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oy ~FD-302 Rev. 10-6-95) e * * “ -l- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 12-16-2008 BY 60324 UC BAMW/RS/STU Date of transcription 02/10/2002 pe c On 01/31/2002, Special Agent | OF the Federal Bureau _ of Investigation a e. met with yV , United States Army Medical Research nstitute for Infeckio Disease USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, DOB:| —s—s— dit OSS: | SSSCSC™~*~*é‘id att] J place employment. After being vised of the identity of the interviewing agent and pe nature of the interview, voluntarily provided tHe following information: at USAMRIID bé b7c ise anthracis 1s studied in some of the hot suites put|_________] has never worked with anthrax. advised in an Aerobiology study, the Primary Investigator - ‘from the Bacteriology (BACT) Division, usually Dr. Bruce Ivins, provides the anthrax samples to the Primary be Investigator in Aerobiology. had no knowledge of what bTC strains of B. anthracis were used. believed anthrax was stored in one of the freezers ji ite, but did not know which suite. Once inside the suite, did not know what areas were designated for anthrax research. had no knowledge of the shipping and/or receiving practices involving B. anthracis or other Select Agents, nor didl know of any_ collaborative studies done with other laboratories on anthrax. [— Jadvised their was on ongoing collaboration with Johns Hopkins researching tuberculosis. ee no knowledge of any B. globigii studies or studies conducted on the weaponizing of anthrax at USAMRIID. advised that freezers were frequently replaced in the laboratories. The Investigators from the suite were responsible for transferring all products from the freezer to a spare freezer kept within_the suite. advised that there had been occasions when freezers from hot suites that_still had vials and test tubes in some of the compartments, but[__]did not know what was within the vials or tubes. DO ~l moO Investigation on 01/31/2002 at Fort Detrick, Mar File # 279A-WF-222936 -262.- Hott by This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI an it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.