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os omer ~1 oy = To: Washington Field From: Washington Field Re: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID, 05/24/2005 approximately 80 swabbings from his office alone, from high traffic areas, and other areas near ventilation ducts.” SPECULATIONS REGARDING IVINS MOTIVATIONS FOR CONDUCTING INDEPENDENT SURVEYS Lo who was the | in April 2002, discussed two possible reasons why Il conducte microbiological contamination surveys in the non-containment areas without command staff approval: (1) IVINS did not follow appropriate standard operating procedures (SOPs) while working with material and thought he may have contaminated some clean areas of USAMRIID, or (2) IVINS noticed another individual_not following SOPs and wanted to bring the problem to light. did not believe that IVINS was covering up a B.a. contamination trail which may be detected by the survey, nor did believe that IVINS was involved in any criminal behavior relating to the AMERITHRAX investigation.°% [1 suspected that IVINS decided to conduct random sampling of co areas because of the contamination incident concerning stated that the finding of contamination in the pass-box area within the laboratory prompted IV xterior of the pass-box, as well. With regard to office in room[ |][. suspected that IV ucted sample testing due to the possibility that became contaminated while working inf. | According to IVINS had heard a rumor that the people in did not follow safety precautions. IVINS feared that may have cross-contaminated due to lack of proper procedure by people from did not know why IVINS conducted random contamination sampling of the cold areas, but indicated that he may have gotten word of the glove incident with [WRITER'S COMMENTS - During an interview with the FBI, IVINS noted a long-standing political rivalry between the Bacteriology Division and DSD at USAMRIID. IVINS stated that Bacteriology Division employees felt ostracized and belittled by DsSD researchers who were reportedly loathe to consult Bacteriology employees' superior expertise.‘ One could argue that IVINS was partially motivated to conducting the independent survey by the desire to make DSD look incompetent with regard to the safe handling of B.a.; however, such an argument is weakened by the fact that, aside from desk, IVINS did not survey any locations directly associated with DSD.] u a