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Amerithrax — Part 40
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FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95)
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279A-WF-222936-DUGWAY
Continuation of FD-302 of
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German Village, was a facility used for training
exercises.
This facility used only mock equipment and was non-functional
explained that DR. BRucE IvINS, United States
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Army Medical Research Institute of Infectibus Diseases
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(USAMRIID),
in the past, has sent seed stock on two to three
occasions.
lconfirmed through viewing shipping records.
from 1992 that the first transfer of AMEs to Dugway was in
October, 1992.
This material was transferred in two 15mL
polypropylene screw capped tubes.
confirmed through
viewing shipping records from 1997 that second transfer from
USAMRIID to Dugway was in March, 1997. This transfer included
four one (1)mL vials of Ames spores.
described two major Dugway growth projects aside
from the 1997 Dugway-UsAMRIID project that took place in the
1990's as the Chemical Biological Mass Spectrometer (CBMS)
project and the Battelle, High Temperature Incendiary project.
The CBMs project took place approximately from 1994-
1996, used a host of different strains of Ba (Zimbabwe, Vollum,
Sterne, and Ames) as well as Yersinia pestis and Francisella
tularensis. In the case of Ba, Casein Acid Digest (cAD) and
harvest cells from log phase as well as spores from stationary
phase. These products were then sent to UsAMRIID as a
concehtrated slurry and irradiated by either
or
Dugway upon receipt of irradiated spdres
lyophilized (dried) the spores.
does not recall drving
irradiated AmEs for this project.
identified
as the
turned over to by
images related to this CBms project,
lexplained that the.
Standard Operating Procedure (sop) for this cBms project
required for quality assurance/quality control (QA/Qc) measures
in the form of sem images from each growth batch be taken.
The Battelle, High Temperature Incendiary Project
utilized only the Vollum strain of Ba.
Spores from this proiect
were acetone dried. This method was taught to
by
in 1998.
Shown pictures of vials recovered from a FBI conducted
consent search in 2004,
identified picture labeled #72-74
as the container within the can which contained the four (4)
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