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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED EREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED ATE 12-16-2008BY 60324 UC BAW/DK/R Rev.01-31-2003 federal bureau of investigAtion Precedence: ROUTINE Date: 01/31/2007 b6 To: Washington Field Attn: IIC b7C AMERITHRAX SSAS SSA R. SSA From: Washington Field b6 AMX-2 b7C Contact: Approved By: Drafted By: Case ID #: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID (Pending) -168) Title: AMERITHRAX; MAJOR CASE 184. Synopsis: To document information obtained from. b6 b7C Details: During an interview of Bruce Ivins on 0l/23/2002,. Ivins provided Special Agent (sA) with two images he had captioned with a description of the image. The images were placed in an FD-340 and submitted to the file as item 279A-wF-222936-1A 1037. Each image bears a date and time stamp in the bottom right side of the image, an alpha-numeric label in the upper left side of the image, and displays a. sheep's blood agar (sBA) plate labeled with typewritten respective plate. One caption describes: "Ames strain - From. culture collection at UsAMRIID. Similar in. appearance to Bacillus anthracis colonies from mail.. Sent to Porton Down, who sent it to. who sent it to This version of the Ames strain was serially passaged before freezing down and storing in the. culture collection".