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To: Washington Field From: Washington Field Re: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID, 05/24/2005 advised that[__|did not know how[ _lof£ice or the other areas, became contaminated with B.a. spores. suggested the possibility that DSD may have received an item that was not containerized properly and the container exterior was contaminated. [~~ piso speculated that the contamination outside of the BSL-3 came from the anthrax letters.’ Due to the fineness of the po t USAMRIID personnel tested and came into contact with Po tthovent it plausible that individuals may have inadvertently transported the spores from one laboratory her and to cold or administrative areas. As an example, recounted the glove incident; which suspected was against protocol.?” [eal speculated that the contamination outside the BSL-3 derive rom outside of the laboratory. based on the pattern of contamination near the pass-box. noted that material was frequently returned from Building 1412 after aerosol chal . [| also referenced incoming samples from GSAMRISD's[o | DuGwey, Bioport, and other outside agencies .*3 | ]oftered no independent ideas as to where the amination outside of the BSL-3 came from, but indicated that heard other people's theory that contamination may have come from the Daschle letter.14 [—_Jrecatled that on one occasion a letter that was identified as contaminated with anthrax was taken into suite B3 by IVINS, and that the letter could have been the source of contamination within the cold areas of USAMRIID.™5 [WRITER'S COMMENTS - If the contamination derived in part from the handling of evidentiary material, to include the Daschle letter, then why was contamination not also identified in areas, where the bulk of the evidentiary analyses were conducted and where all incoming unknown items were received?] NOTABLE REFERENCES BY IVINS TO HIS INDEPENDENT SURVEYS IVINS referenced his independent surveys_and_ the perceived backlash in multiple email messages t m June 16, 2002, a : p.m., sent a message Co stating "the atmosphere around USAMRIID is so poisonous these days that it's hard to get much of anything done. I'm still persona non grata, especially with people in power, | CC |seems to bark at me about lots of things these days." On July 7, 2002, at_9:04 IVINS sent a message .Spring is when I found the break in : Cs