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oo ) @ FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95) -1- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 12-12-2008 BY 60924 UC BAW/RS/sTU Date of transcription 02/01/02 On January 22, 2002,[ ——sidwas interviewed at [|place of employment, the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases OSAMRED) Fort Petetcky Maryland, by Special Agents (SAs) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding work with Bacillus anthracis. After being advised of the identities of the interviewing agents and the purpose of the interview,[_____] provided the following information: ae io works for asa ent at USAMRIID in fF tsti<‘i‘(‘(CL Prior to that, worked PO Cd eceived{ att the University FP t—“i‘isisSsSsSsSsSsSsSsS Hen did aL fat has no knowledge of who prepared and sent the anthrax-laced letters or who would know how to get the organism to weapons grade. [_]makes spores often, but it is all liquid work. There is no dry or powdered Bacillus anthracis work at USAMRIID to[____]knowledge. works with the_AMES strain in a hot suite. The strain has both plasmids, but[___Jalso works with avirulent Bacillus anthracis. There is a laminar_flow hood with gloved ‘hands in the lab, but no glove boxes. is not aware of any lyophilizers in the area. thinks more than lyophilizing would be necessary in order to prevent large clumping. heard. in the news about_the missing material from the early 1990's at USAMRIID. It is[__]understanding that the samples were prepared for electron microscopy, and it would not be possible to get any useful material out of it. bIE _ —_— Investigation on 1/22/02 at Fort Detrick, Maryland | | ~,t File? 279A-WF-222936 “33Q¢ . Date dictated 01/25/02