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To: Washington Field From: Washington ms. Re: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID, 05/24/2005 because there was no indication of a breach in containment from the hot-side to the cold-side. IVINS indicated that he was concerned about the pass-thru box because that was where B.a. entered into B3. In addition, he was concerned about an incident relayed [jin approximately November 2001. IVINS informed | Une in November 2001,[-— | saw a USAMRIID scientist wearing a glove that had been in the hot suite and j the Daschl sealed in a plastic bag. IVINS told [hat he and considered the incident to be unsafe practice, and that rried about contamination issues. IVINS also informed that in December 2001, due to the aforementioned glove incident, he swabbed ' desk in the office shared by IVINS, He read presumptive positives on a couple o F do any further testing to definitively determine if the spores were B.a.* told IVINS that if he never confirmed the spores were B.a., then the issue was not worth talking about. a discounted the importance of IVINS' results since Hé did not consider the issue important enough to confirm the results.™ [_]felt that IVINS' concerns were an overreaction to a relatively minor incident. specifically told IVINS not to conduct any sampling without first obtaining approval from According to advised| on April 15, 2002, that IVINS had approached about conducting _a_samplin on the B3 pass-thru box on e cold side. a strongly advised IVINS against conducting any sampling. did not think that IVINS would conduct unapproved sampling.*°* [WRITER'S COMMENTS - Interesting to note that in all of his interviews and statements regarding the independent survey, IVINS never mentioned conversing with[ | nor did IVINS relay strong adui against unauthorized sampling. IVINS made no mention to £ his concerns regarding the analysis of the Daschle letter and powder in suite B3, or his perception of unsafe handling of B.a. evidence by[__] Despite being advised against such unauthorized action, INS went forward with his independent sampling mission. ] IVINS' APRIL 2002 INDEPENDENT ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEYS e IVINS' motivations for conducting additional unauthorized environmental surveys On April 11 or 12, 2002, IVINS became aware of the ination incident in suite B3. In addition, he learned that [haa conducted environmental sampling in the suite and ? Ld