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FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95) 279A-WF-222936-BEI Continuation of FD-302 of Dr. Bruce &. Ivins ,On 11/01/2007 __, Page 2 bé . He instructed the FBI to look at the morphological bic variants. . ° He knew the importance of the FBI's need for a representative sample to conduct the investigation. . He knew that would be analyzing the material on behalf of the FBI. ° Never before had he been subpoenaed to provide material to an FBI investigation. Based on these statements the interviewing agents advised Dr. IVINS that providing a single colony pick to the FBI would be completely contradictory to the guidance he had provided to the FBI to identify the source of the anthrax from the mailings. The interviewing agents explained that they were confused as to why Dr. IVINS did not contact investigators regarding the similarities between RMR~1029 and the mailing material. Dr. IVINS explained that he was provided the j tion in late 2001 to early January of 2002 by ponent no "talks". Suggesting that he could not believe everything says. Dr. IVINS could not recall if he looked for morphological variants in the RMR- jal, subsequent to receiving this information on Dr. IVINS was advised, that throughout the course of the investigation, he had been contacted dozens of times by investigators, and that the interviewing agents were confused why he would not have mentioned the similarities during one of these contacts, especially after he had been told by more than one person that there were similarities between RMR-1029 and the mailing materials. Dr. IVINS was also reminded of guidance he had provided early on in the investigation regarding colony morphologies and Bacillus anthracis Ames strain li RIID. In January of 2002, Dr. IVINS had provided with a hand-drawn diagram to give to investigators during interview. The hand-drawn diagram outlines the USAMRIID Ames strain lineage, with a comparison to the Daschle material, and leads and directs investigators to focus their attention on the lineage and not the IVINS lineage. Dr. IVINS was also reminded that he was interviewed in January of 2002, subsequent to[___] during which he provided the investigators with a hand-drawn_diagram similar to the hand-drawn diagram he had provided tofo | Like the first, the second diagram leads and directs