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ALL FORMATION CONTAINED @ HE In UNCLASSIFIED DATE Le-15-2000 BY 60324 UC BAW/Rs/ Lae U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation In Reply, Please Refer to August 7, 2008 File No. LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE FBI Washington Field Office 601 4 Street, NW Washington, DC 20535 Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755 Sir, The following information, although unclassified, is extremely sensitive due to its high profile in the media. As such, it is requested that this communication receive limited dissemination. FBI, Washington Field Office, is requesting your assistance in support of FBI Major Case #184; AMERITHRAX. The AMERITHRAX Task Force investigates the September and October of 2001, series of mailings containing Bacillus anthracis (Ba) spores, the causative agent of anthrax. The Ba-laden letters were mailed to: Editor, New York Post, New York, New York; Tom Brokaw, NBC TV, New York, New York; Senator Daschle, Washington, D.C.; and Senator Leahy, Washington, D.C. Although no letter was recovered, it is believed the American Media Incorporated building in Boca Raton, Florida, also received a Ba-laden letter due to an anthrax-related fatality and extensive building contamination. As indicated by the statements of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeffrey Taylor, and FBI Assistant Director, Joseph Persichini of the FBI Washington Field Office, Dr. Bruce Edwards Ivins, date of birth 4/22/1946, SSAN 280-44-5449, was the primary subject of the investigation before his death. The FBI, in order to complete the investigation despite the death, request information pertaining to Dr. Ivins’s Army Knowledge Online (AKO) account. Relevant information would include any and all saved e-mails, files, documents, photographs and any other activities that can 1 be associated with Dr.. Ivin’s. ---- 4 -s-->~ use of the account... .