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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS JINCLASSIFIED DATE 12-16-2008 BY 60324UCBAW/DK/CMI FD-302 (Rev. 10-6-95) 1 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION b6 b7C Date of transcription 12/12/2003 date of birth Social Security Number. was interviewed by\Special Agents and ]at place`of employment at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (UsAMRIiD), Ft Detrick, Maryland. After being advised of the. identities of the interviewing Agents and the nature of the interview, voluntarily provided the following. information: current position is a duties are to have access to Bacillus. anthracis (B.a.) use both agar and broth to grow B.a.. yamox6 xe5e aya se uaago asow pesn st (ysr) Ieby Aos DradAtL medium, and sometimes New Sporulation Media (Nsm) is also used, but not very often. was unsure whether Modified G media is. used. believes that would have laboratory notebooks that would answer that question. Both single colony and multiple colony culturing techniques have been used depending on. the type of experiments. guesses that for the culturing of the Ames strain, multiple colony culturing was utilized. first worked with B.a. during During the first Gulf War in the 1990's, work with the Ames strain of B.a. increased as it was used as the test strain in the laboratory. has worked with, and continues to work with, live B.a. spores. but has never produced a powdered form of anthrax. believes that it would not be difficult to produce powdered B.a. One would simply culture it and dry it using a lyophilizer, and then'mill it untii it turns into a powder. lhas traced the geneology of the Ames strain that has Jback to BRUCE IVINS. Investigation on 12/12/2003 at Frederick,. Maryland 371 1299 File# 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID; 279A-BA-C101392'Date dictated N/A SA by SA This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.