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a To: Washington @.. From: Washington i Re: 279A-WF-222936, 05/21/2004 Bruce Ivins indicated that| __| workea for and obtained some Dugway Ba from Ivins for aerosol challengés. Ivins also elaborated on the 7th shipment of Dugway b6 Ba, indicating that it was so dirty it was autoclaved without pIC being used. Ivins advised that the Dugway material to be autoclaved was left inside B3 and was usually autoclaved soon after being put in the autoclave bag. Ivins could not remember the disposal timeline of this particular shipment and did not personally see it destroyed. [___] (listed as in Ivins' April 13, 2004 interview), worke USAMRIID. b relinquished possession of Ba spores took charge of a 5-milliliter wet pellet of Ames and autoclaved it in Room[__Jof Building[__]. co advised that there is written documentation regarding the transfer of the Ba to claimed aes transferred any 2a to ee en other researcher, nor [_]take any Ba Ina May 9, 2003 eat | Perie oarcarca that Ivins providedl | with a fu igquid Ba Ames spores. These spores were stored in the fi 1 en | cee walk-in cooler in the containment facility of pullding[ did not recall the maintenance of a log or inventory for the walk-in cooler. corroborated a was 1 nated as the caretaker o the remaining Ba Ames spores whent | left USAMRIID. indicated in a September 11, 2003 interview a rd not maintain any st ultures of any strain of Ba, to include the Am rain. always obtained Ba spores from Ivins, as no one in] laboratory group grew spores. t ited number of jo i fe) Vv At any given time, there_was_ a in the refrigerators in claimed] did not distribute Ames spores beyond claimed . May 11, 2004 telephonic interview, indicated that has never directly received any samples of Ba from Dugway. did acknowledge receiving a ae from Ivins; that sample was "probably" transferred to in a 1l-milliliter tube, maintained inside a 15-millilite ical centrifuge tube. stored this sample in the walk-in refrigerator and use e Ba in experiments over a period of several months. did not keep a written record of this sample and so could not provide any exact documentation. Letom indicated in a May 10, 2004 telephonic bé6 interview a aq received samples of D from Ivins in bc order to conduct aerosol challenge studies.[ | saved small aliquots of approximately one milliliter of € Original Ba spore «ry TOS AYO