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. 7 te 8 . . + FD-3¢2a'(Rev. 10-6-95) 279A-WF-222936{_—«(B 02, 279A-BA-C101392 Information from the offensive weapons program has been passed on from some of the "old timers", as well as from preparedness scenarios over the last few years. A number of people from the Bacteriology Division who have worked on problems with the "old timers", as well as people who have attended certain Classified briefings, know of offensive program information. advised that the passing of this knowledge is "all within the system". The "old timers" are training the next generation to protect the country, thus some information needs to be shared. A number of people have knowledge of the secrets related to working with B.a. It is not a difficult agent to work with, and equipment is available to protect oneself while working with it. One could set up a cabinet and use it to prepare the letters if they were not concerned that someone would be collecting a soil sample contaminated with B.a. It would be difficult to do without leaving behind a trace. A different equipment set up is required for working with a dry B.a. aerosol as opposed to a wet B.a. aerosol. some of the first wet aerosol experiments when USAMRIID started doing aerosols againp It was difficult to convince the USAMRIID Commander at the time of the necessity of aerosol studies, as the institute had become a very public ed. and the stigma from the offensive bioweapons program remained. had no knowledge of any dry B.a. work at USAMRIID. The official USAMRIID archive culture collection is: kept in Suite[ Principal Investigators (PIs) can submit their samples to e collection, although it is not required. There are collections of B.a. spores from other researchers in the archives, and was not sure if all of those are wet spore preparations. There is a large collection of B.a. in the Bacteriology Division which is currently administered by IVINS and stored in Suite B4. PERRY MIKESELL, who now works for Battelle Memorial Laboratory, was involved with getting the B.a. for the collection in the late 1970s or early 1980s. [ Jadvisea that these may not all be wet spore preparations. oo TO oO b6 b7c