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To: Washington Field From: Washington Field Re: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID, 05/24/2005 contamination here at RIID and became 'very suspicious' to people. I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to quiz you about me. Putting together all of the things I've heard about the FBI's 'suspect list,' my guess is that I'm on it (being a middle- aged white male who has made anthrax spores). I can't tell you how unappealing it is to be considered a mass murderer..." bé On June 18, 2002, at 9:00 p.m., IVINS sent [ 2 ue message indicating that "the FBI people who talked to me (right after I found the break in containment and got crucified for it) said they thought that my coming back to work after hours was ‘extremely suspicious.' I don't think anyone has any idea how peaceful and quiet it can be here after hours an come here and just sit, or read, or get on the web. If is being bothersome I can go back into B5 or even into B3. (In the evenings, B3 may as well be Mars. I can just sit and think and relax from everything.) Also, it's just a great time to get work done without hassle. It used to be honorable and commendable to work more than 8 hours a day. Now, it's suspicious..." During an interview on March 31, 2005, IVINS stated bé that the December 2001 and April 2002 independent surveys represented the only two times he ever swabbed in the cold areas of USAMRIID outside of the hot suites. According to IVINS, during the early 1990s he conducted swabbing inside the hot suites as part of USAMRIID's routine environmental monitoring program. IVINS conducted the routine sampling at the direction of his supervisors.*® The information provided by IVINS on March 31, 2005, contradi i ation contained in an email message sent from IVINS_to On July 7, 2002, at 9:04 p.m., IVINS wrote to ‘oh, guess what? This is actually the third time I've found virulent anthrax on the outside of the hot suite. The other two_times were hush . The first time was in the early 1980s. had injected some guinea pigs (and killed them) with the Vollum 1B strain. The used pans of bedding, blood, urine, feces and all, had to be deconned out of the suite, but the autoclaves were not working. So they decided to paraformaldehyde the bedding and ship it out. After the "decon" I -~ without authorization (bad! bad!) but with plenty of concern - checked the bedding for sterility. I plated some of it out. The results came back after unimmunized cagewash workers had cleaned the pans. The very top of the bedding was sterile, but below the top layer it was quite contaminated, with anthrax and other bacteria. We're just lucky that nobody in cagewash got anthrax. I told people of my finding, and after that, used bedding in pans was never deconned by paraformaldehyde - it just doesn't penetrate. The second time I found - unauthorized! - virulent anthrax outside the suite was vnen| = supposedly injected avirulent m0 a