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2 e . FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95) WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE -1- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of transcription 01/20/2005 On January 13, 2005, BRUCE EDWARD IVINS, white male, born April 22, 1946 with social security account number 280-44-5449, was interviewed at his place of employment, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), by Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) SA hé [J was present for portions of the interview. IVINS, who was b7c already familiar with the identities-of the interviewing agents, provided the following information: Samples, Or subsamples—of air o to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). When SA went through IVINS inventory of samples inside containment Suite B3 of building 1412, USAMRIID, [| took all remaining Ames samples and locked them in a lockbox inside B3. To clarify issues about the origin of several samples of Ames, IVINS referred to a letter he had prepared for SA [| on September 4, 2003 after researching his ocumentation. He provided a copy of this letter to ssaAL__ during this interview. Only one subculture of Ames was prepared in 1985, and IVINS did not prepare the sample himself. The origin of the July 30, 1985 subculture was the original 1981 Ames slant, but IVINS is unsure of the handling of it in terms of whether or not the Ames was passaged between the 1981 and 1985 samples. He does not know of any other information which would clarify that issue and cannot say for certain that the one 1985 sample came directly from the 1981 slant. He also does not know if the 1985 sample is vegetative cells or spores. Back during that time-frame, they grew Ames in broth, added glycerol, and froze the samples. The 1985 sample is not labeled with the date to IVINS recollection. IVINS suggested that(—— s—~—“‘“‘OCOC*COC*C‘éWdiW*‘éees interviewed about the 1985 sample because he believes they were the researchers who prepared it. After some period of time, IVINS was unsure of the date, IVINS never went back to the 1985 sample to make new Ames preparations. In 1987, IVINS, prepared two sets of Ba samples. Both the Ames strain and Vollum 1B strain were each prepared in two ways: lLeighton-Doi broth and sheep's blood agar. When IVINS prepared the 1987 Ames samples with the two types of Investigation on 1/13/2005 at Fort Detrick, Maryland b6 E/- 4Ss™ b7c 26 File # 27 9A-WF-222936-USAMRIEB—FO FR Date dictated N/A by SS This document contains neither recommendations nor soncuste of the <0 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. IVIAS 1053 tad