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-1- FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED , ‘ HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 12-12-2008 BY 60324 UC BAW/RS/STW Date of transcription 02/03/02 On January 25, 2002,[___ as bé interviewed at[__|place of employment, the United States Army bIC Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases _(USAMRIID) Fort Detrick, Marvl 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: Prior to osition at USAMRIID is assigned to the and works primarily with virulent Bacillus anthracis including AMES and other strains. [__]has no knowledge of a way to change an avirulent sample to virulent and is not aware of any dry or powdered work at USAMRIID. keeps the database of the Bacillus anthracis stocks, and knows there are one or two isolates from BRUCE IVINS’ collection. The papers are kept on the hot side of the suite in Building] believes samples come to USAMRIID from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), the NCTC, from other labs within USAMRIID, and from outside laboratories. L—_ The spore suspension is lyophilized in a culture vial after the plates are harvested. They identify the organism for characterization. The seed stock which they consider to be their original archive sample is a frozen vegetative cell suspension in 12.5% glycerol. For the production stage, they plate it out and use a working stock. No _mutations have_been sought or noticed. The passage history forL___] work is on [inventory with ____1 does not photograph any of the plates = reezer where the samples are kept is not locked. and b7I YAN_ Investigation on 01/25/02 at Fort Detrick, Mary Tene File # 279A-WF-222936 ~ 3CQ* tf Date dictated 01/26/02 bé b7C it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.