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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED ? + REIN I5 UNCLASSIFIED & (Rev. 01-31-2003) . TE 12-16-2006 BY 60324 UC BAM/DK/ Pa ° ‘ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Precedence: ROUTINE Date: 01/31/2007 To: Washington Field Attn: Ticl—~—S—SY 3c AMERTTHRAX_SSAS i SSA_R. SS From: Washington Field bi AMX-2 b7c orasseay’ [L Case ID #: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID (Pending) -168) Title: AMERITHRAX; MAJOR CASE 184. Synopsis: To_ document information obtained from | Details: During an interview of B: i /23/2002, Ivins provided Special Agent (SA) Pee ith 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 identifiers to the left of the plate. Each caption describes the Bacillus anthracis Ames material used to innoculate the respective plate. One caption describes: "Ames strain - From culture collection at USAMRIID. Similar in appearance to Bacillus anthraci Joni from mail. Sent to Porton_Down, who sent it a who sent it tol SSS This version o @ Ames Strain was serially passaged before freezing down and storing in the culture collection".