where IVINS located spores. went to the_pass-thru and noticed mortar dust on the ledge by the box. assumed that the dust derived from drilling above the area during renovation work. took a sample of the dust, which later yielded negative results for B.a. 8 —